New Stuff This Week… 10/23/2023
Satan’s Fall
Destination Destruction
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Straight up classic metal but with a nice catchy edge
Sodom
1982 EP
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Rerecording of their first EP… a modern raw sound if that makes sense.
Tortuga
Iterations
(Napalm)
Here is some old school doom
Endseeker
Global Worming
Metal Blade Records
27 October 2023
Kind of a classic death metal but with a little gritty thrashy sound too.
Sorcerer
Reign of the Reaper
Metal Blade Records
27 October 2023
CLassic metal, clean vox, maybe a pinch of a power metal thing
W.E.B.
Into Hell Fire We Burn
Metal Blade Records
26 October 2023
Here’s a kind of extreme thrashy thing with maybe a push into death metal. Cool stuff
Myrkur
Spine
Relapse
Release date: Friday, October 20th 2023
A kind of synthy atmospheric doom-ish female fronted deal.
DOG EAT DOG
FREE RADICALS
METALVILLE
This is a kind of nu-metal hardcore crossovery thing… not too shabby
Austrian Death Machine
“No Pain No Gain”
(Napalm)
Great to have “them” back… fast heavy and BRUTAL. Great stuff again
Allegaeon
Inhumation
Metal Blade Records
18 October 2023
Always a great day to get new material from Allegaeon. They have their old singer back… while I did like the most recent guy a little more, this guy is great too and it’s all about the music right?
DragonForce
“Power Of the Triforce”
(Napalm)
I just don’t remember them being so “poppy” and, yeah. it is what it is. Pop speedy metal
Mourning Mist
Amen
Moribund Records
Old school creepy doom
Motley Crue
Year Of The Devil
BMG
Old school 40th anniversary Crue.
Doro
Conqueress – Forever Strong And Proud
Nuclear Blast USA
The original female metal? she’s got just a good “metal” quality. cool
CoreLeoni
Alive
Metalville Records
Classic power-ish metal in a live album.
Kami Van Halst
Welcome To My Nightmare (Alice Cooper Cover)
Independent
A fairly straightforward cover with a more emotive female vocal.
Infestation
The Vermin Within
Self Released
PRetty cool classic thrash
Mindrazer
A Thing of Nightmares
Misanthropic Records
13 October 2023
There’s a bit of a classic metal/thrash going on here, cool stuff. Clean vox
OMISSION
Release Title: Disciples of Ravens Vengeance
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: October 24, 2023
Thrashy speed metal, catchy with a pinch of a black metal vocal and blast beat
Pattern-Seeking Animals
Spooky Action at a Distance
Inside Out Music
10/27
Prog side-project supergroup of current and former Spocks Beard members, so it has that vibe… old Yes/Genesis and yeah of course Spocks Beard. I’m a prog fan, so I Like!
Bulletbelt
Burn It Up
Impaler Records
22 September 2023
This is a kind of groovin’ thrash with a bit of a melodic thing thrown in
HELGRINDUR
Helgrindur
MDD Records
Release Date: October 20th, 2023
Pagan Metal, so it’s a bit of a melodic death with a smidge of folky sound with a catchy thing
Farsoth
Morbid Symphonies
Black Lion Records
27 October 2023
Death metal with a little blackened/melodic death sound
Ignited
Cradle of the Wicked
Self Released
27 October 2023
Melodic/classic metal with a heavier thrashy edge. Pretty cool stuff with some catchy grooves.
BERZERKER LEGION
Chaos Will Reign
Listenable Records
27 October 2023
Gritty and groovin’ classic death metal… with a smidge of melodic death grooves
Eternal Evil
The Gates Beyond Mortality
Listenable Records
27 October 2023
A little thrash, a little classic metal, a little doom, a little black metal too. neat amalgamation of metal
CEMETERY URN
Suffer the Fallen (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
27 October 2023
Old school groovin’ death metal
Lightlorn
At One With The Night Sky
Black Lion Records
27 October 2023
Black metal, but a melodic blackened death… Not super “cold” but still cooool. and a complex prog-ish sound
Ecocide (The Netherlands)
Metamorphosis
Memento Mori
23 October 2023
Meaty death metal, a little of a thrashy sound too. decent stuff
AEGRUS
Invoking the Abysmal Night
Osmose Productions
27 October 2023
Classic black metal, a bit of a groove and black and roll while still keeping “troo” to black metal
Bacterial Husk
Anthropogenic Ruin
Self-Release
27 October 2023
Thrashy death metal.
DRAWN AND QUARTERED
To Kill is Human
Moribund Records
27 October 2023
Brutal death metal, a bit of a raw production, it’s a limited edition reissue of their 1998 album.
Broder
Skarpretterfossilet
Extremely Rotten Productions
27 October 2023
Wall of noise/sludgy brutal black/death type stuff.
Elm Street
The Great Tribulation
Massacre Records
27 October 2023
Mostly a classic metal, a bit thrashy and cathcy.
MANGLED CARPENTER
SALVATION SYNDROME
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS/BROKEN CURFEW RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 27th 2023
Death metal, a bit raw, sludgey… but brutal and chunky
Summoning Death
A Traumatic Night of the Creeps
Chaos Records
28 October 2023
Has a kind of blackened death with melodic-ness and a bit of room to breathe and groove, not all super fast and up in your business.
Martyrdoom
As Torment Prevails
Memento Mori
23 October 2023
This has a kind of deathy groove
ERECTION HOUSE
Feels of Correction
Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records
27 October 2023
There’s a kind of fuzzy/doomy stoner noise sound going on, it’s just too distorty for me
One of Nine
Eternal Sorcery
Wolves of Hades
27 October 2023
Classic black metal
Stu Brooks
40HZ
Dine Alone
26 October 2023
Some electronic, some kinda progressive rock, a pinch of industrial in some parts… mostly not metal.
Stomach
Parasite
Hibernation
Release date: Friday, October 20th 2023
A kind of blackened /post black /doom metal
War Curse
Confession
Metal Blade Records/Blacklight Media
Release date: Friday, October 20th 2023
A kind of classic metal, thrash and just a bit of technicality/progness too.
Cirith Ungol
Dark Parade
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, October 20th 2023
Full on old school metal
KILL DEVIL HILL
Pharmaceutical Sunshine
Legend Recordings
Single of kind of a power ballad, southern rock