Welcome to the To The Teeth newsletter! Your weekly update of new heavy music. You can listen to (most) everything in the playlist on Spotify. If you like what you read, go to Patreon (receive a patch!) & Bandcamp (buy a patch!). Peppers are hot 🌶️!

New Albums

🌶️ Employed To Serve

Metalcore, UK (Spinefarm)

FFO: Converge, Gojira, For I Am King

One of the most convincing metalcore bands out there. They just sound like there wasn’t any compromise in writing - they just had to go this way, even though there’s a lot of diffferent influences to be found. It’s always interesting to hear what they have to say (although I’m not sure if all those guests are necessary).

🌶️ Paatos

Prog rock, Sweden (Timeloss Records

FFO: Porcupine Tree, Pain of Salvation, Opeth’s Damnation

Paatos make heavy, cinematic prog rock, infused with jazz, triphop, that you might have easily missed. Unless you’re an Opeth nerd that needed more of the Damnation-sound in 2003 and found out that Åkerfeldt was very much influenced by this band. Especially their debut Timeloss is fantastic. They’ve been slumbering for a while, but they’re still around and the new album has that same warm, jazzy and very Paatos-y sound (now with extra Åkerfeldt!).

🌶️ Temple Fang

Space/psych rock, The Netherlands (Stickman Records)

FFO: Monomyth, Iron Jinn, Dool

This edition of Roadburn was strange. The most fun I had was at the secret shows, where bands who kind of drowned on the big mainstage came up close, where the riffs blew my hair dry. Like Temple Fang, a band built on the ruins of Death Alley. Not many bands can play one note with such dedication ánd enjoy it as much as Temple Fang.

🌶️ Ancst

Black/crust, Germany (self released)

FFO: Dödsrit, Young and in the Way, Dawn Ray’d

You never know what you’ll get with Ancst. Is it a dark ambient album? Intense crust? Sweeping atmoblack? It’s pedal to the black metal this time, barely half an hour of crusty black metal that takes no prisoners.

There’s more: Caustic Wound (death/grind, USA), Eluveitie (melodeath/folk, Switzerland), Morbific (death, Finland), Felgrave (🌶️ death/doom, Norway) Changeling (🌶️ prog death, Germany), Oak (progrock, Norway), Big|Brave (drone/doom, Canada - I love this band, but this album? Hmm), Curta’n Wall (folk/black/heavy, USA), Sijjin (death/thrash, Germany/Spain), The Howling Void (🌶️ funeral doom, USA), Ghost (heavy/gothic, Sweden - meh), an ep from Wretched Blessing (death/black/hardcore - w/ members of Immortal Bird, Yautja), Sumac & Moor Mother (riffs/words, USA), Machine Head (groove/thrash, USA), Cadaver (black/death/thrash, Norway), Samiarus (black/death, USA), Inhuman Nature (thrash/crossover, UK), Profanatica (black/death, USA), Cancer (death/thrash, UK) and Swerve (sludge/noise, The Netherlands). The rest is in the playlist!

Nine new songs

🌶️ Voyager (prog, Australia - fuck cancer, get better Danny)

🌶️ Scaler (industrial/techno - fka Scalping)

🌶️ Jade (atmospheric death, Spain/Germany)

🌶️ Full of Hell (powerviolence/grind/death, USA)

🌶️ Skyborne Reveries (atmospheric/post-black, Australia)

🌶️ Voice of Baceprot (groove/prog, Indonesia)

🌶️ Blessings (post-hardcore/crust/indie, Sweden)

🌶️ Stress Positions (hardcore punk, USA)

🌶️ Primal Fear (speed/power, Germany)

The rest is in the playlist!

Not-so-heavy & next week

Not-so-heavy album of the week: Natalia Lafourcade (latin pop, Mexico)

I’m looking forward to next week because of: Bleed, Hate, Abyssal Vacuum and Crematory.

But take note: I’m out for a short holiday, so I expect no newsletter next week!

What is your favourite? What did I miss? Let me know!

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