It’s cold and that’s pretty much all I’ve got. Take that as you will. But, you know what warms me up? Another list of metal’s new releases — so, I’m in luck and you are too. Exactly what you are wondering…read on.
The UK’s Deitus return with their blasphemous second full length, Via Dolorosa, which finds the band leaning a little harder on the pure metal side of the black metal spectrum but still intense and still wildly entertaining. Next up, and another I, Voidhanger release, is Devil Worshipper on Music For the Endtimes and being that Ævangelist is in mastermind Matron Thorn’s wheelhouse, expect the same sort of extreme disdain for life, limb and existence as we know it on this debut. Moving right along, and with another D in the alphabet, is Dødsferd on Diseased Remnants of a Dying World which is Greece’s answer to raw black metal with a DSBM bent, and closing out the top slots is a Cronos fronted Venom on Storm the Gates so lay down your souls to the gods rock ‘n’ roll and get venomized — mileage may vary but it’s Venom so, there’s that.
I’m warmed…somewhat, but by the end of this list I’ll be toasty. Get in there and start a fire for yourself.
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Deitus – Via Dolorosa (I, Voidhanger) – black metal
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Devil Worshipper – Music For the Endtimes (I, Voidhanger) – extreme metal
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Dødsferd – Diseased Remnants of a Dying World (Transcending Obscurity) – black metal
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Venom – Storm the Gates (Spinefarm) – VENOM
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Also on tap:
Adaestuo – Krew Za Krew (W.T.C. Productions) – black / ambient
Black 8 Balls – When the Curtain Falls (Dedication Records) – hardcore
Comatose Vigil A.K. – Evangelium Nihil (Non Servium Records) – funeral doom
Currents – I Let the Devil In (Sharptone Records) – metalcore
Death Comes Crawling – Looking for Semblance (I, Voidhanger) – black metal
Defy the Curse – S/T (Hammerheart) – death metal
Demonbreed – Hunting Heretics (Testimony Records) – death metal
Devathorn / Inferno Zos – Vel Thagirion (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal
Dirge – Lost Empyrean (Debemur Morti Productions) – doom / post-metal
Excalibur – Generación Maldita, Reissue (Fighter Records) – heavy metal
Ferum – Vergence (Everlasting Spew Records) – death / doom
Goblinsmoker – Toad King (Sludgelord Records) – goblin stoner
Great Falls – A Sense of Rest (Throatruiner / Corpse Flower / Init) – post-hardcore / noise
Iterum Nata – The Course of Empire (Inverse) – occult folk
Jarboe – The Cut of the Warrior (Translation Loss) – experimental
Keziah – The Unknown (WOOAAARGH) – sludge / post-metal
Laid Back Townies – II (Inverse) – prog rock
Louna – Panopticon (Sliptrick) – alt-punk
Night Vapor – 1,000 Miles of Mud (Corpse Flower Records) – noise rock
ÖFÖ AM – Tales From Outerspace : An Octaman’s Odyssey (Lost Pilgrims Records) – stoner rock / instrumental
Siniestro – Arctic Blood (Black Lion Records) – black / thrash
Skulk, The Hulking – Afterbirth of a Nation (Independent) – avantgarde
Splendidula – Post Mortem (Inverse) – sludge / doom
Squalus & Shadow Limb – Mass and Power, Split (Translation Loss) – sludge / doom
Súl Ad Astral – Oasis (Flowing Downward) – blackgaze
Svarta Stugan – Islands / Öar (WOOAAARGH) – post-rock
Tor Marrock – The Concept of Self (Black Vulture Records) – cellar metal
Unendlich – Misanthropic Sedition, EP (Independent) – black metal
Ysengrin / Stargazer – D.A.V.V.N. (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – death metal
– Josh
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