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Trial (swe)
Sisters of the Moon
Metal Blade Records
29 January 2021
2 tracks, one is basic almost classic rock type stuff, the other is more of a good ol classic metal. melodic, clean vox.
Architects
“Dead Butterflies”
Epitaph
Melodic modern metal.
Demon Head
Viscera
Metal Blade Records
29 January 2021
Pretty laid back doom, a little into post metal, classic rock, maybe a little bit of Ghost-like creepiness
Tribulation
Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Metal Blade Records
29 January 2021
It’s doomy week here at Metal Blade Records… this one we’ve had a few signals, this one pushes more into a melodic doomy death metal. Even leaning into some progressive stuff too
Within Temptation
The Purge (Single)
Within Temptation Music
Epic-ish female fronted power metal, this is another band that has been around for a while, you know what you’re getting… maybe a tiny gothy / lacuna coil thing going on in the first single.
Rezet
Truth In Between
Metalville Records
Catchy thrashy classic metal from Germany, of course they have a nice gritty edge to them.
Malamorte
God Needs Evil
Moribund Records
A bit of a classic metal, meets power metal with some cool thrash stuff thrown in… cool stuff!
Accept
Too Mean To Die
Nuclear Blast USA
This band has been around forever, and even with lineup changes, it’s still a pretty steady ship, they’re like the German AC/DC… you know what you’ll get and they deliver
Them Damn Kings
Yesterday (Single)
Stereo Dynamite
Meaty classic stoner feelin’ metal. A little Clutch tones going on, pretty laid back and coooool and a bit of an Alice in Chains thing too
Dipygus
Bushmeat
Memento Mori
25 January 2021
Here’s some pretty cool doomy death metal.. intense in parts, yet full and dark.
Devotion (Spain)
The Harrowing
Memento Mori
25 January 2021
Pretty standard brutal death metal with some big catchy grooves and pushing a little doomy in parts
Band: KRIEGSGOTT
Album (EP): H8 4All
Label: Odium records
Release date: January 26th, 2021
Just three tracks, a bit thrashy in the black metal realm… probably more on the blackened death once it kicks in… it does have that kind of cold black metal sound, but a bit of a stage of brutality keeping it going.
Band: HELL-BORN
Album: Natas Liah
Label: Odium records
Release date: January 26th, 2021
Extreme blackened evil death metal, a bit along the lines of Behemoth (nergal guest vox on track 9) Evil, dark, fast, but not full on black metal or full on death/thrash, it touches on all pretty well. Great stuff.
POUNDER
Breaking the World (CD, LP, TAPE)
Shadow Kingdom
29 January 2021
Classic metal, just a collection of good ol metal, some melodic sing along choruses, some metallica-like thrash and melody too. overall pretty cool stuff.
SOULS OF DIOTIMA
Janas
Diotima Records/Rockshots Records
29 January 2021
Kind of a poppy modern metal thing with some big powerful female vox.
GRAVEDÄNCER
Ripping Metal
Helldprod Records
29 January 2021
a bit doom, black metal, stoner, thrash, all touched on in here, pretty neat stuff.
Wolves Attack!!
Rest In Piss
Horror Pain Gore Death
January 29th
Here’s something that’s groovin’, a bit doom, thrash, stoner, and extreme blackened metal yeah!
Astral Tomb
Degradation of Human Consciousness TAPE
Blood Harvest
29 January 2021
Kind of classic crusty death metal with a little doom going on.
Eximperitus
Šahrartu
Willowtip Records
29 January 2021
Brutal old school death metal. GRRRR!
Hån
Breathing the Void
Northern Silence Productions
Release date: Friday, January 29th 2021
Classic melodic black metal, along with that fast blast beat stuff too.
RVBBER VVITCH
Mastvrbations Malveillantes MMXVII (CD)
Werewolf
15 January 2021
An old school black metal thing happening here.
ANGRIFF
Sodomy in the Convent
Firecum
Release date: Monday, January 25th 2021
Heavy thrashy metal like Kreator, Destruction, etc… great stuff. I think the name means ANGryRIFF yeah!!
Altered Dead
Returned to Life
Memento Mori
25 January 2021
Good ol meaty death metal with a gritty thrashy sound too
DREAMSLAIN
TALES OF KNIGHTS AND DISTANT WORLDS
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 29th 2021
A bit folky viking sounding metal, kind of a prog thing going on too.
Unhuman Disease
Glorification of Satanas
Moribund Records
29 January 2021
Raw and old school black metal with a not of midrange tones
Warside
The Enemy Inside
Self Released
Release date: Saturday, December 12th 2020
Brutal death metal with a little bit of a thrashy goodness
Annisokay
Aurora
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, January 29th 2021
Modern metalcore, melodic and emotive vox… then hitting into some heavier metalcore growly heavy stuff.
Cellar Twins
Duality
Rockshots Records
29 January 2021
A bit prog metal/rock, some modern melodic hard rock/metal, some really cool stuff in here, and a little bit of emo style modern metalcore… but overall, cool stuff.
Band: Sorrow Enthroned
Album: Thelemic Grimoires
Self Released
Release date: November 6th, 2020
Raw brutal blackened death metal, but the production is low-fi and pretty bad…. it’s distracting from the content for me.
Nematomorphos
Survive the Wasteland (EP)
Self Released
Release date: Wednesday, December 16th 2020
3 song ep of some heavier thrash/groovin’ metal, a liyttle bit of a Sepultura sound… great stuff.
SIRAKH
Crisis of Faith
Wormholedeath
1/22
Here’s some pretty straightforward moderm hard/rock metal with female vox. some decent grooves, a little atmospheric/keyboardy
Iscuron
The Nothing Has Defeated Atreyu
Self Released
Released on January 11th, 2021.
Symphonic/Atmospheric/Medieval Black Metal from Italy.
Skyborn
Paradise Falls
Self Released
Melodic thrashy classic metal from germany, a solid groove, more melodic metal with a thrash tilt than the other way around… pretty good sutff
King Baal
Conjurements
Wormholedeath Records
1/26
Grooving metal, a little melodic death/gothy muscially, and clean female vox
The Design Abstract
Technotheism
Self-Release
29 January 2021
Melodic modern deathy electronic metalcore, some heavier technical death stuff, thrown in with almost techno/modern metalcore stuff too
Børeal
Las Mariposas Agitan Sus Alas
Self Released
Release date: Thursday, October 15th 2020
Proggy modern metal sound… a little bit of a spanish language Coheed & Cambria type metal from Columbia
Necro Weasel
2020
Self Released
Dec 29, 2020
Necro Weasel
2
Self Released
Dec 29, 2020
Both of these are raw punked up thrash.
Abigor
Totschläger (A Saintslayer’s Songbook)
W.T.C.Productions
8 December 2020