Did all the ham and turkey expand your waistline? Are you reading this from somewhere that doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving? Does anyone care either way? Right. New metal. We got it. Let’s go.
NY’s blackened deathgrinders Vomit Fist are back to regale us with more tales of the “Frogvasion” and this time they’re exploring a bit with an avantgarde touch to their razor-raw riffs which means this second outing rules that much harder. Imprecation and Black Blood Invocation get bestial enough to make Satan blush on their split release, and Fen do unexpectedly great things with their atmospheric black metal – it’s an early call but this just might be their finest moment yet.
Three down and a whole list to go, jump in and buy them all.
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Vomit Fist – Omnicide (Punos Music) – grind / death
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Imprecation / Black Blood Invocation – Diabolical Flames of the Ascended Plague (Helter Skelter / Regain) – bestial death metal
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Fen – The Dead Light (Prophecy) – atmospheric black metal
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Also on tap:
Astaroth Incarnate – Ascendance (Independent) – symphonic metal
Beast of Damnation – Dawn of the Beast (Black Sunset) – black metal
Blitzkrieg – Loud and Proud, EP (Mighty Music) – heavy metal
Blot & Bod – Ormekongens Argelist (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Caronte – Wolves of Thelema (Ván) – doom
Crest of Darkness – The God of Flesh (My Kingdom Music) – atmospheric black metal
CRS – The Collector of Truths (Concreto) – death metal
Cybernetic Witch Cult – Absurdum Ad Nauseam (Independent) – stoner doom
Helleborus – Saprophytic Divinations (Redefining Darkness) – black metal
Hellehond – Verslonden (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Hellsodomy – Morbid Cult (Saturnal) – black / death
Human Fortress – Reign of God (AFM) – power metal
Hvile I Kaos – Black Morning, Winter Green (Red Nebula) – black metal
Kamchatka – Hoodoo Lightning (Border Music) – hard rock
Keelrider – Sun (Independent) – stoner metal
Kickin Valentina – Chaos In Copenhagen, EP (Mighty Music) – hair
Mental Cavity – Neuro Siege (Brilliant Emperor) – death / sludge
Mortem Atra – A Dark Lament (Pitch Black) – melodic death / doom
Murder Van – S/T (Independent) – thrash / death [profile]
Pagan Altar – Mythical & Magical (Temple of Mystery) – doom
Pagan Reign – Art of the Time (Independent) – melodic folk metal
Perihelion – Agg (Independent) – atmospheric black metal
Politess – The Sound of Crowdfunding (No Funeral) – avantgarde
Psychoneurosis / Herida Profunda / Suffering Quota – In Fear We Trust, Split (loads of labels) – grind
Rattenfänger – Geisslerlieder (Dark Essence) – death metal
Revel In Flesh – The Hour of the Avenger (War Anthem) – death metal
Rhodium – Sea of the Dead (Sliptrick) – heavy metal
State of Deceit – Retribution (Independent) – metal
Street Lethal – Welcome to the Row (Fighter) – heavy metal
SxWxP – Trans Am Jams (Independent) – rock / metal
Timeworn – Leave the Soul for Now (Loyal Blood) – post-metal
Trepas – L’heritage du monde (Sepulchral Productions) – black metal
Unbegotten – Manifestation, Cassette Issue (Nebular Carcoma) – black metal
Witchbones – The Seas of Draugen (Iron Bonehead) – doom
– Josh
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