Top Pick
The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Howls From The Holographic Heart (progressive mathcore, screamo-gaze)
Between this and Wild Gods (2019), cult favourites The Number Twelve Looks Like You are out here consistently (if intermittently) proving they're the best mathcore band on the planet. ...And that's all I have to say about that this week, as I'm off early to catch The Acacia Strain and Whitechapel level a 10,000-cap tennis stadium before promptly leaving as soon as Lorna Shore play "Of the Abyss". Should be a good night!
Release Roundup
Algor Mortis – The Art of Suffering (slamming brutal death)
Adrenaphine – Death Dealer (hardcore, groove metal)
Antania – The Unholy 33 (shitty goth-slam)
Birdstone – IV (heavy rock)
Black Mask – Vestige Of Mercy (blackened crust)
The Black Thunder – Time Obliteration (progressive death-doom)
Blightbringer/Guyođ – Split (deathened black metal)
Bloodsoaked Necrovoid/Defunto – Split (blackened death-doom)
Bloodsoaked Necrovoid/Nekus – Funerary Rites of Ancient Doom (blackened death/doom)
Body Stuff – Body Stuff 5 (punk)
Boguslaw Balcerak’s Crylord – Birds Of Steel (power prog)
Brad Smith – Steal From The Devil (y tho?)
Buzzard – Hush Now (doom metal)
Campa – Architecture of Decay (thrash)
Carnal Desecration – Ancient Malediction (death metal)
Carnation – Symphony Of Flesh (death metal/thrash)
Caspian – Caspian (post-rock)
Cloudy Skies – Bury Me Beneath The Stars (black metal)
Collapsor – We Deserve Extinction (noisy grindcore)
Defects – Artificial Icons (groove death)
Doomscroller – Shrouded in Darkness (death metal)
Eivør – Tungl (goth folk, darkwave)
Elysion – Guardian Angel (melodic metal)
Erase This Earth – Horrors Unearthed (blackened death metal)
Fate Unburied – Neraspeme (death metal)
Feathers Of Jatinga – Zothor (goth)
Fervence – Constructs (melodeath)
Firebreather – Blood That I Spill Turns To Fire (stoner doom)
Fugit – Where Foxes Say Goodnight (doomy post-black)
Fracturus – The Synthetic Path (progressive tech-death)
Generation Steel – Steelmachine (heavy metal)
Grant The Sun – Biomes (proggy prog-metal) Premiere
Great Falls – The Bite That Grows Up (noise sludge)
Hatalom – Immanence (tech-death/core)
Hexicon – This Might Be Hell (shitty prog-sludge)
Iapetus – The Mother Void (post-prog metal) Review
Insomnium – Netherworlds (mellowdeath) Review
Imperial Slave – Existential Threat (death thrash)
Joe Stump – Lord Of The Strings (shred)
John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – Your Favorite Drug (hair metal)
Kasck – The Universal Lie (death metal/thrash)
The Keening – Devotion (prog rock, ex-Sub Rosa)
Kinetic – Liminal (prog metal)
Leadbelcher – Heaven’s Bloated Corpse (brutal death metal)
Les Batards Du Roi – Ici Meurt ma Joie (meloblack)
The Lovecraft Sextet – Penance (blackened noise, “doomjazz”)
Lugubrious Garment – In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night (death metal)
Mannveira – Vesöld (meloblack)
Master Boot Record – Computer Metal (synthwave, chip-death?)
Master – Among The Seeds Of Death (death metal)
Minenfeld – Instruments Of Industrialized Warfare (death metal)
The Monsters – Off The Road We Go! (garage punk)
Morbid Intent – Marionettes (blackened melodeath)
Morgue – Herald The Dawn (very-blackened death metal)
Mortify – Buzzsaw Ritual (death metal, goregrind)
Mother Of Graves – The Light That Keeps Us (black doom, DSBM)
Nekus/Bloodsoaked Necrovoid – Funerary Rites Of Ancient Doom (death doom)
Night Hag – Great Dismal Darkness (death metal)
Of Spite – Raisu (death metal)
Ola ENglund – The Neverending Story (melodeath/prog shred)
Paerish – Rita (post hardcore, alt-gaze)
Plusminuszero – Illusions Of Life (goth rock)
Salvation – The Haunted (psyche rock/core)
Save Us – Death To Something (baddiecore)
A Secret Revealed – The Ruin I Summoned Forth (groove black)
Shy, Low – Purity Spiral (post-rock/metal)
Sergeant Steel – Golden Absolution (melodic rock)
Shores Of Null – Homesick (progressive melodeath)Sidus – Lotus (post metal)
Soldiers of Rage – At the Edge of Oblivion (groove metal/death)
Stoned Jesus – Songs To Moon (stoner doom)
Streamer – Into The Void (heavy/power metal)
Sundowner – Cesspool (sludge)
Temperance – Arcani (heavy metal)
Thrakian – The Way (doomy post-metal)
Threestepstotheocean – Death Of Permanence (post rock/metal)
Throes – The Colorless Light Of Emptiness (sludge metal)
Thronehammer – Slay | Kill | Erase (blackened death metal)
Throneum – Love Is The Law But Death Is The Frame (trad doom)
Tzompantli – Temilotzin (folk)
Unteachers – Under Bright Sadness (doom metal)
Urna – The Great Jihad (progressive death-doom)
Veilburner – All That Glimmers Is Gloam (weird death-metal/doom)
Vredensdal – Mystery & Power (black metal/thrash)
Warhammer – Algos (blackened death metal)
Wasted Wizards – Wake Up Dead (MCR at home)
Weapönizer – The Steel Beast (black thrash)
Worm Altar – Pillars Of Eternal Dusk (death doom)
Xeria – Agua (power metal)
Zero Hour – No Man’s Land (prog metal)