Last week was a week. Here’s hoping this one isn’t. Who’s ready for live shows? Anyone got a wager for when that’ll be? Will we ever get back to normal? All pertinent questions that no one really has an answer for, but all are questions that burn in all our minds. News to no one, I get it. Anyway, we can dream…I guess. Moving on to some new metal, and at least that rubs me the right way; OLDE are back with their outstanding brand of blue collar doom/sludge (seriously, this thing rules and consequently, this band can do no wrong), Mare Cognitum are still excelling at cosmic black metal, Dvne get massively heavy and surprisingly subdued at the same time (it works, trust me), and how about some slam meets deathcore from Distant who actually do a great job at crushing this genre combo. Go get all these new tunes and dream for the day when we might actually get to see all this live again.
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OLDE – Pilgrimage (Seeing Red / Sludgelord) – sludge / doom
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Mare Cognitum – Solar Paroxysm (I, Voidhanger Records / Extraconscious Records) – black metal
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Dvne – Etemen Ænka (Metal Blade Records) – post-metal
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Distant – Dusk of Anguish, EP (Unique Leader) – slam / deathcore
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Also on tap:
Adamantis – Far Flung Realm (Cruz Del Sur Music) – power metal
Ainur – War of the Jewels (Rockshots) – tolkien metal
Amammoth – The Fire Above (Electric Valley) – stoner / sludge
Aversed – Impermanent (Independent) – progressive melodic metal
Bathory Legion / Hermann Kopp – Das Unheimliche (Septenary Arts) – experimental ambient
Cicadastone – Cold Chamber (Golden Robot) – rock
Clouds Taste Satanic – Cloud Covered (Kinda Like Music) – post-doom
Cosmic Reaper – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – fuzz
Crooked Mouth & Headstone Brigade – Crooked Headstone (I, Voidhanger Records) – darkfolk
Dead Sun – Night Terrors (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Demenzia Mortis – Anti Kult (Sounds of Hell) – black / death
Depths of Hatred – Inheritance (Prosthetic Records) – tech death
Ego Kill Talent – The Dance Between Extremes (BMG) – rock
Egor Lappo – Trancevoiceover (Independent) – prog metal
Embryonic Slumber – In Worship Our Blood Is Buried (Werewolf) – black metal
Estuarine – Nyarlothotep (Independent) – tech-black-deathgrind
Everture – Emerge (Inverse Records) – modern metal
Feculant – The Grotesque Arena (Brilliant Emperor Records) – death metal
Fullmåne – Lurking In the Dark (Sliptrick) – black metal
Gate Doors – All Our Sins (WormHoleDeath) – metal
Godsend – In the Electric Mist, Remastered (Petrichor) – doom
Grand Celestial Nightmare – Forbidden Knowledge and Ancient Wisdom (Independent) – black metal
Herzel – Le Dernier Rempart (Gates of Hell) – epic metal
Hevilan – Symphony of Good and Evil (Brutal) – symphonic metal
Ildaruni – Beyond Unseen Gateways (Black Lion Records) – pagan black metal
Kankar – Dunkle Millenia (Eisenwald) – black metal
Kõdu – Unusta kõik (Nigredo) – black metal
Lunar Shadow – Wish to Leave (Cruz Del Sur Music) – post rock
Machinist! // Dead Hand – Split (Nefarious Industries) – doom
Majestic Mass – Onwards (Helter Skelter / Regain) – metal
Midnight Odyssey – Biolume Part 2: The Golden Orb (I, Voidhanger Records) – atmospheric metal
Mono – Beyond the Past, Live In London (Pelagic) – post-metal
Nine Treasures – Awakening From Dukka (Independent) – folk metal
Revenant Marquis – Below the Landsker Line (Inferna Profundus) – metal
Riah / Postvorta – Riahpstvrt (Trepanation Recordings) – post-metal
Seraph In Trevail – A Black Death Incense (Independent) – black / death
Shadow People – Batom Rouge / Washing In Soap Opera (Forbidden Place) – sludge / punk
Shiny Daggers – Devil Inside, EP (Emanzipation Productions) – nordic metal
Sulphurous – Encircling Darkness (Me Saco Un Ojo) – death metal
Torrential – Visions (Independent) – thrash / death
U.D.O. – Live in Bulgaria 2020 – Pandemic Survival Show (AFM) – heavy metal
Wharflurch – Shitslime, EP (Personal) – death metal
Yawning Sons – Sky Island (Ripple Music) – stoner / psych / desert rock
–Josh
Nine Circles 