Just like the redneck uncle that always crashes every family get together drunk and full of piss and venom (we all love this uncle, and you know it), we’re back with another rowdy bunch of new metal albums. This week we’ve got death metal debauchery from Bodyfarm, entrancing melodic death from Insomnium, goreific death from FesterDecay, and some experimental heavy from Big|Brave. As usual though, there’s way more in the list below that will tickle nearly every fancy out there so get to digging and we’ll see you here throughout the week.
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Bodyfarm – Ultimate Abomination (Edged Circle) – death metal
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Insomnium – Anno 1696 (Century Media Records) – melodic death metal
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FesterDecay – Reality Rotten To The Core (Everlasting Spew) – death metal
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Big|Brave – nature morte (Thrill Jockey) – experimental heavy
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Also on tap:
Adversor – Portrait Of A Wasteland (Time To Kill) – thrash
Air Raid – Fatal Encounter (High Roller) – heavy metal
Anatomy of Habit – Black Openings (Independent) – post-punk / doom
Anthropic – End of the Bloodline (Independent) – grind
Asylence – Endanger Us All (Independent) – metal
Atrocious Filth – OVV (Moans Music & Fabryka Halas’s) – avant
Bijou Noir – Enough Cold For A Lifetime (GIVE/TAKE) – death pop
Black Knife – Live At Haus of Yarga (Morbid and Miserable) – metal / punk
Bræ – Av Välnader Bortom Allt (Amor Fati) – black / ambient
Burn The Ocean – Modern Ruins (Argonauta) – rock
Buzzard – Gambler, Reissue (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal
Ciemra – The Tread of Darkness (Avantgarde) – black metal
Crown of Madness – Elemental Binding (Independent) – death metal
Ddent – Ex Auditu (Chien Noir) – instru post-metal
Disgustulent – LOD, EP (Independent) – brutal death
Edley ODowd – F(our) Ward (13) – harsh ambient
El Supremo – Acid Universe (Argonauta) – psych rock
Ended – Into the Nothing (Melodic Passion) – rock
Enemy Of Reality – Where Truth May Lie (Vinyl Store) – symphonic metal
Funeral Winds – Stigmata Mali (Osmose Productions) – black metal
Furnace – The Casca Trilogy (Obelisk Polaris Productions) – melodic death metal
Give Up To Failure – Cocoon (Requiem) – post-rock
Good Bison – Ghost On Mulholland (Independent) – rock
Great Cold Emptiness – Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph (Flowing Downward) – black metal
Hammerhedd – Nonetheless (Independent) – tech/groove metal
Host – IX (Nuclear Blast) – darkwave / goth
Hurricane On Saturn – onx (WormHoleDeath) – metal
Hypno5e – Sheol (Pelagic) – prog
Icestorm – The Northern Crusades (Independent) – melodic death metal
Idolatrous – Sorrow on Midgard (WormHoleDeath) – melodic death metal
Iron Curtain – Metal Gladiator (Dying Victims Productions) – metal
Isolant – Drain (Sentient Ruin) – industrial death doom
King Abyss – Snake Oil (Independent) – thrash
Küntsquäd – S/T (Wormholedeath Records) – deathpunk
Maerzfeld – Alles anders (Metalville) – metal
Mammoth Caravan – Ice Cold Oblivion (Independent) – sludge
Märvel – Double Decade, Comp. (The Sign) – rock
Megaton Sword – Might & Power (Dying Victims Productions) – metal
Merlock – Onward Strives Colossus (Independent) – doom / stoner
Molitoth – You (Independent) – experimental
Morphetik – Proclamation of War (Independent) – thrash
Mortalus – We Are Human (Independent) – heavy metal
Motörhead – Bad Magic: SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC (Silver Lining Music) – motörmetal
Mythraeum – Halls of Mythras (M-Theory Audio) – black metal
Necrovation – Storm the Void / Starving Grave (Blood Harvest) – death metal
No Spill Blood – Eye Of Night (Svart) – kraut metal
Nyia – Head Held High (Moans Music & Fabryka Hałasu) – metal
Oerheks – Landschapsanachronismen (Amor Fati) – black metal
Old Spirit – Burning in Heaven (Bright as Night) – hard rock
Omega Infinity – The Anticurrent (Season of Mist) – black metal
Psychic TV – Those Who Do Not (Cold Spring) – industrial
Sarcoptes – Prayers To Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity) – black / thrash
Satanika – Horde of Disgust (Osmose) – black / thrash
Sienna Root – Revelation (Atomic Fire) – rock
Slumbering Sun – The Ever-Living Fire (Independent) – rock
Stöner – Boogie to Baja, EP (Heavy Psych Sounds) – stoner
High Castle Teleorkestra – A Beginners Guide To Sublime Frequencies Vol. 1 & 2 (Independent) – many
Teksti-TV 666 – Vapauden tasavalta (Svart) – krautrock
The Church – The Hypnogogue (Communicating Vessels) – psych
The Design Abstract – Transhuman Ascendant (Sliptrick) – symphonic melodeath
The Mountain King / Gate To Xibalba – Split (Cursed Monk) – drone
They Grieve – To Which I Bore Witness (Silent Pendulum Records) – post metal / doom
Upcdownc – Duel (Trepanation / Forbidden Place) – prog / sludge / instru-noise
Úzkost – “For Property and Profit,” Single (Independent) – black / doom
Westing – Future (RidingEasy) – rock
What The Five Fingers Said To The Face – Endless (Independent) – prog
When Hearts Wither – This Is Where It Ends (Independent) – atmospheric death / doom
Wolves In Winter – The Calling Quiet (Argonauta) – doom
Wretched Fate – Carnal Heresy (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
– Josh
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