New Stuff This Week… 3/21/2022

Abbath
Dread Reaver
Season of Mist
Blackened Death with a death and roll underlying catchiness… Abbath knows what he’s doing!

Crown Magnetar
Alone In Death
Unique Leader Records
Fast, brutal, technical death metal, cool stuff!

8 Kalacas
Frontera
Atomic Fire Records
A bit thrashy, a little quirky, hardcore, a pinch of a ska, and death metal vox! cool stuff!

Bomber
Nocturnal Creatures
Napalm Records
Classic metal with some fun sing-a-log… a bit of a bluesy metal base

Billy Bio
Leaders And Liars
AFM Records
A little thrash, some groove metal, some hardcore, all from Billy from Biohazard. neat stuff.

ZEAL & ARDOR
Zeal & Ardor
MVKA
Hard to really put a label on this band, a bit prog, some modern groove metal, even a pinch of black metal aggression in parts.

Ronni Le Tekrø
Bigfoot TV
TBC Records
A bit classic sounding prog rock, and moreso into a just classic rock vein.

Without Waves
Comedian
Prosthetic Records
18 March 2022
Wall of sound, mostly deathcore, but more a technical, progressive and experimental thing. neat stuff!

Nequient
Darker Than Death Or Night
Nefarious Industries
Release date: Friday, March 18th 2022
Overall this is some decent melodic death, with some progressive metal leanings.

Michael Romeo
War Of The World’s, Part II
Inside Out Music
Epic metal! Some symphonic stuff, great guitar work, heck, it’s almost Symphony X going on here, but the vox… Dino Jelusic, he’s been on a lot of stuff online and been around for a while, but making big strides with projects like this… like a Jorn meets Dio reincarnated. and Romeo’s compositions and guitar work are great.

Order of Nosferat
Nachtmusik
Purity Through Fire
21 March 2022
Classic black metal, cold, melodic, a bit dark and doomy

Ad Finem Omnia
No Peace – No Dawn
Purity Through Fire
21 March 2022
Classic black metal (with good production)

Aesthus
Hänen temppelinsä varjoissa
Purity Through Fire
21 March 2022
Yes… some good ol melodic classic black metal, good stuff.

SENZAR
PYRE OF THROES
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 21st 2022
Melodic blackend death, some classic metal groove with a black metal attitude and coldness, breaking into full on classic black metal

Artist: Infested Angel
Release title: Submit to Death
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 22-03-2022
Blackened Death Metal, nice and heavy, good mix of black/death and melodic groovin’ too

Chaos Invocation
Devil, Stone & Man
W.T.C.Productions
24 March 2022
Classic black/death metal, cold meedly guitars, fast and furious drumming with a cool underlying groove. Good stuff!

Desolate Shrine
Fires of the Dying World
Dark Descent Records
25 March 2022
Big brutal blackened death, cool stuff!

EUCHARIST (Sweden)
I am the Void
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
25 March 2022
Classic black metal with some good meedly medleys

Mortify (Chile)
Fragments at the Edge of Sorrow
Chaos Records
25 March 2022
Brutal death metal with blackened death stuff too

Grand Harvest
Consummatum Est
Messor Grandis Productions
25 March 2022
Dark blackened death, a bit melodic and a little classic death metal-ish in parts, a little doom. overall good stuff!

Lost Tribes of the Moon
Chapter II: Tales Of Strife, Destiny, And Despair
Self-Release
25 March 2022
A bit of a classic doom, with some clean vox, groovin’ meaty riffs… almost like a rock opera.

Astral Tomb
Soulgazer CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
25 March 2022
A bit experimental, some straight up cookie monster death metal, but a lot of prog metal flashes, interesting!

Hallux Valgus (Chile)
Reflections of Distant Dreams
Edged Circle
25 March 2022
Musically it has some parts of just classic stoner metal, but when it gets going, you have death metal vox, and a little black metal feel, pretty cool stuff.

Father Befouled
Crowned in Veneficum
Everlasting Spew Records
25 March 2022
Meaty groovin’ death metal with a kind of dark gloom sound all while keeping you headbanging

Carnage of Children
Album: Darkness Within
Label: Music-Records
Release date: March 25th, 2022
Blackened death metal with a little symphonic to add a little more epicness. a little raw on the production but still good.

Stricken
From A Well Of Emptiness, A Stygian Serpent Born
HPGD
Doomy groove metal

Crown of Madness
The Void – Out March 25th
Self-Release
25 March 2022
Blackened death with some melodic death stuff going on, mostly harsh and heavy with a kick of melodic black metal coldness. cool stuff.

Hilltops Are For Dreamers
In Disbelief – Out March 25th
Rockshots Records
25 March 2022
Overall, it’s melodic death, but leaning more towards a proggressive metalcore type thing.

Artist: Rise Of Kronos
Release title: Council Of Prediction
Label: MDD
Release Date: 25-03-2022
Death metal with a gritty thrashy edge to it. catchy, a little melodic too… great stuff!

NECROM
All Paths Are Left Here…
Osmose Productions
25 March 2022
Death metal with a big viking sounding groove. Fast, heavy, yeah, even a pinch of melody too. Headbanging goodness.

Luzifer
Iron Shackles
High Roller Records
25 March 2022
Old school classic metal with a little occult-ish style

Artist: Sidus Atrum
Release title: Spiral of Life
Label: Kvlt und Kaos Productions
Release Date: 11-03-2022
Atmospheric and doomy black metal from Ukraine, getting a bit into just straight up cold black metal.

Berthold City
When Words Are Not Enough
WAR Records
Release date: Friday, March 18th 2022
Old school hardcore metal type stuff.