GUEST POST: Drummer Matt Wild of Pyramid Mass – 13 Amazingly Heavy Recordings of 2022 


Avant-Garde Blackened Thrash band Pyramid Mass (formerly Doubtfire) will release their debut full-length record, Monolith, on 1/20/23 on Ossien Records. We just premiered their new video and you can check it out and pre-order the album here. Drummer Matt Wild has shared his favorite 13 Amazingly Heavy Recordings of 2022, “in no particular order.” 

 

Triac – “Pure Joy-Numb Grief-Stricken Animals”

Fierce and fast. 16 tracks at 16.5 minutes of tasteful turbocharged mayhem with glimpses of doom

Selected Track: “Grief-Stricken”

 

 

Armagideon Time – “Crime as Theatre”

Real talk as punk metal. This EP is a must listen, do not sleep this time.

Selected Track: Breathe

 

Terror Cell – “Caustic Light”

Stuck in an attic hellscape and the only way out is by solving a puzzle cube with your face

Selected Track: Being of Light

 

Wormrot – “Hiss”

A barrage of ear bludgeoning madness enters your head while being carried to safety and eaten alive at once

Selected Track: Your Dystopian Hell

 

Gillian Carter – “Salvation Through Misery”

Heartfelt chaos a midst landscapes of a violent utopia

Selected Track: The Pain of being Alive


 

Cult Leader/END – “Gather & Mourn” (split)

In the biz we call this a double knockout

Selected tracks: Host will soon decay + Long Shadows

 

Flesh Machine – “Pray to the Hive”

Its angry thrash grunge with brain worms and a belly full of bleach

Selected Track: Grindflesh

 

Heavy is the Head – “No More Time”

Hardcore shred, triumphant breakdowns.

Selected Track: Chapters

 

Wiegedood – “There’s Always Blood at the End of the Road”

Brutal unrelenting insanity upon a foundation of wisdom

Selected Track: Now Will Always Be

 

Escuela Grind “Memory Theater”

Remembering that your the grandmaster operating system that encodes nightmares using flash

Selected Track: Cliffhanger

 

 

Bermuda Triangles “Poisonous Entity”

Investigating a haunted laboratory on psychedelics

Selected Track: Escapist

 

Helpless “Caged in Gold”

Epic tough, like free-falling off the face of a cliff, unscathed

Selected Track: Wraiths of Memory 

 

Heriot – “Profound Morality”

This is slowly being trampled and heckled by a nightmare before you’re thrown into the abyss and recreated 

Selected Track: Near Vision