First full week of this time change and I already feel better. Under the guise of having a hard time with it, did you miss anything we had last week? Go back and research but do, at the very least, catch our February album of the month chat for Ithaca’s The Language of Injury, and I’ll make it easy for you – link here. New week and new metal, GO.
Leading this charge is NY’s Sigils with their spine tingling doom debut You Built the Altar, You Lit the Leaves, its soaring melancholy meets occult themes and personal backstory makes for a splendid experience. Next up, Gods Without Name from Aoratos (new offering from the mind behind Akhlys) is a whirling maelstrom of black metal with a terrifying atmosphere, no surprise here from Naas Alcameth. Moving right along, Tempel who combine good-time old school metal, rock and hardcore for a sound that’s, well…, a damn good time on Tempel. Last up top is California’s Tryptamyne who recently found a home for Tryptamyne with upstart label Vargheist Records and since the label deals in a niche corner of the extreme, this blend of grind and progressive elements with an experimental flair is a perfect fit.
Beyond these four, a massive pile awaits…
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Sigils – You Built the Altar, You Lit the Leaves (Independent) – doom [profile]
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Aoratos – Gods Without Name (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal
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Tempel – S/T (Jansen) – metal [full review]
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Tryptamyne – S/T, EP (Vargheist Records) – avantgarde
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Also on tap:
Accursed Spawn – The Virulent Host (PRC) – death metal
Aephanemer – Prokopton (Independent) – death metal
Almost Honest – Seiches and Sirens (Electric Talon) – groove metal
Ashen Horde – Fallen Cathedrals (Extreme Metal Music) – prog death / black
Battle Beast – No More Hollywood Endings (Nuclear Blast) – heavy metal
Bleeding Utopia – Where the Light Comes To Die (Black Lion / Spiritual Beast) – melodic death metal
Bloodbound – Rise of the Dragon Empire (AFM) – symphonic metal
Booby Trap – Stand Up And Fight (Firecum Records) – thrash
Cardinals Folly / Lucifer’s Fall – Split (Cruz Del Sur) – doom
Dälek – Respect to the Authors, 12” EP (Exile On Mainstream) – alt hip hop
Dim Aura – The Triumphant Age of Death (Saturnal) – black metal
Dominanz – Let the Death Enter (Mighty Music) – black metal / extreme
Draghkar – Eternal Abyss (Horror Pain Gore Death) – death metal
Dwarrowdelf – Of Dying Lights (Flowing Downward) – black metal
Eggs of Gomorrh – Outpregnate (Krucyator) – black / death
Evergreen Refuge – Skyward (A Moment of Clarity) – ambient / black metal
Folian – Ache Pillars (Apneic Void Sounds) – experimental noise
Goatkraft – Sulphurous Northern Bestiality (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Good Tiger – Redux, Remix EP (Metal Blade) – metal
Gore – Revanche (Exile On Mainstream) – instru-tech metal
Grave Violator – Back to the Cult (Reaper Metal Productions) – speed metal
High Reeper – Higher Reeper (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych metal
Idiot Sect – S/T, EP (Independent) – grind / thrash
Illimitable Dolor – Leaden Light (Transcending Obscurity) – atmospheric death / doom
Imprecation – Damnatio Ad Bestias (Dark Descent) – death metal
Iron Griffin – Curse of the Sky (Gates of Hell) – heavy metal
Megadeth – Warheads on Foreheads (Capitol) – thrash
Meridian – Margin of Error (Mighty Music) – heavy metal
Mother of Millions – Artifacts (Vicisolum) – progressive metal
Niggght – Violent Delicacy, EP (Independent) – psych metal
Nusquama – Horizon Ontheemt (Eisenwald/Haeresis Novoimagi) – black metal
Obsidian Sea – Strangers (Ripple Music) – doom
Obscuring Veil – Fleshvoid to Naught (I, Voidhanger Records) – black metal
Our Dying World – Expedition, EP (Independent) – metal
Parting Gift – Ensom, EP (Fearless) – punk
Putrefied Corpse – Left to Rot (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Raiju – Non Sequitor (Independent) – alt-metal
Red Sun Rising – Peel, EP (Razor & Tie) – rock
Schattenfall – Melancholie des Seins (Redefining Darkness) – atmospheric black metal
Sermon – Birth of the Marvellous (Prosthetic) – progressive metal
Shabti – Trembling and Shorn (Last Mercy Emissions) – black/death
Stahlmann – Kinder Der Sehnsucht (AFM) – metal
Terror Oath – S/T, EP (Iron Bonehead) – black / death
The Flaying – Angry, Undead (PRC) – death metal
Thecodontion – Jurassic, 7″ (Xenoglossy Productions) – experimental noise
The Owls Are Not What They Seem – Feral Blood (Eleventh Key) – dark ambient
Tia Carrera – Visitors / Early Purple (Small Stone) – psych rock
Truth Corroded – Bloodlands (Unique Leader) – death / thrash
Ultra Silvam – The Spearwound Salvation (Shadow) – black metal
Undead Prophecies – Sempiternal Void (Listenable) – death metal
Unnatural Ways – The Paranoia Party (Sleeping Giant Glossolia) – avantgarde
Usurper – Lords of the Permafrost (Soulseller) – heavy metal
Vircolac – Masque (Dark Descent / Sepulchral Voice) – metal
Witnesses – To disappear and to be nothing (Independent) – doom
Ysengrin – Réincrudation (I, Voidhanger Records) – dark metal
Zero Fire – Second Sun, EP (Independent) – hard rock / alt-metal
– Josh
