Feel free to feel how you want about this statement, but I’m just over here basking in the glory of the metal 2022 has brought us thus far and several you don’t even know about yet that will knock the socks clean off your crusty feet. Speaking of new metal, we’ve got a full listing and a few of these are at the level of ‘knocking socks off’ so let’s get to it… Kicking things off are a couple of top tier brutal death metal entries from Analepsy and Atoll which have my full attention. Then, we’ve got another MASSIVE doom outing from Seer, a progressive and slightly technical outing from Monuments, and a bloated list of other records worthy of your time and hard earned dollars. Just keep some of that change for new socks, eh?!
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Analepsy – Quiescence (Miasma / Vomit Your Shirt / Agonia) – brutal death metal
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Atoll – Prepuce, EP (Unique Leader) – brutal death metal
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Seer – Vol. 7 (Independent) – heavy / doom / progressive
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Monuments – In Stasis (Century Media) – prog
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Also on tap:
Abstracted – Atma Conflux (M-Theory Audio) – progressive death metal
Aevum – Glitch (DarkTunesMusic Group) – symphonic metal
Alex Rudi Peli – Lost XXIII (Steamhammer / SPV) – metal
Alunah – Strange Machine (Heavy Psych Sounds) – rock
Anatomia / Undergang – Split LP (Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent) – death metal
Anna Sage – S/T (Klonosphere) – hardcore
Azaab – Summoning the Cataclysm (Maxima Music / Satanath) – death metal
Bekëth Nexëhmü – De Evigas Gravrit (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Beyond Mortal Dreams – Abomination of the Flames (Lavadome Productions) – death metal
Crashed Out – Against All Odds (Demons Run Amok) – hardcore
Cremation Lily – Dreams Drenched in Static (The Flenser) – gaze
Darkher – The Buried Storm (Prophecy Productions) – doom
Dimwind / Breaths – Split, EP (Trepanation Recordings) – post-metal / blackgaze
Dreariness – Before We Vanish (My Kingdom Music) – blackgaze / post-metal
Egregore – The Word of His Law (20 Buck Spin) – black / death
Epitaphe – II (Aesthetic Death / Gurgling Gore) – death / doom
Faceless Entity – The Great Anguish of Rapture (Argento) – black metal
Friend From Moon – Astray (Independent) – metal
Greve – Föllo af Svavel, Lifvets Dimridå (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Hurakan – Via Aeterna (Lacerated Enemy) – metal
Imminent Sonic Destruction – The Sun Will Always Set (Independent) – metal
Iselder – Metal Du Gwir Cymreig (Marwolaeth) – black metal
Limousine Beach – S/T (Tee Pee) – rock
Maceration – A Serenade Of Agony, Reissue (Emanzipation Productions) – death metal
Mano De Mono – Chameleon Tongue (Electric Valley) – stoner
Mistcavern – Into Twilight (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
My Own Fear – Violence Made History (Music-Records) – thrash / death
Nazareth – Surviving the Law (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock
Nonsun – Blood & Spirit (Drunk!records) – drone
Patterns of Decay – S/T (Independent) – heavy metal
postcards from new zealand – burn, witch, burn (Independent) – black / doom
Qaalm – Resilience & Despair (Hypaethral) – funeral doom
Saturna / Electric Monolith – Turned To Stone Chapter 4: Higher Selves (Ripple Music) – rock
Semblant – Vermillion Eclipse (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – extreme
Sleepless – Host Desecration (Metal Warrior) – death metal
Soulbound – Towards the Sun, Rerelease (Metalville) – metal
Stone Broken – Revelation (Spinefarm) – metal
Taliesin – Faceless (Independent) – prog
The Reconciled – Skin & Bones (Independent) – metal
Trace Amount – Anti Body Language (Federal Prisoner) – industrial
Urferd – Resan (Independent) – folk metal
Vanderlust – S/T (Rockshots) – cosmic metal
Viande L’abime – devore les ames (Transcending Obscurity) – atmospheric death metal
– Josh
Nine Circles 