Bandcamp of the Day: Anharat
Lesser metal enthusiasts may describe a band they are dismissive of as “no-frills.” I, on the other hand, view this as an asset. A band that is doing their thing, and doing it well, really isn’t going to be concerned with impressing nerds on the internet who have set themselves up as gatekeepers. A good metal band is going to be a good metal band, regardless of who blogs, tweets, or barks about them. Case in point, New Jersey death-doom band Anharat. I literally wouldn’t have to say anything about this band for their misery incarnate, decay personifying, corpus inverting collapse of Evoken style doom vocals and tar-black Asphyx grooves to validate why disgusting, harsh underground metal exists. But if I did have to say something about it, I’d say that stuff li...