September 30, 2009

Upcoming metal releases: October 2009

Jacob Bannon of ConvergePhoto by [charlie cravero] The list of upcoming October metal releases is now up. As always, it’s a work in progress. (Please submit corrections and additions in the comments box.) According to metal-archives.com, new releases average about 10 a day. There’s no way I can capture all that, so hopefully I’ve gotten...

Body Hammer - Jigoku

If Maine is good for anything, it’s isolation. Bountiful evergreen forests, long and bleak winters; Immortal would love it there. It could also be the driving force behind Jigoku (The Path Less Traveled, 2009), the debut album from Orono’s one-man cybergrind project Body Hammer. For 35 minutes, nihilism and misanthropy clash with nature and technology....