This week's new heavy metal releases include some of the heaviest stuff I've ever heard, some rather epic metal, and more! To the metals…
Bossk – .4
Genre: Atmospheric sludge
Origin: Ashford, Kent, England
Label: Deathwish
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Getting this week going with some atmospheric heaviness. This one is for the Bossk fanatic though. It is comprised of some re-recordings of deep cuts and some "re-worked" (remixed?) versions of classics by friends of theirs. While this is an unconventional release from the band, this could be a cool way to get into them.
God Mother – Sinneseld
Genre: Mathcore
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
Label: Self-released
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This EP is roughly seven minutes of unrelenting chaos. It has all the madness of Better Lovers with the stoner rock filter of a Baroness. A wild combo and a wild release – as always – from God Mother.
Knocked Loose – You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Genre: Metalcore/hardcore
Origin: Oldham County, Kentucky
Label: Pure Noise
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Let's just keep the sonic pummeling going. Knocked Loose are hitting hard with another pissed off record here. There are a couple pretty surprising guest spots from Poppy and Chris Motionless (Motionless In White). However, those do not detract from some of the some of the heaviness stuff I've ever heard.
Like Moths To Flames – The Cycles Of Trying To Cope
Genre: Metalcore/post-hardcore
Origin: Columbus, Ohio
Label: UNFD
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Up next in a rather drastic tone shift is the latest from Like Moths To Flames. Since their last full record four years ago much of the band has shifted. If you dug their last EP Pure Like Porcelain, you'll dig this as that was a sample of their current sound.
Anette Olzon – Rapture
Genre: Symphonic metal/rock
Origin: Katrineholm, Sweden –
Label: Frontiers
Buy now on Amazon
On Rapture Anette Olzon is giving you exactly what you'd hope for from a record with a cover like that. This is powerful, epic metal that will get you pumped up. That are moments of melodic death metal here and there as well.
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Nell Ora Blu
Genre: Stoner/psychedelic rock
Origin: Cambridge, England
Label: Rise Above
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If you're an Uncle Acid fan, you're about to get an onslaught of material from the band here. This is nineteen tracks of experimental garage rock with tons of riffs but served up as a "tribute to 70s Italian cinema." Not the typical way for a band to break a six year record gap, but Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats aren't a typical band. Lauren has a review here.
Unleash The Archers – Phantoma
Genre: Power/melodic death metal
Origin: British Columbia, Canada
Label: Napalm
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Concluding this week with one of modern metal's finest. They band are once again playing in both the power and sci-fi metal realms. This is another one that will get you pumped up, but with this you may feel encourage to conquer the stars or something. Jordan has a full review here.
Also dropping this week…
- Sebastian Bach – Child Within The Man (Reigning Phoenix) – Hard rock/glam
- Bad Beat – L.P. 2024 (Triple B Records) – Hardcore
- Baxaxaxa – Spells From The Crypt (Dusktone) – Black metal
- Beautiful Skeletons – Temperance (Wormholedeath) – Alternative metal
- Belushi Speed Ball – Stellkira (Self-released) – Thrash
- Big Special – Postindustrial Hometown Blues (So) – Experimental rock
- Borer – Bag Seeker (Landmine Records) – Sludge/stoner
- Caldwell – Caldwell (Rise Above/Pop Claw) – Psychedelic pop/rock
- Crownshift – Crownshift (Nuclear Blast) – Melodic death/power metal
- Darkness Everywhere – Eternal Damnation (Creator-Destructor Records) – Melodic death metal
- Demersal – Demersal (Self-released) – Hardcore/screamp
- Dødsferd – Wrath (Hypnotic Dirge) – Black metal
- Downcross – White Tower (Cavum Atrum Rex) – Black metal
- El Moono – The Waking Sun (Lockjaw Records) – Alternative/post-metal
- Freedom Call – Silver Romance (Steamhammer/SPV) – Power metal
- Handheld – Live At 25 (Thousand Islands) – Punk
- The Hazytones – Wild Fever (Black Throne Productions) – Stoner/heavy metal
- Hot Water Music – Vows (Equal Vision Records) – Punk/post-hardcore
- Illusion of Fate – Portals to Kur (self-released) – Atmospheric/blackened death etal
- Ivanhoe – Healed By The Sun (Massacre) – Progressive metal
- Just One Fix – Submit Or Death (Self-released) – Thrash
- LanzerRath/Shroud Of Despondency – Nebular Collapse: The Dissolution Of Order And Meaning (Northern Spire Productions) – Black metal
- Luna Pythonissam – Ecos del miedo (V.C.H. Music) – Depressive black metal
- Lÿnx – Claws Out (Bullzhorn Records) – Hard rock
- Machiavellian God – Beyond The Void (Vicisolum Productions) – Melodic death metal
- Mandoki Soulmates – A Memory Of Our Future (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
- Oathswan – For Those Who Breathe From Darkness (Self-released) – Progressive metalcore/post-metal
- Necrophagia – Moribundis Grim (Time To Kill) – Death metal
- Paradox Rift – Ensnared (Self-released) – Groove/death metal
- Powerman 5000 – Abandon Ship (Cleopatra) – Nu/industrial metal
- Primitive Warfare – Extinction Protocol (Stygian Black Hand/Godz Ov War Production) – Black/death metal
- Red Rot – Borders Of Mania (Hammerheart Records) – Experimental death metal
- Sadistic Force – Iron Rite (Goat Throne Records) – Black/speed metal
- Sarcoughagus – Remnants (Rotted Life Records) – Death metal
- Six Feet Under – Killing For Revenge (Metal Blade) – Death metal
- Somnent – Severed Ties (Self-released) – Death metal/doom
- The Sonic Dawn – Phantom (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Hard rock/stoner
- Sonic Universe – It Is What It Is (earMusic) – Hard/progressive rock
- Stretch Arm Strong – The Revealing EP (Iodine) – Melodic hardcore
- Syk – eartHFlesh (Season Of Mist) – Progressive black/death metal
- Smoke AxD – Vaya Con Dios (Casa De Roc) – Stoner/hardcore
- Svneatr – Never Return (Prosthetic) – Progressive black metal
- Take Offense – T.O.tality (MNRK Heavy) – Crossover/thrash
- The Tangent – To Follow Polaris (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
- The Treatment – Wake Up The Neighbourhood (Frontiers) – Hard rock
- Vaticinal Rites – Cascading Memories Of Immortality (Everlasting Spew Records)
- Vestindien – Verdande (Dark Essence Records) – Death metal
- Warlord – Free Spirit Soar (High Roller) – Heavy metal
- Waste – In Bloom (Seek And Strike) – Deathcore
