🌶️ To The Teeth: Cave In, Septicflesh, Blut Aus Nord, Predatory Light, Evergrey, Sadist, Municipal Waste & more

Welcome to the To The Teeth newsletter! I’ll bring you up to date with new heavy music. Listen to almost everything in the playlist on Spotify. Peppers are hot 🌶️! If you like what you read and want help keep this in the air: please head over to Patreon.

🌶️ Cave In (rock/post-hardcore/metal from the USA. FFO: Baroness, Quicksand, Mutoid Man)

Seeing Brodsky and McGrath play their hearts to shreds at Roadburn 2018 in honour of their late bandmate Caleb Scofield, was something I’ll never forget. I spoke to them a year later about it, and they were so nice, smart, easygoing. And now they’re back with a new, really really good and really heavy album. (And goddamn look at that cover). Great band, great dudes, great music.

🌶️ Blut Aus Nord (atmospheric black from France)

Progressive and psychedelic, spacey and claustrophobic - you never really know what to get from Blut Aus Nord. On this album - an extension to 2019’s Hallucinogen albeit a bit of a twisted one - you get it all at once. Works for me.

There’s more: Evergrey (🌶️ prog/power from Sweden), Sadist (🌶️ prog death from Italy), Septicflesh (🌶️ atmospheric/symphonic death from Greece), Predatory Light (🌶️ black/doom from the USA), Anvil (heavy/power/documentary gods from Canada), Horn (pagan black from Germany), Gronibard (goregrind from France), Assumption (🌶️ doom/death from Italy), Luminous Vault (death/black/industrial from the USA) a split from Varathron & Ungod (black from Greece & black from Germany), Bríi (🌶️ electronic/ambient/black from Brazil - same guy as Kaatayra), Volturian (melodic/symphonic/groove from Italy), Aparthiva Raktadhara (black/death from India), Sadistic Ritual (thrash from the USA), Nattehimmel (black from Norway - ex-In The Woods… members) and Herxheim (black/death from the USA - ex-Howls of Ebb).

There are new songs out from: Municipal Waste (🌶️ thrash/crossover from the USA), Imperial Triumphant (neoclassical/avant-garde/technical black/death from the USA), Scarcity (🌶️ experimental black from the USA - w/ member of Pyrrhon), White Ward (experimental/post from Ukraine 🌻), Reeking Aura (death from the USA), Wormrot (🌶️ grind from Singapore), Astronoid (post/shoegaze from the USA), Witchery (blackened thrash from Sweden), Arch Enemy (melodeath from Sweden), Exocrine (prog/tech death from France), Grave Digger (heavy/power from Germany) and Volcandra (melodic black from the USA).

Non-metal album of the week: Joe Rainey (🌶️ powwow from the USA)

I’m looking forward to next week because of: Mournful Congregation, Decapitated & Venus Principle.

Have a great weekend people, stay safe - Peter

PS I’ve added a small batch of merch here