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Protest the Hero – Within (progressive metal) Review | Interview
This is the best Protest the Hero album since Scurrilous (2011).
Release Roundup
As it Is – As it Is ('member pop punk?)
Black Sites – For Eternity (heavy metal)
Boundaries – Yearning: The Unbeautiful (metalcore)
Carbon Tomb – Passage To A Neutron Star (death metal)
Coffin Hunters – Cosmic Dawn (trad metal/prog) Review
Darkwave – Evanescent Horizons (symphonic prog-black)
Doomcult – Sacrifice All Life (melodeath/doom)
Eaten By Sharks – The Undertow Of Hate (techish death-metal/core)
Ecliptic – To Sima Semu’ul o Kuakul (noisy prog-death)
Emptiness – Nowhere Speaks (sludgy death metal)
Ethereal Rot – Ethereal Rot (brutal death metal)
Exdestrier – Ruined & Serene (sludge doom)
Expiatoria – A History In Three Acts (doom)
Fed Ash + Hirs – I Am Body Horror (noise grind)
Fuming Mouth – The Ringing Bell (crossoverish death metal)
Galneryus – A Cry from the Sky Above (power metal)
Haken – in a fever dream (prog rock/metal)
Her Head’s On Fire – Am I Not Your Girl? (emo)
Holystone – Accepting Omega (sludge drone)
Hämnd – Bortom (post metal)
Imperathron – Polemos Pater Panton (death doom)
Imperium – Exodus Unknown (heavy metal, thrash)
Inferno – The Anthropic Sophisms (post prog/noise)
Left To Die – Initium Mortis (Deathy death metal)
Loathe – A Stranger To You (djeftones) https://youtu.be/3khI3vqV0FY?list=RD3khI3vqV0FY
Lord Gryphus – Summoning The King Of Death (death metal)
Lost Vital Spark – The Motion Paradox (melodeath)
Mangled Carpenter – Between Blood and Silence (brutal death-metal/grind)
The Menzingers – Everything I Ever Saw (heartland rock, soft punk)
Motionless In White – Decades (nu metalcore)
Mothertomb – Dying To Live (doom metal)
Necrocosm – To The Depths (death thrash)
Niveous – Cult of the Void Star (black metal)
Novareign – Shifting The Axis Of The World (power thrash)
Poison The Preacher – Things I Want (hardcore)
Quicksand – Bring On The Psychics (alty post-hardcore)
Red Method – As in Life (nu/blackened deathcore)
Rei Code Zero – Chronicles (power shred)
Repentance – Retaliate (groove metal)
Ruthless – Curse Of The Beast (thrash)
The Secrecy – Pins & Needles (posty goth-rock/doom)
Sick Sinus Syndrome/Eat the Decay – split (goregrind)
StormHammer – Wrath Of The Hammer (heavy metal, thrash)
Symphony Of Destiny – Heroes Of Egypt (instrumental groove)
Tesla – Homage (who even listens to this?)
Tomb Slab – Tomb Slab (sludge)
Tyrant – Emergo (heavy metal, power doom?)
Umbersound – Tracks From The Slither (doom metal)
Unblossoming – Hook & Lace (prog metal)
Under Auburn Skies – Diminisher Of Hope (djentcore)
…And, in lieu of the new Psycroptic, here is a list of bands whose products are available and actively advertised on their drummer’s merch website: Burzum, Graveland, Satanic Warmaster, Nokturnal Mortum, Diocletian, Hate Forest, Horna, Taake, Mgła, Kriegsmachine, Inquisition, Nightbringer, Akhlys, Bestia Arcana, Deathspell Omega, Drudkh, Shining, Portal, Destroyer 666, Gospel of the Horns, Vomitor, Angelcorpse, Impaled Nazarene, Hooded Menace, Marduk, Xasthur, Winterfylleth, Slaughter To Prevail and Phil Anselmo, among others.