Akercocke

[The Mad Monk]

Anyone here into Akercocke? They're an extreme Metal band from England, and they combine Black Metal and brutal Death Metal with overtly Satanic lyrics, but they also have a variety of other musical influences in certain songs including some surprisingly melodic moments and a typical English quirkiness.

The vocals are often very deep growls and high pitched shrieks, but there's also some melodic singing and progressive elements amongst the heaviness and blastbeats.

So far, they've released five albums:

Rape of the Bastard Nazarene
Goat Of Mendes
Choronzon
Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Antichrist

Not sure how many of you have heard the band, maybe Elvis Christ and Dude Guadalupe...

[Dude Guadalupe]

I had a listen, not bad but not for me.

[Elvis_Christ]

Hadn't heard them before... dig it and I'm gonna check out some more. Thanks for the recommendation Monk

[The Mad Monk]

No problem!

Some of their albums sound quite different, so here's a quick summary of their albums so far:

Rape of the Bastard Nazarene: Raw sounding, mainly a mix of brutal Death Metal with elements of Grind and Black, though a few experimental moments in a couple of songs.

Goat Of Mendes: More Black Metal orientated

Choronzon: More experimental, with some instrumental tracks and more of the melodic singing which was hinted at on the previous 2 albums.

Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone: The clearest production, and most progressive and melodic tendencies, but still some very heavy stuff and the meatiest guitar sound.

Antichrist: Like a mix of the previous releases.. a raw, strange production/sound again (similar to that of 'Heretic' by Morbid Angel).