Current State of Underground U.S. Metal

Glad you guys like it. That is definitely my best blind purchase for 2015. Like I said, I purchased the album to support another CT metal band so you can imagine my happiness when it turned out to be a totally amazing album. Very unique. You can get a hard copy of "Dark" along with a pretty cool t-shirt for like $12 shipped on Bandcamp. Deal of the century right there.

BTW GUYS, Northern Silence is re-leasing 500 copies of Mannaz. New artwork, six-page booklet, etc. I'm getting a nice box of CDs as my "payment" for the contract, so if you ordered one of the original copies of the EP I can hook you up with the rerelease. All I ask is for maybe $2 or $3 shipping shekels and its yours. Should have them in a couple of months… more details on that shortly. ALSO THERE IS A TAPE RELEASE with the 'Hymn of the Wood' demo on the b-side. All hand-made, with an embossed case ala "Frost". I really never intended to release this EP multiple times, but these guys wanted to give it a proper release so I said 'why not'.
 
yeah, False didnt sound too bad, tbh


Vukari is one that has grown on me: https://vukari.bandcamp.com/album/matriarch

Barrowlands is pretty damn good: https://barrowlands.bandcamp.com/album/thane

Adora Vivos is some quality doom/death ala BMD Katatonia: https://adoravivos.bandcamp.com/album/toward-the-empyrean

I fell in love with Appalachian Winter: https://ninegatesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-epochs-that-built-the-mountains

I still recommend Wilderun: https://wilderun.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-at-the-edge-of-the-earth
 
https://arcticsleep.bandcamp.com/album/passage-of-gaia

I just happen to stumble on these guys. I love it. Fans of stuff like Type O, Jesu, Pink Floyd, Soundgarden should did it

EDIT: Listening to this band some more. I'm blown away. I can't believe I've never heard of these guys. Looking around the internet, their latest got tons of positive reviews, including Hellride.

I love sifting through Bandcamp, through hundreds of shit bands and finally finding the gold bar at the end of the rainbow.
 
Here's some stuff I've been digging lately from the States.

Void Omnia - Dying Light



Marsh Dweller - The Weight of Sunlight (sounds like a cousin to Obsequiae in parts)



Vukari - Divination



Echoes of the Moon - Entropy



Eneferens - The Inward Cold



Botanist - VI: Flora



Galdr - Ancient Lights From the Stars



Hercyn - Dust and Ages



Tanagra - None of this is Real



Cicada the Burrower/Mountains of Light



Old Thunder - Slings & Arrows
 
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