Not enough metal talk 'round here, usually just me and Jakob talking about it for five minutes once a month...

>Outta seattle right? is it a local label?

The band's from Seattle, the label (Dark Descent) is in Colorado. They're small but busy (about 70 releases in maybe two years of existence) and definitely international, with signings from Finland, Sweden, the US, god knows where else.

>>(I think the band handled it) ha yeah not for nothing but
>you can kinda tell

Yeah, a little bit. I really dig the art though. Some of the ones I did for him were Timeghoul, Anguish, Horrendous, the Uncanny 2-disc set, and others.

>any other new ones you been digging in the same vein?

That particular vein is kind of an unusual one - most bands tend to be either death metal or doom metal, but not both. Ahab (funeral doom band) has a new album coming out but from what I've heard of it, it's going in a softer direction. Too bad. I really liked their debut a lot. The recent Asphyx album (Deathhammer) is solid, though not as dark as Anhedonist, or Asphyx's own early work.

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