Welp, Mariah broke her ice tomb and all y’all lost your shit over a Starbucks teddy bear mug, hoarded them all, then promptly asked $200+ for them on ebay. LOL. Anyway, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy kicks this week of new releases off in style. It’s heavy, catchy, and loads of rifftastic sludgy fun so get some of that STAT. Next up we’ve got black metal from Lamp of Murmuur, death metal from Degraved, and some grindy powerviolencey stuff from Nuclear Dudes. And, of course we’ve got our usual long list of other releases that are sure to find an audience among all you wild and crazy folks of which I’m sure had nothing to do with any of my opening statements…right? Don’t answer that but do keep an eye out this week for more coverage on some of these and we’ll be seeing you.
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy – HEAVY (Learning Curve Records) – math / sludge / core [profile]
Lamp of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince in Ecstacy (Wolves of Hades) – black metal
Degraved – Spectral Realm of Ruin (Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo) – death metal
Nuclear Dudes – Skeletal Blasphemy (The Ghost Is Clear Records) – powerviolence
Also on tap:
1914 – Viribus Unitis (Napalm Records) – black / death / doom
Another Realm – Origin (Demolition Records) – symphonic metal
Änterbila – Avart (Nordvis Produktion) – dark folk
Asira – As Ink In Water (Self) – melodic black metal
Auditory Anguish – AFA, EP (Creator-Destructor Records) – deathcore
Avralize – liminal (Arising Empire) – metalcore
Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough: Vol II (Profound Lore) – doom
Bloodttruth – Execration (Selfmadegod Records) – tech brutal death metal
Bretwaldas of Heathen Doom – Seven Bloodied Ramparts (Caligari Records) – black metal
Chairmaker – Leviathan Carcass (Self) – grind
Chokecherry – Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls (Fearless Records) – metalcore
Deogen – The Graves and Ghosts of Yore (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Dragon Throne – Tale of the Two: Dusk (Self) – power metal
Empalement – Celestial Perversion, EP (Self) – extreme
Enemynside – In The Shadows Of Unrest (Self) – thrash
Fallstaf – Ode To The Dead (Self) – brass metal
Fimbul Winter – What Once Was, EP (Self) – death metal
Ghold – Bludgeoning Simulations (Human Worth) – doom / sludge
Icer Ender – Watching Fall (Self) – metal
Imperial Domain – Portentum (WormHoleDeath) – metal
Lavisher – Aligned & Vital (Nefarious Industries) – space rock
Mausoleum Gate – Space, Rituals and Magick (Cruz Del Sur Music) – heavy metal
Mellowdeath – S/T (Self) – avant
Monograf – Occultation (Overhead Productions) – post-metal
Moral Implant – Delusion (Caligari Records) – death metal
Mortification Ritual – S/T (Thus Spake Qayin Records) – death metal
Mourn The Light – Sorrow Feeds the Silence (Argonauta Records) – epic heavy metal
Negative Blast – Destroy Myself For Fun (Three One G / Vitriol) – punk
Preyrs – The Wounded Healer (Pelagic Records) – post-hardcore
Putrevore – Unending Rotten Cycle (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Ragana + Drowse – Ash Souvenir (The Flenser) – black metal
Skull & Crossbones – Time (Massacre Records) – power metal
Starforce – Beyond The Eternal Night (Jawbreaker Records) – speed metal
Stellar Circuits – Phantom :: Phoenix (Nuclear Blast Records) – prog alt-metal
Strigiform – Aconite (I, Voidhanger Records) – black / death
Taake – Noregs Vaapen, Remixed and Remastered (Dark Essence Records) – black metal
Tempestuous Fall – The Descent of Morals Past (I, Voidhanger Records) – metal
The Cyclist Conspiracy – Back To Hermetics and Martial Arts Vol 1 (Subsound Records) – psych rock
The Devil Wears Prada – Flowers (Solid State Records) – metalcore
The Hyena Kill – Collapse (APF Records) – metal
The Reticant – please (Generation Prog Records) – prog metal
Thumbsucker & Atomçk – Split (Road To Masochist) – grind
Trace Amount – Flagrant (Bleakhouse) – industrial
Tzevaot – The Hermetic Way (I, Voidhanger Records) – heavy / thrash
Valontuoja – Tulesta Syntynyt (Inverse Records) – black metal
Various Artists – No Life ‘Til Leather: A Tribute To Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All (Silver Lining Music) – metallicovers
Veilburner – Longing For Triumph, Reeking Of Tragedy (Transcending Obscurity Records) – avantmetal
Vein – Reveal (HateWorks) – groovy death metal
Vodun – Black Magick Noise (Extreme Chaos) – black metal
Voidceremony – Abditum (20 Buck Spin) – metal
Warp Chamber / Benothing – Split (Carbonized Records) – death metal
Wheel Of Time – Asymmetry (Self) – power metal
Withering Soul – Passage of the Arcane (Liminal Dread Productions) – blackened melodeath
Yawning Man – Pavement Ends (Heavy Psych Sounds) – desert rock
Your Inland Empire – S/T (Season of Mist) – darkwave
— Josh