The ball has dropped, the headaches are gone, the messes are cleaned up, and it’s time for some new metal now that the lists will be growing in quantity. Killer week so let’s get to it.
Metal’s busiest band, Haunt, are back with another supercharged dose of heavy metal but this time we get some synth. And, it’s great. If you’re in the market for some soul crushing blackened doom that has no idea how to take it easy then Plague Weaver has you covered, and Lotus Thief are rounding out the top slots to cleanse the palate with some floating orbs of post-rock atmospherics. All that and more awaits below.
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Haunt – Mind Freeze (Shadow Kingdom) – heavy metal
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Plague Weaver – Through the Sulfur Eyes (Independent) – black / doom
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Lotus Thief – Oresteia (Prophecy) – post-rock / doom / black
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Also on tap:
Behemoth – Live from Maida Vale (Metal Blade) – black / death
Body Stuff – Body Stuff 3 (The Chain) – industrial
Brothers of Metal – Emblas Saga (AFM) – heavy metal
Crowhurst + Gavin Bryars – Incoherent American Narrative (Prophecy) – experimental
Dead Hour Noise – Sleeping Dogs (Silver Maple Kill) – mathy / sludge / black metal
Empire of the Moon – ΕΚΛΕΙΨΙΣ (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Ether Coven – Everything is Temporary Except Suffering (Century Media) – post-metal / gloom
Kassad – London Orbital(Hypnotic Dirge) – black / post-metal
Kawir – Adrasteia (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Mortal Incarnation – Lunar Radiant Dawn, Cassette Issue (Sentient Ruin) – psych death / doom
Silverlight Shadows – Black the World (Independent) – stoner
Snorlax – II (Brilliant Emperor) – grind
Traps – The Fighter (Halfmeltedbrain) – prog metal
Unreqvited – Mosaic II (Prophecy Productions) – atmospheric black metal
Vaeok – S/T, EP (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal
Waldgefluster – Stimmen im Wind 2020, Re-recording (Nordvis) – black metal
War Dogs – Die By My Sword (Fighter) – heavy metal
– Josh
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