Category: New music


Psycroptic Sit On ‘The Throne Of Kings‘

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases
Jan.24, 2012

In case you missed our review of Psycroptic‘s upcoming album The Inherited Repression, let me paraphrase: it’s awesome.

What’s that you say? Evidence?! Well, if you don’t believe me, then head over to Metalsucks who have an exclusive stream of ‘The Throne Of Kings’. Regardless of whether you like tech death or not, I strongly urge you to listen to this song. There are exactly zero bands that sound like Psycroptic, so you really should include them in your musical listening palette. I’m starting to make less sense now, so just click this link and go away.

Check out The Inherited Repression when it hits on February 7th. We have an interview with drummer Dave Haley coming up soon, so be on the lookout for that.

- NT

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Don’t Be A Goatwhore; Stream ‘When Steel And Bone Meet‘, Get ‘Blood For The Master‘ Free!

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases
Jan.24, 2012

 Having heard the new Goatwhore album Blood For The Master, I can tell you that without a doubt previous fans will love it – it’s got everything that makes Goatwhore  so enjoyable, condensed into forty minutes – but don’t just take my word for it. Decibel have given you the chance to hear one of my favourite tracks from it, ‘When Steel And Bone Meet‘, over at the ever-awesome Deciblog. There are thrashing riffs, a surprisingly catchy chorus, and even a killer solo fairly early on in proceedings; easily enough to lift anyone out of that mid-week slump.

Not only that, but you can also stream the album’s title track over at Decibel, you lucky bastards! The internet is far too good to you.

You can pick your copy of Blood For The Master up this coming Valentines Day on Metal Blade because nothing says “I love you” quite like mashing your reproductive organs together by the fire to the soothing sounds of ‘Death To The Architects Of Heaven‘ or ‘Judgement Of The Bleeding Crown‘. On a side note, the album art is spectacular, eschewing the normal trend of having highly detailed ‘gore-based’ art for something that looks like the product of Roy Lichtenstien if he was into black metal and not comic books.  However, I can’t find any allusion to who made it, any of you more internet savvy people happen to know?

- DL

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Stream The New Aborted Album Global Flatline on No Clean Singing

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases
Jan.20, 2012

Deathgrind legends Aborted have this new album coming out next week that goes by the name of Global Flatline. Noyan swears to its excellence, and I’ll throw my hat into the ring by saying that it is indeed everything you probably could have hoped for out of a new Aborted record. This hard-hitting album is definitely worth your time if you enjoy this kind of music.

You can now stream Global Flatline in its entirety over with our friends at No Clean Singing. This is going to be an excellent year for death metal, so don’t let the first installation to the genre pass you by. Global Flatline is due out next Tuesday, January 24th, on Century Media.

- JR

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Hey! Listen To Beyond The Epilogue!

Filed Under: Audio, Listen To This!, New music
Jan.20, 2012

Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Beyond The Epilogue is the brainchild of Brian Skeel, who handles everything from guitars, bass, lead vocals and keys to programming, synths, production, and mixing. A regular one-man band!

He released BTE’s self-titled EP back in December, and sent us a lovely introductory e-mail, citing the likes of Devin Townsend and Porcupine Tree as comparisons – and he’s not lying. The lush, multi-layered approach is in full evidence, and Brian’s got a great voice too.

If you like what you hear, then the record is free to download from Beyond The Epilogue’s Bandcamp page. Hooray for free music!

- CG

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The Mars Volta To Drop Noctourniquet This Spring

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases
Jan.19, 2012

The Mars Volta is not a name bandied around here often, but with the recent reformation of At The Drive-In, it only seemed right that we tell you that the brainchild of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala will be releasing their new album Noctourniquet on March 27th, probably on Warner Bros.

The tracklisting is as follows:

01. The Whip hand
02. Aegis
03. Dyslexicon
04. Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound
05. The Malkin Jewel
06. Lapochka
07. In Absentia
08. Imago
09. Molochwalker
10. Trinkets Of The Pale Moon
11. Vedamalady
12. Noctourniquet
13. Zed And Two Naughts

Noctourniquet will be the first Volta record to include drummer Deantoni Parks, who spent much of 2010 touring with Omar as part of his solo live band, and in fact was in the band for a short spell in late 2006.

Various live bootlegs of new TMV material have been appearing online for a little while now, and with this confirmation of details, the following (admittedly low quality) version of the title track gives us a little flavour of what it will be like:

One thing  that I’ve always enjoyed about The Mars Volta over ATD-I is Cedric’s voice; he was chaotic and unbalanced with his former band, and although it absolutely worked, his craft has only improved with time. Tentatively looking forward to this one.

After the jump, ‘Molochwalker‘!

