It’s Labor Day but my guess is that a lot of you are laboring away like it’s not a holiday. The advantage of not laboring today is getting a jump start on this week’s list of new metal, otherwise you’ll have some catching up to do. Anyway, for some truly enjoyable and fun heavy metal by way of the good ol’ classics look no further than Vancouver’s Dead Quiet who offer a full length jam packed with it. For anyone looking for soul crushing sludge and doom, Jupiterian have you covered with six tracks of earthquake inducing jams. The Death Wheelers are like listening to a metal version of sleazy outlaw biker movie soundtracks straight out of the 70s but that’s the point and this week’s full length is all that and a bag of 30 weight oil, or DTA in this case. Last up top this week is Mastodon who share some rarities and a new track—-it’s Mastodon so it’s an automatic in for me. Whether laboring away or not, there’s a ton to dive into here, enjoy.
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Dead Quiet – Truth and Ruin (Artoffact) – heavy metal [profile]
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Jupiterian – Protosapien (Transcending Obscurity) – sludge / doom
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The Death Wheelers – Divine Filth (RidingEasy) – biker metal
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Mastodon – Medium Rarities (Reprise) – mastometal
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Also on tap:
Abduction / Nocturnal Prayer – Intercontinental Death Conspiracies (Inferna Profundus) – black metal
Aborted Fetus – Pyramids of Damnation (Comatose Music) – death metal
Abyss / Besna – Split (Wolfmond) – melodic black metal
Aether Realm – Tarot (reissue) (Napalm Records) – melodic death metal
ARU – Fighting Hatred (Lazerdiscs) – synthwave
Bog Body / Primitive Warfare – The Gate of Grief / Undulating Torment, Split (Stygian Black Hand) – metal
Bornwithhair – Smoleńska (Independent) – avantmetal
Calarook – Surrender or Die (Independent) – pirate metal
Cenotafio – Larvae Tedeum Teratos (Blood Harvest) – black / death
Dark Rites – The Dark Hymns (Brutal) – death metal
Darkened – Kingdom of Decay (Edged Circle) – death metal
David Minasian – The Sound of Dreams (Golden Robot) – rock
Demolizer – Thrashmageddon (Mighty Music) – thrash
Dephosphorus – Sublimation (Selfmadegod) – grind
Exhalants – Atonement (Hex) – noise / metal
Grid – Livsleda (Selfmadegod) – grind
Ihsahn – Pharos, EP (Candlelight) – metal
Kind – Mental Nudge (Ripple Music) – rock
Körgull The Exterminator – Sharpen Your Spikes (Xtreem Music) – speed / black / thrash
Lifvsleda – Det Besegrade Lifvet (Shadow / Regain) – black metal
Messiah – Fracmont (High Roller) – extreme metal
Mondo Generator – Cocaine Rodeo, Reissue (Heavy Psych Sounds) – metal
Mortis Mutilati – The Fate of Flight 800 (Independent) – black metal
Neon Angel – Neon Light District (Sliptrick) – rock
Night – High Tides-Distant Skies (The Sign) – rock
Ordinance – In Purge There Is No Remission (The Sinister Flame) – black metal
Proselytism – Blood of the Deceivers (Duplicate) – metal
Putrid Offal – Sicknesses Obsessions (Xenocorp) – death metal
Pyrrhic – Vile Slumber (Independent) – extreme metal
Raventale – Planetarium II (Ashen Dominion) – atmospheric black metal
Regardless of Me – Black Flowers Blossom (Boersma) – melodic death metal
Skeletal Remains – The Entombment of Chaos (Century Media) – death metal
Slit Your Gods – Dogmatic Convictions of Human Decrepitude (Comatose Music) – death metal
Soulwound – The Suffering (Inverse) – thrash / death
Spectrum of Delusion – Neoconception (The Artisan Era) – death metal
Stygian Temple – In the Sign of the Five Angels (The Sinister Flame) – black metal
The Brothers Keg – Folklore, Myths, and Legends of The Brothers Keg (APF) – stoner
The Passing – S/T (Caligari Records) – extreme
The Progressive Souls Collective – Sonic Birth (Metalville) – prog
Theotoxin – Fragment : Erhabenheit (AOP) – black metal
Throat – Bareback, Stripped & Remasked (Kaos Kontrol) – noise
Tomorrow’s Rain – Hollow (AOP) – doom
Void Rot – Descending Pillars (Everlasting Spew) – death / doom
Welkins Boreal – Ashes, EP (Independent) – goth metal
– Josh
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