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The album cover art for Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere (2024). I already wrote many many paragraphs about this album, which you can check out in my full Top 100 Albums list, which Iā€™ll post tomorrow! In short, this album is a captivating, mind-melting, fever dream of a space rock / prog rock / death metal record. Itā€™s a love letter to metal and all of its far stylistic reaches, told through intense lyrical and dissonant instrumental passages. Oh, and throw in some synth solos for good measure.
The album cover art for į½‰Ļ€Ī»ĪÆĻ„Ī·Ļ‚ ā€“ Ī Ī±ĻĪ±Ī¼Ī±Ī¹Ī½ĪæĪ¼Ī­Ī½Ī· (2024) (Hoplites ā€“ Paramainomeni), an avant garde technical death metal album from Hoplites, a Chinese solo project based out of France, sung/composed in Ancient Greek. This is a wild ride of some of the most insane instrumental decisions and hardest-hitting riffs ever.
The album cover art for Thy Catafalque - XII: A gyƶnyƶrű Ć”lmok ezutĆ”n jƶnnek (2024). This album melds many seemingly distant styles of metal into one cohesive and bright project that is very hard not to be obsessed with.
The album cover art for Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God (2024). One of the coolest and most immersive storytelling albums of any genre this decade, Ulcerateā€™s newest project soaks the listener in vast soundscapes with impressive drumming, dissonant riffage, and great band chemistry
The album cover art for Thou - Umbilical (2024). An immense album with low low riffs that are heavy enough to rearrange the intestines. Emotional courses through the record as it explores different tonal and songwriting approaches
The album cover art for Black Pyramid - The Paths of Time Are Vast (2024). This was an absolute odyssey of a stoner metal album, arguable a cooler 12+ year comeback than Sleepā€™s ā€œThe Sciencesā€ (2018)
The album cover art for Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet (2024). A screamo / post-hardcore / atmospheric blackened death metal-twinged record that combines emotionally crushing vocal performances with reverb-soaked shredders of guitar and bass riffs. The performance is tight and the music is immersive.
The album cover for Knocked Loose - You Wonā€™t Go Before Youā€™re Supposed To (2024). A crushing culmination of tracks that establish Knocked Loose as an absolute powerhouse in the Hardcore and Metalcore scenes, leaning into harsh yet atmospherically beautiful soundscapes. I donā€™t care that Bryan Garris sounds like a dog, itā€™s awesome.
The album cover art for Spectral Wound - ā€œSongs of Blood and Mireā€ (2024). This album has fascinating dark melodic black metal soundscapes that harness power from 90ā€™s thrash and 00ā€™s death metal.
The album cover for Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore (2024), the #9 album of my Top 10 Metal Albums of 2024. This album is somehow one of their most cohesively consistent records to date, going for a more tranquil and ethereal sound on this one. It very much matches the album cover art, which features a beautiful sunset (over tall grass and slender trees that remind of a southern hemisphere - style climate), a nude long-haired person playing a long thin woodwind instrument, and eight majestic cranes following the person (some of the cranes have their wings spanned out and their heads in the air). Most of the colour is an orange-y red/brown gold and the vegetation and birds have a dull pale teal/patina colour that contrasts beautifully with the sunset.
The album cover for Chat Pile - Cool World (2024). One of the heaviest and most crushing sludge metal albums so far this decade, in some ways outdoing their previous record.
The album cover art for ā€œGET_FOSSILIZEDā€ by FOSSIL. It features a cassette tape with ā€œFossil Demoā€ scribbled on it in sharpie. The cassette tape is on concrete and is lit on fire.
A photo of Terminal 5, a music venue in Manhattan (New York City), taken from across the street, with heavy snowfall
Blood Incantation performing ā€œThe Stargate [Tablet I]ā€ live at Brighton Music Hall in Allston, MA for the Boston stop of their ā€œAbsolute Elsewhereā€ tour, aptly named ā€œAbsolute Elsetourā€
A concert attendee crowd surfing during an Injury Reserve concert at Brighton Music Hall in Boston, MA
Animals As Leaders live in Boston, MA, performing ā€œTooth & Clawā€ from their 2014 album ā€œThe Joy of Motionā€, of which the band is touring for its 10th anniversary.
A spooky green poster promoting a local metal show in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fossil, Mollusk, and Lacquerhead are playing the Cantab Underground on Sunday, 11/24. Doors are 7:30, show at 8. The show is 21+, and tickets are $10. Special guests: Statue
Our mascot, Bones! :)