Feb 2024: A Metal Round Up
DREAMHOUSE
Paludarium - Oxalaia
Surprisingly catchy black metal with a shoegaze shine from Costa Rica. Also there’s a Dinosaur on the album art. I don’t know how to sell this more.
DUNGEÖN - Dungeön
There’s a time in every young man’s life where he simply must listen to some ignorant shit. This UK sludge, coming from the moldiest, most weed infested corners of the worst basement in Bristol, is exactly the ignorant shit I need.
De spiegel - Morvigor
The Dutch, it turns out, are our best providers of the more dramatic side of black metal.
The Twilight Robes - THEY CAME FROM VISIONS
Music to (probably) usher in the apocalypse to. Or do some Ukranian black metal version of The Wicker Man. Either way, sign me up.
Devotion - Frail Body
We get this an Infant Island in quarter 1 of the year. What a time to be sad and alive.
Worshiped in Vain - Angel Massacre
Recorded on an easy-bake oven? Check. Album art work from that one edgy atheist in your 8th grade bio class? Check. Head banging riffs? Oh you best believe check.
Dream Of A Manikin - Daedalia
The Woodhouse will recommend at least one metal album a month that sounds like the last growls of a dying god evaporating into the void.
An Enigmatic Creation - Aesthetic
Church bells, underrated instrument for truly nasty tech death.
Pleroma Mortem Est - Monovoth
Doomy, meditative shit from Argentina of all places.
floriografia - Well Hell
Gloomy, depressing but strangely vibrant doom. A band to keep an eye on.