It's a new year, so CHR and Doug start out with their best and worst albums of 2018. After that is the normal episode format featuring the old-school death metal of Bloodbath, the nu-hardcore band Vein, the blackened death metal of Nattravnen, and a revisitation of the grunge era with Alice In Chains's debut album.

Opening Banter:

Best SoMP-Covered Albums of 2018 3:47

New Releases:

Bloodbath : The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn (2018) 11:32

Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 1998. Although membership has shifted a bit over the years, the band is still dedicated to producing old-school Swedish death metal with influences from Floridian death metal and black metal.

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Vein : Errorzone (2018) 24:06

Vein is a hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts that formed in 2013. The band's sound is a variation of hardcore and punk with influences from screamo, noisecore/mathcore, nu metal, and industrial.

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Local/Indie Band:

Nattravnen : Kult Of The Raven (2018) 36:16

Original Death/Massacre vocalist Kam Lee wrote a story about the legend of Night Raven and hooked up with Jonny Petterson of Heads For the Dead/Wombbath to create the music which is death metal laced with black metal and atmospheric doom elements.

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