Top Picks
I'll try and come back over the weekend, after I've had a chance to listen to them a bit more, but there's no doubt these are the two best albums released this week/year.
Converge – Love Is Not Enough (progressive hard/grindcore)
Worm – Necropalace (gothy black metal)
Release Roundup
Aeveris – Imminence (Act I: Roots) (nu melodeath, metalcore)
Angel Du$t – Cold 2 The Touch (punk, hardcore)
Apathosis – Body Fluids Tincture (death metal, goregrind)
Ashbringer – Subglacial (post-black metal) Review
Austen Starr – I Am The Enemy (pop punk/rock)
Bloodred – Colours Of Pain (meloblack/death)
Borrower – Killerdemons (heavy/doom metal)
The Browning – Burn This World: Evolved (y tho?)
Charli XCX – Wuthering Heights (poorly adapted brat pop)
De l’Abîme Naît l’Aube – Rituel: Initiation (meloblackened doom)
De-Solación – Elki (blackened death-doom)
DeathAssault – DeathAssault (death metal/thrash)
Deathraw – Reduces To Ashes (thrash)
Diespnea – Radici (weird electro-black)
Diskust – Skin Cage (alt/nu metalcore)
Earth Tongue – Dungeon Vision (psych rock, stoner doom)
Electric Hydra – From The Fallen (doomish heavy metal)
Eye Of Purgatory – Darkborne (death metal, melodeath)
Forcefed Horsehead/Shaving The Werewolf – From Horrid To Worse (nasty mathcore) Premiere
Fossilization – Advent Of Wounds (death doom)
Frostmorner – Orbital Kaos (instrumental prog-death)
Glassbone – Ruthless Savagery (brutal death metal)
Greyhawk – Warriors Of Greyhawk (power metal)
Guilt Trip – God Forgives (nu hardcore)
Hoaxed – Death Knocks (goth rock/doom)
Kröwnn – Santa Somnia (stoner doom)
Leatherhead – Violent Horror Stories (thrash)
Malefic – Impermanence (blackened death-thrash)
Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx IV (y tho?)
Midnight Odyssey/Swords Of Dis/Oros Kau/Serpent Ascending – From The Waters Of Death (black/folk/viking metal)
Muertissima – Prophecy (death metal)
No Worth Of Man – The Killing Streets (death metalcore)
Nullingroots – Fourth Dimensional Dreamscape (post-black metal)
Oreyeon – The Grotesque Within (stoner doom)
Overtoun – Death Drive Anthropology (death metal/thrash)
Penis Envy – Fruiting Bodies of Decay (slamming brutal death)
Ponte Del Diavolo – De Venom Natura (blackish/occult doom)
Primaluce – Way Of Perfection (prog metal)
The Promise of Plague – The Earth Above, a Grave Beneath (blackened death-doom)
Ravenspell – Obsidian King (heavy/power metal)
Rise In Vein – Bitter Gravity (nu metal/baddiecore)
Realms of Chaos – Torment of Belligerence (blackened death)
Saille – Forebode (black-doom)
Skin Stripper – Brutality Is Supremacy (brutal deathcore)
Slaughterday – Dread Emperor (death-doom)
Space Of Variations – Poisoned Art (overly processed metal)
Story Of The Year – A.R.S.O.N. (alt rock, pop punk)
Submasq – Oedipus (maternal netal)
Sun Guts – Kilonova (instrumental Car Bomb, literally)
Sundecay – The Blood Lives Again (weird doom)
Temple Balls – Temple Balls (hair metal)
Thy Gnosis – Deprive of Vision (tech/prog death)
TX2 – End Of Us (oh hey, that’s Niohuru X)
Unchosen Ones – Divine Power Flowing (power metal)
Unseen Faith – Fractured Will (deathcore)