New Stuff This Week… 3/20/2023
Ne Obliviscaris
Exul
Season Of Mist
Progressive, technical melodic death/black metal. It’s got it all and it’s great!
Category VI
Firecry
Moribund Records
Classic metal with a bit of a thrashy edge, female vocals with a nice sharp edge, has a throwback sound that still sounds cool.
Kings Of Thrash
The Mega Years Live At The Whiskey A Go Go
Cleopatra Records
A couple of former Megadeth members doing a show of old Megadeth songs! They get a lot of crap from online folks, but the tour came through Madison and it was great! So this album is one of their early shows.
Ov Sulfur
Stained In Rot
Century Media Records
Epic blackened death metal with a bit of melody in there too. Great stuff.
SÖNAMBULA
Release title: Estasis Interrumpida
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: March 9th, 2023
Brutal death metal with a little bit of a doomy groove. Cool stuff!
Temtris
Khaos Divine
Wormholedeath
17 March 2023
Classic thrash/classic metal with BIG SOARING Vocals! YEAHHH!!! (catchy too)
MYSTIC CIRCLE
Erzdämon
Fireflash Records
17 March 2023
Epic black metal, a bit of a symphonic thing, but just barely. Nice big and catchy sound too. Me like!
Elysion
Bring Out Your Dead
Massacre Records
17 March 2023
CLassic metal, modern metal, groove metal, pinch of goth with female vocals
Wishing Well
Sin and Shame
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: March 17th 2023
Straight up just classic metal. Alright stuff.
Eisenkult
Vulgäre, deutsche Hassmusik
Purity Through Fire
21 March 2023
Classic black metal, but with a meaty heavy yet gold beat… with some synth/epic melodic death stuff too. Pretty cool stuff.
YEVABOG
Album (maxi-EP): Between Two Fires
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: March 21st, 2023
Black metal with a progressive element, some harsh brutal stuff, some atmospheric parts, doomy stuff
HATESPHERE
Hatred Reborn
Scarlet Records
24 March 2023
This band has been around a while and always has good stuff as I recall. Thrashy grooves, a bit on the deathy side of thrash with harsher vox… Great stuff!
Animalize
Tapes From The Crypt
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 24/03/2023
Classic metal with maybe a pinch leaning towards thrash, catchy and just good ol solid metal.
ANGEROT
The Profound Recreant
Redefining Darkness Records
24 March 2023
Just a single here so far, but a nice gritty death metal with a tiny bit of black metal evilness going on
Gatekeeper
From Western Shores
Cruz Del Sur Music
24 March 2023
Classic metal, clean vox, nice meaty groove too
Atomic Trip
Strike #3 (Vinyl release – March 24, 2023, Digital – October 27, 2022)
Tentacles Industries
24 March 2023
Oh my. a couple of 20+ minute sludgey doomy post metal
WHORE OF BETHLEHEM
RITUAL OF HOMICIDE
LABEL: COMATOSE MUSIC
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 24th 2023
As with most things on this label, it’s brutal death metal, nice meaty headbangin’ grooves all fast and a bit technical. Great stuff.
Maze Of Sothoth
Extirpated Light
Everlasting Spew Records
24 March 2023
Full on brutal death metal and yeah, just a nice thrashy groove, and yeah technical too. Just a wall of brutality in your face Good stuff!
Hellcrash
Demonic Assassinatiön
DYING VICTIMS PRODUCTIONS
March 24
Take a bit of just straight up classic metal and mix in some black metal intensity and it’s Hellcrash here. Neat stuff.
EXCALION
Once Upon a Time
Scarlet Records
24 March 2023
Epic power metal, soaring vocals, boop boopy keyboards and solid grooves.
Shores of Null
The Loss of Beauty – Out March 24th
Spikerot Records
24 March 2023
Doomy blackened death metal with bits of melodic death and maybe a smidge of folk metal with an atmospheric chilled out element too
ASYLUM PYRE
Album: Call Me Inhuman
Self Released
Release date: March 24th, 2023
A bit power metal some mixes of clean and harsh vox, but overall proggy power metal with some pretty catchy unique elements that yeah, still stay metal! Cool
Lankester Merrin
Release title: Dark Mother Rises
Label: Black Sunset
Release Date: 24-03-2023
Melodic death with a kind of viking metal groove, with mixed vox (male and female, harsh and clean) Cool stuff!
Mork
Dypet
Peaceville
24 March 2023
Melodic blackened death metal, decent stuff.
Endlevel
Weekend War
Violent Creek Records
Overall, I’d throw this as extreme thrash, it’s got black/death/groove/thrash stuff all going on. Cool stuff!
Ars Manifestia
Release title: Il Mattino della Follia
Release Date: 03-02-2023
Label: Fog Foundation
Avantgarde Black Metal, mostly laid back atmospheric type stuff, but a kind of creepy dark and cold sound
Abaddonia
Dawn of The Serpent – Out March 3rd
Self-Release
3 March 2023
Symphonic blackened death. Nice heavy and brutal sound. Cool stuff!
Chasm of Discord
Admonishing the Dawn of Reverence (released Nov 4th, 2022)
(Blood Blast Distribution)
4 November 2022
Brutal death metal, a bit of a tech/prog thing going on there too
Band: Metuzalem
Album: Infra
Self Released
Release: March 6th, 2023
Old-School Death/Doom Metal, dark yet with some groove too
Rotting Demise
Release title: My Whole Wrath
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: 03-02-2023
Brutal death metal, dark heavy and headbangin’ grooves too.