New Releases 20251121 (Nov 21st)
featuring
Dead Endings by Born of Plagues / Independent ,
Egregious Defilement by Decrepit Altar / Me Saco Un Ojo ,
A Dark Place by Maha Sohona / Bonebag Records ,
IX by Papir / Stickman Records ,
Empires of Stone by Stone Nomads / Ripple Music ,
Dreaming Delusion by Gloombound / Gruesome Records ,
and DC109 Mystery Picks!
Let's start digging in!
Dead Endings by Born of Plagues / Independent
https://bornofplagues.bandcamp.com/album/dead-endings-2
Playing a brand of chaotic, cathartic death-doom that is at once familiar and all their own, Born of Plagues is a four-piece metal band focused more on crushing heaviness than genre conventions. This group of Baltimore punk/hardcore/doom veterans has pedigree across scenes and styles and doesn’t back away from letting any of their influences bleed through, as long as the result is brash and heavy.
Egregious Defilement by Decrepit Altar / Me Saco Un Ojo
https://mesacounojo.bandcamp.com/album/egregious-defilement
Gloomy guitars greet you with a charnel atmosphere, eerily descending into the graves. This subsides to showcase putrescent riffing and gargantuan drums with a monolithic heaviness, the perfect recipe for fetid death-doom excellence. Morbidly snarled vocals reverberate into the abyss, with the spectral instruments perfectly enshrouding their malignant presence. Combining crushing heaviness with savage and creeping aggression, these three tracks lurk in shadowy cemeteries awaiting your arrival, only to punish you with their flagellating horrors. From the warping progressions to the primal bludgeoning force, it will not take long for you to feel this band means business with their first release.
See also: https://monumentsinruin.com/blogs/news/decrepit-altar-egregious-defilement
A Dark Place by Maha Sohona / Bonebag Records
https://mahasohona.bandcamp.com/album/a-dark-place
Across six immersive tracks, A Dark Place channels northern melancholy, desert heaviness, and celestial calm into a sonic journey that will resonate with fans of Elder, Tool, and Alice In Chains. The record finds Maha Sohona expanding their signature blend of stoner, space rock, and heavy psych into bold new territories, merging crushing riffs with hypnotic grooves and vast melodic horizons.
IX by Papir / Stickman Records
https://papir.bandcamp.com/album/ix-2
With a sound that’s as fluid as it is focused, PAPIR continue to push their own boundaries. the first single “IX.I” sets the tone as a perfect introduction to their forthcoming sonic journey: a track that breathes, pulses, and stretches out in all the right ways. Terms like post-rock, ambient rock, psychedelia, and krautrock may circle PAPIR's distinct sound, but none quite capture its shimmering, elusive magic.
Empires of Stone by Stone Nomads / Ripple Music
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/empires-of-stone
From the heavy heart of Houston, TX, Stone Nomads charts a monolithic path through the darker realms of doom and sludge. The power trio, conceived in 2021 by Jon Cosky (Guitar/Vocals) and Jude Sisk (Bass/Vocals), explores the weighty concepts of life and death through a lens of pummeling riffs and progressive sludge sensibility.
Dreaming Delusion by Gloombound / Gruesome Records
https://gloomboundband.bandcamp.com/album/dreaming-delusion
Gloombound emerge from Oslo, Norway, channeling the sound of manic curses and rituals of fate. Possessed by the spirits of old-school death metal and dreamlike, funereal doom, the five-piece formed in 2022 and released their debut EP Astral Exhalation the following year.
DC109 Spellbound Destroyer! Casting Destructive Spells from Within the Doom Charts Mystery Picks!
That's all, folks! Another stack of heavies to check out at your local shops.
~ Bobby
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