Sick and twisted times call for sick and twisted music…
Leading the charge this week is one of the sickest bands in metal: Primitive Man. They may only be on their second full length but throughout their vast library of splits and EPs this band is consistently massive and Caustic heavy handedly continues the tradition but sicker and somehow more twisted. Next up is debut full length The Unlawful Assembly from black metallers Dawn Ray’d and the press surrounding this release is more than warranted. It’s not only very good black metal but carries a timely message or stance, if you will. Moving along is the impressive doom and 70s folk/prog of Dreadnought on A Wake In Sacred Waves, this is an album that truly washes over you (no pun intended). Last up in the top slots is the towering Curse of Conception from Spirit Adrift, this thing is full of traditional doom and heavy metal aplenty, sound good? It is, trust me. That’s it for the for the first four but as it usually goes, there’s so much more right after the jump. So, GET IN THERE.
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Primitive Man – Caustic (Relapse Records) – doom / extreme / misery [full review]
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Dawn Ray’d – The Unlawful Assembly (Halo of Flies, Feast of Tentacles) – black metal [feature]
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Dreadnought – A Wake In Sacred Waves (Sailor Records) – doom metal [full review]
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Spirit Adrift – Curse of Conception (20 Buck Spin) – doom
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Also on tap:
Angel Vivaldi – Synapse (Independent) – guitar rock
Battle Dagaroth – II – Frozen Light of Eternal Darkness (Avantgarde Music) – doom
Ben Blutzukker – Riptide (Independent) – heavy metal
Bloodmoon / Trapped Within Burning Machinery – Split (Midnite Collective/Black Voodoo) – black metal
Chaos Moon – Origin of Apparition and Langour Into Echoes, Beyond, Reissue (Folkvangr Records) – black metal
Cosmic Void Ritual – The Execreted Remains of the Sabatier System (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Ctulu – Cultus in Tenebris (Static Tension Recordings) – black metal
Damnation Defaced – Invader From Beyond (Apostasy Records) – death metal
Dark Waters End – Submersion (Independent) – progressive death metal
Deafkids – Configuração Do Lamento (Neurot Recordings) – avantgarde
Decatur – Badder than Brooklyn (Independent) – modern metal
Dreamshift – Seconds (STF Records) – atmospheric black metal
Empty Threat – Shutdown Nowhere, EP (Independent) – rock
Ensepulchar – No Sanctity in Death (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Groke’s Clan – Vicious Circles (Independent) – prog thrash
Street Sects – Rat Jacket (The Flenser) – electronic rock
Haemorrhage – We Are the Gore (Relapse Records) – goregrind
House of Broken Promises – Twisted, EP (Heavy Psych Sounds) – hard rock
Horse Head – Terminal (Independent) – hardcore
Insurrection – Extraction (Galy Records) – death metal
Inverted Serenity – As Spectres Wither (Independent) – death metal
Klogr – Keystone (Zeta Factory) – alternative metal [feature]
Lento – Fourth (Consouling Sounds) – doom
Lo! – Vestigial (Pelagic Records) – doom/post-metal
Lord of the Lost – Swan Songs II (Napalm Records) – heavy classical
Malphas – Incantation (Independent) – black metal
Märvel – At the Sunshine Factory (The Sign Records) – swedish rock
Mason – Impervious (Independent) – thrash
Methodical Perversion – No Offense (Independent) – grind
Necromante – The Magikal Presence of Occult Forces (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Omotai – A Ruined Oak (Tofu Carnage) – sludge
Rancho Bizarro – S/T (Argonauta) – stoner rock
Raventale – Planetarium (Ashen Dominion) – atmospheric black metal
Rekoma – Eadem Errata (Inverse Records) – heavy metal
Snakes / Crosss – Split (Scavenger Cult) – rock
Spotlights – Seismic (Ipecac Recordings) – post-metal
Sutekh Hexen / Hissing – Split (The Flenser) – death/black metal
The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers (Metal Blade) – death metal
The Great Discord – The Rabbit Hole (The Sign Records) – progressive hard rock
The Lords of Altamont – The Wild Sounds of the Lords of Altamont (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych rock
Vehement – Ashes (Infernum Records) – black metal
Wailin Storms – Sick City (Kryzku Records) – doom punk
– Josh
