This week's new heavy metal releases include heavy catharsis, a lot of fun, haunted jams, and more! To the metals…
Converge – Love Is Not Enough
Genre: Mathcore/metalcore
Orgin: Salem, Massachusetts
Label: Deathwish/Epitaph
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Starting your week off with the sonic beatdown of Converge. Their first album on their own in nine years features all their trademark chaos and technicality. This one feels like an emotional release.
Hoaxed – Death Knocks
Genre: Dark Rock
Orgin: Portland, Oregon
Label: Relapse Records
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Hoaxed are a recent personal favorite of mine. Death Knocks sounds like melodic indie record run through fuzz pedals. A less pissed off Die Spitz perhaps, but with no less riffs. You know what also knocks? This record…sorry.
Mariachi El Bronx – IV
Genre: Mariachi
Orgin: Los Angeles, California
Label: ATO Records
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I'll be honest, I forgot The Bronx did these Mariachi albums. Man, they're fun though. It's been five years since the last proper Bronx record, but twelve since they picked up the horns. Why are they so good at this?
Ponte Del Diavolo – De Venom Natura
Genre: Blackened post-punk
Orgin: Turin, Italy
Label: Season Of Mist
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I don't think I've heard a band like this before. They are blending so much and doing it so well. They have a foot in the grim while dabbling in 80's spooky rock, a little doom, a little electronic, and more. Good shit. You'll want to fire up DuoLingo and brush up on your Italian.
Worm – Necropalace
Genre: Blackened doom/death metal
Orgin: Miami, Florida/Quebec, Canada
Label: Century Media
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Wrapping this week with a record that sounds like music from a horror video game in the best way. This is evil, theatric, and bombastic while hitting you with plenty of blast beats. There's even a guest spot from the ever-shreddy Marty Friedman. Wurm aka Phantom Slaughter aka a real name of some sort probably, you've done it again.
Also dropping this week…
- Angel Du$t – Cold 2 The Touch (Run For Cover) – Melodic hardcore/pop punk
- Ashbringer – Subglacial (Bölverk Collective) – Atmospheric black metal
- Blazoner – Sonic Chambers (Slef-released) – Heavy covers
- Bloodred – Colours Of Pain (Massacre Records) – Blackened death metal
- Borrower – Killerdemons (Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records) – Thrash
- Deathraw – Reduces To Ashes (Self-released) – Thrash
- Eye Of Purgatory – Darkborne (Self-released) – Death metal
- Forcefed Horsehead / Shaving The Werewolf – From Horrid To Worse (Self-released) – Extreme metal
- Fossilization – Advent Of Wounds (Everlasting Spew Records) – Death metal/doom
- Frostmorner – Orbital Kaos (Wormholedeath Records) – Blackened death metal
- Frozen Ocean – Askdrömmar (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – Atmospheric black metal/electronic
- Glassbone – Ruthless Savagery (Frozen Records / Iron Fortress) – Death metal/hardcore
- Greyhawk – Warriors Of Greyhawk (Cruz Del Sur Music) – Hevay/power metal
- Guilt Trip – God Forgives (Roadrunner Records) – Hardcore
- Human Error – sour chalk water (Self-released) – Post-hardcore
- Kröwnn – Santa Somnia (Subsound Records) – Doom
- Malefic – Impermanence (Terminus Hate City) – Blackened thrash
- Maulén – Entra Omry (Self-released) – Drone/experimental
- Moonchapel – Three Faced Trinity For A Two-Faced World (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Black metal/doom
- No Worth Of Man – The Killing Streets (Brutal Records) – Groove/extreme metal
- Overtoun – Death Drive Anthropology (Time to Kill Records) – Progressive death metal/thrash
- Pilgrims – Gemini (Self-released) – Post-punk
- Saille – Forebode (Non Serviam Records) – Symphonic black metal
- Slaughterday – Dread Emperor (Testimony) – Death metal
- Space Of Variations – Poisoned Art (Napalm Records) – Metalcore
- Austen Starr – I Am The Enemy (Frontiers) – Rock
- Submasq – Oedipus (Self-released) – Progressive metal covers
- Sundecay – The Blood Lives Again (Self-released) – Doom
- Sun Guts – Kilonova (Self-released) – Math metal
- Temple Balls – Temple Balls (Frontiers Music Srl) – Rock
- TX2 – End Of Us (Hopeless Records) – Rock/emo
- Various Artists – Iron Man’s Anthem: A Tribute To Ozzy (Self-released) – Ozzy covers
- Wampyric Rites – Under the Tragic Fullmoon of the Vampire (Inferna Profundus) Black metal
- Witches Coven – Soul Reaper (Spy Satellite Records) – Atmospheric doom
