{"id":3159,"date":"2018-12-29T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T19:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2018-12-29T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T19:12:21","slug":"sulphur-aeon-omfg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/3159","title":{"rendered":"Sulphur Aeon &#8211; OMFG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Scythe-Of-Cosmic-Chaos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Scythe-Of-Cosmic-Chaos-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Scythe-Of-Cosmic-Chaos-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Scythe-Of-Cosmic-Chaos-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Scythe-Of-Cosmic-Chaos-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Scythe-Of-Cosmic-Chaos-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/The-Scythe-Of-Cosmic-Chaos.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This band&#8217;s last effort <a href=\"\/records\/10s\/#2015\">ranked #5 of 2015<\/a> and shocked me entirely at its outrageous heaviness, absurd speed and killer cover.  Here I am, at the end of 2018, writing up my <a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/records\/10s\/#2018\">best albums of the year<\/a> and I stumble upon its follow-up.  And what have I here?  An album that just crushes, easily surpasses its predecessor, whose cover is as nightmarish as the last and which very well could rival even my top-three of 2018.  WTF?<\/p>\n<p><b>The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos<\/b> is a grand continuation of the last masterpiece and is so goddamn heavy, it just has to bring a smile to your angry, Lovecraftian face.  It&#8217;s fast, contains melodic breaks and has impeccable production.  With me being so wishy-washy on the three records atop my list, it&#8217;s refreshing to have something just knock me on my ass.  It may not be #1&#8230;but who knows&#8230;this album is that fucking good.  \\m\/<\/p>\n<p>Oh &#8211; and the full image of the last album&#8230;just because it&#8217;s so insanely awesome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sulphur-aeon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sulphur-aeon-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sulphur-aeon-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sulphur-aeon-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sulphur-aeon-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This band&#8217;s last effort ranked #5 of 2015 and shocked me entirely at its outrageous heaviness, absurd speed and killer cover. Here I am, at the end of 2018, writing up my best albums of the year and I stumble upon its follow-up. And what have I here? An album that just crushes, easily surpasses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,42,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-lists","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3164,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}