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Okay, first thing's first. That artwork is awesome. I don't care if this is a recorded collection of Fran Drescher's hangover vomits, it gets metal points for that artwork (thankfully it's not, though). Secondly the promo describes this as "true Midwestern Death metal". Look, as nice a place as the American midwest is to live, there's no actual "midwestern death metal" sound. There's kind of a hodge podge of excellent bands in various circles if you know where to look, and there's definitely some true death metal among those. Garroted from Omaha or The Chasm being based out of Chicago now are good starting points. Denver's got some great metal bands and of course some weirdos and various influences. Cleveland, St. Louis, and Milwaukee all have a handful of diamonds in the rough as well, but musically there's no way you could find a single through line strong enough to constitute it's own sound. It just doesn't exist.

Anyway on to Viogression, who I hadn't heard until this just now. First thing that strikes me is how close this strikes to Obituary, which was about the last thing I expected them to sound like. My guy on the mic isn't imitating John Tardy, he's fucking channeling him. A majority of the riffs would be perfectly at home on Cause of Death, and that is about as far from being a bad thing as I could possibly say about a band. The thing is, though, they do just enough to make sure you know they're not just an Obituary clone. There's ample effort put into atmospherics, and some very selectively chosen doom passages seamlessly integrated into the whole package. With those come some guitar parts that keep the pace squarely in the mid-tempo range, but diverge away from Obit's often static approach and utilize the dual guitars with sometimes ringing, sometimes staccato rhythm sections underlaying some unharmonized creative melodies up front. This one came out this month, and, for the material being as strong as it is, I haven't seen it making the rounds much on the review sites I circle. That could change pretty quickly, but for now this gets filed under 'Excellent: Needs More Recognition"

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Correction: Bandcamp seems to think this was released 7/13/23. iTunes says 4/14/22
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Deteriorot - The Rebirth, New Jersey by way of North Carolina. Third album in 33 years of existence, some of you should be familiar with 2001's In Ancient Beliefs and this new 3rd album is as good or tops that death/doom classic imho. As Doc would say, get it in ya. As I woud say, good shit.

 

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Odz Manouk - Ծուռ (Tzurr), the name and the artist are of Armenian heritage but this one-man band is actually based in Long Beach California. Might be just a touch too dissonant or too prog or something for me but I managed to get past that long enough to enjoy this. Dude has apparently released two albums this year after nothing for the last 10. Not sure if one of them could be maybe unreleased stuff they'd been holding onto, and if so which one? Will have to investigate further.

 

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Viogression - 3'rd Stage of Decay

Okay, first thing's first. That artwork is awesome. I don't care if this is a recorded collection of Fran Drescher's hangover vomits, it gets metal points for that artwork (thankfully it's not, though). Secondly the promo describes this as "true Midwestern Death metal". Look, as nice a place as the American midwest is to live, there's no actual "midwestern death metal" sound. There's kind of a hodge podge of excellent bands in various circles if you know where to look, and there's definitely some true death metal among those. Garroted from Omaha or The Chasm being based out of Chicago now are good starting points. Denver's got some great metal bands and of course some weirdos and various influences. Cleveland, St. Louis, and Milwaukee all have a handful of diamonds in the rough as well, but musically there's no way you could find a single through line strong enough to constitute it's own sound. It just doesn't exist.

Anyway on to Viogression, who I hadn't heard until this just now. First thing that strikes me is how close this strikes to Obituary, which was about the last thing I expected them to sound like. My guy on the mic isn't imitating John Tardy, he's fucking channeling him. A majority of the riffs would be perfectly at home on Cause of Death, and that is about as far from being a bad thing as I could possibly say about a band. The thing is, though, they do just enough to make sure you know they're not just an Obituary clone. There's ample effort put into atmospherics, and some very selectively chosen doom passages seamlessly integrated into the whole package. With those come some guitar parts that keep the pace squarely in the mid-tempo range, but diverge away from Obit's often static approach and utilize the dual guitars with sometimes ringing, sometimes staccato rhythm sections underlaying some unharmonized creative melodies up front. This one came out this month, and, for the material being as strong as it is, I haven't seen it making the rounds much on the review sites I circle. That could change pretty quickly, but for now this gets filed under 'Excellent: Needs More Recognition"

You're right that there's really no such thing as midwestern death metal as there are too many bands with some pretty diverse sounds. But yet when someone says "midwestern death metal" I immediately think of Jungle Rot from Kenosha Wisconsin for some reason as well as other nondespript bands from Chicagoland like Cianide or Cardiac Arrest or Gutted from Toledo Ohio or Temple of Void from Detroit. Bands graduated from the meat & potatoes Obituary school of American death metal in other words.

