Staff Infections – March 2023

Greetings, dear readers. Here’s hoping you and yours are safe and sound after the storms that have whipped through a fair portion of the country in the past week or so. However, if you’re huddled under a blanket, in a cold, dark home, gnawing on stale bread, and using your last bit of phone charge to read Last Rites, well, friend, thanks for the support, but it’s a Sunday, and all we have for you is Staff Infections. Hopefully seeing what the fine folks at Last Rites have been listening to will warm your heart, if not your feet.

As is quite common we have a tie for album of the month. Despite Ryan’s best efforts, neither album is a Black Sabbath album. We’ll try to do better next month, Ryan. Instead, our albums of the month include, not surprisingly, the latest album form Enslaved, Heimdal, and, somewhat surprisingly, Yantra Creating, the fourth album from relatively obscure Russian brutal death metal band 7H. Target. Mr. Duvall has a review of Heimdal you can check out right here. You’re on your own for Yantra Creating, but a cursory listen leaves yours truly with the impression of a refined, focused sort of brutality.

Before we wrap this up, have a listen to the Spotify playlist below, which features a selection of tunes form this month’s staff playlists, and, while your listening, share your own playlist in the comments. Finally, for the group discussion this month, give us four of your favorite guitar players, two from within the metal genre and two from without. For my part, I’d have to go with Randy Rhoads and Bill Steer for metal and Jimi Hendrix and Gary Moore for non-metal. See you all next month.

• Zach Duvall
  In Flames – everything through Clayman
  Bruxa Maria – Build Yourself a Shrine and Pray
  Majesties – Vast Reaches Unclaimed
  Enslaved – Heimdal
  Eucharist – Mirrorworlds
  Mortuary Drape – Secret Sudaria
• Andrew Edmunds
  Queensryche – Digital Noise Alliance
  Satan – Court In The Act
  IQ – The Road Of Bones
  DRI – Thrash Zone
  Pest Control – Don’t Test The Pest
  Primitivo – First Primitive
• Danhammer Obstkrieg
  Enslaved – Heimdal
  Polymoon – Chrysalis
  7H. Target – Yantra Creating
  Insomnium – Anno 1696
  Autechre – Draft 7.30
  James Brandon Lewis – Eye of I
• Dave Pirtle
  Hank Williams III – Ghost to a Ghost/Guttertown
  AC/DC – Rock or Bust
  Tanzwut – Silberne Hochzeit
  Man Must Die – The Pain Behind It All
  Celebrity Sex Scandal – Convergence of Infinite Sequences
  Megaton Sword – Might & Power
• Spencer Hotz
  Moiscus – Idiomorphic Practices
  7H Target – Yantra Creating
  Cloud Rat – Discography 2010 – 2015
  Cloud Rat – Threshold
  Darkthrone – Sardonic Wrath
  The Black Dahlia Murder – Into The Everblack
• Ryan Tysinger
  Black Sabbath – Tyr
  Black Sabbath – Heaven & Hell
  Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
  Black Sabbath – Born Again
  Black Sabbath – Headless Cross
  Molten Gold – Futures Past
• Jeremy Morse
  Cannibal Corpse – Eaten Back to Life
  Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave
  Sinister – Diabolical Summoning
  Al Di Meola – Elegant Gypsy
  Jason Becker – Perpetual Burn
  Slayer – South of Heaven
• Lone Watie
  Satan – Earth Infernal
  Sabaton – Carolus Rex
  Manilla Road – Gates of Fire
  Ice Age – Liberation
  Juan Martin – Picasso Portraits
  Wayne Shorter – Night Dreamer

Posted by Jeremy Morse

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