Greetings, Decibel readers!
Have an particularly lethal set of releases for you this week. However if you wish to know who my favourite fashionable old-school heavy steel band is, scroll to the underside.
Get pleasure from!
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Coffin Feeder – Massive Bother
Do you want brutal demise steel, Nineteen Eighties action-movie references, and crystal clear political metaphors? Effectively, have I acquired a deal with for you!
Stream: Apple Music
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Disfuneral – In Horror, Reborn
Some stable demise steel. Easy as. Followers of Vader, Grasp, and Asphyx will discover lots to get pleasure from on this album.
Stream: Apple Music
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Insineratehymn – Irreverence of the Divine
Brutal, satisfying evil set to music. Deicide clearly looms giant over this band’s music, however there’s echoes of Immolation, Incantation and Imprecation to be discovered right here as nicely. I imply, you’re offered already, aren’t you?
Stream: Apple Music
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Samiarus – Reign Destroyer
Talking of evil, let this sink its tooth into you, you received’t remorse it. The Oakland-based band has entered the world with a supremely violent new launch, a piece that mixes blackened demise steel with the angle of grind and powerviolence in a approach that’s much like bands like Gravesend and Caustic Wound.
Stream: Apple Music
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Venator – Psychodrome
Among the many legions of “new old-school heavy steel” bands which have emerged over the past 10 years, none looms bigger for me that Venator. Every little thing in regards to the band’s sound comes collectively so nicely, channeling Judas Priest, The Scorpions, WASP and Thundersteel-era Riot and updating all of it for the 2020s. Superb however by no means tacky, aggressive however nicely balanced, melodic however nonetheless completely badass — it simply completely guidelines. The riffs are there, the vocals are there (and most singers on this type actually flip me off, however Hans simply owns the fabric so expertly), and the songwriting is just supreme (these choruses!). This will likely be one of many few non-black or demise steel albums on my finish of yr record for 2025, assured.
Stream: Apple Music
