2025-01-24
New year, same list format.
A relatively average release Friday. Avatarium, Fleshbore and Discordant Meditation are the only bands who really stepped up this time. Loved the bluesy/stonery doom rock from Avatarium, the gurgling, insane vocals and noodly bass work on Fleshbore and the raw and intense approach of Discordant Meditation.
The crown goes to Můra which is not even on this list, since they released their EP Needle Cathedral on the 20th January. But what a wonderfully, filthy and violent slab of death/doom from Prague! [link to the album]
Harakiri for the Sky - Scorched Earth | AOP Records | BC 5/10
Tormentor Tyrant - Excessive Escalation of Cruelty | Everlasting Spew Records | BC 5/10
Avatarium - Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead | AFM Records | [no bandcamp link found] 7/10
Fleshbore - Painted Paradise | Transcending Obscurity Records | BC 7/10
The Great Old Ones - Kadath | Season of Mist | BC 5/10
Unreqvited - A Pathway to the Moon | Prophecy Productions | BC postponed to February
Ice War - Feel the Steel | Hooked on Metal Records | BC 3/10
Discordant Meditation - Tragic Creature | Independent | BC 7/10
The Machinist - Contempt for Life | Independent | BC 5/10
Sabhankra - Nocturnal Elegies | Independent | BC 5/10
Atramentum - The Wrath Within | Independent | BC 5/10
Scitalis - Maledictum | Vendetta Records | BC 5/10
Deadspawn - Bile of the Gods | Independent | BC 5/10
À Terre - Embrasser la nuit | Independent | BC 6/10
Gokseong 곡성 - Whispers from the Haunted Shadows | Phase B Records | BC
The Archon Rift - The Arcane Chronicle EP | Independent | BC