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Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath (brutal death metal)
Hideous Aftermath is a much more straight-forward death metal album than Sanguisugabogg have released before, and also a much better one. By dialing back almost all of their attention-seeking slam elements, extremem metal's hottest Ohians have honed in on a blistering concoction of classic death metal that sounds like a mix of Corpsegrinder-era Cannibal Corpse and early Suffocation. It's a style that suits them to a blood-soaked, gore-drenched t, and proves they're far more than just "that band with that name".
Release Roundup
All Hell – Sunsetter (black metal)
Altars Ablaze – Indiscriminate Extermination (death metal)
Armoured Knight – The Quest for the Sacred Melody (trad metal)
Atomic Rooster – Circle The Sun (prog rock)
Beyond the Portal – Genetically Engineered (sludge/stoner doom)
Black Jesus – Onwards to Slaughter (death thrash)
Blindfolded And Led To The Woods – The Hardest Thing About Being God Is That No One Believes Me (progressive deathcore)
Blue Heron – Emulations (stoner doom)
Blutgott / Debauchery – Legions Of Metal (hard rock/metal)
Boltcutter – Still Broke (Peeling Flesh at home)
Brainblast – Colossus Suprema (symphonic prog/tech-death)
Cemican – U k’u’uk’ankil Mayakaaj (prog/folk death)
Corretja – Open Source Content (melodeath)
Dead Heat – Process Of Elimination (thrash)
Denial of Life – Witness the Power (crossover thrash)
Eldfödd – Risen from the Flames (death metal)
Extortionist – Stare Into The Seething Wounds (nu deathcore)
First Draft – An Instant Before The Promise Of Dawn (post rock/hardcore)
Foxy Shazam – Box Of Magic (pop rock)
Frayle – Heretics & Lullabies (goth doom, sludge)
Friendship Commanders – Bear (alt rock)
God Alone – The Beep Test (math rock/core) Review
Greyhaven – Keep It Quiet (mathy metalcore)
Gonemage – Coldest Keep in Bitter Heavens (black metal, chiptune)
Heads For The Dead – Never Ending Night Of Terror (death metal)
Heavy//Hitter – Coming To Terms (beatdown deathcore)
The Hot One Two – Virtues (melodic rock, pop punk)
Humanity Zero – Cursed Be The Gift Of Life (post/blackened doom)
Junkbreed – Sick Of The Scene (alt rock/metal)
Katakomba – The Second Death (death metal)
Les Bâtards du Roi – Les chemins de l’exil (meloblack)
Les Batards Du Roi – Les Chemins de L’Exil (proggish black metal)
Light Dweller/Aoecist/Sleep Paralysis – Illusory Dissolvents (weird death metal)
Linx – Annihilation (melodic/goth rock)
Litania – Litania (psych doom)
Living Dead Girl – Conspiracy (nu metal, alt goth)
Malota – Scapegoat (alt/sludge metal)
Morke – To Carry On (noisy blackgaze, “castle metal”) Premiere
Nils Patrik Johansson – War And Peace (heavy/power metal)
Nyos – Growl (post/math rock)
Occult Kenji – Of Gods And Ancestors (prog metal)
Omnivide – Arise (tech death)
Pandemic Outbreak – Torment Beyond Comprehension (too soon death metal)
Perturbator – Age of Aquarius (synthwave)
Pervertor – Pactvm (death metal)
Plague Curse – Verminous Contempt (brutal/blackened death)
Plague Doctor – Plague Doctor (blackened sludge-doom)
Protydiya – Unfathomed Gradients (symphonic black metal)
Protocol F40.1 – Fatalritual (blackened death-doom)
Purpendicular – Banned (rock)
Pyreworks – Leaky Blood Pipe (death metal)
Ruination – Everything Eventually (alt/butt rock)
Seims – V (jazzy math-rock)
Seljačka Buna – Agrometal (heavy metal)
Serpent God – Denial (blackened melodeath)
Slyther – Chronicles Of Despair (thrash)
Soul Blind – Red Sky Mourning (alt rock, groove grunge)
Starer – Ancient Monuments & Modern Sadness (symphonic black metal)
Stonebirds – Perpetual Wasteland (blackened post-doom)
Terzij de Horde – Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone (black metal)
Testament – Para Bellum (blackened? thrash) Review
This Will Destroy Your Ears – Funland (post rock/punk)
Thorondir – Wächter des Waldes (meloblack)
Turn Cold – Violent Breed (crossover thrash)
Ultra Raptor – Fossilized (thrash/speed metal)
Umbra – Oscuridad (heavy metal)
Undersave – Merged In Abstract Perdition (dissish death metal)
Ungoliath – Shadows Of The Eclipse (black metal)
Vendul – Castle Curtains (crusty black/speed metal)
Vials of Wrath – Remnants for Remembrance (post/melo black)
Vile Apparition – Malignity (brutal death metal)
Vizir – Caralhograma (blackened death/grind)
Vulnificus – Inclination (brutal death metal)
Warrant – The Speed Of Metal (speed thrash, not that Warrant )
Ways to the Grave – Echoes of Extinction (prog death)
Wretched Death – Sanity Is a Curse (death metal/thrash)