Soundtrack Second Half 2018

As I explained in a recent post, in the last months I've gone back to my musical roots, listening to tons of screamo (the darker the better) and some (neo)crust. Some of these bands have made me enjoy of music as I had not done in years, with some songs being real jewels. I'll put up here a selection of bands that have become the soundtrack to these last months. The order is mainly random, it's not meant as a sort of classification.

• Ojne. This Italian band is just incredible. They don't play the kind of ultra-dark screamo that I'm particularly into, indeed one could say that for my taste they live in the calm zone of the genre, though with some very intense fragments, very powerful vocals and melodies that are plain beautiful. Tredici, the first song in their last Lp is just shocking, a piece of pure beauty.
• Mihai Edrisch. This French band from Lyon existed at the time when I was mainly stopping to listen to Screamo (and other HxC-punk derivates), so their name was familiar , but had not really paid them attention at the time. Wow, they have some of the most desperate vocals I've ever listened to, and the instrumental is deeply dark and powerful.
• Ampere. I was for sure a big Orchid fan (and I am again), so when checking now, so many years later, if their members had given the world some other similar band, I was pretty delighted to find Ampere. Dark, short and intense songs, not much more to say.
• June Paik. As you can see in that previous post, One Eyed God Prophecy and Uranus are 2 of my favorite bands. Though profoundly influential, it's not easy to find bands that are really similar to them, well, June Paik has the most OEGP's like sound that I can think of.
• Drein Affen. This trio from Torrelavega, one ugly small town 3 hours far from my Asturian hometown, creates one of the most intense crusty screamo sounds in the current world. I recently saw them live, and they just kill it.
• Potence. French band from Besancon. While one could say that French bands shaped the screamo world for at least 1 decade (between 1995 and 2006), I can hardly think of any interesting crust band (Opstand, but that was more Powerviolence), so Potence has been a really nice surprise. Catchy modern crust with an excellent sound.

Starting in 2001 I think and lasting a few years Galicia (particularly A Coruña) produced [1] [2] some the best neocrust bands on Earth. Ekkaia has become a cult band, and Madame Germen gained a good bunch of recognition, same as Ictus. I've recently discovered or rediscovered some of the not so well known bands of that Galician School:

• Das Plague. Though part of that same scene, you'll find no crust influences in their ep. They played beautiful and intense emotional hardcore. I don't call them screamo cause the vocals do not fit in the classical screamo model for me (they're strong, but not screamed).
• SlS3. No crust influences from my point of view either. Screamo of the highest and purest intensity, with some songs that make me think of OEGP and the Canadian sound.
• Asedio. Just the inverse for this band, no emo influences at all, pure, high quality headbanging crust (with some rock&crust influences)