New Releases From NILE, ZEAL & ARDOR & More Out This Week 8/23

This week’s heavy new releases contains the top of a weirdly excessive variety of album gaps, a hell of a solo debut, and extra! To the metals…

Fleshgod Apocalypse – Opera

Style: Symphonic loss of life metallic
Origin: Perugia/Rome, Italy
Label: Nuclear Blast

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After a 5 12 months hole, Fleshgod Apocalypse are lastly again with a brand new report of epic loss of life metallic. Whereas there have been some singles over time, this marks the primary full report for drummer Eugene Ryabchenko, guitarist Fabio Bortoletti, and clear vocalist Veronica Bordacchini. The three of them match proper in and assist make Opera a grand expertise.

Kingcrow – Hopium

Style: Progressive metallic/rock
Origin: Rome, Italy
Label: Season Of Mist

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Here is one other Italian band, however one with a wildly totally different vibe. Very long time readers know that I’ve a smooth spot for prog, so this one is for me. Kingcrow‘s first report in six years dabbles in plenty of instructions, experiments with rhythmic jumps, and stays fairly catchy. Followers of latest Leprous ought to give this a shot.

Soften-Banana 3+5

Style: Experimental rock/metallic
Origin: Tokyo, Japan
Label: A-Zap

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Here is one other band returning after a hell of an album hole. Save for some collaborations/splits, It has been eleven years for these weirdos. The little I’ve heard from this to this point is unmistakably Soften-Banana. Songs are chaotic and transient as they twist and grind via your thoughts.

Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All

Style: Technical/brutal loss of life metallic
Origin: Greenville, South Carolina
Label: Napalm

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Karl Sanders and the boys are again to kick your ass with their tenth album of Egyptian-themed loss of life metallic. You may discover a pair of latest buddies on this one in bassist Dan Vadim Von (Morbid Angel) and guitarist Zach Jeter (Doomsday Revival). This one, after all, options the title everybody goes to be chanting for at reveals, “Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake within the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the 4 Apes.” Love me an extended track identify, though you not often see “feces” within the textual content of a tracklisting. Max’s evaluation is here.

Simone Simons – Vermillion

Style: Symphonic metallic
Origin: Hoensbroek, Limburg, Netherlands
Label: Nuclear Blast

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On her first solo outing Epica’s Simone Simons is collaborating with Ayreon‘s Arjen Anthony Lucassen for an expansive, epic, and proggy report. It is nonetheless a symphonic metallic expertise with Simons within the highlight, but it surely’s positively acquired Lucassen’s emblems all through the music. It additionally options some visitor spots from Mark Jansen (Epica), Alussa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy) and others.

Spectral Wound – Songs Of Blood And Mire

Style: Black metallic
Origin: Montréal, Quebec
Label: Profound Lore

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Here is some straight up black metallic for you. Pummeling drums, shrieking vocals washed in a void of reverb, and tremolo choosing all through. Some rocking moments to get your head bobbing, however that is largely a well-executed, windmill headbanging report.

Inside The Ruins – Phenomena II

Style: Melodic/technical loss of life metallic
Origin: Westfield, Massachusetts
Label: MNRK Heavy

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Ten years after the primary, Inside The Ruins are right here with the sequel to Phenomena. II options loads of heavy-ass grooves, shredding, and melodic flurries. I do not know the lore of the primary report to know the way they join, but it surely’s definitely one other rad report of the band doing what they do properly.

Zeal & Ardor – Greif

Style: Avant-garde/black metallic
Origin: Basel, Switzerland/ New York Metropolis
Label: Redacted GmbH

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Wrapping this week with one other report from Manuel Gagneux’s shape-shifting blackened band. Grief is probably the most private for the undertaking, but additionally appears like probably the most collaborative along with his dwell band members. Take a look at Frank’s chat with Manuel here to seek out out extra.

Additionally dropping at this time…

• All For Steel – Gods Of Steel (Reigning Phoenix) – Heavy metallic
• Alleviate – DMNS (Arising Empire) – Technical metalcore/djent
• Bred For Slaughter – Kill For Devil (Horror Ache Gore Loss of life Productions) – Loss of life metallic/grindcore
• Buryfication – Gallows Rise (Kvlt und Kaos Productions) – Black/loss of life metallic
• Carmeria – Tragédie D’amour (Self-released) – Symphonic energy metallic
• Chained Saint – Blindside (Patriark Data) – Thrash
• Cypher – Cypher (Wormholedeath) – Progressive metallic
• Dampf – No Angels Alive (Silver Lining Music) – heavy metallic
• Useless Karma – The House Camaro (Self-released) – Arduous rock
• Demiser – Slave To The Scythe (Blacklight) – Black metallic/thrash
• Föhn – Condescending (Hypaethral Data) – Loss of life metallic/doom
• Era Of Vipers – Guilt Shrine (Translation Loss Data) – Progressive Sludge/Submit-Hardcore
• Gravenoire – Devant La Porte Des Etoiles (Season Of Mist) – Black metallic
• Hatchend – Summer season Of ‘69 (Selfmadegod Data) – Loss of life metallic/grindcore
• Hellwrath – Sin Eater (Self-released) – Deathcore
• Jeris Johnson – Dragonborn (Scrappy Data) – Heavy metallic
• Knife – Reside Leather-based Hounds EP (Napalm) – Blackened pace metallic
• Koldbrann – Ingen Skansel (Darkish Essence) – Black metallic
• Legions Of Doom – All Good Issues (Tee Pee Data) – Heavy metallic
• M.A.G.S. – Creator (Smartpunk Data) – Storage rock/numerous
• Morgue Terror – Violent and Murderous Ideas (Self-released) – Loss of life metallic
• Mothica – Kissing Loss of life (Rise) – Various rock
• My Fictions – Contact Of Glass (1126 Data) – Metalcore
• Nebülith – Really feel Good Music For The Finish Of The World Vol. 1 (Self-released) – Stoner/doom
• The Oklahoma Child – Featherminded EP (Arising Empire) – Metalcore
• Paralydium – Universe Calls (Frontiers) – Progressive metallic
• Prisoner – Home of Playing cards (Self-released) – Heavy metallic
• Rising Insane – Wildfires (Lengthy Department) – Trendy metallic
• Scrunchies – Colossal (Studying Curve Data) – Punk/grunge
• Sidewinder – Talons (Wyrmwood Data) – Doom
• Siege Perilous – Creation’s Name (Crunchtronic Data) – Epic heavy metallic
• Silvera – World Behind Doorways (Mighty Music) – Arduous rock
• Mike Tramp – Songs Of White Lion – Vol. II (Frontiers) – Rock
• Uniform – American Customary (Sacred Bones) – Industrial
• Vonavibe – Locked Up (Eclipse Data) – Various metallic covers
• Warlord – From The Ashes To The Archives – The Sizzling Pursuit Continues (Excessive Curler) – Heavy/energy metallic
• Wounded Contact / fallfiftyfeet – Traumatic Entanglement (Smartpunk Data) – Mathcore