A Certain Taste

The whole point in this blog and these posts is for me to commit to doing something regularly. Namely, writing and listening to new music so I don't get stuck in the rut of listening to the same albums for ten years. Ok, that's two somethings but whatever. The point is that I make no apology for this being late because I'm still listening to new music regularly and here I am, writing about it. I posted earlier about a single I have loved blasting in the car, Feral in Abstract by Codex Obscura. This makes it on to this month's playlist , as does an album not on this list, Reaching Into the Void by Scars of the Flesh. I've not listened to this enough to put it in a list of my favourite things but I do enjoy what I have heard, and I can't put another of my picks in this list because it's not on Spotify! You can get this month's Spotify playlist here . Krosis - A Memoir of Free Will (Unique Leader) There are elements of a lot of things I like in hea...

I honestly don't know where I saw this track first. It could have been in any of a number of blogs and websites that I read on a regular basis. But I'm glad I did. Feral in Abstract is the latest song from the upcoming second album from solo deathcore project Codex Obscura. She plays, records and mixes everything herself, with the apparent sole aim of ripping flesh from the bone through sound. I remember reading somewhere that the drums in this track were almost inhuman, and that's kind of true. They are exceptionally fast but not overly technical. The only thing I would change would be the levels because the drums seem to sit just above everything because of how brutal they are. This is definitely deathcore, however, and we're in the Infant Annihilator side of the genre. The breakdown forgoes any subtlety and just throws double kick right in your earholes. Codex Obscura plays with tempo and rhythm throughout the song though, even during this breakdown. This is ...