After having lived briefly in suburban Denver a few years ago I feel qualified to tell you they are not part of the midwest. Geographically or musically. They've got their own whole proprietary Rocky Mountain metal scene going on out there. So many cool bands from Denver, don't think anywhere else in the states has a better metal scene in the last decade except maybe Portland.

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Odz Manouk - Ծուռ (Tzurr), the name and the artist are of Armenian heritage but this one-man band is actually based in Long Beach California. Might be just a touch too dissonant or too prog or something for me but I managed to get past that long enough to enjoy this. Dude has apparently released two albums this year after nothing for the last 10. Not sure if one of them could be maybe unreleased stuff they'd been holding onto, and if so which one? Will have to investigate further.

 

I need to get on that Odz Manouk. Been hearing too many good things about it lately to ignore it.

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You're right that there's really no such thing as midwestern death metal as there are too many bands with some pretty diverse sounds. But yet when someone says "midwestern death metal" I immediately think of Jungle Rot from Kenosha Wisconsin for some reason as well as other nondespript bands from Chicagoland like Cianide or Cardiac Arrest or Gutted from Toledo Ohio or Temple of Void from Detroit. Bands graduated from the meat & potatoes Obituary school of American death metal in other words.

After having lived briefly in suburban Denver a few years ago I feel qualified to tell you they are not part of the midwest. Geographically or musically. They've got their own whole proprietary Rocky Mountain metal scene going on out there. So many cool bands from Denver, don't think anywhere else in the states has a better metal scene in the last decade except maybe Portland.

You know, I was never all that into Jungle Rot for some reason. Couldn't tell you why. Maybe it's because when I've had the opportunity to go through Wisconsin it's never been for vacation purposes or anything that might give me time to check out the metal scene. I like Milwaukee better than I like Kansas City (Although KC had Origin who I loved), and I like sleeping in a rusted out bath tub better than I like being in any spot in Wichita. Des Moines was nice-ish when I lived there, but the local scene was like a Slipknot cult recruiting ground. Even in high school I hated that crap. I've never had the chance to see Gutted, but on album they sound fun. Plain and entirely utilitarian, but fun. I've heard Oklahoma City has gotten much nicer since last I was there, but I'll believe that when I see it. Twin cities have always had a thriving art scene, but most of the good metal from MN seems to come from outside and around them.

Now Denver, as you say, does have a hell of a local scene for just about everything. I always thought of them as being in the Midwest I guess. The Rocky mt. scene you describe is something I've always thought of as being further west in the mountains themselves. Of course, again, I've only ever spent significant time in Colorado while visiting my sister. No way in hell I was going to make it to a metal show with her and her friends. To quote South Park "Hippies hate Slayer."

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Darkest - Crystal Black Magick, good punky usbm fun from Charlotte NC

 

Mulla - الاصابة (The Injury)...whereabouts uncertain...they (probably just a he) had originally claimed Iraq but now that seems to be dubious. Regardless these mysterious motherfuckers had a few really good releases in 2020 and 2021 and now this new one is right in line with those, maybe a touch less chaotic. I look high and low for raw shit ike this. Still a preorder for now, Bandcamp says August 25th.

 

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Last night I was at the Ange concert in La Rochelle (France). This year, the progressive rock band celebrates its 53rd anniversary. They only played for 1 hour 15 minutes in a 281-seat theatre. We were very close to the band and it was very intimate.

1h15 of pure joy for the eyes, ears and heart!

The only thing that detracted from my enjoyment were those morons who spent their time filming with their smartphones: we were in the dark and all those bright squares around my field of vision spoilt my pleasure. And for what in the end? These people only saw the show through a ridiculous screen instead of seeing it with their own eyes. Pathetic.

For me, the show is imprinted on my retinas for life. Fuck technology!

 

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No mate. I got this little fucker a few months ago and recommended it here. Not that anyone listens to me...😐

I knew that someone had already posted it a month or so ago, but that doesn't change the fact that that when I went to Bandcamp to buy it last night it said it was a preorder. There were other links that I tried to use to get to the bandcamp page like the link right on the YouTube video which got me "sorry this is no longer here" messages. I finally had to just Google search "Mulla bandcamp" to get there. So I'm guessing it had been for sale at one point (evidenced by the fact that you've already bought it) but for some reason they retracted it and now it says it's a pre-order which will release August 25th. But that's ok, my birthday is the 22nd so it'll be a nice little prezzie to myself.

Funny that I can remember Johan was the one who originally posted their first two releases back in 2020 but I couldn't remember who posted this new one on June 12th. Until I saw your post this morning I had been under the impression that it was our Cabbage who'd posted it because I remember him commenting that he thought I'd like it. Unless that was you as well. Weird too that the dude tried to pass himself off as an Iraqi band when he's not. But the material is good enough that I don't care.

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