New Stuff This Week… 9/12/16

Sonic Syndicate
“Start A War” [Single]
Despotz
Pop hard rock type stuff.  No thanks.

Skumlove
Sinister Minister
EMP
A little bit electronic metal sounding.  A modern day zombie/manson type sound.

Kyng
“Pristine Warning” [Single]
Razor & Tie
A new single from Kyng.  Heavy, catchy and good classic groovin’ metal

SikTh
Opacities
Peaceville Records
A little bit technical, some metalcore stuff, a big meaty groove.

Evil Invaders
In For The Kill (EP)
Napalm Records
Classic thrash, great groove, riffs and vox that get over the top too (there’s an growly edge while getting screamy too)

Heaven Shall Burn
Wanderer
Century Media Records
This band hasn’t done anything bad yet, no reason to start now! Heavy melodic death metal, great groove, heavy, brutal, catchy, it’s got all that great stuff.

Brujeria
Pocho Azaltan
Nuclear Blast Entertainment
Just a single here so far, but that grindy mexican metal is back!  Brutal, heavy and I’m sure a sense of humor too… can’t wait for more!

Monte Pittman
Inverted Grasp of Balance
Metal Blade Records
Catchy thrash-ish stuff, some gets really heavy, others stay good and melodic.  Good diverse thing from a great and diverse guitar player!

In Obscurity Revealed
Grim Fumes of Revelation 7″ EP
Blood Harvest
Just a couple songs, but some great melodic black metal or blackened death or whatever… it’s heavy, brutal a little “cold” (black metal) sounding too.

Morbosatan
The Last Sacrifice 7″ EP
Blood Harvest
Some raw blackened death metal/thrash type stuff.  Production is the raw part (kinda sludgey), vox are mostly black/death metal howl/growling, with some old school Slayer type stuff going on too.

Demonomancy / Witchcraft
Archaic Remnants of the Numinous / At the Diabolus Hour – split LP/CD
Nuclear War Now! Productions
Demonamancy is some brutal blackened death metal and Witchcraft is some icky production black/death metal stuff.  both are eh.

Vimur
Exegesis
Boris Records
3 song EP of brutal blackened death metal.  Evil wall of sound and even a little groovin’ going on in parts too.

Guitar Force
Different Universe
Inverse
Classic hard rock/power metal with a little symphonic folky stuff going on with female vox.

Drudkh & Grift
Betrayed By The Sun / Hägringar
Nordvis Produktion
Drudkh is some classic melodic black metal while being all brutal too.  Grift has a more atmospheric melodic and doomy overtone with screamy black metal and some of that tone more suppressed.

Nox Formulae
The Hidden Paths to Black Ecstasy
Dark Descent Records
Classic black metal (modern — decent production and a bit more brutal) with a bit of an experimental thing in some par

TEMPERANCE
The Earth Embraces Us All
Scarlet Records
Female fronted melodic power metal.  Songs are pretty catchy a little metal edge, but with that typical fe-metal folk metal thing going on.

MARE COGNITUM
Luminiferous Aether
I, Voidhanger Records
16 September 2016
atmospheric black metal metal scene

High Spirits
Motivator
High Roller Records
A little bit classic metal, a tiny bit of a stoner metal feel.

FAKE IDOLS
Witness
Scarlet Records
Classic hard rock/metal.  Maybe like a heavier oh, say Motley Crue or something.  Moder

Cara Neir / Wildspeaker
Guilt and His Reflection
Broken Limbs
Cara Neir is a bit of a funky fusion screamo metalcore.  Interesting and unique.  Wildspeaker is a blackened grindy death metal

THE PROJECTIONIST.
“The GallowForest Eulogy”
Qabar PR
Grindy blackened post-metal.  Not really my thing.

TAIGA
Sky
Satanath Records
Doomy black metal, vox are creepy and screamy and chanted too.

Sea of Bones / Ramlord
Split
Broken Limbs
One track from each band, both over 10 min.  Both kinda black metal, Ramlord is a bit more melodic and “metal”

Black Tar Prophet / Iron Gavel
Split
Broken Limbs
Both kinda sludgey metal with not so great production.  Big meaty deathy doom metal on both.

Iron Fire
Among the Dead
Crime Records
Classic metal, a little power metal. These guys have been around for a while a good heavy edge too

Warfather
The Grey Eminence
Greyhaze Records
Heavy death metal with a groove, good production, a little Morbid Angel thing going on.

Abomination (Chicago)
Abomination LP
Doomentia
Reissue from 1990 of this Chicago death metal band.  Good old good heavy and catchy death metal.  By today’s standards, this might just be heavy thrash?  LOL

MoRkObOt
GoRgo
Supernatural Cat
Instrumental funky grooving stuff, maybe a bit proggy.  Good stuff.

VINTERBRIS
Solace
Label:  Triton’s Orbit
Release Date:  September 16th, 2016
So I went to dig up the folder to listen to this, and saw I already had it from two years ago.  So, Yeah, I dunno.  It’s decent melodic blackened death metal.

Band: Giordano Boncompagni
Album: New Shred Generation
Label: Sliptrick records
This is some great shreddy instrumental prog metal.

STAGES OF DECOMPOSITION
Crawl Space Burial
Gore House Productions
Good old classic brutal death metal.

IRONHAND
Hello, Operator
Xperiment XIII Records
Industrial/noise/post metal.

Stepfather Fred
Dummies, Dolls, & Masters
El Puerto Records Gbr
Meaty grooving “solid rock”ing metal type stuff.

The Phans
The Phans
El Puerto Records Gbr
Clutch like stoner metal.   I hate to keep saying meaty and grooving, but this is really meaty and big grooves.

HANNES GROSSMANN
The Crypts Of Sleep
Self-Released
Kind of death metal, a bit melodic, a little doomy.  But, good evil brutal stuff.

Band: Infant Death
Album: Violent Rites
Label: Apocalyptic Empire Records
Classic speedy thrash metal….kind of in the thrashy death metal area  Great stuff.

Band: Antimateria
Album: Valo aikojen takaa
Label: Purity Through Fire records
Melodic doomy cosmic black metal.

Saboter
MANKIND IS DAMNED (Full Length)
LABEL    Witches Brew
Good old classic metal.  Great riffs, clean vox.

THY CATAFALQUE
Mezolit (Radio Promo)
Season of Mist
Doomy metal, one track.