Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless

6 years ago

Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure trove, others find themselves drawing a blank at the end of the month due to the breakneck pace needed to keep up to date with what’s been released. Which brings us to this Heavy Blog PSA: a weekly roundup of new albums which pares down the the week’s releases to only our highest recommendations. Here you’ll find full album/single streams, pre-order links and, most importantly, a collection of albums that could very well earn a spot on your year end list. Enjoy!

Cloak – To Venomous Depths (gothic black metal)

Desolate Shrine – Deliverance from the Godless Void (death metal)

Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard (stoner doom)

Floom – Multi​-​Voice of the Immensity (drone metal, folk metal)

Gnarbot – Sun Session (prog fusion)

Ground Patrol – DRIFT (experimental rock, math rock)

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Impact Fuze – Moscow (jazz fusion)

The Knells – Knells II (prog rock, symphonic rock)

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Merchant – Beneath (drone doom, sludge metal)

Merkabah – Million Miles (avant-garde jazz, noise rock)

Angel Olsen – Phases (art pop, indie rock)

Peter Oren – Anthropocene (alt-country, contemporary folk)

Path of Might – Hallowed Gate Style (progressive sludge metal)

Perihelion – Örvény (post-metal, prog metal)

Quicksand – Interiors (alternative rock, post-hardcore)

Dan Terminus – Automated Refrains (synthwave)

Undusted – Method to Madness (djent, groove metal)

Vitriol – Pain Will Define Their Death (death metal)

Scott Murphy

Published 6 years ago