Monday. I got nothing. Well, I take that back – I’ve got new metal and lots of it so let’s focus on that…
Up first is a twofer of outstanding death metal. Appalling have a way about them that screams old school death yet sounds forward enough in their brash mix of blackened, thrashened (two in a row, fight me) death and not to mention their outstanding ability to write a killer song so give Inverted Realm a spin at max volume. Once that one’s done take a stroll through another album with incredibly memorable songwriting and death metal thick enough that even a chainsaw couldn’t cut through it, Parasitic Slavery from Body Harvest is one you’ll not want to miss. Kampfar has been around for nearly 25 years and still manage to put out some of the darkest black metal going today and on Ofidians Manifest they do it darker and better than ever. Last but not least is Mavradoxa on their melodic leaning atmospheric black metal filled Nightmarrow which is a beast on several levels and stay tuned for an in depth look at this one in the coming days.
See, I actually did have something. Here. Not elsewhere. Not today.
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Appalling – Inverted Realm (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
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Body Harvest – Parasitic Slavery (Comatose Music) – death metal
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Kampfar – Ofidians Manifest (Indie Recordings) – black metal
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Mavradoxa – Nightmarrow (Hypnotic Dirge) – atmospheric black metal
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Also on tap:
Amiensus – Restoration, Remastered (Casus Belli Musica / Beverina) – progressive black metal
Amiensus / Oak Pantheon – Gathering I & II, Vinyl Issue (Casus Belli Musica / Beverina) – atmospheric black metal
Amon Amarth – Berserker (Metal Blade) – viking heavy metal
Amygdala – Our Voices Will Soar Forever (Prosthetic) – punk / hardcore
Asomvel – World Shaker (Heavy Psych Sounds) – heavy metal
Burial – Relinquished Souls, Repress (Raw Skull Recordz) – death metal
Clouds Taste Satanic – Evil Eye (Independent) – doom
Deiphago – I, The Devil (Hells Headbangers) – black / death
Deus Mortem – Kosmocide (Terratur Possessions / Malignant Voices) – black metal
Dune Sea – S/T (All Good Clean) – stoner
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – End of Suffering (International Death Cult) – rock
Kollaps – Mechanical Christ (Cold Spring) – industrial
Kull – Exile (Black Lion) – sympohonic black metal
Kurokuma – Sheffield’s Best Metal Bands Vol. 1 (Off Me Nut) – sludge / psych [profile]
Lord Vicar – The Black Powder (The Church Within) – doom
Merrick’s Tusk – Between the Earth and the Trees (Undead Collective) – post-hardcore
Mollo Rilla – S/T (Seeing Red) – rock
Mos Generator – Night of the Lords, Live (Devil’s Child) – heavy metal
Murdryck – Födelsen (Leviaphonic Records / Growls From the Underground) – black metal
Myrath – Shehili (earMUSIC) – progressive metal
Norden – Z Popiołów i Krwi..., Vinyl Issue (Casus Belli Musica / Beverina) – viking black metal
Novarupta – Disillusioned Fire (Suicide Records) – metal
Nyt Liv – Ensomhedens Kold Kald (Indisciplinarian) – hardcore
Osiah – Kingdom of Lies (Unique Leader) – deathcore
Pa Vash En – Cryptic Rites of Necromancy, EP (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Pectora – Untaken (Mighty Music) – heavy metal
Ringworm – Death Becomes My Voice (Relapse) – hardcore
Sick Gazelle – Odum (War Crime Recordings) – avantgarde
Sins of the Damned – Striking the Bell of Death (Shadow Kingdom) – heavy metal
Solitude – Reach for the Sky (Mighty Music) – heavy metal
Stellar Master Elite – Hologram Temple (Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork) – black / doom
Sxuperion – Endless Spiritual Embodiment (Bloody Mountain) – doom / death
Timelurker & Cepheide – Split (Ladlo) – metal
The Shrine – Cruel World, EP (Eliminator) – skate-rock
Thronehammer – Usurper of the Oaken Throne (Church Within) – doom
Turin Turambar – Czas braku wojny (Pagan Records) – bizarre metal
Verwüstung – Gospel ov Fury (Handful of Hate) – black / thrash
– Josh
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