Heavy Song of the Week is a Heavy Consequence feature that breaks down the best metal and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, the title track is “Doors to Mental Agony” by Full of Hell.
Of all the heavy bands we cover Strong consequences, Full of Hell are possibly the most prolific. Not only have they released a steady stream of albums under their own name, but the group, led by vocalist Dylan Walker since their inception, has also worked in parallel with other artists in the heavy music sphere. These collaborations know no limits: from noise groups like The Body to Philadelphia shoegazers Nothing.
This is worth mentioning because it's proof that Full of Hell, in some way, are always making music, always creating. It's an involuntary artistic reflex at this point, and a track like “Doors to Mental Agony” is the sonic equivalent of breathing.
Measured doses of slathered industrial noise rock delivered with grindcore aggression. Walker's screams seep beneath the surface, reminding us of the human element among an otherwise sinister palette of synthesized harshness and mechanized riffs.
Honorable mentions:
Mat Ball (from BIG|BRAVE) – “Waves of Light”
Like Full of Hell, Mat Ball is an architect of sound, shaping massive soundscapes with the tones of an electric guitar like BIG|BRAVE's guitarist. If someone is allowed to call their solo works simply amplified guitar, it's Ball. It would be equally appropriate to label it a guitar. painter. A piece like “Billows of Light”, from Ball's second full-length work. amplified guitar 2, has more in common with Rothko's abstract expressionism than, say, doom metal. Think Loren Connors collaborating with Sunn O))) and you'll get pretty close to what Ball is evoking here.
Exhorder – “The Wrath of the Prophecies”
Exhorder is one of the best kept secrets of the vaunted American extreme metal scene of the early '90s. Unlike their many death metal counterparts, Exhorder were more influenced by thrash, especially Pantera and Sepultura, and their 1990 album . Massacre in the Vatican It is considered a cult classic of the genre. On Friday (March 8), the band released their second album since their 2017 revival, omnium defectAnd, interestingly, it sounds just like the Exhorder of yesteryear. Grown vocals, groove-infected thrash rhythms and that Pantera punk touch. The album's opening track, “Wrath of Prophecies,” is the obvious starting point and leads the group's latest full-length.
Purest form: “Self-destruction”
The spirit of early NIN and Godflesh, and a bit of Garbage, is channeled into the two-minute track “Self Destruction,” the latest single from newly formed Los Angeles members Purest Form. Madison Woodward's seething vocals contrast with metal riffs and the deliberate beats of a vintage drum machine – the industrial cherry on top. She closes her eyes and she'll take you back to those late night episodes of 120 minutes.
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