New Stuff This Week… 11/23/2020

GHOSTEMANE
ANTI-ICON
Blackmage
A kind of electronic, modern metalcore, techno, industrial nu-metal type thing

FIERCE HEART
WAR FOR THE WORLD
Dark Star
Classic AOR type hard rock from these old school veterans.

Repaid in Blood
Rebel Scum
Self Released
semi-local death metal band with a new single… great brutal and even a bit nerdy… featuring the guitarist from Allegaeon

Tribulation
Leviathans – radio single
Metal Blade Records
29 January 2021
Melodic doomy death metal, a bit epic and laid back though too.

Ilsa
Preyer
Relapse
Release date: Friday, November 20th 2020
Sludgey doom dark blackened death metal with a bit of a post metal tilt

Sodom
Genesis XIX
Entertainment One
First album in 4 years… gritty, heavy and thrashtastic!

Within The Ruins
Black Heart
Entertainment One
Djenty technical deathcore. Heavy and in your face with a melodic feel too. cool stuff.

Hatebreed
Weight Of The False Self
Nuclear Blast USA
Also their first album in 4 years… Hatebreed is the ACDC of hardcore.. you know what you’re going to get and they deliver

Ad Infinitum
Chapter 1 Monarchy Part 2
Napalm Records
This first single is acoustic, so it’s pretty laid back female vox, and kind of a lighter track.. Usually they’re kind of just a melodic hard rock thing with a little bit of an epic thing going on

Shaark
Deathonation
Slovak Metal Army
23 November 2020
Heavy deathed up thrash… cool stuff.

Leviathan
Words Waging War
Stonefellowship Recordings
Release date: Friday, November 27th 2020
Proggy power metal, pretty straightforward classic metal type stuff too.

Gryftigæn
Graven til Måneåpenbaringer
Inferna Profundus Records
23 November 2020
Old school VERY lo-fi black metal.

Bisönte
Ancestral Punishmen
Xtreem
Release date: Tuesday, November 24th 2020
A doomy atmospheric type thing… a little post metal going on

MONGREL’S CROSS
Arcana, Scrying and Revelation (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
27 November 2020
Classic black metal, shrieky vox, basic guitar work, dark, and melodic though… sound is raw, but not harshly frostbitten cold. just cold heh.

Avlivad
Avlivad
Invictus Productions
27 November 2020
Blackened death, this is harsh, cold, brutal, heavy, technical and extreme thrashy

KEISER
Our Wretched Demise
Non Serviam Records
27 November 2020
Grooving blackened death… pretty good stuff

Band: TWISTED MIST
Album: Orbios
Label: Music-Records
Release date: November 27th, 2020
A bit folk metal, some doomy post metal too

Band: ARRAYAN PATH
Album: The Marble Gates to Apeiron
Label: Pitch Black Records
Release date: November 27th, 2020
Epic power metal, bit anthemic choruses, full almost orchestral sound

Varde
Fedraminne
Nordvis Produktion
27 November 2020
Melodic and doomy black metal

Shores of Null
Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying) – Out Nov 27th
Spikerot Records
27 November 2020
a 38+ minute track with a 3:35 radio edit. lol anyway, a long kind of melodic doomy post metal.

Imminence
Turn The Light On (Deluxe Edition)
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, November 27th 2020
A bit of a modern metalcore type thing

Oreamnos
Into The Night
Bloody Mountain Records
27 November 2020
Growly sludgey death metal.

Cryptic Shift / Replicant / Inoculation / Astral Tomb
Chasm of Aeons CD/12″ MLP
Blood Harvest
27 November 2020
the first three bands have a bit of a good tech death thing going on. Astral Tomb is more dark and sounds like a crappy live recording.

Cell Press
Self-Titled – Out Nov 27th
(Ancient Temple Recordings) (No Funeral Records)
27 November 2020
A kind of crusty grungy doom

Synastry
Civilization’s Coma – Out Nov 27th
Self-Release
27 November 2020
Kind of a technical death metal, a little like Fear Factory and a little bit of Sumeriancore

Whipstriker / Terrörhammer / Vulcan Tyrant / Speedwhore
Split
Horror Pain Gore Death
(set for release on November 27th)
A little something different, raw punked up metal, techy thrashy death metal, raw sludgy noise metal, and more blackened death

BLACK DEATH CULT
Devil’s Paradise (CD)
Hells Headbangers
27 November 2020
Grindy black/death metal, but wait, experimental, progressive, with synths, and atmospheric things too… and brutal death stuff going on… all painting some creepy deathy landscape

TO DUST
Nightmare Cycles EP
Seeing Red Records
27 November 2020
Thrashy death metal with a bit of a hardcore thing going on… and brutal too.

SOULSKINNER
Seven Bowls of Wrath
Xtreem Music
Death Metal from Greece… a bit along the lines of a blackened death. some epic passages, a pinch of melody and some grooves.

Release: STUD
War of Power
Record label: Cranksonic
Release Date: Nobember 20th 2020
This falls into a “good ol classic metal” good riffs, clean vox, catchy-ish too.

Hautajaisyö
On Vain Pimeys
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: November 13th 2020
oooo yeah… thrashed up death metal, fast, catchy, brutal and just great stuff.

Strydegor
Isolacracy
MDD Records
Release date: Friday, November 13th 2020
Melodic death, pretty straightforward, clean and harsh vox, dueling melodic guitars, a bit like some In Flames of 10 years ago? decent stuff

SARDONIC WITCHERY
Moonlight Sacrifice Ritual
War March
Release date: Monday, November 16th 2020
A bit of a black metal tone/feel, but a bit “lighter” and not quite as harsh and evil sounding (it’s still evil!). this has a black n roll thing going on too.

Nader Sadek
The Serapeum
Self Released
Release date: Friday, November 20th 2020
Egyptian band featuring Karl Sanders (Nile), Derek Roddy (Serpents Rise), and Mahumud Gecekusu (Perversion) brutal and technical death metal

Serrated
Sifting Through the Remnants
Blood and Brutality Records
Release date: Friday, November 13th 2020
Technical and thrashy death metal with some catchy grooves

Disintegration
Prahara
Brutal Mind
30 September 2020
Straight up brutal death metal. fast and heavy like a freight train of punishing riffs and blasting drums

Celaris
In Hiding
Self Released (MDPR)
Oct 16th 2020
Prog metal in the vein of say a lighter BTBAM… Clean vox, some harsh stuff, and going from more melodic laid back stuff to full on melodic death.