OUR LIST OF 2024’S MOST INFECTIOUS EXTREME METAL SONGS (PART 5): THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT, WARLUST, URFEIND

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Jan 082025
 

(written by Islander)

Welcome to Part 5 of this evolving list of infectious metal songs from last year. I’m not sure there’s any kind of organizing principle that explains why I put the following three songs together in this latest installment. They felt right together even though they sound very different, but I don’t know why.

Anyway, I think you will enjoy them. To check out the preceding four Parts and to understand what this list is about, go here.

THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT

With tongues in cheeks but also sticking straight out, we’ve explained our difficulty in being entirely objective about The Monolith Deathcult. As Andy wrote in his review of their latest album, “We’ve been friends, we’ve been enemies… and then there was that unfortunate incident where we all swapped brains… but our love for the band’s music has never waned.”

Or as I wrote upon hearing that album’s title track last February: “With our long history slavishly lapping at the feet of The Monolith Deathcult, you didn’t really think we’d overlook the fact that they have a new album coming out or that they’ve released its title track, did you? Perish the thought!” Continue reading »

AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): WARLUST — “SOL INVICTUS IN UMBRAE SATANAE”

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Sep 242024
 

(written by Islander)

Warlust is the kind of name chosen by a band who want to broadcast that their main interest is sonic violence, without nuance or mercy, wholly devoted to musical experiences that provide the reptile-brain thrills of ugly and unrestrained barbarity.

But it turns out that even a band named Warlust is capable of more than that, and this German band who took that name prove it in spades on their new third album Sol Invictus In Umbrae Satanae, which we’re premiering today in advance of its September 27 release by Dying Victims Productions.

Hell, it even proves they’re capable of… progression (a dirty word in come circles, but not intended as an insult here). Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: WARLUST — “I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE”

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Mar 022020
 

 

“I Spit On Your Grave!” Those are fighting words, and in the song of that name which we’re premiering today through a lyric video, the German hellraisers in Warlust back that disgusted condemnation to the hilt, and simultaneously prove why their new album Unearthing Shattered Philosophies (forthcoming from Dying Victims Productions on April 24th) is such a savage yet multi-faceted thrillride.

Through their previous album, 2017’s Morbid Execution, Warlust amply demonstrated their prowess in discharging electrifying black/thrash, leavened with other ingredients that made it more than an assault of rip-roaring hellfire. But the new album reveals an even further spreading of the band’s dragon wings, demonstrating an elevation in the dynamism and diversity of their songwriting skills, and “I Spit On Your Grave” is a prime example of those achievements. Continue reading »