![]() ![]() The furious opening title track is akin to their classic sound, but feels fresh. It also infuses a more prominent thrash edge. This LP nails the difficult balance between accessibility and authenticity, while retaining the complex delivery that has typically set Darkane apart from their peers. Inhuman Spirits, their first album in nine years, arrives amid less fanfare, but nonetheless deserves attention. There’s a host of releases from Swedish melodic death metal heavyweights on the way (Arch Enemy, Soilwork, The Halo Effect, Amon Amarth) in 2022, but beating them to the punch is Darkane. (Tom Campagna) Massacre Records Darkane – Inhuman Spirits (Massacre) They continue their unique career trend with Heaven Is Here, evolving in front of our eyes, showing you that maybe heaven isn’t quite what you’d imagined it to be, perhaps even worse. ![]() Music obscurity rating full#Candy’s career trajectory feels like that of labelmates, Full of Hell with their workman and road dog mentality making sure all of their chaos clicks. ![]() You get a little bit of Cult Leader and Nails mixed with some noisy tracks including the 10 minute closer “Perverse.” Candy’s sound is hard to define and a flat-out blast to take in. Elements of post-punk and industrial litter tracks like “Kinesthesia,” feeling like they could be a long-lost Ministry b-side, betwixt whatever Candy were feeling at the time. It has everything from the fast and furious metallic hardcore of “Human Condition Above Human Opinion” to the doomy dirges of the title track. (Chad Bowar) Relapse Records Candy – Heaven Is Here (Relapse)Ĭandy return to follow up their 2018 blast of a debut Good To Feel with the next stage in their evolution, Heaven Is Here. The Devils is the latest in a long line of excellent Belphegor albums. It’s a streamlined album clocking in at 36 minutes with maximum variety and minimum filler. Tracks like “Totentanz – Dance Macabre” bring black metal to the forefront while songs such as “Damnation – Höllensturz” deliver mid-paced death metal with some acoustic moments. The balance of their lethal concoctions varies from song to song. Helmuth and Serpenth have developed a distinctive style over the years, creating a brutal blend of death metal and black metal. The gap between Totenritual and their twelfth studio album The Devils was five years, the longest they’ve had. In their 30 year career, Austrian death/black metal legends Belphegor have issued albums every two or three years. (Gino Sigismondi) Nuclear Blast Belphegor – The Devils (Nuclear Blast) Toss is a couple lyrical detours to Hungary and Brazil for good measure, and Alestorm deliver a globe-trotting treasure trove of headbanging fun – occasionally silly, never less than supremely entertaining. Lyrically, Alestorm sail from the historical seafaring tales of “Magellan’s Expedition” and “The Battle of Cape Fear River,” to the absurd disco metal of “P.A.R.T.Y.” to the downright obscene “Cannonball’. In addition to the expected crushing riffs and synth-orchestral layers, Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum features hurdy-gurdy, violin, and several guest vocalists performing the non-English passages. Imagine a rum-soaked, peg-legged Sabaton and you’re in the neighborhood. What at first glance seems like a one-joke shtick has become a bottomless wineskin of top-notch power metal, drunkenly wed to 1800’s seafaring folk melodies and instrumentation. (Dan Marsicano) Napalm Records Alestorm – Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum (Napalm)Īvast, ye filthy landlubbers! Alestorm return to the high seas of metal with another rollicking collection of heavy hitting sea-shanties. There are several stunning points, including the outstanding minutes-long guitar solo in instrumental closer “To Suns Beyond” and the unrelenting pace of “Cult Axe.” These guys remain committed to their space-driven concept, making sure that the music matches the weightlessness of the cosmos. Though little time has passed between II and III, this isn’t an album of half-baked ideas. It’s total sci-fi worship, a perfect set piece for the smoky atmosphere this Swedish trio are clouded in. This one continues the story that began in 2020’s I EP, as a spaceship and its crew wander through Earth millenniums in the future after going through a rift in the space-time continuum. Interstellar Smoke 10,000 Years – III (Interstellar Smoke)Īlmost a year to the day since 10,000 Years released their first studio album II, the stoner metal group have a new album ready with III. This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 10,000 Years, Alestorm, Belphegor, Candy, Darkane, Fallen Sanctuary, Mirror Queen, Paganizer, Philosophobia, Projected, Radian, Victorius and Werewolves. ![]()
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