A lot of “other” new stuff has arrived in our email this month… but with no charts and time off from that, I’ll just post the mini-reviews here…
Corners of Sanctuary
“That Feeling We Know”
SERPENT ASCENDING
Ananku
I, Voidhanger Records
Kind of a thrashy blackened melodic death. Good stuff, good grooves, quick songs
SYMMETRIC ORGAN
States of Decay
Label: Self-Released
Good old classic brutal death metal. Catchy and groovin’ too
Trollwar
Omens of Victory (single)
Self-Release
Just a single of some melodic blackened death with folk metal stuff going on. cool stuff.
Band: SEPTA
Album: Sounds Like Murder
they say it’s “Experimental/Alternative Rock/Metal” and yeah, it’s a little bit Tool/goth/hardcore/metal/Faith No More/kinda all over the place stuff. Kinda neat.
SCALPTURE
Panzerdoktrin
Label: Final Gate Records
Blackened Death metal. Great dark sound, melodic in parts,
LASCAR
Absence
A Sad Sadness Song
Depressive doomy black metal. Pretty repetetive and depressing.
Thrawsunblat
Metachthonia
Broken Limbs
5 December 2016
Crimson Moon
Oneironaut
W.T.C.Productions
Kind of a classic black metal feel, but a modern kind of groove, kind of a melodic death feel. Good stuff… and evil!
SOUTHERN DRINKSTRUCTION
Vultures Of The Black River
Label: Rotten Roll Rex
Fun lovin’ death n roll. Good catchy deathed up rock n roll.
Kratornas
Devoured By Damnation
Grathila Records
Crazy brutal (and evil) grindy blackened death. This is about as brutal and close to the sounds of hell (and still be good) that you can get…
Venefixion
Armorican Deathrites CD/12″ MLP
Iron Bonehead
Great meaty grooving blackened death metal. Heavy and a bit brutal and evil, but melodic and catchy too.
The Workhorse III
Closer to Relevance
Self-Release
A hard rock thing with a tiny punk feel going on.
HMS Keelhaul
Anchord
Record label: Inverse Records
Kind of a power metal hard rock maybe a little folk metal thing.
Sacrificio (Spain)
Guerra Eterna CD/LP
Iron Bonehead/Nuclear War Now!
Classic death metal, a big groove, a tiny bit of grind and maybe a little stoner doom.
BEARSTORM
Biophobia
Grimoire Records
This one has it all. I’m in the middle of the album and it’s got some cool prog stuff going on, in other parts, it’s kinda stoner death metal. Cool stuff. Great melodic stuff and prog mixed in too.
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
The Ages Will Turn
Label: Self-Released
Classic metal, but a bit of a thrashy edge to it. Cool stuff.
Band: Relinquished
Album: Sinister Dreams
Label: NRT records
Just one song. Melodic ballad type thing. I won’t judge til I hear more.
Luciferian Light Orchestra
Black EP
Svart Records
melodic female fronted rock… maybe a little goth. Just kind of a slower driving rock thing
Démonos
From Sacred to Profane MCD
Iron Bonehead / Tour De Garde
Blackened death metal. 4 song EP, a little classic groove. Some true old school death metal and classic old school black metal too.
Invertia
The Biddings of Tyrants
Self-Release
Death metal with a pinch of an industrial feel. Good grooves and catchy and melodic in parts too.
Heavens Decay
The Great Void of Mystery
Chaos Records
Classic metal, maybe a little bit of an UDO type feel.
Band: Kerker
Album: Ban All Lights
Label: Nihilistische KlangKunst
Classic black metal. Dark, brutal and cold.
Mega Colossus
Hyperglaive
self released
Catchy classic metal/power metal-ish. Great melodic hooks, nice big voice.
Band: Anticlockwise
Album: Raise Your Head
Label: Revalve Productions
Kind of a proggy thrash metal, maybe a melodic death feel but without the growly vox. High screams, abrasive thrash style too. Cool stuff.
Corvus
Can You Hear the Sleigh Bells Ringing?
Wave 365 Media
Hard rock/rock-ish christmas song. It’s ok.
Band: Et Moriemur
Album: Ex Nihilo In Nihilum
Label: Minotauro records
Doom metal, gets into some evil black metal sounds here and there, but overall, down tempo stuff.
