Top Pick
Dystopia A.D. – Doomsday Psalm (progressive death metal, melodeath)
New Jersey duo Dystopia A.D. have been dropping solid melodeath releases for a while now, but they've really come into their own on this second full-length effort, which sees the band adopting more of a progressive death metal approach. Don't expect fretless bass and a squeeky clean presentation though (for that, you're going to want to check out the Indepth album). What makes Doomsday Psalm stand out, along with the killer songwriting is a gritty aesthetic, which makes its aresenal of crunchy riffs hit even harder.
Release Roundup
Among Them In Trenches – Drifter In The Woods (deathcore)
Appalling – Sacrilege (black metal)
Barren – I (deathgrind)
Byzantine – Black Sea Codex (progressive groove metal)
Call of Charon – The Cleansing (metalcore, melodeath)
Coffin Feeder – Over the Top (death metal, deathcore)
Defying Plague – Leviathan of Rot (death metal, thrash)
Eisregen – Wiedergänger (gothic black metal)
Frankenbok – The Ex Files: Volume 1 (alt metal, groove metal)
Funeral Mass – Shadow of the Raventhrone (black metal)
Gavran – Indistinct Beacon (doom)
Hammers of Misfortune – Overtaker (prog thrash)
Heron – Empires of Ash (post metal, sludge doom)
Horrid Sight – Evil Made Flesh (death thrash)
Imha Tarikat – Hearts Unchained – At War With A Passionless World (progressive black metal)
Indepth – Ancient Architects (progressive tech death)
Krushhammer – Blood, Violence & Blasphemy (black thrash)
Lost Barron – Dark Messiah (blackened death metal)
Lyzzärd – The Abyss (trad metal)
Napalm Ted – Pestilential Pursuit (grindcore)