Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Gudsforladt - split with Non- (2019)

GUDSFORLADT "Split with Non-"

Year: 2019
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Country: USA

Track List:
  1. Yawgmoth
Bandcamp

"This is just our side of the split with Non-. Their side is available at their bandcamp, here: notblackmetal.bandcamp.com/album/split
It was recorded and mixed by Nat Pierce at reel room recording lab. it was mastered by Will Killingsworth at dead air studios.
non-'s half of the split was recorded at Ol' Yeller by Dylan Sylvester of Sylvester Audio. it was mixed and mastered by Nate Patsfall of Artifact Audio.
The art is by Arminda Ferreira"

Deliverer - "Smother" (2018)

DELIVERER "Smother"

Year: 2018
Genre: Instrumental Neofolk / "Barbarian Folk"
Country: USA

Track List:
  1. No Home
  2. Until The Plains
  3. Deliverer Awake
  4. Spurn From Within
  5. Fall of Civilization
  6. Reunion
Bandcamp

"... I am Black and mixed race. It’s hard to think of fascism as a benign thing for me, whether or not the attitudes are sincere or just aesthetic based. For those reasons I’ve often been removed from the metal scenes except on the internet, which is where people are the worst about that sort of thing. I’ve probably been to less than 10 black metal shows in 20 years o listening to the music for that reason, so I’ve encountered only minimal amounts of it in person.

... I have always felt a connection to old folk traditions, although I never had a ton of personal connection through them in my upbringing – so many of them I have admired from a distance. But it is also so easy for these things to get wrapped up in nationalism that has also kept me a bit removed from them. There are many Black American folk magic and pagan traditions that I don’t have as much connection to.

I’m especially a fan of Scandinavian and similarly influenced projects like most of what Einar Selvik is connected to, Ulver’s Kveldssanger and the like. But I’ve also looked to bands like Deveykus and Zeal and Ardor who have tried to incorporate Hasidic music and Black spirituals respectively into a metal sound, insisting on making space for themselves and their sounds in the larger umbrella of the scene"

Read the full interview with Deliverer here.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Outer Darkness - "Altars of the Subaltern" (2019)

OUTER DARKNESS "Altars of the Subaltern"

Year: 2019
Genre: Post-Black Metal
Country: USA

Track List:
  1. Lazy Thieving Master
  2. Murmur
  3. Whiskered Men With Bombs
Bandcamp

RABM from Brooklyn. Not much is known about this band, but "Whiskered Men With Bombs" is quite good.

Delaying the Inevitable - "Unlovable." (2019)

DELAYING THE INEVITABLE "Unlovable."

Year: 2019
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Country: USA

Track List:
  1. Unlovable
Bandcamp

One-man project by a member of Neckbeard Deathcamp, apparently inspired by Petr Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread".

Jesus Wept - "Crushing Apartheid" (2017)

JESUS WEPT "Crushing Apartheid"

Year: 2017
Genre: Death'n'Roll, Hardcore
Country: USA

Track List:
  1. Buried Face Down
  2. Drowning In Holy Water
  3. Hammering the Nails
  4. Jesus In Chains (Father In Hell)
  5. Disarm 
Bandcamp

Left wing Death'n'Roll from Detroit Rot City.
Engineered at Bricktop Studios by Andy Nelson.
Mastered by Arthur Rizk.
Artwork by Legerdemain.
Additional vocals on ‘Disarm’ by Andy Nelson.
‘Disarm’ written and originally performed by Smashing Pumpkins.

Monday, April 1, 2019

Uzi Suicide - "14 Anarchist Anthems To Listen To While Blowing Up The Government" (2003)

UZI SUICIDE "14 Anarchist Anthems To Listen To While Blowing Up The Government"

Year: 2003
Genre: Hardcore, Powerviolence
Country: USA

Track List:
  1. bombing the streets
  2. the motherfucking coalition
  3. in the mouth of madness
  4. leading the blind
  5. beer n guns
  6. punk enough ( we're not)
  7. ode to jocks
  8. mosh it up
  9. coke fiends
  10. true story
  11. punk rock asshole
  12. inspiration
  13. alhambra
  14. ratz youth
Listen

Not black metal or metal at all, but their "Ode to Jocks" is awesome, and they have one of the most hilarious band descriptions ever:

"Uzi Suicide is a fast, thrashy powerviolence outfit from Santa Cruz, California. Their songs reflect the band's main interests: Satan, Veganism, shoplifting, graffiti and vegan thrash punx.

Uzi Suicide is now, sadly, defunct, and no longer plays shows.

Some questions people have about Uzi Suicide: Do they mosh? Yes. Do they pray? No. Do they kill? Always! Do they go to church? Fuck no. Do they fuck? Fuck yes!"

Sankara - "Total Liberation of the Human Race" (2019)

SANKARA "Total Liberation of the Human Race"

Year: 2019
Genre: Black/Death Metal
Country: USA

Track List:
  1. Intro
  2. Proletarian Upheaval
  3. Impaled on the Communist's Spear
  4. Communist Death Ritual
  5. The Blood and Bile of the Capitalist
  6. Bourgeosie Crucifixion
  7. Proletariat Sovereign
  8. Outro
Bandcamp

"For what would've probably sold a decent number of copies based on gimmick and imagery alone, this thing has some bloody brutal, groovy riffs and dope songwriting. Kinda like Neckbeard Deathcamp, come to think of it..." - lord yabol

LS - All instruments, Vocals, Mixing
DA - Mastering
Cover art and logo designed by DA.