
Ok so, current events happened — blah, blah. No time to waste this week as we have a TON of new metal to get into so waste not here we go: Casket Huffer rule the week with a limited vinyl and digital release of their absolutely sick death metal debut Gospels of Scum. There’s no amount of words I can say here to convince you to pick this up but trust me when I say you NEED this album in your life, period. Next up is Artificial Brain with Infrared Horizon and honestly this is a mindf**k of a technical death metal (not tech death) album but in the best of ways so DO check it out, you’ll be glad you did. Moving on, everyone’s favorite Finns Foreseen return with their second full length Grave Danger and if you loved Helsinki Savagery (most of you did) then you will feel the same about this thrashtastic album, jump on it. Rounding out the opening slots is Night Demon with their second full length of wickedly good and classically tinged heavy metal, Darkness Remains — yes it is every bit as good as their debut and yes it is every bit as catchy, pick it up for the sake of all things metal. There you have it with the opening salvo but I did say there is a TON to wade through so get cracking, right after the jump.
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Casket Huffer – Gospels of Scum, Limited LP (Hibernation Release Records) – death metal [full review]
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Artificial Brain – Infrared Horizon (Profound Lore) – death metal [full review]
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Foreseen – Grave Danger (20 Buck Spin) – thrash metal
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Night Demon – Darkness Remains (Century Media/SPV) – heavy metal
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Also on tap:
A Long Way to Fall – Hatemosphere (Rockaine Records) – metalcore
Agresiva – Decibel Ritual (Minotauro Records) – heavy metal
Arctic Sleep – Arbors & Passage of Gaia Re-Releases (The Church Within Records) – doom metal
Avulsed – Night of the Living Deathgenerations, Live (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Blood of Angels – Rise of the Fallen Gods, EP (Hollywood Collective) – melodic death metal
Brown Acid – The Fourth Trip, Comp. (RidingEasy Records) – psych, rock, proto-metal
Cloud Rat/Crevasse – Split (Halo of Flies) – grind, powerviolence
Cloven Hoof – Who Morns for the Morning Star (High Roller Records) – heavy metal
Cry My Name – Reflections (Bastardized Recordings) – metalcore
Cryonic Temple – Into the Glorious Battle (Scarlet Records) – power metal [full review]
Cult of Luna – Years In A Day, DVD/Box Set (Indie Recordings) – post metal
Devil – To the Gallows (Soulseller Records) – doom, rock, heavy metal
Disharmony – The Abyss Noir (Grimm Distribution) – progressive doom metal
Emptybrook – S/T, EP (Inverse Records) – sludge metal
Enslaved – Roadburn Live (Roadburn Records/By Norse) – black metal
Farsot – Fail lure (Lupus Lounge/Prophecy Productions) – experimental black metal
Game Over – Blessed Are the Heretics, EP (Scarlet Records) – thrash metal
Ghost Bath – Starmourner (Nuclear Blast) – atmospheric black metal
Goldenpyre – In Eminent Disgrace (Signal Rex) – death metal
Guerrilla Ghost – Suicide Notes of the 21st Century (Triple Eye Industries) – punk, rap, hardcore
Hessaja – Planet Sedam: Ison, EP (WOOAAARGH) – progressive metal
Hiram-Maxim – Ghosts (Aqualamb) – shoegaze
In Death… – The Devil Speaks (Plastic Head) – death metal
Internal Bleeding – Final Justice, Single (Unique Leader) – death metal
Les Discrets – Prédateurs (Prophecy Productions) – post metal
Martyr Defiled – Young Gods (Independent) – metalcore
Medusa1975 – Rising From the Ashes (Svart Records) – psych hard rock
Moonbow – War Bear (Ripple Music) – rock
Mortör – Burn Up the Dead (CDN) – thrash, death metal
Mourners Lament – We All Be Given (Hammerheart Records) – doom, death metal
My Silent Wake – Damnatio Memoriae, Reissue (Minotauro Records) – doom, death metal
Obelyskkh – The Providence (Exile On Mainstream) – sludge, doom metal
Pale King – Monolith of the Malign (Soulseller Records) – death metal
Pyroxene – S/T, EP (Inverse Records) – heavy metal
Resurrect the Machine – Uncover the Truth (Minotauro Records) – metal, rock
Selvans – Lupercalia, Cassette (Fólkvangr Records) – atmospheric black metal
Syndrømes – S/T, EP (Halo of Flies) – crust, hardcore
Tehom – The Merciless Light (Blood Harvest) – death metal
The Electric Coast – Warming Quilt (Boersma Records) – punk, alt
The Projectionist – Exalted Solitude (Appalachian Noise Records/The True Plague Records) – black metal
The Sonic Dawn – Into the Long Night (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psychedelic alt rock
Toby Driver – Madonnawhore (The Flenser) – atmospheric
Ulvegr – Titahion Kaos Manifest (Ashen Dominion) – black metal
Vomit Remnants – Hyper Groove Brutality (Unique Leader) – brutal death metal
– Josh
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