Things have been a bit hellish the past few weeks. Between this radio show prep, and my normal 9-5 which has been extra busy, I'm also part of a film crew for a relatively complicated horror film. Every moment not spent at work or passively choosing music for the coming week's show is spent with production and prop planning, puppetry building, and prosthetic casting/painting. It'll be cool as fuck when it comes out, and I think we're doing some pretty incredible 70s-80s exploitation levels of depravity. Excited for people to watch and be grossed out. In the meantime...stress.

This week, I had to play some recent brutal death and slam favorites in the form of Kill Everything, a band which reps some former members of Devourment, and Putridity- Italian tech-brutallers who took a decade between releases. Both are crazy good and should scratch the itch for any fan of their respective styles.

I also wanted to highlight some of my personal favorite bands which I feel aren't spoken about nearly enough in everyday UG metal. Darvulia, who crafted some of the most dissonant and yet groovy black metal, are almost never raised in the same conversations as bands like Ved Buens Ende or Deathspell Omega. And while it's understandable in the context of Darvulia not being nearly as overtly avant-garde as those bands, there is something about their dissonant but clean sound, their ability to slow things down and play some tilted rock music before diving back into an assault. It's all so novel and unique. A real shame we only got 3 albums from them. I also highlighted some favorites from some other bands which feel are a bit underrated - Antediluvian and their soupy primordial bizareness, and Mithras, whose cosmic death metal is unlike anyone else.

Setlist:

Suffocation
Sigh
Impurity
Helwetti
Pungent Stench
Kill Everything
Putridity
Darvulia
Mithras
Rampant
Squelette
Bolt Thrower
Précipice
Lymphatic Phlegm
Pinnacle
Fields of Agony
Dunwich
Vehement
Antediluvian
Louis De Meester