Monthly(ish) Recommendations #2: Wormy Witches and Timing Switches
Oh lord, it's been nearly two full months since the last one. So much for monthly(ish). Oh well, this one's easy because there's a new Tricot album and it is getting a recommendation by default because it's Tricot. Everything is melodic this time around, sorry. Wormwitch Heaven That Dwells Within (2019) Atmospheric Black Metal/Blackened Melodic Death Metal/Thrash Metal Wormwitch is a band that I consistently ignored recommendations about for about 6 months, because I got sick of hearing the name after I made the mistake of saying I liked melodic black metal one too many times. Fortunately, nearly a year after this album's release I had forgotten they existed and could discover them anew to listen to on my own terms, and it is definitely a good thing. And go figure, they're Canadian. Canadians make very good extreme metal, apparently, although typically it is of the technical/progressive death metal variety rather than the black variety. Heaven...