Greetings, Decibel readers!
It’s a great week for fans of death and thrash metal, especially if you’re looking for bands who carry on the spirit of the 1980s while still screaming with their own voice.
Enjoy!
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Aggressive Perfector – Come Creeping Fiends
Well, it’s hard to go wrong with a name like that. This is the British outfit’s second album on Dying Victims Productions, a match custom-made in hell. A thrilling blend of Mercyful Fate, Venom, Exciter, and other flavors of 1980s extremity. There’s a subtle hint of early-80s street punk in there as well, if you listen close enough.
Stream: Apple Music
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Bekor Qilish – Consecrated Abysses Of Dread
Mind-blasting avant-garde mastery. When it comes to experimental and off-kilter death metal, Andrea Bruzzone is the man to trust. Think of Esoctrilihum but with the sonic insanity curve bent more toward Cynic, Nocturnus and latter-era Death.
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Foetorem – Incongruous Forms Of Evergrowing Rot
Meanwhile, if you just want some unrelenting, cavernous darkness — the debut album from Denmark’s Foetorem embodies all manner of devouring death. Themes of festering decay clash with thought-provoking, introspective music sections that contrast the standard blasts of fury. Gore that makes you think.
Stream: Apple Music
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Hellripper – Coronach
Hellripper is more than just another blackened-speed metal band. Over the course of the last decade, James McBain has established his unholy music machine as one of the most compelling and exciting names in modern metal. On Coronach, James ups the ante ever further with more interesting riff-work, more challenging compositions, and more reasons to hail eternal darkness!
Stream: Apple Music
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Intoxicated – The Dome
Floridian thrashy death metal courtesy of the always reliably Redefining Darkness Records. This is the band’s third album, and a followup to 2022’s Watch You Burn.
Stream: Apple Music
