Top Pick
Primal Fear – Domination (heavy/power metal)
Apologies for the delay! I forgot to schedule this before I went out to see Pig Destroyer (who were great!) and Wormrot (who I didn't think were that great), and then I tried to go to a Lady Gaga rave, which turned out to be a complete bust by the time I got there, and then when I tried to go back the trains had stopped and station was closed, and then when I did finally get on a train it stopped half way and I had to get on a bus, and I thought the new Primal Fear album wasn't going to be any good, but then it turns it it's actually really good actually, and it's 5:45 in the morning, and I only just got home and I'm going to bed.
Release Roundup
Alicia Cordisco – The Burden of I (progressive black metal) Premiere
Alligator Rodeo – Optimists Club (stoner sludge)
Ambush – Evil In All Dimensions (heavy metal, speed thrash)
Anti Ritual – 80 Years (crust punk)
Apocalyptic Society – Instinctual Self-Slaughter (prog/death thrash)
Assault Brigade – The Worst Is Yet to Come (black thrash)
Autrest – Burning Embers, Forgotten Wolves (post-black metal)
Before The Dawn – Cold Flare Eternal (melodic/power metal)
Belmont – Last To Love (pop punk)
Bent Sea – The Dormant Ruin (weird death metal, grindcore)
Biolence – Violent Obliteration (death thrash)
Black Moon Cult – Ophidian Future (stoner metal/doom)
blessthefall – Gallows (mallcore)
Blood Offer – All That Dies..Is Forsaken (death metal)
Blood Serpent / Iron Bludgeon – Baptized in Iron and Blood (black/death thrash)
Bodyweb – Deadwired (alt-core)
Chasing Demons – Echoes from the Past (heavy metal)
The Color Of Cyan – As Human (post-rock/metal)
Coltaine – Brandung (alty post rock)
Condition Critical – Degeneration Chamber (thrash)
Connor Kaminski – Tapestry (prog/djent shred)
Crypt Monarch – Codex Pestilentia (stoner doom)
Cult Burial – Collapse Of Pattern, Reverence Of Dust (blackened disso-death)
Dark Angel – Extinction Level Event (death thrash)
Demon Sacrifice / Ventor / Nattmaran – Faster than the Devil IV (black/speed metal)
Distorta – Deadman (groove metal/core)
Dominant Chain – Wasteland Requiem (folky metal)
Dreams Of Gray – A Beginning (mellow-death/doom)
Electric Jaguar Baby – Clair-Obscur (stoner rock)
Electrocutioner – Harbinger (thrash)
Eleine – We Stand United (symphonic metal, melodeath)
Erosion – Invasive Species (crusty/blackened grind)
Esoctrilihum – Ghostigmatah: Spiritual Rites of the Psychopomp Abxulöm (weird/excessive black metal)
Eternal Returns – Let There Be Sin (grove death, metalcore)
Faetooth – Labyrinthine (blackened post-doom)
Falling Leaves – The Silence That Binds Us (goth/mellow-doom) Premiere / Review
Final Error – Daemonium In Nobis (death metal)
Fister – Graceless (doom sludge)
Fleshwater – 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky (alt rock/gaze)
FM – Brotherhood (melodic rock, AOR)
Fury – Interceptor (heavy metal)
gas station. – A Collection Of Songs For Saying Goodbye (emo, post-hardcore)
Gjallarhorn’s Wrath – The Silver Key (symphonic blackened-death)
Glenn Hughes – Chosen (melodic rock/metal)
The Good the Bad and the Zugly – November Boys (alt punk)
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia (melo/prog doom)
Gurgitate – Baptised with Bile (slamming brutal death)
Hades Descent – The Monolith (progressive/symphonic metal)
Hasard – Abgnose (noisy black-doom)
Hold Me Down – Devour (noisy industrial metal)
Hunger – Ruler Of The Wolves (speed metal)
Imperialist – Prime (sci-fi black metal)
Inhuman Architects – Spectrum of the Damned (symphonic deathcore)
Insomniac – Om Moksha Ritam (posty stoner-doom)
Interlinked – Recede//Cope (sad metalcore)
Jord – Emellan Träden (folk doom)
Korp – And Darker It Shall Become (blackened death metal)
La Dispute – No One Was Driving the Car (post-hardcore, emo)
A Life Aligned – The Light That Failed To Cease (metalcore)
Long Goodbye – To Reconcile with Death for the Sake of a Beautiful Ending (metalcore)
Mad Dogs – The Future Is Now (hard rock)
Marche Funèbre – Echoes from Beyond (heavy metal, black doom)
Mason – Seconds To Impact (not that Mason, soft rock)
Miltown – Tales Of Never Letting Go (alt rock/metal)
Modern Life Is War – Life On The Moon (hardcore, punk)
Nailed To Obscurity – Generation Of The Void (posty/progressive mellowdeath/doom)
Nuclear Dudes – Truth Paste (industrial noise-sludge)
Odd Project – Arguing With the Richter Scale (metalcore, screamo)
Orchid Symmetry – Orchid Symmetry (alt metal, slunge)
Osak:Oslo – Silt And Static (post-rock) Premiere
Piece – Rambler’s Axe (doom)
Progeny Of Sun – Prophets Of The Void (blackened death metal)
Prospective – The Weight Of What I've Become (nu metalcore)
Revnoir – Coma (metalcore)
Ristiinnaulitseminen – Dekadenssi (post-black metal)
Ritual Mass – Cascading Misery (death metal/doom)
The Rods – Wild Dogs Unchained (melodic/power metal)
Roots of Ascendant – The Alchemist (sludge doom)
Rosary – Pieces of the People We Loathe (beatdoewn metalcore)
Seilies – Between Truth & Lies (metal/deathcore)
Shardana – The Monarch (blackened melodeath)
Shellshock – The Weak Die First (death metal)
Speed Queen – …With A Bang! (speed thrash)
Stan Bush – Born For Battle (power/ballad metal, AOR)
Steelpreacher – Gimme Some Metal (heavy metal)
Still In Love – Recovery Language (hardcore, metalcore)
Sublime Eyes – IV: The Serpent’s Coil (symphonic melodeath)
Svartsot – Peregrinus (folky metal, melodeath)
Swollen Teeth – Ask Nothing (nu deathcore)
Synestia – Premonitions (Lorna Shore at home) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukNqkWc4BU
Tallah – Primeval: Obsession // Detachment (weird nu-metal/core, aliens)
Ten56. – IO (nu metal/deathcore)
Tine – A Winter Horrorscope (black metal)
Trypanon – Through The Portal Of Flesh To Achieve Divinity (blackened sludge-death)
Tulip – The Dark Tetrad (symphonic metal)
Unpunished – Echoes of History (metalcore)
Useless Spaceship – Bad Trip Under the Phallus Constellation (weird/slamming goregrind)
Vaexus – Mea Culpa (groove thrash)
Vianova – Hit It! (progressive/tech metalcore)
Violator – Unholy Retribution (thrash)
Vøid It – Dissociative Identity Disorder (grindcore)
Void Sinker – Echoes from the Deep (drone)