OVERFLOWING STREAMS ON A SATURDAY (TOO MANY BANDS TO NAME)

Happy Saturday, or whatever other day you’re in when you come across this collection of new music.

I’m taking a lazy way out here — mainly just spewing a bunch of new metal songs and videos at you without much, or any, of the usual commentary. It’s actually not because I’m feeling lazy, it’s because I’m getting crushed by my fucking day job. Sadly (very sadly for me), it’s going to get worse as we approach the end of the year, and even worser in January.

I’ve never given any details about my job, but it’s not 9-5. Some days it might be Noon-3, but other days it might be 5 (a.m.) to midnight, and I have no control over the schedule. Mostly it leaves me plenty of time for NCS. Now, and increasingly until mid-January, it’s going to choke me.

At some point soon I’ll explain what that’s likely to do to some portions of our annual LISTMANIA extravaganza and the usual schedule of daily premieres, but not now. Now I only have time enough to start the spewing of this new stuff I’ve enjoyed, presented in alphabetical order by band name.

 

A/ORATOS (France)

Some delirious and hallucinatory gnostic black metal from France to start things off.

The song: Daath
The album: Ecclesia Gnostica
The label: Les Acteurs de l’Ombre
The release date: January 19th

https://aoratosmusic.bandcamp.com/album/ecclesia-gnostica-2
https://www.facebook.com/AOratos.Music

 

 

BEYOND THE HATE (Finland)

Now for gloom-shrouded melodic death metal from the cold north, punishing and miserable.

The song: Alone I Die
The album: Darkest Times
The label: Inverse Records
The release date: March 8

https://push.fm/fl/bth-alone
https://www.facebook.com/BeyondTheHate

 

 

DRIPPING DECAY (U.S.)

Next, some death metal that’s gross and crazed, turbocharged and pneumatic.

The song: Wormridden Piety
The album: Ripping Remains
The label: Satanik Royalty
The release date: January 23

https://drippingdecay.bandcamp.com/album/ripping-remains
https://www.facebook.com/drippingdecay

 

 

EXOCRINE (France)

Time to get your head swiftly spun up and savaged. Glorious video too.

The song: Life
The album: Legend
The label: Season of Mist
The release date: January 26

https://shopusa.season-of-mist.com/band/exocrine
https://www.facebook.com/Exocrine/

 

 

IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT (U.S.)

A psychedelic noir homage to the Miles Davis Quintet. Get lost. There’s no map back.

The song: Nefertiti
The album: Covers Collection (EP)
The label: Century Media
The release date: November 29

https://imperialtriumphant.lnk.to/Nefertiti-coverVersion
https://www.facebook.com/imperialtriumphant

 

 

KËKHT ARÄKH (Ukraine)

Dreamlike, wandering black metal, turning pain into gold, enthralling but with a voice that cuts like knives.

The song: Wanderer
The album: It’s just a single
The label: Sacred Bones Records
The release date: November 29

https://kekhtarakh.bandcamp.com/track/wanderer
https://www.facebook.com/kekhtarakh

 

 

KETTER (Belgium)

A pulse-pounding mash-up of glitchy and rhythmic stun-gun electronics, abrading and jolting riffage, extravagant singing, vicious snarling, and gruesome gutturals.

The song: Azatoth
The album: it’s just a single
The label: none
The release date: December 1

https://ketterband.bandcamp.com/track/azatoth
https://www.facebook.com/KetterBand

 

 

MERRIMACK (France)

Back to black metal we go, storming and psychedelic, a startling Pandora’s box of strange seductions, dangerous perils, and violent assaults. Like the music, the video is fascinating and bewildering too.

The song: Sulphurean Synods
The album: Of Grace and Gravity
The label: Season of Mist
The release date: March 8

https://shopusa.season-of-mist.com/list/merrimack
https://www.facebook.com/merrimackofficial

 

 

NECROPHOBIC (Sweden)

Time to kick your adrenaline into overdrive again with some assaulting black metal delirium that also takes a detour into haunted realms, where the solo wails like a wraith.

The song: Stormcrow
The album: In the Twilight Grey
The label: Century Media
The release date: March 15

https://necrophobic.lnk.to/
https://www.facebook.com/necrophobic.official

 

 

SKELETAL REMAINS (U.S.)

Just like the song title says — voracious death metal mayhem comes next. Enjoy the highly infectious feeding frenzy.

The song: Relentless Appetite
The album: Fragments of the Ageless
The label: Century Media
The release date: March 8

https://skeletalremains.lnk.to/FragmentsOfTheAgelessID
https://www.facebook.com/SkeletalRemainsDeathMetal/

 

 

SPECTRAL VOICE (U.S.)

Up next is metallic madness that swirls the mind, flenses the flesh, and freezes the blood. As the drummer/vocalist says about the album as a whole, “An immersive, morbid atmosphere of funereality longs for the liberation of death and mourns the agony of life. Coupled with moments of frenetic madness, grandeur, terror and ecstasy….”

The song: Red Feasts Condensed into One
The album: Sparagmos
The label: Dark Descent Records
The release date: February 9

https://www.darkdescentrecords.com/shop
https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sparagmos
https://www.facebook.com/Necroticdoom

 

 

VITRIOL (U.S.)

And to close, music used as lethal weaponry by psychotically berserk combatants, shrouded in an atmosphere of the unearthly. No prisoners will be taken.

The song: Weaponized Loss
The album: Suffer & Become
The label: Century Media
The release date: January 26

https://Vitriol.lnk.to/SufferAndBecomeID
https://www.facebook.com/vitriolwarfare/