Friendly reminder before we get into all the new metal, Enslaved is kicking off their Cinematic Summer Tour this week (Thursday) with the first of three scheduled shows, Chronicles of the Northbound, which can be streamed on their YouTube channel. Set a reminder, plug it in the calendar, just don’t forget. Alright, new metal this week consists of the next extremely extreme avantgarde look at NYC as seen through the eyes of Imperial Triumphant, the first full length from brutal death metallers Katalepsy in four years, a diverse and very satisfying platter of death metal from Valgrind, and some quality Finnish death metal from Sepulchral Curse. All that and a ton more to sink your teeth into. Do it.
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Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville (Century Media) – extreme / avantgarde
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Katalepsy – Terra Mortuus Est (Unique Leader) – brutal death
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Valgrind – Condemnation (Memento Mori) – death metal
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Sepulchral Curse – Only Ashes Remain (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
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Also on tap:
Æpoch – The Scryer (Independent) – death metal
Brotthogg – The Die Is Cast (Independent) – black / death
Burn the Mankind – Chaos Matter, EP (Emanzipation Productions) – death metal
Cardiac Arrest – The Day That Death Prevailed (Memento Mori / Boris) – death metal
Crusty Old Toad – Doom Gloom and Poon (Independent) – black metal
Deathstorm – For Dread Shall Reign (Dying Victims Productions) – thrash
Dee Snider – For the Love of Metal, Live (Napalm) – metal
Disavowed – Revocation of the Fallen (Brutal Mind) – brutal death
Dkharmakhaoz – Proclamation ov the Black Suns (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Draconis – Anthems for an Eternal Battle (Brutal) – death metal
Draghkar – At the Crossroads of Infinity (Unspeakable Axe) – death metal
Drouth – Excerpts from a Dead Liturgy (Translation Loss) – black / death
Dystopia A.D. – Rise of the Merciless (Independent) – prog / tech-death [profile]
Fall of Messiah – Senicarne (Holy Roar) – hardcore
Fleshdriver – Leech (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
Foot – The Balance of Nature Shifted (Cooper Feast) – stoner metal
Geist & The Sacred Ensemble – Waning Hymns (Scry Recordings) – doom folk
Heresiarch / Antediluvian – Defleshing the Serpent Infinity (Iron Bonehead) – death / black
Herxheim – Incised Arrival (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – black / doom
High Spirits – Hard to Stop (High Roller) – metal
Hole Dug Deep – Buried Alive (Sliptrick) – metal
Insight – Neura (Australis) – heavy / speed
Juracán – Jarineo (Anima Recordings) – ambient / post-rock
Khar Sulde – The Black Banners of Cosmic War (Crown and Throne Ltd) – black metal
King Gorm – S/T (Independent) – rock
Lionheart – The Reality of Miracles (Metalville) – metal
Lucynine – Amor Venenat (Inverse) – metal
Kekal – Quantum Resolution (Eastbreath) – avant/experimental metal
MrKill – Day of Reckoning (Independent) – melodic death metal
My Silent Wake – Damnum Per Sacaelorum (Opa Loka) – ambient
Nite – Darkness Silence Mirror Flame, Cassette Issue (Sentient Ruin) – dark heavy metal
Omitir – Ode (Loudriver) – folk / black / ambient
Osi and the Jupiter – Appalachia, EP (Eisenwald) – drone
Pale Horseman – For Dust Thou Art (Independent) – sludge / doom
Pazuzu – Revenant of Blasphemies (Dunkelheit Produktionen) – death / doom
Resin Tomb – S/T (Brilliant Emperor) – deathgrind
Septicflesh – Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX, Live (Season of Mist) – symphonic death metal
Shezmu – À Travers Les Lambeaux (Krucyator Productions) – black / death / doom
Soulrot – Victims of Spiritual Warfare (Memento Mori) – death metal
Thundermother – Heatwave (AFM) – rock
Turkey Vulture – Time to Pay (Independent) – metal
Underking – The Mask (Independent) – metalcore
Unruly – S/T (Sludgelord) – sludge
Venator / Angel Blade – Split, Vinyl Issue (Dying Victims Productions) – metal
Warkings – Revenge (Napalm) – heavy metal
Winter Nights – S/T (Independent) – death metal
– Josh
