2020 Stuff and Some 2019 I Missed.
Catching up with some of my fave 2020 stuff today and stuff I didn't listen to enough from last year. |
| 30 |  | Heavy Trip
Heavy Trip
2020 - Canadian Psych stoner jammy shit ala Earthless, Harsh toke, Joy etc etc.
https://youtu.be/sa2vLHHr344 |
| 29 |  | Beth Gibbons and The Polish National Radio Orchestra
Gorecki Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Song
2019 - I love Beth Gibbons (Standard) and also adore Pendernecki but for some reason only listened to this twice despite being SUPER hype before it came out. One of those that I am just started to realise how great it is. THIS live snip of the last 17 mins Final Movement is absolutely incredible.
https://youtu.be/-YlGYxCSDJU |
| 28 | | Lorn
Periphary
2020 - Lorn dropped 2 tracks off his forthcoming record 'Periphery' and feel like a throwback to some of his more up beat stuff. Sounds promising.
https://lorn.bandcamp.com/album/guardian |
| 27 |  | Panopticon/Nechochwen
Panopticon / Nechochwen
2020 - The Panopticon side is absolutely tremendous. One of my favourite pieces by him I think. But both are great.
https://thetruepanopticon.bandcamp.com/album/runes-heart-from-split-with-nechochwen |
| 26 |  | Ahna
Crimson Dawn
2020 - Pretty solid fun crust tinged death metal from Canadia on Caligari Records.
https://ahna.bandcamp.com/ |
| 25 |  | Old Man Gloom
Seminar IX: Darkness of Being
2020 - HOLY FKING SMOKES>>>>>>
Some of OMG's best material. For real. Caleb Forever X
https://youtu.be/eZHCc1w9mFg |
| 24 |  | Lychgate
Also Sprach Futura
2020 - Lychgate being Lychgate doing that fucked up carnivaly, avant-garde, black metal weirdness. Brilliant.
https://lychgate.bandcamp.com/album/also-sprach-futura |
| 23 |  | Swooping
Improvisations 2015-2017
2020 - 3/4s of the mightiest, funkiest, smoothest NZ kids..Hiatus Kaiyote. Doing as it says on the tin.
https://swooping.bandcamp.com/album/improvisations-2015-2017 |
| 22 |  | Haeiresis
Emanations
2020 - Gonna copy and paste this from where I found it....
'Aptly titled Emanations the three arrangements spin warped, dissonant, and spectral drifts from a nether universe channeled through a black hole generator named Haeiresis located in Lithuania. At turns violent, atmospheric, moody and coiled to lash out the sources of disturbance mine lineage from VBE/Virus, Axis of Perdition, Dodecahedron, Reverence and Blut Aus Nord. Sweeping Majestic passages, sorrowful quasi-melodic threnodies, jagged scrap metal grinding, spider-fingered riffing from the outskirts of dimension hatross'
Cool huh?
https://haeiresis.bandcamp.com/album/emanations |
| 21 |  | Scáth Na Déithe
The Dirge of Endless Mourning
2020 Another great return. Really dig the atmosphere on this. Black metal from Ireland.
https://scathnadeithe.bandcamp.com/album/the-dirge-of-endless-mourning |
| 20 |  | Relic Point
Self Judgement
2020 - Horrible. dirty sludge from Russia. Got slightly bored with it after a few tracks until that relentlessness took over.
https://relicpoint.bandcamp.com/ |
| 19 |  | Temple of Void
The World That Was
2020 - Fantastic follow up to 'Lord of death' Superb death/doom band.
https://templeofvoid.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-that-was |
| 18 |  | Spectral Lore and Mare Cognitum
Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine
2020 - What an incredible record. A long ass Psychedelic black metal trip. You may go under...ride it out.
