New week. New tunes. Old attitude. Here we go… with what is likely the most extreme album I’ve heard this year, Abraded are back to rip your face off. Revocation drops their most infectious—while still massively technical— album to date, After Earth makes a strong case for their spot near the top of melodic death metal, and Occulsed vomit forth a nasty little death metal ditty. All those and a ton more below waiting on you to find them. Do your thing and we’ll be seeing you…
Abraded – Ethereal Emanations from Cthonic Caries (Redefining Darkness Records) – deathgrind
Revocation – New Gods, New Masters (Metal Blade Records) – technical death metal
After Earth – Dark Night Of The Soul (Self) – melodic death metal
Occulsed – Antegnosis (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal
Also on tap:
Acres – The Host, Deluxe Edition (Solid State Records) – rock
Adelon – Resurgence, Instrumental Version (Self) – death metal
Ambulanz – III (Cargo Records) – punk
Amorphis – Borderland (Reigning Phoenix Music) – metal
Autumn Tears – Crown of the Clairvoyant (The Circle Music) – darkwave
Banderstadt – Red (Archivist Records) – folk metal
Beat – Beat Live (Inside Out) – progressive rock
Blizaro – Light And Desolation (Nameless Grave Records) – heavy metal
Christ Agony – Anthems (Deformeathing Production) – black / death
Cosmic Reaper – Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned (Heavy Psych Sounds Records) – doom
Cruentation – Damned Fallen Angels (Iron Bonehead) – black / death
Darkness – The Death Squad Chronicles (Massacre Records) – thrash
Degrave – Metalithic (ShredHead Records) – metal
Demiurgon – Miasmatic Deathless Chamber (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal
Dunes Of Ash – The Fall Of The Seven Sisters (Signal Rex) – black metal
Echoes of Gloom – The Mind’s Eternal Storm (ATMF) – metal
Elbe – Peculiar (Octopus Rising) – post-metal
Esses – Pain at the Altar of Jest (Seeing Red Records) – post-goth
Fauna – Ochre & Ash (Lupus Lounge) – black metal
Feral State – II (Road To Masochist) – d-beat
From The Crypt – Born In The Grave (Raw Skull Recordz) – death / grind
Gjendød – Svekkelse (Osmose Production) – black metal
Haexler – Talkshow (Holy Goat / Lower Class Kids) – powerviolence
Harvest – For The Souls We Have Lost (Octopus Rising) – gothic doom
Irk – The Seeing House (Nefarious Industries) – noise
Kingdom – Primeval Cult Of Strength In The Womb Of Suffer (Osmose Productions) – death metal
Korypheus – Gilgamesh (M-Theory Audio) – djent
Last Retch – Abject Cruelty (Time To Kill Records) – death metal
Left Hand Black – 3: Death Can’t Keep Us Apart (The Circle Music) – horrorpunk
Little King – Lente Viviente (Self) – prog rock
Maahes – Nechacha (Massacre Records) – black metal
Marmalade Knives – Paradigm Lost (Electric Valley Records) – psych rock
Mors Principium Est – Darkness Invisible (Perception) – melodic death metal
Mrs Frighthouse – Solitude Over Control (Self) – industrial noise
Narrenwind – Gorzki Plony (Pagan Records) – blackened heavy metal
Nibridis – Knight’s Heart (Fiadh Productions) – folk
Nihili Locus – Nihil Morte Certium / Semper (My Kingdom Music) – doom
Omicidio – Premature Exequie (My Kingdom Music) – death / thrash
Ordeals – Third Rail Prayer (Eternal Death) – black / death
Overt Enemy – Insurrection (Self) – modern metal
Peeling Flesh – PF Radio 2 (Unique Leader Records) – brutal death / slam
Rage – A New World Rising (Steamhammer) – thrash metal
Refiner – S/T (Rottweiler Records) – metalcore
Ritualhammer – Grand Pestilential Flame (Werewolf) – black / death
Robes Of Snow – Sylvan Land of Shiver (Fiadh Productions) – folk
Sardonic – Menschenfeind (Fetzner Death Records) – death metal
Stone Machine Electric – Faces (Argonauta Records) – stoner rock
Sundrowned – Higanbana (Self) – post-gaze
Tales of Destiny – Ashes of Destiny (Self) – power metal
Terra Atlantica – Oceans (Scarlet Records) – power metal
Tetragrammacide – Cyber-Tantric Paradigm of Radical Sri-Vidya, EP (Iron Bonehead) – metal
The Sorrow Of Being Immaculate – Suicide Forest (Drone Alone) – instrumental doom / sludge
The Vintage Caravan – Portals (Napalm Records) – prog rock
Thy Apokalypse – Fragment quatrième, Metacosmos (Bitume Productions) – industrial black metal
Ulm – The Accursed Share (Fiadh Productions) – black metal
Vibravoid – Remove The Ties (Tonzonen Records) – neo psych rock
Voidlurker – Loathe For Life (APF Records) – metal
War Grave – Free Will (Self) – heavy metal
Warcoe – Upon Tall Throne (Ripple Music) – doom
Wehmut – III: Frühling (Naturmacht Productions) – black metal
Wounds Of Recollection – I Found The Love That I Was Looking For (Fiadh Productions) – blackgaze
Ysigim Ain – Soph Or (Dying Sun Records) – funeral doom
Zombie Eater – Faces (Argonauta Records) – sludge
— Josh