This week’s list of new metal might just be the longest list so far this year. I mean, if you can’t find something here just quit. Kidding…or not. Anyway, super bloated list which is always a great thing as there’s something for every discerning taste. We kick things off with an incredible death metal debut from Miscreance (no shit, this thing is great), then we’ve got black metal from Gaerea which is yet again great, KEN Mode returns to flip noise metal on its ear, ritualistic metal gets an upgrade from Frayle, and as you already know, there’s a TON more that follows. Dig in, turn up, and do your thing. We’ll see you here throughout the week.
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Miscreance – Convergence (Unspeakable Axe / Danex / Desert Wastelands) – death metal
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Gaerea – Mirage (Season of Mist) – black metal
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KEN mode – Null (Artoffact) – noise
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Frayle – Skin & Sorrow (Aqualamb) – ritual metal
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Also on tap:
Abhor – Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Anticristi) (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Adzes and Putrescine – Split (Euphoriadic) – death / sludge
Algebra – Chiroptera (Unspeakable Axe) – thrash
Ars Onirica – II: Lost (Ardua Music) – doom
Ataraxia – Pomegranate – The Chant Of The Elementals (The Circle Music) – darkwave
Atronos – Fehde (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Black Grail – VIIII, MLP (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Blodskam – Ave Eva (Suicide) – black metal
Celestial Grave – Vitriolic Atonement (The Sinister Flame) – black metal
Cinis – Lies That Comfort Me (SelfMadeGod) – death metal
Cold Gawd – Get Me The Fuck Out Of Here (Dais) – gaze
Condemned AD – Follow A Failing Leader (WormHoleDeath) – thrash
Crazy Swedes – S/T, Deluxe Edition (Independent) – rock
Crone – Gotta Light? (Prophecy) – rock
Enmity – Demagoguery (Independent) – death metal
Entombed – Morning Star, Remastered (Threeman Recordings) – death metal
Eternal Closure – At the Center of it All – Chapter 1 (Independent) – modern metal
Evermore – Court of the Tyrant King (Scarlet) – power metal
Face the Day – Echoes of the Child’s Mind (Independent) – alt-rock
Forty Feet Tall – Boil, EP (Magnetic Moon) – rock
Freedom Hawk – Take All You Can (Ripple Music) – fuzz / proto
Gebhardt – Geb Heart (Apollon) – prog
Gematria – Gematria II: The Spindle of Necessity (Nefarious Industries) – prog-tech instrumental
Gnash – Shared Nightmares (Independent) – sludge
Graal – Ocularchy (Balor’s Eye Productions) – war metal
Gutvoid – Durance of Lightless Horizons (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Hadopelagyal – Nereidean Seismic End (Amor Fati / Van) – black metal
Hail Conjurer – Earth Penetration (Signal Rex / Bestial Burst) – black metal
Harvest of Ash – Ache and Impulse (Horror Pain Gore Death) – post-metal / sludge / hardcore
Kaledon – Chapter VII – Evil Awakens (Independent) – power metal
Kargyr – S/T, EP (Sliptrick) – melodic death metal
Kid Kapichi – Here’s What You Could Have Won (Spinefarm) – rock
Kings of Mercia – S/T (Metal Blade) – rock
Last Retch – Sadism and Severed Heads (Independent) – death metal
Live Burial – Curse of the Forlorn (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Living Wreckage – S/T (M-Theory Audio) – metal
Lost Hours – IV: The Silence of the Perpetual Choir in Heaven (Propitious Artifacts) – powerviolence
LVTVM – Irrational Numbers (Cave Canem) – post-rock
Meridian – The 4th Dimension (From the Vaults) – rock
Mindivide – Fragments (My Kingdom Music) – melodic metal
Mindless Hope – Mental Truancy (Independent) – progressive metal
Motherslug – Blood Moon Blues (Independent) – psych doom
Mo’ynoq – A Place For Ash (Independent) – black metal
Nordjevel – Gnavhol (Indie Recordings) – black metal
Orthodoxy – Ater Ignis (The Sinister Flame) – death metal
OTUS – Torch (Time To Kill) – post-metal / sludge
OvO – Ignoto (Artoffact) – experimental rock
Oxalate – Infatuating Sickness, EP (Dawnbreed) – death metal
Pale Sketcher – Golden Skin (Give / Take) – electronic
Petbrick – Liminal (Neurot Recordings) – industrial / electronic
Proceed On Your Way To Oblivion – Ceremorphis (Blood Blast) – tech death
Purpendicular – Human Mechanic (Metalville) – hard rock
Putrescine / Kosmogyr – Desolate Tides, Split (Tridroid) – death metal / post-metal
Razor – Cycle of Contempt (Relapse) – thrash
Scheletro – Un feto shiacciato senza tre falangi (Time To Kill / Hellnation Music) – metal punk
Seventh Servant – The Tree Of Life (Independent) – metal
Sonic Flower – Me and My Bellbottom Blues (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych blues
Sonja – Loud Arriver (Cruz Del Sur Music) – hard rock/metal
Space of Variations – Imago (Napalm) – modern metal
SpellBook – Deadly Charms (Cruz Del Sur) – proto-metal
Stratovarius – Survive (earMUSIC) – symphonic metal
Ström – S/T (Black Lodge) – rock
Talas – 1985 (Metal Blade) – rock
Tyson Motsenbocker – Milk Teeth (Tooth & Nail) – rock
Upon Wings – Last Love, EP (Sword of the Spirit) – rock
Venom Inc. – There’s Only Black (Nuclear Blast) – metal
Writhing – Of Earth & Flesh (Everlasting Spew) – death metal
– Josh
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