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

5 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!

A Storm of Light – Anthroscene (post-metal, melodic doom)

Anomalie – Métropole Part II (nu-jazz, future funk)

Author & Punisher – Beastland (industrial metal)

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Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest (blackened death metal)

Black Peaks – All That Divides (progressive post-hardcore)

Carpe Noctem – Vitrun (black metal)

Coheed & Cambria – The Unheavenly Creatures (prog rock)

Electric Six – Bride of the Devil (alt-rock, dance rock)

Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams (art punk, post-hardcore)

God Complex – Created Sick (nu-hardcore)

High on Fire – Electric Messiah (stoner metal)

Leviathan – Of Origins Unearthed (melodeath)

Lucifericon – Al-Khem-Me (blackened thrash)

Master Boot Record – Virus-Dos (synthwave)

mewithoutyou – (untitled) (art punk, post-hardcore)

Monuments – Phronesis (prog metal, djent)

Mutilated by Zombies – Scripts of Anguish (death metal)

The Necromancers – Of Blood and Wine (doom metal)

PIAH MATER – The Wandering Daughter (progressive death metal)

Serocs – The Phobos/Deimos Suite (death metal)

TTNG – Animals Acoustic (math rock, indie rock)

Unholy Baptism – Volume I: The Bonds of Servitude (black metal)

Windhand – Eternal Return (psychedelic doom)

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Scott Murphy

Published 5 years ago