What album grabbed you last week? And I mean, really grabbed hold and wouldn’t let go? One, several, all? Well, just as you thought it was safe to keep listening to that or those, here we have a whole new list of metal to sink your teeth into. It’s what we do, you’re welcome. Enough small talk, there’s much to get to. What, you ask? Keep reading…
If you ride with #ArchgoatArmy – and you should – you’re in for a treat since they’re back with The Luciferian Crown which turns over more of their hypnotic groove but never lays off the twisted black / death we’ve come to know and love. Deicide’s Satan loving might be a tad blasé but with Overtures of Blasphemy they prove that after nearly thirty years they can still make some damn good death metal. Switching gears a bit with black metal and violins (yes, you read that right) is Alma from Windfaerer and on this, their third full length, the folk aspect and black metal are a perfect marriage. One more switch up before I officially unleash you on the rest of the list: Mankind Woman from Brant Bjork is some damn sweet desert rock that recalls the early days of the genre he helped to build but combines all his talents under one roof and the album is phenomenal because of it.
NOW you are officially unleashed. Enjoy.
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Archgoat – The Luciferian Crown (Debemur Morti Productions) – black / thrash
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Deicide – Overtures of Blasphemy (Century Media) – death metal
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Windfaerer – Alma (Avantgarde Music) – black metal
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Brant Bjork – Mankind Woman (Heavy Psych Sounds Records) – desert rock
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Also on tap:
A-Sun Amissa – Ceremony In the Stillness (Gizeh Records / Consouling Sounds) – doom
Abhorrence – Megalohydrothalassophobic (Svart Records) – death metal
Aeolian – Silent Witness (Snow Wave Records) – melodic death metal
Anisoptera – Spawn of Odonata (Independent) – progressive death metal
Black Viper – Hellions of Fire (High Roller Records) – heavy / speed
Bosse-de-nage – Further Still (The Flenser) – post black metal [feature review]
Burial Hordes – ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ ΑΙΩΝΙΟΣ (Folter Records) – black / death
Colonel Petrov’s Good Judgement – Among Servants (Moral Machine) – experimental metal
Conan – Existential Void Guardian (Napalm Records) – doom
Crucible of Hate – Dark Metamorphosis (Independent) – death metal
Cultural Warfare – Warmageddon (M-Theory Audio) – thrash
Diabolic Force – Praise of Satan (Hells Headbangers) – black / speed
Druglord – New Day Dying (Sludgelord Records) – doom
Dunbarrow – Dunbarrow II (RidingEasy Records) – hard rock
Emma Ruth Rundle – On Dark Horses (Sargent House) – dark singer / songwriter
Entierro – S/T (Independent) – thrash / doom
Ethernity – The Human Race Extinction (AFM) – progressive metal
Future Usses – The Existential Haunting (Pelagic Records) – psych rock
Fuzz Evil – High On You (Independent) – rock
Goat Sperm – Voice in the Womb, EP (Inferna Profundus Records) – black / death
Grave Digger – The Living Dead (Napalm Records) – heavy metal
Grisly – The Spectral Wars (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Guerilla Toss – Twisted Crystal (DFA) – art rock
Hessian – Mercenary Retrograde (Urtod Void / Blasphlegmy Records) – heavy metal
Hitman – The Offering: Side 1, EP (Independent) – modern metal
Hitten – Twist of Fate (High Roller Records) – heavy metal
Horsewhip – S/T (Financial Ruin) – hardcore
Hyperdontia – Nexus of Teeth (Dark Descent) – death metal
Infernal Coil – Within a World Forgotten (Profound Lore) – black metal
Irreversible Mechanism – Immersion (Blood Music) – technical death metal
Kult – The Eternal Darkness I Adore (Folter Records) – black metal
Ominous Eclipse – Sinister (Independent) – death metal
Pantheist – Seeking Infinity (Melancholic Realm Productions) – doom
P.H.O.B.O.S. – Phlogiston Catharsis (Transcending Obscurity) – doom / black
Plague Rider – Rhizome (Panurus Productions / Inverted Grim-Mill Productions) – tech death
Radux – Disaster Imminent (Svart Records) – thrash
Sepulcher – Panoptic Horror (Edged Circle Productions) – death metal
Soen – Lykaia Revisited (Silver Lining Music) – post metal
Soulhealer – Up From the Ashes (Rockshots Records) – power metal
Source – S/T, Reissue (High Roller Records) – heavy metal
The Mutineers – Threshold, EP (Mutiny Studios) – rock
Tomb of Finland – Frozen Beneath (Mighty Music) – melodic doom
Witch King – Voice of the Ossuary (Blood Harvest) – black/death
Wrestling – Ride On Freaks (Inverse Records) – heavy metal
Xalpen – Wowk Ottr (Morbid Skull Records) – black metal
– Josh
