Flush It F(r)iadh-ay: The Skin Beneath My Feet
I’m seein’ ghosts.
Released in April on red metallic liner-shell, Iron Keep’s A New Age of Fire is a furnace blast of icy winds, a frigid pelting hail of blazing ore. The 4 tracks herein were composed in one take, and they suit the languid days of an Atlanta summer as much they do the echoing steps of a bewintered castle adventure. “Fault Within Fracture” bristles with tension, while “Forsaken” has an undercurrent of wry merriment beneath its dark cloak. What are adventures made of other than mercurial elements seemingly unalloyed yet blended to a froth?
Miasme’s Keep Them at a Distance is an arresting, brow-knitting, and deeply satisfying piece of post-metal melded with black metal and doom. A one-man act from Bolesławiec, Poland, Miasme has a true penchant for both adornment and discernment. Opener “Radiant Fortress” is all crunching rage, while “Old Father” is sheer black metal elegance. “Reverie” and “Arms of the Sun” are a punishing pair of sludgy doom tracks, expansive in runtime but entirely shorn of tedium. The band’s first release in over a decade, let’s hope it’s not another 12 years, because this might be Fiadh’s best release of the year.
Billed as “a truly strange, singular work,” Osculum Infame comes across like Aaron Dilloway abusing an old Godflesh tape. Hecate and Tree of Hell have collaborated to bring forth the sound of a rictus grin. Grim, playful, somber, mischievous, and catholic in both influence and composition, you can rarely trust your footing on Osculum Infame. Fortunately, the aforementioned tendencies towards morbid industrial hammering and slipping-off-the-axis blackened noise give you purchase as a listener to stay grounded just enough, though why I’m hesitating against losing yourself in it all is beyond me. An album truly befitting a ratty old tape deck.
Now let’s flush!
Stick‘s 365‘s TMP and Roldy‘s TTT, right on time every time.
Falxifer has 3.5 Flaming Toilets for the latest from Temple Guard. I’d bump it up .25 for the vegan pride alone.
Toilet Radio 632 is a classic session of Joe ‘n Jordan taking on all the doofuses metal has to offer.
365 has a nifty exclusive premiere from the ever-evolving Apogean. Album is out today!
I finally reviewed the latest Converge record. All the flaming toilets.
Brock is back with another episode of Operation Rusty’s Blanket Diss-o-Nance.
There it is. Another week of summer swirled down. If you’re not sweating too much, drop your GBUs like ice cubes into the glass below. All my love.
