I feel like I said this recently, but the everflowing stream of live shows and fests are excellent news. I mean, EXCELLENT. We’ve all missed them, and each other for that matter. Even if you’re the dude that loves to windmill dead in the middle of the crowded floor…you have been missed. Me? I won’t be in the middle of said floor, but will be holding up the bar in the back grinning from ear to ear to actually see this magical thing happen again. Anyway, I digress as we’re here for new metal and that we have tons of. Atmospheric black metal is something Svneatr dive into even deeper than before on their latest, Impaled Nazarene make sick music for sick folks and they continue their sick black metal pulverization of humanity this week, the band with the always stunning Conanish album covers and excellent heavy metal, Cirith Ungol, are once again upon us with a quick ripper of an EP, and Engraver offer up another quick ripper of an EP but this time thrash is the name of the game. Head below to find all the albums that will empty your wallet and go plan your upcoming events wisely. See you there.
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Svneatr – Chinook (Independent) – atmospheric black metal [video premiere]
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Impaled Nazarene – Eight Headed Serpent (Osmose Productions) – black metal
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Cirith Ungol – Half Past Human, EP (Metal Blade Records) – heavy metal
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Engraver – Behind, EP (WormHoleDeath) – thrash
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Adarrak – Ex Oriente Lux (Sathanas / Blood Blast Distribution) – death metal
Alastor – Onwards and Downwards (RidingEasy) – occult metal
Alluvial – Sarcoma (Nuclear Blast) – death metal
Angstskrig – Skyggespil (Despotz) – black metal
Armnatt – Eternal Flame (Signal Rex) – black metal
Ascète – Calamites & les Calamités (Antiq) – black metal
Aufhebung – Chasms (Independent) – post-metal
Austin Taft – Skeletons (Independent) – metal
Awaketh – S/T (Signal Rex) – black / death
Balmog – Eve (War Anthem) – black / death
Birdflesh – All the Miseries, EP (Everlasting Spew) – thrash
Black Flare – S/T (Firecum) – metal
Blazon Rite – Endless Halls of Golden Totem (Gates of Hell) – metal
Bleeth – Harbinger (Seeing Red) – post-metal / sludge / doom
Bloodbound – Creatures Of The Dark Realm (AFM Records) – power metal
CMPT – Mrtvaja (Osmose Productions) – black metal
Countime – No Apologies No Regrets (Demons Run Amok) – hardcore
Cross Vault – As Strangers We Depart (Iron Bonehead) – metal
Crouch – In G.O.D. You Trust (Slovak Metal Army) – hardcore
Dödsrit – Mortal Coil (Wolves Of Hades) – atmospheric black metal
Drift Into Black – Patterns of Light (Independent) – synth doom
Eclipser – Pages (Independent) – death metal
Electric Haze – Get In Line (Idle North) – rock
Exmortem – Berzerker Legions, Reissue (Emanzipation) – death metal
Exorcist – Nightmare Theatre, Re-Release (High Roller) – metal
Ghastly – Mercurial Passages (20 Buck Spin) – death metal
Giuntini Deathline – V (Giuntini) – prog rock
Head of Jeddore – How To Slaughter A Lamb (Independent) – metal
Heavy Sentence – Bang To Rights (Dying Victims Productions) – metal
High n’ Heavy – V (Electric Valley) – doom / rock
Karpenter – Sleepless (Rockshots) – melodic death metal
Kill the Imposter – The Violence Sessions (Independent) – deathcore
King of Asgard – Svartvior (Trollmusic) – nordic metal
Layr – Vulgord’s Tower Soundtrack (Eleventh Key) – dungeon synth
Lung Knots – Golden Dirges, Molten Larynges (Tartarus) – harsh noise
Mental Cruelty – A Hill To Die Upon (Unique Leader) – death metal
Mesarthim – Vacuum Solution, EP (Avantgarde Music) – black metal
Mosara – S/T (Transylvania Recordings) – doom
No Possession – Third Time’s A Charm (Melodic Passion) – rock
Noctiferia – Reforma (Blood Blast / Nika) – metal
Noctule – Wretched Abyss (Church Road) – black metal
Orodruin – Epicurean Mass, Vinyl Re-Release (Cruz Del Sur Music) – doom
Ouija – Selenophile Impia (Negra Nit) – black metal
Pačess – Poupe (Slovak Metal Army) – metal
Pale Divine – Cemetary Earth, Vinyl Re-Release (Cruz Del Sur Music) – metal
Palus Somni – Monarch Of Dark Matter (BlackSeed Productions) – black metal
Perturbator – Lustful Sacraments (Blood Music) – industrial
Pledge – Haunted Visions (Raging Planet) – hardcore
Raw Grip – Kaleidoscope, EP (Dead Red Queen / Law of Cycles) – hardcore / screamo
Reject the Sickness – While Our World Dissolves (WormHoleDeath / Aural) – death / thrash
Reixhumation – The Final Revelation of Abbadon (Lavadome Productions) – death metal
Sadistik Forest – Obscure Old Remains (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Schismopathic – The Human Legacy (selfmadegod) – grind
Seance Of… – The Colour of Magick (Signal Rex) – black metal
Sectlinefor – Kissing Strangers In An Outbreak (Independent) – avant
Silver Talon – Decadence and Decay (M-Theory Audio) – power metal
Sunrise – Equilibria (Independent) – power metal
T-Tops – Staring at a Static Screen (Magnetic Eye) – punk / noise
Tardus Mortem – Engulfed In Pestilent Darkness (Emanzipation Productions) – death metal
The Flight of Sleipnir – Eventide (Eisenwald) – experimental
The Obsessed – Lunar Womb, Re-Release (High Roller) – doom
The Spectre Beneath – The New Identity of Sidney Stone (WormHoleDeath) – prog
The Vicious Head Society – Extinction Level Event (Hostile Media) – prog metal
The Wring – Wring Project Cipher 2021 (Independent) – prog
Tygers of Pan Tang – Majors & Minors (Mighty Music) – rock
Unfathomable Ruination – Decennium Ruinae (Willowtip) – death metal
–Josh
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