Playlist for January 29 – February 4, 2024

Quick playlist highlights:

– Dealer is back. Despite their vocalist’s baggage, I prefer this over Alpha Wolf. It’s still edgy, but it doesn’t feel so try-hard.

– Enterprise Earth just released an incredible album. “Blood and Teeth” is probably my favorite song of 2024 so far.

– Oceans Ate Alaska‘s ears must have been burning last week after I finally posted my review of their 2022 album. Well they’re back with a new song…and they have a new vocalist. If I wasn’t so slammed with work this week I definitely would have covered it in the “drama” section…maybe next week if things are looking light. The new guy is decent, he’s from an old band called Silent Screams. He doesn’t sing in the new song though so I’m not sure if he’ll be able to recreate OAA’s soaring choruses from past albums.

– Erra‘s new song is exactly what you’d expect. They’re so good at what they do.

– Scarlet Rot is Dickie Allen’s newest project (he’s the vocalist of Infant Annihilator and Scumfuck). He partnered with Logan Young (who was in Reflections for a while) to create an insane mix of deathcore and djenty progressive riffs.

– Boltcutter is outrageous slam. I’ve been digging bands like this and Peelingflesh a lot lately.

– One Morning Left is a band I haven’t heard in a long time. They’re kind of a silly band from Finland, but they’re working on new music and this song features Jake Luhrs from August Burns Red. I probably wouldn’t love a full album of this sound, but this song has been my guilty pleasure lately.

– Job For A Cowboy is back. It’s crazy how much they have evolved from their deathcore days in 2005. Their new album is absolutely going to turn heads – very impressive progressive death metal.

– Ghost Atlas is Jesse Cash’s (singer of Erra) side project. It’s a little soft for me, but the new album is definitely worth a mention.

– Gravemind continues to go down the heavy metalcore route. I liked their deathcore sound a lot, but this is solid too.

– Being As An Ocean is making me correct the myself. I said they released an EP earlier this year, but they actually released a full album shortly after I posted that. Whoops. The album’s a banger.