- CG

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Eluveitie Release Video For ‘A Rose For Epona.’ Apparently It’s Not About Link’s Horse

Filed Under: New music, Upcoming releases, Video
Jan.19, 2012


I can’t say I’m much of a fan of folk metal, but I did dig Eluveitie‘s last album Everything Remains (As It Never Was). I’m a sucker for lively melodeath riffs and the whole folky modern metal sound that the band had struck me as being pretty neat. It was certainly a catchy record, and at that point their most accessible.

So as it turns out, just like every other band that has a female involved, it would appear that they’ve gone even more mainstream friendly if ‘A Rose For Epona’ is a sign of things to come from Eluveitie. ‘A Rose For Epona‘ dials back the harsh vocals quite a bit and is centered around frontlady Anna Murphy. It’s also quite hilarious that Chrigel Glanzmann (vocals, various folk instruments) looks bored to death in the video above as he idly plucks his mandolin. Can we start giving the band a cute nickname like Folkanescence or Folkuna Coil now?

Jokes aside, obviously it’s just a single! Eluveitie’s forthcoming album Helvetios is due out February 28th (woah, what a day!) on Nuclear Blast.

- JR

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Christian Mistress Turn ‘Black To Gold‘

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases
Jan.19, 2012

I love Christian Mistress. Their album Agony & Opium was one of my favorites of 2010.  They have since migrated labels from 20 Buck Spin to Relapse, and I’ve been looking forward to their Relapse debut for a while now.  For those who are unfamiliar with Christian Mistress, think Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, and Black Sabbath having a threesome, and their strange offspring having a vocalist with two x chromosomes.

Now, they’ve since released a new track from their upcoming album Possession, which is entitled ‘Black to Gold‘, and it is awesome:

I absolutely love this track.  Those riffs are just fantastic, full of chunky goodness, and Christine Davis’ vocals have never sounded better.  And how bout that solo?  I’m sold that this record will be amazing.

Possession is set to be released February 28th on Relapse Records.  February 28th is going to be a huge, huge day for metal.  We are not worthy.

- GR

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Spawn Of Possession Know ‘Where Angels Go Demons Follow‘

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases
Jan.19, 2012

It’s been six years and three member changes since Swedish five-piece Spawn of Possession released the opus that is Noctambulant, and it goes without saying that it’s one of the best tech death albums out there. The wait, however, is nearly over, as they have a follow-up to that coming out soon, titled Incurso.

In the build up, they’ve posted a new song called ‘Where Angels Go Demons Follow‘! You can stream it below.

It sounds very much like a better Noctambulant song, preserving the unique, crisp production on that album. It’s amazingly written, with the guitars interacting to form an intricate sound. If this is any indication, their new album will be incredible.

It’s understandable, as Spawn Of Possession features some tried and tested talent, including the wonderful Christian Muenzner of Obscura/ex-Necrophagist, and Matthew Chalk (ex-Psycroptic, Mephistopheles). If that isn’t an indication of the talent here, I don’t know what is.

Incurso will be out on March 13th via Relapse Records.

- NT

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Enfold Darkness Enters The ‘Lairs Of The Ascended Masters’

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases
Jan.17, 2012

Update: Guitarist Matt Brown informed us that ‘Lairs of the Ascended Masters‘ is just a single and not the name of the upcoming album, which is still TBA.

It’s been quite a while since Blackened Death Metal band Enfold Darkness released some new music. Their debut album Our Cursed Rapture came out in 2009 and since then the band has been plagued with lineup woes and hard times in general. Finally, the band has some new music for us to hear! You can stream the new track ‘Lairs of the Ascended Masters‘ over at Decibel.

The track is pretty awesome. If you aren’t familiar with the band, my friend Mitch once described them as “Cradle of Faceless”, which is a pretty fair assessment, I’d say. Excellent band that I wish we could see more of!

There’s nothing else known about their forthcoming sophomore album, but we’ll be sure to fill you in when details are announced.

- JR

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Stream The New Abigail Williams Record Becoming On Hails & Horns

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases
Jan.17, 2012

Before I heard their third full-length album Becoming, I didn’t consider myself a fan of LA-based black metal band Abigail Williams. If you haven’t kept up with the band simply because of some stupid notion that they were a metalcore band, then think again. They’ve evolved into a full-fledged atmospheric black metal band and would fall comfortable on the ears of fans of Agalloch and Wolves in the Throne Room. This record is their best work yet for sure, and you can stream it over at Hails & Horns.

I’ve been working on a review of the record for a while now, as it’s taking some time to gather my thoughts on it because black metal isn’t really my forte, but you can expect that later this week. Becoming is due out January 24th on Candlelight Records.

And if there’s any chance someone in the band or Candlelight reads this; release Becoming on vinyl. I’d buy it in a heartbeat and having this gorgeous album art in a larger physical size would be awesome.

- JR

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