It’s love week. Cupid, hearts….and all that. Who do you love? I say, who do you LOooOVE?! Whoa, the spirit of Bo Diddley got me for a sec. But, to further his point: we love metal and lists of new metal. We have both, in spades, right here. Keep reading, dear reader…
It’s been awhile since the last really good powerviolence fix but Endorphins Lost repair that missing element on the devastatingly vicious Seclusions – think Choose Your Way with more hate and venom. If you’ve been paying attention, speed metal with a heavy lean towards all things 80s is a very good thing and Chainbreaker do just that, tremendously so, on debut Lethal Desire. Saor don’t exactly break their own mold on Forgotten Paths but they still execute their brand of folk and atmospheric black metal well and if we we’re betting folks, we would bet that this album will be much better when played at Fire In the Mountains Fest. Last up top are the black ‘n’ punk phenoms Truchło Strzygi who offer one of the most seamless mixes of those two genres on Nad Którymi Nie Czuw Żaden Stróż.
Happy love week. Keep reading to find something you really love.
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Endorphins Lost – Seclusions (From the Head of Zeus) – powerviolence
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Chainbreaker – Lethal Desire (Hells Headbangers) – speed metal
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Saor – Forgotten Paths (Avantgarde Music) – atmospheric black metal / folk
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Truchło Strzygi – Nad Którymi Nie Czuw Żaden Stróż (Godz Ov War) – black ‘n’ punk
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Also on tap:
Asphodelus – Stygian Dreams (Terror From Hell) – doom / death
Backstabber – Conspiracy Theorist (Independent) – death metal
Blodhemn – Mot Ein Evig Ruin (Soulseller) – black metal
Born From Pain – True Love (BDHW) – hardcore
Caustic Vomit – Festering Odes to Deformity (Redefining Darkness) – death / doom
Cleaning Women – Intersubjectivity (Svart) – avantgarde
Crematory Stench – Grotesque Deformities (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Death Worship – End Times (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – black metal
Dzjenghis Khan – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – acid rock
Emerald Sabbath – North Star – A Tribute to Black Sabbath (Plastic Head) – doom
End of Silence – Sail To the Sunset (Wormholedeath / The Orchard / Aural Music) – metal
Endless Floods – Circle the Gold (Fvtvrecordings / Bigoût Records) – melodic metal
Eva Can’t – Febbraio (My Kingdom Music) – progressive metal
Evulse – Call of the Void (Godz Ov War) – death metal
Funereal Presence – Achatius (Ajna) – black metal
Gridfailure – Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery I (Nefarious) – avantgarde noise
Hellnite – Midnight Terrors (Sliptrick) – thrash
Herod – Sombre Dessein (Pelagic Records) – post-metal
Il Vuoto – Vastness (Hypnotic Dirge) – atmospheric / funeral doom
Illimitable Dolor / Promethean Misery – Split (Independent) – doom
Joyless Euphoria – Dreaming In Ultraviolet (Boersma) – post-black metal
Kaamos Warriors – Ikuisen Talven Sarastus (Inverse) – dark metal
Mastord – Trail of Consequence (Inverse) – progressive metal
Murmur – The Boundless Black (Independent) – dark folk
Oldd Wvrms – Codex Tenebris (Cursed Monk Records) – doom / drone / industrial
ROSS – Sing, Guslar!, LP (Ordo MCM) – power metal
Rotting Christ – The Heretics (Season of Mist) – black metal
Signo Rojo – End of Tether (Independent) – hardcore punk / sludge
Skraeckoedlan – Eorpe (Fuzzorama Records) – progressive metal
Snake Tongue – No Escape No Excuse, EP (The Sign) – metallic hardcore
Telümehtår – The Well (Hidden Marly Productions) – black metal
The Munsens – Unhanded (Sailor Records) – black /punk / metal
The Wandering Ascetic – Crimson (Transcending Obscurity) – black / thrash
Trauma – As the World Dies (Pure Steel Records) – heavy metal
Un / Coltsblood – Split (Independent) – doom
Vanir – Allfather (Mighty Music) – viking metal
Witchgoat – Egregors of the Black Faith (Morbid Skull Records / Hell Productions) – black/thrash metal
– Josh
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