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 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!

Between the Buried and Me – Automata I (metalcore, prog metal)

David Byrne – American Utopia (alternative dance, art rock)

Chamber – Hatred Softly Spoken (deathcore, mathcore)

Conjurer – Mire (blackened sludge metal, progressive death metal)

Drowse – Cold Air (shoegaze, slowcore)

Drudkh – They Often See Dreams About the Spring (atmospheric black metal)

Editors – Violence (electro-rock)

Eryn Non Dae. – Abandon of the Self (progressive death metal, post-metal)

Gengahr – Where Wildness Grows (indie rock, dream pop)

Good Game – Good Luck Have Fun (math rock, indie pop)

Judas Priest – Firepower (heavy metal)

Kraus – Path (noise pop, shoegaze)

Kubbi – Taiga (chiptune, video game music)

LAC – VOSTOK (math rock, post-rock)

Brett Naucke – The Mansion (glitch, progressive electronic)

Oneida – Romance (experimental rock, psychedelic rock)

Origin Of Perspectives – Wormhole to Nowhere (progressive metalcore)

Pestilence – Hadeon (progressive death metal)

Trna – Earthcult (post-black metal)

Vile Creature – Cast of Static and Smoke (doom metal, sludge metal)

Young Fathers – Cocoa Sugar (alternative R&B, indietronica)

Scott Murphy

Published 6 years ago