Release date: February 7, 2025
Origin: Los Angeles, California, USA
Personnel: Bobby Ferry-vox/guitar, Alex Shuster-guitar, Barney Firks-bass, Dion Thurman-drums
Yet another band that I will never understand why they aren’t a household name in metal circles. Maybe the name 16 doesn’t distinguish themselves enough or helps keep them in the rabble of so many other bands. At any rate, you should take note of these guys if you like sludgy and crunchy riffs. Like an upbeat Crowbar or a heavier version of Corrosion of Conformity, these guys simply blow down doors with their guitars. This one is a banger.
4.5 flip flops out of 5
The list so far:
10. 16-Guides For the Misguided
11. Lo-Pan-Get Well Soon
12. Hooded Menace-Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration
13. Byzantine-Harbingers
14. Wretched-Decay
15. Green Carnation-A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia
16. Scorpion Child-I Saw the End As It Passed Right Through Me
17. Benediction-Ravage of Empires
18. Testament-Para Bellum
19. In Mourning-The Immortal
20. Allegaeon-The Ossuary Lens
DISPATCHES FROM THE VOID 