Now that ‘best of’ season is almost behind us (key word: almost. Also, I’m going to miss it.), what’s everyone hoping to get this year from the metal world? While we don’t have a looking glass to see past these first few months, I’m optimistic that 2022 will have some epic releases to offer by the time December rolls around again. Maybe. We’ll see. Anyway, we’re leading off this week’s new metal list with three that could certainly fit the bill of ‘most anticipated’ and we kick those off with another doom stunner from Mizmor, Wiegedood’s darkest and most surprising album to date, and a blackened deathcore body blow from Worm Shepherd. For the second full week of January, this is a hell of a start. PLUS, there’s several more in the list that follows. You know what to do from here.
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Mizmor – Wit’s End (Gilead Media) – doom
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Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood At the End of the Road (Century Media) – black metal
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Worm Shepherd – Ritual Hymns (Unique Leader) – black / deathcore
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Also on tap:
Big Scenic Nowhere – The Long Morrow (Heavy Psych Sounds) – rock
Buffalo Revisited – Volcanic Rock Live (Ripple Music) – rock
Chastity – Suffer Summer (Deathwish) – rock
Crawl Below – Its Ministers On Earth (Lawnmowerjetpack Records) – blackened death doom
Descent – Order of Chaos (Redefining Darkness Records (CD) | Brilliant Emperor (Vinyl) | Caligari Records (Cassette) – death metal
Devil In Me – On The Grind (Dead Serious Recordings) – metal
Ecryptus – Kyr’am Beskar (Independent) – star wars death metal
Electromancy – Technopagan (Metal Assault) – tech-black metal
Enterprise Earth – The Chosen (MNRK Heavy) – tech death
Ereb Altor – Vargtimman (Hammerheart) – pagan metal
Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds (Nuclear Blast) – death metal
Furis Ignis – Decapitate the Aging World (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Ghost In the Machine – Journey to the Otherwise (Sliptrick) – industrial
GoreSkinCoffin – Release My Suffering (Funeral Goat Records) – blackened death / grind
Grieve – Funeral (Werewolf) – black metal
Ilium – Quantum Evolution Event (Independent) – power metal
King Bastard – It Came From The Void (Independent) – psych doom
Maule – S/T (Gates of Hell) – heavy metal
Nullification – Kingdoms to Hovel (Personal) – death metal
Oshiego – Jaljalut (Seven Kings Productions) – death metal
Out Of This World – S/T (Atomic Fire) – rock
Party Cannon – Volumes of Vomit (Gore House Productions) – slam / brutal death metal
Pridelands – Light Bends (SharpTone) – metalcore
Slowbleed – A Blazing Sun, The Fiery Dawn (Creator-Destructor Records) – hardcore
Space Coke – Lunacy (Forbidden Place) – psych
Tony Martin – Thorns (Battlegod Productions) – heavy metal
Turkey Vulture – Twist the Knife (Independent) – punk / metal
Tyhjä – Valtakunta, Tape & CD Issue (Humanity’s Plague Productions) – metal
Various Artists – Dominance and Submission: A Tribute to Blue Öyster Cult (Ripple Music) – rock
Verbum – Exhortation to the Impure (Iron Bonehead) – death / doom
Wolfbastard – Hammer the Bastards (Clobber) – black / punk
XCIII – Void (My Kingdom Music) – post-rock
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RIP Baxter. No questions, just tip one back for the furry dude and his owners. Rip the pearly gates open and own that joint.
– Josh
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