Welcome back to Bandcamp Buried Treasure! If you're noticing the headline has changed format- congratulations! You're observant. I wanted to get the message across nice and clear. I was going to make another snow joke here but you know the drill by now… I'm snowed in again. Hooray New Jersey! Anyway, you know the rules of the article by now:
- I hunt down awesome artists on Bandcamp that have their album up for Buy It Now/Free Download and give them a write up. I'm not explicitly telling you to download the album for free since I'm a big supporter of buying your music, but I like the option for my readership to be there.
- The goal is to introduce you to smaller bands or obscure side-projects you might not have heard of. Anything to expand your musical horizons by just a little bit each week!
- And of course, for there to be a conversation about similar bands or bands you think I should be covering. I check the comments section!
Like I've been saying, I switched the format up a bit with two new sections, titled "The Basic Idea" and "Why I Love It." The former is a short news-style lead that paints a vivid picture of what you're about to hear to get you interested and help you understand a little why I chose the record, while the latter serves simply as a review piece.
Let's get hardcore with Blackest!
The Basic Idea
If you've ever watched a one-sided fight, then you know what Blackest sound like already- a brief, bloody pummeling that didn't go on longer than it needed it. There was violence and then there was silence, and that's the way it was meant to be.
Why I Love It
There are so many hardcore-type groups I come across when I'm trying to find a new band to write about for this article, and most of them follow the same formula for being "heavy." Yeah, tried-and-true works sometimes but generally with your own unique sound. So I came across Blackened and was immediately interested because they took this crusty, almost black metal approach to the standard hardcore convention and it worked so well. If you're looking for one specific track to jump out at out and obliterate any doubts you might have, skip to "Collection Plate." There's nothing punk about that song in the slightest- only double bass and straight up extreme metal.
Blackest sound like what would happen if you got Darkthrone and Trap Them into a room and told them to flesh out only the most disgusting, vile, distorted ideas they possibly could… and here it is in all its' glory. The appeal here is simple and it's what I've been saying this whole time- Blackest isn't one specific thing, which is amazing considering it clocks in at just about 15-minutes. I can pretty much guarantee you this is going to be in a heavy rotation for not only myself, but I'm sure a lot of readers!
