New Stuff This Week… 7/21/14

Downset
One Blood
Self Released
Kind of a hardcore, a bit metalcore and a bit rap metal, but not too bad…This was more metal/hardcore with a little bit of a rap feeling… decent stuff, and a pretty cool comeback thing.

Schammasch
Contradiction
Prosthetic Records
A bit on the extreme stoner metal, yet black metal too. A good groovin’ black metal vibe with some doomy stuff.

MYRKUR
Nattens Barn (Single)
Relapse Records
Some cold, old school sounding black metal.  This is a “one woman black metal project”  Dark, a bit doomy but still brutal.  Only one song for now, we’ll have to wait a month or so for more.

IRON REAGAN
Miserable Failure (Single)
Relapse Records
Just one song so far, but it’s a thrashy punk thing going on.  Again, just one song

Castrofate
Castrofate
Cataclysmic Metal Records
A bit of a standard metal thing, maybe a pinch of a Prong vibe to me, but generally, a catchy basic thrash band.  Production is a bit basic

Within The Ruins
Phomenema
eOne Entertainment
Technical and brutal Metalcore… heavy with no whiney emo parts, just full on brutal and technical goodness… and some of that djent going on too.

(Hed)PE
Evolution
Pavement Music
I wasn’t ever really a huge fan of this band… but it’s decent stuff, a little bit of a reggae rap metal thing going on.  It’s a bit of a throwback and actually these days a breath of fresh air? Yeah I’ll go with that.

FOZZY
Do You Want To Start A War
Century Media
When Fozzy first came around, I was all about them, they’ve always been there, but I haven’t… well, it’s high time to get back on the Fozzy train, always have been great.  Rich Ward is the man, and Chris Jericho can sing his ass off.

Boneyard
Fear Of A Zombie Planet
Horror Pain Gore Death
In your face classic death metal.

Ill Nino
Till Death, La Familia
Victory Records
A bit of a metalcore thing going on with these guys these days. Mostly melodic clean vox with some growly stuff here and there too.  A bit of a latin metal vibe as they’ve always had too.

The Dagger
The Dagger
Century Media
A 70’s metal throwback thing. A little Blue Oyster Cult and a little Black Sabbath

King of Asgard
Karg
Metal Blade Records
Swedish Melodic/Viking metal.  Great stuff, along the lines of Amon Amarth… maybe a bit more brutal and heavy.

Entrails
Resurrected from the Grave (Demo Collection)
Metal Blade Records
Great classic Swedish death metal.  This seems to be a collection of demos over the years.

Knifeworld
The Unravelling
InsideOut
Some basic old British prog rock… probably not a thing for the Mosh Pit.

ALMØST HUMAN
Ø
Self Released
A melodic modern metal.  a bit metalcore, a bit prog metal, and a bit like Meshuggah.  And they’re from Switzerland!

UBUREN
Withered Roots
Self Released
A black/death metal thing, a bit catchy, and pissed off and brutal at the same time.

ROMUVOS
Romuvan Dainas
No Colours Records
A Folky doom metal

MORTUAL
Autumn Requiem
Self-Released
Old school black/death metal sound.

BLOODSTRIKE
NECROBIRTH
SELF RELEASED
Some good brutal death metal. (only 3 songs though)