I’m out of witty shit. Whatever. New metal incoming and so much in fact that I had a tough time singling out four standouts but, here we are. Just know there’s so much to dig into this week. Alright then… yes, I do know that black metallers Twilight Fauna dropped the button on Foundations last Friday but it was a surprise so I’m featuring it here because I can and because it’s AMAZING and you do not want to miss this sort of turn in their chapter. Another black metal band with a new album that rules is on deck and that band is Horn, so do that now, too. Binary Code offer up one of the most emotional heavy albums of the year, and Paradise Lost show that they are ready to usurp their best work with…their best work. Yep, it’s that kind of week. We need it so go do it and do it all and do it hard.
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Twilight Fauna – Foundations (Independent) – black metal [full review]
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Horn – Mohngang (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
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Binary Code – Memento Mori (Independent) – tech metal / post-rock [profile / interview]
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Paradise Lost – Obsidian (Nuclear Blast) – doom / death
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Also on tap:
ACxDC – Satan Is King (Prosthetic) – demoncore
Ara – Jurisprudence (Independent) – death metal
Ashtar – Kaikuja (Eisenwald) – black / doom
Bitterness – Dead World Order (G.U.C.) – thrash
Colossloth – Plague Alone (Cold Spring) – drone
Devangelic – Ersetu (Willowtip) – death metal
Dining With Dogs – The Problem With Friends (Independent) – sludge
Drought – Trimurti (Avantgarde) – black metal
Firewind – Rising Fire (AFM Records) – power metal
FM Einheit & Andreas Ammer – Hammerschlag (Cold Spring) – noise / experimental
Grand Massive – 4 (Metalville) – groove metal
Heron – Time Immemorial (Sludgelord Records) – sludge I’m sure
Horisont – Sudden Death (Century Media) – hard rock
Hot Nuns – Rude, Dumb & Anxious (Loyal Blood) – punk
Iku-Turso – Pakana (Wolfspell) – black metal
In the Company of Serpents – Lux (Independent) – doom
Neige Morte – IIII (Division) – black metal
Noosed – Butcher (Trepanation Recordings) – grind
Obnoxious Youth – Mouths Sewn Shut (Svart) – proto-punk
Okkultokrati – La Ilden Lyse (Southern Lord) – outlaw black metal
Old Corpse Road – On Ghastly Shores Lays the Wreckage of our Lore (Trollzorn) – atmospheric black metal
Orions Belte – 600m Per Minute (Jansen) – instru-rock
River of Souls – Usurper (Independent) – doom / death
Runespell / Forest Mysticism – Wandering Forlorn (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Sarcófago – Hate, Reissue (Greyhaze) – metal
Sinisthra – The Broad and Beaten Way (Rockshots) – metal
The Shrieks – Ode to Joe (Independent) – rock
The Striders – Out of the Blues (Sliptrick) – rock
Throwing Bricks – What Will Be Lost (Tartarus) – hardcore
Tithe – Penance (Tartarus) – metal
Triptykon – Requiem – Live at Roadburn 2019 (Prowling Death / Century Media) – dark metal
Tunnels of Ah – Deathless Mind (Cold Spring) – ambient drone
Tyrant – Hereafter (Shadow Kingdom) – heavy metal
Voices of Ruin – Path To Immortality (M-Theory Audio) – melodic death metal
Wailin Storms – Rattle (Gilead Media) – grunge / psych / doom / rock
With the End In Mind – Tides of Fire (Avantgarde) – black metal
Wolves Den – Miserere (Trollzorn) – black / death
– Josh
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