No bitchin’ this week. I could, don’t get me wrong. Rather, I’ll just keep it all in my head and see visions equal to that Cannibal Corpse album that came out last week. As the kids say, what a banger. Moving on, new week and new metal so let’s do it…Capra explodes with some vicious hardcore and punk infused metal this side of, well, a very long time and the fact that this is a debut? Snap! A name I was excited to see that I haven’t in a long stretch is Bongzilla who returns with an album I’m stok(n)ed on and you should be too, Akiavel are back with a blistering sophomore death metal effort, and Altarage keep the violence going with their brand of blackened death metal that keeps the needle pegged to extreme. Alrighty then, these top four are worth your time, but there’s a lot more to follow that bears the same worth. Do it.
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Capra – In Transmission (Metal Blade / Blacklight Media) – metal / punk / hardcore [interview]
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Bongzilla – Weedsconsin (Heavy Psych Sounds) – stoner metal
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Akiavel – Væ Victis (Independent) – death metal [profile]
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Altarage – Succumb (Season of Mist Underground Activities) – black / death
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Also on tap:
AntiMozdeBeast – The Ritual, EP (Independent) – industrial
Aphonic Threnody – The All Consuming Void (Independent) – funeral doom
Astrakhan – A Slow Ride Towards Death (Melodic Passion) – prog rock
Big | Brave – Vital (Southern Lord) – metal
Body Void – Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth (Prosthetic) – black / doom
Bongzilla and Tons – Doom Sessions Vol. 4 (Heavy Psych Sounds) – stoner doom
Cicada the Burrower – Corpseflower (Independent) – progressive black metal
Coldcell – A Greater Evil (Ladlo) – metal
Crypts of Despair – All Light Swallowed (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Curimus – Garden of Eden (Sliptrick) – death / thrash
Dead World Reclamation – Aura of Iniquity (Independent) – death metal
Death Chamber – Experiments In Warfare (Dead Center Productions) – death metal
Déhà – Cruel Words, Vinyl Issue (Burning World) – metal
Desolate Realm – S/T (Independent) – doom
Devilz By Definition – The Bitter Remains of Human Consumption, EP (Independent) – groove metal
Extinguish – S/T, EP (Creator-Destructor) – hardcore
Frozen Crown – Winterbane (Scarlet) – power metal
Gilby Clarke – The Gospel Truth (Golden Robot) – rock
Helslave – From the Sulphur Depths (Pulverised) – death metal
Hideous Divinity – LV-426, EP (Century Media) – death metal
Howling Giant – Alteration, EP (Independent) – heavy psych
House By the Cemetery – Rise of the Rotten (Pulverised) – death metal
Hymnr – Far Beyond Insanity (Saturnal) – black metal
IDEK. – The Trek (Layered Reality Productions) – experimental
Macabre Demise / Sucking Leech – Observation / Damned to… (Independent) – deathgrind
Malformity – Monumental Ruin (Unspeakable Axe) – death metal
Mara – Djävulstoner (WormHoleDeath / The Orchard) – metal
Miasma Theory – S/T (Shadowlit Music) – heavy metal
Minas Morgul – Heinkehr (Trollzorn) – black / death
Morticula Rex – Autumnal Rites (Immortal Souls / Satanath) – death / doom
Mother of All – The Age of Solipsist (Black Lion) – death metal
Neptunian Maximalism – Solar Drone Ceremony (I, Voidhanger) – drone doom / psych
No Words / Abjekt – Between Realities, Split (Marrow In the Pines) – ambient / dsbm
Noêta – Elm (Independent) – black / ambient / folk
Non Serviam – Le Coeur Bat (code666) – metal
Nordgeist – Frostwinter (Kunsthall) – black metal
Obsolete – Animate//Isolate (Unspeakable Axe) – death / thrash
Odal – Welten Mutter (Eisenwald) – black metal
Old Forest – Mournfall (Death To Music Productions) – doom
Ole Teigen – Magician In Despair (Apollon) – avantgarde
Omega – Nebra (Dusktone) – black/doom
Paraphilia – Primordium of Sinister Butchery (Independent) – death metal
Paysage D’Hiver – Geister (Kunsthall) – black metal
Phantom Fire – Return of the Goat (Edged Circle) – metal
Plague of the Fallen – Bleeding and Vehement (Vomit Your Shirt / Miasma) – death metal
Ringarë – Thrall of Winter’s Majesty (Amor Fati) – black metal
Sacred Shrines – Enter the Woods (Rebel Waves) – rock
Skindred – Roots Rock Riot, Vinyl Edition (Hassle Hindsight) – rock
Spectral Lore – Ετερόφωτος (I, Voidhanger) – black metal
Tetramorphe Impure – Dead Hopes, EP (Solitude Productions) – death/doom
Tetramorphe Impure – The Last Chains, Demo (Solitude Productions) – death/doom
The Antikaroshi – Extract. Transform. Debase (Exile On Mainstream) – post-rock
The Flaming Sideburns – Silver Flames (Svart) – rock
The Marigold – Apostate (Trepanation Recordings) – stoner / sludge
To The Dogs – S/T, EP (Edged Circle) – crust
Tombstones In Their Eyes – Looking For a Light (Kitten Robot / Somewherecold) – psych / shoegaze
Various Artists – Brown Acid The Twelfth Trip (RidingEasy) – protometal
Vexillum – Why Good Men Go To War (Scarlet) – folk / metal
Void Vator – Great Fear Rising (Ripple Music) – metal
Walking Bombs – Tears We Should Have Shed (Independent) – rock / punk
WarCall – Dead End Pt. 1 (Plan B Music) – heavy metal
wedrowcy tulacze zbiegi – Futurista (Devoted Art Propaganda) – metal
Whipstriker / Ice War – Split (Helldprod) – metal
Witch Hunt – Rock n’ Roll Possession (Dead Center Productions) – speed metal
Worst Doubt – Extinction (BDHW) – hardcore
–Josh