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/wanderers-astrology-of-the-nine |
| 17 |  | Hrae
þar Sem Skepnur Reika
2020 - Took a few listens but really grew on me. I do love the Icelandic black metal scene. This has that same coldness with a bit of dissonance to it also.
https://hrae.bandcamp.com/track/hafi-yfir-yrmandi |
| 16 |  | Candlemass
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
CHEAT ENTRY - 1986 - Oh yeah been revisiting this classic too. Finally made a home in my heart for it.
https://youtu.be/kjxb0NSSnfk |
| 15 |  | Griselda
WWCD
2019 - Labels gonna turn to shit soon after all this fame. Watch. Westside Gunns ad Libs need to get to fuck though...
https://youtu.be/-ynm4H8IyhY |
| 14 |  | Victory Over The Sun
A Tessitura of Transfiguration
2020 - Avant guardy (urgh) metal with tip of the hats to old Kayo Dot but not as good obviously. Solid though and pretty interesting.
https://votsband.bandcamp.com/ |
| 13 |  | Disembodied
Transfiguration
2019 - These remasters sound amazing. So happy they got freshened up.
https://youtu.be/THysBPt74LY |
| 12 |  | Morast
Il Nostro Silenzio
2019 - Honestly top tier death doom from Germany Low scores on here but this record is so good. Trance inducing In the good way.
https://youtu.be/Ck3kwKk5BFo |
| 11 |  | Cult Of The Damned
Cult Of The Damned
2020 - So only a new single but it rules. Bunch of UK kids shooting a rap vid in an Off licence (booze shop whatever people outside the UK call it) Hopefully a new album coming.
https://youtu.be/79t5e-CTAaU |
| 10 |  | A Horse Called War
Good For Glue (And Nothing Else)
2019 - Another UK band. Wrote one of my fave UK sludge albums outside of Iron Monkey in 2007 so great to see them back. Kind a mix of said band and noothgrush.
https://ahorsecalledwar.bandcamp.com/ |
| 9 |  | Gets Worse
Snubbed
2019- Some fun as fuck Power Violence in the vein on Weekend Nachos. Seen these kids a bunch of times live. Always fun.
https://youtu.be/DASELh2ms6k |
| 8 |  | Lee Scott
ffsman ep
2020 - Lee is so underrated it's crazy. This is no where near his best stuff. And no production on this but just a good easy typical Lee Scott good but not great jam. When he's great he great.
https://youtu.be/aASERbrC_H0 |
| 7 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu
Live At Roadburn
2019 - What a band. These Roadburn albums all sound so massive.
https://youtu.be/TRenfO8tLjc |
| 6 |  | Nightfucker
Nightfucker
2019 - Should have made my end of year list I just forgot. One of the members of Moss. Filthy as fuck doom/sludge album.
https://youtu.be/OqLHc6Uq_jo |
| 5 |  | Big Ghost Ltd
Carpe Noctem
2020 - Hip Hop comp from Big Ghost with an underground all star line up (Crimeapple/Rigz/Mooch/Al Divino)
https://bigghostlimited.bandcamp.com/album/carpe-noctem |
| 4 |  | Mylingar
Döda Själar
2019 - Proper fierce, low down dirty death metal. Disgusting.
https://youtu.be/OXQHvgTfT5E |
| 3 |  | Dragged Into Sunlight
Terminal Aggressor II
2020 - Stellar as always from my hometown boys. I LOVE the 15 minutes or whatever of noise and the descent into madness. It builds up to those last few sections perfectly. Just evil. Dope Kuklinski samples. All that DIS good shit. One of my fave releases by them. I walked up a an 1800 meter mountain recently and jammed it 3 times. Fun facts.
https://youtu.be/d9Rj0SM3fNQ |
| 2 |  | Mourir
Animal Bouffe Animal
2020 - Bassist of the mighty Plebeian Grandstand and pretty similar sound in that French discordant, chaotic black atmosphere.
https://youtu.be/JkCIHevjW9Q |
| 1 |  | Elizabeth Colour Wheel
Nocebo
2019 - Enamoured with this band at the moment. Lane is like a metal Bjork, She is ace. From heavy doom to Shoegaze. Proper mix of styles. Was super psyched to see them at Roadburn but it is inevitable that it will get called off due to this new AIDS. THIS performance tho....
https://youtu.be/jRGgrnzFUTY |
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