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