New Stuff This Week…11/7/2022
DREAMS OF VENUS
Cause of Death
Dyamond Roxx & Hellven Records
4 November 2022
Some jammin’ bluesy hard rock type stuff going on .
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
“Mr Medicine”
(Missing Piece)
Definitely the most fun band name of the week. This is a single of some fuzzy stoner metl
Warkings
Morgana
(Napalm)
Melodic power metal with some harsh melodic death elements here and there. And there’s just an epic feel here.
PYRAMID
Rage
Sleaszy Rider Records
Release Date: 4 November 2022
Prog metal… this band is the Bass player Lance Sawyer’s project, he writes everything, plays bass and hires everyone… Ripper Owens on vox, and it’s a good solid prog metal thing
LOKURAH
Release title: DISTORTED TRUTH
Label: CRIMSON PRODUCTIONS
Release Date: 04-11-2022
This is pretty cool, has a sort of brutal thrashy sound with some melodic stuff going on, harsh and clean vox, I’d say it’s melodic death, but it’s not quite as polished… pretty cool stuff!
BLACK ANVIL
Regenesis
Season of Mist
4 November 2022
A black metal thing happening with some melodic doomy grooves too. great stuff!
Ingested
Ashes Lie Still
Metal Blade Records
4 November 2022
Melodic death/deathcore happening here, some good blackened death brutality with a bit of a melodic base… great stuff!
Leatherwolf
Kill The Hunted
N.I.L.8. Records
classic hard rock/metal, good and steady!
Bonecarver
Carnage Funeral
Unique Leader Records
Brutal technical death metal! and throw in a little Epicness too
R.A.M.B.O.
Defy Extinction
Relapse
Release date: Friday, November 4th 2022
Punky metal with a little thrashy metalcore too
Epica
The Alchemy Project
Atomic Fire Records
The band lives up to their name! Big Epic sounds, symphonic, the first track (featuring fleshgod apocalypse) starting off sounding more like Dimmu Borgir than anything! And of course you get the clean vox too… it’s just cool how they can do this and make it work.
Seventh Station
Heal The Unhealed – Out Nov 7th
Self-Release
7 November 2022
Solid prog metal checking off the boxes of what makes prog metal cool, technicality, complexity, keeping it different and interesting and yeah, heavy catchy stuff too.
Aittala
Live to Regret – Out Nov 7
Exitus Stratgem Records
7 November 2022
Cool straight up doomy classic metal, Trouble-esque riffage and groove
BRKN Love
Black Box
Spinefarm
4 November 2022
Kind of a catchy good ol new hard rock thing. Nice and distorted fuzzy guitars, clean vox, toe tappin’ head bobbin’ rock.
False Figure
Castigations
Transylvanian Recordings
Release date: Tuesday, November 1st 2022
Kind of a surf sounding doomy alternative hard rock.
LORD OF HORNS
Album: The Forest At Dusk
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: November 8th, 2022
I really don’t like to write bad things about stuff I get in the mail and take the time to download and tag and type this up… but really? I think the tape head on the cd player clogged up and this noise came out. ugh. sorry!
Casket Robbery
Rituals of Death
Blood Blast Distribution
11 November 2022
A little biased since this band is from around here, but man, this is brutal and slays!
Xentrix
Seven Words
Listenable Records
11 November 2022
Yeah that Xentrix, for a long time the only metal band that I could come up with that started with an X, which was always a great classic thrash band. This is their second album since returning from a long hiatus
Scattered Storm
In this Dying Sun – Out Nov 11th
Blood Blast Distribution
11 November 2022
A bit sludge, a bit death metal, some prog, groove metal, lots of different things going on, pretty cool
BIWO
Life And Death
Self Released
Nov. 11
Just some just “metal” or maybe hard rock. a little groove, maybe stoner-ish, a bit blues/grungy, clean vox.
Lamentations
Passion Of Depression
Willowtip Records
11 November 2022
This label seems to always have decent stuff. This is melodic death, harsh vox, but musically there’s a chill melodic thing going on… full on death metal, laid back parts and brutal melodies! hah. Great stuff.
Encryptment
Dödens födsel
Nuclear Winter
11 November 2022
Wall of blackened death metal sound… pretty cool stuff
SPIDER GOD
FLY IN THE TRAP
LABEL: REPOSE RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 11th 2022
Black metal with a little groovn goin on, almost a super speedy thrash and headbangin goodness
Aldaaron
Album: Arcane Mountain Cult
Label: Paragon Records
Release date: November 11, 2022
Straight up black metal, melodic and cold.
BARK
Rambler Of Aeons
Listenable Records
11 November 2022
Heavy, thrashy, melodic with some grit and harsh-ish vox, a little bit of a viking metal feel.
Monster Magnet
Test Patterns: Vol. 1
God Unknown Records
11 November 2022
Two super long halves of lo-fi jams from the early days of the band
SNIPERS OF BABEL
“Gabriel”
Horror Pain Gore Death
Nov 11
Groovin’ death metal with a prog/technical element happening
KAMPFAR
Til klovers takt
Indie Recordings
11 November 2022
Mostly a wall of sound black metal with some down tempo doom too… otherwise pretty much fast black metal stuff. decent
DETHEROUS
Unrelenting Malevolence
Redefining Darkness Records
11 November 2022
A bit thrash, some death metal, a little deathcore, but overall a bit brutal and catchy too with some grooves too… good stuff.
Devilpriest
Album: In Repugnant Abortion
Label: Odium Records
Release date: November 12, 2022
Brutal death metal with some blackened death stuff too.. pretty cool stuff!
Inverted Matter
Harbinger
Avantgarde Music / Unorthodox Emanations
November 11th, 2022
Death metal, brutal vox, music has some catchy grooves, overall a bit sludgy
RAVENOIR
In the Womb of Sin
Self Released
blackened death metal with some thrashy heaviness. Cool stuff
Morbikon
Ov Mournful Twilight
Tankcrimes
10/28
Here’s some blackened death, had a catchy heavy thrashy thing going on, pretty cool!!
Anima Morte
Serpents In The Fields Of Sleep
Release date: Friday, October 28th 2022
Progressive instrumental rock, some cool heavy moments, I’m a prog fan so it’s pretty cool.
Void Cruiser
Album: Call of the Void
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: November 11th, 2022
Heavier hard rock with a bit of a psychedelic doomy stoner sound. Decent.
Raster Density
Apothecary’s Tome ov Depravity and Filth
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: October 28th 2022
Technical and brutal death metal, great stuff!
Goatburner
Release title: Danger EP
Label: Self-Released
Straight up brutal Death metal
Godless Angel
Release title: Year Ten
Label: Atomic Zombie Records
Release Date: 28-10-2022
Raw metal with a little bit of it all, doom, thrash, and it’s a bit raw.
EVILLUTION
Elements of Genocide
Label: FIRECUM RECORDS
Release date: 31/10/2022
Some kinda classic sounding thrash with a heavier edge… cool stuff.
Blood of Angels
Release title: Spillage
Label: Biohazardous Records
Release Date: 31-10-2022
Brutal death metal with some more screamed/growly vox, not quite down to cookie monster (the music sound like it would have cookie monster vox)
Frank Bello
THEN I’M GONE
Rare Bird
Straight forward rock stuff.
Mandragora Thuringia
Release title: Rex Silvarum
Label: MDD Records
Release date: 04 November 2022
Epic Folk Metal, as with most of this genre some good heavier parts, some sound more like power metal with a basic metal thing going on and always a fiddle or hurdy gurdy or some flutey thing… or symphonic synth stuff… this ticks those boxes, and it’s decent stuff.