Mediocrity. The mother of all fails. We’ve all been guilty of it at some point; we get busy and things either fall by the wayside or we do just enough to tick off whatever task is in question. Make it a point to not be mediocre. Kick today, and life, right in the ass and own it. And keeping with that topic, there’s nothing mediocre about this week’s new metal as we’ve got new stuff from enthralling black metallers Necronautical, a major upgrade to the atmospheric post-black metal tag from Hope Drone, Wizard Rifle offers up unclassifiable but grade-A avantgarde metal wizardry, and Witch Vomit mine the cavernous depths of death metal extremely well.
Hate pep talks? FINE. Just go support all this music.
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Necronautical – Apotheosis (Candlelight) – black metal [profile]
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Hope Drone – Void Lustre (Moment of Collapse / Sludgelord) – atmospheric post-black metal
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Wizard Rifle – S/T (Svart) – avantgarde metal [profile]
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Witch Vomit – Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave (20 Buck Spin) – death metal [feature review]
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Also on tap:
Acid King – Busse Woods, Reissue (RidingEasy) – stoner metal
Aludra – Mass Stellar Graves (Akashic Envoy) – black metal
Antichrist Siege Machine – Schism Perpetration (Krucyator Productions / Stygian Black Hand) – black / death
Atomic Witch – Void Curse, EP (Seeing Red) – death / thrash
Cliterati – Ugly Truths / Beautiful Lies (Tankcrimes) – hardcore punk
Colored Moth – DIM (Wolves and Vibrancy Records) – post hardcore
Crimson Moon – Mors Vincit Omnia (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal
Crytivore – Unseen Divinity (Vaginal Autopsy / Dawning Septic Productions) – death / grind
Culted – Vespertina Synaxis – A Prayer for Union and Emptiness (Season of Mist) – black / doom
Darkhan – S/T, EP (Independent) – darkwave
Decent News – Monolith (Machine Man) – industrial metal
Elvenking – Reader of the Runes – Divination (AFM) – power metal
Entombed A.D. – Bowels of Earth (Red Music) – death metal
Essence of Datum – Spellcrying Machine (Season of Mist) – progressive metal
Eyes of the Lord – Misery Feels Like Home (Closed Casket Activities) – hardcore
Geistaz’ Ika – Trolddomssejd i skovens dybe kedel (Signal Rex) – black metal
Guilt Trip – River of Lies (BDHW) – hardcore
Horrid Apparition – Evil Reigns (Redefining Darkness) – black / thrash
Imperium Dekadenz – When We Are Forgotten (Napalm) – black metal
Inherit the Stars – Two One Three (Independent) – modern metal
Ledge – All I Hope For (Translation Loss Records) – sludge doom
Meatwound – Culero (Financial Ruin / Dead Tank / Pax Aeternum) – hardcore punk
Múspellzheimr – Hyldest til Troldommens Flamme, Demo Comp. (Lunar Apparitions / Amor Fati) – black metal
Mutilatred – Ingested Filth (Redefining Darkness) – death / slam / grind
Neon Insect – New Moscow Underground (Independent) – industrial
Northern Genocide – Genesis Vol. 666 (Inverse) – industrial metal
Olkoth – The Immortal Depths & Treasures of Necromancy, Comp. (Signal Rex) – black metal
Orm – Ir (Indisciplinarian) – black metal
Pandemonium – Moments of Tragedy (Black Lodge) – black / death
Pharmakon – Devour (Sacred Bones) – industrial
Polemicist – Zarathustrian Impressions (Fòlkvangr) – black / death
Portrayal of Guilt – Suffering Is A Gift, EP (Closed Casket Activities) – screamo
Sadokist – Necrodual Dimension Funeral Storms (Hells Headbangers) – thrash
Santa Lucia – Perse Palaa – Complete Recorded Works (Svart) – rock
Synteleia – Ending of the Unknown Path (Hells Headbangers) – black metal
Tarja – In the Raw (Independent) – metal
Televisio – TV2 (Ektro) – synth rock
Temple of Dread – Blood Craving Mantras (Testimony) – death metal
Tenebrae In Perpetuum – Anorexia Obscura (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal
The Fifth Alliance – The Depth of the Darkness (Consouling Sounds) – post-metal
The Glorious Dead – Imperator of the Dessicated, 7” (Eihwaz / Bindrune) – death metal
Tool – Fear Inoculum (RCA) – tool
Visions of Atlantis – Wanderers (Napalm) – symphonic metal
Wage War – Pressure (Fearless) – tech metal
Warcrab – Damned In Endless Night (Transcending Obscurity) – death / sludge
Zeit – Drangsal (Independent) – blackened sludge
– Josh
