Top Pick?
Metallica – ReLoad ReMastered (thrashy metal, butt rock)
I kept waiting for something better than the ReLoad remaster that's supposedly being released today to come out, but then it never did. Then I kept waiting for the ReLoad remaster to come out, but I'm not sure if it has or not, since there's no official stream or anything and the one video they did release previously seems to have been taken down. Seems like it might be on some streaming services or something, but it's hard to tell because the years and the labeling are all messed up, so who knows.
Anyway, the album still slaps. Or at least the first few tracks and the last two do. And today I'm choosing to take t over Hardwired... though the situation there is much the same. Metallica are good you guys!
Release Roundup
Abductions – The Experiment (death metal)
Alkuharmonian Kantaja – Melas Khole (blackened prog-death)
Amberian Dawn – Temptation’s Gate (power metal)
Anxious Arms – In the Shadow of the Cross (sludge)
Astral Alchemy – Weaving Chilling Magical Dreamworlds (post-black metal)
Astriferous – Atavistic Unraveling (death metal)
Boneripper – Radiant In Ruin (death metal)
Broadslab – The Fifth Essence (stoner metal)
Butthole Surfers – After The Astronaut (shitty-AI alt rock)
Child – Rebirth (heavy/stoner rock)
Crying Steel – Agent Steel (heavy metal)
Dead Kosmonaut – Retrospectre (prog metal)
Dead Sleep – Repulsion (death thrash)
Deathspiral Of Inherited Suffering/Elysian Blaze/Panegryist/Maerund – Sunthema (weird black metal)
Der Jäger – ..In Which Evil Dwells (heavy metal, thrash)
Druidess – Trip Meadow (stoner metal/doom)
Duir – Catarsi (post-black metal)
End All – Hail Mind (heavy/power thrash)
Entgeist – Welk (blackened melodeath)
Entropist – The Vision (progressive death metal)
Exploring Birdsong – Every House We Built (progressive/goth metal)
Fai Laci – Elephant In The Room (hardish rock)
Far From Refuge – Pillars Of Language (progressive metal/melodeath)
Feralia – Ultima Requies (black doom)
Fiddlehead – Baby I'll Change (post-emo)
Forsmán – Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur (black metal)
Haggus – The Mincecore Manifesto (goregrind, punk)
Hoc est Bellum – Filth Majesty (crusty deathgrind)
Ill Omen – Cannot Be Controlled (death metal/thrash)
Ill Tidings – Seeds Of True Rebirth (black metal)
Internal Damage – The Ugly Facets of the Modern World (death metal/grind)
Iron Bones – Poison Riot (heavy metal)
Iskandr – Sacraal (ambient doom)
Junius – Sotera (prog doom)
Kalamata – Zenosyne (post rock)
Krystal System – Da Punch (industrial rock, post-punk)
Mace ‘N’ Chain – Crowned In Grey Skies (doomy meloblack)
Masterplan – Metalmorphosis (heavy/power metal, If I had a nickel…)
Million Moons – You Be Good, I Love You (post rock, ambient)
Miracle – The Living Likeness Of My Electric Daemon (electro-rock, synth pop)
Missoula – Death Doula (southern rock, blues shred)
Mister Earthbound – Litha (stoner doom)
Monument Of Misanthropy – Washington State Charm (death metal)
Mortiis – Ghosts Of Europa (post rock/folk)
Mount Turmoil – Peak Living (rock)
Muse – The Wow! Signal (who even listens to this?)
Nunslaughter – Satanic Chaos Legions (death metal)
Okay You Win – End Of Days (heavy metal, stoner doom)
Onsegen Ensemble – A Tale (post prog)
Orga Mecha – Humanity.exe (heavy metal)
Outshine – Truthsayer (goth metal)
Phantom – Not Midnight Yet (blackened speed-thrash)
Plaguestorm – Path to Emptiness (power melodeath)
Powerlöad – In the Pocket (punk metal)
The Pretty Reckless – Dear God (y tho?)
Prime Creation – Souls Of The Fallen (heavy/power metal)
Prime Creation – Souls of the Fallen (melodic power-prog)
Revoltons – Seventh Act of a Death Foretold (heavy/power metal)
Rock Justice – You’ve Been Served (heavy metal)
Ruyned – Profanum Sacrificium (death thrash)
Saki – Pluvia (electro power-shred)
Sans Froid – Back Into The Womb (wird alt rock)
Scheff Tolle Adriaens – Let’s Stop The World (AOR)
Seven Chains – Swollen, In Flux (weird blackened-death)
Shane Embury – Bridge To Resolution (progressive post-punk)
Siamese – Dissolution (electro/tech-metalcore)
Sinthetik Sentienz – Totalitarian (progressive melo/death)
Speedslut – Cimbrian Rites (speedy black-thrash)
Spirit Temple – The Fifth Scroll (funeral doom)
Steelballs – Rebels (thrash)
Stonecast – Expand Crimson Chaos (rock metal)
Swanwriter – Melodies Of Despair (symphonic/goth doom)
Temple Ov Ahriman – Heretics Of Consensual Reality (melo/black metal)
Thaetas – The Irredeemable Age (dissish death metal)
There Were Wires – Vessel (post-hardcore/metal)
This Is Me Breathing – Serenity In Suffering (blackened deathcore)
Thrakian – The Way (meloblack/death)
Thætas – The Irredeemable Age (brutal tech-death)
Tragik – Propaganda Elite (rock)
Triple Lutz – In The Hands Of An Angry Mob (alt rock, punk)
Truck Violence – The Weathervane Is My Body (post-black, sludge)
Verdun – Abyssal Womb (black sludge) Review
Vorax – Volcano Shock (death metal)
Vortex Sutra – Noumenon (post rock)