This week's new heavy metal releases include an alternative metal underdog, a sonic hammer in thrash form, and more! To the metals…
Baest – Colossal
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Aarhus, Denmark
Label: Century Media
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After a few years of hella singles and an EP Baest have returned with a devastating record. Over nine tracks these guys cover a lot of ground in the death metal realm. And they do so with a couple guests like Jesper Binzer (from D-A-D) and Orm.
Chevelle – Bright As Blasphemy
Genre: Alternative metal/rock
Origin: Grayslake, Illinois
Label: Alchemy
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I feel like there as been have been rumblings over the last few years that we all slept on Chevelle. Sure, we all know the hits, but deep cuts and recent stuff still hits so well. Bright As Blasphemy is another win in the catalog of proggy, alt metal.
Grand Cadaver – The Rot Beneath
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Stockholm / Gothenburg, Västra Götaland, Sweden
Label: Majestic Mountain Records
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Despite Dark Tranquillity remaining rather busy, Mikael Stanne, Christian Jansson, and the other Grand Cadaver lads that aren't in DT are already back with some new slabs of death metal. These four tracks have just the right amount of melody without leaning into cheese and just the right amount of doom without getting too sleepy. They have already built a hell of a catalog for this band that's only around five years old.
Incite – Savage New Times
Genre: Groove metal/thrash
Origin: Phoenix, Arizona
Label: Reigning Phoenix
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Straight up, no-frills thrash and grooves here. This is the heavy and driving stuff that you'd expect. This is their first with Layne Richardson (Becomes Astral) on guitar and the dude knows the assignment.
Panopticon – Laurentian Blue
Genre: Folk
Origin: Louisville, Kentucky
Label: Nordvis
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Up next we have some folk in a forest. Austin Lunn is taking this about as far as you can get from the blackened side of this project here, and yet it still hits with a ton of weigh. You're getting swells of strings, banjo, accordion, and the likes and you won't even miss the grim stuff.
Rise Against – Richochet
Genre: Punk
Origin: Chicago, Illinois
Label: Loma Vista
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Rise Against seem to hit a lot harder when things are especially charged politically. So perfect timing for this one to hit you with punk rage and oodles of catchy moments. The theme of the record is connectedness, so perhaps you'll connect with them this time if you haven't before.
Treasvre – Kintsugi (Side A)
Genre: Gothic/experimental rock
Origin: San Francisco, California
Label: Self released
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Somewhere between your upbeat Type O Negative songs, Metric, and Katatonia you'll find this gem of a band. This has tons of atmosphere and energy presented in a haunted void. Earlier this week they dropped side a of their new record and it will leave you wanting the other half soon.
Unleashed – Fire Upon Your Lands
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
Label: Napalm
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Wrapping this week with a bit of a Norse history lesson by way of death metal. This is their sixth in their on-going Odalheim saga, so to fully "get" this, you pay need to trek back a ways. It stands as a mighty metal beast on it's own though.
Also dropping this week…
- Anthrodynia – Unspeakable Horrors Emanating From Within (Nameless Grave Records) – Death metal/doom
- Auri – III – Candles & Beginnings (Nuclear Blast) – Folk rock
- Aurorawave – Monument (Ineffable Records) – Reggae/hard rock
- Black Water Rising – The Edge (Capital T Productions) – Hard rock
- Ellefson-Soto – Unbreakable (Rat Pak) – Hard rock/heavy metal
- Fell Omen – Caelid Dog Summer (True Cult Records) – Black metal/punk
- Fermentor – Agreement (Self-released) – Heavy metal/progressive rock
- Fuck Money – Fuck Money (Three One G) – Hardcore/noise
- Good Teal – Good Teal (Good Teal) – Good Teal
- King Yosef – Spire Of Fear (Bleakhouse) – Industrial
- Justice For The Damned – Stay Relentless (Greyscale) – Deathcore/metalcore
- Martyr – Dark Believer (Rock Of Angels) – Gothic rock/industrial
- Mono Inc. – Darkness (NoCut) – Gothic rock
- Patriarchs In Black – Home (Metalville) – Stoner/doom
- Pinknoise – Human=Kind EP (Nettwerk) – Hard rock
- Plaiins – Happy Faces (Long Branch) – Punk/indie
- Reaper's Revenge – Fire Force Devil (NRT-Records) – Heavy metal
- Street Sects – Dry Drunk (Compulsion Records) – Experimental/noise rock
- Street Sex – Full Color Eclipse (Compulsion Records) – Experimental/noise rock
- Surfaced – Where Angels Fear To Tread (1126 Records) – Deathcore/death metal
- Warmen – Band Of Brothers (Reaper) – Melodic death/power metal
- Witchrider – Metamorph (Fuzzorama) – Stoner
