It's #GrindayFriday so it's time I mention a gross, wild one I keep going back to (that's also catchy, groovy and riffy as hell, just ask @HailsandAles).

The second LP by Chicago's FULMINATE, this is 'Postoperative Decline' from earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nP9G3UVoiRL8aYbvvfdqu41dKMsjjgTus

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For #BlackMetalMonday, the brutal, crushing war metal of Chicago's HELLFIRE DEATHCULT. All of theirs is some great, nasty, blasphemous stuff, and this is their LP from 2022, 'Al nombre de la muerte': https://hellfiredeathcult.bandcamp.com/album/rites-ov-black-death

#BlackMetal #metal #Chicago #ChicagoBands #ChicagoMetal #Illinois #IllinoisBands #IllinoisMetal #HellfireDeathcult #2022Albums #2022Records @rtw @vanessawynn @brian @NoRestfortheWicked @HailsandAles @flockofnazguls @gavin57 @guffo @c0m4

#ThursDeath this week is the excellent new LP 'Necrotic Terror' by Chicago's SWINGING MACE (it's just one guy, Brian Higgins, who is also the guitarist for Gored Embrace). It's not on Bandcamp, but it's on YouTube and Qobuz, both links below.

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nK_ayEZakspgSW_vX46j94CIoeMuXUfPI&si=A5TrmIKsmoZsvQFi

https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/necrotic-terror-swinging-mace/r6skgc94ozdnb

Swinging Mace is some killer deathy shit. The whole thing is great, but the last song is "They Live", and it's an epic that's over 9 minutes long. 'Necrotic Terror' is a damn cool record and I keep coming back to it lately.

#metal #DeathMetal #SwingingMace #2025Albums #2025Records #Chicago #ChicagoMetal #ChicagoBands #Illinois #IllinoisBands #IllinoisMetal @HailsandAles @brian @rtw @c0m4 @swampgas @umrk @Kitty @nnenov @guffo

This week's #ThursDeath is Chicago, Illinois' EMBITTERED, who I have to thank @rtw for tipping me off to. This some GREAT, doomy death -- crushing and dynamic. They have two demos:

The Caveman Cometh (from this year)
https://embittered1.bandcamp.com/track/the-caveman-cometh-demo

and Sibylline Visions of Oracular Decay (from 2022).
https://embittered1.bandcamp.com/album/sibylline-visions-of-oracular-decay-demo

Both of these are full of some excellent primitive caveman death metal shit. Psyched for their forthcoming LP, which is still in progress.

#metal #DeathMetal #ChicagoMetal #ChicagoBands #doom #DoomMetal #DeathDoom #CavemanMetal #Chicago #Illinois #Embittered @HailsandAles @wendigo @umrk @Kitty @lola @flockofnazguls

Not sure how I missed the 2nd single/video from the upcoming Pelican LP 'Flickering Resonance' that comes out May 16, but 'Indelible' came out a little over a week ago, and of course it fuckin riiiips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXMltX1IiI

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A new find for this week's #ThursDeath, another band I found via a flyer of a band I dig (I forget who) since both bands are playing together soon.

Chicago's VOIMATON play a great, chuggy mix of death doom that is infectious. It's tough to make a full length death metal album and make the whole thing damn great, but Voimaton definitely did with 2022's 'Profane Vestige'.

https://voimatonddm.bandcamp.com/album/profane-vestige

#metal #DeathMetal #Voimaton #Chicago #ChicagoBands #ChicagoMetal #doom #IllinoisBands #IllinoisMetal #IndieMusic #IndieMetal #ProfaneVestige #DoomMetal #DeathDoom @HailsandAles @wendigo @Kitty @BlackenedGreen