My favorite May album is ARIDUS. Between Galen Baudhuin (sole member) time in INFERA BRUO and present day STREET TOMBS, you know the quality tracks, and this comprehensive USBM debut delivers on the past and more. The tone is dialed and the loins are ablaze with this impressive release, do not miss it!
Listen at Bandcamp (Eisenwald)
I am currently enjoying the new SPINEBREAKER EP ‘Cavern of Inoculation Cognition’ (May 5). Feat. members of GULCH and RIPPED TO SHREDS, they pack these 25 mins full of riffs and the thunder I crave (allow me to demonstrate!). It’s a death metal treat certain to please any TOMB MOLD fan.
Listen at Bandcamp (Creator-Destructor Records)
https://www.invisibleoranges.com/screaming-bloody-oranges-22/
I guest co-hosted the latest Invisible Oranges podcast (Screaming Bloody Oranges) where we talked with Garry Brents, whose upcoming nu-metal project MEMORRHAGE is so much more than a mere nod to the genre. Check it out!
I am currently enjoying the new ECTOSPIRE ‘Formless Horrors’ EP. With eerie synths and the thunder I crave (allow me to demonstrate!), this is a super fun death metal listen and a perfect fit for the Transylvanian Recordings roster.
Listen to ‘Formless Horrors’ at Bandcamp (Transylvanian Recordings)
I am currently enjoying the new BASTARD GRAVE album. In the midst of riffs that MOVE (allow me to demonstrate!) they also plant some eerie bits, and it is totally my death metal q-zone. If you enjoyed last year’s Phobophilic, get on this right away.
Listen to ‘Vortex of Disgust’ at Bandcamp (Pulverised Records).
My favorite album of February is STREET TOMBS. Appealing to hm2/dbeat death heads and aggressive USBM fans alike, the mid-tempo double kick breakdowns drop out of nowhere to RUMBLE. Allow me to demonstrate!
Listen to ‘Reclusive Decay’ at Bandcamp (Carbonized Records).
FAITHxTRACTOR‘s new death metal full-length may appear “old school” on paper but there are many special moments waiting to be unwrapped. One of these moments occurs at 2:24 on track 2, “Life Abnegation”. Allow me to demonstrate!
Listen to ‘Contempt For A Failed Dimension’ at Bandcamp (Redefining Darkness Records).
My first album cling of 2023 is definitely SLOG. They are my kind of death doom! Creepy slow at times, rockin’ at others. If you enjoyed last year’s ANCIENT DEATH ep, this is especially for you.
Listen to SLOG‘s excellent new album here.
This is my 6th annual compilation of the best holes each year has to offer. Here are my 40 of 2022:
BOTCH reunited and this metallic BH 🎯 feels so good
[Bandcamp]
AVEL: Partly cloudy with a 100% chance of blinding BH
[Bandcamp]
THANATOPHOBIA and their M.C. Esher BH kingdom
[Bandcamp]
TESKA having the worst migraine ever, in need of extra strength forehole relief
[Bandcamp]
Land, sea, or air: KRIMH can get that BH there
[Bandcamp]
There’s always one goatse every year, thank you for your service SACRAL NIGHT
[Bandcamp]
LIFE/LIMB reinventing the “serpent radius-ulna BH” wheel
[Bandcamp]
The barren BH sun will consume us all
–BEKOR QILISH, 2022
[Bandcamp]
ONLY NOW: All hands on deck
[Bandcamp]
GRAAL: Death carries a scythe and a stained glass cyclops BH
[Bandcamp]
This little ‘BH stomach’ light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine
–THE TEMPLE
[Bandcamp]
DAYS OF DESOLATION: Birth, school, BH, death
[Bandcamp]
NOGOTHULA: Satanic clothespin (lost at sea) BH
[Bandcamp]
TERRA blinding us with cosmic BH dust from this extreme blastoff
[Bandcamp]
MINIPONY and their kaleidoscope BH (always one of these every year too)
[Bandcamp]
PERVERSION: Watch your step!
[Bandcamp]
REVEREND MOTHER didn’t need to draw those tendrils on the crystal ball
[Bandcamp]
SAPRAEMIA latching on with their tractor beam BH (with extra strength coils)
[Bandcamp]
Crater Blast BH by KILL SHELTER
[Bandcamp]
UR and their planetary petri dish BH
[Bandcamp]
Congrats to label CYCLIC LAW and their 20th anniversary sampler BH! (just wow)
[Bandcamp]
FULL OF HELL squeezed out a new EP this year
[Bandcamp]
They are called ANALEPSY after all
[Bandcamp]
AMON ACID droppin’ a wild Ouroboros BH
[Bandcamp]
DENOUNCEMENT PYRE: The Apis BH Burns Bright
[Bandcamp]
Heavy lies the crown by 偏執症者 (Paranoid)
[Bandcamp]
SFEERVERZIEKER: Shanties to steer thy cursed helm to
[Bandcamp]
I’m BH (da ba dee) by ANUBIS
[Bandcamp]
DEMORALIZER: Mission accomplished!
[Bandcamp]
TRUP: Hellooooooooooooooo
[Bandcamp]
HYPOMANIC DAYDREAM / HOMESKIN
Snuffleupagus bids farewell
[Bandcamp]
ASTRAL TOMB named their album ‘Soulgazer’ when ‘Holegazer’ is right there (too easy)
[Bandcamp]
MAIDEN HAIR depicts Venus de BH
[Bandcamp]
KATO and their framed “hot ones”™️ BH
[Bandcamp]
ROTBORN: Independence Day BH
[Bandcamp]
NOLDOR’s falling away from me BH
[Bandcamp]
PRIDELANDS rhapsody in blue (BH)
[Bandcamp]
ABYSMAL DAWN (hey)
[Bandcamp]
HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE always look to the north BH
[Bandcamp]
MARILLION teaches a lesson in color theory (mostly warm)
[YouTube]
Thanks for tuning in! Happy New Year!
-Justin
Here are the albums that moved me the most in 2022!
#10) Writhing Of Earth & Flesh (Everlasting Spew) Bandcamp
#9) Final Eclipse Interminable Darkness (self) Bandcamp
#8) Desecresy Unveil In The Abyss (Xtreem Music) Bandcamp
#7) Gutvoid Durance of Lightless Horizons (Blood Harvest) Bandcamp
#6) Phobophilic Enveloping Absurdity (Prosthetic) Bandcamp
#5) Vacuous Dreams of Dysphoria (Me Saca Un Ojo) Bandcamp
#4) Ancient Death Sacred Vessel (Necroharmonic) Bandcamp
#3) Scalding Exordium (wilt-shine) Bandcamp
#2) Doldrum The Knocking, Or The Story of the Sound that Preceded Their Disappearance (Katafalque) Bandcamp
#1) ULTHA All That Has Never Been True (Vendetta) Bandcamp
Cheers friends! Happy 2023!
-Justin
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