Wolven Daughter - Gospel of the Claw (full album, 2024)
Lately here at the network we’ve been on quite an exploratory journey with music. We’ve been going all over the place all for the sake of the “blackened” moniker. We have had, of course, some bands a little more blackened than others if not more so black metal. Well today we get back to our roots in a strong figurative sense and perhaps even a bit of a literal sense. Earlier this month the ever so wonderful and amazing one woman, DIY anarchist band Wolven Daughter released her very first, and arguably much highly anticipated, full length, Gospel of the Claw. Wolven Daughter here are very careful about falling into the natural trappings of black metal though. We still get our classic vocals and the cold, harsh instruments being recorded possibly in the worst conditions possible but Wolven Daughter kinda tweaks this a bit. While perhaps the early bands of yore talked mightly of their influences, perhaps even not, Wolven Daughter wears them as badges to make their own sound. Within these songs you’ll be going all over from the days of Hellhammer and Bathory to the 90’s and maybe even more modern day bands like Khold. From the first notes of the aptly titled, A Wolf Age (intro), Wolven Daughter grabs you with her sharp albeit cold fangs much like a death hound sent for your soul. From this point on she has you and there is no escape which is the point of Gospel of the Claw. Its harshness mixed with melody create this wonderful atmosphere that demands your attention every time you turn it on. You’ll be hearing with each new listen something different. And finally we think Wolven Daughter is doing something important that alongside the likes of Karnstein are doing with vampires, queering back werewolves. Perhaps it’s not entirely the intention but from the cover to the title of the album and the songs within, Gospel of the Claw is nothing short of queer ass werewolves and we love it. It serves as an important reminder that these beings aren’t for anyone else to take and muck up and that they can be taken back and used for such wonderful imagery.
@wolven-maw
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Part 1: Ary's favourite releases of 2023
Before you ask, yes I know that Mitski and Sufjan Stevens released albums this year! I'm gonna go ahead and assume they're already on a lot of other people's lists! However, if you think I'm missing out on YOUR favourite album of 2023, let me know. If you're thinking: "63 albums isn't that many, I wish there were more" - you're in luck because there's a Part 2. Part 2 has a different (more pop? upbeat? accessible?) vibe. Don't think too hard about it...
The chart isn't ranked, just arranged in a way that looked nice to me. Metal, hardcore, rap, emo, skramz, bedroom pop and more!!!
Here are Bandcamp links to all of the albums (for those not on BC there's a YouTube or Spotify link). Honestly I'm never quite sure what genre something is, but there's a lot of metal in any case.
Row 1
Lauren Bousfield - Salesforce [digital hardcore]
Dead Times - Dead Times [harsh noise extreme metal]
Danny Brown - Quaranta [rap/hiphop]
Underdark - Managed Decline [post black metal]
Boris & Uniform - Bright New Disease [psychedelic heavy metal]
PUPIL SLICER - BLOSSOM [blackened mathcore]
Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy [death metal]
Row 2
Full of Hell & Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination [death metal/grindcore]
Radeloos//Ziedend - Doodsverachting [blackened crust]
Agriculture - Agriculture [ecstatic black metal]
Victory Over the Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song! [progressive black metal]
fog lake - midnight society [bedroom pop]
Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate [funeral doom]
Krallice - Mass Cathexis 2 - The Kinetic Infinite [progressive black metal]
Row 3
Svalbard - The Weight Of The Mask [postmetal]
Terzij de Horde & Ggu:ll - Van Grond [vitalistic black metal]
portrayal of guilt - Devil Music [blackened post-hardcore]
SAINT VEHK - Practice/Doubt I&II [occult death industrial]
Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar [dub/power electronics]
Designer Violence - We Gave Peace A Chance [electropunk]
geronimostilton - The Vampyre [skramz]
Row 4
Chat Pile & Nerver - Brothers in Christ [sludgey death metal]
Afsky - Om hundrede år [depressive black metal]
Full of Hell & Gasp - FOH/Gasp (Split) [death metal/grindcore]
Solar Temple - The Great Star Above Provides [blackgaze]
