Editor’s Note: Do you think we “missed” an album this week? Click here.
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!
Top Picks
Ithaca – They Fear Us (metalcore, post-hardcore)
In case our recent review and Anatomy Of (featuring the likes of New Edition, Van Hagar, and Phil Collins!) hasn’t made it clear, They Fear Us is an album you’re probably going to want to check out. While these new unconventional influences certainly characterise the album’s sound, there’s still plenty of the venomous aggression found on 2019’s The Language of Injury in play; it’s just that now all the panic chords are balanced out by big fat hooks, making for a more memorable record that reestablishes Ithaca as innovators rather than imitators of classic metallic hardcore.
See Also: Black Magnet – Body Prophecy (industrial); I’m not really sure what’s going on on Body Prophecy’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man-ass album cover, but it has me intrigued, and seems to be a fairly good representative of the album’s sound from the two singles currently available.
–Josh Bulleid