Records of the Week With Jon and Ted Week #21
This week: a melodic death/doom band's 2007 debut, and a gnarly mid-career standout from a veteran stoner metal band.
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Critical Extravasation Keeps Death Metal Vicious With “Redeeming Flames” (Early Track Stream)
Technical death/thrash metal that looks back to the early, early days is rare, but Critical Extravasation offers an inspiring take on it. Check out a track from their upcoming record "Order of Decadence" here.
Majestat Offers “A Gift Before Death” on New Album (Full Album Stream)
Ghastly black metal for the underground elite. Listen to A Gift Before Death in full.
夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) Reinvents Black Metal’s Wheel (Early Album Stream + Interview)
The mysterious, international black metal tricksters find new ways to destroy black metal's fundamentals on a new LP and offer thoughts on creativity versus scholarship in a new interview.
夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) Demonstrates the Promise of Blackened Psychedelic Metal with “First Utterance”
We unleash a bleak new track from international outfit Sleepwalker, chock full of all the abstract noise and heady atmospherics we've come to expect from the project.
Into the Unknown: Siberian Black Metallers Ultar Unleash “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”
Stream the blistering penultimate track from the outfit's upcoming sophomore full-length "Pantheon MMXIX."
Comatose Vigil A.K. Teases “Evangelium Nihil” with 18-Minute Title Track
The funeral doom epic offers a peek into the troupe’s new manifestation as a three-piece.
Doom From The Great Hall: Scald Reissue “Will of the Gods is a Great Power”
The legendary doom outfit reissues their sole full-length this Friday.