
Had an interesting and funny conversation amongst the staff last week (our water cooler conversations are always golden) regarding tech death versus technical death metal which led into the myriad of varying genre tags. Out of nowhere came “I consider Judas Priest heavy metal, all else is just metal” which is accurate and great and made me roar with laughter – score. Really, it is that simple if you think about it…and then it’s not, everyone wants to know what they’re getting into up front. Either way, get into what this week has to offer.
To say I’ve been carried away by Moon Tooth’s Crux is the understatement of the year – it’s rock, it’s metal but most of all it’s MEMORABLE which is something we don’t get enough of these days so by all means, get yourself a copy STAT. Next up is the debut, Something Wicked Marches In, from Vltimas and I knew to expect a pummeling mixture of death and black metal based on the membership here but I didn’t count on this thing being as addictive as it is. Sliding into some nastier territory is Triumvir Foul with their blend of bestial black, death, and noise on Urine of Abomination, definitely drink this one in folks. Last up top is the third full length, Departed Souls, from Boston’s Magic Circle who show that a four year gap doesn’t mean a thing when a band can churn out doomy heavy metal as good as this, another MUST own so do that.
Those four could be the entire week but ALAS, there’s much more. Get in there with all the grind, death, core, post, black, rock, atmospheric, symphonic, heavy, power, instru-metal…I could go on for days. But I won’t.
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Moon Tooth – Crux (Modern Static) – technical rock [interview]
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Vltimas – Something Wicked Marches In (Season of Mist) – death metal
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Triumvir Foul – Urine of Abomination, EP (Vrasubatlat / Invictus / 20 Buck Spin) – black / death
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Magic Circle – Departed Souls (20 Buck Spin) – doom / heavy
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Also on tap:
A New Revenge – Enemies and Lovers (Golden Robot) – metal
Abduction – All Pain As Penance (Inferna Profundus) – black metal
Aihos – Hävityksen Maa (Helter Skelter) – black metal
Amber Tears – When No Trails (BadMood Man) – doom
Among Vultures – S/T (Tenacity Music) – deathmetalcore
Applaud the Impaler – Ov Apocalypse Incarnate (Unique Leader) – deathgrind
Arkotheism – Law of Seven Deaths (Osmose Productions) – black metal
Armagedda – The Final War Approaching, Reissue (Nordvis) – black metal
At Dusk – Condemned (Pacific Threnodies) – black metal
Blind Scryer – S/T (Independent) – stoner metal
Brightdelight – Invoke (Sliptrick) – metalcore
Childrain – The Silver Ghost (Independent) – groove / melodic death metal
Dark Legacy – The Rejects (Black Vulture) – symphonic death metal
Devin Townsend – Empath (InsideOut) – progressive
East of the Wall – NP Complete (Translation Loss) – progressive metal
Ellende – Lebensnehmer (AOP) – black metal
Enime – Bleeding Out (Independent) – thrash
Even Vast – Warped Existence (The Goatmancer) – doom
FLYKT – Charnel Heart (Folter Records) – black metal
Forever Autumn – Howls In the Forest at Dusk (Independent) – acoustic doom
Grave Infestation – Infesticide, Cassette Issue (Invictus) – death metal
Hootenanny Freaks – Freakshow (Secret Entertainment) – hard rock
Katu Kaiku – Luna (Svart) – jazz / power metal
KHNVM – Foretold Monuments of Flesh (Testimony) – death metal
Lee Mckinney – Infinite Mind (Sumerian) – instru-metal
Little Villains – Philthy Lies (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Philthy rock
Low Dose – S/T (Brutal Panda / Knife Hits) – grunge / punk
Lustre – Another Time, Another Place – Chapter One, Comp. (Morrowless Music) – ambient black metal
Lustre – Another Time, Another Place – Chapter Two, Comp. (Morrowless Music) – ambient black metal
Mechanical God Creation – The New Chapter (The Goatmancer Records) – death metal
Moros – Weapon (Hidden Deity Records) – doomy sludge
Musket Hawk – Upside of Sick (Unholy Anarchy) – sludge / grind
Necromutilator – Black Blood Aggression (Terror From Hell) – black / death
Nixa – Opus Tierra (War Anthem) – sludge
Nocturnal Hollow – A Whisper of a Horrendous Soul (Redefining Darkness / Raw Skull Recordz / BlackStorm) – death metal
Nordjevel – Necrogenesis (Osmose Productions) – black metal
Ola England – Master of the Universe (Independent) – progressive metal
Optical Sun – S/T, EP (Via Nocturna) – stoner doom
Pesterous Mind – Halluci.Nation (Boersma) – modern death metal
Plained – Epidemic of Mass Hysteria (Independent) – prog metal
Prison – Come, Annihilation (Independent) – hardcore
Rage of Light – Imploder (Napalm Records) – trance metal
Sándor Vály / Júlia Heéger – Sacred Songs – Hildegard Von Bingen Variations (Ektro) – compositional
Signs of Human Race – Inner Struggle of Self-Acceptance (Sliptrick) – progressive metal
Six of Swords – Regime Decay / Polar Vortex (Redefining Darkness / Raw Skull Recordz) – death metal
Skryptor – Luminous Volumes (Skin Graft / Aqualamb / Sleeping Giant Glossolia) – prog-noise
Skullsmasher – Rocket Hammer Brain Surgery (Selfmadegod) – grind
Slush – Lizard Skin (Independent) – punk / doom / blues
Something Is Waiting – Songs for the Sally Beauty Pavilion (Learning Curve Records) – noise
Sutekh Hexen – Cyclic Law (Sentient Ruin) – black / noise
TEL – Lowlife (Aural Music) – sludge / doom
The Black Moriah – Road Agents of the Blast Furnace (Folter) – black / thrash
The Black Sorcery – Wolven Degrade (Krucyator) – black / death
The Devil and the Almighty Blues – Tre (Blues for the Red Sun) – heavy rock
The Glorious Rebellion – Scholars of War, EP (Sludgelord Records) – noise
These Beasts – S/T, EP (Magnetic Eye) – noise
Thunderclap – Inebriocean (Financial Ruin) – doom
Tides of Sulfur – Paralysis of Reason (Sludgelord / APF / Astral Noize) – black / sludge
Totaled – Lament (Profound Lore) – blackened hardcore
Ultar – Pantheon MMXIX (Temple of Tortuous) – black metal
Undeath – Demo ’19 (Caligari Records) – death metal
Whitechapel – The Valley (Metal Blade Records) – deathcore
– Josh
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