Sterogum's Black Market - 10 metal albums of the month
There are: Memoriam - band built on ruins of Bolt Thrower, "hitting it right" on third album 'Shell Shock'; French band Grenouille play "brutal death metal in the unceasingly blasty and scuzzy fashion" on 'Les Vierges De Grasse'; Antigone’s Fate's 'Morgengrauen' is "an epic that goes from down and out to soaring above the clouds"; Devourment play brutal death metal on 'Cognitive Sedation Butchery' and they are on the list because "slams are the truth"; Cerebral Rot "prioritize sonic filth over speed and tenebrous textures over precision" on 'Swamped In Festering Excrementia'; on 'Rites' Flesh Of The Stars "dwells in melancholy, pulling on heartstrings with poignant choruses"; Aara with "monolithic and haunting work of anthemic atmospheric black metal" on 'Anthropozän (I&II)'; black metallers Serpent Column are "abrasive, brash, distorted, and in your face" on 'Promise Of The Polis'; No One Knows What The Dead Think are "urgent and tight" on 'YoRHa'; first on the list are A Pregnant Light with 'Broken Play' because it's - "a riot of colors and shifting tones".