Alright then, no need to rehash current events. Pretty sure we all know shit’s on fire and if we don’t, shame on us. Might as well showcase some extreme metal for some extreme times, let’s get it. For their second full length, Inexorum pretty much lay waste to any band trying the whole atmospheric, emotionally packed yet razored raw black metal in one fell swoop—yea, it’s that good. Chaotic avantmetallers Netherlands return with another reason to fall in love with poppy hooks, extreme bass, velvety vocals, and melodies that stick like glue–count me in. Serocs flip the tech and brutal switches on their latest death metal EP, and Pyrrhon make us question whether it’s death metal or extreme metal or just genius at work but honestly no surprises here since they’ve been doing that since day one. Tons more to dig into below so go grab your soundtrack to the global fire.
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Inexorum – Moonlit Navigation (Gilead Media) – black metal
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Netherlands – Zombie Techno (Records and Tapes Records) – avantmetal
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Serocs – Vore, EP (Everlasting Spew) – death metal
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Pyrrhon – Abscess Time (Willowtip) – extreme metal
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Also on tap:
Ahab – Live Prey, Live Comp. (Napalm) – doom
Al-Namrood – Wala’at (Shaytan Productions) – black metal [full review]
Asian Death Crustacean – Baikal (Independent) – experimental metal
Battle Born – S/T (Independent) – power metal
Behold the Void – Disintegration (Independent) – metal
Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough Vol. I (Profound Lore) – doom
Bible Basher – Loud Wailing, EP (Sludgelord) – doom
Carach Angren – Franckensteina Strataemontanus (Season of Mist) – symphonic metal
Catafalque – We Will Always Suffer (Trepanation Recordings) – noise / experimental
Clairvoyance – Demo (Caligari) – extreme metal
Constipation / Necrotomb – Fucking Morbid Splitting (Immortal Souls Productions) – deathgrind
Creature – Ex Cathedra (I, Voidhanger) – black metal
Dauþuz – Grubenfall 1727 (Amor Fati) – black metal
Dead Carnage – From Hell for Hate (Immortal Souls Productions) – death metal
Descend – The Deviant (Aftermath Music) – progressive death metal
Diabolical Oath – Profane Death (Sentient Ruin) – black / death
Dismalimerence – Tome: 1 (Transcending Records) – black metal
Draemora – Awakening, EP (Ultra Nast) – melodic death metal
Entartung – Maleficae Artes (Dunkelheit Produktionen) – black metal
Exocrine – Maelstrom (Unique Leader) – tech death
Falconer – From a Dying Ember (Metal Blade) – power metal
Fellwarden – Wreathed In Mourncloud (Eisenwald) – black metal
Feuerschwanz – Das elfte Gebot (Napalm) – folk
Fleshvessel – Bile of Man Reborn, EP (I, Voidhanger) – death metal
Fordomth – Is, Qui Mortem Audit(Auric) – black metal
Förgjord – Laulu kuolemasta (Werewolf) – black metal
Heathen Beast – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised But It Will Be Heard (Independent) – death / grind
Hornwood Fell – Cursed Thoughts (Kadabra Music) – avantgarde
Hydraform – S/T (Independent) – modern metal
IA – initIAtion (Independent) – shamanic metal
Irae – Lurking in the Depths (Signal Rex) – black metal
La Breiche – Le Rite (Cold Spring) – post-rock
Magick Touch – Heads Have Got to Rock n Roll (Edged Circle) – rock / metal
Maud the moth – Orphnē (Música Máxima / Nooirax / La Rubia) – dark folk
Molitoth – The Tribunal (Independent) – post-metal
Neptunian Maximalism – Ēons (I, Voidhanger) – drone
Nobody – Atmosfear (Inverse) – acoustic black metal / folk
Ofermod – Pentaggrammaton (Shadow / Regain) – metal
Pessimist – Holdout (MDD) – thrash
Purtenance – Buried Incantation (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Ravenlight – Project Genesis (Novus) – symphonic power metal
Serment – Chante, Ô Flamme de la Liberté (Sepulchral Productions) – black metal
Shed the Skin – The Forbidden Arts (Hells Headbangers) – death metal
Sombre Héritage – Alpha Ursae Minoris (Sepulchral Productions) – black metal
Stench of Profit – No Place To Hide (Lethal Scissor) – grind
Stygian Crown – S/T (Cruz Del Sur Music) – doom / death metal
Sumptus Ignis – Curtain Calls (Independent) – progressive / melodic
The Third Kind – Man vs Earth (Independent) – sci-fi crossover
Thecodontion – Supercontinent (I, Voidhanger) – black / death
They Leapt From Burning Windows – Demo 2020 (Lycaean Triune) – black metal
Thirty Nights of Violence – You’ll See Me Up There (Unbeaten) – metal
Thunderslave – Unchain the Night (No Remorse) – heavy metal
Unborn Suffer – Commit(ment To) Suicide (Selfmadegod) – death metal
Varus – A New Dawn (Independent) – symphonic folk metal
Velkhanos – The Wrath (Art Gates) – melodic death / black
Voidceremony – Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel (20 Buck Spin) – death metal
Voodus – Open the Otherness (Shadow / Regain) – black metal
wędrowcy~tułacze~zbiegi – Berliner Vulkan (Devoted Art Propaganda) – metal
Wino – Forever Gone (Ripple Music) – wino acoustic
– Josh
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