New metal, long list, you need it, we got it, let’s do it. Alright then, if you had to ask yourself who that is in the header image…FOR SHAME! It’s none other than Centinex who’ve been around for 30 years now and who continue to be a freaking PILLAR of death metal on their eleventh full length—just do it. Violent Hammer couldn’t have picked a better band name since the sound on their war/black/death full length debut hits like a damn hammer, Adzes take the all in approach with their sludge, noise, post-alot, gazey sound but it works and amazingly so, and Sorcerer shed the doom by numbers approach on their third full length and opt for the epic approach and, yes indeed, it works. There it is, four rotundly killer releases to kick things off AND we’ve got so much more hiding just below. Go now and drop all the cash on all the metals.
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Centinex – Death In Pieces (Agonia) – death metal
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Violent Hammer – Riders of the Wasteland (Hells Headbangers) – black / death
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Adzes – No One Wants to Speak About It (Tridroid) – sludge / noise
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Sorcerer – Lamenting of the Innocent (Metal Blade) – doom
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Also on tap:
A Sea of Dead Trees – Boaby Coull (Trepanation Recordings) – blackgaze
Acârash – Descend To Purity (Dark Essence) – black metal
Akolyth – S/T (Amor Fati) – black metal
Alestorm – Curse of the Crystal Coconut (Napalm) – pirate metal
AntiMozdeBeast – The Red Beast (Independent) – industrial noise
Astralborne – Eternity’s End, Vinyl Issue (Prosthetic) – melodic death metal
Atavistia – The Winter Way (Independent) – melodic death metal
Behemoth – A Forest, EP (Metal Blade) – black / death
Bleed From Within – Fracture (Orchard) – modern metal
Blood Star – The Fear, EP (Shadow Kingdom) – trad metal
Blut – Hermeneutics (AUSR) – gothic metal
Calling All Astronauts – Welcome to the Black Bloc (Independent) – goth punk
Deified – Anthrobscene (Independent) – metal
Enevelde – S/T (Terratur Possessions) – black metal
Evoker – Evil Torment (Blood Harvest) – extreme metal
Geezer – Groovy (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych blues
Glutton – Eating Music (Apollon Records Prog) – prog
Grave Digger – Fields of Blood (Napalm) – power / heavy metal
Held In Secret – Nomads, EP (Independent) – metal
Ironstone – Prophecy, EP (Independent) – prog metal
Kryptamok – Verisaarna (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Lesser Glow – Nullity (Pelagic) – atmospheric doom / sludge
Many Blessings – Emanation Body (Translation Loss) – noise
Mike Lepond’s Assassins – Whore of Babylon (Silver Lining Music) – heavy metal
Misanthropic Rituals – A Path Through Absent Places (Independent) – black metal
Mrs. Piss – Self-Surgery (Sargent House) – dark folk
October Falls – A Fall of an Epoch (Purity Through Fire) – folk / black
Paralysis – Mob Justice (Independent) – crossover
Poccolus – S/T (Inferna Profundus) – black metal
Pulse – Black Knight (NRT) – cyber metal
Smiling Assassin – Plight of the Millennial (Independent) – hardcore
Songs From Black Spirit – I Am Who I Am (Sliptrick) – prog metal
The Committee – Utopian Deception (Folter) – black metal
The O’Reillys and the Paddyhats – Dogs On the Leash (Metalville) – folk punk
Vincas – Phantasma (Learning Curve) – post-punk
Xibalba – Años En Infierno (Southern Lord) – death metal
– Josh
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