New Stuff This Week…9/5/2022
DYING FETUS
“Compulsion For Cruelty”
Relapse
Sick and brutal… great to have new material
MEGADETH
The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!
UMe
Long anticipated album is out! Great stuff, a solid lineup and I’ll need more time to digest the full album, but great so far!
Judicator
The Majesty of Decay (single)
Prosthetic Records
25 November 2022
Also great to have new material from them, this track is a little more laid back, but they’ve said the rest of the album is more “blind guardian-ish”
Revocation
Netherheaven
Metal Blade Records
9 September 2022
Fast, heavy, technical, brutal, catchy, prog!? Yeah, they always know how to do it this band… great stuff.
Mantic Ritual
Album (EP): Heart Set Stone
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: September 2nd, 2022
Great heavy and catchy thrash with great solos and a throwback style. Great stuff!
Bloodbath
Survival Of The Sickest
Napalm Records
Brutal death metal from these veterans. No messing around, monster grooves and fast n heavy stuff!
Ozzy Osbourne
Patient Number 9
Epic Records
It’s Ozzy. It sounds like Ozzy, a meaty well produced sound and Ozzy sounds good too.
Parkway Drive
Darker Still
Epitaph Records
Modern metalcore but with some nice heavy grooves, clean vox parts are just nice and melodic, not all emo n stuff.
Slaughter To Prevail
1984
Sumerian Records
We had this single a couple weeks ago… different promo company releasing it now… still super brutal!
Phase IV
Phase IV
Moribund Records
Kind of a basic black metal, some of the music reminds me a little of Voivod as it’s more laid back with a groove, not all blast beats n stuff. Vox are harsh and “black metal” style.
UNHEALER
Unhealer
Wormholedeath
August 28th, 2022
A nice doomy stoner metal groove. mostly instrumental with the occasional vocal (more of a harsh/black metal style) music gets a bit heavier in parts too. cool stuff.
Vorbid
Derealization
Indie Recordings
31 August 2022
Overall, this song is prog metal, clean vox and pretty straghtforward. good stuff!
FEAR DISEASE
Floodgates
Wormholedeath
September 2nd, 2022
GooGood ol Just death metal. Heavy, a bit fast and meaty too. Cool stuff!
Fallujah
Empyrean
Nuclear Blast
9 September 2022
Techical yet melodic death. Progressive, dynamic, brutal and yet chill too. great stuff again!
Claim HG
Live at the Caligary Cabinet
Label: Green Bronto Records
Release Date: 2 Sep. 2022
Old school metal, big voice
Ensanguinate
Eldritch Anatomy
Emanzipation Productions
2 September 2022
Blackened death, catchy and more heavy thrash happening. Great stuff!
Silurian
End of Ordovicia
Ordovician Records
2 September 2022
Classic black metal song, but digging in a little deeper, while still cold and evil, has a technical and thrashy sound to go with the haunting growls. 3 song ep of good stuff!
Imperium
Release title: Ex Mortis Gloria
Label: Ultimate Massacre Productions
Release Date: Sep 2, 2022
Right off the bat, fast as hell drums, technical guitar/bass, brutal and punishing… aaaand melodic and catchy too. Great stuff!
ZeTA
Binary Enigma
Self-Release
2 September 2022
Death metal with a technical progressive thing happening too
156/Silence
Narrative
SharpTone Records
2 September 2022
Here’s some deathcore. Punchy with a little atmosphere, but it’s got a big catchy heavy groove.
Reincarnated (Thailand)
Of Boo?tes Void Death Spell
Inhuman Assault
3 September 2022
Brutal and dark death metal with hints of black metal.
Overhate
Release title: Our Problem
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 06-08-2022
a single of straightforward hard rockin’ metal – almost thrash
GOATCHRIST
Odes to the Radiant One
Wicker Man Recordings
9 September 2022
Old school black metal with a bit more of a slower overall tempo, with melodic guitars and other parts (mostly keyboard) and still blast beats, meedly cold guitars and harsh vox.
An Abstract Illusion
Woe
Willowtip Records
9 September 2022
Melodic death with a bit of an epic doom/prog/opeth thing happening when it’s not full on heavy. Great stuff
Hellfrost
Release title: Dark Ages
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 10-09-2021
Blackened stoner? Music is good ol stoner metal with an almost black metal screawly sounding vox. decent stuff.
AWAKEN THE MISOGYNIST
DESCENDED FROM VAST DIMENSIONS
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 9th 2022
Hopefully the band name is tongue in cheek… musically, it’s bludgeonistic brutal death metal! Freight train drumming and big grooves
ESCARNIUM
Dysthymia
Redefining Darkness Records
9 September 2022
brutal dark death metal decent stuff
Necrambulant
Release title: A Feast of Festering Flesh
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 09-09-2022
Brutal death metal, shorter tracks with no messing around. I like the ratta tatta tatta snare drum sound. hehe
Bones (Belgium)
Sombre Opulence
Invictus Productions
9 September 2022
Dark and brutal death metal, a little gory sounding
Astral Spectre
Release title: Phantom Nightmare / The Oath is Broken
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: 09-09-2022
A sort of atmospheric post black metal thing. meh
Warforged
The Grove | Sundial
The Artisan Era
9 September 2022
Brutal and technical death metal and spin in a little melodic death and a smidge of thrash. great stuff!
THE CHÖSEN
Album release: “Resistance leading to strength”
Self Released
Release date: June 2022
Old school black metal
The Callous Daoboys
Celebrity Therapist
MNRK Heavy
Release date: Friday, September 2nd 2022
Pretty out there experimental/prog death core type stuff. fast and furious going right into a slower bit… Mr Bungle-ish I guess? neat stuff.