New Stuff This Week… 10/12/15
Whitechapel
The Brotherhood of the Blade
Metal Blade Records
Brutal technical and while most of the time a death metal band won’t get a great sound live, it’s cool to kind of hear what it really could sound like with this live album. Great stuff.
Saxon
Battering Ram
UDR Music
Classic metal from one of the bands that helped invent classic metal! Great stuff, still keeping it heavy yet melodic and cool.
Ugly Kid Joe
Uglier Than They Used To Be
Metalville Records
Great to have these guys back doing a new album.. not quite as unique or catchy as their original EP it’s still got a good melodic hard rock quality to it and if it gives them an excuse to tour too? All the power to ’em.
Kill Ritual
Karma Machine
Scarlet Records
Proggy melodic metal. Good edge to it, a bit thrashy, but overall just some decent “metal”
Madame Mayhem
Now You Know
Headball Records/71st Street Music
Female fronted classic metal
Dog Fashion Disco
Ad Nauseam
Rotten Records
The first two tracks are fairly straightforward hard rock/metal… then by track three we get into more of the classic DFD with keyboard/accordion sounds and the catchy Mr. Bungle like stuff. A decent album in only the way DFD can do it.
So Hideous
Laurestine
Prosthetic Records
Melodic doomy post-metal. A bit black metal, some atmospheric symphonic type stuff, and yeah, post metal noisy doom stuff too.
Aosoth / Order of Orias
Split 12″MLP
W.T.C.Productions
Aosoth and Order of Orias are both in at one long song each… Aosoth is brutal black metal with some melodic stuff happening, Order of Orias is some doomy black/death metal
ZOMBI
Shape Shift (Radio Promo)
Relapse Records
Proggy instrumental hard rock… some electronic stuff going on which gives it a bit of a Miami Vice theme song vibe, but pretty cool.. I’m interested in what else they have on this new release. (this is just a single)
With the Dead
“Living With the Dead”
Rise Above
Sludgey melodic stonery type stuff with crusty noise too.
Sadistik Exekution
30 Years of Agonizing the Dead LP
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Compliation of this band’s 30 years… classic raw death metal with some grindy stuff going on
Grave
Out Of Respect For The Dead
Century Media
Classic grooving death metal. Just heavy and brutal, these guys have been around forever and know what they’re doing. \m/
SADIST
Hyaena
Scarlet Records
Great catchy prog death metal kind of in the vein of later Death. Not a lot of stuff out there like this these days… if they do, they are more metalcore or get a bit too out there. These guys kind of keep it in a Cynic/Death like thing… first album in 5 years and makes me want to go back and hear some older stuff.
SAILING TO NOWHERE
To The Unknown
Bakerteam Records
Melodic power/prog metal with male vocals by a guy that sounds like Hanzi Kursch from Blind Guardian and female vocals that sound pretty similar to that… both work well together… music is some proggy keyboarded heavy metal. pretty decent stuff… if you like Blind Guardian!
Murashita
Inescapable Damnation
Self-released
Technical deathy thrash metal. Great catchy riffs, throwback thrash feel but still modern and brutal too.
HANGING GARDEN
Blackout Whiteout
Lifeforce
Doomy melodic gothy “metal” a bit down tempo with clean depressing vox… ok it’s all depressing.
All Hell
The Red Sect
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
Raw blackened death metal with a groove. Good stuff with quick short songs
Evertrapped
Under The Deep
Hellstorm Recordz
Melodic death, good and brutal, technical and great production. Might be my “other” pick of the week…
Thy Worshiper
Ozimina
Arachnophobia Records
Doomy pagan metal, a bit folky in parts. The real heavy stuff has some mushy production.
Atomic Symphony
Redemption
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 11 September 2015
Genre: Progressive Metal | Country: Switzerland
Van Halst
Save Me (single)
Self-Release
Female fronted groovin’ metal that’s a bit melodic and maybe a little proggy.
CODE
Live in The Netherlands 2015
Heidens Hart
Avant-Garde type stuff with some Black Metal type stuff going on too. I guess with all this diversity, one could say it’s a bit proggy.
Necrocosm
Damnation Doctrine
Self-Released
Technical melodic death metal… great stuff out of North Carolina!
ABSOLUTUS
Pugnare In Iis Quae Obtinere Non Possis
Belgium
Heidens Hart
Classic old school black metal
FOREFATHER
The Fighting Man
Heidens Hart
A little bit black metal, some melodic stoner type stuff, some folk/pagan metal, some viking stuff too. A cool all around thing which I found myself listening to longer than a lot of the stuff I’ve been reviewing.
Elferya
Eden’s Fall
Self Released
Melodic female fronted power metal from Poland. Some epic symphonic stuff going on… a bit on the “femetal” side of things, but still pretty heavy.
Flight
Flight
Bad Omen Records
Hard rock 70’s ish throwback… maybe something like Thin Lizzy or basic Deep Purple. Good stuff, but probably not for the Mosh Pit.