Did you spend some quality time with your valentine? Yea, it was in the middle of the week…and work…and stuff. But, it’s the weekend now so no excuses right?! Take them camping, start a fire, go for a hike but whatever you do, don’t forget your headphones and might want to bring a splitter so you both can enjoy what this week’s new releases have to offer. Kicking off this week of heart’s is Austria’s Harakiri for the Sky as they continue to mix post-metal melancholy with black metal aggressiveness on Arson, thought provoking black metallers Eignelicht offer up their highly anticipated full length debut Self-Annihilating Consciousness and even though it’s only five tracks its all consuming nature makes it feel so much more expansive, Chaos Echoes successfully trump their own astounding debut on Mouvement and further prove that they are the reigning champs of extremely complex and contextual music, rounding out the opening slots: punk attitude meets hardcore intensity on The Good The Bad and The Zugly‘s third full length Misanthropical House. As you can clearly see, buying that headphone splitter is a great idea so you can share all the good stuff this week has to offer. There’s more to follow so head inside and enjoy.
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Harakiri For The Sky – Arson (AOP Records) – black / post-metal
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Eigenlicht – Self-Annihilating Consciousness (Gilead Media / I, Voidhanger) – black metal [full review]
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Chaos Echoes – Mouvement (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – experimental / progressive metal [feature review]
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The Good The Bad and the Zugly – Misanthropical House (Fysisk Format) – hardcore [feature]
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Also on tap:
Ataraxy – Where All Hope Fades (Dark Descent Records) – death / doom
Bible Black Tyrant – Regret Beyond Death (Argonauta Records) – sludge / doom
Coffin Torture – Dismal Planet (Sludgelord Records) – sludge / doom [feature]
Cryptivore – Unseen Divinity (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Empress – Reminiscence (Independent) – psych / doom
Japan Suicide – Santa Sangre (Unknown Pleasures Records) – alt-rock
Global Scum – Hell is Home (NRT Records) – death metal
Horizon Ablaze – The Weight of a Thousand Suns (Leviatan / Diger) – avant-extreme
Jinjer – Cloud Factory, Reissue (Napalm Records) – metalcore
Loathe / Holding Absence – Split (Sharptone) – experimental / post-hardcore
Lurker of Chalice – S/T, Reissue (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – black metal
My Silent Wake – There Was Death (Minotauro Records) – death doom
Nate Bohnet – Therapeutic Destruction (Independent) – grind / death
Natraxas – III (Independent) – psych rock
Nebula – To The Center, Reissue (Heavy Psych Sounds) – desert psych
Necrolytic Goat Converter – Removed From Sight, EP (Independent) – black metal
Neolithic / Martyrdöd – Split, 7” (Deep Six Records) – crust
Noose Rot – The Creeping Unknown (Independent) – death metal
Novareign – Legends (M-Theory Audio) – progressive power metal
Obscene – Sermon to the Snake (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Ophe – Litteras Ad Tristia Maestrum Solitude (My Kingdom Music) – avantgarde black metal
Ossuarium – Calcified Trophies of Violence (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Overhung – Moving Ahead (Test Your Metal Records) – rock
Painted Doll – S/T (Tee Pee Records) – psych death
Revenger – The New Mythology Vol. 1 (Indepedent) – thrash
Shambles – Primitive Death Trance (Blood Harvest) – death doom
Supernaughty – Vol. 1 (Argonauta Records) – rock
Thal – Reach for the Dragon’s Eye (Argonauta Records) – rock
The Cops – First Offense (Artificial Head Records) – punk
Thecodontion – Thecodontia (Gravplass Propaganda) – black metal
Thy Kingdom Slum – A History of Dissent (Slum World Productions) – groove metal [feature]
Verikalpa – Taiselutahto (Inverse Records) – folk / troll metal
Visions of Atlantis – The Deep & The Dark (Napalm Records) – power metal
– Josh
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