This week's new heavy metal releases include gothic doom, a thrash masterclass, and more! To the metals…
Blood Vulture – Die Close
Genre: Gothic metal/sludge
Origin: New York, New York
Label: Pure Noise
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Jordan Olds (Two Minutes To Late Night) has already proven that he's not just fun, star-studded covers with the band Cherisher. This time though, he's setting out on his own with under the Blood Vulture moniker and the result is an emotional and heavy record. It's a little Type O Negative, a little hardcore, a little sludge, and more. Kristin Hayter (fka Lingua Ignota), Jade Puget (AFI), Brian Fair (Shadows Fall) all join him for a track as well.
Botch – 061524
Genre: Mathcore
Origin: Tacoma, Washington
Label: Sargent House
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Last year was a hell of a time to be alive and a Botch fan. They reunited to go on their last tour and this is the last show of that tour. This includes sixteen songs with five from American Nervoso, An Anthology of Dead Ends, and We Are The Romans, then just for kicks their one-off single "One Twenty Two."
Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services
Genre: Mathcore/metalcore
Origin: New Jersey
Label: Relapese
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Thirty years after their first album, Deadguy have returned full of fury. This is a return a lot of folks thought they'd never see. I've said it quite a bit with some bands returning over the last few years, but what a time to be alive… well, music-wise. Sucks in most other ways.
Heaven Shall Burn – Heimat
Genre: Metalcore/melodic death metal
Origin: Saalfeld, Germany
Label: Century Media
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These lads are hitting you hard on their tenth album. This is a masterful balance of metalcore and melodic death metal. In a pretty cool move this includes a cover of Killswitch Engage's classic "Numbered Days" that Jesse Leach sings on. If the main record wasn't enough, there is a quartet of bonus songs (or a bonus disc or something. Whatever.), so you're getting a lot to enjoy.
Inhuman Condition – Mind Trap
Genre: Death metal/thrash
Origin: Florida
Label: Listenable Insanity Records
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Album number three from these guys in another collection of incredibly Floridian-sounding death metal songs (though only one guy is actually from Florida). Look at the album cover. This record sounds like that. Helping them out there are cameos from Paul Mazurkiewicz (Cannibal Corpse), Jamie Stewart (The Absence), and Jonas Kjellgren (Ironmaster).
Sodom – The Arsonist
Genre: Thrash
Origin: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Label: Steamhammer
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Sodom's first album in five years is another pissed off thrasher. These guys helped to solidify what thrash is and this record is proof that they still know how to do it well. No bullshit here.
Also dropping this week…
- Aceves – Magnum Dopus (I:AND:I Recordings) – Stoner rock
- All Men Unto Me – Requiem (The Larvarium) – Noise rock/sludge
- Crystal Viper – The Live Quest (Listenable) – Heavy metal
- Deadlands – Seven (Spinefarm) – Metalcore
- Deciduous Forest – Fields of Yore (Gutter Prince Cabal) – Folk/black metal
- Domkraft – Domkraft (Magnetic Eye Records) – Psychedelic rock/doom
- Drawn And Quartered – Lord Of Two Horns (Nuclear Winter) – Death meal
- Fer de Lance – Fires On The Mountainside (Cruz Del Sur Music) – Heavy metal/doom
- Greet Death – Die In Love (Deathwish) – Shoegaze
- Hot Milk – Corporation P.O.P (Music For Nations) – Hard rock/pop punk
- Jakko M. Jakszyk – Son Of Glen (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
- Jawfane – Me And All My Demons (Exitus Stratagem Records) – Post-hardcore
- Johan Langquist The Castle – Johan Langquist The Castle (I Hate) – Heavy metal/doom
- King – K (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Death/black metal
- King Potenaz – Arcane Desert Ritual Vol. 1 (Majestic Mountain Records) – Heavy metal/doom
- King Witch – III (Listenable) – Heavy metal/doom
- Lord Belial – Unholy Trinity (Hammerheart) – Black metal
- Mæth Dæmon – Dogma (Self-released) – Sludge/post-metal
- Merzbow – Sedonis (Signal Noise) – Noise/avant-garde
- Noumenia – Echoes (Eclipse Records) – Modern metal/metalcore
- Royale Lynn – Black Magic (Epitaph) – Hard rock
- Niklas Sonne – Electric Dream (Frontiers) – Shred
- Noumenia – Echoes (Eclipse Records) – Post-groove metal
- Pig Pen – Mental Madness (Flatspot Records) – Hardcore
- Powerhill – Generation X (Dr. Music Records) – "Farm metal"
- Putridity – Morbid Ataraxia (Willowtip) – Brutal death metal
- Ready For Death – Pay With Your Face (Translation Loss Records) – Death metal
- Serpent Corpse – Retaliate (Transcending Obscurity) – Death metal
- Shadow Of Intent – Imperium Delirium (Blood Blast Distribution) – Deathcore/melodic death metal
- Skies Turn Black – Broken Hearts And Bad Habits (Sliptrick Records) – Heavy metal
- A Stick And A Stone – Conspire (Fiadh Productions) – Noise
- Thanatorean – Tutta La Morte In Un Solo Punto (I, Voidhanger Records) – Black metal
- TSS – End Of Time (Fearless) – Modern metal
- Wanted – Cutting Edge (Eonian Records) – Hard rock
- Warhog – The Dystopian Chronicles, Vol. 3 (Self-released) – Heavy metal
- Warlord – The Lost Archangel (High Roller) – Heavy/power metal
- When The Deadbolt Breaks – In The Glow Of The Vatican Fire (Argonauta Records) – Psychedelic doom/avant-garde metal
