New Stuff This Week… 9/23/2024

The Black Dahlia Murder
Servitude
Metal Blade Records
27 September 2024
Turns out losing your revered frontman won’t kill the band. With some creative member shuffling, they are a unit again, and musically, probably their most prog/technical yet while staying brutal and heavy and catchy too.

SATHANAS
Into the Nocturne
Moribund Records
27 September 2024
Kind of a classic black metal, but a nice groove too

Richie Kotzen
Nomad
BMG
Pretty chill with some funky vibes, great guitar work and soulful vox.

Heriot
Devoured By the Mouth Of Hell
Century Media Records
Groovin’ death-ish metal, meaty riffs with some atmosphere and black metal style vox cool stuff.

Mastodon & Lamb Of God
Floods Of Triton (Single)
Loma Vista/Concord
Collab between the two bands recorded before they set out on their tour together. A pretty good mix of both bands into one song.

BornBroken
Am I Invisible
Self-Release
20 September 2024
Groovin’ heavy deathy thrashy – maybe like a Devildriver style. great stuff!

The Bones
Circle
Lovedozer LLC
A little punky/alt rock

Turbokill
Champion
SPV/Steamhammer
Classic power metal with some grooves and catchiness

Unto Others
Never, Neverland
Butterfly
Century Media
Goth ish, some stuff is a bit more upbeat metal, overall though, some more chill stuff.

Vola (single)
“Cannibal”
(Mascot)
Prog metal band, a little of a melodeath vibe, but with a symphonic-ish thing happening – this single has Anders of In Flames providing harsh vox. cooool

Dungeon Crawl
Maze Controller
Carbonized
Release date: Friday, September 20th 2024
Thrashy, epic, progressive, with a blackended thrash thing too. great stuff!

Avernus
Album: Grievances
M-Theory Audio
Release date: September 20th, 2024
Atmospheric Doom/Death Metal

Battle Born (single)
Magic and Steel (single)
Prosthetic Records
20 September 2024
Big fast over the top power metal type stuff.

Ingurgitating Oblivion
Ontology of Nought
Willowtip Records
27 September 2024
Progressive all over the place metal, jazzy parts, black metal stuff, tech death, and no song under 10 min!

Midnight Force
Severan
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 27/09/2024
fairly straightforward classic metal

DIABLATION
Irrévérence
Osmose Productions
27 September 2024
A bit of a classic black metal but with some kind of epic flourishes and groovin’

Warlust
Sol Invictvs In Vmbrae Satanae
Dying Victims Productions
Global Release Date: 27/09/2024
Classic black metal

CRYPT OF REASON
Album: Stargazer
Self Released
Release date: September 24, 2024
This is kind of a deathy doom thing, a little prog-ish but mostly dark and depressing

Adorior
Bleed on my Teeth
Dark Descent Records (North America) / Sepulchral Voice (EU)
27 September 2024
Black metal with some fast intense stuff, but also some room left for some groovin’ melodies

Emasculator
The Disfigured and the Divine
New Standard Elite
25 September 2024
Brutal death metal, quick short no fuckin’ around tracks

WITCHTRAP
Hungry as the Beast (CD, LP, TAPE)
Hells Headbangers
27 September 2024
A little mix between classic metal and a light thrash. decent stuff.

Torrefy
Necronomisongs
Self-Release
27 September 2024
I’d have to say this is blackened thrash… catchy and heavy with a cold edge.

Invernoir
Aimin’ for Oblivion
code666
27 September 2024
This has a kind of melodic doomy death metal thing going on. Deathy vox, but classic doom musically.

Mork
Syv
Peaceville Records
20 September 2024
Melodic and a little proggy black metal, lots of atmosphere and not quite as COLD

Kingdom Of Giants
Bleeding Star
SharpTone Records
20 September 2024
That kinda modern metal core that is all heavy then gets all emo with some djenty stuff

Groza
Nadir
AOP Records
20 September 2024
Classic black metal, good melodic atmosphere

Battlesword
Release Title: (XX)V – Of Tales And Tragedies
Label: MDD Records
Release Date: September 26, 2024
Melodic Death Metal, a bit meaty and groovin’. Amon Amarth-ish

Endonomos
Album: Endonomos II – Enlightenment
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: September 27, 2024
Epic Death Doom Metal

PSYCHLONA
Warped Vision
Magnetic Eye Records
27 September 2024
Kind of classic metal, more on the stoner groove side of things, a bit alt-rock

EPIC DOWN
Album: Days of Oblivion
Label: Argonauta Records
Release date: September 27, 2024
Sludgey doom metal.

Hagalas
Mentes Reae
Label: Inverse Records
Release date: Septembeer 25th 2024
Melodic Death Metal, straight up… decent stuff.

Where’s My Bible
KAVE
Record label: Self-released
Release Date: September 11th 2024
Melodic death with shades of black metal and grooooves

Herakleion
Necroverse EP
Self-Released
Release date: Friday, September 13th 2024
This is a kind of thrashy groove, deathy vox, technical and catchy too

ÇÖKÜŞ
An Hour Of Lies
Qumran
Release date: Friday, September 13th 2024
ÇÖKÜŞ (pronounced cho-koosh; Turkish for “decline” or “collapse”). This a cool doomy/stoner groove.

Unjoyful Play
Unjoyful Play (EP)
Record label: Inverse Records
Release Date: September 19th 2024
This is a sort of melodic Death Metal, prog stuff going on, a little smidge of meedly black /blackened death. some good grovoes too.

Helevorn
Espectres
Meuse Music Records
13 September 2024
This is doomy death metal, but then clean vox and kind of a doomy melodeath

Killing Spree
Camouflage
Klonosphere Records
13 September 2024
Definitely on the progressive side of things here, some classic metal with a horn section! Otherwise there’s a deathy doomish groove.

Eternal Crypt
Stages of Grief
Self Released
Epic proggy black/blackend death metal, symphonic stuff, catchy and melodic too, clean and harsh vox. cool stuff!!