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  1. Seit Tagen so ein #Ohrwurm von einem #Hath Lied… Zeit für das Album denke ich 😝

  2. I bought this CD on #BandcampFriday in February. It came today, feels like an instant delivery on Bandcamp Friday 😀
    Damn good album btw!!!
    #Hath #deathmetal

  3. Insidius – Vulgus Illustrata Review

    By Lavender Larcenist

    A Polish, blackened death metal record a day keeps the doctor away, or so I have heard. If so, Insidius (so tired of mispelled band names that make things impossible to search for) is your latest shot of hyper technical, searingly fast loud noises from the Poles. Quietly chugging along in the background, this Olsztyn-based fivesome has been producing solid blackened death since their debut, Shadows of Humanity, in 2016. While the album cover for Vulgus Illustrata may look like it contains some atmospheric depressive black metal, the eight tracks inside are nonstop meat grinders of chainsaw riffing with thick bass, otherworldly drumming, and pure rage. While Insidius plays with the familiar and the foundational, does Vulgus Illustrata survive comparison to its heavyweight counterparts like Dormant Ordeal and Behemoth, or is it dragged to the bottom, each unoriginal idea weighing it down like cinderblocks tied to a corpse?

    For starters, Insidius knows what they are doing. They’ve toured for years alongside bands like Vader, Grave, and Nervosa, and Vulgus Illustrata is full of dizzying instrumentation throughout. Tomasz Choiński and Jakub Janowicz wield their guitars like two buzzsaw-toting murderous surgeons, hacking and slicing at every turn with savage tremolo riffs and tilting dissonance. “Orgiastic” leads with a stop-start staccato riff, morphing with the introduction of Łukasz Usydus’s pirouetting bass. Of course, a blackened death metal album would be nowhere without some absurdly technical drumming, and Michał Andrzejczyk is no slouch. Inhuman fills, insane blasts, and rolling rhythms bring cohesion to Vulgus Illustrata, making for an album more akin to a face pummeling than a headbangers ball. Lastly, Rafał Tasak offers a competent if unflashy performance with his barking ferocity and pitched screaming. While the register remains generally on the low end, he has that pushing force that hurts your diaphragm to listen to. Think Cannibal Corpse, Vader, and Immolation, and you have the right idea.

    Insidius has all the individual elements, but each track can’t help but bleed into the next, and even at a tight thirty-eight minutes, Vulgus Illustrata can feel long. Where bands like Dormant Ordeal mastered atmosphere, lead-ups, and the ebb and flow of a great blackened death song, Insidius feels too focused on in-your-face brutality. There are much-needed breaks here and there, with some genuinely great atmosphere, such as on the intro to “A Darkness That Divides” or “Censure”, and the entirety of the album closer “Forge of Our Hatred”. Unfortunately, these are few and far between, like ballasts in a storm that leave you hanging on for dear life. I like a good pummeling as much as the next fool, but only when it is consensual.

    Maybe it is my undying love of blackened, Polish death metal, but I feel like I have seen everything Insidius has to offer done better elsewhere. Behemoth has a lock on hating god and the bombastic, theatrical edgelord side of things. Dormant Ordeal has technicality in spades alongside great songwriting, incredible atmosphere, and hidden hooks for days. Bands like Hath and Olkoth show that you don’t need to be from Poland to make good blackened death, either, so competition is fierce. Insidius feels late to the party, all dressed up, but nobody is there. They are doing everything right, but it isn’t quite clicking.

    To be fair, some of you sick freaks will like getting absolutely brutalized and love every minute of Vulgus Illustrata, singing along as Tasak screams “Shit, cum and blood paint the wall of your prison”. I am not here to rain on your parade, and I don’t want to undersell Insidius. Vulgus Illustrata is heavy, consistent, competent, and genuinely engaging at times, but it feels tired. Insidius has the talent and the energy, but someone needs to point their ballistic missile of blackened death in the right direction for a direct hit. If you are a superfan of the genre, you may get some choice cuts from this slab of beef, but even still, you are better off eating with the bands that brought you here. Another victim to hang from the 3.0 tree, let’s tie the noose and be done with it.

