New Stuff This Week… 5/15/2023

Battle Born
Blood, Fire, Magic and Steel
Prosthetic Records
12 May 2023
Epic power metal, but a heavier edge to it.

ROADWOLF
Midnight Lightning
(Napalm)
Classic metal and pretty straightforward stuff with some heavier flourishes

Thulcandra
Hail The Abyss
(Napalm)
Nice and heavy blackened thrash, great stuff

Mystic Prophecy
Hellriot
ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records
19 May 2023
Heavier thrashed up power metal, always been a fan, and more great stuff

CURSE OF CAIN
Curse Of Cain
Atomic Fire Records
12 May 2023
Kind of a modern metalcore type thing… clean and harsh vox.

Gozu
Remedy
Metal Blade Records / Blacklight Media Records
19 May 2023
This is a doomy stoner groove

Frozen Soul
Glacial Domination
Century Media Records
Classic meaty death metal

Lee Small
The Last Man On Earth
Metalville Records
Classic metal, or more of an AOR hard rock thing

REVOLTONS
Celestial Violence
Sleazy Rider Records
12 May 2023
Classic metal, straightforward stuff, clean vox

Ashes of Moments Perished
Womb in Black Flame
Self Released
12 May 2023
From Milwaukee! blackened death… three song EP, groovin’ cool brutal stuff.

Horn
Release Title: 20 Jahre
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: May 5, 2023
Melodic Black Metal, with a bit of a doomy groove.

Rusty Bonez
Brainworm
Vinyl Store
12 May 2023
Stoner grooves!

Worth
Worth
Wormholedeath
May 12
Melodic death with an Amon Amarth sound. cool stuff!

Sacrilegious Impalement
IV – Infinite Victor
Inverse
Release date 12.5.2023
Blackened death, some good groove and grit and thrashy moments

Tardigrade Inferno
Arrival Of A Train
Self Released
17 May 2023
A big of an avant garde/horror alt metal, a bit of a theatrical Otep type sound

Vansidian
Reflecting The Shadows
Inverse
Release Date: May 19th 2023
They call it Hybrid metal, couldnt just about anything be that these days? This has some power metal, prog, thrash, melodic death… so yeah, lots going on… cool stuff.

Sporae Autem Yuggoth
However It Still Moves
Personal Records
19 May 2023
Sludgey death doom

Drott
Troll
By Norse Music
Release date: Friday, May 19th 2023
Doomy post metal

Magick Touch
Cakes & Coffins
Edged Circle
19 May 2023
Classic metal

NEXORUM
Tongue Of Thorns
Non Serviam Records
19 May 2023
Brutal and heavy blackened death

INFERION
Inequity
Horror Pain Gore Death
Release Date: May 19th 2023
A bit thrashy, mostly melodic death with a pinch of a blackened death sound cool stuff.

Ring of Gyges
Metamorphosis
Sound Pollution/ViciSolum Productions
19 May 2023
Classic metal/prog metal, clean vox

Heretic Cult Redeemer
Flagellum Universalis
Ill Damnation
21 April 2023
Black metal with a bit of atmosphere and some brutality

HYL
WHERE EMPTINESS IS ALL
LABEL: ODIUM RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 2023
Straight up classic black metal

IMPERIUM
IRON THUNDER Single
LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE
RELEASE DATE: MAY 20th 2023
Classic metal with an upbeat catchy melodic edge

Heretoir
Wastelands
AOP Records
19 May 2023
Post metal shoe gaze?

BOTANIST
VIII: Selenotrope
Prophecy Productions
19 May 2023
A bit doomy, some hints of black metal with a piano/keyboard and symphonic atmosphere, staying more in a post metal vein

Legacy of Brutality
Release Title: Travelers to nowhere
Label: Abstract Emotion
Release Date: 19th May 2023
Thrash and groovin Death Metal. Good stuff.

THE MODERN AGE SLAVERY
1901 I The First Mother
Fireflash Records
5 May 2023
blackened death metal with some meaty grooves and metalcore and industrial things too. Cool stuff!!

Dreamslain
Burn The Boats
Self-Release
26 April 2023
9 min single of melodic blackened progressive death

Heathen Hearts
Release Title: No Light Left to Chase
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: May 17, 2023
Straight up modern groovin’ metal with a little metalcore vibe

Intöxicated
Release Title: Sadistic Nightmares
Label: MDD Records
Release Date: May 5, 2023
They say it’s Thrash’n Roll and yup, pretty spot on.

Veriluola
Cascades Of Crimson Cruor
Nameless Grave Records
Release date: Friday, May 12th 2023
Groovin’ death metal

Cronos Compulsion
Malicious Regression
Caligari
Release date: Friday, May 12th 2023
Classic brutal death metal.

Ascended Dead
Evenfall Of The Apocalypse
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, May 12th 2023
Heavy fast and brutal death/blackened death. Cool stuff.

SUPERBEAST
Release Title: Cold Blooded Killing
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: March 31, 2023
Thrashy brutal death metal

Rhapsody Of Fire
Kreel’s Magic Staff [New Single & Video]
AFM Records
12 May 2023
A new single, not quite as over the top as they used to be, but still a bit full epic sound