New Stuff This Week… 2/27/2023

OMEGA INFINITY
The Anticurrent
Season of Mist
24 February 2023
Classic black metal and an evil atmospheric sound from hell type of thing

A Foreign Affair
“Day By Day” feat. Aaron Gillespie of Underoath
(SBG)
here is a modern metalcore melodic thing. emotive vox

BABYMETAL
“Monochrome”
The Other One [Advanced Tracks]
(Cooking Vinyl)
Single from their new album… it’s been out a few months online. A just kind of groove metal, a bit more melodic and catchy… than some past stuff.

Tragedy
I Am Woman
(Napalm)
They band known for doing disco and abba metal covers is now doing all female fronted mostly 80’s covers in a catchy fun metal way.

Enslaved
Heimdal
Nuclear Blast
3 March 2023
Some epic blackened proggy metal, there’s a hint of some viking-like doominess.

Haken
Fauna
Inside Out Music
March 3
Carrying the flag of true prog metal, Haken is back to show why they are taking the baton for the next generation of Dream Theaters out there. Melodic, heavy, catchy, full on proggy goodness.

Butcher Babies
Beaver Cage (Radio Edit)
Blood Blast Distribution
Heavy gritty and yeah, brutal metal with some melodic stuff, kind of making it a bit metalcore. Cool catchy single!

Vinnie Moore
Double Exposure
Mind’s Eye Music
Usually just instrumental stuff or with UFO, Vinnie has an album with some vocals… good catchy classic metal material and of course awesome guitar work.

Blak29
The Waiting
Cleopatra Records
Cover of the Kinks classid Destroyer is the first single, this is a kind of modern groove thing

Entheos
Time Will Take Us All
Metal Blade Records
3 March 2023
Technical progressive and brutal death metal and yeah with some melodic

Mythraeum
Album: Halls of Mythras
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: February 24th, 2023
Blackened melodic death metal, a catchy and heavy wall of metal! Great stuff

IDOLATROUS
Sorrow on Midgard
Wormholedeath
2/24/23
Meaty groovin’ death metal with a bit of melodic epicness

ABSOLON
Album: A Portrait Of Madness
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: February 28th, 2023
Straight up classic metal, clean vox.

Solus Grief
With a Last Exhale
Purity Through Fire
27 February 2023
Black metal, a bit melodic and maybe doomy, harsh shrieking classic black metal vox and longer tracks.

Unholy Craft
Naar All Tid Er Omme
Purity Through Fire
27 February 2023
Old school evil wall of sound Norweigan black metal, this could have been right from the 90s!

Korrupt
Secret Sorrows
Holler Records
1 March 2023
This has a melodic punky hardcore type thing, vocals are harsh, songs are relatively short and a bit of a doomy groove too

Bagorah
The Art of Deviant Behavior
Self Released
1 March 2023
I’d have to say this is a big progressive, melodic in parts, a little doomish/stoner feel while not really reallying being defined by it.

SKRYING MIRROR
Omnimalevolence
I, Voidhanger Records
3 March 2023
Black metal, wall of cold and evil sounding noise with an underlying progressive atmosphere harsh haunting vox.

Nomad
The Mountain
Self Released
3 March 2023
A thrashy groovin’ thing reminds me a bit of Meshuggah meets Lamb of God.

Phantom Fire
Eminente Lucifer Libertad
Edged Circle
3 March 2023
Raw old school punky black metal

KRULLUR
Dead Live!
Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
March 3
Blackened punk? Short intense extreme thrashy grindy stuff

Carma
Ossadas
Monumental Rex
3 March 2023
Doomy post black metal

WITCH RIPPER
The Flight after the Fall
Magnetic Eye Records
3 March 2023
Progressive doomy sludge or some parts being straight up prog metal too (mostly their 16 minute epic last track).

Kold
Release title: Intet Mere Er
Label: Vendetta Records
Release Date (dd/mm/yy): 03-03-2023
Classic black metal

Haradwaith
Album: The M-Theory
Label: Nihilistische KlangKunst
Release date: March 3rd, 2023
This is some black metal but with a heavier melodic groove, almost musically like a blackened death or cradle of filth?

AT THE ALTAR OF THE HORNED GOD
Heart Of Silence
I, Voidhanger Records
3 March 2023
sludgy post black metal… doomy and depressing

YAAROTH
The Man In The Wood
I, Voidhanger Records
3 March 2023
Doomy metal with some lofi production

Ocean of Grief
Pale Existence
Personal Records
3 March 2023
Epic doomy progressive death metal. A dark melodic sound

Redlight King
In Our Blood
AFM Records
3 March 2023
CLassic metal with a little bit of a stoner laid back groove

Carrion
Morbid Nailgun Necropsy
Wormholedeath
Blackened death, a little bit thrashy, brutal and groovin’ Great stuff!

Osyron
Momentous
Self Released
Nov 2022
Progressive Symphonic with a melodic metalcore thing too

COLPOCLEISIS
ELEGANT DEGRADATION
LABEL: REALITY FADE RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 3rd 2023
Gurgly brutal gore/death metal with a St. Anger style snare drum. hah still cool though

ZEBECK
Dharma
Wormholedeath
2/24
Kind of a doom and dark post metal/ambient thing with a little proggy sludge sound

Finality
Technocracy (Single)
Self-Released
24 February 2023
Fast and heavy classic metal, a little more of a power metal sound, maybe an extreme power metal? Clean vox, some fast drumming, catchy.

Chaos Path
Release title: Rise Of The Apocalypse
Label: Golden Core Records / Zyx Music
Release Date: 24-02-2023
This has some classic metal tendencies, then it gets into some blackened thrashy stuff too