New Stuff This Week… 6/24/2024
CAVALERA
Schizophrenia re Recorded
Nuclear Blast
Release Date: June 21, 2024
After seeing these guys play live, and knowing they all still got and breathing some fresh light into some of these older albums… this one is especially good… good modern production makes it nice and punchy gooood stuff!
Thy Will Be Done
Encore Abomination
Self-Released
Death/brutal core. in your face with no fuckin’ around. cool stuff!
Devolution
Deceiver Believer
Close Encounter Records
A modern metal, cover of a Depeche Mode song in the singles… decent stuff.
Islander
Grammy Nominated
Independent
This has a nu-metal something core type sound, heavy and catchy too
SOULBOUND
INSANE
METALVILLE
A little modern metal, some nice catchy grooves a little Static X vibe.
Rendezvous Point
Dream Chaser
Long Branch
A modern metal meets prog with a nice full sound, a bit of a synthy thing to fill it out. cool stuff.
RivetSkull
Absence of Time
Self-Released
Classic metal a la Dio ish
The Black Dahlia Murder
Aftermath – radio single
Metal Blade Records
13 June 2024
New song! Heavy technical, brutal.. Trevor would want them to continue and they are sounding great
Kvaen
The Formless Fires
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, June 21st 2024
Big sound, black metal with a nice catchy groove while still keeping it harsh and cold.
Portrait
The Host
Metal Blade
Release date: Friday, June 21st 2024
Classic metal with some thrashy and melodic/prog sounding stuff.
Post Pulse
Return to the Halls
Label: Inverse Records
Release date: May 31st 2024
They call it Modern Death Metal… has a bit of an epic sound (like, keyboard orchestra melodies backing up the stuff) A bit thrashy/deathy… good grooves…
Necronomicon Ex Mortis
You and Your Friends Are Dead: Game Over (2024) – Out June 28th
Self-Release
28 June 2024
Meaty groovin’ thrash/death metal. cool stuff.
Narcotic Wasteland
Barbarian (single)
Megaforce Records
31 May 2024
New single with Madison’s own Erik Schultek on drums and studio duties… heavy meaty brutal techy deathmetal great as usual
Ensiferum
Winter Storm Vigilantes – radio single
Metal Blade Records
18 October 2024
Cool stuff… early single for a late release, melodic death but with a power metal vibe too… also, quite epic!
NZM
NO INNOCENCE
FIREROCK MUSIC GROUP
Classic metal with a power metal vibe.. big powerful vox
Savage Lands
No Remedy
Season of Mist
19 June 2024
all proceeds from this song go to Reforestation effords in Costa Rica, Dirk from megadeth teamed with Sylvain Demercastel a friend from Costa Rica and enlisted a bunch of guests. Fairly straightforward classic metal
Drift Into Black
Voices Beneath the Rubble
Black Lion Records
28 June 2024
Standard metal type stuff, clean vox and a smidge doomy
WINTER ETERNAL
Echoes of Primordial Gnosis (CD, LP)
Hells Headbangers
28 June 2024
Black metal, a bit of a groove, more dark and gloomy. meedly guitars and cold
Kaipa
Sommargryningsljus
InsideOut
June 28
Classic prog rock getting a little bit heavier in parts.
Crystal Viper
The Silver Key
Listenable Records
28 June 2024
Classic metal, leaning a bit power metal, but just pushing into melodic death a tiny bit. Big soaring powerful female vox
LIMBONIC ART
Opus Daemoniacal
Kyrck Production & Armour
28 June 2024
Wall of sound black metal, cold, intense and harsh with a melodic element
SHUMAUN
Opposing Mirrors
Self-Release
28 June 2024
Prog metal, melodic and
GRAVE HERESY
Incineration Victory
Self Released
Black Death Metal. a bit of a blackened sludge
MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY
Closer To The Sky
I, Voidhanger Records
4 June 2024
Atmospheric doom
Hemorrhoid
Raw Materials of Decay
Extremely Rotten Productions / Headsplit Records
28 June 2024
Grindy gore brutal black/death metal, bodily function song titles
Devine Defilement
Age of Atrocities
Rising Nemesis Records
2 February 2024
Brutal death metal with some grooves, good stuff
Apes
Penitence
Secret Swarm
Release date: Friday, June 14th 2024
Kind of a blackened death/thraash good n brutal too
UPON THE ALTAR
Descendants of Evil
Godz of War Productions
Black Death Metal, fairly straightfoward and walking that line with death metal and black metal stuff going on
Genus Ordinis Dei
Three Kings
Eclipse Records
Radio Impact: 24 June 2024 Release: 21 June 2024
Gritty melodic death and a pinch of a modern metal sound.
Element of Fate
Basilisk
Bravemusic
28 June 2024
An epic groove kind of progressive and melodic metal… female vox, clean and harsh (getting into black metal sounds) too.. pretty cool
Indulgence
Release Title: Grim Times
Label: Headbangers Records and Big Bad Wolf Records
Release Date: June 12, 2024
Kind of a raw thrashy sound with a little punk attitude
The D.O.O.D. (Distinguished Order of Disobedience)
“2000 Miles” [Single]
SelfMadeRecords / Earache Digital Distribution
14 June 2024
I like the band name… musically it’s straightforward classic groovin’ metal.
Illdisposed
In Chambers Of Sonic Disgust
Massacre Records
28 June 2024
A melodic death thing, mostly harsh vox, and groovin’ death metal
The Eternal
Skinwalker
Reigning Phoenix
Release date: Friday, June 28th 2024
Amorphis members, a nice groovin’ melodio death, a little more down tempo and progressive… good stuff.