2016: a list...

Another list. Another vague opinion. No order.

*Grok--The Spineless Descent
*Auroch--Mute Books
*Oranssi Pazuzu--Varahtelija
*Aluk Todolo--Voix
*Irkallian Oracle--Apollyon
*Alaric--End of Mirrors
*Fordom--Dauora Dura
*Swans--The Glowing Man
*Ritual Howls--Into the Water
*Blood Incantation--Star Spawn
*Skuggsja--A Piece for Mind & Mirror
*Neurosis--Fires Within Fires
*Blut Aus Nord/Aevangelist--Codex Obscura Nomina
*All Your Sisters--Uncomfortable Skin
*Soft Kill--Choke
*Barst--The Western Lands
*Ash Borer--The Irrepassabble Gate
*Garden of Mary--The Agony in Memory
*Maudlin--Maudlin
*Bellicose Minds--The Creature
*Aztec Death--Machine
*Black Marble--It's Immaterial
*True Widow--Avvolgere
*Nails--You Were Never One of Us
*Uada--Devoid of Light
*Book of Sand--Occult Anarchist Propaganda
*Gevurah--Halleluah
*Altarage--Nihl
*Wardruna--Ragnarok

The Cosmos is...

Cold and dark... Fall through interstellar portals to meet the void's abyssal edge with Colorado's Blood Incantation and Spectral Voice. Blood Incantation conjure cosmic death metal from the blistered fragments of fading stars, while Spectral Voice crush with the collapsing weight of a black hole. Sharing members between both bands, Blood Incantation and Spectral Voice channel the truest forms of death metal. Ripping and a unfailing heavy, the bands seek the otherworldly realms that are still not reached by the humanity's failing and weak existence. All hail the revelations revealed in Blood Incantation's and Spectral Voice's potent death metal ruination. Look to the skies and know the cosmos is vast in ways humanity cannot comprehend. Obliteration is inevitable. Stay true. Stay death.

Blood Incantation:
bloodincantation.bandcamp.com
youtube.com/watch?v=eD_CyJowZcI

Spectral Voice:
spectralvoice.bandcamp.com
youtube.com/watch?v=XnoY9Jhx0-8

www.darkdescentrecords.com

Sacred Leather...

There are too many worthless, resource sucking humans. But the men of Sacred Leather (Indianapolis, IN) are here to stave off this putrid existence with the purest of metal. Heavy on the riffs, solos, vocal shredding wails, and throbbing rhythms, Sacred Leather provide the theatrics, grit, and sleaze to combat modernity's mindless banality. Clad in leather and drenched with sweat, Sacred Leather pulsate with all of metal's blackened heart. Harkening back to the era when metal was equal parts skill and sleaze, Sacred Leather are one powerful hip thrust away from fucking everyone in their path. Sweaty crotch grabs and banged heads are the standard. So steal your older brother's IROC Camero, and drive recklessly as possible to the next Scared Leather show. Regrets are for the weak and gutless, and Sacred Leather are capable of crushing both.

Www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF7WTYMDnck

sacredleather.bandcamp.com/releases