Take a deep dive into the weekend

December 9-10-11.

Wolok offer The Bilious Hues Of Gloom. If you were to listen to their earlier release servum pecus and slow it down exponentially without changing pitch, maybe then you will hear the connection. Cover art perfectly matches the sound on display. Paint peeling, noxious, corrupt noise in slow motion. Think flipper and no trend meet deathspell omega and gluey porch treatments era Melvins.

New Unyielding Love is over a month old, but, never you mind... it offers unyielding damage. This is the sound and authenticity more well known acts that attempt a hybrid of noise, grind, sludge and blackened death metal wish they could achieve. A Cattlepress Portal Leeched into a Brighter Death Now.

Sounds to me as if Lower Automation were the brundle fly result of The Mars Volta traveling in the wayback machine to San Diego circa the Drive Like Jehu and Gravity Records era. Or maybe Thought Industry mods carve the pig gone atomic cyber punk? Tech edge yet loose feel. Brilliant stuff.

SLC tyrants Sacrilegion get points for knowing who the hell Intestine Baalism are and for recruiting Kenji Nonaka to do a solo. Get an old school death metal treatment dressed in modern sound and sensibility.

Take Colonial Wound like a cinder block over the head. This may vie with KENmode for the 2022 noise rock crown... I say may, because upon writing this the full album has yet to be released. And although the first two preview tracks are ridiculously promising, it is a tall task to fuck with the sonic equivalent of an open ice Dustin Byfuglien hit.

The initial preview track would lead one to believe Antecantamentum are a gene splice of 90s shoegaze and Bathory Hammerheart. Specific sections having an overdriven guitar tone having a Hammerheart feel where things are burning so hot the sustain sounds as if it is frying to the point of becoming brittle. Some of the fast parts being wet with effects become a noise on par with Husker Du’s cover of the Byrds "Eight Miles High." However, upon release and further inspection this album is a metalmorph. The album description clarifies some material dates back as far as 2006, so, it does make sense why some of the songs are varied in terms of approach where different disciplines are at the fore. Lead off track “In the Green Petrichor” begins a traditional thrash metal affair before the midway point gives way to icy black metal fury. If I were to guess, the first two songs incorporating a decided thrash element would indicate these as the earliest material. While I’m not particular to the thrash/power metal leanings, the picking and riff patterns are exceptionally strong and more modern in approach than a deliberate old school nostalgic approach. For me the long form songs on display, 4 out of 6, are strongest and where Antecantamentum excel as the arrangements feel more confident and the disparate styles combine fluidly, logically in a narrative fashion. When you read more about the circumstances surrounding Saturnine December you realize this album is a true testament to perseverance, resilience and growth.

Trailer for Brandon Cronenberg’s new flick has dropped… Antiviral and Possessor are great, hopefully Infinity Pool continues the streak. Definitely appears to be in his weirdo dystopian near future or alternate reality.

Bloody Disgusting and Screambox brought the Argentine History of the Occult to North American living rooms this week.

The manner in which History of the Occult is presented reminds me of Ghostwatch. A blast from the recent past which has been given a swank blu ray treatment on 101 Films Black Label imprint. Full presentation below.

As always, Please support: Everything Went Black, The Metal Dad and his fiendish five podcast, No Clean Singing, Stereogum: The Black Market, The Devil’s Mouth, Aversionline, Invisible Oranges, Horror Wolf 666, Into the Necrosphere, Sol Nox Podcast, The Book of Very Very Bad Things and Doktor Dismemberment’s Midnight Murderplex….

And with that I leave you Unformulas. A project adjacent to The Funeral Orchestra that leans further epic death doom than the “true apocalyptic doom” plod of The Funeral Orchestra. Some decidedly Celtic Frost twists and turns as on “Post Mortem Visionary” in particular. Just another reason you never finalize those album of the year lists until all is said and done.