Top Picks
I don't have write-ups in me tonight, but these are the two best albums released this week. Maybe I'll come back tomorrow and update them with something, maybe I won't. They are very different, but both feature Neuromancer references; go figure...
Warbringer – Wrath and Ruin (thrash metal)
clipping. – Dead Channel Sky (progressive hip-hop)
Release Roundup
Abated Mass of Flesh – Rebirthing the Vile (slamming brutal death)
Ade – Supplicium (brutal/folky death metal)
Ainsoph – Affection And Vengeance (rockin’ post-black metal)
All Against – Straight Down To Hell (melodeath)
Alzhagoth – Ad Finem (meloblack)
An Evening with Knives – End Of Time (stoner sludge)
Bambara – Birthmarks (post punk, goth rock)
Black & Damned – Resurrection (heavy metal)
Black Out The Sun - More to Life (alt metal)
Breakneck – Breakneck (crossover death-thrash)
Buried – Infect & Replicate (sludge)
Cartilage – Tales From The Entrails: A Necrology (death metal)
Ciconia – Synaesthetic Garbage (instrumental prog-metal)
Circle Of Origin – Guilty ‘Til Proven Innocent (heavy metal)
Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe (melodic prog-rock/metal)
Convictions - The Fear of God (metal/deathcore)
Crushuman – Besides (death metal)
Cthuluminati – Tentacula (psychedelic post metal)
Curial – Veus sense nom (folk metal)
Curse of Khatru – Curse of Khatru (progressive? death metal)
Dark Horizon – 9 Ways to Salvation (heavy metal)
Dead/Awake - Southbound (brutal hard/metalcore)
Dead Rabbitts – Redefined (metalcore)
Deathox – Hallucinations (thrash)
Déhà – Nethermost & Absolute Comfort (funeral doom)
Depraver – Necrocryptic Obliteration (blackish death metal)
Derision Cult – Mercenary Notes Pt. 2 (progressive industrial metal)
Dessiderium – Keys To The Palace (extremely/too much? proggy prog-metal)
The Devils – Devil’s Got It (rock)
Dorothy – The Way (modern/hard rock)
Envy Of None – Stygian Wavz (progressive folk metal)
Fange – Purulences (industrial sludge)
Fathomless Skywalker – Anthems of the Resilient (symphonic power metal)
Genophobic Perversion – Chronicles of Cadaveric Transformation (brutal/noisy goregrind)
Godslave – Champions (heavy/speed metal, covers)
Hanging Garden – The Unending (post/goth doom)
Imbuessence - Memories Of A Life (instrumental prog/tech-metal)
Infektor – Ignominia (deathy thrash)
Intensive Care + The Body – Was I Good Enough? (noise sludge/doom)
Kerberos – Apostle To The Malevolent (very progressive death metal)
Lashblood – Spiritual Matter : Denial of Being (weird/progressive black metal)
Manntra – Titans (power metal)
Minuutti Hulluuteen – Uni (blackish death metal)
Monkey Okay – Mausoleum (proggy prog-rock/metal)
Museum Of Light – Diviner (post rock/metal)
Mikau - Agartha (progressive post-hardcore/metaclore)
Nasty - Black My Heart (beatdown hardcore)
Thy Next Foe – The Dying Egregore (blackened death metal)
Nightstalker – Return From The Point Of No Return (stoner rock)
Nite – Cult Of The Serpent Sun (heavy/doomish black metal)
Nomadic Rituals – Fust (sludge doom)
The Oddeven – Outer Space Outtakes (butt rock/metal)
Plasmajet – Solastalgia (stoner doom)
Plugs of Apocalypse - Am I Just Fading? (bad/post screamo)
Pusboil – Indictment (brutal death metal)
Red Fang – Deep Cuts (stoner metal/rock)
Red In Summer - Digital Catechism (alt gaze)
Revision, Revised - Revision, Revised (big hat emo)
Rhûn – Burial Pact (progressive black metal)
Ricky Warwick – Blood Ties (rock)
Rwake – The Return of Magik (sludge)
Sanhedrin – Heat Lightning (heavy metal, thrash)
Som – Let The Light In (alt-gaze)
Scent of Thorns – Deathless Heights (folky melodeath)
Stacy Crowne – Second To None (hard rock)
Steven Wilson – The Overview (boring prog)
Streetlight – Night Vision (hard rock, AOR)
Tentacult – Untamed Revulsion (progressive death-doom)
Then It Ends - Closure (metalcore)
Thurnin – Harmr (instrumental/sad folk)
Tiktaalika – Gods of Pangaea (proggy thrash)
Trold – I Skovens Rige (folky melodeath)
Ukko’s Hammer – Ukko’s Hammer (crossover death metal)
Vallorch – The Circle (folk/power metal)
Vokodlok – The Egregious Being (blackened death metal)
Watching the Abyss - Watching the Abyss (nu/butt metal)
When Reasons Collapse – Men Will Be the End of Men (tech-melodeath/core)