Did everyone survive the wave of shitty April Fools’ jokes? In talking about things that should be retired, that’s really high on the list. However, Metallum did an excellent job with the cat thing, I’ll give them that. Anyway, new week means new metal and for this round we’ve got a fantastic entry from The Lion’s Daughter who dive deeper into horror synth (very, very good thing), a brutal death entry from a band you might need an English major and a doctor’s degree to pronounce, Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, another artsy rock outing from Årabrot who just get better with age, and a chilling post-metal album from Kauan. All that and a bunch more in the list below. Dig it.
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The Lion’s Daughter – Skin Show (Season of Mist) – synthy metal
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Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy – The Rotted Plinth of Sachiel (Stillbirth) – brutal death metal
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Årabrot – Norwegian Gothic (Pelagic) – rock
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Kauan – Ice Fleet (Artoffact) – post-metal
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Also on tap:
Ætheria Conscientia – Corrupted Pillars of Vanity (Independent) – black / doom / prog
Arion – Vultures Die Alone (AFM) – melodic metal
Baron Crâne – Commotions (Mrs Red Sound) – prog
Cathartic Demise – In Absence (Independent) – prog death / thrash
Dead Label – Anthology (Independent) – metal
Exterminated – The Genesis of Genocide (Comatose Music) – death metal
Forsmán – Dönsum i Logans Ljóma (Van) – black metal
Funeral Fullmoon – Poetry of the Death Poison (Inferna Profundus) – black metal
Galaxy Magnolia – Time Apart From Others (Independent) – post-metal
Gangrened – Deadly Algorithm (Trepanation Recordings) – sludge / doom
Gargowitch – Avidee (Devoted Art Propaganda) – black metal
Goath – III: Shaped By The Unlight (Ván Records) – black/death
god|screaming|breathing – 19-01-2019 (Philip K Discs) – folk / field recs
Heavy Feather – Mountain of Sugar (The Sign) – rock
Hiraki – Stumbling Through The Walls (Nefarious Industries) – avant noise
Horndal – Lake Drinker (Prosthetic) – death metal
Hot Breath – Rubbery Lips (The Sign) – rock
Johan Kihlberg’s Impera – Spirit of Alchemy (Metalville) – metal
Lazer Beam – S/T (LCF) – desert rock
Les Chants du Hasard – Livre Troisième (Independent) – blackened goth
Manbryne – Heilsweg: O udrece ciala i tulaczce duszy (Terratur / Malignant Voices) – black metal
Motorjesus – Hellbreaker (AFM) – heavy metal
Niht – Arcanum (Van) – black metal
No Hope For the Lost – The Pilgrimage, EP (Independent) – prog
Ornimental – Red, White,…and Wrath (Independent) – hard rock
Purgatory – Lawless to Grave (Unbeaten) – metalcore
Pyriphlegethon – Gales of Atrocious Whispering (Kapmes) – black metal
Sahara – The Curse (Regain Records) – stoner doom
Saille – V (Black Lion) – black / death
Soothsayer – Echoes of the Earth (Transcending Obscurity) – death / doom
Syning – S/T (Terratur Possessions) – black metal
Tensiion – Subterfuge, EP (Independent) – death & roll
The Black Mysteries – And the opening of shadowy sepulchre that yawns behind it (Kapmes) – black metal
The Limit – Caveman Logic (Svart) – punk / doom
The Medea Project – Southern Echoes (Independent) – gothic doom
Throne – Pestilent Dawn (Redefining Darkness) – death / black
Tides of Kharon – Tianomachy (Sliptrick) – melodic death metal
Wartooth – Programmed Dichotomy, Vinyl (Independent) – thrash
Wasted Death – Ugly As Hell, EP (APF) – punk
Wheel – Preserved In Time (Cruz Del Sur Music) – doom
Wormsand – Shapeless Mass (Saka Čost) – stoner doom
–Josh
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