OUR LIST OF 2021’S MOST INFECTIOUS EXTREME METAL SONGS (PART 16): WHITE STONES, SEND MORE PARAMEDICS, TVSK, RIVERS OF NIHIL

 MOST INFECTIOUS SONGS-2021  2 Responses »
Jan 262022
 

 

Welcome to the 16th installment of this list. To see what the first 15 parts include, go HERE.

Those of you who’ve been following the rollout of the list will have noticed that this one includes four songs, while all the others were limited to three. I’m already feeling the anxiety that comes from nearing the end of the list, knowing that I won’t get as many songs on it as I would wish, and today I had enough time to add one to the usual threesome.Doesn’t eliminate the anxiety but makes it a tad more bearable.

Musically, this Part is all over the musical map. There’s no stylistic union represented here. Just four infectious tunes from four very good 2021 releases. Continue reading »

SEEN AND HEARD: OXYGEN DESTROYER, TVSK, VRYKOLAKAS, REAPING ASMODEIA, NECROCHAOS

 Metal News, RANDOM FUCKING MUSIC  1 Response »
Jun 072021
 

 

Lo and behold, I had enough time today to prepare a second round-up of new music today. I wasn’t sure I would, which is why they’re not labeled Part 1 and Part 2, but things worked out. The first installment was really all-over-the-place musically. This one is much more concentrated on various forms of death metal, though not exclusively so.

OXYGEN DESTROYER (U.S.)

These Kaiju-conjuring death-thrashers from Seattle made a radioactive impact with their 2018 debut album Bestial Manifestations of Malevolence and Death, and now they’re about to do it again with their sophomore full-length, Sinister Monstrosities Spawned by the Unfathomable Ignorance of Humankind. Two songs are out in the world so far, the latest of which detonated last Friday. Continue reading »