How are you guys doing today? What have you been listening to recently?

RIP Tomas, fuck cancer.

Fuck cancer as usual

RIP Tomas Tompa Lindberg

https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Tomas_Lindberg/5075

Bonded - Rest in Violence

Consisting of ex-Sodom members plus Assassin’s vocalist and a guitarist from Suicidal Angels this is kind of a supergroup (in underground measures).

Fine thrash mixed with some groove metal. Many, many riffs and excellent drumming. Sometimes you can hear that the material was written for Sodom, however it would have been so different that Angelripper said Njet. Good for us cause we have a good new band.

https://tidal.com/browse/album/122244599?u

The title track features Blltz from Overkill.

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Exhibition of Prowess was one of my favourite albums last year. Can't wait until these guys put out a new album.

French Black Metal band with a seafaring theme

Ratos de Porao from Brazil deliver a punk influenced thrash album with a raw and vital atmosphere.

In 1991 when this record came out it was something different and a little exotic. IMO it’s fun to listen to, a little raw and unpolished. The Portuguese lyrics do add a nice touch to the music.

https://tidal.com/browse/album/53221974?u

#metal #rezensionen #vinyl #music #thrashmetal #punk #ratosdeporaro @metal

From their unreleased EP, Sea Shepherd, which would have come out in 2010 if there were no issues surrounding it. I'm a huge Gojira fan and while, admittedly, I don't follow every single thing, this still eluded me for 15 years. I just now heard of it from another fellow Gojira fan irl who is in the same boat as me, he found it from this article: https://www.loudersound.com/features/gojira-story-of-sea-shepherd-ep.

This track has guest vocals from Devin Townsend and the whole thing is an excellent extension of their The Way of All Flesh album. There's still hope it might come out one day!

no Tidal this time, Youtube, Official Website, RateYourMusic, Encyclopaedia Metallum

Darkness - Blood on Canvas

Highspeed thrash with a punky fuck-off attitude by another veteran band from Germany.

Darkness let Kreator (then still known as Tormentor) use their rehearsal room, because they had lost theirs. The respective careers went in different directions later on.

Check out this record if you can use some melody in your thrash menu.

https://tidal.com/browse/album/344555106?u

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𝆳 https://youtu.be/ZBBjO-bMD3U 𝆳

… from the album Embraced by Darkness by Nail by Nail (RYM)

My favorite metal-covering videogame guitarist youtuber covers the roaring knight fight in Deltarune. Good enough to stand on its own out of the context of the game.

Tidal, Music Video, RateYourMusic

Normally I'd wait till Mondays to post my pick for the week, but I feel this is good enough to post a day early. Here we have a band from Chile singing in Mapuzugun, an ancient language of the indigenous Mapuche tribe of southern Chile and south western Argentina. I link to you my favorite track from their 2019 album Kollong. They play progressive groove metal, influenced by death metal - reminding me a ton of Gojira, just a bit unrefined. The Tidal link below goes to when they recorded it under a different name, but with Spanish lyrics instead, the Bandcamp has full Mapuzugun.

An excerpt from their Bandcamp: "Mawiza offers this chant to the protectors of the mountains. "Femngechi witxapürayay iñ kewün" "In this way, our language will rise again.""

Tidal, Bandcamp, RateYourMusic, Encyclopaedia Metallum

☨ https://youtu.be/fBxybsuEaRs ☨ / song.link

… from the album Walk the Shadows by Lord Vigo (RYM)

This song is particularly relevant right now.