Top Pick
Veilburner – Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy (weird death metal)
This is some very weird (and very good!) death metal.
Release roundup:
1914 – Viribus Unitus (deathened meloblack)
Ab-Natural – Catabase (progressive/posty metalcore)
All Sinners – We Own The Night (hard/heavy metal)
Angerseed – Rapture is Mine… Glory is Ours (death metal)
Asira – As Ink In Water (post-prog)
Astarothica – The Olden Domain (gothic black metal)
Auditory Anguish – AFA (groove death/metal)
Avoid – Creature Of Habit (popy metalcore)
Avralize – Liminal (melodic metalcore
Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin – Stygian Bough Vol. II (funeral doom)
Ben Quad – Wisher (post hardcore, emo)
Bleakness of Iris – Omniversal Eater (brutal death/core)
Bloodtied – Dismantling Neuroanatomy (brutal death metal)
Bloodtruth – Execration (death metal)
Brainblast – Colossus Suprema (progressive tech-death)
Chairmaker – Leviathan Carcass (deathgrind)
Chokecherry – Ripe Fruit Rots And Falls (alt punk)
Creatures – Creatures II (heavy metal)
Cristiano Filippini’s Flames of Heaven – Symphony of the Universe (power metal)
The Cyclist Conspiracy – Back To Hermetics And Martial Arts: Vol. 1 (progressive post-rock)
Degraved – Spectral Realm Of Ruin (death metal)
Demon King – Death Knell (tech death)
The Devil Wears Prada – Flowers (Lorde-core)
Disaffected – Spiritual Humanized Technology (prog metal/thrash/death?)
Disharmonik – My Inner Ghosts (doom death)
Double Mute – Corporate Culture_FINAL_v2 (post post-black metal?)
Eld Varg – Destroyer (heavy metal)
Enemynside – In The Shadows Of Unrest (groove thrash)
Exxecutor – Into Hellish Domains (black thrash, speed metal)
Fallstaf – Ode To The Dead (groove metal)
Fimbul Winter – What Once Was (meloblack/death)
FKA twigs – Eusexua Afterglow (hyper-pop/hop, wtf?)
Ghold – Bludgeoning Simulations (posty psych-rock/sludge)
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy – Heavy (heavy sludge)
Home Front – Watch It Die (post/indie punk)
The Hyena Kill – Collapse (alt sludge)
Hypostase – Feld-R/Anomalie-N (post/math rock)
Icer Ender – Watching Fall (prog?)
Imperial Domain – Portentum (symphonic/powerful melodeath)
Jonathon “Boogie” Long – Courage In The Chaos (blues rock)
A Karmic Gray – Six Bullets til’ Morning (death metal/core)
Kings Chamber – Dream of Dragons and of Kings (heavy metal)
Lamp Of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy (black metal)
Lavisher – Aligned & Vital (Nefarious)
Love Your Witch – Radio Fantasia (Self)
Mausoleum Gate – Space, Rituals and Magick (prog rock)
Mezzrow – Embrace the Awakening (death metal/thrash)
Mezzrow – Embrace The Awakening (ROAR)
Mike Patton and The Avett Brothers – AVTT/PTTN (porg rock)
Monograf – Occultation (folky post metal) Review
Moral Implant – Delusion (noisy deathgrind)
Mortification Ritual – Mortification Ritual (death/grind)
Mourn The Light – Sorrow Feeds The Silence (heavy/doom metal)
Murals – Murals (progressive post-hardcore)
Mytherine – Lord of Mountains (melodeath)
Negative Blast – Destroy Myself For Fun (punk)
Nuclear Dudes – Skeletal Blasphemy (noise punk/grind)
Of Mice & Men – Another Miracle (y tho?)
Oslo Tapes – Last Comet (post rock, shoegaze)
Pick Up Goliath – Artificial Ascendency (prog rock)
Piledriver – First Nations Rock (hard rock)
Preyrs – The Wounded Healer (post/prog doom)
Primal Scourge – End of Eden (death metal)
Primordial Rites – Contemplation Scriptures & the Swallowing Void (death/black metal)
Putrevore – Unending Rotting Cycle (death doom)
Ragana + Drowse – Ash Souvenir (post DSBM)
Raw Brigade – 100% (hardcore)
The Reticent – Please (prog rock)
Rise Of The Northstar – Chapter 04: Red Falcon Super Battle! Neo Paris War!! (nu weeb-croe)
Riuten – Until Everything Falls (death metal)
Season Of The Dead – Zombie Chronicles: Vol. 1 (death metal)
Seims – V (jazzy post-rock, actually?)
Silva – Silva (Self)
Skull & Crossbones – Time (power metal)
Slaminem – Slam Shady (butt slam)
Solautumn – Path to the Stars (mellowdoom)
Speedclaw – Stardust (trad metal)
Stellar Circuits – Phantom :: Phoenix (melodic mathy-core)
Stoned Morose – Our Harshest Mellow (funeral doom, sludge)
Strigiform – Aconite (weird/disso-death)
Tempestuous Fall – The Descent Of Mortals Past (symphonic funeral doom)
The Cyclist Conspiracy – Back To Hermetics And Martial Arts: Vol. 1 (progressive post-rock)
The Devil Wears Prada – Flowers (Lorde-core)
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy – Heavy (heavy sludge) Review
The Hyena Kill – Collapse (alt sludge)
The Reticent – Please (prog rock)
Thumbsucker/Atomçk – Split (gore/grindcore)
Trace Amount – Flagrant (industrial noise)
V.I.L. – Ruin (death metal)
Vein – Reveal (death metal)
Voidceremony – Abditum (progressive/blackened death metal)
Volumes – Mirror Touch (Bad Wolves at home)
Vower – A Storm Lined with Silver (post-hardcore, metalcore) Review
How is this not just called Half Hour of Vower?
Wheel Of Time – Asymmetry (Self)
Withering Soul – Passage Of The Arcane (black metal)
Yawning Man – Pavement Ends (post rock)
Your Inland Empire – Your Inland Empire (goth rock/metal)