ENDTYMER is the semi-weekly recap, occasional blogspace, and new release round-up column. It hits at the end of (most) every week with the intent of covering notable new releases, sharing news, and musing over various personal listening habits. It is largely informal, might contain opinions, etc. so chill out a bit. I do my best to cover as much of everything I receive in some form regardless of genre or representation, don’t hesitate to send anything and everything my way: grizzlybutts@hotmail.com

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BEST OF THIS WEEK

[#1] SIJJIN (‘Helljjin Combat‘, Sepulchral Voice)
[#2] MORBIFIC (‘Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh‘, Me Saco Un Ojo)
[#3] ATAUDES (‘Tempus Edax Rerum‘, Memento Mori)
[#4] CAUSTIC WOUND (‘Grinding Mechanism of Torment‘, Profound Lore)
[#5] INSINERATEHYMN (‘Irreverence of the Divine‘, Rotted Life)

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UPCOMING RELEASES

Catch up with the latest new release announcements for albums I am likely to cover.

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DESEKRYPTOR have announced their latest EP ‘Sarcophagal Corridors‘ will release this coming May 16th via Nuclear Winter Records. This time around the band have experimented with their compositional process by starting with the drums before the guitars. They describe the process as sort of a challenge or brawl where the guitars had to overtake the situation. I was a big fan of their latest album so I’m stoked on this one. Check out the first single “Leprous Exsanguination”:

Translation Loss Records have announced the sophomore full-length album from Seattle, Washington-based death metal band REBURIED, ‘Flesh Mourning‘, will release this coming July 18th. I was a big fan of Un before they’d split and I felt like ‘Repulsive Nature‘ was an exceptional debut so I’m curious to see how they’ve approached this second album. No preview track yet but pre-orders are up:

https://re-buried.bandcamp.com/album/flesh-mourning

The sophomore full-length album from Finnish black metal act HEXEREI, ‘Realms…..‘ will release this coming May 23rd on LP, CD, MC and digital formats by way of Sentient Ruin. If you were a fan of their first album I think this one should impress as a next step up. I’d appreciated the horrified cover art and whipping sound of this first preview song “Omenstorm Massacre”:

Italian/Polish black metal band AMALEKIM have announced they will continue down their heavily symbolic, religious themed work for a third full-length album. Avantgarde Music will release ‘Shir Hashirim‘, on CD, LP, and digital on May 2nd this year. This one is less chaotic overall, more melodic and ‘epic’ in some sense. See what you think of “Chant I: Ra’al Zorem” the albums opener:

Finnish doom metal band BELL OF MIMIR have announced their debut full-length album ‘Nocturne‘ will release via Argonauta Records sub-label Octopus Rising this coming May 16th. Expect traditional doom metal in the ‘epic’ and Finnish sort of way. Though I did not like how they end this first preview song so abruptly but the walk up toward the cold cutoff grew on me quickly:

Portland, Oregon heavy rock band HIPPIE DEATH CULT have released a video clip from their upcoming live album ‘Live at the Star Theater‘ which is set to be released this coming May 9th on Heavy Psych Sounds. The band explain the video clip which was taken from a tour with Kadabra: “One funny anecdote from this track that you’ll catch when you watch the video version is the culmination of the prank war between us and Kadabra in action. We were on the road together for about seven weeks and had been pranking each other all along the way. They started it. This was the last show of the tour, and by this point, we felt like we had taken it as far as we were going to take it and had given those guys a good run for their money. They kept taunting us that a big retaliation was on its way, kind of playing head games with us. Well, the last show arrived, and during ‘Red Giant,’ they inflated about 50 balloons and circulated them around the crowd. It was actually a really sweet surprise from those guys, and the crowd loved it. So, if you hear a bunch of random popping noises throughout this record, you’re hearing people in the crowd popping the balloons as we play. To top it off, they also covered our van in silly string, paper, and had written ‘Kadabra Rules’ and other obscenities in giant lettering all over the windows. Just another example of the many things that made this night a really fun one for us.” There are very few newer bands I’d check out a live album from, these folks are definitely worthy of a closer listen:

Death metal project CADAVER SHRINE return with a second full-length album ‘Into the Horrible Depths’ this coming May 16th on CD, cassette and digitally via the good folks over at Chaos Records. I believe this is a Maurice de Jong project unless I am mistaken. Death and doom, Bolt Thrower and Asphyx, great album art. Check out “The Writhing Desperation of God”:

The latest video from death metal band CREEPING FEAR, “Torture Wheel”, is taken from their third album, ‘Realm of the Impaled‘ which will be released this coming June, 27th by way of Dolorem Records. I was pretty sure this song was going to suck based on how it’d started but they come up with some machinegunned brutality mid-song that I’d appreciated. Curious to check out the whole deal:

.Iron Bonehead Productions have announced July 11th as the release date for AZATHOTH’s DREAM‘s second full-length album, ‘Solitary Forest Necromancy‘, on CD and vinyl LP. Now expanded to a two-piece these folks reprise the core idea of their first LP and refine it. Check it out if you’re a fan of Luring and other associated projects.

In promotion of their latest full-length, ‘Devoid of Light‘, death metal band ANTROPOMORPHIA have released “Triumphant Death”, the final single from the band’s sixth album. The album releases this coming May 16th this year. The band comment: “The final track, ‘Triumphant Death’, is also our slowest on the new album. It represents an echoing whisper that gets devoured by a flood of captivating darkness and sulfurous melodies. Its theme of misanthropic worship is a dark homage to the unquenchable thirst of death!”

RidingEasy Records have announced May 30th as the release date for the fifth full-length album from Los Angeles, California metalpunk/garage rock trio ZIG-ZAGS. ‘Deadbeat at Dawn‘ is named “in honor of the beloved B-movie, a no-budget action revenge flick set in the mean streets of suburban Ohio.” Sounds like they’ve beefed up the production a bit too as the band suggests: “We definitely wanted a bigger overall sound with heavier guitars. Still very 80’s, but clearer. Our influences were Metallica’s, Garage Days as Judas Priest…really heavy but not overly distorted.” Great band, loved their last record, can’t wait for this one. Check out the title track “Deadbeat at Dawn”:

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YOUTUBE / VIDEO REVIEWS

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NEXT WEEK’s REVIEWS:

Here are the six longform reviews I have been working on for next week, these are subject to change or rescheduling to a later date.

AMALEKIM – Shi Hashirim [May 2nd, Avantgarde Music]
VOMITIZER – Release the Rats [April 25th, Self-Released]
PYROMANCER – Absolute Dominion by Fire [May 9th, Adirondack Black Mass]
OMINOUS RUIN – Requiem [May 9th, Willowtip Records]
GRAVE SPEAKER – Rays of the Emerald Sun [May 16th, Electric Valley Records]
JADE – Mysteries of a Flowery Dream [May 9th, Pulverised Records]

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