God-DAMN, what a new release Friday we’ve got today. Even if all we had dropping today was the new Cobalt, it’d still have been a hell of a day. In case it wasn’t clear, that’s your reminder to pick up the band’s long-awaited third album, Slow Forever. It’s an absolute triumph, and a surefire album-of-the-year contender. (Yes, it’s March. Not comfortable dropping “AOTY” bombs this early? Let’s give it a more timely nickname: how about “No. 1 Overall Seed”? #Madness)
But in fact, Cobalt’s not the only thing dropping today. Not by a long shot. We’ve also got Krighsu, the new record from Spanish brutal/tech deathsters Wormed (WORMED), and new stuff from Rotten Sound and…sigh…Amon Amarth, among others. Like I said, it’s a big day. So let’s not waste any more time; here’s what’s on tap for Friday, March 25:
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March 25, 2016
Cobalt – Slow Forever (Profound Lore)
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Wormed – Krighsu (Season of Mist)
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Rotten Sound – Abuse to Suffer (Season of Mist)
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Other New Releases of Note:
- Amon Amarth – Jomsviking (Metal Blade)
- The Body and Full of Hell – One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache (Neurot)
- Spiritual Beggars – Sunrise to Sundown (Inside Out)
- Artillery – Penalty By Perception (Metal Blade)
- Metal Church – XI (Rat Pak)
- Necronomicon – Advent of the Human God (Season Of Mist)
- Ragnarok – Psychopathology (Agonia)
- Like Rats – Like Rats (Southern Lord)
- Horrified – Of Despair (Stormspell)
- Ifrinn – Ifrinn EP (Iron Bonehead) [full review]
- Rorcal – Creon (Halo of Flies) [full review]
- La Chinga – Freewheelin’ (Small Stone) [full review]
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Keep it heavy,
Dan
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