One month down and eleven to go. January was a good kick off month for metal in 2020 and February shows no signs of letting us down either. So, score one for the music but hey, Doctor Death, how about stick that sickle up your ass and chill for a bit. Anyway, in the interest of new metal — as we feature here every week — branch out a bit and take a chance on something new or something you might view as outside your realm. You never know what might be found lurking just outside of that comfort zone. On that note we’ve got new stuff from top-tier screamo legends envy, melodic and emotionally heavy hardcore from Giver, off kilter and wildly avantgarde sounds from OvO, and mind blowing instru-prog-tech-death from Thoren. Plenty of stuff here that’s out on the fringe so take a chance and check them out. But, as always, there’s so much more to dig into so do that. Enjoy.
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envy – The Fallen Crimson (Pelagic) – screamo
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Giver – Sculpture of Violence (Holy Roar) – hardcore
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OvO – Miasma (Artoffact) – avantgarde metal
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Thoren – Gwarth II (Drylands) – instru-prog / tech death
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Also on tap:
Arbrynth – A Place of Buried Light (Independent) – folk / heavy metal
Atavisma / Void Rot – Split (Everlasting Spew) – death / doom
Bannwald / Uruk-Hai / Druadan Forest – Kingdoms Long Gone (Antiq) – dungeon synth
Codex Serafini – Serpents of Enceladus (Halfmeltedbrain / Ceremonial Laptop) – psych prog
Delain – Apocalypse & Chill (Napalm) – symphonic metal
Depraved – Raped Innocence (Music-Records) – brutal death / grind
Dråpsnatt – I Denna Skog, Reissue (Nordvis) – black metal
Drittmaskin – Sosial Prolaps (Edged Circle Productions) – black / punk
Dzö-nga – Thunder In the Mountains (Avantgarde Music) – melodic black metal
Ewigkeit – Land of Fog 20/20 ReVision (Death To Music Productions) – metal
Giöba – Plasmatic Idol (Heavy Psych Sounds) – acid rock / synthwave
Goatreich – Godfeter (Ashen Dominion) – black metal
Goblinsmoker – A Throne In Haze, A World Ablaze (Sludgelord) – black / doom
God Dethroned – Illuminati (Metal Blade) – black / death
Gorevent – Fate (Comatose Music) – slam
Ironflame – Blood Red Victory (Divebomb) – heavy metal
Karg – Traktat (AOP) – post-black metal
Kings Never Die – Raise a Glass, EP (Upstate) – metallic hardcore [profile]
Krosis – A Memoir of Free Will (Unique Leader) – deathcore
Loathe – I Let It In and It Took Everything (SharpTone) – metal
Lowlives – Hey You (Death Culture) – noise rock
Machinations of Fate – S/T (Redefining Darkness) – black metal
Necrochaos – Crawling Through Cadavers (Godz Ov War Productions) – death metal
Nightfear – Apocalypse (Fighter) – heavy metal
Purveyors of Sonic Doom – Eyeless Void / Entombed Black Earth, Demos (Independent) – doom
Radian – Chapters (Independent) – doom / sludge
Revoltons – Underwater Bells Pt. 2: October 9th 1963 Act 1 (Independent) – power metal
Rising Anger – I Am (Bastardized Recordings) – hardcore
Rotten Mind – Rat City Dog Boy (Lövely) – punk / post-punk
Sepultura – Quadra (Nuclear Blast) – metal
Serpent Noir – Death Clan OD (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal
Seven Planets – Explorer (Small Stone) – instru-metal
Sleazy Way Out – Here Comes Trouble (Sliptrick) – sleaze rock
Sophist – Dissolution (Niflhel) – black / grind
Soul Dragger – S/T(Time To Kill) – metal / thrash
Summon – Helios (Godz Ov War Productions) – black / death
The Spirit – Cosmic Terror (AOP) – black / death
VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC – Austrian Dukes of Derangement, EP (Xenocorp) – slam / goregrind
Warrior Within – In Light Act II (Independent) – thrash
Wilczyca – S/T (Godz Ov War Productions) – black metal
Ye Banished Privateers – Hostis Humani Generis (Napalm) – pirate metal
Ygg – The Last Scald (Ashen Dominion) – black metal
– Josh
Nine Circles 