Huxley once said “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.” Think about that for a second, the current perspective is surreal. Anyway, another load of new metal this week and a load of it presented below is, yet again, outstanding. Speaking of outstanding, the death metal dream duo of Johansson & Speckmann deliver their fifth full length, Tennessee’s tech-death titans Inferi roll out an EP, Venom Prison offer up a collection of re-recorded EP’s and two new tracks, and an anthemic yet melodic post-punk return from Bootblacks. Read through the list, pick out several that strike a chord, then go give them your support. They’ll appreciate it and you’ll have some shiny new tunes to enjoy, SCORE.
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Johansson & Speckmann – The Germs of Circumstance (Soulseller Records) – death metal
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Inferi – Of Sunless Realms, EP (The Artisan Era) – technical death metal
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Venom Prison – Primeval (Prosthetic) – death metal
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Bootblacks – Thin Skies (Artoffact) – post-punk
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Also on tap:
Arcadian Child – Protopsycho (Rebel Waves) – psych rock
Ascension of the Watchers – Apocrypha (Dissonance Productions) – metal
Black Communion – Miasmic Monstrosity (Dunkelheit Produktionen) – death / black
Blood of Angels – Failure of Faith (Sliptrick) – melodic death / black
Coastlands – Death (Translation Loss) – instru-post-metal
DeathEpoch – Abysmal Invocation (Putrid Cult) – black / death
Dysylumn – Cosmogonia (Signal Rex) – black metal
Empress – Premonition (Petrichor) – sludge / doom
Foul Body Autopsy – Consumed By Black Thoughts (Independent) – death metal
Furnace – Dark Vistas (Soulseller Records) – death metal
Gargoyl – S/T (Season of Mist) – prog / tech death
Hagathorn – Hartworld (Nordvis) – folk
Helion Prime – Question Everything (Saibot Reigns) – power metal
Incinerate – Sacrilegivm (Comatose Music) – death metal
Infiltration – Point Blank Termination (Time To Kill) – death metal
Invernoir – The Void and the Unbearable Loss (BadMoodMan Music / Funere) – death / doom
Ixion – L’Adieu aux Etoiles (Finisterian Dead End) – doom
King Parrot – Holed Up In the Liar (Agonia) – thrash / grind
Lindsay Schoolcraft – Worlds Away (Cyber Proxy) – metal
Noitatalid – Furies in the Steppes from Russia (Music-Records) – death / thrash
Ocean Gates – S/T (Boomland) – metal
Rabid Beast – S/T (Unspeakable Axe) – death / thrash
Radiant Knife – The Ghost (Independent) – experimental
Repuked – Dawn of Reintoxication (Soulseller Records) – death metal
R.I.P. – Dead End (RidingEasy) – metal
Rise to the Sky – Death Will Not Keep Us Apart (Independent) – death / doom
Scaphoid – Absent Passages (Shunu) – post-metal
Somnus Throne – S/T (Burning World) – doom
The Messenger Birds – Everything Has To Fall Apart Eventually (Third Man Pressing) – rock
The Troops of Doom – The Rise of Heresy, EP (Blood Blast Distribution) – death metal
The Unguided – Father Shadow (Napalm) – melodic death metal
Ventr – Numinous Negativity (Signal Rex) – black metal
Vhäldemar – Straight To Hell (Fighter) – heavy metal
Warlung – Optical Delusions (Heavy Psych Sounds) – metal / rock
Wreck-Defy – Powers That Be (Sublevel) – thrash
Yatra – All Is Lost (Grimoire) – psych doom
– Josh
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