
Midway through February and just past Valentine’s Day so hope you all had a lovely one. If you did or if you didn’t, we’ve got the fix in the form of new metal and a ton of it so let’s do that, shall we? Certainly. At just three tracks, Portugal’s Innards excite the grind side of death metal with their latest quickie, Lowrider smashes a 20 year silence with their legendary desert metal and things have never sounded better, Road Warrior and Gravebreaker combine forces for a whiskey soaked, rip-roaring heavy metal hootenanny of a split, and TerrifianT pull all the stops in proving that heavy metal is as crazy as it is rowdy as hell. So, there you have it, and there’s much more to come so keep reading.
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Innards – Back from the Grave, Straight in Your Face (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
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Lowrider – Refractions (Blues Funeral Recordings) – stoner rock
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Road Warrior / Gravebreaker – Death Promise / Death In Heels On Wheels (Gates of Hell) – metal
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Terrifiant – S/T (Gates of Hell) – heavy metal
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Also on tap:
Age of Fire – Shades of Shadow (Sliptrick) – metal
Blister Brigade – Slugfest Supreme (Inverse) – metal
Bornwithhair – Radical Moon (Independent) – extreme
Brain Fog – The Weedzard, EP (Independent) – stoner doom, duh
Cam Bird – The Devil’s Hands (Independent) – metal
Clayshaper – Celestian (Independent) – death metal
Cult Burial – Sorrow, Single (Independent) – black / death
Deliverance – Holocaust 26: 1-46 (Deadlight) – metal
Don Jamieson – Denim and Laughter (Metal Blade) – comedy
Funeral Cult – Possession Done (Lusitanian Music) – death / doom
Hex A.D. – Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden (Fresh Tea) – prog doom
Horseneck – Fever Dream (Independent) – hardcore / sludge
Invocation – Attunement to Death (Iron Bonehead) – black / death
Isle of the Cross – Excelsis (Rockshots) – progressive death metal
Mimorium – Blood of Qayin (Spread Evil) – black metal
Mondo Generator – Fuck It (Heavy Psych Sounds) – desert punk (album name of the year)
Mourir – Animal Bouffe Animal (Throatruiner) – black metal
Nawaharjan – Lokabrenna (Amor Fati) – black metal
Necrobode – Sob o Feitiço do Necrobode (Iron Bonehead) – black / death
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man (Epic) – metal
Polaris – The Death Of Me (SharpTone) – metalcore
Postvorta – Porrima (Sludgelord / 22 Dicembre) – black metal
Primeval Mass – Nine Altars (Katoptron IX) – black / heavy
Putrescine – The One Reborn + Bonus Tracks, Cassette Release (Tridroid) – death metal
Raspberry Bulbs – Before the Age of Mirrors (Relapse) – blackened occult punk
Ritual King – S/T (Ripple Music) – stoner / psych
Runescarred – The Distant Infinite (Independent) – prog metal
Saturnalia Temple – Gravity (Listenable) – metal
Simplefast – Eternal (Sliptrick) – thrash
Slaughter Messiah – Cursed to the Pyre (High Roller) – thrash
Solo Ansamblis – Olos (Artoffact) – post-punk
Spankraght – Thou Shalt Drown In the Blood of Thy Children (Independent) – industrial metal
Throne of Iron – Adventure One (No Remors) – metal
Torpëdo – Mechanic Tyrants (Gates of Hell) – speed metal
Verikalpa – Tuoppitanssi (Scarlet) – folk metal
We Sell the Dead – Black Sleep (earMusic) – metal
Witchcrawl – World Without End (Katoptron IX) – heavy metal
Wrekmeister Harmonies – We Love To Look At the Carnage (Thrill Jockey) – drone
Xenobiotic – Mordrake (Unique Leader) – progressive death
– Josh