OMG, OSDM! & Bestial Raidz

For whatever inexplicable reason, OSDM (old school death metal, duh) has gotten way popular over this past year, and while some bitter assholes (like me) may complain about the trendiness (the horror, the horror1) of it all, I've got to admit, it's resulted in a marked increase in the amount of my kinda death metal being released. I've never been much for modern death metal, preferring to dwell within the fetid Florida swamps and spik'n'span Swedish art spaces that the birthed the old guard, and have made a point of thoroughly shunning all things technical, proggy, or "djenty'.

*On a side note, I just found out what "djent" means - it's music nerd for "shit mid-range riffs with no balls." Hateful.*

Out with wankery, in with necromancy!

CRUCIAMENTUM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZkMiukoxuc

GRAVE MIASMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOs92bYO5w

SONNE ADAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyQA88S3wRM&feature=related

DEAD CONGREGATION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrN3yw-3t4

NECROS CHRISTOS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zg_682VU4E

DROWNED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B44PVJxzbQ

MIASMAL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahehhU3shpI

EMBRACE OF THORNS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlpVg5JVSw

CRAVEN IDOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq8x6sJs5AQ

VANHELGD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq5ebnSwK90

FATHER BEFOULED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8AkYUobtA0

MORBUS CHRON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ash-jnX0DLU&feature=related






The other big thing, at least on the other side of the pond (hail to England, as always) has been an explosion in not only tolerance for but downright slavish devotion to all that is bestial. Primitive, uncompromising black/death grinding noise and war metal assaults, Goatfago bands and Nuclear War Now! have pretty much dominated the leather jackets and pre-gig conversations of all my London mates for the past few years, and with the arrival of the now-annual NWN! Fest in Berlin, Germany (WHICH FUCKING RULED), the goat worship has reached a fever pitch. It seems like the Yanks are finally catching on, too.

BLASPHEMOPHAGHER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSXlEn4bPL0

GRAVE DESECRATOR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6RRsKl3nGE&feature=related

TEITANBLOOD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh7v9Ei5avk

NOCTURNAL BLOOD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n38K_KCNgA

KERASPHORUS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEGPh9IdJDE

BLASPHEMY (HAIL THE MASTERS!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpJLnUCnZPo

SADOMATOR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkrUHAxS7No

VASAELETH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqf6EFTlsE

PROCLAMATION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p29Dqxojvs0&feature=related