Another week, another unending set of problems. Yep, that simple folks. Anyway, new metal time which means it’s finally CARCASS week. Whether you fell off long ago or keep on keeping on, Carcass keep doing their thing and this week they’re, again, doing it extremely well as they travel further along the melodi-carcass path. Plus, who doesn’t need some fun in their death metal these days? Rhetorical question of course, not in my bucket to care who does and who doesn’t. For a twofer of melodic death metal, we’ve got the latest from Insomnium which “good” is understood automatically, how good? Find out. Then we’ve got some brutalicious death metal from Vulvodynia and some wicked deathgrind from Dickless Tracy. Last but not least are the remainder of releases hiding out below these top four. Go. Do it.
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Carcass – Torn Arteries (Nuclear Blast) – melodicarcass
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Insomnium – Argent Moon, EP (Century Media) – melodic death metal
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Vulvodynia – Praenuntius Infiniti (Unique Leader) – death metal
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Dickless Tracy – Grave New World (Momsterbilly) – deathgrind
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Also on tap:
Anomaly – Planet Storm (Independent) – death metal
Apostolica – Haeretica Ecclesia (Scarlet) – metal
ARGESH – Excommunica (Nero Corvino) – black metal
As The Sun Falls – Last Days of Light (Independent) – melodic death metal
Aversio Humanitatis – Silent Dwellers – Live MMXX (Lunar Apparitions) – metal
Between the Planets – Parallel World (Independent) – metal
Bogwife – A Passage Divine (Majestic Mountain) – stoner / doom
Cogas – Unconscious Sons of the Reptile God (Independent) – black metal
Criminal – Sacrificio (Metal Blade) – death/thrash
CroMagnum – Born Free, EP (King Metal) – metal
Ctenizidae – …Of Rotting Soil & Spine (Nebular Carcoma) – black metal
Dimwind – Slow Wave Violence (Trepanation Recordings) – post-metal
Eard – De Rerum Natura (Avantgarde Music) – harpish atmospheric black metal
Existentia – Calculating Failure (Independent) – death metal
Fustilarian – All This Promiscuous Decadence (Amor Fati) – black metal
Glasgow Coma Scale – Sirens (Tonzonen Records) – post rock
Graceful – Demiurgia (Vlad Productions) – rock
Gravedancer – Unholy Bond (Helldprod) – heavy metal
Heirs of Isildur – Heirs of Isildur vs Tales From Nocturnia (Insymmetry Creations) – steampunk metal
Ichor – The Black Raven (Seance Records) – black metal
Ikarie – Cuerpos En Sombra (Avantgarde Music) – post-metal
Iron Lizards – Hungry for Action (The Sign) – rock
Kadabra – Ultra (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych rock
Knowledge Through Suffering – Concealment (Brucia Records) – blackened death/doom
Leaves’ Eyes – The Last Viking, Midsummer Edition (AFM) – metal
Malevolence – Antithetical (Firecum) – extreme
Manfrea – Noire (Independent) – metal
Metalsteel – Forsaken By The Gods (Independent) – heavy metal
Mono – Pilgrimage of the Soul (Pelagic Records) – experimental rock
Occulsed – Crepitation Of Phlegethon (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal
Phil Stiles – The Anchorhold (Trepanation) – post rock
Plum Green – Somnambulistic (Nefarious Industries) – atmospheric folk
Rageful – Ineptitude (Independent) – death metal
Sarcofagus – Envoy of Death (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – heavy metal
Saturnian Mist – Shamatanic (Petrichor) – black metal
Shadecrown – Solitarian (Inverse Records) – melodic death/doom
Son of a Shotgun – Be For Oss Alle (Emanzipation Productions) – southern death/grind
Spacebag – Party Prog Nights (Unknown Controller Records) – prog metal
Straylight Run – Live at the Patchogue Theatre (Craft) – rock
Swelling Repulsion – The Severed Path (Spirit Coffin Publishing) – melodic death metal
Tardus Mortem – Armageddon (Emanzipation Productions) – extreme
Teitan – Vákuum (Zwaerdgevegt / Void Wanderer) – black metal
The Ascended – The Dark (Independent) – metal
The Blue Prison – S/T (Metal Assault) – prog
The Troops Of Doom – The Absence Of Light (Blood Blast / Metalized / Others) – death metal
The Plot In You – Swan Song (Fearless) – rock
The Speed of Sound – Tomorrow’s World (Big Stir Records) – prog rock
Thunderclap – Morkkis (Ashtray Monument) – doom / punk
Thundermaker – The Road (Sliptrick) -0 heavy metal
Various Artists – C Squared Under Music Special (C Squared Music) – metal
Velo Misere – Monomanía del Inexorable Vacío (Lunar Apparitions / Altare) – black metal
Vengeful – War Neurosis (CDN) – death metal
Whyzdom – Of Wonders and War (Scarlet) – symphonic metal
Without God – Siberian Tunes: Purple Clouds (Solitude Productions) – stoner / doom
– Josh
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