Weekly Digest November 8-14
An interesting and inspiring album from Delta Sleep, meaty 200 Stab Wounds, IDLES, Teutonic thrash by Bonded, Swedish death metal form Unleashed, stylish hard rock by Tower, as well as stoner rock, blackened atmospheric death metal and garage punk'n'roll in our Weekly Digest.
200 Stab Wounds — Slave to the Scalpel
200 Stab Wounds is just a right amount of stab wounds if you love brutal, uncompromising metal death. These guys from Ohio know how to destroy – just check out the video from their live performance! Cool cover, bold sound, stupidly heavy. Gourmet delicacy.
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Bonded — Into Blackness
A second album by the supergroup of Teutonic thrashers. Mid-tempo thrash metal in the best traditions of the genre. Attention! Contains songs about Nazi-vampires!
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Devil Electric — Godless
Devil Electric from Melbourne play bluesy smoky stoner rock, with a focus on rhythm, to which it’s impossible not to nod. The band's vocalist Pierina O'Brien with her commanding voice directs this groove car away from God and closer to the devil.
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Delta Sleep — Spring Island
Usually the threshold for getting into math-rock is quite high, it's either yours or not. But the British quartet Delta Sleep is another thing. Their melodies and rhythms do not sound forced, every move seems fresh and interesting, the lyrics are touching, in a word – you believe them. The album, written during the pandemic, of course touches on the themes of depression, anxiety, and isolation, but listening to the music of Delta Sleep you feel that we are all together and each of us can cope with all this.
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IDLES — Crawler
I should say that I have an ambiguous attitude to the IDLES band. I listened to their album "Brutalism" over and over when it came out, there were bangers on "Joy As An Act Of Resistance", but it already felt like the band was repeating itself, "Ultra Mono" didn't do it for me at all ... That's why I approached "Crawler" with curiosity. And what can I say, first of all, I really liked the production on which the band's guitarist Mark Bowen worked with Kenny Beats. It turned out quite interesting production-wise. It’s still an Idles album, so you know exactly what you are getting, but revitalized.
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The Monsters — you're class I'm trash
The Monsters were formed in 1986 in Bern, Switzerland, as an alternative to the popular music of the time (disco, pop, top 40 rock songs, etc.). They loudly named their mix of rockabilly, punk rock and garage a Teenage Primitive Rock’n’Roll Chainsaw Massacre Garage Trash. Not teenagers anymore, but The Monsters are still able to stir the pot!
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Tower — Shock To The System
Definitely my favorite this week. A very stylish band from New York, Tower is an old-fashioned hard rock with leather and motorcycles. Guitar duels, powerful all-encompassing vocals by Sarabeth Linden breaking to the falsetto right where you need it, driving drums, powerful bass – in short, everything you need for a high-profile hard rock on the album "Shock To The System" is present.
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Unleashed — No Sign Of Life
Swedish death metal legends Unleashed show their Viking roots. The album "No Sign Of Life" consists of 11 anthems of war performed in the tradition of old-school death metal, you can tell they have 32 years of experience under their belt.
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VERTEBRA ATLANTIS — Lustral Purge In Cerulean Bliss
The cover of this album perfectly describes what to expect from VERTEBRA ATLANTIS – all-consuming blackened death metal, which, together with ambient inserts and complex compositional structures, provokes emotional and physical discomfort. Thanks to I, Voidhanger Records for another suffering release.
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