Yep. Way late with this but life, folks. So, we’ll make it a ‘stuff that comes out today or already out’ kinda thing and we’ll hit the highlights to make it quick. Good chance if you happen to be out of the loop so here we go… Scarab hits all the right marks for astonishingly good Egyptian death metal. I mean, if Nile actually were from Egypt, I imagine this is what they’d sound like but all comparisons aside, Scarab stand firmly and violently on their own – go get this NOW. My Dying Bride make a return and it’s a splendidly beautiful, doomy return, Swedeath demons Wombbath are back in the Swesaddle and it hurts so good at high volume, and Pure Wrath offer up another beautiful album in the form of atmospherically epic black metal. Go find all the stuff you missed out on. See you back here in a few days.
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Scarab – Martyrs of the Storm (ViciSolum Productions) – death metal
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My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion (Nuclear Blast) – doom
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Wombbath – Choirs of the Fallen (Soulseller) – death metal
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Pure Wrath – The Forlorn Soldier, EP (Debemur Morti Productions) – atmospheric / symphonic black metal
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Also on tap:
Ahna – Crimson Dawn (Caligari) – crust
Azure Emote – The Third Perspective (Selfmadegod) – avant / extreme
Beast of Revelation – The Ancient Ritual of Death (Iron Bonehead) – death / doom
Canis Dirus – Independence to the Beast (Bindrune) – black metal
Dwaal – Gospel of the Vile (Dark Essence) – atmospheric sludge / doom
Medium – S/T (Transcending Obscurity) – grind / crust
Nexorum – Death Unchained (Non Serviam) – black / death
Psychonaut – Unfold the God Man (Pelagic) – post-metal
Ross the Boss – Born of Fire (AFM) – power metal
Svenghali – Nightmares of Our Own Design, EP (Independent) – experimental
The Flesh Trading Company – Franconian Witchcraft, EP (Independent) – thrash / death
To Conceal the Horns – Purist (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Trauma – Ominous Black (Selfmadegod) – death metal
Tulus – Old Old Death (Soulseller) – black metal
UW/D – Hollow (Seeing Red / Araki / Brigante) – post-rock / noise
Viscera – Obsidian (Unique Leader) – death metal
Vredehammer – Viperous (Indie) – metal
– Josh
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