(It may be April, but Andy Synn is still catching up on March’s bumper crop of releases)
Like I said last week (and also yesterday) it’s patently impossible for anyone to keep up with everything that’s released each month… so the best move is to not even try.
Of course, I’m immediately going to contradict that by covering another quartet of releases from March, but the point still stands.
After all, despite my best efforts here (and last week) I’m still not going to be able to write about the new ones from Cult of Fire (Czechia) or Cthuluminati (Netherlands) in full, or talk about the immersive Post-Metal intensity of Båkü (France) or Druma (Germany), or give hefty death-dealers Nothing (Australia) and Thanatophobia (Russia) their due.
On top of that, while I’m really liking the new Gates to Hell album the fact that they’re already signed to a big label and getting a lot of coverage means that it’s probably best for me to focus my efforts elsewhere (same for the vicious, visceral – yet slightly too long and drawn-out for its own good – new one from This Gift Is A Curse).
And even though I’ve been loving the new Teitanblood (unsurprisingly) I feel like our good buddies at AMG already said everything that needed saying about that one, so make sure you go and read their review for some cool insight into that one.
But, anyway, enough of all my that… let’s get to the music, shall we?