Expect Halloween talk here for a bit, just FYI. Between Chris kicking off this year’s Hooptober, 3 From Hell, and AHS 1984 starting, the season is off to a killer start (see what I did there?). Those things are all great and as a bonus we’ve got, what might be, the longest list of new metal thus far so let’s jump right in…
Everything’s bigger in Texas, is what they say, and Creeping Death prove it on their full length debut of cracking death metal – don’t miss it folks, just don’t. Opeth return with their next prog filled opus and honestly some old Opeth creeps in but without a doubt, it’s another great album and I can’t wait to see all the “I’M MAD STILL” happen – wait for it…. You want psych metal that’s as retro as it is exceptionally great? The Neptune Power Federation definitely have you covered there and no they’re not a throwback rasslin’ group for those of you with questions. Last up top is everyone’s favorite sludgers, Fister, who cover classic metal tracks in their own wretched way. And it’s fantastic, so get on that.
Start bingeing bloody horror and vile death metal, ‘tis the season.
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Creeping Death – Wretched Illusions (eOne) – death metal
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Opeth – In Cauda Venenum (Nuclear Blast / Moderbolaget) – progressive
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The Neptune Power Federation – Memoirs of a Rat Queen (Cruz Del Sur Music) – retro / psych metal
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Fister – Decade of Depression (Listenable) – sludge
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Also on tap:
30,000 Monkies – Are Forever (Consouling Sounds) – sludge / doom / noise
Advent Sorrow – Kali Yuga Crown (Werewolf) – black metal
Anacrusis – Reason, Bonus Edition (Metal Blade) – metal
Anacrusis – Suffering Hour, Bonus Edition (Metal Blade) – metal
Archangel A.D. – Eventide (Independent) – thrash
Beyond Forgiveness – Live to Tell the Story (Sliptrick) – symphonic metal
Bhleg – Aril (Nordvis Produktion) – folk metal
Big Scenic Nowhere – Dying on the Mountain (Blues Funeral Recordings) – stoner rock
Bison Machine – Seas of Titan (Small Stone) – fuzz
Bretus – Aion Tetra (Ordo MCM) – doom
Byzanthian Neckbeard – Extinction, EP (Independent) – doom
Car Bomb – Mordial (Independent US / Holy Roar EU) – mathy progressive metal
Cathari – Corporeality (Seeing Red) – metal
Chron Goblin – Here Before (Grand Hand) – fuzz metal
City of Industry – Conspire Conspire Conspire (Amerikan Aesthetics) – hardcore
CoreLeoni – II (AFM) – rock
Cortége – Capricorn (Independent) – doom / drone
Creeping Flesh – Into the Meat Grinder (Growls from the Underground) – death metal
Darkmoon Warrior – Angels of Dirt – Beasts of Rebellion (Folter) – black metal
Dragonforce – Extreme Power Metal (Metal Blade) – power metal
Druadan Forest – Dismal Spells from the Dragonrealm (Werewolf) – black metal
Ecstatic Vision – For the Masses (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych metal
Ewigkeit – Starscape 2.019, Re-Release (Death To Music Productions) – symphonic black metal
Excalion – Emotions (Scarlet) – power metal
FDEM – Death Frequency (Armageddon Label) – hardcore punk
Firebreather – Under A Blood Moon (RidingEasy) – metal
Freakings – Rise of Violence (Independent) – thrash
Funeral Fvkk – Carnal Confessions (Solitude Productions) – trad doom
Ghosts of Glaciers – The Greatest Burden (Translation Loss) – post-metal
.gif from god – approximation_of_a_human (Prosthetic) – screamo
Goatburner – Extreme Conditions (Time To Kill) – metal
Goatess – Blood and Wine (Svart) – doom
Graveview – Demos ‘18-‘19 (Raw Skullz Recordz) – black metal
Grimtone – Hymner till döden (Downfall) – black metal
Hashshashin – Badakshan (Art As Catharsis) – psych drone rock
Heaven’s Club – Here There and Nowhere (Profound Lore) – gazey
High Command – Beyond the Wall of Desolation (Southern Lord) – heavy metal
Horror God – Cursed Seeds (Lavadome Productions) – death metal
Howling Giant – The Space Between Worlds (Blues Funeral Recordings) – stoner metal
Iatt – Nomenclature (Black Lion) – black / death
In Thousand Lakes – Evolution (Xtreem Music) – melodic death metal
John Hoyles – Night Flight (Bad Omen) – rock
M:40 – Arvsynd (Suicide Records) – d-beat / crust
Mars Red Sky – The Task Eternal (Listenable) – psych metal
Mortem – Ravnsart (Peaceville) – black metal
Mosaic – Cloven Fires, EP (Eisenwald) – dark metal
Narrenwind – Ja, Dago (Pagan Records) – black metal
Netherbird – Into the Vast Uncharted (Eisenwald) – melodic black / death
Nex Carnis – Black Eternity, 7″ (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Non Opus Dei – Glod (Pagan Records) – black metal
Numen – Iluntasuna Besarkatu nuen Betiko (Ladlo) – black metal
Patronymicon – Ushered Forth By Cloven Tongue (Osmose Productions) – black metal
Peter Beste – Defenders of the Faith (Sacred Bones) – book
Planet of Zeus – Faith in Physics (Heavy Psych Sounds) – heavy rock
Prime Creation – Tears of Rage (Kingart Music) – melodic metal
Pyramido – Fem (The Sign) – sludge
RDS-220 – Hell Is Truth Seen Too Late, CD Issue (Consouling Sounds) – metal
Sempiternal Dusk – Cenotaph of Defectuous Creation (Dark Descent) – death / doom
Shadowthrone – Elements’ Black Legacy (Non Serviam0 – black metal
Skullshitter / Bleeding Out – Split (Nerve Altar) – deathgrind
Sorrow’s Path – Touching Infinity (Iron Shield) – metal
Steel Panther – Heavy Metal Rules (Independent) – hair
Survive – Immortal Warriors (Sliptrick) – metal
Tales of the Tomb – Volume Two: Mendacium, EP (Independent) – death metal
The Colony – Smoke and Mirrors (Independent) – melodic metal
Venereal Baptism – Repugnant Coronation of the Beast (Osmose Productions) – bestial metal
Vintersea – Illuminated (M-Theory Audio) – progressive metal
Voice of Ruin – Acheron (Tenacity Music) – melodic death metal
Vortex – Them Witches (Gates of Hell) – cult metal
War Cloud – State of Shock (Ripple Music) – metal
Wednesday 13 – Necrophaze (Nuclear Blast) – goth / horror punk
Wreck – Defy – Remnants of Pain (Inverse) – thrash
– Josh
