New Stuff This Week… 6/28/2021
Amenra
De Doorn [Advance Tracks]
Relapse
Dark doomy post-metal type stuff
Fargo
Strangers D’ Amour
SPV/ Steamhammer
Fairly straightforward classic metal with a bit of a Thin Lizzy thing going on
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
Fix The Error (single)
COLORS II
Sumerian
8/20/21
Fast, heavy, technical, progressive, you got it all with BTBAM and a bunch of Drum solos in this single featuring one by Mike Portnoy… cool stuff!
Space Chaser
Give Us Life
Metal Blade Records
16 July 2021
Holy crap. You like Kreator? Exodus? Overkill? You will love this band. Catchy classic thrash with that modern technicality and German edge too. Great stuff!!
ABSTRACTED
“WITHER TO DUST”
(M-THEORY AUDIO)
Technical death metal, brutal, fast, thrashy, and yeah, cool stuff!!
At The Gates
A Nightmare Of Being
Century Media Records
Nothing will ever top Slaughter of the Soul, but the “new” era of At the Gates is still as relevant as ever. Catchy and gritty melodic death
Lord of The Lost
Judas
Napalm Records
A bit of a doomy goth power metal
Nanowar of Steel
Italian Folk Metal
Napalm Records
The name of the album kind of says it all.. Italian folk metal with a power metal type thing happening… all done in Italian!
Heavy Metal Addicted
Criminal Ways
Murder Records
30 June 2021
This has a black and roll type thing going on. Mostly a classic thrashy hard rock with a black metal vocal and attitude.
VIRTUAL SYMMETRY
EXOVERSE Live – Out Of The Shadow
Independent
30 June 2021
Live show of this prog/power metal band… good clean anthemic sound
Euthanized
Sanguine Spectacle
Helldprod Records
30 June 2021
a kind of grooving deathy black metal… vox are old black metal style
EVIL IN
AN ETHEREAL FORCE BEYOND
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: JULY 1st 2021
A little sludgey in one track, a little thrashy… overall, some gritty death metal.
Mannveira
Vitahringur
Dark Descent Records
2 July 2021
Melodic doomy black metal.
Drawn and Quartered
Congregation Pestilence
Krucyator Productions
2 July 2021
Death metal with some great technicality, brutality and a full wall of sound that’s a bit grindy too… good stuff.
ANTHROPOPHAGUS DEPRAVITY
APOCALYPTO
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: JULY 2nd 2021
Full on brutal death metal… CHUGGA CHUGGA COOOOKIE
Noctambulist
The Barren Form
Willowtip Records
2 July 2021
Blackened death metal, fast and heavy brutality with some harsh and evil balck metal coldness great stuff again from Willowtip!
Hnagash
Ritual Over the Grave
Personal Records
2 July 2021
Brutal death metal with a bit of a black metal vocal style… cool meaty grooves make you want to headbang slowly along
Diabolizer
Khalkedonian Death
Everlasting Spew Records
2 July 2021
Brutal death metal with a little itty bit of black metal attitude.
BURNING DARKNESS
Dödens Makt
Non Serviam Records
2 July 2021
Pretty much blackened death metal ticking all of the boxes… deathy grooves, catchy riffs, cold harsh vox, a kind of meedly guitar with some blast beats too…
RUACH RAAH
Misanthropic Wolfgang
Signal Rex
30 June 2021
Classic raw black metal with a little punked up sound… fast, cold, evil.
Release: Rocking Corpses
Death Blues
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: July 2nd 2021
Hard rockin’ metal with a horror metal thing… maybe a rob Zombie catchiness with death metal vox mixed with clean-ish vox too.
Band: Gore Dimension
Album: Ethereal Realm
Label: Coyote Records
Release date: April 10th, 2021
Brutal death metal with a bit of a technical/progressive element too. cool stuff.
Empire of Disease
With All My Hate
Wormholedeath
25 06 2021
Extreme thrash/ groovin’ death metal type stuff? Metalcore? I dunno, good edge, catchy, melodic, probably more of a melodic death/ something core. Good stuff.
Wanderer
Liberation From A Brutalist Existence
Entelodon
Release date: Friday, June 18th 2021
Out of Minneapolis, hardcore/grindcore and yeah, somethingcore… some grooves going on, seemingly technical with a lot going on. Decent stuff. Songs are to the point.
Artist: Grey Skies Fallen
Album: Cold Dead Lands
Label: Paragon Records / Grimm Distribution / More Hate
Release date: April 8th, 2021
Progressive Death/Doom Metal, longer down tempo tracks… dark and evil too.
Hellgrimm
The Hunger
Burning V Records
June 15, 2021
Stoner Rock… female fronted… prettty easy going.
Band: Apogean
Album: Into Madness
Self Released
Release date: June 11th 2021
Technical/melodic progressive death metal. Catchy heavy and interesting! Great stuff!
Kovaa Rasvaa
Tasaluvulla tulevaisuuteen
Svart Records
18 June 2021
A kind of punked up stoner/hardcore with seemingly a black metal attitude.
Eisenkult
…vom Himmel, hoch herab
Purity Through Fire
7 June 2021
Old school classic black metal… cold, harsh, meedly, and melodic
Godhead Machinery
Masquerade Among Gods
Black Lion Records
2 July 2021
Heavy and groovin’ melodic blackened death, 4 song ep, good stuff
Vesicarum
Place Of Anarchy
One Eyed Toad Records
18 June 2021
Doomy death metal, down tempo grooves… pretty cool
Seventh Dimension
Black Sky
Corrupted Records
18 June 2021
Progressive Metal along the lines of Symphony X / Dream Theater, etc Great stuff
Macabre Decay
Into Oblivion
Grind to Death Records
June 18th, 2021
Death metal with a pinch of black metal grit, otherwise, good grooves for headbanging with big catchy riffs.
HEAVY TEMPLE
Lupi Amoris
Magnetic Eye Records
18 June 2021
Groovin’ stoner metal, big riffs
Prayers Of Sanity
Doctrine of Misanthropy
Rastilho Records
25 June 2021
Fast/extreme thrash, vox are Tom Araya-ish… otherwise, pretty good heavy thrash going on.
Witch Vomit
Abhorrent Rapture
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, June 18th 2021
Brutal death metal with some headbanging grooves
Dying Whale
Problem With Immortality
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, June 25th 2021
Technical deathcore, just a couple songs, but decent stuff
Cerebral Rot
Excretion Of Mortality
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, June 25th 2021
Just by the name… you know this is going to be brutal. A bit down tempo, but still 100% brutal and dark.
Inner Missing
Deluge
Inverse Records
Release Date: June 23rd 2021
Goth infused doom, kind of a more dark/doomy Moonspell.
Bong-Ra
Antediluvian
Tartarus Records
25 June 2021
Sludgy doom, and yeah a bit post metal too