Streamin Hot : Darkest Hour, Martyrdod, Pallbearer, Earth

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Here’s a list of some spanking new tracks from bands you oughta know! Especially the ones we at The Slumbering Ent think that you should listen to regardless of which metal spectrum you hail from.

1. Darkest Hour

If anybody rode that metalcore wave during the first half of the 2000s then you’d remember Darkest hour. Mixing that ever so common Gothenburg melodic death with a very downcast brand of metalcore. If you happen to have heard nothing about the band at all, then i’d recommend giving the albums Undoing Ruin and Deliver Us a spin. Now to case in point. The band has just released their first single off their brand new self-titled(and 8th in line) to be released via Sumerian Records, and the track’s called Wasteland. The song does seem lacking their usual despondent edge, yet it still packs quite a punch.

2. Martyrdod

There is something feelgood about the Swedish hardcore punk scene compared to which the American one looks rather superfluous and filler driven. Here the bands are obviously fewer in number but much better in terms of quality. Martyrdod’s brand of crusty hardcore has always been one of its more successful exponents. Here’s the brand new single from what is their 5th LP titled Elddop, soon to be released on Southern Lord Recordings. It just jumps and swerves with such upbeat melodic aplomb!

Thought provoking cover art for Pallbearer’s new LP. Art by Animetalphysical.

3. Pallbearer

From their critically acclaimed Sabbathian doom debut Sorrow and Extinction, this seems to be a shift in sound for the more epic. The emotional hooks at every corner shall leave you completely entranced. Here is ‘The Ghost I Used to Be’ from their 2nd LP Foundations of Burden, soon to be released on Profound Lore Records.

The visually stunning cover art for Primitive and Deadly by Samantha Muljat at Bloodbank Design.

4.Earth

I am guilty of looking up only a few songs off their past work. This brand new track titled From the Zodiacal Light from what appears to be their 8th full-length Primitive and Deadly, makes my guilt worse. Its popping a pill and laying back without actually doing it.