New Stuff This Week… 8/26/2024
Leprous
Melodies Of Atonement
Inside Out Music
Electronicified prog metal, a lot of layers and some really laid back parts too
Hatriot
Forest Of Illusion (Single)
FM Music Management
Cool to have a new single when they’re in town the same week. great solid thrash!
ANCIIENTS
Beyond the Reach of the Sun
Season of Mist
30 August 2024
Kind of a proggy doom and melodic death with an opeth vibe too
Thy Will Be Done (single)
Echoes & Narcissists
Self-Released
Kind of a brutal thrash/death metal thing. meaty grooves, harsh vox, just a single here.
Lamb Of God
Ashes Of The Wake (20th Anniversary Edition)
Epic Records
Always a good reason to revisit a classic – a couple remixes and collabs on classic bonus tracks too
Hatchend
Summer Of ’69
Selfmadegod
Release date: Friday, August 23rd 2024
Kind of a thrash, with a little deathy blackened thing going on. fast and cool
DECEASED
Children of the Morgue
Hells Headbangers
30 August 2024
Classic band is back… some good heavy deathy thrash
QARINAH (single)
NOT FOR SALE
BUIO OMEGA MUSIC
Female fronted hard rock, groovin’ melodic track
HATCHET (single)
HELLION
M-THEORY AUDIO
WASP Cover, pretty straightforward \m/
Nails
Every Bridge Burning
Nuclear Blast Records
30 August 2024
Fast and heavy brutalish thrashy hardcore stuff… cool!
Within The Ruins
Phenomena II
MNRK Heavy
Release date: Friday, August 23rd 2024
Kind of a tech deathcore type thing, catchy, brutal, great stuff!
Simone Simons
Vermillion
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Release Date: 23 August 2024
Epica front-woman with her first solo album! all instruments are by Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon) and some other guests too. Kind of a power metal, with a bunch of prog/epic stuff going on too.
EXECUTIONER’S MASK
Almost There
Seeing Red Records
30 August 2024
Kind of a doomy post metal
Pneuma Hagion
From Beyond
Everlasting Spew Records
30 August 2024
Brutal death metal, quick short songs, some goovin’ too.
Phenocryst
Cremation Pyre CD/LP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
30 August 2024
Pretty good meaty death metal with a solid groove
Gutvoid
Breathing Obelisk CD/12″MLP/TAPE
Blood Harvest
30 August 2024
Kind of a raw black/death metal, more on the death metal side with a bit of black metal coldness.
Wolfhorde
Bloodmoon Symphonies
Release Date: August 30th 2024
Record label: Inverse Records
This is melodic death with a little folk vibe, vox are clean and harsh with some heavier prog stuff too
Temple Witch
Ocean Thousand, Mountain Thousand
Wormholedeath
August 30, 2024.
Doom Metal, longer tracks down tempo
Ellende
Todbringerin
AOP Records
30 August 2024
classic black metal, a little doomy darkness
Avmakt
Satanic Inversion Of….
Peaceville Records
30 August 2024
Raw old school black metal
VAST PYRE
Album: Vast Pyre
Label: Octopus Rising
Release date: August 30, 2024
Doomy stoner metal, longer songs
DIONIZE
Album: Lighthouse
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: August 30, 2024
This one has a strong doom thing going on, but some prog elements are cool too.
Incessant
Release Title: Entropic Aeons
Label: Repose Records
Release Date: July 26, 2024
At its base it’s blackened death metal, a little more down tempo than a typical band of this genre, but it has that cold/harsh doomy part of black metal mixed in with some death metal growls and grooves…. also some parts fit the bill of blackened death straight on.