If you’re reading this, I highly recommend doing your research on all the new metals we’ve got this week and particularly the lead off four albums. I’m not Australian but CRIKEY this is a good week. How good? Read on… Gaerea had a great debut album two years ago but now, on their sophomore effort, they have an excellent album that’s equal parts dark black metal and thundering melodies—they truly have found their calling here. Next up is a trio of death metal delights: Exhibit A is of the technical / brutal persuasion from Defeated Sanity which is a barnburner of epic proportions, if you can get past the production. Exhibit B is of the technical (not tech) variety from Ahtme and is a blast from start to finish, plus that crazy album art. And, Exhibit C is of the “all in but the kitchen sink” variety from Writhing and while it is very short, it’s a whole lot of ass kicking in six minutes. So, four down and tons more to go. Explore, explore and the more you will know. Poet and didn’t know it…and all…whatever.
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Gaerea – Limbo (Season of Mist) – black metal
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Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus (Willowtip) – brutal death
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Ahtme – Mephitic (Unique Leader) – technical death metal
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Writhing – Eternalised In Rot (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
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Also on tap:
Bedsore – Hypnagogic Hallucinations (20 Buck Spin) – death metal
Blackballed – Elephant in the Room (Metalville) – rock
Bobby Singer – Salvation (APB) – screamo
Buried Realm – Embodiment of the Divine, EP (Independent) – prog / melodic death metal
Carthagods – The Monster In Me (FDA) – heavy metal
Culture Abuse – Good Shit, Bad Shit, Who Gives A Shit, Comp. (Epitaph) – punk
Dead Bronco – The Annunciation (Sun & Moon) – neo-folk / black metal
Deadlight Sanctuary – Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned (Sentient Ruin / Iron Bonehead) – black / doom
Drops of Heart – Stargazers (Independent) – melodic death metal
Empress – Premonition (Independent) – doom
Escaping Aghartha – Oceanic Womb (Independent) – black / doom
Evil Warriors – Schattenbringer, EP (Into Endless Chaos) – black metal
Extinction – Smouldering Enfoulment (Independent) – slam
Fides Inversa – Historia Nocturna (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal
Ice War – Defender, Destroyer (Fighter) – speed / heavy metal
In Mourning – Monolith (Agonia) – prog / melodic death metal
Judicator – Let There Be Nothing (Prosthetic) – power metal
Las Historias – S/T (Electric Valley) – psych metal
Laughing Stock – The Island (Apollon) – prog rock
Let Us Prey – Virtues of the Vicious (M-Theory Audio) – prog / power / thrash
Mosaic – Harvest: Songs of Autumnal Landscapes and Melancholy (Eisenwald) – folk
Rückwater – Supernova (Inverse) – stoner
Stonebirds – Collapse and Fail (Ripple Music) – post-metal
Temple of Dread – World Sacrifice (Testimony) – death metal
Valkyrie – Fear (Relapse) – sludge / heavy
Volturyon – Xenogenesis (Vicisolum) – death metal
– Josh
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