New Stuff This Week…6/8/15
MYRKUR
Hævnen (Single)
Relapse Records
Dark old school melodic black metal. Intro for this single is pretty nice, leading up to something you’d think would be more like Satyricon-ish… but when it kicks in, it’s like they decided to cut over to a cassette recording of an old raw black metal band. weird. But the heavy stuff is fast and in your face and brutal/evil. This is just one 3:23 song. I’ll need a bit more to really pass judgement.
Wrvth
Wrvth
Unique Leader
Technical proggy death metal. Lots of great guitar work, brutal drums and vocals. Some parts a little jazzy metal. Great modern tech death stuff.
Demon Lung
A Dracula
Candlelight
Doomy metal with a bit of a atmospheric feel. the Sound is fairly grungy/dingy/sludgey. There’s still a bit of a melodic groove to it… as I get deeper in the album, it’s more straightforward doomy stoner metal.
Lucifer
Lucifer I
Rise Above
Doomy female fronted metal. Good melody, a dark creepy feeling.
Sideburn
Evil Or Divine
Metalville Records
Melodic doomy metal with a classic sabbath type feel. Clean vox, music has a big meaty riffy groove going on.
Caustic Method
The Virus
Pavement Music
A bit of a modern metal thing, like thrashy, almost Five Finger Death Punch stuff… it’s heavy, catchy, but just has a bit of a commercial feel to it. Decent stuff.
Coffins
Perpetual Penance Double CD
Horror Pain Gore Death
Grindy doom stuff… a compilation of their stuff from varius EPs, outtakes, split EPs, live stuff, etc.
LEERE
Bleak
Gravity Entertainment
Basic, raw, old school black metal.
MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY
Shards Of Silver Fade
I, Voidhanger Records
Melodic Doomy experimental type black metal. Really long songs, lots of “atmosphere” going on.
NOCTURNAL DEPRESSION
Spleen Black Metal
Avantgarde Music
Doomy downtempo black metal. You got those cold guitars, abrasive vocals and just a classic black metal thing going on.
HOLLOW HAZE
Memories Of An Ancient Time
Scarlet Records
We got some quality epic power metal going on. It’s a bit thrashy as well as heavy and gritty but also with that classic power metal feel. I like to say it’s power metal with some balls.
Dying Humanity
Deadened
Bastardized Recordings
Melodic death stuff, some great catchy groovin’ riffs going on. Great dual vocal styles and just a good classic lighter death metal mixed with some proggy melodic stuff. Probably my “other” pick of the week.
Tyrant Goatgaldrakona
Horns in the Dark LP
Blood Harvest
Dark brutal raw death metal…. it’s a bit grindy, but with a bit of a groove too.
Hard Action
Sinister Vibes
Svart Records
Hard driving rock/almost metal. A little punky in vocal style, otherwise, it’s some driving catchy almost southern metal/rock.
The Exploding Eyes Orchestra
I
Svart Records
More of a folky classic rock thing… not metal… move along.
Child of Caesar
Love in Black
Inverse Records.
Gothy doomy metal, like maybe Moonspell-light.
Carnalation
Ghosts
Inverse Records
Deathy melodic metal, so melodic death metal? yeah. But it’s more of some death metal basic sound with some of the proggy melodic metal on top. Good stuff.
Amanita Virosa
Asystole
Inverse Records
Proggy death metal… yeah, blackened death with some keyboards and a prog metal feel going on too. Cool tech stuff going on.
Curse Upon A Prayer
Rotten Tongues
Inverse
Old school black metal sound, decent production, cold, evil sounding with a wall of sound-like production.
VoidCeremony
Dystheism 7″ EP
Blood Harvest
Old school thrashy black metal with some raw production.
Corpsia
Order from Chaos
Label: Self-Released
Just a short lil EP of some cool thrashy stuff. Classic thrash, catchy and headbangable.
Immortal Guardian
Revolution Part I
Proggy Power metal with a bit of an epic feel. Big chroruses, big metal vocals.
Carnival Of Flesh
Stories Of A Fallen World
Self Released
Good blackened death. It’s heavy, brutal, yet a bit of melodic stuff… it’s almost like Behemoth but mix in a pinch of Soilwork.
Enlighten
Phösphorvs Paramovnt
Signal Rex
Black metal, a bit grindy and post-metal-ish… but overall it’s ok.
Temple Of Gnosis
Mystervm Magnvm
Label: Goathorned Productions
Dark doomy mteal
Örök
Übermensch
Signal Rex
Classic black metal, a bit frenetic with a wall of cold creepy evil noise.
SIREN
A Kingdom Aflame
Label: Draconum Records
Blackened doom metal with some catchy grooves!
Survival
Shayda
Self-Relesed
A bit of a power punk/hardcore type thing.