On CMAT’s big, soulful number “When A Good Man Cries,” there’s a part where the Irish quasi-country singer howls, “I hope that I pass and I get reborn.” On Thursday night, CMAT appeared on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show to sing that song. While delivering the word “reborn,” she mimed out giving birth to a baby and then casually tossing the baby over her shoulder like it was garbage. This was a quick, offhand bit of stagecraft, a literal throwaway gesture, but it should tell you just about everything about CMAT that you might need to know.
Beware all ye who proceed from here, for there’s a haunting due to occur on March 13. I am, of course, referring to the arrival of Transilvania‘s third album, Magia Posthuma. These Tyrolean dark-arts practitioners specialize in creating punchy, catchy black metal with a plague-like infectiousness. It’s fitting, therefore, that Decibel debut the band’s new video for “Tuberculosis Reigns.”
The song alternates between a pounding gallop that recalls the wordless chorus of Darkthrone’s “Under a Funeral Moon,” while the rest of the song resembles later-era Satyricon but with perhaps more coffin dirt added — as it should be! And the video is an equally entrancing mix of band footage and old horror movie clips.
According to the band:
“’Tuberculosis Reigns’ embodies the album’s purest aggression — a relentless surge of sound where suffocating riffs mirror the contagion of fear. Lyrically, it dissects how fear infects the narrow-minded, how it spreads unchecked, and how it ultimately crowns itself king over the weak-willed.”
I don’t know about you guys, but it really seems like the best part of the year is coming. The winter is coming to a close, the temperatures are rising, and all over the country metal tour are kicking off. What shows do you have coming up soon? Let us know in the comments while you listen to some of this week’s new releases.
A Wilhelm Scream
Cheap Heat (Creator-Destructor Records)
I’m never sure whether to categorize these guys at the top of an alphabetical list or down in the Ws, but I made an executive decision and placed ’em up top. Nevertheless, A Wilhelm Scream continue to bring the kind of hardcore punk/thrash crossover/high octane madness that fuels great nights and bad decisions. If anything deserves to be played loud, it’s this.
Carpenter Brut
Leather Temple (No Quarter Prod / Virgin Records)
Marking the end of his ‘Leather’ trilogy, Frenchman Franck Hueso’s Carpenter Brut continues to create the kind of heavy synthwave that metalheads can sink their teeth into. It’s got just the right amount of dystopian oppression mixed with the kind of grooves that get your body involuntarily moving.
Necrofier
Transcend Into Oblivion (Metal Blade Records)
This record is black metal in the truest sense of the term. It’s no bullshit, straight up darkness that does not intend on fucking around. Featuring members from Oceans of Slumber, Nevermore, and Terror Corpse, this supergroup has the kind of pedigree that ensures you’re getting the real deal. If you’re looking for grim dark black metal, well here it is.
Nothing
A Short History of Decay (Run For Cover Records)
Having spent a lot of the last couple years working on and releasing collaborative records with other artists, it’s refreshing to hear something from Nothing that’s all their own. It’s been six years since the release of their last album Don’t Look For Light In Tunnels and this new one continues their fuzzy, echo-y, shoegaze-y sound. This record will grab you by the collar and take you on a journey.
Rob Zombie
The Great Satan (Nuclear Blast)
It’s been a long, long time since we’ve had peak Rob Zombie. And while I wouldn’t say he’s returned to the days of Hellbilly and Sinister Urge, the musician turned horror movie director really tried to recapture that old school flare on this one. It helps when Mike Riggs and Blasko are back in the mix. It may not necessarily dig through the ditches, but it could potentially excite them witches. So don’t write this one off and give it a shot. You might be pleasantly surprised.
Other Shit That Comes Out Today:
Blackwater Drowning, Obscure Sorrows (Blood Blast Distribution) Cryptic Shift, Overspace & Supertime (Metal Blade Records) Doomsday Astronaut, Origins (A for Aleph Records) Final Gasp, New Day Symptoms (Relapse) Manuel, Parasite (Wormholedeath) Matador, The House Always Wins (Church Road Records) Necrosexual, Road To Rubble (Black Metal Archives) Ulver, Neverland (House Of Mythology) Unverkalt, Héréditaire (Season of Mist) Varials, WHERE THE LIGHT LEAVES (Fearless Records)
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