Rounding up new releases from Skindred, An Autumn for Crippled Children, Humanity's Last Breath, The Shredderz, Teenage Wrist, Crypta, Körgull the Exterminator, Besta and more.
Besta used to play grindcore, but you'd never know it from listening to Terra Em Desapego. For this fourth-full length, the Portuguese piledrivers have decided to do away with the grindcore stylings of their previous releases in favour of a more complex and elongated death metal palate that sounds like a mix of the primal prog-death of Atheist and early-Death with that last Black Breath album or something like that. The change could have something to do with the addition of Sinistro guitarist Ricardo Matias to their line-up last year. Then again, it might not; I don't know. Whatever the reason for their reorientation, Terra Em Desapego definitely suggests it was a move in the right direction.
Release Roundup
Ancient Torment/Haxen – The Howling Gale (black metal)
Aprilmist – Homesick (post black metal, blackgaze)
Architects of Dissonance – Totenkvlt (death metal, deathcore)
Ars Moriendi – Lorsque les coeurs s’assechent (kinda weird black metal)
Astroverse Dimensions – Feeding On The Spirit (synth prog, space rock)
An Autumn For Crippled Children – Closure (post black metal)
Balrogath – We Bring Calamity (blackned melodeath)
Big Red Fire Truck – Trouble In Paradise (hard rock, hair metal)
Blight House – Blight The Way (deathgrind)
Burning Sun – Wake of Ashes (power metal)
Chaos Descent – The Blurry End of an Era (death thrash)
Chupacabra – Fortified With Ashes (death metal)
The Crawling – All of This for Nothing (blackened mellowdeath)
Crown Solace – Animus (symphonic melodeath)
Crypta – Shades of Sorrow (death metal)
Dark Sky – Signs of the Time (power metal)
Dead Neanderthals – Specters (doom drone)
Djinn and Miskatonic – Paleo (doom)
Drune – Drown (Ermahgerd!)
Dun Ringill – Where The Old Gods Play – Act 1 (whomst doom)
Dymna Lotva – The Land Under The Black Wings: Blood (blackened goth doom)
Eminentia Tenebris – Rise of a New Kingdom (black metal)
Fronteeria – How Eden Rose From Untilled Earth (weird sludgy prog)
Hallucinate – From the Bowels of the Earth (proggish death metal)
Humanity’s Last Breath – Ashen (deathcore)
Icon of Sin – Legends (heavy metal, power metal)
Induction – The Power of Power (power metal)
Kaj Pousar – Nine Lives (proggish rock)
Kent Hilli – Nothing Left To Lose (melodic rock, heavy metal)
Körgull the Exterminator – Built to Kill (black thrash)
Lightning Strikes Across the Sky – Eidgenossen (black metal)
Mammoth WVH – Mammoth II (hard rock)
Moose Cult – Moose Cult (progressive death doom)
Necrokinesis – A Force Made Flesh (death thrash)
Nox Eternus – Eternal Night (blackened death metal)
Panda Kingdom – Panda Kingdom (furry metal)
Sacrodeath – Engendro del caos (death metal)
The Shredderz – The Shredderz (heavy metal, shred thrash)