Abest - "Demo MMXII"

Abest from Northern Germany are blurring the lines between atmospheric Post-Metal and bleak Hardcore to create a dark and pounding emotional atmosphere.

Abest - "Demo MMXII"

-DCKR

Trepanation - "Hideous Black Abyss"

Killer swift blast of black grindy crusty deathy goodness for that ass by way of Trepanation. Free and brutal, like we all should be.

Trepanation - "Hideous Black Abyss"

- DCKR

Coma Void - "Coma Void"

Space black metal. Wherever you are in relation to understanding that space black metal is actually a thing, you need to listen to this. Jump into the Coma Void.

Coma Void - "Coma Void"

- DCKR

GRYPT - "Love Me" + remixes/stems

Stupid bitches.
The only kind of bitches who don't know that our own [TLR] is part of GRYPT.

GRYPT has a remix EP, full of remixes and the original version - along with stems so you can make a remix that s either way cooler or way dumber.

All of it rules. Get it.

Centura - "Black Sheep"

Get you some deathy thrash metal music from a netlabel that knows you cares and cares if you know.

Centura - "Black Sheep"

- DCKR

Tsar Bomb - "Tsar Bomb EP"

Spanish blackened death metal of the highest, if slightly over-produced, caliber. I actually really love everything about this EP other than the fact that the production is a little too clean. Blow a speaker listening to ti the first, then give it another listen with a blown speaker. Yeah.

Tasr Bomb - "Tsar Bomb EP"

- DCKR

Word Of Unmaking / Grue - "Lo, the Curse of the World Cometh"

A single 16 minute track of absolute molasses like funeral doom from Word Of Unmaking along with with another 16 minutes of pretty alright black metal across 5 tracks courtesy of Grue on this split cassette release you can have for free digitally. Get murky.

Grue side
Word Of Unmaking side

- DCKR

Daggra - "Daggra"

Magicore homie Phil from A Beautiful Lotus does vocals for this new project entitled Daggra. Relentless and agressive grindy goodness from front to back, some powerful riffs and tightly played drums paint the picture for Phil's vocals and together it's a masterpiece of heaviness. Check it.

Daggra - "Daggra"

- DCKR

Marnost - "Die Hamletmaschine"

Killer long form black metal from Marnost, a band hailing from the Czech Republic who use poetry written by authors now dead and dating back many years as their lyrics. This particular release is inspired by a play/dance, apparently. It's fucking remarkable music, no matter. Deep and enveloping, diverse and evolving.

Marnost - "Die Hamletmaschine"

- DCKR

Haapoja - "Haapoja"

Some pretty well executed Finnish hardcore with an air of progressive and black metal to it. Great riffs and chords, awesome shifts in time signatures, drums are on point, vocals are just the right amount of screaming and growling and sit well in the mix of everything else. Check it.

Haapoja - "Haapoja"

- DCKR

Pornography - "Heaven"

Blasphemous one man noisy doom project from Tennessee. Long winding roads of feedback and pained shrieks through trance inducing and water torture-esque drums.

Pornography - "Heaven"

- DCKR

Light Bearer - "Silver Tongue"

If you're a fan of post-metal and post-hardcore, even if not a fan of those genre terms, then Light Bearer's new one entitled "Silver Tongue" should absolutely not be slept upon. Plain and simple. Huge walls of guitar and coarse vocals with a nice and varied backbone of drums, bass, and atmosphere. All executed superbly. From front to back, beginning to end, "Silver Tongue" tells a story successfully and expertly, as you would expect from this description of the band:

all encompassing DIY art, music and narrative project, based around a story written by their vocalist Alex, who drew influence from the writings of Philip Pullman’s "His Dark Materials" trilogy, John Milton’s "Paradise Lost", and the Book of Genesis.

With defined intros, segue ways, and outros, "Silver Tongue" is a heavy soundtrack to some more refined
creative outlets among the metal masses. Truly something to be experience from front to back in one sitting.

Light Bearer - "Silver Tongue"

- DCKR

Heartless - "Certain Death"

I was fortunate enough to win a prize pack of this release on clear, black, and test press 7" and am thrilled to let you all know you can have at least a digital version for free for yourself. You should throw them some dollars if you can, but throw some horns up to for nothing at bare minimum. Heartless on Halo Of Flies with some gnarly grindy hardcore shit that is angry and relentless. Fucking pummeling and brutal. Incredible.

Heartless - "Certain Death"

- DCKR

Outre - "Tranquility"

Awesome and fairly technical thrashy black metal from Russia courtesy of Outre. Kick ass riffs and chords, vocals are a nice breed of thrashy blackened death, and the drums are full of double kickdrum assaults under really rad fills, rolls, and cymbal workouts. Get it.

Outre - "Tranquility"

- DCKR

V/A - "Hell's Headbangers Compilation 6"

Hell's Headbangers is one of the best and most respected metal distros and labels out there. So, it goes without saying that you should pick up this free compilation from the crew. Hails!

V/A - "Hell's Headbangers Compilation 6"

- DCKR

Tenebrositas - "Toward The Solemn Realm Of Prophet's Twilight"

No scene. No politics. Darkness alone.

Well said. Trve cvlt black metal from Croatia's Tenebrositas. Get it.

- DCKR

Deuil - "Acceptance/Rebuild"

Belgian post black metal and forward thinking doom by way of Deuil. "Acceptance" spends half of its 20 minutes in borderline ambient/drone doom realms before ultimately unleashing a blackened beast from the post-apocalyptic bowels of post-whatever-as-a-genre while the fittingly titled "Rebuild" continues on the basic trajectory of "Acceptance" as it attempts to rebuild your psyche after the pummeling it received from "Acceptance". Loud, deep, angry, inviting.

Deuil - "Acceptance/Rebuild"

- DCKR

Khand - "The Fires Of Celestial Ardour"

Superb neoclassical ritualistic space ambient. Get it. Write up from Hi Arc Tow reads:

The Fires of Celestial Ardour consists of ten pieces of deliciously neoclassical synth-ambient that take the listener on a journey through lonesome, starlit expanses. For fans of Tangerine Dream, Dead Can Dance, Raison D’Etre, Endura, Mortiis, Nox Arcana, Ildjarn.

Khand - "The Fires Of Celestial Ardour"

- DCKR

Kryzgx - "Kryzgx I"

Genuinely creepy and ritualistic atmospheric black metal from Kryzgx, and artists name you'll never remember how to spell correctly. It is mixed and recorded by Munkie Poo, featured here in the past, so I'm curious as to whether or not this is an alias project from him. Either way, the fuzzed out melodies and leftfield vocal flexings are a nice take on a timeless classic, in terms of the black metal genre. Check it.

Kryzgx - "Kryzgx I"

- DCKR

Le Kraken - "Self Titled / Exalt"

Get you a couple of free releases from sludge / post-hardcore / etc powerhouse Le Kraken. Both their "Self-titled" and "Exalt" efforts are powerful and emotion filled varieties of crusty sludgy doom tinged post-hardcore that are sure to please.

Le Kraken - "Self-titled"
Le Kraken - "Exalt"

- DCKR