    Rating: 3.0/5.0
    DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
    Label: Black Lion Records
    Websites: insidiusblacklion.bandcamp.com/album/vulgus-illustrata
    Releases Worldwide: November 7th, 2025

    #2025 #30 #behemoth #blackLionRecords #blackenedDeathMetal #dormantOrdeal #grave #hath #insidius #nervosa #nov25 #olkoth #poland #polishMetal #review #reviews #vader #vulgusIllustrata

  4. No Shelter. – Remission/Resolve Review

    By Angry Metal Guy

    Written By Nameless_n00b_605

    These days, it seems everywhere I turn, I can’t help but run into a great band from Germany. I don’t know what’s in the water over there, but with groups like Kanonenfieber, Unhallowed Deliverance, and classic acts like Sodom releasing great records, it’s no surprise that yet another talented group hails from Deutschland. No Shelter. is a five-piece from Münster that peddles in D-beat brutalization with a heaping helping of Boss HM-2 pedal worship. Its latest, Remission/Resolve, is a bass-driven freight train of Swedish-coded blackened death metal, crust punk, and hardcore, conjuring direct comparisons to genre stalwarts like Nails, Rotten Sound, and Trap Them. Can No Shelter. stand in the spotlight with some of the most vicious rippers around, or is it flying too close to the sun, wax wings ready to send it to hell with the rest of the copycats?

    No Shelter. is relatively new to the scene (forming in 2017), but it sounds like a veteran unit. Every element of the band feels honed for their specific brand of violence. Thick, earth-shaking bass drives the album, while HM-2-infused riffage switches between blackened death blasts and Pantera-esque grooves. Bolstered by intricate drum fills and classic hardcore 2-step energy, the vocals are equally caustic, calling to mind a truly evil combo of Ringworms James Bulloch and Nails’ Todd Jones. No Shelter. plays with no holds barred throughout the entire album, and each band member takes to their role with a reckless abandon more than fitting for their genre inspirations.

    The brutally sludgy bass is the adrenaline-juiced heart that keeps Remission/Resolve pumping. Where bands like Job for a Cowboy and Horrendous use bass to shore up their technicality and the spaciness of their sound, No Shelter. uses it as a sledgehammer. Bass is integral to metal, making riffs deeper, heavier, and more impactful overall, and No Shelter. just gets it. Every riff is complemented by slapping destruction, and the bass gets to fly free or drive breakdowns such as on tracks “Rotten,” “Doomed,” and “Ultimate Disgust”. No Shelter. suplexes the trend of bass-less metal right into the dumpster with And Justice for All.

    Another element where No Shelter. pulls its sound from the Swedish death metal sewer is the production. The band wears its Entombed inspiration on its sleeve proudly (if the “Wolverine Blues” cover didn’t already give it away), and the HM-2 pedal is all over Remission/Resolve. Production was something No Shelter. wanted to nail, and Remission/Resolve is borderline perfect in this area. The bass is suitably nasty without sounding like a punchline (sorry Primus, I still love you), the snare drum hits hard without becoming tinny, and the vocals are discernible while still retaining the rawness and emotionality required for D-beat destruction. To cap it all off, the guitar brings cohesion to Remission/Resolve with that classic chainsaw tone that would make bands like Hath, Dismember, and Dormant Ordeal proud.

    Remission/Resolve isn’t perfect, although where it stumbles isn’t in songwriting or musicianship. This LP lasts a blistering 32 minutes, but the collection of twelve tracks starts with an intro, features two interludes, and a cover as the final track. While I appreciate the interludes as breaks from the aural onslaught on Remission/Resolve, they vary in quality. The unoriginally titled “Intro” (at least it knows what it is) is suitably sinister and builds up anticipation, but the two interludes are almost too simple musically and seem to only exist to let the listener breathe. An admirable idea, and one that is necessary for a lot of albums in this genre, but these moments would be better served attached to the end of already existing tracks. On top of that, I wish they would loop back in on the musical themes established across the album and in the intro, as it stands, the two interludes “I” and “II” feel like they come from a different album.

    No Shelter. ends up with a very good record that stands nearly toe-to-toe with its genre inspirations and rightfully lives up to the bands it references so heavily. Therefore, it is fitting that Remission/Resolve closes things with a rip-roaring cover of Entombed’s “Wolverine Blues,” a song that slides so well into the band’s sound, it took me a minute to realize it was a cover in the first place. “Wolverine Blues” ends up feeling perfectly placed right alongside the best tracks on the album and works as a self-referential closer to an album chock-full of Swedish buzzsaw worship. No Shelter. doesn’t so much rock the boat with its brand of blackened hardcore as it does slap a fuckin’ motor on it and violently rocket across the lake.

