This week's new heavy metal releases include a drug-induced nightmare (probably), grooves, gloom, and more! To the metals…
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Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound
Genre: Post-black metal
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: The Flenser
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Starting this week off with black metal's hippest weirdos. On this record you're getting a mix of Chat Pile, Deafheaven, and more. The titular Spiritual Sound here is intensity and power.
Author & Punisher – Nocturnal Birding
Genre: Industrial/experimental
Origin: San Diego, California
Label: Relapse
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Next up is pure intensity as always from Author & Punisher. With twenty years of one of the most unique and most intense projects of all time, you sort of know what you're in for here and it still hits. Tristan Shone is crushing you with a few friends this time like Kutari, Fange, and Couch Slut's Megan Oztrosits.
Gore – If You Do Not Fear Me…
Genre: Deathcore/metalcore
Origin: Texas
Label: Spinefarm
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This young band wasted no time to find their voice. They were forged in 2023 and are a blend of so many modern sounds. There is a lot of heavy rhythms, melodic and emotional vocals, and soaring choruses. A passive listen could get them written off as a Spiritbox clone, but they really are more than that.
Hooded Menace – Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration
Genre: Death metal/doom
Origin: Joensuu, Finland
Label: Season Of Mist
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If you're in the mood for a combination of classic sounds then look no futher thant his record. Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration is a mix of galloping old school heavy metal, original wave death metal, and some My Dying Bride -esque gloom. In an unexpected twist there is a Duran Duran cover here, so strap in for a haunted version of "Save A Prayer."
Orbit Culture – Death Above Life
Genre: Melodic death/groove metal
Origin: Eksjö, Sweden
Label: Century Media
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Grooves. Wall to fucking wall grooves. This is heavy, modern, headbanging. Like Gojira with a love for deathcore.
Today Is The Day – Never Give In
Genre: Noise metal
Origin: Nashville, Tennessee
Label: SuperNova Records
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Concluring this week with Steve Austin's fourteenth record of darkness. This truly sounds like a nightmare after getting just a tad too high. Would recommend.
Also dropping this week…
- Achathras – A Darkness Of The Ancient Past (Cult Never Dies) – Melodic black metal
- AFI – Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… (Run For Cover Records) – New wave/hard rock
- Arson Charge – A Dying Light (Anxious & Angry) – Hardcore/thrash
- Blood And Brutality – Wrath Upon (Self-released) – Death metal/thrash
- Bloodred Hourglass – We Should Be Buried Like This (Out Of Line) – Melodic death metal/metalcore
- Breathe//Die – Gestalt (Tidal Force Records) – Death metal/powerviolence
- Carnage Inc. – Carnage Inc. (Self-released) – Thrash
- Cathedral – Society's Pact With Satan (Rise Above) – Doom/stoner
- Cruentus – End Without End (Kvlt Und Kaos Productions) – Black metal/thrash
- Cultic – Lore (Eleventh Key Records) – Death metal/doom
- De Profundis – The Gospel Of Rot (Self-released) – Death metak
- Deathwinds – …Towards Doom.. (Sentient Ruin) – Black metal
- Decayer – Memoirs Of Despair (Seek & Strike) – Deathcore
- Dirkschneider And The Old Gang – Babylon (Reigning Phoenix) – Heavy metal
- Dispossessed – Dêmocide (Carbonized Records) – Sludge/doom
- Dissona – Receptor (Earache) – Progressive metal
- Enragement – Extinguish All Existence (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Death metal
- Ephemeral – Envisaged Human Collapse (Armageddon Records/ Crows Nest Records) – Melodic death metal
- Evil Scarecrow – Silicon Tea (Deadbox Records) – Hard rock
- Fight From Within – Talk Is Cheap (Virgin) – Metalcore
- Gorotica – Daily Grind Of The Medieval Age (Fleshgrind Records) – Death metal/grindcore
- Gridfailure – Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III (Nefarious Industries) – Experimental metal
- Hangatyr – Sumpf der Fäule (Self-released) – Atmospheric black metal
- Heartsick – Break The Curse (THC Music) – Hardcore
- The Lancasters – The Word of the Mistral (Retro Vox Records/Life On Saturn) – Psychedelic
- Long After Midnight – Rage Toward The Light (Self-released) – Industrial/progressive
- Michael Schenker Group – Don't Sell Your Soul (earMusic) – Hard rock
- Modder – Destroying Ourselves For A Place In The Sun (Consouling Sounds/Lay Bare Recordings) – SLudge/doom
- Mriodom – Vlies (Bed Gun Inn Records) – Psychedelic/doom
- Ofermod – Drakosophia (Shadow Records) – Black/death metal
- Orbstruct – Ostracism (Paragon Records) – Death metal
- Overthrow – Setting The Price (Self-released) – Hardcore
- OvO – Gemma (Artoffact Records) – Experimental metal
- Planet On A Chain – Ritual Routine (Revelation Records) – Hardcore
- Post Heaven – The Space That's In Between (Greyscale Records) – Alternative metal
- Vernon Reid – Hoodoo Telemetry (Artone / The Players Club Records) – Rock/blues
- Ribspreader – As Gods Devour (Xtreem Music) – Death metal
- Rotting Demise – The Unholy Veil Of Silence (Rotting Demise) – Black/death metal
- Solence – Angels Calling (Better Noise) – Pop metal
- Sothoris – Domus Omnium Mortuorum (Fetzner Death Records/ADG Records) – Black/death metal
- Suffering Hour – Impelling Rebirth (Profound Lore) – Avant-garde/death metal
- Supreme Mystic – Kala Rupa (MahaVishnu Records + Third House Communications) – Hardcore
- Tenacious D – The Complete Masterworks Vol. 3 (Self-released) – Comedy rock
- Thrice – Horizons/West (Epitaph) – Post-hardcore/art rock
- Time's Forgotten – Songs Of Awakening (Melodic Revolution) – Progressive metal
- Umulamahri – Learning The Secrets Of Acid (Ordovician Records) – Experimental/brutal death metal
- Valdur – Guilded Abyss (Bloody Mountain Records) – Death metal
- Vimic – Open Your Omen (Self-released) – Groove metal
- Wind Walkers – I Don't Belong Here (Fearless) – Metalcore
- Wode – Uncrossing The Keys (20 Buck Spin) – Black/death metal
- Wolver – Act II: Scene I – Birth Of An Empire (Rexius Records) – Rock
