Playlist for October 7 – 13

Quick playlist highlights

– Make Them Suffer‘s new album comes out on November 8. Kind of a late entry, but there’s a lot of potential for it to place highly at the end of the year. Alex Reade (their relatively new keyboardist/singer) also has some nice backing screams in this song. I’m glad to see the band continue to find new ways to utilize her (and that they don’t feel the need to add clean singing to every song).

– Ice Nine Kills is continuing with the horror movie theme. The song is good and I love hearing Spencer’s deathcore screams, but I just don’t go back to these songs very often. Their last few albums are obviously gimmicky, but it’s worse than that. It’s like they’re leeching off the fame of other intellectual properties instead of making their own original art. I’d like to see them create their own horror story. You have to wonder if people would care about it or if people just listen for the nostalgia songs about Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger.

– Fit For An Autopsy is throwing me for a loop. This is easily the best of the singles so far. The album might be more of a mixed bag than I was expecting. But yeah, these guys are killer when they keep it heavy.

– Distant‘s new album is due on November 22 which is insane because they just put out a phenomenal album in 2023. Best described as “colossal deathcore,” I can’t wait to hear what they’ve been working on. Interestingly, the new album is called ‘Tsukuyomi: The Origin,’ which seems like it will be a prequel to their 2017 EP titled, ‘Tsukuyomi.’

– This might end up being my favorite As I Lay Dying album since ‘An Ocean Between Us.’ November is shaping up to be a solid month of albums that might cause some last minute adjustments to album of the year lists.

– Memphis May Fire just released their fifth single and there’s still no album announcement. What are these guys doing.

– Attila is still trying to figure things out. I don’t know man, does anybody ever go back to these songs after the first week? It just doesn’t seem like they have any staying power.

– Seven Hours After Violet just released their new album. This is the side project of Shavo Odadjian (bass player of System of a Down) and Taylor Barber (vocalist of Left To Suffer). It’s pretty good – I need more time to come to a full conclusion.