Staff Infections – October 2018

It’s Staff Infections time. You know the drill: We share what we’ve been listening to for the past month, and you gape in wonder at our impeccable taste in music. Speaking of impeccable taste in music, the inimitable Voivod is quite popular around these parts, so it is not the least bit surprising that the masters of progressive, bizzaro-sci-fi thrash top the playlists this month with their recently released album, The Wake. What is surprising, given how beloved Voivod is around here, is that The Wake takes top honors with only three playlist appearances. I guess some of the boys were still waiting for their shipment at press time. In any case, the wise and learned Lone Watie will fill you in on The Wake, with his excellent review, and you can dabble with a sample below.

Second place this month is, as usual, a multi-way tie, so let’s take them alphabetically. First is long-winded Polish black metal outfit Cultes Des Ghoules, with album number four, Sinister, or Treading the Darker Paths. Second is The Field with Infinite Moment, and, dear me, I don’t care for this shit at all.  Sorry, Dan and Cap. Moving on to Outre-Tombe, which is much more in the old wheelhouse. This Quebecois death metal outfit’s second album Necrovortex is due this month, and if a particular individual gets his ass in gear, a review should be forthcoming. Finally, some more death metal, this time from Sweden, in the form of Vanhelgd and its soon-to-be-released fifth album Deimos Sanktuarium. Enjoy some samples below, be sure to share your own playlist in the comments, and, until next month, don’t eat too much candy corn.

 

 

 

• • Captain
    Voivod – The Wake
    Aseptic – Murderous Obsessions
    Brainoil – Singularity to Extinction
    Fifth Angel – The Third Secret
    The Field – Infinite Moment
    Low – Double Negative
  • Andrew Edmunds
    Voivod – The Wake
    The Cure – Disintegration
    Siouxsie & The Banshees – Tinderbox
    Tom Waits – Bone Machine
    Killing Joke – Killing Joke
    Monstrosity – In Dark Purity
  • Manny-O-War
    Cultes Des Ghoules – Sinister
    Colosseum – Chapter II: Numquan
    Outlaw – Marauders
    Ride for Revenge – Sinking the Song
    Vanhelgd – Deimos Sanktuarium
    Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring
  • Ryan Tysinger
    Deathhammer- Chained To Hell
    Rebel Wizard – Voluptuous Worship Of Rapture And Response
    Outre-Tombe – Nécrovortex
    Cultes des Ghoules – Sinister
    Altar Of Perversion – Intra Naos
    Ereb Altor – By Honour
  • Konrad Kantor
    Vomitory – Blood Rapture
    Mithras – Forever Advancing… Legions
    Outre-Tombe – Répurgation
    Emperor – IX Equilibrium
    Insted – Proud Youth: 1986-1991
    A Forest of Stars – Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
  • Danhammer Obstkrieg
    The Field – Infinite Moment
    Aphex Twin – Collapse
    Vanhelgd – Deimos Sanktuarium
    Madder Mortem – Discography
    Tim Hecker – Konoyo
    Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm
  • Zach Duvall
    Convulsing – Grievous
    Rippikoulu – Musta Seremonia
    Outre-Tombe – Nécrovortex
    Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn
    Voivod – The Wake
    Satan – Cruel Magic
  • Chris Sessions
    Pig Destroyer – Head Cage
    Skeletonwitch – Devouring Radiant Light
    Death Grips – No Love Deep Web
    Abysmal Torment – The Misanthrope
    Failure – The Heart is a Monster
    Death – The Sound of Perseverance
  • Jeremy Morse
    Bolt Thrower – Realm of Chaos
    Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal
    Hellwitch – Syzygial Miscreancy
    Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion
    Sepultura – Beneath the Remains
    Black Sabbath – Volume 4
  • Dave Pirtle
    Mudhoney – Digital Garbage
    Cultural Warfare – Warmageddon
    Dragonlord – Dominion
    Onkel Tom – Bier Ernst
    Antti Martikainen – Hymn of the High Seas, Vol. 1 & 2
    Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind Of Horror