    Rating: 3.5/5.0
    DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
    Label: This Charming Man Records
    Websites: noshelter.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/NoShelterBand
    Releases Worldwide: July 25th, 2025

    #2025 #35 #BlackenedDeathMetal #Crust #DBeat #Dismember #DormantOrdeal #Entombed #GermanMetal #Hardcore #Hath #Jul25 #Kanonenfieber #Nails #NoShelter_ #Primus #RemissionResolve #Review #Reviews #RottenSound #Sodom #SwedishDeathMetal #TrapThem #UnhallowedDeliverance

  5. Be aware: if the red star calls you, it might set you aflame!

    🎵 Kenosis by #Hath
    💿 All That Was Promised, 2022
    ▶️ song.link/y/Wibf4s597Uc

    #FFO Rivers Of Nihil, Slugdge, Omnivortex

    #TomsMusic #NowPlaying #BlackenedDeathMetal

  6. Keres – Homo Homini Lupus Review

    By Thus Spoke

    Homo Homini Lupus (est) — “Man is wolf to man.” The greatest danger to every one of us is from each other. People are selfish and cruel. This proverb, dating back thousands of years, was chosen by Keres to epitomise their view, that, in the words of vocalist Ares, “humanity is the biggest plague on earth.” Misanthropy is nothing new in the world of metal, and as it happens, neither are the members of Keres, despite this being their debut LP. The band formed after the break-up of black metal group The Crying of Angels, honing a death-influenced, brutal black metal sound. Their first reappearance on the scene since 2016’s Heresy, will eight years of carefully crafted hatred and savagery present in hard-hitting extreme metal, or another entry in the catalogues of forgettable fury?

    Whilst wearing their blackened musical and emotional heart on their sleeve, Keres manage to make an album that’s mean, headbangable, and interesting. Violent assaults of blastbeats and d-beats trip their way into stomping grooves, and minor, sombre melodies rise up through tremolos and layered strumming alike. The twisted tones of the razor’s edge technical blackened death, cut through with vicious gurgling snarls (“Eradicate the Infected Seed,” “Immaculate Incarnation of Darkness,” “Pale Horse of Extinction”), recall something like Fractal Generator mixed with Decapitated. And at the same time, ringing, humming hanging notes, cascades of urgently melodic guitar and walls of percussion (“Void and Silence,” “Exist for War,” “Leviathan”) remind me very strongly, perhaps strangely, of Hath, or late-career Wake. Shifting quickly and easily between tempos, Keres ground their compositions in recurring refrains of rapidly descending, aggressively stabbing, and fluidly fluttering guitar that compliment with satisfying precision the emphatic crashes and rolls of the percussion. Homo Homini Lupus is a fun album to listen to.

    Much is packed into Homo Homini Lupus, but in a way that’s entertaining and exciting, rather than overwhelming. Infectious, spiky riff patterns (“Exist for War,” “Eradicate…”) bring the gnarly rabidity. Near-core bobbing rhythms crunch and smash for major stank-face (“Oblivion,” “Leviathan,” “Void and Silence”). Wailing, tangled tremolo and spiralling refrains bring just enough beauty to compliment the bestiality (“Exist for War,” “Pale Horse…,” “Until Everything’s Burned”). And it all works. It’s not a mess. Quite the opposite. The smart and slick use of rhythm takes things to the next level, and you can’t resist its pulse. The flexibly shifting energies are dextrous and precise, backed up by tight, technical musicianship. Stop-start heartbeat chugs duet with twisting guitar; little flourishes and squeals accent the sidelines; rollovers skip and little fills abound; climbing and circular melodies weave up and down. And that’s just the first track. Vocals are punchy, enhancing already heavy, powerful grooves with emphatic synchronised timing to drum beats and crashes (“Oblivion”), and roaring as they pass the baton to a rising, spidery guitar solo (“Pale Horse…”).

    Keres keep it snappy, exemplifying, as well as the spirit, the literal nature of Hobbes’ assertion that life in the State of Nature is “nasty, brutish, and short,” by making an album that’s as tightly executed as it is brutal and unforgiving.1 Most tracks lie between three and five minutes, and the whole thing fades to a close at just over 33. This is a good thing, because unless you’re paying close attention, Homo Homini Lupus has a paradoxical tendency to slip by without gripping you particularly tight. Give it the attention it deserves, and a couple of listens, and cool little riffs and slick rhythms will jump out at you. But the sound and fury can be, to some, easy to under-appreciate, as it lacks a little immediate bite.