Ghoulgotha / Ruin (US)
Churning in Vertebraes / Becoming Disease – split 7″EP
Blood Harvest
Both are some blackened death metal, alright, kind of muddy production, but ok stuff.
Omnizide
NekroRegime
Carnal Records / Daemon Worship Productions
Good melodic black metal, evil, catchy and heavy too.
Do Skonu
Hell
Forever Plagued
Classic-ish black metal. It’s got that cold sound, areally just old school black metal.
Rivette
In Vertigo
Ektro
This is almost like Classic rock. Just some AOR style rock stuff.
Black Cilice
Nocturnal Mysticism 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
Black metal noise. meh.
Gravebreaker
Sacrifice
Gates of Hell Records
Kind of an old school almost NWOBHM sound, maybe a bit more thrashy… just good classic catchy metal with a dark feeling to it.
Maligner
Demon TAPE
Blood Harvest
Good stuff, kind of a brutal thrash.
Blood Tyrant
Aristocracy Of Twilight LP
Iron Bonehead
Old school/bad production or is it “lo-fi” sounding black metal type stuff.
Murg
Gudatall
Nordvis Produktion
Classic black metal (good production) a good melodic thing going on too along with cold evil metal.
Grafvitnir
Obeisance to a Witch Moon
Carnal Records / Daemon Worship Productions
Blackended death metal. A little punchy on the production, but heavy, and evil sounding. good stuff.
Putrified
The Flesh. The Scythe. The Tomb
Unholy Prophecies
Another blackened death type thing… this is more on the death side with maybe an old school death metal and a pinch of black metal.
Panzerfaust
The Lucifer Principle
Avantgarde Music
Kind of a doomy black metal thing going on here. a bit proggy even. 4 song ep… pretty evil, but melodic in parts too
Angela Martyr
The November Harvest
Avantgarde Music
This is more of an alt-rock thing. Lots of synthy stuff and it kinda sounds like a cd skipping. Any semblance of metal would be doom.
Sadokist
Thy Saviour’s Halo, Held by Horns LP
Blood Harvest
Classic Black metal
NEVER PRESENCE FOREVER / GRIDFAILURE –
split EP Promo
Earsplit
Ambient noise type stuff. meh.
DIKTATUR
L’Agonie d’Un Monde
Label: MELANCHOLIA RECORDS
Classic melodic black metal
FACES OF THE BOG
Ego Death
Label: Self-Released
Doomy and psychelic.
CORPS SANS ORGANES
Deleuze Edition
Label: Hateworks
Technical death metal, great groove, heavy, brutal and yeah, technical! Haha. Great stuff.
Dawnbringer
XX
Ektro
Doomy metal with a heavier vibe, a catchy heavy groove
Motelli Skronkle
Juna
Ektro
Sounds like some finnish acoustic folk music..
Nachtzeit
Sagor I Natten
Nordvis Produktion
CLassic old school lo-fi black metal.
Dead War
The Triumph Of Death
Horror Pain Gore Death
Blackened death metal. Great stuff, brutal, heavy, with grooves, mostly death metal going on, but a bit of a dark black metal going on too.
Goatblood
Veneration of Armageddon
Dunkelheit Produktionen
Raw blackened death metal from Germany.
Paria
Knochenkamp
W.T.C. Productions
Black metal guitars, a little doom a mix of some black metal vox that sound a little like UDO in parts… but overall, it’s pissed off black metal.
Band: UFOSONIC GENERATOR
Album:”The Evil Smoke Possession”
Label: Minotauro Records
Kind of doom, but more like a grooving stoner metal. good stuff!
Band: Chronic Hangover
Album: Nero Inferno Italiano
Label: Minotauro Records
This is a bit stoner metal musically, vocally, it’s a bit thrashy/punk/metalcore… but yeah, overall, some cool grooving stoner metal.
ARKHAEON
Beyond
Label: BergStolz
one 33 minute track of um, ambient noise type stuff with some black metal here and there.
Band: SETH
Album: Apocrypha
Label: Minotauro Records
Classic NWOBHM sounding stuff, production is kind of raw.
Dark Messiah
Dark Messiah
Self-Release
Thrashy death metal. Decent groove. Production is a little basic, but you can still enjoy.
Vanha
Within the Mist of Sorrow
Black Lion Records
Doom. More on the death/doom down tempo side of things. Some cool melodic stuff going on too.