Potential AOTY material. My friend Justin from Innumerable Forms / Mind Eraser / The Rival Mob etc + Derrick from Tomb Mold who I’m less familiar with. Deathy/Doom stuff with lots of space. Dream Metal.
Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers was just released today.
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Swallow_the_Sun/Moonflowers/968145
I've given it one listen, I need to give it a few more spins. First impression/reaction is that I rather like it. Their previous album came out in January 2019, and it was my album of that year by far.
Listened to this one for the first time in many years
All hail rock and roll
heavy rocks 2002 slams. it took over a week of my life a couple weeks ago.
i put it on like once a month. the opening riff is the heaviest riff of all time
I‘m too old to like this band but they’re good
https://margaritaspodridas.bandcamp.com/track/margaritas
We’re essentially at the end of the year, and I don’t think there are any notable releases still to come – so I thought it was time to have a look over at the Empath top releases of the year, as ranked by metal-archives reviews
Everything with a score >= 85.0:
@Platinum Ovaries my roommate just saw them open for crack cloud in Seattle. Fun ass show - they had just recorded their KEXP sesh
yeah rooting for the youngsters over here, it's def a good record
@tapevulture god fucking damn
Imagine just lying on the floor in there
Soul Glo is mad good and they put out a song from their new album, video is wild!!!
Not very heavy, but I don’t know where else this would belong: the new Ghost album is out. I gave it a listen, it was a fun time.
my favorite heavy band of recent memory has arisen to bless us this decade
I would describe them as the intersection of artsy euro metal stuff & punchy post hardcore. think oathbreaker meets gouge away.
screeching but deep punky vocals with soaring melodic singing parts that could fill a parking lot. fast chaotic drums. atmospheric guitar riffs that can get chuggy when appropriate. & honestly the best bass in current heavy music imo very groovy & very belgian (or so I’ve heard, idk really know much about what’s goin on there musically tbh)
I blew a tire on a flood-warped Houston curb pulling over for an ambulance a couple days ago. The new one was expensive as heck. I scuffed the bottom of my recently replaced bumper too. Cars suck.
Luckily my partner just perordered this for me to cheer me up. One of my favorite albums of 2020. I don’t even have a record player, I’m just excited to stare at the big artwork and pretty blue and purple while I listen for the 300th+ time.
@jaws thank you so much for sharing this. First I’ve heard of them. They’ll be on repeat all day/week.
My bestest mate in the whole wide worlds band released their new album today. If you like gloomy doomy sludgy stuff it is well worth a listen. Love a big old riff!
This column at The Quietus runs every other month. Good way to keep up with new H E A V Y releases.