Happy Friday the 13th, dear Decibel readers! I hope you’re all prepared to start spooky season a little early this year given the timing of this day. Do yourself a favor and go watch a Friday the 13th film. And yes, the consensus is correct, stick with the fourth film. Just on the strength of that bonkers closing scene alone.
Anyway, I made a profoundly lucky decision the other day and bought tickets to see Deicide at their CT stop last night. Holy shit. I can’t believe how effortlessly Glen delivers his vocals up there. It’s like he’s simultaneously checked out and at the top of his game. This made the band’s setlist all the better, giving us classics like “Dead by Dawn,” “Sacrificial Suicide,” “Satan Spawn, the Caco-Daemon” and so many more. Krisiun totally killed it as an opener as well, and won lots of “Kris-I-UN!!!” chants from the crowd. A solid night all around, especially since I didn’t get stuck going to NYC to see it. That drive home can be brutal, and the train is little help since you’ll probably get stuck riding home with drunk 21-year-olds from New Canaan. The horror.
Anyway, here are this week’s new releases.
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Father Befouled – Immaculate Pain
Into the caverns with you! This is my favorite type of death metal, so you can always count on me including purveyors of this most dark and despairing art on these weekly installments. It also helps that Father Befouled is one of the finest of Golgothian practitioners. I simply cannot get enough of that guitar tone, they totally nailed it (to the cross) on this one.
Stream: Apple Music
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Jade/Sanctuarium – The Sempiternal Wound
The latest release from the great Pulverised Records. This is a fantastic split from two pillars of devastating melancholy: Jade being the more atmospheric and introspective, Sanctuarium the more brutal and abrasive. It’s a great combination, like steak and eggs or scotch and amaretto (really, try it).
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The Jesus Lizard – Rack
The return of the master of … well, The Jesus Lizard were always kind of hard to place weren’t they? They had a bit of punk-rock energy to them, but were too off-kilter to be straightforward punk. They were often called noise rock, but they often had accessible and catchy moments that could rival any radio-friendly band. And while they had a period of cross-over cred in the early 1990s, it wouldn’t be accurate to place them directly alongside most alternative rock or grunge bands. Whatever they were, they remain very much themselves. Thank goodness.
Stream: Apple Music
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Paganizer – Forest of Shub Niggurath
So these guys have a new full-length due out in November as well, but I guess they were in a Lovecraftian mood and decided to present this tentacled beast of an EP as well. And it delivers what you’d want to hear from Paganizer, that brew of Grave, Vader and Jungle Rot that gives you all the punishment and hooks you could ask for.
Stream: Apple Music
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Typhonian – The Gate of the Veiled Beyond
This is the second album from the Ulm-based German outfit, displaying a melodic style of straightforward death metal. If there’s one word I’d give the band’s sound, I’d go with urgency. There’s a stern warning in these riffs and growls. It says something good about a band when they can summon a specific feeling so readily.
Stream: Apple Music