Hard to keep track of all the things going on in the world and as time goes by it’s just as hard to keep up with your own corner of the world. After all these years I haven’t found that magic trigger that slows time but just as well…I guess. No, it’s not cryptic — it just is. A wise man once said “it is what it is.” Right on, dude. Anywhooo, new metal is why you came and that we have a lot of so let’s jump in. First up is the ever satisfying Finnish death metal in the form of Ghastly on Death Velour, Finnish and death metal are a match made for each other, nuff said. Next is Pinkus Abortion Technician from the always reliable Melvins, here we have some mash ups and reimaginings from the vets of sludge / noise / rock — reliable and great. Moving along is Siege Bondage Adverse to the Godhead from Dagger Lust which proves to be the most cohesive their brand of noise and extreme metal has been thus far. Last up top is the blackened death metal of Demonic Obedience on Fatalistic Uprising of Abhorrent Creation and even though I cringe at “blackened,” these guys get it absolutely right and it sounds amazing. As you know by now we are not ones to leave you hanging at just four albums, so get in there and take in the rest of this massive list.
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Ghastly – Death Velour (20 Buck Spin) – death metal
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Melvins – Pinkus Abortion Technician (Ipecac Recordings) – melvins.
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Dagger Lust – Siege Bondage Adverse to the Godhead (Invictus / Vrasubatlat) – black / grind [feature review]
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Demonic Obedience – Fatalistic Uprising of Abhorrent Creation (Satanath / Sevared) – black / death [full review]
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A Perfect Circle – Eat The Elephant (BMG) – rock
Abolishment of Flesh – The Inhuman Condition (Unholy Anarchy) – extreme metal
Adzalaan – Into Vermilion Mirrors (Invictus / Vrasubatlat) – black / death metal [feature review]
Ails – The Unraveling (The Flenser) – avant-garde metal
Altar of Perversion – Intra Naos (The Ajna Offensive / Norma Evangelium Diaboli) – black metal
Assumption – Absconditus (Sentient Ruin / Everlasting Spew) – death / doom metal
Baby Bones – The Curse of the Crystal Teeth (Gubbey Records) – surf punk
Bang – Best of Bang (Ripple Music) – proto-metal
BC35 – BC35: The 35th Anniversary of BC Studio, Comp. (Bronson Recordings) – avante-garde
Ben Chisholm & Felix Skinner – Burgeoning Verse (Weyrd Son Records) – post-rock
Bison – Earthbound (No List Records) – sludge
Bolu2 Death – Spiral (Necromance Records) – hardcore
Cancer Bats – The Spark That Moves (Batskull Records) – hardcore / metal
Celtachor – Fiannaiocht (Trollzorn) – folk metal
Choral Hearse – Mire Exhumed (Independent) – progressive doom
Dark Buddha Rising – II (Neurot Recordings) – psych doom
Desekryptor / Draghkar – Split, 7” (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Fedrespor – Tid (Nordvis) – folk metal
Grave Upheaval – (untitled) (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – black / death [full review]
Groom Epoch – Solar Warden (Golden Robot Records) – prog rock
Gus G – Fearless (AFM) – hard rock
Haraball – Hypno (Fysisk Format) – hardcore
Hypnos – The GBG Sessions (The Sign Records) – rock
Inferi – Revenant (The Artisan Era) – tech / melodic death
Infinitee – The Possibilities Are Endless (Independent) – progressive / djent
Inkvisitor – Dark Arts of Sanguine Rituals (Independent) – thrash
King Goat – Debt of Aeons (Aural Music) – doom
KŁY – Szczerzenie (Pagan Records) – black metal
Ljáin – Endasálmar og klofnar tungur (Signal Rex) – black metal
Methedrine – Built For Speed (Kornalcielo Records) – thrash
Mordor – Darkness… (Pagan Records) – doom
Nigredo – Flesh Torn – Spirit Pierced (Transcending Obscurity Records) – black metal
Orphanage Named Earth – Re-evolve (Argonauta Records) – sludge / hardcore
Pohjonen Alanko – Northern Lowland (Svart Records) – electronic
Profane Order – Tightened Noose of Sanctimony, Reissue (Krucyator Productions) – black metal
Robospierre – Garden of Hell (Shadow Kingdom) – heavy metal
Ross the Boss – By Blood Sworn (AFM) – heavy metal
Scarificare – Tilasm (Helldprod Records) – atmospheric / extreme
Schrat – Alptraumgänger (Folter Records) – black metal
Sense of Fear – As the Ages Passing By… (Rockshots Records) – heavy metal
Serum Dreg – Lustful Vengeance (Invictus / Vrasubatlat) – black / death [feature review]
Sleep – The Sciences (Third Man Records) – stoner doom
Soom – Djebars (Robustfellow / Addicted Label / Voron Nest / KVLT OV Ï) – doom
Speedclaw – Beast In the Mist (Shadow Kingdom) – heavy metal
Summon – Parazv II Zilittv (Iron Bonehead) – black / death
Svederna – Svedjeland (Carnal Records) – black metal
Temperance – Of Jupiter and Moons (Scarlet Records) – melodic metal
Tons – Filthy Flowers of Doom (Heavy Psych Sounds) – sludge
Various Artists – Brown Acid – The Sixth Trip (RidingEasy Records) – proto metal / rock
Varmia – W ciele nie (Pagan Records) – black metal
Vomitor – Pestilent Death (Hells Headbangers) – death metal
Vyre – Weltformel (Supreme Chaos Records) – avantgarde black metal
Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III (Century Media) – black metal
Wild Hunt – Afterdream Of the Reveler (Vendetta Records) – black / doom
Witch Tripper – I, Of The Storm (Independent) – stoner rock
– Josh
