The sentiment of ‘hope everyone is well and safe’ carries again this week as we’re still in this mess. But, to stave off the darkness and provide some living room destroying fun, we’ve got another long list of incoming metal so hopefully something here will help pass the time. London based Beggar offer up a debut full length of incendiary extreme sludge metal and I’ve been head over heels for this one, you should be too, Testament have their 13th full length on deck and one thing’s always been for sure about them: never, ever count them out as their brand of melodic thrash and heavy metal still sounds amazing after 34 years, Skam astutely define catharsis through grinding violence, and Zolle find cohesive and powerful ground with a solid mixture of noise and sludge. Incredible picks already and there’s so much more below so dig in and keep your head up as much as possible.
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Beggar – Compelled To Repeat (APF) – sludge [profile]
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Testament – Titans of Creation (Nuclear Blast) – testametal
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Skam – The Sound of Disease (Redefining Darkness) – grind
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Zolle – Macello (Subsound) – sludge / noise
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Also on tap:
Aara – En Ergó Einai (Debemur Morti Productions) – atmospheric black metal
Ad Infinitum – Chapter I: Monarchy (Napalm) – symphonic metal
Anova Skyway – Diet of Worms (Independent) – prog rock / metal
Astral Bodies – Escape Death (Surviving Sounds) – instru-space doom
August Burns Red – Guardians (Fearless) – modern metal
Bonfire – Fistful of Fire (AFM) – metal
Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal (Music for Nations / Sony) – metalcore
Chotzä – Tüüfuswärk (Northern Fog / Sturmglanz / Worship Tapes) – black metal
Comaniac – Holodox (Metalworld) – thrash
Consumer – S/T, EP (Fresh Outbreak) – black / sludge
Crimson Star – The Olde Dawg, EP (Independent) – rock
Dawn of Ouroboros – The Art of Morphology (Rain Without End) – black / progressive metal
Drakonis – Blessed By Embers (Hostile Media) – black metal
Duende en la Penumbra – That Same Evergreen I Love So Well, Despite the Way Its Shadows Make Me Sad(Independent) – folk / black
Duivel – Tirades uit de Hel (Ván) – black metal
Dynazty – The Dark Delight (AFM) – melodic metal
Errant – S/T, EP (Manatee Rampage Recordings) – metal
Escape Is Not Freedom – Surrounded By the Great Nothing (Independent) – sludge / noise
Forndom – Fapir (Nordvis) – nordic folk
Freeways – True Bearings (Temple of Mystery) – rock
Golden Blood – Cum, Coke & Blasphemy (Witching Hour Productions) – black / speed / punk
Grieve – S/T (Werewolf) – atmospheric black metal
Häxanu – Snare of All Salvation (Amor Fati) – black metal
Her Name Was Fire – Decadent Movement (Raging Planet) – rock
Hohenstein – Weisser Hirsch (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Illum Adora – Infernum et Necromantium (Folter) – black metal
Joviac – Here and Now (Inverse) – prog metal
Live Burial – Unending Futility (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Loviatar – Lightless (Prosthetic) – post-metal
Lucifer Star Machine – Devil’s Breath (The Sign) – rock
Luctus – Užribis (Inferna Profundus) – black metal
Nocturnal Prayer – Advance on Weakened Foes (Inferna Profundus) – black metal
Notörious – Glamorized (Sliptrick) – glam metal
Pale Mare – II (Seeing Red / Ancient Temple Recordings) – metal
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals (Rocket Recordings) – pigs metal
Shodan – Death, Rule Over Us (Deformeathing Productions) – melodic death metal
Shyyne – Go Your Own Way (Independent) – sleaze metal
Slave Hands – No More Feelings (Dry Cough) – sludge
State of Millenia – Bleached (Independent) – metal
tētēma – Necroscape (Ipecac) – electro-acoustic rock
Thanatos – Violent Death Rituals (Listenable) – black / death
Thrashera – Não Gosto! (Helldprod) – thrash
Världen Brinner – Vi Ager Natten (Vicisolum) – punk
Villagers of Ioannnina City – Age of Aquarius (Napalm Records) – heavy rock
Weed Demon – Crater Maker (Electric Valley) – sludge / doom
Witches of Doom – Funeral Radio (My Kingdom Music) – gothic doom
Wolfpack – A.D. (BDHW) – hardcore
Wretched Empires – Bloom, EP (Independent) – folk / black
WVRM – Colony Collapse (Prosthetic Records) – grind
Xile – I’m Your God (BDHW) – hardcore
– Josh
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