This week’s new heavy metallic releases embody nasty demise metallic, unhappy doom, cop cosplay, and extra! To the metals…
200 Stab Wounds – Guide Manic Procedures
Style: Dying metallic
Origin: Cleveland, Ohio
Label: Steel Blade
Purchase now on Bandcamp
Between the identify and the album artwork, you already know what you are moving into with Guide Manic Procedures. This can be a heavy, violent, and evil sonic explosion of demise metallic. In some unspecified time in the future on this column, I stated one thing to the impact that we’re in one other golden age of demise metallic, and that is one other entry into that golden age. J. Andrew‘s assessment is correct here.
Aberrance – Son of Dust
Style: Dying/groove metallic
Origin: Paradise, California
Label: Silence Pendulum
Purchase now on Bandcamp
Within the temper for some extra nasty demise metallic? Properly, nice information! On the primary Aberrance document in seven years, these NorCal lads are bringing you guttural vocals, crushing drums, and hefty grooves. Hits like a brick, and retains on hitting.
Amarok – Resilience
Style: Sludge/doom
Origin: Chico, California
Label: Vulture Print/Vendetta Data
Purchase now on Bandcamp
With Resilience, we’re sticking to the better NorCal space, however slowing issues waaaaaaaaaaaaay the hell down, and getting heavy in additional means than one. Positive that is heavy as fuck doom, however it partially impressed by the California wildfires that wrecked their space a bit in the past.
Nothing Extra – Carnal
Style: Different/progressive metallic
Origin: San Antonio, Texas
Label: Higher Noise
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Now for an entire shift in tone throughout the board. Like each Nothing Extra document this album contains anthemic earworms and large grooves all through. This one is filled with friends. You are getting David Draiman (Disturbed), Sinizter, and Eric V (I Prevail).
White Stones – Memoria Viva
Style: Progressive demise metallic
Origin: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Label: Reigning Phoenix Music
Purchase now on Amazon
On Memoria Viva, Opeth‘s Martín Méndez is again as soon as once more along with his demise metallic sidepiece. Unsurprisingly, rhythmic weirdness is the star right here, however it’s additionally simply an odd album that retains you guessing. Those who nonetheless miss the demise metallic facet of Opeth (and nonetheless have not given this band a shot for some purpose) ought to hop on now.
X-Cops – Xcab
Style: Thrash/crossover
Origin: Richmond, Virginia… I feel?
Label: Pit
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Taking this week in for a touchdown with a quick however attention-grabbing EP. For the unfamiliar, X-Cops is a Gwar offshoot with members previous and current performing dressed as cops as an alternative of alien monsters. It is political whereas additionally tongue-in-cheek. That is their first outing in nearly thirty years and it is a wild return.
Additionally dropping this week…
- Alexisonfire – Reside Born & Raised 2022, St Catharines ON (Dine Alone) – Put up-hardcore
- Altar Of Oblivion – In The Cesspit Of Divine Decay (From The Vaults) – Doom
- Anvil – One And Solely (AFM) – Heavy metallic
- Banks Arcade – A Muse (UNFD) – Arduous rock/trendy metallic
- Massive Solar – Ceremony De Passage (Mighty Music) – Arduous rock
- Bridear – Born Once more (Psychomanteum Data) – Energy metallic/metalcore
- Chaser – Small Victories (Thousand Islands) – Melodic punk
- Louise Patricia Crane – Netherworld (Peculiar Doll Data) – Progressive/people
- Crocell – Of Frost, Of Flame, Of Flesh (Emanzipation Productions) – Black/demise metallic
- Crossfaith – AЯK (UNFD) – Digital metalcore
- Crystal Viper – The Silver Key (Listenable) – Heavy metallic
- Devolution – Deceiver, Believer (Shut Encounter Data) – Groove metallic
- Drift Into Black – Voices Beneath The Rubble (Black Lion Data) – Gothic metallic/doom
- The Everlasting – Skinwalker (Reigning Phoenix) – Gothic metallic/doom
- The Exies – Closure (Self-released) – Rock
- Firewalker – Hell Bent (Triple B Data) – Hardcore
- The God Terrible Fact – All That Darkish & All That Chilly (Darkish Path Data) – Technical deathcore
- Habak – Insania (Persistent Imaginative and prescient Data) – Put up-metal/crust
- Hail Spirit Noir – Fossil Gardens (Agonia Data) – Progressive/psychedelic black metallic
- Hipoxia – Fragmented Revelations (The Manner Of The Hermit) – Doom/drone
- Illdisposed – In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust (Bloodbath) – Melodic demise metallic
- Sick Nino – Sick-Mortals Vol. 1 EP (Godsize) – Nu/groove metallic
- Imposter – Oblivion Opens (High quality Management HQ) – Hardcore
- Islander – Grammy Nominated (Self-released) – Different metallic
- Kaipa – Sommargryningsljus (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
- Kybalion – A Crippled Energy (Self-released) – Black metallic
- Limbonic Artwork – Opus Daemonical (Kyrck) – Symphonic black metallic
- Love Letter – Everybody Desires One thing Stunning (Iodine) – Hardcore
- MakeWar – A Paradoxical Concept Of Change (Fats Wreck Chords) – Pop punk
- My Epic – Loriella (Tooth & Nail) – Arduous rock
- Neaera – All Is Mud (Steel Blade) – Melodic demise metallic/thrash
- Necronomicon Ex Mortis – You and Your Associates Are Lifeless: Recreation Over (Self-released) – Melodic demise metallic
- Nighthämmer – Land Of Concern (Inferna Profundus Data) – Black metallic
- Noxis – Violence Inherent within the System (Rotted Life Data) – Dying metallic
- Pijn – From Low Beams Of Hope (Floodlit Recordings) – Ambient/doom
- Redd Kross – Redd Kross (Within the Purple) – Rock/punk
- Sabïre – Jatt (Listenable Data) – Heavy metallic
- Shade Of Sorrow – Upon The Fields Of Grief (M-Concept Audio) – Melodic demise metallic
- Shumaun – Opposing Mirrors (Self-released) – Progressive rock
- Slugcrust – Discharge(d) (Terminus Hate Metropolis) – Grindcore
- Photo voltaic Temple – A Present That Ought to Have Been Preserved for the Nice Lights (ConSouling Sounds) – Atmospheric black metallic
- Break up Iris – Bloodred Nightfall (Search And Strike) – Progressive metalcore
- Stillborn – Netherworlds (Black Lodge Data) – Gothic metallic/doom
- Sunbomb – Gentle Up The Sky (Frontiers) – Heavy metallic/laborious rock
- Sunfall – Les Morts Sont Nés Ici (Out Of Line Music) – Nu-core
- Trog – Horrors Past (Self-released) – Dying metallic
- Warhog – The Dystopian Chronicles Vol. 1 (Self-released) – Heavy metallic
- World On Alert – World On Alert (Self-released) – Progressive metallic
- Wraith – Fueled By Concern (Prosthetic) – Blackened thrash
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