Chris mentioned this, and linked it, in Saturday’s playlist BUT if you missed the full documentary of Mastodon’s Hushed and Grim, rectify that post haste. Now, for new metal: opinions wildly vary on Megadeth and Dave Mustaine and that’s fine, you do you, but from what we’ve heard of the first three tracks off their 16th album, this is the best they’ve sounded since their album count was in single digits, here’s hoping the rest holds up. Then we’ve got some sick and nasty death metal from Heads For The Dead, flag flying old school heavy metal from Trial, hard charging power metal from Blind Guardian, and, as always, a ton more in the list that follows. Dig your heels in on all of these and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.
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Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead (UMG) – megametal
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Heads For The Dead – The Great Conjuration (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal
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Trial – Feed the Fire (Metal Blade) – heavy metal
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Blind Guardian – The God Machine (Nuclear Blast) – power metal
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Also on tap:
156/Silence – Narrative, EP (SharpTone) – metalcore
Adaestuo – Purge of the Night Cloak (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal / ambient
Ancient North – The Gates (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Anxious Wave – Live From The Poison Factory (Nefarious Industries) – punk/noise rock
And Now the Owls Are Smiling – Epitaph (Clobber) – atmospheric black metal
Asylum – Tyrannicide (Independent) – thrash
Avskräde – Det Stora Tunga Sjuka (Independent) – black metal
Defacing God – The Resurrection of Lilith (Napalm) – melodic death metal
Ensanguinate – Eldritch Anatomy (Emanzipation) – black / death
Fear Disease – Floodgates (WormHoleDeath) – metal
Gallia – Obscura (Independent) – cinematic metal
Gone Cosmic – Send for a Warning, The Future’s Calling (Grand Hand) – psych rock
Heksebrann – Transcendence, EP (Demons Run Amok) – punk
Imperium – Ex Mortis Gloria (Ultimate Massacre Productions) – tech death
In Grief – An Eternity of Misery (Iron Bonehead) – doom
Incognito Theory – The Brotherhood (Independent) – groove metal
Mantic Ritual – Heart Set Stone, EP (M-Theory Audio) – thrash
Meteors – …of Shades and Colours (H-Music) – symphonic metal
Mezzoa – Dunes of Mars (Iron Head) – metal
Oceans Ate Alaska – Disparity (Fearless) – rock
Reincarnated – Of Bootes Void Death Spell (Inhuman Assault) – death metal
Rosa Nocturna – Angels and Beasts (Independent) – symphonic folk metal
Silurian – End of Ordovicia (Ordovician) – black / death
Starer – Remorse Defines Me, EP (Snow Wolf) – symphonic / atmospheric black metal
Strangulation – S/T (Dying Sun) – funeral drone
Sumptus Ignis – The Kindred Dark (Independent) – prog
Sunflo’er – All These Darlings and Now Me (Dark Trail) – experimental hardcore
The Callous Doaboys – Celebrity Therapist (MNRK Heavy / Modern Static) – mathcore
The Decayed – Corrupt Politicians Will Never Set You Free (Sliptrick) – thrash / hardcore
They Live | We Sleep – Sorrowful World, EP (Trepanation Recordings) – core / death
Trouble – Live In Stockholm (Hammerheart) – doom
Under The Oak – Rattus Norvegicus (WormHoleDeath) – thrash
Unhealer – S/T (WormHoleDeath) – metalcore
Veldune – S/T (Nightfloat Recordings) – psych
Wraith/Black Knife/Graveripper/Unholy Knife – Faster Than the Fucking Devil (Wise Blood) – metal
Xenobiotic – Hate Monolith, EP (Unique Leader) – death metal
ZeTA – Binary Enigma (Independent) – melodic black / death
– Josh
I am champin’ at the bit for the new ‘deth…geeking how good the released tracks are
Agreed, we’re in the same boat