Lots of things happening this month: March Madness, warmer weather (sort of) and the time change. So if you’re into any of that, have at it. Around here, new metal is what’s happening and if you came here looking for it you’re definitely in luck. Long list ahead so let’s get to it — first up is the absolutely vicious yet cuttingly personal black/death of Lo and I am Burning from Slaves BC. As you are all aware (or not) Josh Thieler writes for us from time to time and we love him dearly but that has nothing to do with top billing this week, this band has grown exponentially and have put their best foot forward here. Next up is Where Owls Know My Name by Rivers of Nihil and this is another album where a band has put their best foot forward, technical death metal that bleeds forward thinking and rules. Moving along is the extremely soothing dark folk of Ulvesang on The Hunt, this is the one you need while contemplating life or just trying to get through it — perfect soundtrack. Closing out the top slots this week is the EP Question from the Mexican quartet of the same name Question, this thing is ultra-aggressive, extreme and with four tracks it steamrolls the senses in the best way possible. Plenty of fodder already for end of year thoughts but there’s much more to get to. Stick around and bask in the rest…
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Slaves BC – Lo and I Am Burning (The Fear and The Void Recordings) – black / death [full review]
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Rivers of Nihil – Where Owls Know My Name (Metal Blade) – death metal [full review]
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Ulvesang – The Hunt (Nordvis Produktion) – darkfolk / neofolk
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Question – S/T (Caligari Records) – death metal
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Also on tap:
As Oceans – Still Miles To Go (Primitive Ways Records) – death metal
Balmog – Vacvvm (War Anthem Records) – black metal
Below a Silent Sky – A View From Afar (Independent) – sludge / doom
Black Wizard – Livin’ Oblivion (Listenable Records) – metal / rock
Cist – The Frozen Casket (Camo Pants Records) – death metal
Deconstructing Sequence – Cosmic Progression: An Agonizing Journey Through Oddities of Space (Independent) – extreme prog
Eyes of the Sun – Chapter 1 (Blacklight Media / Metal Blade) – doom / sludge
FerreTT – Snow On FerreTT Mountain, EP (Independent) – glam metal
Goath – II – Opposition (Van Records) – black / death
Godthrymm – A Grand Reclamation (Transcending Records) – doom metal
Gravehill – The Unchaste, The Wicked and The Profane (Dark Descent) – death metal
Green Druid – Ashen Blood (Earache Records) – psych stoner doom
Gygax – Second Edition (Creator-Destructor Records) – rock
Hell To Pay – Bliss (GTR Records) – metallic hardcore
Hell’s Coronation – Unholy Blades of the Devil (Godz Ov War Productions) – black metal
Hiidenhauta – 1695 (Inverse Records) – melodic black metal
High Reeper – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom / rock
Hypnotheticall – Synchreality (Revalve Records) – progressive metal
Jirm – Surge Ex Monumentis (Small Stone) – heavy rock
Judaswiege – Ashes of the Heretic (Godz Ov War Productions) – black / speed
Kevin Haskins – Bauhaus – Undead (Cleopatra Records) – book
Kingdom – Putrescent Remains of the Dead Ground (Godz Ov War Productions) – death metal
Little Caesar – Eight (Golden Robot Records) – rock
Malady – Toinen toista (Svart Records) – prog rock
Misanthropic Rage – Igna Natura Renovatur Integra (Godz Ov War Productions) – black metal
Monotheist – Scourge (Prosthetic Records) – progressive death metal
Moonshine Booze – Desert Road (Seahorse Recordings) – rock
Morbosidad – Corona de Epidemia (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – black / death
Mrykraverk – Near Döden (Blut & Eisen Productions) – black metal
NDE – United (Cold Spring) – industrial
North Hammer – Stormcaller (Independent) – folk metal
Oceans – Far From Composure (Independent) – post-hardcore
On Thorns I Lay – Aegean Sorrow (Alone Records / The Vinyl Division) – death / doom
Owl Maker – Paths of the Slain (Independent) – heavy metal
Pestilent Reign – Pyres (Rising Nemesis Records) – death metal
Rancorous – Into the Nuclear Fire (Independent) – death/thrash
Revel In Flesh – Relics of the Deathkult, Comp. (War Anthem Records) – death metal
Rites of Thy Degringolade – The Blade Philosophical (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – extreme metal
Rome In Monochrome – Away From Light (Bad Moon Man Music) – doomgaze
Saber Tiger – Bystander Effect (Sliptrick Records) – heavy metal
Schattenfall – Schatten In Schwarz, Reissue (Redefining Darkness) – atmospheric black metal
She Spread Sorrow – Midori (Cold Spring) – industrial
Sojourner – The Shadowed Road (Folkvangr Records / Avantgarde Music) – folk metal
Stillborn – Crave for Killing (Godz Ov War Productions) – death metal
The Crown – Cobra Speed Venom (Metal Blade) – thrash
Therion – Blood Of the Dragon (Stygian Crypt Productions / Possession Productions) – metal / rock covers
Twingiant – Mass Driver, Reissue (Sludgelord Records) – psych doom
Veiled – Black Celestial Orbs (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
– Josh
