Do you still get that rush when you find a new band that just does it for you? Or how about a new album from an old favorite that does the same? Each week these lists offer chances to experience that and this one is no different so let’s get the ball rollin’.
Darkthrone chose to let the fans hear new album Old Star, in its entirety, before anyone so Friday is the day to hear what will surely be the next chapter of black n’ punk that we’ve come to expect, love, and crank as loud as possible. Italian death metallers Fulci return with their second full length Tropical Sun, which is based around the movie Zombi 2, and it’s freaking great and nasty and vile but most of all it’s just wicked good death metal – family fun in the tropical sun. Speaking of wicked good death metal, Nekroí Theoí gets all up in the brutal side of the genre on debut Dead Gods but expect many surprises well beyond just sheer brutality – that’s all I’m giving up, go check it out. And rounding out the top slots this week is Gloryhammer with Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex which continues their forward march of damn near single handedly taking power metal to a whole new level.
There you have it but way more awaits immediately below so go find that rush.
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Darkthrone – Old Star (Peaceville) – black n’ punk
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Fulci – Tropical Sun (Time To Kill) – death metal
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Nekroí Theoí – Dead Gods (Prosthetic) – death metal
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Gloryhammer – Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex (Napalm) – power metal
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Also on tap:
1914 – The Blind Leading the Blind (Napalm) – death / doom
Adrift – Pure (Temple of Torturous) – doom
Alcotopia – It Hits the Spot (Narcoleptica Productions) – speed / thrash
Bhleg & Nechochwen – Sorlande sky / Majestic Translucence (Nordvis / Bindrune) – black / folk metal
Bloodyminded – S/T (BloodLust!) – experimental noise
Cipher – Reminiscences (Independent) – melodic death metal
Concilivm – The Veiled Enigma, CD Re-Release (Drawing Septic Productions) – death metal
Concrete Funeral – Ultimum Judicium (Independent) – death / thrash
D-A-D – A Prayer for the Loud (AFM) – rock
Dagger Threat – Gestaltzerfall (BDHW) – metalcore
Daniel Tompkins – Castles (Kscope) – progressive metal
Dark Intrance – Emerged From the Dark, EP (Sliptrick) – dark rock
Darkenhöld & Griffon – Atra Musica, Split (Ladlo) – doom
Death Angel – Humanicide (Nuclear Blast) – thrash
Deorc Absis – The Nothingness Transfiguration (Redefining Darkness) – black metal
Evil Angel – Unholy Evil Metal (Hells Headbangers) – black / thrash
Evohé – Dues Sive Natura (Folter) – pagan black metal
Francis Roberts – Guardian Beast Sleeps (Akashic Envoy) – dungeon synth
Funeral Storm – Arcane Mysteries (Hells Headbangers) – black metal
Hellgoat – Death Conquers All (Boris) – black metal
Hellish Grave – Hell No Longer Waits (Helldprod) – black / speed
Hexenebrett – Erste Beschwörung, Cassette Issue (Caligari) – black metal
Hidden Lapse – Butterflies (Rockshots) – power / prog
I Am the Law – Dance of the Southern Witch, EP (Independent) – groove metal
K.F.R. – Demonologue (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Kaleidobolt – Bitter (Svart) – psych metal
Kavara – Weathered & Lost (Independent) – melodic death metal
Krypts – Cadaver Circulation (Dark Descent) – death metal
Leathürbitch – Into the Night (High Roller) – glam / speed
Malum – Legion (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Meuchelmord – Waffenträger (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Mister Lizard – II, EP (Astral Noize) – hardcore / powerviolence
Mordor – Hogar, Dolce Hogar (Xtreem Music) – thrash
Nameless Void – S/T, EP (Grey Matter Productions / Xenoglossy Productions) – black metal
Nattfog – Pohjan Porteilta (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Pale Misery – Black Candles and Gutter Scum (Independent) – black / crust
Pound – •• (Silent Pendulum) – instru-progressive metal
Rykers – The Beginning (BDHW) – hardcore
Svet Kant – The Visage Unbiased (Wormholedeath) – experimental metal
Thrash Le Reine – La Foi, La Loi, La Croix, EP (Independent) – thrash
Towering – Obscuring Manifestation (Dolorem) – black / death
Toxpack – Kämpfer (Napalm) – rock
Tryglav – Night of Whispering Souls (Extreme Metal Music / Rockshots) – black metal
TV Coma – Body Negativity, EP (Wiretap) – pop-punk/ surf rock
Übergang – Evolution (Demons Run Amok) – extreme
Vananidr – Road North (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Vingulmork – Avgrunn (Crime) – blackened metal
Vortex of End – Ardens Fvror (Osmose) – black metal
– Josh
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