Mass Worship - Portal Tombs (2022)

 

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These dudes have managed to craft a densely layered, suffocating sound that fills me with absolute dread with every spin. They've also mastered the the quiet to loud dynamic on this album, pulling me in with beautiful acoustic passages, and then punching me right in the ears with the heaviest of riffage. 

Portal Tombs

Monolord - Your Time to Shine (2021)

 

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I cannot get enough of Monolord. I got turned on to these dudes with their Vænir record and have been riding that wave since. Their latest effort here are 5 tracks of hazy dreams filled with so many riffs, I don’t want to wake up. Everything blends so wonderfully on this one. They’ve managed to hone in on their sound, and now they’re just having fun. Kick your feet up and have a smoke with this one. 

Your Time to Shine