New Stuff This Week… 3/14/2022

GHOST
Impera
Concord/ Loma Vista
Classic Ghost.. old school, catchy as hell with just a big arena epic feel. Not for everyone, but maybe they should be? haha

SIREN
Lawless Life
Self Released
Classic hard rock, a bit progressive, not too shabby

Ho99o9
SKIN
DTA
A techno/nu-metal type thing. eh.

Motionless In White
“Cyberhex”
Roadrunner
Modern metal close to the dictionary definintion, a lot of electronic stuff while being heavy and catchy and all that.

ALEXISONFIRE
“Sweet Dreams of Otherness”
Dine Alone
Melodic a bit atmospheric modern metal rock stuff.

Devil Master
“Acid Black Mass”
Relapse
A single, a blackened death with some techy/progressive stuff going on while having a tinge of atmospheric stuff to let it breathe a bit.

MASTER BOOT RECORD
80486DX (single)
Metal Blade Records
13 May 2022

Motor Sister
Get Off – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
6 May 2022
Super group with a great catchy hard rocking classic groovin’ metal sound. (fronted by vocalist Pearl Aday and backed by vocalist and guitarist Jim Wilson (Mother Superior), guitarist Scott Ian (Anthrax), bassist Joey Vera (Armored Saint), and drummer John Tempesta (The Cult))

Extinction A.D.
Culture Of Violence
Unique Leader Records
This label is usally just technical, brutal death metal, this one leans a bit more death/metalcore, heavy, thrashy with some groovin’ going on.

Dark Funeral
We Are The Apocalypse
Century Media Records
Classic black metal, but new from long time veterans. Right amount of cold/grit/harsh/melody/evil all around.

Pierced
Cheers To Brutality
Independent
Catchy heavy hardcore/thrash, pretty cool stuff!

Agathodaimon
The Seven
Napalm Records
Melodic death with a bit of a blackened death groove too

ARC
Dark Mirrors
ARC Music
Straightforward just “metal” a bit thrashy, a bit melodic, a bit classic metal. Vox are harsh/shouted/screamed, and yeah, a bit proggy too (keyboards!)

Pattern – Seeking Animals
Only Passing Through
Inside Out Music
March 15
A super group-ish made up mostly of guys that are/were in Spock’s Beard. So you have some pretty good prog rock kicking into some hard rock stuff. nice!

Band: Final Cry
Title: The Ever-Rest
Label: MDD
Release: 18 March 2022
Thrashy stuff yet a little bit melodic too, but as I hear more, I’d say melodic death… good!

Hyperia
Silhouettes of Horror – Out March 18th
Self-Release
18 March 2022
Classic metal / thrash / prog-ish metal, big voices, harsh thrashy stuff… great stuff!!

Týr
A Night at the Nordic House (with The Symphony Orchestra of the Faroe Islands)
Metal Blade Records
18 March 2022
An epic band with an epic live album and orchestra to make it more epic!

????????? (Acherontas)
The Seven Tongues of ??????
Zazen Sounds
14 March 2022
Old school melodic black metal, good production, harsh, cold and evil good stuff!

MOONLIGHT HAZE
Animus
Scarlet Records
18 March 2022
Female fronted power metal type stuff.

Indemon
Album: Fear of Living
Label: Music-Records
Release date: March 18, 2022
Gritty thrashy classic death metal… I’d say almost like a Kreator type heavy groovin’ thrash. cool stuff!!!

Artist: KIMAERA
Release title: IMPERIVM
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 15-03-2022
Symphonic death metal with a solid groove, a bit of a dark/doom sound too. Cool stuff!

Artist: CHEMICIDE
Release title: Common Sense
Label: RipRide Records
Release Date: 15-03-2022
Old school thrash from Costa Rica! Cool catchy stuff!

WRETCHED TONGUES
ULTER PRAEFINITUM
LABEL: VICIOUS INSTINCT RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 18th 2022
Brutal deathcore… Good stuff.

Syk
Pyramiden
Housecore / Nuclear Blast
March 11
Deathcore with a wall of sound, clean female vox and a brutal groove with hints of black metal.

Artist: Leash Eye
Release title: Busy Nights Hazy Days
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 11-03-2022
A cool old school stoner / hard rock / groove, a little of a spiritual beggars type sound.

Aviana
Trsanscendent
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, March 11th 2022
As with most stuff on this label, a modern metalcore thing.. Decent catchiness with a good heavy groove.