Man, it’s been a while since I did one of these. I think I pulled a muscle just typing that last sentence. But, our fearless leader Josh is taking a very, VERY well-deserved vacation, so you’ve got me for this edition. I’ll try not to disappoint too much. Lucky for you, (maybe?) there are some bands I know releasing stuff this week! We start with Saor, who returns with full-length No. 5, Origins. I still fondly remember the early days of this blog, when Corey and I didn’t know about folky black metal and thus promptly had our minds blown by the band’s then-new album, Aura. Good to see ’em back. Let’s see, who else… oh! Khold! Pretty sure I know them! The Norwegians return with their first full-length slab of black metal in almost eight years. Not into black metal? How about some good, old-fashioned Swedish death? Well, good news: Paganizer is also back this week! We also have a highlight that… isn’t really metal, per se, but still kinda exciting: the first reunion album from Canadian post-hardcore legends Alexisonfire. That’s just four highlights, so you know what to do from here: hit the link below and peep the full list!
Saor – Origins (Season of Mist) – atmospheric folk/black metal
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Paganizer – Beyond the Macabre (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
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Alexisonfire – Otherness (Dine Alone) – post-hardcore
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Also on tap:
10,000 Years – III (Interstellar Smoke Records) – stoner metal
Alestorm – Seventh Rum of a Seventh Rum (Napalm) – pirate metal
Arthur Brown – Long Long Road (Prophecy / Magnetic Eye) – rock
Axioma – Sepsis (Translation Loss) – dark metal
BongBongBeerWizards – Ampire (Electric Valley) – doom / drone / sludge
Botgörelsen – Att Kuva det Upproriska Köttet (Onism Productions) – black metal
Cachemira – Ambos Mundos (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych rock
Chaotian – Effigies of Obsolescence (Dark Descent) – death metal
Dali Vans Gogh – New Blood, Old Wounds EP (WormHoleDeath) – metal
Dybbuk – Dybbuk (independently released) – prog death
Enchantment – Cold Soul Embrace (Transcending Records/Cosmic Key Creations) – death/doom
Enphin – End Cut (Pelagic) – psych doom
Entrails – An Eternal Time of Decay (Hammerheart) – death metal
Final Light – Final Light (Red Creek) – synthy post-metal
Grave Gnosis / Hvile I Kaos – Towards the Nameless Darkness split (Red Nebula) – black metal
Guillotine A.D. – Born to Fall (M-Theory Audio) – death metal
Härdrocker – Rider of the Night (RipRide) – speed metal
Hats Barn – Y.a.HW.e.H (Osmose) – black metal
Heavy Baby Sea Slugs – The Decline and Fall of Everything (independently released) – heavy metal
Horned Wolf – Become Like They Are (independently released) – heavy metal
Hush – The Pornography of Ruin (Sludgelord) – sludge
Immortal Sÿnn – 7 Sÿnns (independently released) – heavy metal
Instigate – Unneeded Warnings of Decay (Everlasting Spew) – death metal
Intoxicated – Watch You Burn (Seeing Red Records) – death metal
Knoll – Metempiric (independently released) – metal
Kollaps – Until the Day I Die (Cold Spring) – post-industrial
Lament In Winter’s Night – At the Gates of the Eternal Storm (Hells Headbangers) – black metal
Limbs – Coma Year EP (UNFD) – post-hardcore
Made of Teeth – Sociopathogen (APF) – hardcore punk
Mankind Grief – Monarch (Lacerated Enemy) – deathcore
Mine Collapse – Delusions (Nefarious Industries) – punk / metal
Mirror Queen – Inviolate (Tee Pee Records) – hard psych rock
Misgivings – Misgivings (Dolorem Records) – death metal
Mislead – Find Your Enemy (independently released) – rock
Morrigan – Anwynn (Werewolf) – black metal
Mystery Dudes – Exit Through the Wormhole (Electric Valley) – stoner metal
Nightbearer – Ghosts of a Darkness to Come (Testimony) – death metal
Nubivigant – The Wheel and the Fortune (Amor Fati) – black metal
Onelinedrawing – Tenderwild (Iodine Recordings) – rock
0N0 – Unwavering Resonance (The House of What You See) – industrial doom / death
Orgg – Dimonios (independently released) – black metal
Ornamentos Del Miedo – Yo, No Soy Yo (Negre planY, Vertebrae, Nekromantra Records) – funeral doom
Our Dying World – Hymns of Blinding Darkness (independently released) – metal
Pathos & Logos – Cult (independently released) – instru-metal
Perdition Temple – Merciless Upheaval (Hells Headbangers) – death metal
Philosophobia – Philosophobia (Sensory) – prog
Profiler – Profiler EP (SharpTone Records) – nu-metal
Radian – Discordian (Elburno) doom / sludge
Rebel Priest – Lesson in Love EP (independently released) – metal
RXPTRS – Living Without Death’s Permission (Metal Blade) – rock
Scumslaught – Knives and Amphetamines (Caligari) – black / thrash
Serpent Spawn – Crypt of Torment (Iron Bonehead) – death metal
Serpents Oath – Ascension (Soulseller) – death metal
sickOmania – sickOmania (Sliptrick) – death / thrash
Tyrannos – Spears of the Aten (independently released) – death metal
Varathron / Ungod – Apocalyptic Mysticism EP (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Veter Daemonaz – Muse of the Damned (Osmose Productions) – black metal
Volcandra – Border World EP (Prosthetic) – black metal
Werewolves – From the Cave to the Grave (Prosthetic) – death metal
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Keep it heavy,
—Dan
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