https://abominationputridus.bandcamp.com/album/neo-slam-future

If you enjoy some slam, this is groovy as hell!

Starting the year with a cool slam single

Phosphorous - fossilized remains. - kind of sounds finish satanic music without any second wave influence, fans of beherit or antediluvian might be into this.

Death metal from Chile in the vein of other bands that have been coming out of that country in recent years. Definitely a big Altars of Madness era MA vibe on this album IMO.

Not bad and the first sales pitch which has convinced me to listen to anything from this year yet, but man, wtf is up with this production? Sounds weird as hell, all the higher pitched stuff sounds like a keyboard plug in and the low stuff is all warbly.

Guys these threads aren't for promotional singles for upcoming albums. If you can't listen to the whole thing yet, don't post it in here, put in the looking forward to thread.

+1

I'd request the OP or a mod to change the title of this to 'Worthwhile albums of 2024 [Fully released only]" or something along those lines. This thread is a good place to discover fully released albums/eps/demos, so let's try to keep it that way, as we've done for a few years.

We don't have a thread for singles, previews, snippets etc. though

New Hauntologist album, members of Mgla. Full stream:

https://hauntologist.bandcamp.com/album/hollow

Album's not out until later this month, but a new track/video from black/doom band Rituals of the Dead Hand just dropped

New Hauntologist album, members of Mgla. Full stream:

https://hauntologist.bandcamp.com/album/hollow

+1

I'd request the OP or a mod to change the title of this to 'Worthwhile albums of 2024 [Fully released only]" or something along those lines. This thread is a good place to discover fully released albums/eps/demos, so let's try to keep it that way, as we've done for a few years.

New Hauntologist album, members of Mgla.

Incredible mix of Black Metal, Crust and Hardcore here. Hailing from Spain. Love this so far
https://svdestada.bandcamp.com/album/candela

Saevus Finis - Facilis Descensus Averno



Very cool dissonant sounding black/death metal. Came out today. Transcending Obscurity does it again.

https://saevusfinis.bandcamp.com/album/ ... sus-averno

New January, new 'Oplitis

Damn good EP by Alluvial just released today. Wes Hauch is such a beast of a guitar player. This one will stand out as one of my top favorite EPs of 2024.

https://alluvial.bandcamp.com/album/death-is-but-a-door

New January, new 'Oplitis https://hoplites.bandcamp.com/album/--8?from=fanpub_fnb

I like the sound of this already. I don't generally enjoy bands with such quick output, as I feel there's a quality control problem, but Hoplites tend to stay pretty consistent. At least for now.

I think the same way as MikeyC, I don't like it when bands do releases in such a short space of time, but with Hoplites I'm enjoying keeping an eye on when they release something new. I'm listening to the new one right now and it's surprising me a lot, there's a stylistic leap to something more ambitious and it's clearly different from last year's 3 releases. The saxophone is catching me by surprise but I'm really liking quite a lot so far.

Edit: The saxophone parts remind me a lot of Gong, one of the tags on the bandcamp says "blackened zeuhl" is there any Magma fan here who can appreciate if there are any zeuhl influences on this record?