Pro tip: if you’re sending promos and don’t get to the point right off the bat (band, album, label, and genre) don’t expect a deep dive seeing as most blogs get between 50 and 100 a day. Just sayin’. Alright then, we’ve got a new week and fresh new batch of killer to get to. Death doomsters Pestilence kick things off this week in the sickest way possible and that’s a good thing, Enforced give a class on how to do death infused thrash properly, Vadiat get in the death metal feels, and Tunic offer up some exquisite noise which we don’t have enough of these days. So, dig in and find your new favorite. See you here throughout the week.
Pustilence – Beliefs of Dead Stargazers and Soothsayers (Memento Mori / Rotted Life) – death / doom metal
Enforced – War Remains (Century Media) – thrash / death [interview]
Vadiat – Spear of Creation (Redefining Darkness Records) – death metal
Tunic – Wrong Dream (Artoffact) – noise
Also on tap:
Aleister – Nightmare (M&O Music) – thrash
Allochiria – Commotion (Venerate Industries) – post-metal
Austere – Corrosion of Hearts (Prophecy / Lupus Lounge) – black metal
Chrome Waves – Earth Will Shed It’s Skin (M-Theory Audio) – post black metal
Crack Up – Blood Is Life, Reissue (MDD) – death metal
Cradle of Filth – Trouble And Their Double Lives (Napalm Records) – symphonic black metal
Danava – Nothing But Nothing (Tee Pee) – rock
Dead Express – Game Changer (Independent) – rock
Defiled – The Highest Level (Season of Mist) – death metal
Elephant Rifle – Broken Water (Learning Curve) – noise
Emissary – S/T (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal
Enchantya – Cerberus (Inverse) – symphonic goth
Fatuous Rump – I Am At Your Disposal (Brutal Mind/Fat Tub of Lard) – death metal
Fimbulvet – Portale (Trollzorn) – metal
Fires In The Distance – Air Not Meant For Us (Prosthetic) – melodic death / doom
Giöbia – Acid Disorder (Heavy Psych Sounds) – acid rock / psych
Ibliss – (((Unholy))) (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records) – stoner doom
Ignea – Dreams Of Lands Unseen (Napalm Records) – death metal
Ironmaster – Weapons Of Spiritual Carnage (Black Lion Records) – death metal
Kaal Akuma – Turiya, EP (Nuclear Winter) – death metal
King Potenaz – Goat Rider (Argonauta) – occult stoner doom
Lord Mortvm – Dead Christ Baptism (Helter Skelter / Regain) – black / doom
Lost Circus – S/T (FHM Records) – hard rock
Lucifuge – Monoliths of Wrath (Dying Victims Productions) – speed
Lunar Chamber – Shambhallic Vibrations (20 Buck Spin) – metal
Mars Red Sky – Mars Red Sky & Queen of the Meadow, EP (Mrs Red Sound / Vicious Circle) – psych / folk
Messa – Live at Roadburn (Svart) – doom
Mistral – In the Throes of Losing Love (Onism / Folkvangr) – post-black metal
Mother of Graves – In Somber Dreams, Vinyl Issue (Wiseblood) – death / doom
Mouth Wound – Nothing Will Belong To Us (Brucia) – ambient
Mushroom Giant – In A Forest (Bird’s Robe Records) – instrumental rock
Nautha – Metempsychosis (Argonauta) – psych rock
Necronomicon – Constant To Death (El Puerto) – thrash
Numeron – Road To Valhalla (Tragedy Productions) – atmospheric darkness
Orphans of Dusk – Spleen (Hypnotic Dirge) – gothic doom
Orsak:Oslo – In Irons (Vinter) – rock
OSM – Plagued By Doubts (Klonosphere) – prog metal
Runemagick – Beyond the Cenotaph of Mankind (Hammerheart) – death / doom
Sáasil – Ephemeral (These Hands Melt) – post-black metal
Savage Existence – S/T (Independent) – metalcore
Sentinel Sirens – Orbithon Wave (Chaos Records) – thrash
Sleepsculptor – Divine Recalibration (Silent Pendulum) – metalcore
Tarchon Fist – Soldiers In White (Underground Symphony) – metal
TerranocT – Icon Of Ruin (Independent) – metal
The Medea Project – Reflections (Trepanation) – goth doom
Underxted – Carnage (Sliptrick) – industrial
Úzkost – “23 Ribs”, Single (Independent) – black / doom / death
Valgrind – Millennium of Night Bliss (Memento Mori) – death metal
Vaultwraith – Decomposing Spells (Hells Headbangers) – black / heavy
Vulvanic – ブラックエンジェルの色合い / 秘密の夜の殺人者 (Sentient Ruin) – raw black metal
Withered Hand – How To Love (Reveal Records) – folk rock
— Josh
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