After years of self-releases and DIY work-horsing, DoC friends
Buckshot Facelift are set to make a splash with their 5th full-length.
Ulcer Island will keep listeners on their toes with its bouillabaisse of grind, groove, blackened melodies and sampled interludes. I haven't heard a grind album this adventurous and entertaining since Brutal Truth called it a day. [$9.99]
There are few albums released this year that I've been looking forward to as much as the new
Azarath.
In Extremis refines the band's blast-centric style: Teeth-rattling speed tempered with the occasional lurching, Immolation-style break. This is as tight and vicious as the band has ever sounded; for fans of "the true brutal daeth matel", this is where "FUCK" meets "YES". [$7.90]
Unadulterated death metal is the
raison d'être for France's
Necrowretch.
Satanic Slavery, their first album for Season of Mist (and third overall) sees the band sticking to their guns, delivering one speedy paean to darkness and evil after another. As more and more of the bands who surfed in on the wave of old school nostalgia move on to other things, bands like Necrowretch who are impervious to change become notable for their dedication. [$9.99]
Given the eclecticism of its members' other bands (Vastum, Cretin, and Agalloch among them),
Extremity sounds like an excuse to keep things simple and have some old school fun.
Extremely Fucking Dead
is a throwback to the early days of the genre, but not as tediously derivative as most OSDM revival albums. It's not going to replace
Symphonies of Sickness or
Severed Survival, but it'll get the head banging and the toe tapping. [$6.66]
