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
- Captain
Evilfeast – Ellegies of the Stellar Winds
Satan – Cruel Magic
Horrendous – Idol
Cultes des Ghoules – Sinister
Riot – Thundersteel
Nile – Annihilation of the Wicked
Emma Ruth Rundle – “Dark Horses”
Iron Maiden – “Somewhere In Time”
Tim Hecker – “Koyono”
Metallica – “…And Justice for All”
Helloween – “Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. I”
Marissa Nadler – “For My Crimes”
Clutch – Book of Bad Decisions
ScHoolboy Q – Oxymoron
Pig Destroyer – Head Cage
Paradise Lost – Icon
Hasil Adkins – Out to Hunch
Horrendous – Icon
Paradise Lost – One Second
Goatwhore – Constricting Rage of The Merciless
Exist – So True, So Bound
Orphans of Doom – Strange Worlds/Fierce Gods
Dyscarnate – With All Their Might
Evoken’s new song on repeat
Pig Destroyer – Head Cage
Thou – Magus
Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind of Horror
High on Fire – Electric Messiah
The Black Queen – Infinite Games
Monolithe – Nebula Septem
Beheaded Zombie – Happiness For All
Angelcorpse – The Inexorable
Sore Plexus – Visual Agnosia
Kewi University of Swing – Terracotta Me, Baby
Ulcus – Cherish the Obscure
Supuration – The Cube