Kyle SB – Personal Top 20 - 2023

 

Kyle SB – Personal Top 20

of 2023!

 

Don't forget it's almost January 6! Why you ask? Cause it's his birthday! We congratulated him in advance and even more so with starting his own PR company called Good Boy PR! It must be one of the many highlights of the past twelve months. We can also congratulate him with his Personal Top 20! And indeed Kyle SB (formerly know as Shasta Beast) is also part of the Doom Charts, and he runs the Instagram page of the Doom Charts. And his Personal list will of course also appear on the Doom Charts, but perhaps slightly edited, perhaps not. Cause this is the Top 20 he sent in back when we asked for your lists for the Top 20 Countdown. Check out his list of majestic releases and Let Slip the Dogs of Rock 'n Roll!

 

BURNER - IT ALL RETURNS TO NOTHING

 

LOMA BAJA - PISCINAS VERTICALES 

 

PHARM - THE TOWER

SANDRIDER - ENVELETRATION

 

GRAND CADAVER - DEITIES OF DEATHLIKE SLEEP

 

ZORN - ZORN 

MAGDALENA - THE DYINGPROCESS

BARING TEETH - THE PATH NARROWS 

SOLIPNOSIS - SINTESIS SILENCIOSA

WORM HERO - THE INEFFABLE CONSEQUENCE OF DREAMING

 

WHITE CANYON & THE 5TH DIMENSION

THOUSAND VISION MIST - DEPTHS OF OBLIVION 

CRAB - VISIT THE INNATE TEMPLE

 

DOZER -DRIFTING IN THE ENDLESS VOID

 

 PYRE FYRE - PYRE FYRE

 

TROPIC SANTOS - CACCIA GROSSA

 

OOPSY DAZEY - OOPSY DAZEY  

ALMOST HONEST - THE HEX OF PENNS WOODS

PHANTOM HIGH - VALLEY OF SICKNESS

BLOOD CEREMONY - THE OLD WAYS REMAIN 

 

 And check out the thirtheen reviews/blurbs he wrote last year here:

 

Almost Honest - The Hex of Penns Woods

 

Almost Honest - Amish Hex

 

Oopsy Dazey - Oopsy Dazey

 

Phe - Nothing Else Is Real

 

Phe - Saviour

 

Bigstrut - Bigstrut

 

10% Reptile - Holographic Fuzz 

 

Grand Cadaver - Deities Of Deathlike Sleep 

 

Radiant Knife - Pressure

 

Dread Spire - Endless Empire EP

 

Pyre Fyre - Pyre Fyre

 

Cooling Tower - Saint Vitus

 

Guara - Fauna

 

 

 

Grand Cadaver - Deities Of Deathlike Sleep

 

 

Grand Cadaver - Deities Of Deathlike Sleep
Majestic Mountain Records - August 2023
Death metal
Rated: *****

Swedish death metal is a universal constant, and Gothenburg's Grand Cadaver plant another bloody flag in the scene with their second full-length "Deities Of Deathlike Sleep". These Swedes wield grinding, churning buzzsaws for riffs and have a knack for groove without skimping on brutality, which serves as one of the album's many strengths. The guitars are lethal, and the drums are relentless, but the sound is never lost in too much noise, and even the monstrous vocals are intelligible. As odd as it is to write, Grand Cadaver use space to great effect in their death metal, allowing each riff and breakdown the room to reach peak intensity before entering the next stretch. Highlight cuts "A Crawling Feast of Decay" and the title track are merciless, breakneck assaults with razor sharp musicianship, and doomier pieces like "Serrated Jaws" contrast with a gloomier but equally jarring type of heavy. The drums in the title track in particular are a battering ram, sprinting full-tilt into a whirlwind of guitar, and are struck with audible force to hammer home the message of “Stabbed With Frozen Blood". Epic closer "Necrosanctum” brings it all together with both spacious doom and thrashing, blackened riffs, a showcase for all of Grand Cadaver's morbid talents. "Deities Of Deathlike Sleep" is wicked, big-league death metal that holds your attention hostage through a precise and harrowing labyrinth of sound, unquestionably a standout of this year's heavy.

(Written by Kyle SB / Shastabeast)

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