OVERFLOWING STREAMS: AT THE GATES, NIGHTRAGE, AGRYPNIE, CLOUD RAT, HIDEOUS DIVINITY, BONES OF THE EARTH, PRAISE THE PLAGUE, MENTAL CRUELTY, PROGENY OF SUN, DELUSION, INFESTATION, ANTUCO, TRIALOGOS

 

To improve your Saturday, and quite possibly your whole weekend, I’ve collected a baker’s dozen of new songs and videos (including a couple of previously hard-to-find tracks from forthcoming reissues).

I grouped these 13 offerings in ways that I thought made sense. As usual for these kinds of posts, I didn’t take time to track down and upload artwork or purchase links, and I decided to organize my meager introductory comments by the categories I’ve arranged. (Don’t punch me too hard because of the category labels I chose, because I do realize they’re not 100% accurate.)

MELODIC DEATH METAL

The first two choices here were recommended by DGR, and the above label clearly applies to both. Andy Synn recommended the third one, and although most people wouldn’t categories Agrypnie as melodic death metal, I do think their new song fits well alongside the first two.

At the Gates‘ new album, The Nightmare of Being, will be released by Century Media on July 2nd. The new Nightrage album, Abyss Rising, will be discharged sometime this coming fall by Despotz Records. And Agrypnie’s new album, Metamorphosis, will be released on July 30th via AOP Records.

https://www.facebook.com/AtTheGatesOfficial
https://www.facebook.com/nightrage
https://www.facebook.com/agrypnie.official

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

I can’t be faulted for this category label because there is indeed nothing that really unites the next three tracks, nor makes them suitable for inclusion in any other of today’s categories. It’s a mix of experimental grindcore, death metal, and stoner/sludge.

Cloud Rat‘s song is a new single that debuted yesterday on the Adult Swim channel. The song that’s the subject of the Hideous Divinity bass play-through video comes from the EP LV-426, which has been out since April 23rd (DGR’s commentary about it: “my god the bass tone is so gross in that song, just listen to that fucker rumble”). And the Bones of the Earth track appears on II. Eternal Meditations of a Deathless Crown, an album that was also released in April.

https://www.facebook.com/cloudratgrind
https://www.facebook.com/hideousdivinity
https://www.facebook.com/bonesoftheearthband

 

 

 

BLACKENING

I also thought these three songs fit well together, particularly in the way the music progresses from one track to the next.

Praise the Plague‘s new album, The Obsidian Gate, will be out July 30th on Lifeforce Records (Andy Synn alerted me to the new song). Unique Leader released Mental Cruelty‘s new album A Hill To Die Upon yesterday (DGR made a comment to us about the song in the video, though I can’t tell whether he liked it or not). And Progeny of Sun‘s Dark Wanderer EP was also released yesterday by Inverse Records (I found this song on my own).

https://www.facebook.com/praisetheplague
https://www.facebook.com/MentalCruelty
https://www.facebook.com/Progenyofsun

 

 

 

OLD SCHOOL DEATH

The next two songs really ARE old school death metal. The first one originally appeared on Delusion’s 1992 demo Autumn Dawn, and it’s now included in an album named Trapped Within Autumn Dawn which includes that demo and a compilation of the band’s other three releases, all of which date to the early- and mid-90s. The second song is the title track off Massachusetts-based Infestation’s 1994 demo, and (in remastered form) it’s now included in a compilation that includes that demo and a second one (1992’s Visions of Repulsion).

Both of these compilations are being released by Redefining Darkness Records (US) and Raw Skull Recordz (EU)

https://www.facebook.com/Delusion-1990-96-New-England-Death-Metal-107718587245611/
https://www.facebook.com/Infestation-166961986703530/

 

 

 

INSTRUMENTAL

To send you on your way I picked two instrumental-only performances. I’ve included the music of both of these bands in previous round-ups. Antuco’s song is a new single that’s available for download here, and as usual is presented in a video that provides jaw-dropping vistas of the Chilean landscape.

The Trialogos piece will be included in their forthcoming Stroh zu Gold album, set for release on June 18. The band originally performed the song in collaboration with dancer Ellen Brix, and you can see the actual dance video here.

https://www.facebook.com/trialogos
https://www.facebook.com/AntucoOfficial