New Stuff This Week… 8/29/16
Twelve Foot Ninja
Outlier
Volkanik
Modern Korn-like “metal” solid rock type stuff. It’s good n catchy.
The Wounded Kings
Visions In Bone
Candlelight
Doomy stuff, a little psychedelic but mostly just your normal melodic doomy type stuff.
Vicious Rumors
Concussion Protocol
SPV
These guys just keep churning out classic metal stuff. This album has a little thrashy feel along with just great heavy metal. Great metal vox, metal riffs… just great metal!
INQUISITION
Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The Celestial Zenith
Season of Mist
Brutal blackened death metal. A good hard edge, brutal death metal but with some melodic music stuff… a little Behemoth-like. Great stuff.
IMPERIUM DEKADENZ
Dis Manibvs
Season of Mist
Classic doomy melodic black metal
Van Halst
World Of Make Believe
Independent
Grooving female fronted modern metal type stuff
Fire From The Gods
Narritive
Rise Records
Sounds like new metalcore stuff almost nu-metal in parts with some rap-like stuff too
In Flames
The End (Single)
Eleven Seven Music
After that last stinker of an album, it seems like In Flames is back on the right track. More heavy and a bit more to a metal form! Can’t wait to hear more!
Monkey3
Symmetry
Napalm Records
Psychedelic kinda prog rock type stuff
Allegaeon
Subdivisions (Rush cover) – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Another single… and a great job of an 80’s Rush song! All clean vox too.
Rotör
Musta käsi
Svart
melodic metal, a little thrashy, and mostly just classic metal.
Crowhurst
II
Broken Limbs
Doom metal, a bit of noise and blackened type stuff going on too.
MY FUNERAL
Harder Than This Life
Label: Via Nocturna
Thrash metal from Finland. Just some good ol meat and potatoes thrash with a little bit of a Hatebreed-like hardcore thing going on too.
Band: Veil Of Deception
Album: Tearing Up The Roots
Label: Sliptrick records
Melodic metal with a big groove and somewhat clean vox
VULVODYNIA
Cognizant Castigation and Finis Omnium Ignorantiam
Label: Transcending Records
Big meaty brutal death metal with a big fat groove. Good stuff (on both albums)
Evergrey
The Storm Within
AFM Records
These guys… been a while since their last album. They keep the true power/prog metal torch going… melodic catchy, not super heavy, but well put together songs that are complex, but not overdone.
Morrow
Covenant Of Teeth
Halo of Flies
Mostly melodic doomy metal but the heaver stuff almost has a hardcore feel to it.
FALAISE
As Time Goes By
A Sad Sadness Song
Black metal with a bit of a melodic catchy groove, but a bit drony and doomy.
THE DEVILS MUSIC
The Devils Music
Coffee Jingle Records
A little bit of solid rock metal type stuff, but it’s heavier and maybe not quite as commercial Has a little bit of a slipknot/hellyeah/ffdp feel, but a bit more on the heavy/catchy yet brutal side. Pretty decent stuff.
Neurogenic
Ouroboric Stagnation
Comatose Music
Classic gurgly cookie monster death metal. Great catchy brutal death metal.
Sarcofago
Rotting
Greyhaze Records
A heavy metal maybe NWOBM-ish infused black/death metal thing. Decent stuff, but kind of raw production
KERASPHORUS
Kerasphorus (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
Black metal and death metal… blackened death metal? Sure… throw in some grindy stuff too.
AXSAENA
Global Revolution EP
Online MEtal Promo
Catchy death metal with a good groove.
Various Artists
The Depression Sessions
Nuclear Blast
Thy Art Is Murder, The Acacia Strain & Fit For An Autopsy each have two songs on here… good heavy stuff and each have a cover.
Band: Moloch / Gurthang
Country: Ukraine / Poland
Label: Give Praise records
I think the label the PR company gives this EP says it all: “Style: Atmospheric blackened doom dark metal” meh.
CHINE
IMMANENT
Label: Self-Released
This is some grooving metal, almost death metal, but more along like a Devildriver type thing… maybe a bit heavier. cool stuff.
Band: 100 Years
Album: “100 Years”
Label: Give Praise records
A little doomy in parts, a bit punky and groovin in others. hard to really figure out what they’re going for. A little folky and proggy.
Candiria
Mereya – radio single
Metal Blade Records
Grooving metal with some fusion type stuff going on too. Always good stuff from these guys.
Band: THE AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN
Album: “Still Pissed”
Label: Give Praise records
Lots of short and brutal grindy tracks on this album. The album title is appropriate too… yup, it sounds pissed off!
LETHAL SHÖCK
Evil Aggressors
Label: Witches Brew
Heavy thrashed up death metal-ish. Good groove, heavier than thrash, lighter than death metal, great guitar work and stuff.
Band: Traffic Death / Lurking Corpses
Album: Split Personality
Label: Give Praise records
Thrashy punk (both bands)
Band: Bent Sea / To Dust
Album: “Ascend” / “Descend”
Label: Give Praise records
Both bands… kind of death metal, a little bit grind, both pretty decent.
FROZEN SKIN
In This Dying World
Dark Tunes
Modern melodic metal, almost melodic death type stuff.