Top Picks
Human – Concetto Transeunte (progressive/tech death)
This is some very good, fretless-bass-led, progressive tech-death.
Deficit – Deathstyle (nu metal/core)
And this is some dumb nu-metal that remembers when the genre still had something to do with hip-hop, while still bringing a brutal, modern twist. Fun stuff.
Release Roundup
Abstract – Monogram (prog shred)
Acid Death – Evolution (progressive death-thrash)
Aerosmith + Yungblud – One More Time (hard/pop rock)
Aittala – Ill: Gotten Gains (spooky sludge)
The Algorithm – Recursive Infinity (electro-metal, synthwave)
AngelMaker – This Used to Be Heaven (deathcore)
Annisokay – Abyss: The Final Chapter (baddiecore)
Antinoë – The Fold (neoclassical? post doom)
As The Palaces Burn – Zodiac (prog metal/thrash)
Asthenia/World Coda – Rupture (post black/metal)
Beast Eagle – Sorceress (heavy metal)
The Behaviour – Pedestals (prog rock)
The Birch – Vicious Mind (rock)
Blizzen – Metalectric (heavy metal)
Bloodbound – Field Of Swords (power metal)
Born from Pain – Siege Mentality (hardcore, crossover)
Born Of Plagues – dead Endings (post doom)
Bragging Rights – Carpe Jugulum (progressive groove-death, Pratchett-core)
Brainwasher/Sickrecy – Split (grindcore)
Calcraft – Reborn Through Torture (progish/blackened death metal)
Cassidy Paris – Bittersweet (Coyote Ugly)
Civil Service – Dark /// (post rock)
Cryptic Process – Gulps (brutal death metal)
Danko Jones – Leo Rising (hardish rock)
Darktribe – Forgotten Reveries (melodic/prog metal)
De La Soul – Cabin in the Sky (funk hop)
Dead Head – Repression Tank (death metal)
Decorate. Decorate. – Swerve Of Atoms (posty goth/rock)
Decrepit Altar – Egregious Defilement (death doom)
Depravity – Bestial Possession (brutal death metal)
Dome Runner – World Panopticon (shitty industrial metal)
Dream Portals – Lights Of Winter (goth doom)
Dune Aurora – Ice Age Desert (stoner metal)
Edit The Tide – The Space Between Seconds (melodic metal/core)
El Muerto – Lost And Amsterdamned (deathened black metal)
Epigenetic Erotophonophilia/Gangrene Discharge – Split (goregrind)
Eradicator – Alive In The Dead Eye Of The Vortex (thrash)
Extensa – Echomora (post metal)
Fate’s Hand – Steel, Fire & Ice (heavy metal, power doom)
Flesher – Gore on Gore (death metal)
Frozen Land – Icemelter (power metal)
Gasket – Gasket (hard/grindcore)
A Gram Trip – Bud Ends And Glass Bottoms (sludge doom)
Grenouer – Downtown Dream (prog, djent)
The Halo Effect – We Are Shadows (melodeath covers)
Havamal – Age of the Gods (symphonic folk metal, melodeath)
Hounds – Rise of the Immortals (heavy/power metal)
In Virtue – Age Of Legends (cowboy prog)
Karu – Perdition (symphonic black/death metal)
Kill Ritual – In My Head (thrash)
The Last Sound Revelation – The Proximity Effect (instrumental prog)
Locusts and Honey – Shadow of My End (blackened funeral doom)
Mage – Hymns For The Afterlife (stoner metal)
Maha Sohona – A Dark Place (post metal)
Midnite City – Bite The Bullet (gothish hair metal)
Monachopsis – The Carcass Choir (progressive/blackened death metal)
Monochrome Cinderella – Beyond the Ansemble (progressive? heavy/power metal)
Morbikon – Lost Within The Astral Crypts (blackish death metal)
Muramasa – Conquered by Yokai (slamming brutal death)
Murkov – Dark Shades (deathcore)
My Ticket Home – Pure To A Fault (alt/nu metal)
Need2destroy – Anti (groove metal)
Nemorous – What Remains When Hope Has Failed (post-black metal)
Netherwalker - Odyssey of Respair (brutal/technical deathcore)
Númenor – Runes of Power (power metal)
Old Night – Mediterranean Melancholy (doom metal)
Olde Throne – Megalith (meloblack)
Orob – Golden Tears of Love and Sorrow (progressive black metal)
Outlying – Oblivisci (melodeath)
The Pretty Wild – zero.point.genesis (The Pretty Reckless at home)
Putrescent Carcass – Putrescent Carcass (slamming brutal death)
Remaining Warmth – When the Night Ends (post-black)
Reptyle – Blazed Shades & Thorned Veils (goth prog)
Roadkill – This Way to Hell (heavy metal/rock)
Sacred Leather – Keep the Fire Burning (speed metal/thrash)
Sainted Sinners – High On Fire (sloppy-AI-boobs metal)
Sallow Moth – Blue Permutations (weird prog death)
Sallow Moth – Deformity in Ceremony (weird brutal death/grind)
Satra – In Tears of Her Reign (symphonic metal)
Scythe For Sore Eyes – Face Puzzle (gothy metal)
Sedna – Sila Nuna (post-black metal)
Shores Of Null/Convocation – Latitudes Of Sorrow (mellow-death/doom)
Slaughterday – Terrified (grindcore)
Slôdder – Narcissist (sludges)
Sortilège – Le poids de l’âme (heavy metal)
South Arcade – Play! (nu metal)
Spanish Love Songs – A Brief Intermission in the Flattening of Time (indie rock, emo)
Speedclaw – Stardust (heavy metal)
Sterbhaus – Next Akin To Chaos (blackened groove-thrash)
Stone Nomads – Empires Of Stone (sludge doom)
Sun Of The Dying – A Throne Of Ashes (post/black metal)
Terror Corpse – Ash Eclipses Flesh (death metal)
Treat – The Wild Card (granddad rock)
Turbo Lovers – Working Blue (rock)
When Nothing Remains – Echoes Of Eternal Night (doom)
Winds Of Neptune – Winds Of Neptune (rock)
Wolftooth – Wizard’s Light (stoner rock)
Zadism – Under Sadistic Law (death, thrash)
Zero Tolerance – A Test of Strength (black thrash)