So, anyway, welcome to the To The Teeth newsletter. I’ll bring you up to date with new heavy music. As always: listen to almost everything at the playlist on Spotify, check out the Facebook page and for support please head over to Patreon! Peppers are hot, hot hot.

I’ll pick out my favourites, the rest is in the playlist!

🌶️ Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum (industrial from the USA)

When Burton C. Bell departed Fear Factory, I didn’t know they already recorded the album with him. I’m glad they did, because his vocals and vocal lines are so recognizable and important for this band. This is a cool record, creative and energetic, even within the rather limited width of this sound. Not brilliant, but a huge step up from their last.

🌶️ Bossk (atmospheric post/sludge from the UK)

Nothing you haven’t heard before, but it’s well composed and executed thick, swampy sludge. Heavy as a planet. Named after a Star Wars character. 🪐

🌶️ Givre - Le Pressoir Mystique (black from Canada)

This came out last week but it’s worth mentioning. Givre is the predecessor of really good band Entheos (not the deathcore band from California - do listen to this) and was put to rest, but the pilot light stayed on. The original members resurrected it and released a compelling album.

There’s more: Helloween (power/speed from Germany), Trialogos (psych from Germany), Heavy Temple (psych/doom from the USA ), Raat (post-black from India), Gallows (black from the USA), Wanderer (metal/hardcore from the USA), Eye of Purgatory (death from Sweden), Alustrium (prog/tech death from the USA) and Crobot (stoner/hardrock from the USA).

New songs, tracks, singles and advance tracks: Carcass (grind/death from the UK), At The Gates (🌶️ melodeath from Sweden), Alien Weaponry (🌶️ thrash/groove from New Zealand), The Body & Big|Brave (sludge/doom from the USA & post/doom from Canada), Vouna (atmospheric black/doom from the USA), Unreqvited (post-black/blackgaze from Canada), Ex Deo (symphonic death from Canda), White Stones (🌶️ prog death from Spain - Opeth’s Martin Mendez’ side project), Duma (experimental/grind from Kenya), Jinjer (prog from Ukraine), Voices (prog black/death from the UK), Witch Vomit (death from the USA), Taphos (death from Denmark - two tracks), Lost in Grey (symphonic from Finland), Wizardthrone (🌶️ symphonic black from the UK), Unto Others (heavy/gothic from the USA - formerly know as Idle Hands), Empress (doom/post from Canada), Beyond Grace (death from the UK) and live tracks from Paradise Lost (doom/gothic from the UK) and Lacuna Coil (gothic/alternative from Italy - one of their best songs to date!).

Non-metal album of the week: I haven’t heard anything I found particularly good this week, sorry!

I’m looking forward to next week because of: Darkthrone, Amenra, Cerebral Rot, White Ward & Irae.

Have a great weekend! - Peter

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