New Stuff This Week… 5/20/2024

ROTTING CHRIST
ΠΡΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟU (Pro Xristou)
Season of Mist
24 May 2024
A bit melodic death, some dark doom sounds in this one too

Cognitive
Abhorrence
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Extreme blackened death, wall of sound in your face with technical brutality… cool stuff!

EvilDead
Toxic Grace
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Nice cool catchy classic metal/thrash.

Night Laser
Call Me What You Want
(SPV/Steamhammer)
Kind of a cool classic metal / hard rock… catchy and melodic too

Crownshift
Crownshift
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 10 May 2024
A sort of supergroup featuring members from Children of Bodom, Wintersun, fintroll and nightwish… pretty cool straightforward melodic death type stuff.

Boneripper
World Ablaze
Independent
24 May 2024
This is kind of a thrashy hardcore.. has a catchy punishing thing happening

PAIN
I Am
(Nuclear Blast)
Electronic-ish industrial grooves

Pallbearer
Mind Burns Alive
(Nuclear Blast)
Chilled out doomish stuff

Static Dress
“Crying”
(Roadrunner)
Modern pop metal core type stuff

COMBICHRIST
CMBCRST
Out Of Line Music via Rough Trade/Believe
17 May 2024
Industrial, kind of straight up that genre

JINJER
JINGER – Live in Los Angeles
(Napalm)
Live album… heavy, decent production and a bit raw and well, Live… it’s a good thing

JASTA
AND JASTA FOR ALL
Perseverance Media Group
17 May 2024
Hardcore-ish, straight up metal and thrashy… cool stuff!!

BAT
Under The Crooked Claw
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 17 May 2024
Side project of Municipal waste, catchy thrashed up grooves

Summoner’s Circle
Cult
Black Lion Records
24 May 2024
PRetty good melodic blackened death going on here with an epic feel too.

Vale of Pnath
Between The Worlds of Life and Death
Willowtip Records
24 May 2024
Black metal with an epic

Hextar
Doomsayer
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 24/05/2024
Straight up classic metal.

Eregion
Non Omnis Moriar – Out May 24th
Rockshots Records
24 May 2024
Power metal, with a little folk sound and a heavier edge

Reversed (Canada)
Wildly Possessed
Invictus Productions
24 May 2024
death metal, a bit prog/technical, with a big black metal and doomy dark sound

Lucifuge
Hexensabbat
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 24/05/2024
Raw old school sounding thrash with a death slant

Nightside
Death From the North
Purity Through Fire
24 May 2024
Black metal, a bit complex with a little atmospheric symphonic-ness

Mortal Wound
Anus of the World
Dark Descent Records / Me Saco un Ojo Records
24 May 2024
Gore brutal death metal with some humor

Grand Massive
Houses Of The Unholy
MDD Records
May 23
Groovin’ stoner metal

THE LURKING CORPSES
Lurking After Midnight (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
24 May 2024
Kind of a gothy stoner metal/classic metal type thing

Teramaze
Eli: A Wonderful Fall From Grace
Wells Music
24 May 2024
A classic modern prog hard rock pushing into the metal realm… cool stuff.

SPITER
Enter the Gates of Fucking Hell (CD, 12″ MLP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
24 May 2024
here’s a sort of black metal influenced thrashy stuff. heavy and raw… and even some groovin’ too

Kayleth
Album: New Babylon
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: May 24, 2024
Classic stoner Rockin

Black Sorcery
Plummeting Into the Hour of the Wolf
Eternal Death
24 May 2024
Classic black metal

Gnarwhal
Altered States
Self-Release
24 May 2024
A bit stoner, some grungy fuzz sounds too

Valfreya
Dawn of Reckoning
Self-Release
24 May 2024
Epic symphonic blackend metal, catchy heavy and a nice full sound… a little like Cradle of Filth

Living Inferno
Release Title: Triumvirate
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: April 12, 2024
Blackened death, a nice catchy heavy groove too

Dead Street Dreamers
Countdown To The Reaper
Screaming Crow Records
7 June 2024
Classic metal with a bit of a catchy stoner groove

ZEIT
Release Title: Grollwerfer
Label: 357 Records
Release Date: May 3, 2024
Death Metal with a raw gritty sound and groove.

CHRIST DENIED
Release Title: Christopsy
Label: Xtreem Music
Release Date: May 21, 2024
Wall of sound Brutal Death Metal… gurgly vox, fast and meaty grooves too

Abhoria
Release Title: Between the Strains
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: May 3, 2024
Blackened Death Metal… just a single, fast, technical, brutal and cold too

MORGUE
Close To Complete Darkness
GODZ OV WAR PRODUCTIONS
Brutal black/death metal… a wall of sound in your face.

Sailor Hunter
Evolution
Inverse
Release Date: May 24th 2024
Melodic Death Metal, a bit of a groove, more of just a slower groovin’ death metal… and yeah a bit melodic with the choruses…

Göden
Vale of the Fallen
Svart Records
17 May 2024
A kind of doomy dark thing.. a little goth, with some grooves

A Flourishing Scourge
Sickened Seed
Wormholedeath
17 May 2024
Blackened-Death Metal with a nice full catchy and technical sound.

Wraith
Fueled By Fear (single)
Prosthetic Records
28 June 2024
Heavier edge of thrashy stuff…cool!

Zombeast
Heart Of Darkness
Massacre/ Fiend Force Records
17 May 2024
A kind of classic metal with clean vox, a bit like a volbeat/metal elvis style

Henry Kane
Circle Of Pain
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Epic and symphonic-ish blackened death.

Tzompantli
Beating The Drums Of Ancestral Force
20 Buck Spin
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Brutal chuggin’ black/death metal.

Nocturnus AD
Unicursal
Profound Lore
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Technical death with some interludes

Ufomammut
Hidden
Neurot
Release date: Friday, May 17th 2024
Sludgy doomish kind of post metal

WITCHER
BOSZORKÁNYSZIMFÓNIÁK
LABEL: FILOSOFEM RECORDS
RELEASE DATE: MAY 8th 2024
Mostly actual symphonic covers with a bit of metal thrown in – interesting

Lost in Exile
Deathbed Dreamer
Self Released
april
Chicago area melodic death with a bit of a metalcore sound

HammerFall
Hail To The King (single)
Nuclear Blast
A new song… a big laid back for the first half and picks up its epicness and goes out with a bang

2 WOLVES
Not Worth It (CD)
Werewolf
13 May 2024
A kind of doomy melodic death

Portrait (single)
The Host – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
21 June 2024
Kind of a classic metal, thrashy and big vox!

Fessus
Pilgrims of Morbidity
Darkness Shall Rise
29 April 2024
Sludgey doomy death metal with a bit of a black metal coldness

Sotherion
Vermine
W.T.C.Productions
9 May 2024
Classic black metal

Summoning the Lich (single)
Under the Reviled Throne
Prosthetic Records
26 July 2024
Technical fast and heavy! cool stuff