New Stuff This Week… 5/13/2024

Kerry King
From Hell I Rise
Reigning Phoenix Music
Next best thing to Slayer! Great heavy catchy thrashy stuff.,

Frequency Overload
Fate Anthropic
Independent
Kind of a basic classic metal/thrash. decent grooves

Dystopica
Infinite Reflection
Pavement Entertainment
Groovin’ metal with some clean and harsh vox.

Elvellon
Ascending In Synergy
(Napalm)
Epic symphonic and female fronted power metal.

RIOT (V)
Mean Streets
Atomic Fire Records
10 May 2024
Classic metal, nice and fast, a little over the top and catchy cool stuff… also was fun to see them at Blades of Steel last fall in Madison

Gatecreeper
Dark Superstition
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 17 May 2024
Brutal and gritty death metal, always good stuff.

ANCIENT SETTLERS
Oblivion’s Legacy
Scarlet Records
17 May 2024
Kind of a melodic death, harsh vox, catchy heavier and melodic thrashy and complex music stuff… cool!!

Insanity Alert
Moshemian Trashody
Season of Mist
17 May 2024
Deathy thrash alternate versions of some classics “welcome to the moshpit” is a take on welcome to the jungle, moshemiam thrashody is what you think… and “Beerless Fiesta” a punked up thrashy alternative to Careless whispter fun!!

Reflection of Flesh
We Are Legion
Wormholedeath
10 May 2024
From Milwaukee, a good deathy groove happening

SVNEATR
Never Return
Prosthetic Records
10 May 2024
Kind of a thrashy and light death metal, harsh vox, some melodic stuff and a bit of black metal too

Darkness Everywhere
To Conquer Eternal Damnation
Creator-Destructor
Release date: Friday, May 10th 2024
Melodic death metal, harsh vox, nice meedly melodic guitar work and a nice heavy catchy base.

TORTURERS’ LOBBY
Deadened Nerves
Caligari Records, Ixiol Productions
17 May 2024
Blackened deathy thrash metal, heavy yet with some nice deathy grooves

Strychnos
Armageddon Patronage
Dark Descent Records
May 17
Black metal, has some laid back parts with a groove, so it’s not all super cold fast meedly stuff.

DUFT
Altar Of Instant Gratification
Scarlet Records
17 May 2024
Brutal death metal with a hardcore attitude Cool stuff.

HELL:ON
Album: Shaman
Label: Archivist Records
Release date: May 17th, 2024
Good ol brutal death metal, catchy heavy, groovin’

(UN)WORTHY
THIS PRESENT DARKNESS
LABEL: ROTTWEILER RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 17th 2024
Pretty straightforward deathcore.

The Tangent
To Follow Polaris
Inside Out Music
May 10
Good old school prog rock… keyboards, has Roine Stolt in it, so it has a Transatlantic/Flower Kings thing happening

CARDIAC ARREST
The Stench of Eternity (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
17 May 2024
Grindy brutal death metal… great stuff!

BOTANIST
Paleobotany
Prophecy Productions
17 May 2024
Prog metal, more on the black/post metal side of things, it’s interesting

Altar Of Gore
Litanies Of The Unceasing Agonies
Nameless Grave
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
as the name says… gore! a little sludgey gore metal type stuff.

Rope Sect
Enstrangement LP/CD
Iron Bonehead
17 May 2024
A little stoner, some doomish, laid back type stuff.

Morbid Grave
The Slime Crawlers + EP
Horror Pain Gore Death
May 17th
Brutal and sludgey gore type death metal

Borer
Bag Seeker
Landmine
Release date: Friday, May 10th 2024
Longer songs of sludgey stoner blackened (vocals) doom

Ape Vermin
Andromedas Colossus
Self-Release
17 May 2024
This has kind of a progressive stonery doom sound, IT’s got harsh vox, and meaty grooves throughout

Meden Agan
My Name Is Katherine
Sleaszy Rider
Progressive/power metal, female fronted, with some symphonic (keyboardy) stuff, but a nice heavier sound. Would fit well with Unleash the Archers

Date Back To Dawn
Reminiscence
Sleaszy Rider
Overall some good melodic death with some cool grooves and a little metalcore sound too

Melvins
Tarantula Heart
Ipecac Recordings
This band hasn’t ever really been my thing. it’s a bit laid back stonery grooves and then some faster experimental type stuff too.

Just One Fix
Submit Or Death
Self-Released
10 May 2024
Classic thrashy goodness

Coheed and Cambria
The Joke / Deranged (single)
Reissues of some older tracks to coincide with their upcoming tour

1349
Ash of Ages (Single)
Season of Mist
3 May 2024
Heavy blackended death, has a nice gritty brutality about it too