by BBG

Impiety at Saint Vitus on Friday (10/14)

Before the CMJ nonsense gets started, take the evening to enjoy a FREE show with Singaporean Black Metal crew Impiety, who will join Mutilation Rites & Mutant Supremacy for a FREE show at Cake Shop TONIGHT (10/17). The show follows up the band's Friday appearance at Saint Vitus with Funerus, Sacristy, Discordia, and Warstrike 666. Check out video from that performance below, alongside all tour dates.

In related news, Impiety's label Pulverized Records is preparing to release the new LP Ghouls Of The Endless Night from Bastard Priest (who released the awesome Under The Hammer of Destruction last year). Due on November 7th, check out thre songs from the LP streaming below, and the full long-player at Invisible Oranges. Recommended for fans of rotten Swedish Death Metal of the first wave sort.

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by BBG

DOWNLOAD: Thou - "By Endurance We Conquer" (MP3)

Sleep at Brooklyn Masonic Temple (more)

Lists are very subjective. A "best of" list is always an amalgam of personal experiences - that fateful moment when you press "Play" for the first time, in addition to a grade of excellent songwriting. The records I've listed below had a profound impact on me this year, as did many of the shows that I attended and put on in the past twelve months. I'd like to thank all the artists who made this list as well as the ones who didn't, in addition to people like 1000 Knives, Osiris, Bill Dozer, Ian Dickson and venues like Union Pool, The Studio at Webster Hall, Acheron, Santos Party House and a slew of others for keeping heavy music alive in NYC. But mostly, thank YOU, the reader and the listener!

Alright, enough with the sappy bulshit, let's RAGE...

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