Another new week, another list of new metal releases, and a fresh chance to tell you: if you didn’t preorder this new Frozen Soul joint, you done fucked up. It’s death metal done right. Honestly the same could be said for the rest of this week’s lead off bunch with Gozu killing it better than their metal chops ever have, Wings of Steel seriously scratch that classic heavy / hair metal itch, The Ocean…you already know and if you don’t you better call somebody, and of course the rest of the lengthy list that follows. There’s something here for everyone AND bonus points if you get the reference I dropped. Dig in and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.
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Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination (Century Media) – death metal
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Gozu – Remedy (Metal Blade / Blacklight Media) – metal
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Wings of Steel – Gates of Twilight (Independent) – heavy metal
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The Ocean – Holocene (Pelagic) – post-metal
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Alcatrazz – Take No Prisoners (Silver Lining Music) – heavy metal
All Hallow’s Evil – Coven (Independent) – goth
Ara Solis – Ashvatta (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Astrophyte – 2192 (MDD Records) – death metal
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – Rejecting Obliteration (Prosthetic) – prog death
Botanist – VIII: Selentrope (Prophecy Productions) – avantgarde metal
By A Storm – Beware of the Underdogs (Backbite) – hardcore
Chronicle – Where Chaos Thrive (Mighty Music) – death metal
Citizen Rage – Harsh Reality (Cursed Blessings) – hardcore
Darklon – The Redeemer (No Remorse Records) – heavy power metal
Deimhal – The Grand Gathering (Independent) – black metal
Domidium – Beyond (Independent) – metal
Elitium – Wrong (Gruesome) – metal
Eyes Of Tomorrow / Perfect Sky – Split (Dedication) – hardcore
Gallows Rites – Witchcraft and Necro Desecration (Helldprod Records) – black thrash
Gråande – S/T (Nordvis) – black metal
Henget – Beyond North Star (Season of Mist) – avant-black metal
Heretoir – Wastelands (AOP) – black metal
Hrada – Mirrorland (Mythic Panda) – prog
HYL – Where Emptiness Is All (Independent) – black metal
Inferion – Inequity (Horror Pain Gore Death) – extreme
Last Rizla – Noise Without Decay (Venerate) – noise
Legacy of Brutality – Travelers to Nowhere (Abstract Emotions) – death metal
Lust – Invictvs (Violence In the Veins) – hardcore
Magick Touch – Cakes & Coffins (Edged Circle) – metal
Millennium – The Sign Of Evil (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal
Moor – Heavy Heart (Blood Blast / Believe Digital) – doom
Mystic Prophecy – Hellriot (ROAR!) – heavy metal
Nattehimmel – Mourningstar (Hammerheart) – black metal
NEON BURTON – Take A Ride (Independent) – psych stoner
Nexorum – Tongue of Thorns (Non Serviam) – black / death
Omen Astra – The End Of Everything (Hypaethral Records/Protagonist Music/Moment Of Collapse) – prog post metal
Pa Vesh En – Martyrs (Iron Bonehead) – dsbm
Radien – Unissa palaneet (Svart) – doom / sludge
Ring of Gyges – Metamorphosis (Sound Pollution / ViciSolum) – prog metal
Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold (No Remorse) – metal
Shadows – Out For Blood (Sentient Ruin) – heavy metal
SHRVL – Limbus (Pelagic) – post-metal
Skade – Gudinnen (Sliptrick) – black metal
Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden (Spinefarm) – rock
Sporae Autem Yuggoth – However It Still Moves (Personal) – death / doom
Svetlanas – The Alien’s Blues (Demons Run Amok) – hardcore
Sweet & Lynch – Heart & Sacrifice (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock
Tankzilla – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – stoner rock
Tardigrade Inferno – Arrival of a Train (Independent) – metal
Temblad – Hallucignosis (Independent) – death metal
The End Of Six Thousand Years – S/T (Hypershape) – black / death
Thetan – Dim Times, EP (Anti-Corporate Music) – powerviolence
Tombstones In Their Eyes – Sea of Sorrow (Kitten Robot) – gaze
Umbilichaos – Mourning Carnivals From Now On (Time To Kill) – prog / experimental
Vansidian – Reflecting the Shadows (Inverse) – hybrid metal – wtf
VHS – Quest For The Mighty Riff (Wise Blood) – death / punk
Vomitheist – NekroFvneral (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Voul – Concrete Cult (Abstract Emotion) – sludge
Wesele – Fin de siècle (Underground Kvlt Records) – dsbm
Yakuza – Sutra (Svart) – avantgarde
— Josh
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