    However things were when I first heard Homo Homini Lupus, it’s now a little hard to put down. Fun, gnarly, and kind of addictive with its endless, earwormy bounce and flow, as well as its vicious, mean spirit. For these reasons it’s no surprise that it’s also become a solid gym companion. I hope we don’t have to wait eight more years for the next one, because if things continue like this, Keres are set to release a stone-cold banger of a sophomore.

    Rating: Very Good
    DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
    Label: Gruesome Records
    Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
    Releases Worldwide: February 23rd, 2024

    #2024 #35 #BlackMetal #BlackenedDeathMetal #DeathMetal #Decapitated #Feb24 #GruesomeRecords #Hath #HomoHominiLupus #ItalianMetal #Keres #Review #Reviews #Wake

  7. Keres – Homo Homini Lupus Review

    By Thus Spoke

    Homo Homini Lupus (est) — “Man is wolf to man.” The greatest danger to every one of us is from each other. People are selfish and cruel. This proverb, dating back thousands of years, was chosen by Keres to epitomise their view, that, in the words of vocalist Ares, “humanity is the biggest plague on earth.” Misanthropy is nothing new in the world of metal, and as it happens, neither are the members of Keres, despite this being their debut LP. The band formed after the break-up of black metal group The Crying of Angels, honing a death-influenced, brutal black metal sound. Their first reappearance on the scene since 2016’s Heresy, will eight years of carefully crafted hatred and savagery present in hard-hitting extreme metal, or another entry in the catalogues of forgettable fury?

    Whilst wearing their blackened musical and emotional heart on their sleeve, Keres manage to make an album that’s mean, headbangable, and interesting. Violent assaults of blastbeats and d-beats trip their way into stomping grooves, and minor, sombre melodies rise up through tremolos and layered strumming alike. The twisted tones of the razor’s edge technical blackened death, cut through with vicious gurgling snarls (“Eradicate the Infected Seed,” “Immaculate Incarnation of Darkness,” “Pale Horse of Extinction”), recall something like Fractal Generator mixed with Decapitated. And at the same time, ringing, humming hanging notes, cascades of urgently melodic guitar and walls of percussion (“Void and Silence,” “Exist for War,” “Leviathan”) remind me very strongly, perhaps strangely, of Hath, or late-career Wake. Shifting quickly and easily between tempos, Keres ground their compositions in recurring refrains of rapidly descending, aggressively stabbing, and fluidly fluttering guitar that compliment with satisfying precision the emphatic crashes and rolls of the percussion. Homo Homini Lupus is a fun album to listen to.

    Much is packed into Homo Homini Lupus, but in a way that’s entertaining and exciting, rather than overwhelming. Infectious, spiky riff patterns (“Exist for War,” “Eradicate…”) bring the gnarly rabidity. Near-core bobbing rhythms crunch and smash for major stank-face (“Oblivion,” “Leviathan,” “Void and Silence”). Wailing, tangled tremolo and spiralling refrains bring just enough beauty to compliment the bestiality (“Exist for War,” “Pale Horse…,” “Until Everything’s Burned”). And it all works. It’s not a mess. Quite the opposite. The smart and slick use of rhythm takes things to the next level, and you can’t resist its pulse. The flexibly shifting energies are dextrous and precise, backed up by tight, technical musicianship. Stop-start heartbeat chugs duet with twisting guitar; little flourishes and squeals accent the sidelines; rollovers skip and little fills abound; climbing and circular melodies weave up and down. And that’s just the first track. Vocals are punchy, enhancing already heavy, powerful grooves with emphatic synchronised timing to drum beats and crashes (“Oblivion”), and roaring as they pass the baton to a rising, spidery guitar solo (“Pale Horse…”).

    Keres keep it snappy, exemplifying, as well as the spirit, the literal nature of Hobbes’ assertion that life in the State of Nature is “nasty, brutish, and short,” by making an album that’s as tightly executed as it is brutal and unforgiving.1 Most tracks lie between three and five minutes, and the whole thing fades to a close at just over 33. This is a good thing, because unless you’re paying close attention, Homo Homini Lupus has a paradoxical tendency to slip by without gripping you particularly tight. Give it the attention it deserves, and a couple of listens, and cool little riffs and slick rhythms will jump out at you. But the sound and fury can be, to some, easy to under-appreciate, as it lacks a little immediate bite.

