By the time this goes to press, I’ll be having my morning coffee sitting on the sand and near the waves for the first time since last year. Needless to say, I’ll be in my happy place and will be enjoying every second of it. Luckily, I will have brought along some of this week’s new metal which will, of course, only enhance the week ahead. A trio of heavy metallers get this edition of new releases under way; one that leans towards the goth side: Lunar Shadow, one that leans towards the fantasy side: Gygax, and one that leans towards the thrash side: Kryptos, and all of which kick some major heavy metal ass. Which leads us to the last top slot with newcomers Murk Rider who weave long, epic and twisting black metal tales to add the just the right amount of darkness to my current playlist.
Now, go seek and destroy. I’ll be over here getting sand in my crack.
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Lunar Shadow – The Smokeless Fires (Cruz Del Sur) – heavy / epic / goth
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Gygax – High Fantasy (Creator-Destructor) – fantasy / heavy
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Kryptos – Afterburner (AFM) – heavy / thrash
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Murk Rider – Exile of Shadows (Independent) – black metal
Go here and just get it already.
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Also on tap:
Berthold City – What Time Takes (WAR) – hardcore
Bury Me Alive – Unexpected Miseries (Dedication / Hopeless World) – metalcore
Crush the Altar – Abhorrent Oblation (Redefining Darkness) – thrash
Defixion – Tabella Defixionis (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Flesh of the Stars – Mercy (Independent) – prog doom
Gorilla – Treecreeper (Heavy Psych Sounds) – stoner rock
Hex Machine – Cave Painting (Minimum Underdrive) – heavy noise rock
High Tone Son of a Bitch – Death of a New Day / Eye In the Sky, EP (Throne) – doom / desert rock
Holocausto Canibal – Assintonia Hertziana (Lusitanian Music) – death metal
House of Hatchets – Reach (Independent) – alt-metal
Howling Sycamore – Seven Pathways to Annihilation (Prosthetic) – progressive metal
Iltheist – S/T (Independent) – extreme metal
Intothecrypt – Vakor (Ordo MCM) – extreme
Lightning Born – S/T (Ripple Music) – doom
Luna Sol – Below the Deep (Slush Fund Recordings / Cargo) – heavy rock
Lyken21 – Cyclical Insight (Sliptrick) – hard rock
Memoriam – Requiem for Mankind (Nuclear Blast) – death metal
Moonlight Haze – De Rerum Natura (Scarlet) – symphonic power metal
NervoChaos – Ablaze (Hammerheart) – thrash / death
Organectomy – Existential Disconnect (Unique Leader) – brutal death metal
Rainer Landfermann – Mein Wort In Deiner Dunkelheit (Independent) – avantgarde
Ravensire – A Stone Engraved In Red (Cruz Del Sur) – trad metal
Sacri Monti – Waiting Room for the Magic Hour (Tee Pee) – psych metal
Sanity Control – Demo 2019 (Seeing Red) – thrash
Scythe Lore – Through the Mausoleums of Man, CD & Vinyl (Iron Bonehead) – metal
Skelator – Cyber Metal (Gates of Hell) – heavy metal
Sonoran Rebel Black Magick – True Western Doom (New Density) – western doom
Superstition – The Anatomy Of Unholy Transformation (20 Buck Spin) – death metal
The Lord Weird Slough Feg – New Organon (Cruz Del Sur) – metal
The Odious – Vesica Piscis (Independent) – prog-death / rock
Tony Mills – Beyond the Law (Battlegod Productions) – rock
Tristengrav – II – Nychavge (Caligari) – black / goth
Tyrmfar – Renewal Through Purification (MTAF) – black / death
Valaraukar – Demonian Abyssal Visions, CD & Vinyl Issue (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Wolftooth – S/T, Reissue (Ripple Music) – heavy metal / stoner
Wretched of the Earth – Collapse/Rebirth (Shove) – crust
Xentrix – Bury the Pain (Listenable) – thrash
– Josh
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