![Horrific Demise – Excruciating Extermination [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Horrific-Demise-Excruciating-Extermination-01.jpg)
“It’s winter again, and Ulver’s first three records express the beauty and wonder of the season that left us when we grew up and got annoyed at clearing a foot of snow off our cars so we can dutifully trudge to work. Horrific Demise’s debut record Excruciating Extermination conjures a world where Harambe comes back and decides to use your scrotum as a speedbag. That’s right, it’s one of these again.” Ouch.
![Creature – Contes Funèbres [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Creature-ContesFenebres01-768x768.jpg)
On Contes Funèbres, Fournier’s second as Creature, there are sounds and styles that can be found in our world, but they’ve been arranged by a mind that surely originates elsewhere. Yes, this is black metal at a foundational level, but there is so much synth prog, electronic trickery, odd vocals and anachronistic choral arrangements that calling it any one thing is pointless.” Creature features.
![Gorgon – Elegy [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gorgon_Elegy_albumArt-768x768.jpg)
“Unlike the other Gorgon from France that released a 43-minute album in January, this Gorgon plays an opulent brand of symphonic death metal—a personal favorite subgenre of mine. That their second full-length Elegy released two weeks into the year and is still kicking my posterior like the absolute badass it is should tell you all you need to know.” Gorgon will eat you.
![Abyssal – A Beacon in the Husk [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Abyssal-A_Beacon_in_the_Husk-2019-768x766.jpg){kind=tracking}
“Dissonant death metal is a polarizing style, one whose purposes are often unclear. While it encompasses a variety of interpretations, its beginnings in Immolation and Demilich can be summed up in its attempted balance of malice and menace. British death metal act Abyssal’s fourth full-length A Beacon in the Husk is the perfection of this balance: a sunless journey into the depths of the abyss, guided by its philosophical lyricism and patient dynamics.” Void tunes.
![Weeping Sores – False Confession [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/a3885326903_5.jpg)
“Most death-doom bands solely rely on the ghoulish pilfering of guttural vocals to augment their melancholy material. Weeping Sores reinforces Peaceville’s early oeuvre with a calcified backbone of death metal to support a branching musculature.” Did you miss these sores?
![Firelink – The Inveterate Fire [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/firelink_theInveterateFire_albumArt-768x768.jpg)
“Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, the duo peddle the finest wares of the melodic black metal persuasion. Woven deeply into their abyssal constructs is a red-blooded passion for the Dark Souls video game series rife with metallic imagery ideal for musical adaptation.” Soulmass awaits at the Kiln of the First Flame.
![The EP, Split, and Single Post Part II [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cuervoportrait-2.jpg)
Did you miss all the rest of the crucial EPs, splits and singles in 2019? We’ve got you covered again, broheim.
Did you miss some crucial EPs, splits and singles in 2019? We’ve got you covered, chumbo.
![Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/ChelseaWolfe-BirthofViolence01.jpg)
“Chelsea Wolfe’s respected and increasingly revered status within, and outside, the metal scene has steadily grown in recent years. From humble beginnings of her experimental goth-folk early works, to the enchanting Pain is Beauty, Wolfe really hit her stride on 2015’s eclectic masterwork, Abyss.” Birth is violence.
![Birdeatsbaby – The World Conspires [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/birdeatsbaby-world-conspires-768x768.jpg)
“One of the best ways to get my attention is to mention a band crossing genre boundaries in unexpected ways. Birdeatsbaby drew my eye, first, with their rather evocative name and, second, with that drop-dead gorgeous album art. But what really caught my interest was their history; the band started off in the punk cabaret scene and developed to include prog metal and symphonic influences.” Protect Baby Yoda!
