New Stuff This Week… 12/5/2022

AGGRESSION
From Hell With Hate
Xtreem
Fast heavy thrashy stuff with well, satanic themes… I just assume this is for a shock factor or some edgy subject matter… whatever it is, the music is great and it’s good and fast!

Metallica
“Lux Æterna” (3:26)
Blackened
Classic old school sounding Metallica with modern sounds… of course it’s not groundbreaking, and with a stinker like St. Anger in your catalog, it makes this seem even better!

Vis Mystica
Celestial Wisdom – Out Dec 2nd
Dark Star Records
2 December 2022
A kind of collab guest project of some pretty good proggy power metal along the lines of Epica and Symphony X… one track features Fang from Lords of the Trident!

Lacerated
The Vile Domain
Self-Release
31 October 2022
Heaby and brutal blackened death. Machine gun fire drumming with catchy guitars and riffs… cool stuff.

REABILITATOR
Mentally Defected
Xtreem Music
Good ol catchy classic thrash! cool stuff.

EXIST IN RUIN
Exist in Ruin EP
Wormholedeath
December 2nd, 2022
Symphonic epic blackened death, sounding a bit like Cradle of Filth or Dimmu Borgir right out of the box, with maybe more of a Behemoth type sound with orchestra sounds. Cool stuff.

RITUAL DEATH
Ritual Death
Shadow Records / Regain Records
5 December 2022
A bit of a dark black/death metal with a bit of a doomy/gloom tempo… and yeah, regular blast beats and some groovin’ too.

MAHARAJA
Aviarium
Seeing Red Records
9 December 2022
A bit prog, mostly sludge/doom/stoner-ish, and doing lots of interesting stuff.

Ramchat
Release title: Krveľ
Label: HladoHlas
Release Date: 29-11-2022
Black metal, or they call it pagan metal, heavy, cold, and brutal with that black metal melodic goodness too.

Cristobal Perez
Headfist
Album (EP): This New World….
Release: November 23rd, 2022
Classic thrash from Chile. Good catchy stuff.

Lionheart
Welcome To The West Coast III
Arising Empire
Release date: Friday, December 9th 2022
Hardcore catchy metal with Jamey Jasta on this track, and yeah, sounds a bit like Hatebreed too…the other track features Ice T

Sacrilegion (USA)
From Which Nightmares Crawl
Chaos Records
9 December 2022
Gritty and heavy brutal blackened death. Good stuff.

Arrayan Path
Thus Always to Tyrants
Pitch Black
Release date: Friday, December 9th 2022
Classic metal, with soaring clean vox. Gets more into a power metal thing when it gets a bit heavier.

HETMAN
Album: Black Heart
Self Released
Release date: December 9th, 2022
This is just something we’d say Oh, that’s just some metal. it’s got some slower parts, heavier parts, nothing really leaning into one way or another… melodic metal.

UNCHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN
Album: Sulphurfeast
Self Released
Release date: December 9th, 2022
Death metal with a little bit of a blackened harshness, but some death metal grit and a bit of melodies to remind you they’re swedish! haha… Good stuff!

IMPERIAL EXECRATION
COMMANDING SATAN’S CRUSADES
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 9th 2022
Brutal gurgly vocal death metal. Wall of brutality washing over you like a freight train.

KRILLOAN
Emperor Rising
Scarlet Records
9 December 2022
This has a big epic power metal thing going on, a bit like Blind Guardian, staying nice and heavy, catchy and overall good stuff!

MEPHISTOFELES
Violent Theatre
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
9 December 2022
Fuzzy stoner metal with some big bottom end and sludgey grooves

STABBING
EXTIRPATED MORTAL PROCESS
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 9th 2022
BRUTAL death metal, as with most stuff on Comatose, it’s punishing and lots of gurgly vocals. Good heavy death metal.

Dehiscence
Colony
Chaos Records
9 December 2022
Fast and heavy death metal with a bit of a black metal vibe and a sort of wall of sound with a bit of noise metal factor.

BLACK SPELL (Italy)
Season of the Damned
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
9 December 2022
A striaght up doom with an old school vibe.

Autumn’s Grief
Dead By The Dawn
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: December 9th 2022
Melodic/symphonic Metal with an epic sound and clean female vox.

NAZGHOR
Album: Seventh Secular Crusade
Self Released
Release date: November 25th, 2022
Black metal, got the cold sound, harsh vox, melodic stuff, blasst beats, yup yup yup… this has a nice kind of overall cleaner progressive tone… cool stuf.

SKYTHALA
Boreal Despair
I, Voidhanger Records
18 November 2022
Classic black metal. harsh, cold, melodic and longer tracks

Lo Oscuro
Release title: Terror
Label: Kvlt und Kaos Productions
Release Date (d/m/y): 01-09-2022
Stoner Metal with more extreme vox, but musically a nice heavy and catchy Groove!

VORGRUM
Release title: Nature Emerge
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (d/m/y): 25-11-2022
They call it Fantasy Metal, Folk Metal… I guess it’s kind of a blackendd power/prog metal… pretty cool actually

Twisted Mind
From Slave To Prophet – Out Dec 9th
Self-Release
9 December 2022
Good old just “metal” nice edge, catchy good stuff.

Aghiazma
Album: Carnage
Self Released
Release date: November 30th, 2022
A bit of a modern metal/industrial thing.

Farzad Golpayegani
Release title: Nine
Label: Self-Released
Release Date (d/m/y): 14-10-2022
Pretty cool prog metal with a little middle eastern vibe… not many vocals. cool stuff.