Here in the States we’re celebrating Independence Day which means a lot of things that…you can look up on the interwebs. These days, it’ll be celebrated with tons of fireworks that will go on for far too long, all the breweries will be kept afloat for the next month or so just off this one day, and many of us will have the day off. Whether you celebrate or not, today also means a fresh new batch of metal releases that kicks off with a trio of death metal albums; first up is a vicious one from Altars, second up uncovers some delicious deathgrind from Defect Designer, and the last of this trifecta is of the brutal death and slam variety from Organectomy. Then we’ve got a wicked stoner doom effort from Telekinetic Yeti, and, as always, a long list of other releases worthy of tracking down. Whatever you’re doing today, enjoy, and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.
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Altars – Ascetic Reflection (Everlasting Spew) – death metal
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Defect Designer – Neanderthal (Transcending Obscurity) – deathgrind
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Organectomy – Nail Below Nail (Unique Leader) – brutal death / slam
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Telekinetic Yeti – Primordial (Tee Pee) – stoner doom
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Also on tap:
Alburnum – Buttenlucht (Babylon Doom Cult) – folk / black
American Terror – Where We Are (Independent) – metal / punk
Amongst Liars – S/T (Earache) – rock
Anticreation – From the Dust of Embers (Sentient Ruin / Nuclear Winter) – black/death metal
Arctic – S/T, EP (Darkwoods) – melodic doom
Beth Blade and the Beautiful Disasters – Mythos, Confession, Tragedies and Love (Beautiful Disasters) – rock
Black Nazareth – S/T (Wormholedeath) – hard rock / metal
Blackwater Drowning – Sonder//Satori (Independent) – death metal
Cleanbreak – Coming Home (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock
Dead Tired – Satan Will Follow You Home (New Damage) – metal
Farewell to Fear – Polarity (Crusader) – rock
Foresaken Eternity – A Kingdom of Ice (Rottweiler) – symphonic black metal
Greylotus – Dawnfall (The Artisan Era) – prog tech death
Hiroe – Wrought (Pelagic) – post-metal
HolyRoller – Swimming Witches (Black Doomba) – stoner
Kanine – Karnage (Lacerated Enemy) – deathcore
Lord Elephant – Cosmic Awakening (Heavy Psych Sounds) – instru-stoner
Negative 13 – Mourning Asteri (Independent) – doomcore
Opponent – Sentinel (Tooth & Nail) – rock
Pestilent Hex – The Ashen Abhorrance (Debemur Morti) – metal
postcards from new zealand – nin-an-ak (Independent) – extreme metal
Seep – Hymns to the Gore (Extremely Rotten Productions) – death/doom
Set the Sun – In Absentia, EP (Independent) – rock
Spektrvm – Blood For Heaven (Sliptrick) – heavy metal
Sweet Freedom – According to Jorgen Schelander (Melodic Passion) – rock
The Atrophic – Coagulating Mirth (Independent) – tech melodic death metal
The Frozen Autumn – Pale Awakening (Avantgarde Music) — darkwave
The Machinist – All Is Not Well (Prosthetic Records) – extreme hardcore
The World Without Us – Body Forth (Independent) – prog death
Traitor – Last Hope for the Wretched (First Blood Family) – metal
Unholdun – S/T, EP (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Vomit Forth – Seething Malevolence (Century Media) – death metal
Wormrot – Hiss (Earache) – grind
Written In Torment – Black Command (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Zarraza – Kreated In Blood, EP (Independent) – thrash
– Josh
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