Root - Talking Bones – 8/10
This is a LOT better than all the other Root I’ve heard. At first it seemed a little too sterile and like it was just going to be typical modern trad, but then the riffs kept changing and changing and just when I was sure it was going to be an unrepresentative instrumental track, the voice came in and the song kept moving. Not often that I have a complaint that a song ended too quickly. Will listen to this album, didn’t know they had this kind of song in them.
Alice Cooper - Pick Up the Bones – 6/10
Decent Cooper, I don’t listen to this album often but this is alright.
Baroness - Take My Bones Away – 5/10
This is pretty much my first time listening to Baroness iirc. I liked it until the gay bridge where they repeat the title over and over at the end.
Pungent Stench – Bonesawer – 3/10
They have some cool stuff but this one is pretty boring. Yeah the sound is filthy and nice but the riffs are chugging suckiness. Sounds like a poor Obituary outtake or something actually.
Exarsis - Skull and Bones – 4/10
I’ve heard some good Exarsis but this isn’t it. Gallop gallop, overly cheery progressions, generic thrash vocal delivery until the higher-pitched stuff, but even there he’s content to just wail on pretty much one note than do anything with it. Nothing offensive though, it’s solid but underwhelming compared to what I remember of The Brutal State.
The Unguided – Boneyard – 2/10
Hahaha, good one whoever submitted this.
Reaper - Burning Bones – 5/10
BAWK BAWK-BAWK BAWK-BAWK BAWK BAAAAWWK. Nursery rhyme black metal. Entertaining for shit.
Altar of Plagues - Feather and Bones – 6/10
Was going to bitch about this for its length and whatnot but I’m liking this. I mean, I definitely was tuned out halfway through, but it’s pleasant enough dissoshit. I prefer the stuff on their last album that gets all the black metal fans assblasted though.
Sortilege - Marchand D'Hommes – 8/10
Epic boisterous shit made even manlier when you discover that it’s a song about an ancient slaver that prostitutes out big burly conquered men.
Nastrond - May the Rotten Bones Absorb Life Again – 10/10
I have to say that I’ve never heard guitars like this before. I don’t know if it’s the tone or production or some weird chords or combination thereof, but I fucking love it. Like it’s sort got that kind of And Justice For All “djzum djzum” thing that usually annoys me (you probably have no idea what I’m talking about), but it’s not as bassy and has this fuzzy melodic quality to it too that I love in certain Fates Warning songs (e.g. Without a Trace) and it’s the most legitimately “cold” sounding guitars I’ve ever heard in a black metal song outside of maybe Extreme Cold Weather if that even counts. I get the impression that the song is a little repetitive but I’m too busy enjoying this sound. I haven’t had novelty-chills in metal for a while now. This is a top priority of shit to listen to, thanks whoever posted this.