This week's new heavy metal releases include thrashing prog, epic deathcore, horrible car crashes in sonic form, and more! To the metals…
Abstracted – Hiraeth
Genre: Progressive death/extreme metal
Origin: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Label: M-Theory Audio
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What a prog metal feast this is. You've getting tons of heavy grooves, rhythmic shifts, catchy moments, and genre dabbling. There's even a guest spot from Chaney Crabb of Entheos. This was my introduction to the band, and what an intro it was.
Dissentience – Kaiju
Genre: Progressive thrash/death metal
Origin: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Label: Self-released
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We're going to keep it proggy, but shift the vibe a lot with this EP. Dissentience are as adventurous as Abstracted, but heavier and darker. These four songs are unrelenting and pummeling.
Exhumed – Red Asphalt
Genre: Deathgrind
Origin: San Jose, California
Label: Relapse
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Do they still show Red Asphalt in driver's ed? For those unaware, it was a film showed the aftermath of brutal car crashes to scare you into driving safely (or maybe inspire death metal kids for years to come). Perfect inspiration for a gore-obsessed metal band, right? Exhumed thought so. This is a nasty one.
Sylosis – The New Flesh
Genre: Melodic death metal
Origin: Reading, Berkshire, England
Label: Nuclear Blast
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Album number seven from Josh Middleton and pals is another shredding masterclass. It also feels like their most melodic one yet. When a big sing-a-long chorus hits, woo boy does it soar.
Worm Shepherd – Dawn Of The Iconoclast
Genre:Blackened deathcore
Origin: Brockton, Massachusetts
Label: Unique Leader Records
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Wrapping this week in a really heavy and dark place. This EP contains five songs that lay waste to your eardrums with bombastic symphonic elements and just the most deathcore-ass deathcore there is. Tru Purdue is the only one from their last go around Hunter, but returning drummer Leo McClain, and the trio of new pals know how to hit.
Also dropping this week…
- Aeon Gods – Reborn To Light (Scarlet Records) – Symphonic/power metal
- Amongruins – Advent Of Chaos (Theogonia Records) – Melodic death metal
- Atlas – Sunder (Odyssey Music Network) – Melodic death metal
- Bayonet Dismemberment – Skull Crushed by a Tank (Iron Fortress Records) – Brutal death metal
- Bizarrekult – Alt Som Finnes (Underground Activists) – Post-black metal
- Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean – Let Us Not Speak Of Them But Look And Pass On (Redscroll Records) – Sludge/doom
- Clawfinger – Before We All Die (Perception) – Rap/nu metal
- Coscradh – Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld (20 Buck Spin) – Death/black metal
- Crowen – Through The Dying Mist (Inverse Records) – Melodic death/folk metal
- Daidalos – Dante (Rockshots Records) – Symphonic black metal
- Darklore – The Great Elven War (Self-released) – Symphonic/blackened death metal
- Death Of Youth – Nothing Is The Same Anymore (Sell The Heart Records/Engineer Records) – Melodic hardcore
- Dimscûa – Dust Eater (Big Scary Monsters) – Post-metal/sludge
- Domhain – In Perfect Stillness (These Hands Melt) – Post-black metal/shoegaze
- Dusk – Bunker (Self-released) – Industrial/black metal
- Dwellnought – Monolith of Ephemerality (Caligari Records) – Black metal/doom
- Ender – Ender II: In Silent Throne (Praetorian Records) – Progressive doom
- Evig Natt – Vaketimen (Wormholedeath) – Gothic/death metal
- Eye Of Melian – Forest Of Forgetting (Napalm Records) – Folk metal
- Foreword – Exposition (Seek And Strike) – Metalcore
- Hellstedt – As Right As Rain (Self-released) – Groove metal/thrash
- Horseman – No Surrender in Dark Days (Recordjet) – Groove metal/metalcore
- Incandescence – Hors Temps (Profound Lore) – Black metal
- Lead Injector – Witching Attack (High Roller) – Black metal/thrash
- The Magus – Daemonosophia (The Circle Music) – Heavy/black metal
- Mirrorcell – Long Nights In Lovescape (InVogue Records) – Modern metal
- Michael Monroe – Outerstellar (Silver Lining) – Rock/glam
- Nazghor – A World Ablaze (Solistitium Records) – Black metal
- Necronomicon Ex Mortis – Zombie Blood Nightmare (Self-released) – Death metal
- New Found Glory – Listen Up! (Pure Noise Records) – Pop punk
- Nightshade – In Essence Divided (My Kingdom Music) – Melodic death meta;
- Northern Krig – Worship Files For Anthropophagolagnia Predators (Self-released) – Black metal
- Nytt Land – Aba Khan (Prophecy) – Folk
- Phasma – Purgatory (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Technical blackened/death metal
- The Recreant – The Code is V…Outlive the Code (Self-released) – Crossover/thrash
- Retrograth – Antispaces (C&N Records) – Darkwave
- Rotten Blasphemy – Worshippers Of Chaös (Witches Brew) – Black metal/thrash
- Serpent Gates – The Veil Of Darkness (Venomoon Records) – Heavy metal
- Shadowspawn – Cadaver Dogs (Via Nocturna) – Death metal/thrash
- Stam1na – Apnea (Sakara) – Progressie thrash
- Suplecs – Hymns Under A Blood Red Sky (Ripple) – Stoner metal
- Temple Balls – Temple Balls (Frontiers) – Melodic rock
- Transatlantic Radio – Midnight Transmission (Frontiers) – AOR
- Trespasser – יְהִי אוֹר (Fucking Kill Records) – Black metal
- The Veer Union – Reinvention (Arising Empire) – Alternative metal
- Unmother – State Dependent Memory (Fiadh Productions) – Post-black metal
- W.E.B. – Darkness Alive (Metal Blade Records) – Symphonic black metal
- Wreck-Defy – Dissecting The Leech (Massacre Records) – Thrash
- Zepter – Zepter (High Roller) – Heavy metal