    However things were when I first heard Homo Homini Lupus, it’s now a little hard to put down. Fun, gnarly, and kind of addictive with its endless, earwormy bounce and flow, as well as its vicious, mean spirit. For these reasons it’s no surprise that it’s also become a solid gym companion. I hope we don’t have to wait eight more years for the next one, because if things continue like this, Keres are set to release a stone-cold banger of a sophomore.

    Rating: Very Good
    DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
    Label: Gruesome Records
    Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
    Releases Worldwide: February 23rd, 2024

    #2024 #35 #BlackMetal #BlackenedDeathMetal #DeathMetal #Decapitated #Feb24 #GruesomeRecords #Hath #HomoHominiLupus #ItalianMetal #Keres #Review #Reviews #Wake

  8. After today's 1001Albums and my Amorphis Metaljourney, it is time to revisit my album of the year 2022:

    💿 All That Was Promised by #Hath

    album.link/y/OLAK5uy_m_Zg924ke

    #TomsMusic #NowPlaying #AllThatWasPromised

  9. CW: What #Metal Is Tom listening to today?

    @troberts well this Tom is currently listening to

    #Hath - Kenosis

    #TomsNowPlaying #NowPlaying

    song.link/y/Wibf4s597Uc

  10. #30MoreSongsChallenge

    #Day39 – A Fresh Favorite
    A song that’s been released less than a year ago.

    I was going to pick #Screamer, but @pro already did that so I'm gonna go with one that was released last year, which would have been on top of my #AOTY2022 list, if I had one:

    #Hath - Kenosis

    But wait... no... that's actually not true. My AOTY2022 is without a doubt Ghost's Impera.

    So I'm gonna cheat and pick a second one, here's:

    #Ghost - Kaisarion

    youtu.be/pbbP2lubGvw

  11. CRIMINAL REFERRAL OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE:

    IV. "Incite," "Assist" or "Aid or Comfort" an Insurrection
    "...incites,...assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection...or gives aid or comfort thereto..." (18 U.S.C. § 2383)

    View video segment starting at approx. 1:03:50:
    c-span.org/video/?524851-1/jan

    #BREAKING #NEWS #January6thHearings #DonaldTrump #Congress #DOJ #HATH

  12. CRIMINAL REFERRAL OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE:

    III. Conspiracy to Make a False Statement
    "...in any matter within the jurisdiction of the...Government of the United States...makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement..." (18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001)

    View video segment starting at approx. 1:03:00:
    c-span.org/video/?524851-1/jan

    #BREAKING #NEWS #January6thHearings #DonaldTrump #Congress #DOJ #HATH

  13. CRIMINAL REFERRAL OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE:

    II. Conspiracy to Defraud the United States
    "...conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States..." (18 U.S.C. § 371)

    View video segment starting at approx. 1:01:30: c-span.org/video/?524851-1/jan

    #BREAKING #NEWS #January6thHearings #DonaldTrump #Congress #DOJ #HATH

  14. CRIMINAL REFERRAL OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE:

    I. Obstruction of an Official Proceeding
    "...corruptly...obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so..." [18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) ]

    View video segment starting at approx. 1:00:30:
    c-span.org/video/?524851-1/jan

    #BREAKING #NEWS #January6thHearings #DonaldTrump #Congress #DOJ #HATH

  15. This is quite something to see, folks.

    The referral of criminal charges against former president DJT to the DOJ.

    Witness it. It's important that it's happening. There MUST be a line drawn against these kinds of crimes against democracy.

    #January6thHearings #DonaldTrump #Congress #HATH

  16. They are calling members of Congress who refused to comply with subpoenas before the Ethics Committee for sanction.

    #January6thHearings #DonaldTrump #Congress #HATH

  17. Raskin: The committee report has details of all of these criminal referrals.

    These are not the only criminal violations that can be called (!)

    #January6thHearings #DonaldTrump #Congress #HATH

  18. First criminal referral of DJT:

    Obstruction of an Official Proceeding (of the U.S. government)

    #January6thHearings #DonaldTrump #Congress #HATH

  19. For 187 minutes, DJT refused to act. Didn't tell mob to leave the Capitol. Didn't talk to National Guard.

    He did, however, talk to his lawyers.

    #January6thHearings #DonaldTrump #Congress #HATH

  20. Murphy: DJT "galvanized" violent extremists.

    The verb choice throughout the hearing so far is key.

    #January6thHearings #Donald Trump #Congress #HATH

  21. Aguilar: Trump "embraced illegal scheme" to pressure VP Pence regarding declaring the election.

    #January6thHearings #Donald Trump #Congress #HATH