Apr 012025
 

(Andy Synn presents part 1 – part 2 coming next week – of his regularly scheduled catch-up column)

Last month was so goddamn busy – both in terms of my own personal/professional/musical life and the sheer amount of albums being released – that I’m actually being forced (well, “forced”) to do not one but two “Things You May Have Missed” articles to catch up on everything that I/we missed during February.

Not that I mind too much – honestly, my biggest concern is falling behind on March’s releases while we’re still looking back at February – since although so far I’ve found 2025 to have gotten off to a pretty slow start (there’s been a lot of releases, sure, but only a handful that have really blown me away) I’m pretty sure that at least some of these records are going to find their way onto a few end of year lists.

So, without further ado, let’s enjoy the first of this month’s two-part round-up,

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Oct 102012
 

Chicago guitarist Jeff Wilson is a busy dude. In addition to his bands Chrome Waves and Wolvhammer, both of which we’ve praised here at NCS in the past, he’s also a driving force in a new collective called Doomsday. He’s got some heavyweight talent along for the Doomsday ride, too:

Bassist Bob Fouts (The Gates of Slumber, Chrome Waves, Apostle Of Solitude)
Guitarist/vocalist Jon Woodring (Bones)
Drummer Zack Simmons (Goatwhore)
Vocalist Zion Meagher (Anti-Human Thesis).

In some ways this group is like a Nachtmystium alumni reunion, since Wilson, Woodring, Simmons, and Meagher were all previously involved with that band — and Doomsday’s self-titled, six-song EP was engineered by Nachtmystium’s Sanford Parker, along with Carl Byers (Coffinworm). It will be released on November 6 by Wilson’s newly founded label Disorder Recordings, and it features brilliantly occult cover art by Christina Caperson.

Okay, now that I’ve gotten the details out of the way and nearly sunk this review under the weight of all those links, I do have a few words to say about the music: It’s really fuckin’ good. Continue reading »