Last week I was reminded that it’s always the small things, the seemingly inconsequential details that usually make the biggest impact. So much so that I’m still thinking about it. Translation here: put an emphasis on the small things and little details, trust me. Any way, NEW METAL is why we’re here and this week is the first ridiculously memorable one of 2020 so take notes. Or just read and click. Whatever. Moving on, we’ve got raunchy and raucous new stuff from Midnight, caustic blackened noise from T.O.M.B., technical death metal (not tech-death) mastery from Defiled, and sweepingly epic experimental metal from Nero Di Marte. Get some.
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Midnight – Rebirth by Blasphemy (Metal Blade) – black / speed
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T.O.M.B. – Thin the Veil (Dark Essence) – avant-garde metal
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Defiled – Infinite Regress (Season of Mist) – death metal
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Nero di Marte – Immoto (Season of Mist) – experimental metal
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Also on tap:
Acid Mammoth – Under Acid Hoof (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom
Aethyrick – Gnosis (The Sinister Flame) – black metal
Annihilator – Ballistic, Sadistic (Silver Lining) – thrash / heavy
Bohren & der Club of Gore – Patchouli Blue (Ipecac) – experimental
Caspian – On Circles (Triple Crown) – cinematic rock
Dead End Finland – Inter Vivos (Inverse) – melodic metal
Death.Void.Terror – To the Great Monolith II (Repose) – extreme metal
Dominia – The Withering of the Rose (Morning Star Heathens Music Group) – goth metal
Doomraiser – The Dark Side of Old Europa (Time To Kill) – doom
Elden – Nostromo (Fuzzorama) – heavy metal
Fear Is Dead – Assimilation (Independent) – metalcore [profile]
Frigoris – …in Stille (Hypnotic Dirge) – post-black metal
Grey Skies Fallen – Cold Dead Lands (Xanthos Music) – progressive metal
Hazzerd – Delirium (M-Theory Audio) – thrash
Jordablod – The Cabinet of Numinous Song (Iron Bonehead) – black / death
Kirk Windstein – Dream In Motion (eOne) – hard rock
Konvent – Puritan Masochist (Napalm) – death / doom
Kristian Harting – The Fumes (Exile On Mainstream) – avant / folk
Märvel – Märvellous (The Sign) – rock
Mono Inc. – The Book of Fire (SPV / NoCut and ADA / eOne) – power metal
Mortiis – Spirit of Rebellion (Omnipresence Productions / Dead Seed Productions) – dungeon synth
Necropsy – Exitus (Xtreem Music) – death / thrash
Novelists FR – C’est La Vie (SharpTone) – prog metal
Pyogenesis – A Silent Soul Screams Loud (AFM) – melodic metal
Raphael Weinroth-Browne – Worlds Within (Independent) – cello metal
Revenant Marquis – Youth In Ribbons (Inferna Profundus) – black metal
Second Brain – The Mind Awakes (Independent) – death / thrash
Sometimes We Make Music – Trail of the Fallen (Independent) – symphonic metal
Surgical Strike – Part of a Sick World (Metalville) – thrash metal
Thoughts Factory – Elements (Melodic Revolution) – prog metal
Thy Catafalque – Naiv (Season of Mist) – avant-garde metal
Totenheer – Die Schwarze Spinne (Independent) – metal
Vananidr – Damnation (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Worm – Gloomlord (Iron Bonehead) – doom
Xenos – Filthgrinder (Club Inferno Ent.) – thrash
Zifir – Demoniac Ethics (Duplicate) – black metal
– Josh
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