Top Picks
No long-winded write-ups this week, as I am off to see Bleeding Through in a venue that is roughly the size of my living room and am only just remembering to schedule this as I walk out the front door, which means you'll have to simply enjoy this week's releases, without having to wade through all my usual nitpickery. Have fun!
Many Eyes – The Light Age (southern hardcore, alt rock)
Korrosive – Katastrophic Creation (thrash metal, deathgrind)
Release Roundup
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Anubis – The Unforgivable (prog rock)
Ashwind – Холодные камни (black metal, folk doom)
Autopsy Night – Necrosadist (death metal)
Black Sites – The Promised Land? (prog rock/metal)
Blackstaff – The Storyteller (sludge doom)
The Blacktones – The Longest Year (sludge)
Blitzkrieg – Blitzkrieg (heavy metal)
Bloody Valkyria – Kingdom In Fire (power black, hobbit bullshit)
Bodysnatcher – Vile Conduct (brutal/beatdown deathcore)
Boguslaw Balcerak’s Crylord – Endless Life (melodic rock, prog metal)
Boston Manor – Sundiver (alt pop/rock, Deftones-core)
Calcined – To Rot in a Honeybeam (brutal death metal)
Castle – Evil Remains (doom metal)
Cober Mouth – Untethered (nu metalcore)
The Cold Stares – The Southern (southern/blues/country rock)
Consvmer – Seelenfrieden (brutal hardcore, alt metalcore)
Corpse Worship – Cemetery Anthems (death metal)
Cult Of Orpist – Attack Of The Zombie Cans (crusty death-thrash)
Curse The Son – Delirium (doom metal)
Czerń – Klątwa (death metal)
David Gilmour – Luck and Strange (chill/prog rock)
Dan Dark – Dark Avenger (hard rock, heavy metal)
Defiled Embrace – The Nether Earth (blackened goth doom)
Druids Cross – Time Immemorial (heavy metal, doom)
Ec(c)entric Pendulum – Perspectiva Invertalis (prog/tech-death)
xEdenIsGonex – Pain (blackened sludge-metaclore)
Eldamar – Astral Journeys Pt. I: Creation (progressive post-metal)
Elephant Tree – Handful Of Ten (stoner doom)
Eviscerator – Arcane Warfare (brutal death-doom)
Fabulae Dramatis – Violenta (nu/groove metal)
Fame On Fire – The Death Card (post-hardcore, alt metal)
Fatima – Eerie (weird/alt-prog, actual post-grunge?)
A Forest Mighty Black – The Hedonist (stoner rock/metal)
Forgotten King – The Sun (stoner doom)
40 Watt Sun – Little Weight (sad prog, post-doom?)
From the Mouth of Chaos – Chaos Mouth (groove/death thrash)
Fugit – Astral Consciousness (progressive black metal)
Future Palace – Distortion (baddiecore)
Ghost:Whale – Dive II (instrumental sludge doom)
Glacier – A Distant, Violent Shudder (post metal)
God Dethroned – The Judas Paradox (deathened black metal)
God Is An Astronaut – Embers (post rock)
Gormoth – Mesél a Táj (ambient/post-black, dungeon synth)
Grave Sermon – Liturgical Perversions (death metal)
Grimaze – The Heart Of A Collapsing Star (progish death metal)
Heinous Exsanguination – The Stench Of Decaying Flesh (slamming brutal death)
Helvetets Port – Warlords (heavy/trad metal)
Holy Dragons – Тени ангелов (power metal)
Ifrit – Haunting Charnel Grounds (blackened death metal)
In Viscero – Italia Violenta (black/death metal)
Infrared – Manifestation (thrash)
InRetrospect – Aggro: The Mixtape (nu metal/core)
Jordan Rudess – Permission To Fly (synthy prog)
The Last Oblation – Apex (progressive black metal)
Laura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals – Give an Inch (folky punk)
Man’s Gin – The Reprobate (weird alt rock, grunge)
Martin Templum Domini – The Dark Matter (instrumental metal, shred)
Melba Culp – A Darkened Rose (prog metal)
Midwife – No Depression In Heaven (ambient, post-shoegaze?)
Mindwars – V (thrash metal)
Misanthropia – Envy The Dead (blackened death metal)
Moose Cult – Book Of The Machines (speed doom?)
Molchat Doma – Belaya Polosa (post punk, sad synth)
Mutant Blast – Soulsteeler (thrash metal)
Obstetra – Nuclear Powerviolence (death metal)
Officium Triste – Hortus Venenum (melodeath-doom)
Papangu - Lampião Rei (jazzy prog rock)
Peeling Flesh – The G Code (slam with hip-hop bits at the end)
Phantom Blade – Knife Scars (melodeath)
Phil Mogg – Mogg’s Motel (had rock)
Powerdong – The Divine Phallusy (power metal, cock rock)
Pure Reason Revolution - Coming Up To Consciousness (prog/post rock, psychedellic pop)
Sanctuarium – Melted And Decomposed (funeral death-doom)
Sanguinary Consummation – Hymns of Dismal Agony (brutal death, slam)
Serotonin – Motiv (black metal, meloblack)
Sidewalk Mafia – Soulcrushers (black metal)
Silvern – Stardust Sermons (black metal)
Solars – A Fading Future (post rock)
Solitary – Embrace The Darkness (thrash metal)
Solstice Pyre – Fireborn (black metal)
Stoneman – Neu! (bad Rammstein)
A Swarm Of The Sun – An Empire (post metal)
Sybris – Gold On Hold (altish indie rock)
Together To The Stars – The Fragile Silence (post-black metal)
Tour d’Ivoire – Tour d’Ivoire (post-black metal)
Tusenarseken – Omhuldra (post-black metal)
Vestige – Janis (post-djent)
Volus – Merciful The Dying Light (kinda weird death metal)
Vulvic Cistern – Tender Is the Flesh (weird brutal death metal)
WarClown – Eyes Pitch Black (groove thrash)
Wolfheart – Draconian Darkness (symphonic meloblack)
Zeit Der Dunkelheit – Die Letzten Tage (symphonic black, folk metal)