With summer in full swing, families overcrowding vacation destinations and the rest of still toeing the line, some things change yet others stay the same. Such is life. Make the most of it or someone else will…and make you pay for it. The more you know right? Speaking of things that DON’T change, metal keeps toeing the line but man has it ever been a banner year. As long as it keeps toeing THIS kind of line I’m all about it. With that said, we’ve got tons MORE new stuff this week starting off with death metallers Beheaded’s and their best album to date, Sadistic Ritual holds a class on how thrash is done in Hotlanta, Temple Koludra bring the tribal to blackened death metal, and Baroness continue to ride the skinny rail between metal and rock. Wait, you’re surprised? Surely not. But rest assured, if the last couple of “colors” were your bag, this “double dose of color” will be too.
Shorter and sweeter is what this intro is. Love it? Hate it? Tell us all about it in the comments section below. Or don’t.
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Beheaded – Only Death Can Save You (Agonia) – death metal
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Sadistic Ritual – Visionaire of Death (Boris / Unspeakable Axe) – thrash
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Temple Koludra – Seven! Sirens! To a Lost Archetype (Transcending Obscurity) – black / death
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Baroness – Gold & Grey (Abraxan Hymns) – metal / rock
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Also on tap:
Acoite – S/T (Helldprod) – death / thrash
Aima – Tragos (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – black metal
Asping – The Lion of Piraeus (AnnapurnA) – avantgarde
Atlas Entity – Beneath the Cosmic Silence (Independent) – progressive death / melodic black
Avalanche – Interstellar Movement (WOOAAARGH) – sludge
Cold Black River – Tales of Death and the Devil, CD Release (Independent) – doom rock [profile]
Crom Dubh – Firebrands and Ashes (Ván) – atmospheric black metal
Damage S.F.P. – S/T (Rockshots) – thrash
Dark Doom – The Journey (Marwolaeth) – atmospheric black metal
Enablers – Zones (Broken Clover) – experimental
Friendship – Undercurrent (Southern Lord) – blackened hardcore
Godslave – 10/10 Rarities Recovered (Green Zone Music) – thrash
Hate – Auric Gates of Veles (Metal Blade) – black metal
hell bent – Apocalyptic Lamentations (Horror Pain Gore Death / Armageddon / Atomic Action! / Metal Swarm) – thrash
Ingested – Call of the Void (Unique Leader) – slam
Lost In Life – B.T.C.O.H.U. (Dead Serious Recordings) – hardcore
Nebula Orionis – To Keep the Flame Burning (Casus Belli Musica / Beverina) – cosmic metal
Nocturnes Mist – Marquis of Hell (Seance) – black metal
Nucleus – Entity (Unspeakable Axe / Me Saco Un Ojo) – sci-fi death metal
Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition I: War, Horrid War (Eisenwald) – black metal
Pinkish Black – Concept Unification (Relapse) – experimental
Power From Hell – Profound Evil Presence (High Roller) – black / thrash
Red Bait – Cages, EP (New Age) – crust
Ripped to Shreds – 魔經, EP (Pulverised) – death metal
Sarcófago – Crust, Reissue (Greyhaze) – black metal
Serpent of Gnosis – As I Drink From the Infinite Well of Inebriation (1126) – death / grind
Slomatics – Canyons (Black Bow) – sludge / doom
Solmyr Creatio – Ex Nihilo: Demo Collection (Intoxicated Recordings) – black metal
The Austerity Program – Bible Songs (Controlled Burn) – noise
This Gift Is a Curse – A Throne of Ash (Season of Mist) – black metal
Winterwolf – Lycanthropic Metal of Death (Svart Records) – death metal
Yawning Man – Macedonian Lines (Heavy Psych Sounds) – desert rock
– Josh
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