As the world keeps laying dull turds at our feet, the music just gets better and better. At least there’s that. For this week’s new release batch, we’ve got several examples of my previous statement and first up is everyone’s favorite demon rocker, Midnight, who are nothing if not incredibly reliable when it comes to needing something fast, dangerous, and wickedly good. Following that we’ve got sludge from the all time great riff lords Crowbar, death metal with a side of blackened char from Hath, a stunning return from Vio-Lence who prove they haven’t lost a thrashy step in all these years, and a bunch more worthy of your time in the list that follows. So, keep expecting those turds, but absolutely keep supporting great music. Seemingly, it only gets better from here.
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Midnight – Let There Be Witchery (Metal Blade) – 666
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Crowbar – Zero and Below (MNRK Heavy) – sludge
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Hath – All That Was Promised (Willowtip Records) – blackened death metal
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Vio-Lence – Let the World Burn (Metal Blade) – thrash
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Also on tap:
Accursed Womb – Hymns of Misery and Death (Independent) – death metal
Aerialis – Dear Silence (Independent) – rock
As I May – Karu (UPRISING!) – melodic metal
As Sahar / Warkvlt – Le666ion of Nusantra, Split (Independent) – black metal
Cadaver is – The Shadows’ Madame, Reissue (Time To Kill) – horror metal
Deserted Fear – Doomsday (Century Media) – death metal
Endtime – Impending Doom (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom
Ghost Toast – Shade Without Color (Inverse Records) – progressive metal
Godless Truth – S/T (Transcending Obscurity) – tech death
Gryftigaen – Fehunoyrdaudr (Inferna Profundus Records) – black metal
Horsebiter – S/T, EP (Independent) – crust
Humator – Curse of the Pharaoh (Time To Kill) – death metal
Illumination – Worship Death More Than Life (Personal Records) – black metal
Iniquity – Grime, Reissue (Emanzipation Recordings) – death metal
Izthmi – Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind (Satanik Royalty Records) – progressive black metal
Jirm – The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam (Ripple Music) – psych metal
Kind & Kinky Zoo – Swamp! (Funk Night Records) – progressive rock
Kuolemanlaakso – Kuusumu (Svart) – doom
Laughing Stock – Zero, acts 3&4 (Apollon Prog) – prog
Maledictis – Delicta (Independent) – gothic chamber metal
Mantiel – Obskurité (Inferna Profundus Records) – black metal
Midnight Bullet – Hostile Resistance (Inverse) – thrash
MINES – Your Ever Failing Happiness, EP (Trepanation Recordings) – sludge / noise
Nocturnal Prayer – Mutilation on the Bed of Winter (Inferna Profundus Records) – black metal
NORD – Machine Blood (Inverse) – alt-metal
Old Castles – Sarcophagical Lament of the Past (Inferna Profundus Records) – black metal
On The Loose – S/T (Independent) – doom
Ottone Pesante – …and the Black Bells Ring (Aural Music) – jazz / metal
Pylar – Abysmos (Humo Internacional) – black / doom
Sabaton – The War to End All Wars (Nuclear Blast) – power metal
Sanhedrin – Lights On (Metal Blade) – metal
SIMULACRE x ARCHVILE KING – Split (LADLO Productions) – black/thash
Slob – Deepwoods Shack of Sodomy (Comatose Music) – death metal
Snøgg – Dan, ko je Vrag vzel salo (Independent) – black metal
Sylvaine – Nova (Season of Mist) – multi-instrumental
The Defaced – Charlatans (Vicisolum Productions) – melodic death metal
Thunder Rising – Back To The Time Of Rock (Independent) – rock
Troglodyte – The Heirarchical Ecological Succession: Welcome to the Food Chain (Blood Blast) – death metal
Twisted Tower Dire – Crest of the Martyrs Demos (Nameless Grave) – heavy metal
Unru – Die Wiederkehr des Verdrangten (Babylon Doom Cult) – atmospheric black metal
Vaina – Futue Te Ipsum (Aesthetic Death) – black metal
Valais – S/T (Signal Rex) – black metal
Vampirska – Vermilion Apparitions Frozen In Chimera Twilight (Inferna Profundus Records) – black metal
Vein.fm – This World Is Going To Ruin You (Closed Casket Activities) – metal
– Josh
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