New Stuff This Week… 4/27/15
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Graveward
Candlelight
These guys used to be more or less full on black metal, now it’s more of an avant-garde extreme prog type thing. Pretty good stuff, not much out there that sounds like this…
Annisokay
Enigmatic Smile
Long Branch
Melodic hardcore with a bit of a post-metal thing going on .
Raven
Extermination
SPV
Classic old school thrash/traditional metal. You can’t go wrong!
Kings Destroy
Kings Destroy
War Crime
Melodic stoner metal, a decent groove… I should say more like stoner hard rock/rock… doesn’t quite push into the metal realm.
Six Feet Under
Crypt of the Devil
Metal Blade Records
Six Feet Under’s lineup changes could say something, but I think it seems to be making this band better with each change. This album seems a bit more brutal and concise. Catchy groove laden death metal without any fucking around.
War Of Ages
Supreme Chaos
Independent
Melodic death metal with a keyboard stuff going on to fill things out… some clean vox which just may tip into a mallcore sound, but just not quite… Not enough to turn me off on it.
Satyricon
Live At The Opera
Napalm Records
Any excuse to play new stuff from Satyricon. IN this case, it’s a live album with an opera/orchestra adding a perfect element to the crushing yet catchy black/death metal groove that is Satryicon.
Godsized
Heavy Lies The Crown
Metalville Records
Catchy melodic metal. Clean vox, a great groove. A bit on the solid rock/commercial side of metal, but really it’s pure hard rock/AOR type thing. Cool stuff.
Spite (USA)
Trapped In The Pentagram 7″ EP
Iron Bonehead
The first thing I thought of hearing these two tracks, is… well, after listening to that new Satyricon live album, this sounds like Satyricon… classic black metal, but with a great groove going on.
BLACKNING
Order Of Chaos
Hecatombe Records
Brazilian brutal thrashy stuff. Fast, catchy,
Radioactive Vomit
Ratsflesh 7″
Iron Bonehead / Vault of Dried Bones
Raw thrashy punky death metal.
Grá / Gnosis of the Witch
split 7″
Iron Bonehead
One song from each, both some classic sounding black metal.
Seagrave
Stabwound
Art of Propaganda
Melodic black metal, good stuff
Kommandant
The Architects Of Extermination
ATMF
Kind of an industrial feeling black metal.
PAGANLAND
Fatherland
Svarga Music
Melodic Death folk metal. Great mix of folky stuff and death along with proggy stuff too.
Vardan
Despicable Broken Hope
Moribund
Old school dark, cold sounding black metal.
SECRET SPHERE
A Time Never Come [Re-recorded]
Scarlet Records
Re-recording of their 2001 album. Pretty good power/prog metal, leaning more on the power metal… cool stuff.
FUROR GALLICO
Furor Gallico [re-release]
Scarlet Records
Rerelease of their self-titled debut album from 2010. Melodic deathy/proggy/folk metal.
Amidst The Withering
The Dying Of The Light
Self released
Melodic doomy/death metal with some epic/symphonic black metal stuff going on too. Pretty good stuff.
Elderoth
Mystic
Elderoth Entertainment (Asher)
A modern take on power metal, a bit of an 80’s keyboardy sound, but mixing in newer elements of prog, power, some traditional metal. IF I had to choose, I’d have to really lump it more in the experimental power metal category.
AION
Verses of Perdition
Goathorned Production
Old school sounding brutal black metal
Leave The Living
Pacifist
Self-Release (ASHER)
Raw thrashy metal, sort of a basic Lamb of God-ish type thing.
Sect Pig
Self Reversed MLP/MCD
Nuclear War Now!
One long track… spoken word, chaotic black/death metal, a real wall of noise.
GOATBLOOD
ADORATION OF BLASPHEMY AND WAR
Dunkelheit Produktionen
Black/death metal with a bit of a basic/raw sound… production isn’t shitty, but it isn’t that great either.
Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus
The Child Must Die
Infernal Kommando
Black metal with some keyboard melody stuff… pretty decent old school black metal with the keyboards just to fill it out a bit.
An Autumn For Crippled Children
The Long Goodbye
Wickerman Recordings
Melodic black metal
Aelter
Aelter IV: Love Eternal
Pesanta Urfolk
Doomy slow, um, gothy, rock?
Gundriver
What’s Inside
Self Released
Southern fried metal/hard rock.