Monday. A chance at a new week, new beginnings, or just more of the same. You decide. It’s all about perspective, I guess. Anyway, for new metals this week we’ve got Tombs who return with a gritty and extreme triumph over their last effort, Fuck the Facts astonish with their intense yet moody grindcore, Nader Sadek stay at the top of death metal even with an EP, and Stormkeep stoke the medieval black metal fires with some high horsepower members (do your research). 2020 will be gone before you know it but it appears we’ll be riding it out with quality releases so dig in below and find a new favorite.
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Tombs – Under Sullen Skies (Season of Mist) – extreme / gritty
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Fuck the Facts – Pleine Noirceur (Noise Salvation) – grind
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Nader Sadek – The Serapeum, EP (Independent) – death metal
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Stormkeep – Galdrum (Ván) – medieval black metal
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Also on tap:
Aeolian – The Negationist (Black Lion) – melodic death metal
Aeternitas – Haunted Minds (WormHoleDeath / Orchard / Aural Music) – metal
Against the Grave – Bleeding You (Independent) – modern metal
Bas Rotten – Surge (Raging Planet / A Lie) – grind
Beast Within the Sound – Resistance (Slovak Metal Army) – thrash
Black Mold – The Inheritance of Evil (Helldprod Records) – black metal
Chaos E.T. Sexual – Only Human Crust (Chien Noir) – industrial
Communic – My Temple of Pride (AFM Records) – prog metal
Concede – Indoctrinate (Petrichor) – hardcore / powerviolence
Contrarian – Only Time Will Tell (Willowtip Records) – progressive death metal
Cosmonuts – Leaps of Fate (Sliptrick) – psych rock
Crawling Chaos – XLIX (Time To Kill) – death metal
Dark Tranqullity – Moment (Century Media) – melodic death metal
Dust Prophet / Conduit – Split (Sleeping Village) – stoner
Empress – Wait ‘Til Night (Brilliant Emperor Records) – post-rock
Empyreal Sorrow – Præy (Independent) – melodic death metal
Eternal Champion – Ravening Iron (No Remorse) – heavy metal
Farer – Monad (Tartarus / Aesthetic Death) – doom / noise
Goatcraft – Mephistophelian Exordium (Hessian Firm) – death metal
Hegeroth – Perfidia (Independent) – black metal
Horncrowned – Rex Exterminii (The Hand of the Opposer) (Ketzer) – extreme
Il Rovescio della Medaglia – Contaminazione 2.0 (Jolly Roger) – metal
Ilsa – Preyer (Relapse) – death / doom
Iron Maiden – Nights of the Dead, Legacy of the Beast: Live In Mexico (BMG) live maiden
Killer Be Killed – Reluctant Hero (Nuclear Blast) – metal
King Ov Wyrms – Lord Ov Thrones (Independent) – black / death
Lie In Ruins – Floating In Timeless Streams (Dark Descent) – death metal
Light Field Reverie – Another World (Avantgarde Music) – darkwave
Liminal Shroud – Through the False Narrows (Hypnotic Dirge Records) – black metal
Lord Fist – Wilderness of Hearts (High Roller) – metal
Lords of the Drift – The Arecibo Message (Stay Gold Records) – doom
Merzbow – Screaming Dove (No Funeral) – noise
Misty Grey – Chapter II, Vinyl Issue (Interstellar Smoke) – doom
Mizmor & Andrew Black – Dialetheia (Gilead Media) – doom
My Dying Bride – Macabre Cabaret, EP (Nuclear Blast) – doom
Neige Et Noirceur – Bach – Preludium Minor (Avantgarde Music) – dark ambient
Omnivortex – Diagrams of Consciousness (Concorde Music Company) – tech death
One Dying Wish – Origami (i.corrupt) – post-hardcore
Onsegén Ensemble – Fear (Svart) – prog
pg.lost – Oscillate (Pelagic) – metal
Ping – The Zig Zag Manoeuvre (Apollon) – rock
Reign / Rulum – The Occult (Repose Records) – black metal
Shadow Warrior – Cyberblade (Ossuary) – heavy metal
Skelethal – Unveiling the Threshold (Hells Headbangers) – death metal
Sole Syndicate – Last Days of Eden (Scarlet Records) – heavy metal
Sollust – (In)Versus (Independent) – prog metal
Sonic Circus – Everything (Independent) – prog
Stud – War of Power (Inverse) – rock
Subterraen – Rotten Human Kingdom (Transcending Obscurity) – sludge / doom
Symbtomy – Demo 1 (Immortal Souls Productions) – death metal
The Culture Industry – Middle Aged Kids (Riot) – punk
The Owl – Ambient Piano Works Vol. 1 (Trepanation Recordings) – ambient
!Tooh! – Free Speech (Lavadome) – death grind
Toxaemia – Where Paths Divide (Emanzipation Recordings) – death metal
Wax Mekanix – Mobocracy (Electric Talon) – folk rock
When Frames Collide – Quattro, EP (X Ray) – rock
White Magician – Dealers of Divinity (Cruz Del Sur Music) – classic metal
Witchwood – Before the Winter (Jolly Roger) – metal
Without Mercy – Seismic (Independent) – death metal
Xoth – Interdimensional Invocations, Vinyl (Dawnbreed) – sci-fi tech metal
– Josh
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