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Pilori - À Nos Morts

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Social media always helps me to find great music. On the Facebook group, There’s No Good Metal Anymore they actually share some great metal albums. And I came across this one: French deathgrind/crust/hardcore band Pilori from France. Their debut album 'À Nos Morts'  (To Our Dead) came out on the 26th of June and it is definitely something to mosh to. Tracklist: 1. Que la Bête Meure (with Dylan Walker from Full Of Hell) 2. Apnée 3. La Grande Terreur 4. Poursuite du Vent (with Matthias Jungbluth from Fange) 5. Roi des Rats 6. À Nos Morts 7. Lorsque Viendra la Nuit 8. Divine Comédie 9. Sous Mes Mains 10. À la Recherche de Temps Perdu 11. Danse Macabre The force is strong with this one, and that force is only strengthened by the fact that Dylan Walker from Full Of Hell is doing vocals on the opening track. Why? Because Pilori and Full of Hell are brothers so to speak. Their music has some similarities, they but it is their aesthetic that binds them. They both take much time to cre...

Friendship - Undercurrent

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Founded in 2014 in Japan (the Chiba prefecture to be precise), these four anonymous gentlemen have released their second full-length album Undercurrent on Daymare Recordings. Their 2017 debut Hatred was mainly hard, fast, groovy and riff-oriented. Undercurrent has more variety and even better production. The vocals are more in the foreground and more importantly, the drums. And those get more room on this second grindcore/power-violence gem. Tracklist 1. Demise 2.Vertigo 3. Punishment 4. Lack 5. Abandon 6. Fiend 7. Plague 8. Garbage 9. Wrecker 10. Hatred But this is not your average super fast grindcore/power-violence record. Luckily Friendship take their foot off the gas sometimes. Not everything has to be played fast and low, that makes an album monotonous and that is definitely not the case on Undercurrent. A song like Vertigo shows so many different styles (hardcore, grindcore, sludge metal) as well as Punishment and Lack. The band has listened ...