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 ...

The year has got off to a tremendous start, hasn't it? We nearly had World War 3, Australia has been on fire for weeks, we soon get to find out how Harvey Weinstein manages to convince a jury that he hasn't sexually assauled or raped over 80 women, and we got a surprisingly good debut EP from probably the first ever amphibian-inspired band. As always, I'm sure I've missed stuff you dig. You can either write a comment below and kindly let me know I missed something you really enjoyed, or you can be rude and call me an idiot. In which case you can fuck off. You can listen to all of these on this month's playlist over on Spotify , except the 殞煞 Vengeful Spectre release because that's on bandcamp, linked in the review. I've replaced them with a pretty different black metal offering - Svarttjern, who don't get a review other than "a great punky black metal record". Wormhole - The Weakest Among Us (Lacerated Enemy) When I was younger,...

Either the YouTube algorithm is getting better or Nuclear Blast paid to promote this, but I just heard the first single of a band I had never heard of before. They have exactly 0 monthly listens and the track went up today so I have to assume this was not only released today but their Spotify account was only just created as well. The band is Irist and the song is Burning Sage. I'm excited hearing this because it reminds me of the energy, if not the frenetic sound of The Dillinger Escape Plan, combined with the stabbing riffs Norma Jean are known for (especially in "O God, The Aftermath") and a little Mastodon thrown in for good measure. It's not often I'll get excited for something that sounds like a mix of stuff I've not really listened to for ten years, but honestly this is a great tune. To the point I wanted to share it as soon as possible. Spotify YouTube The debut album by Irist, Order of the Mind, will be released by Nuclear B...

I took an extended break from new music for a few years, and only really dipped into new stuff towards the end of 2019 so I had a lot of catching up to do. With that in mind, there's probably stuff I missed. I'm still finding things that I enjoy but haven't listened to enough for it to appear here. This is a mix of straight up death metal, technical death metal, black metal and stuff that kind of surfs genres. Admittedly, I didn't drop into black metal as much as I should have so this is probably where the biggest hole is. I've even added the new Svattjern album to my playlist (see the link at the bottom) to bulk it out a little. The top five from the full list for me are: Warforged - I: Voice Xoth -Interdimensional Invocation Vale of Pnath - Accursed Dawn of Nil - Culminating Ruins Misbyrming - Algleymi The full list, in no order: Warforged - I: Voice A Novelist - Folie Singularity - Place of Chains Xoth - Interdimensional Invocation...