Greetings, Decibel readers!
It’s raining as I write this text. In truth, it’s principally been raining right here all week, making the music on this week’s version notably becoming. A number of the albums right here shall be very pleasing to listeners searching for heavy, darkish, atmospheric steel of 1 variety or one other. And there’s a brand new Candlemass launch as properly. It’s all one massive vibe because the cool children prefer to say.
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Candlemass – Black Star
I’m undecided there’s any band that higher embodies the best of growing old gracefully than Candlemass. Sweden’s doom-metal elder statesmen have returned as soon as once more to grace us with their presence, this time with two new tracks and two very becoming covers. It takes a sure degree of legitimacy to cowl Black Sabbath, however Candlemass has the strongest declare of anybody round.
Stream: Apple Music
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Escarnium – Inexorable Entropy
Darkish, cavernous dying steel from Brazil. Being that that is the band’s fourth album and I’d by no means heard of them earlier than, Escarnium have to be one in all dying steel’s best-kept secrets and techniques for the time being. In the event you like your dying steel with an ominous, virtually orchestral power (like I do), then it’s essential get up-to-speed on this band.
Stream: Apple Music
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Jade – Mysteries of a Flowery Dream
Oh, and also you’d most likely actually like this too, then. Jade has an attention-grabbing tackle atmospheric blackened dying steel in how they incorporate clear vocals. It’s a deeply thought-provoking and expansive sound that appears like a nightmare, however one which makes the dreamer mirror: “Effectively, that is actually scary, but in addition fascinating!” And then you definitely scream.
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Mütterlein – Amidst the Flames, Might Our Organs Resound
And now for one thing fully totally different. Effectively, not in temper or feeling, however undoubtedly in strategy. Black steel thrown into the digital abyss.
Stream: Apple Music
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Skaphos – Cult of Uzura
That is the one kind of steel I need to hear that includes sea monsters. Skaphos has a agency grasp of tune composition that offers the music a robust influence whereas offering the listener with wealthy layers of drama and disaster. Did I point out sea monsters?
Stream: Apple Music