Fluisteraars - De Kronieken Van Het Verdwenen Kasteel - II - Nergena [atmospheric black metal]
Fluisteraars - De Kronieken van het Verdwenen Kasteel - I - Harslo [atmospheric black metal]
Andre 3000 - New Blue Sun [spiritual flute jazz]
Row 5
Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions [rap/hiphop]
Blood Incantation - Luminescent Bridge [cosmic death metal]
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter (fka LINGUA IGNOTA) - SAVED! [experimental gospel metal]
Spetterpoep - Stoelgang Van Zaken [coprogrind/grindcore]
Gnaw Their Tongues - The Cessation Of Suffering [blackened drone metal]
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES [rap/hiphop]
The Lemon Twigs - Everything Harmony [70s inspired rock]
Row 6
Old Nick - "The Truest Spell" [dungeon synth/raw black metal]
Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips [rap/hiphop]
Liturgy - 93696 [transcendental black metal]
Helena Hauff - fabric presents Helena Hauff [hardcore techno]
That Same Street ⁻ Electric Angel [skramz]
That Same Street - Endgame [skramz]
the scary jokes - Retinal Bloom [dream pop]
Row 7
Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze - The Fractal Ouroboros [occult black metal]
Katie Dey - never falter hero girl [hyperpop]
Full of Hell & Nothing - When No Birds Sang [grindcore/shoegaze]
All Men Unto Me - Chemical Transit [classical/doom metal]
RXK Nephew - Till I'm Dead [rap/hiphop]
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory [rabm/black metal]
Yaeji - With A Hammer [electronic]
Row 8
DRAIN - LIVING PROOF [punk/hardcore]
909 Worldwide - Hardcore Will Never Die, and Neither Will You [happy hardcore/rave]
lobsterfight, gingerbee, Cicadahead, godfuck - a lobster, bee, & cicada walk into a bar and find god [skramz]
GingerBee - Our Skies Smile [skramz/5th wave emo]
Curta'n Wall - Siege Ubsessed! [dungeon synth/raw black metal]
GEZEBELLE GABURGABLY - Gaburger [alt pop]
crisis sigil - God Cum Poltergeist [cybergrind]
Row 9
Lamp Of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm [black metal]
Crystalline Thunderbolts - Blessed Hands Touch The Ophanim Under The Golden Rainbows [experimental black metal]
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit [black/death metal]
FIRE TOOLZ - I am upset because I see something that is not there. [electro-industrial/experimental]
Angel Electronics - ULTRA PARADISE [happy post-hardcore]
Vylet Pony - Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, Creekflow, and its Life as an Afterthought) [electronic]
Ada Rook - Rookie's Bustle [electronic]
This post took forever to make. Again if you have any thoughts on it please tell me!!!! And share widely with your friends :)
Love, Ary
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Feminizer - Beneath the Harm (full album, 2023)
Officially, at least here within the network, we are kicking off what is to us, trans week or maybe to steal from G.L.O.S.S., Trans Week of Vengeance. No sorry y’all we don’t have any word on their whereabouts however, we do have something that is just as amazing and just absurdly terrific, Moon is fucking back with a second Feminizer album aptly titled ‘Beneath the Harm’! Y’all remember Feminizer from practically a year ago, yes literally a year ago we got the chance to work with Moon for the first time, and boy howdy was that a pleasure. And this time around Moon is really coming into her own here and her musical strength is just on full display. Feminizer is a force to be reckoned with on ‘Beneath the Harm’. Continuing that warm hug that is a strange and weird thing from dsbm, you do rather expect it to be cold and lonesome, Feminizer embraces you more so with these warm tones without losing anything that has made them such a unique force. Coming off her split with BTAKQ, Moon is still showing that she is growing and pushing herself into new boundaries such as a more symphonic and melodic element added to the repertoire. With these things added Feminizer is able to wield more emotion and texture within all these songs and create a stirring within oneself. Something that Feminizer has been great at and continues to be great at really. Moon takes you to the pain within and the pain from outside. What it can be to be a trans person or even a queer person within the world. ‘Beneath the Harm’ is a perfect album amongst other amazing albums created by trans artists this year such as Lust Hag, Transgressive, Lepra, Hypomanic Daydream, Everson Poe and the list just goes on and on.
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