You may ask “why feature Chaos Echœs now?” and the answers are: 1) because they are releasing an astounding live soundboard recording from 2018 on glorious vinyl and 2) because they were masters of their craft. Period. Must own situation so go do that now and then finish up here. Other, of note, new releases this week come in the form of entrancing black metal from The Ruins of Beverast, upbeat folk metal from Korpiklaani, and epic post-metal from Cult of Luna—it’s an EP so maybe half epic? All that and much more directly below.
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Chaos Echœs – Ecstasy With the Nonexistents, Live (Sentient Ruin) – experimental death metal
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The Ruins of Beverast – The Thule Grimoires (Van) – black metal
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Korpiklaani – Jylhä (Nuclear Blast) – folk metal [full review]
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Cult of Luna – The Raging River, EP (Red Creek Recordings) – post-metal
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Also on tap:
3 Dreams Never Dreamt – Another Vivid Detail (My Kingdom Music) – gothic progressive metal
Age ł Total – S/T (Soza / Collectif 5024) – progressive
Alkerdeel – Slonk (Consouling Sounds) – black metal
Anael – Mare (Into Endless Chaos) – dark metal
Angelus Apatrida – S/T (Century Media) – thrash
Appalooza – The Holy of Holies (Ripple Music) – rock
Black Hole Deity – Lair of Xenolich, EP (Everlasting Spew) – death metal
Black TarPoon – The Thad, EP (Independent) – rock
Blurr Thrower – Germes Vermeil (Ladlo) – avant
Boozewa – First Contact (Independent) – rock
Bornwithhair – Someplace To Haunt (Independent) – death / doom
Carcinoma – Labascatio (Rat King) – doom
Colossus – Degenesis (Comatose Music) – brutal death metal
Deacon Blue – Riding On The Tide Of Love (earMusic) – rock
Dead Exaltation – Despondent (Independent) – tech / prog death metal
DSKNT – Vacuum y-Noise Transition (Sentient Ruin) – black metal
Everdawn – Cleopatra (Sensory) – symphonic metal
Felgrave – A Waning Light (Personal) – black metal
Feskarn – Raven’s Sky (Vegvisir Distribution) – viking metal
Ghosts of Sunset – Headed West (Golden Robot) – rock
King Bong – Sand ≈ Return (Mandrone Records) – psych metal
Komatsu – Rose of Jericho (Heavy Psych Sounds) – metal
Lawrence Wallace – Journey Through Time (Independent) – instru-shred-metal
Lowlives – I Don’t Like You (Death Culture Records) – grunge
Maestitium – Tale of the Endless (Black Lion) – symphonic / melodic death
Meister Leonhardt – S/T (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Misotheist – For the Glory of Your Redeemer (Terratur Possessions) – black metal
Mourners – Act I: Tragedies (Personal) – doom
Neorhythm – Evils, EP (Independent) – metal
Nicolas Cage Fighter – Cast You Out, EP (Independent) – metal
Old Castles – Die Wampyriskra Symphonie (Inferna Profundus) – dungeon synth / black
Old Growth – Mossweaver (Supreme Chaos) – black metal
Omination – NGR (Hypnotic Dirge) – funeral doom
ORCumentary – Fully ORChestrated (Independent) – comedic metal
Ploho – Phantom Feelings (Artoffact) – post-punk
Rack & Gridfailure – The Sun Exploded (Independent) – noise
Revulsion – S/T (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Sarin – You Can’t Go Back (Prosthetic) – post-metal
Sea Sleeper – Nostophobia (Metal Assault) – death / post-metal
Sintax – Nano3000 (Sliptrick) – thrash
Stargazer – Psychic Secretions (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – extreme
Svn.Seeker – Means to an End, EP (Independent) – melodic death metal
Ulvegr – Isblod (Ashen Dominion) – black metal
Uncertainty Principle – Sonic Terror (Xenoglossy Productions) – drone / doom
Vermineux – 1337 (Purity Through Fire) – metal
Wampyric Rites – The Eternal Melancholy of the Wampyre (Inferna Profundus) – black / dungeon synth
White Nights – Solanaceae (Iron Bonehead) – black / deathrock
Zebediah Crowe – Lych Milk (Independent) – metal / industrial
– Josh
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