Went on a ghost walk last night and even though we didn’t run into any, it did make me think about Ken Foree’s iconic line in the also iconic 1978 Dawn of the Dead film “When there’s no more room left in hell, the dead will walk the earth.” In my estimation, we’ve got to be hurtling towards max capacity down there. Soooo, food for thought and I’ll leave it at that. But before you think on that too much, dive into this new list of metal we’ve got up for grabs – that’s why we’re here so let’s burn it down…
Atlanta’s Cloak offer up their second full length and it betters their debut with larger than life rock swagger, seedier gothic undertones, deeper hooks, and blacker black metal – Cloak rules. Period. Speaking of ruling, Vastum does it again on their filthy, debauchery filled fourth death metal expedition, Texas based Cleric bring even more filthiness with their second full length of classic sounding Swe/Fin/Dutch inspired death metal, and the absolutely electrifying heavy metallers Savage Master are back with their third epic concoction. You need all of these and there’s still a ton more to follow, GET SOME.
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Cloak – The Burning Dawn (Season of Mist) – goth n’ black n’ roll n’ metal
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Vastum – Orificial Purge (20 Buck Spin) – death metal
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Cleric – Serpent Psalms (Redefining Darkness / Raw Skull) – death metal
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Savage Master – Myth, Magic & Steel (Shadow Kingdom) – heavy metal
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Also on tap:
Alcest – Spiritual Instinct (Nuclear Blast) – blackgaze
Atomic Cretins – Spiritual Cancer (Suicide Bong Tapes) – thrash / black / punk
Blackthorne – S/T (Nefarious Industries / JEMS / 5nakefork / Damien) – extreme metal
Botanist – Ecosystem (Aural Music) – black metal
Cirith Ungol – I’m Alive, Double Live Album + DVD (Metal Blade) – heavy metal
Consumer – In Computers (The Flenser) – noise
Controversial – Revelation (Independent) – tech death
Cthonica – Typhomanteia: Sacred Triarchy of Spiritual Putrefaction (Clavis Secretorvm / Sentient Ruin) – black / death / doom
Coilguns – Watchwinders (Hummus) – noise / hardcore
Darvulia – Acte Dix: Demos (Nebular Carcoma) – black metal
Dawn Ray’d – Behold Sedition Plainsong (Prosthetic) – black metal
Denial of God – The Hallow Mass (Osmose / Hells Headbangers) – black metal
Effa Lente – An Appropriate Mourning Period (Independent) – prog metal
Enemynside – Chaos Machine (Rockshots) – metal
Exmortus – Legions of the Undead, EP (M-Theory Audio) – thrash
Goddess of Fate – The Orchard Gardener (Independent) – melodic death metal
Golgotha – Erasing the Past (Xtreem Music) – doom
Haystack – The Sacrifice (Dogma Repertory / Threeman Recordings) – noise rock
Horrocious – Depleted Light and the Death of Uniqueness (Osmose) – death metal
Hour of Penance – Misotheism (Agonia) – black / death
Imipolex – Order of the Epimethean Flame (Independent) – black / doom
Imperial Jade – On the Rise, Reissue (Listenable) – metal
Jinjer – Macro (Napalm) – prog metal
King Svk – New Æon (Sliptrick) – metal
Locket – All Out (Fearless) – metal
Lowcaster – Flames Arise (Ripple Music) – doom / heavy
Malevich – Our Hollow (Sludgelord / Fremen Death / Middle Man / Dead Red Queen) – black / death
Mayhem – Daemon (Century Media) – black metal
Meltdown – Dead Ringer (Rambo / Fifth Island / Sony) – metal
Metalite – Biomechanicals (AFM) – melodic metal
Millennium – A New World (Pure Steel) – heavy metal
Moon Chamber – Lore of the Land (No Remorse) – heavy metal
Motörhead – 1979, Box Set (BMG) – MOTÖRHEAD
Mur – Brutalism (LADLO) – black metal
Noveria – Aequilibrium (Scarlet) – power metal
Ogre – Thrice as Strong (Cruz Del Sur Music) – doom metal
Orodruin – Ruins of Eternity (Cruz Del Sur Music) – doom
Petbrick – I (Closed Casket Activities) – industrial
Plateau Sigma – Symbols – The Sleeping Harmony of the World Below (Avantgarde Music) – doom
Runemagick – Into Desolate Realms (High Roller Records) – death metal
Selenite – Mahasamadhi (Seance) – doom / death
Sölicitör – S/T, EP Reissue (Gates of Hell) – thrash
South Class Veterans – Hell to Pay (Demons Run Amok) – hardcore
Taiwaz – The Uninvited Guest (Psykofarmaka) – heavy / doom
The Great Old Ones – Cosmicism (Season of Mist) – black metal
The Lone Madman – Let the Night Come (Saturnal) – doom
The Scourge – Warrant for Execution (Seeing Red) – thrash
The World Without Us – Incarnate (Independent) – metal
Throatsnapper – About the Dead (Consouling Sounds) – sludge / doom
Timelost – Don’t Remember Me For This (Golden Antenna) – noise / gaze
Tragic Death – Born of Dying Embers, EP (Independent) – apocalyptic metal
Tyrant Goatgaldrakona – Marquis of Evil, 7” (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Vamachara – Hereafter (Closed Casket Activities) – hardcore
Vision Divine – When All the Heroes Are Dead (Scarlet) – power metal
Voilet Cold – kOsmik (Tridroid) – black metal
We Lost the Sea – Triumph & Disaster (Translation Loss) – instru post-rock
Wolves Like Us – Brittle Bones (Pelagic) – metal
– Josh
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