New Stuff This Week… 6/29/2020

NETHERLANDS
Zombie Techno
NethRock
Take some electronic/industrial stuff and mix it up with some porcupine tree type prog.

Ages
Burn Them (Single)
Black Lodge Records
Classic black metal, harsh vox (not all shrieky), some more melodic death stuff going on too.

CEMICAN
YÓOK’ OL KAAB MAYA
M-THEORY AUDIO
A kind of thrashy groove metal a bit of a tribal/sepultura type thing happening

Bury Tomorrow
Cannibal
Music For Nations/Sony
Modern metalcore, a bit melodic, some harsh stuff too.

Powerwolf
The Best Of The Blessed
Napalm Records
You don’t see “best of” albums too much anymore… but I think they’re always better when there’s new material, or re-recordings of classics… the first single “KIss of the Cobra King” is one of those re-recorded ones… good solid power metal here.

Carach Angren
Franckensteina Strataemontanus
Season of Mist
Epic melodic blackened death

Frean
K.F.R
Nihilist
Purity Through Fire
30 June 2020
Creepy scary (vox) old school black metal

Torrefy
Life is Bad
Self-Release
1 July 2020
It’s a bit death metal, some thrash, some black metal, and fast and heavy… great stuff.

Godless North
Dark Rites of the Mystic Order
Nebular Carcoma
2 July 2020
A raw classic black metal

Northern Crown
In a Pallid Shadow
Self-Release
3 July 2020
A sort of doomy/stoner/bluesy metal… a nice full groovin’ sound with a hammond organ, clean soulful vox, and a bit laid back.

Black Funeral
Scourge of Lamashtu LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
3 July 2020
Old school raw black metal.

Poltergeist
Feather Of Truth
Massacre Records
3 July 2020
Here we have some good ol thrash with a bit of a melodic classic metal

Artist: Ignea
Release title: The Realms of Fire and Death
Record label: Kadabra Music
Release date: July 3rd, 2020
This has a kind of modern metal and little bit of an industrial along with a melodic death, with a clean/harsh vox thing…and heck, a bit of a prog metal thing too.

Convocation
Ahes Coalesce
Everlasting Spew Records
3 July 2020
blackened doom, with some pretty long tracks (only 4 songs on this album, all 8-14 mins long)

BLACK ALTAR / KIRKEBRANN
DEUS INVERSUS
LABEL: ODIUM RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 30th 2020
Both have a good blackened death/epic black metal thing going on… cool stuff.

Blood Stronghold
Spectres of Bloodshed
Nebular Carcoma / Satanik Requiem
2 July 2020
melodic and dark black metal, with some meh production

Instigate
Echoes Of A Dying World
Everlasting Spew Records
5 June 2020
Brutal death metal with a heavy catchy/technical edge to it.

Artist: CRYOSPHERE
Title: Constellations
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release: June 23rd, 2020
Melodic metal, clean female vox, a bit symphonic, then getting into some melodic death too.

Heathen Beast
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised But It Will Be Heard
Self Released
Release date: Sunday, June 21st 2020
A sort of blackened/grindy/thrasy/death thing, with every song title starting with “Fuck..” like “Fuck Your Police Brutality” or “Fuck the RSS” etc etc. decent pissed of sounding stuff

Descend
The Deviant
Aftermath
Release date: Friday, June 26th 2020
Melodic death, with a little bit of a doomy black metal feel, a bit of a proggy Opeth thing going on mostly… great stuff.

Artist: Peculiar Three
Album: Leap of Faith
Country: Greece
Release date: April 13th, 2020
A little doom, a little prog hard rock, melodic and maybe a bit of a stoner metal sound

Band: BOFO KWO
Album: Space/Time Carnivorium
Label: Sliptrick records
Release date: June 30th, 2020
Black metal with a bit of a symphonic doomy thing happening

25th Mission
Bitchin
Self Released
A bit of a classic metal thing happening here, with a little grit

Sintax
Lunchtime Funeral
Self Released
Not sure how else to say what this is other than “extreme thrash” has a great thrashy groove, but kick that up a few notches with some harsh vox… great stuff!

The Path of Memory
Hell is Other People LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
19 June 2020
Laid back kind of doomy rock

Band: LAPSUS DEI
Album: Sea Of Deep Reflections
Label: Sliptrick records
Release date: June 16th, 2020
Doom/death metal with a kind of epic proggy melodic death thing happening too. neat stuff!

STENCH OF PROFIT
NO PLACE TO HIDE
LABEL: LETHAL SCISSOR RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 23rd 2020
Grindy brutal death metal, and most tracks are under 2 minutes, so there’s not a lot of time to fuck around.

Scrollkeeper
Auto Da Fe
Self Released
Traditional Heavy Metal with a pinch of thrash and power metal

Greyhawk
Keepers of the Flame
Fighter
Release date: Tuesday, June 16th 2020
Some basic classic metal

Sons of Butcher
Lockdown In Steeltown (Infamous Butcher Records) – Out June 19, 2020
Infamous Butcher Records
19 June 2020
an album for the Covid times… music is mostly almost a country-rock thing

Lufeh
Luggage Falling Down
Self-Release
17 April 2020
Here is some good solid prog metal, clean vox, keyboards, technical just good ol prog metal!

The Third Kind
Man vs Earth
Self Released
Release date: Friday, June 26th 2020
A little classic metal, “extreme” vox, more thrashy than anything else with a little bit of a groove.

Al-Namrood
Wala’at
Shaytan Productions
Release date: Monday, June 22nd 2020
A little folk/middle-eastern feel with primarily black/death metal

Ominous Eclipse
Eclipse – Single / Quarantine Music Video
Self-Release
12 June 2020
A 12 minute track of melodic death/black metal with some prog going on.