FROM THE SWAMPS

While we're on the topic of death/doom, here's a little something for you.....Brulvahnatu from Canada. A solo project of Kib Sreng, a former member of Antediluvian and black metal cult AMSG, Brulvahnatu warps the formula set by diSEMBOWELMENT by bringing the already quite slow brew to a nauseating churn, not unlike Portal on Outre. Mix that with some saxophone and other ineffable fuckery, and that's what this album is. Yet another unique, extremely imaginative project that has slipped down the endless chasms of Bandcamp, and is more than deserving of being brought to the light. I also love that the album title definitely sounds like you're in for some slam if you put this thing on, ooh how wrong one would be to assume so... Menstrual Extraction Ceremony

Nadja is a music project between husband and wife, Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff, that mixes elements of dark ambient, doom metal, drone, and shoegaze. They've put out a ton of stuff, and have pretty much stayed active since Nadja started as a solo project by Baker in 2003. Once Buckareff joined the project, their sound definitely changed, and not necessarily for the worse. It just depends on one's own personal preference, if you like shoegaze-type stuff better, their later stuff as a duo is definitely for you. If you want more of a metal sound, stick to their earlier albums . I chose to post this because A) it's one of my favorite albums, B) for some reason, ever since Touched  was reworked in 2007 by Nadja as a duo, the original 2003 version of the album is kind of hard to find online, and C) since I fell in love with Nadja via the 2003 version of this album by finding a copy of the CD in my local library a long time ago, I thought it deserves more exposure, especia...

Blasphemy is a Canadian black/death metal (or "war metal") band that has influenced countless bands in their aesthetic and sound. In case you are unaware of the genre, black/death metal or war metal is a hybrid subgenre of black metal that incorporates elements of death metal, mostly surfacing in the subgenre's technical veracity and vocal style (see Revenge  and Pissgrave ). It sounds like I am splitting hairs here, but blackened death metal is an entirely different subgenre, that incorporates the vocals and melody of black metal into an otherwise death  metal band (see  Behemoth  and  Angelcorpse ). Anyway, the subgenre distinction is not what is important. What is important is the new precedent for aggression that Blasphemy set in pioneering this subgenre. Fallen Angel of Doom  is the band's first album, and the fact that it came so early in the history of black metal's formation is astonishing to me. One of the most special things about this ...