Top Pick
Love Sex Machine – Thriving (noise sludge)
Keeping it short, since I'm sick as shit this week. Not as sick as Love Sex Machine's crunchy sludge riffs though! It's not all punishing abrasion though, "Dig" and "Polymorphism" have a cool, kind of Deftonesy vibe to them, and halfway "Thriving" ends the album erupting into a crushing interpolation of Lil Wayne's "A Milli" of all things. Great stuff!
Release Roundup
Aesop Rock and Blockhead – Trouble Mountain (hip hop)
Aeonblack – Treason (heavy metal)
Anberlin – Currency (screamo)
Anomic – The Spider’s Code (death thrash)
Arkado – III (heavy metal, melodic rock)
Aronious – The Ever Living Ones (progressive tech-death)
Artificial Brain – Antillia (progressive skronk-death)
Assumption – Paradox Of The Arrow (death metal)
Asgrauw – Solips (black metal)
Baby On A Rampage – Forgive My Figure (grunge doom)
Bailey Spinn – Death & Devotion (pop punk, emo)
Bjorn Riis – Divergence (post prog)
Black Groove – Work Yourself To The Bone (sludge)
Black Space Riders – Die 8 (post prog)
Breed 77 – VII (nu butt-metal)
Burning Creation – Breath Of Fire (melodeath)
The Body & Cel Genesis – Whole Wide World (industrial noise)
Cave Sermon – Deeply Personal Sounds (progressive/blackened death-doom)
Cervus – Axis (progressive stoner-sludge)
Carbellion – This Is Our Style (y tho?)
Celavi – Praelia (nu/pop metal)
Cerebral Curse – Abominant Incarnations Of Sepulchral Depths (death doom)
Chastity – I Built This Prison Myself (emo)
Citizend – Doomsville (psych prog)
Concrete Ghosts – Echoes Of The Dead World (gothy black-death0
Connecting Pieces – Vitruvian (prog metal)
Consanguine – Metanoian (black doom)
Crescendium – Drac (black metal)
Crucivore – Desecration (brutal death metal)
Cutterred Flesh – The Shapes Of Hidden Malice (progressive death metal)
Danger Machine – Tale of the Witchburner (trad metal)
Deathinition – Nowhere. (groove metal/thrash)
Det Eviga Leendet – Vehemence (black metal)
Die Sunde – Effemeridi (black metal)
Digital Negative – Collected Assets (industrial noise)
Dirty Tricks – Not Gonna Stop (rock, heavyish metal)
Discordant Meditation – Aborted Emanations (death metal)
Empath – Empath (melodic prog-rock)
Epidemic Scorn – Demolished Globe (blackened melodeath)
Fading Light – The Spell Of A New Dawn (doomy black metal)
Fire at the Plantation House – Get off My Lawn (prog thrash)
The Flesh Trading Company – Last Will of the Dead and Damned (black/death thrash)
Forsaken Age – Blackened Steel (black thrash)
Fucked Up – Year of the Rooster (progressive punk, I guess…)
Gomorra – Blood Of The Innocent (heavy/death metal)
Graviton – Graviton (death thrash)
Haze of Doom – Haze of Doom (doom)
Headbussa – Survival Measures (nu hard/deathcore)
Heaven In Her Arms – The End Of Purification (progressive post-rock/metal)
Heavens Edge – Philadelphia (melodic rock)
Häven – Where Angels Fear To Tread (pop rock)
Ice Nine Kills – A Very Vicious Christmas (who even listens to this?)
Igzordium – Ascentia (melodoom)
Iron Flesh – All Hail the Rotten Flesh (death metal)
Iron Savior – Deathbringer (power metal)
Kalandra – The Other Side (post folk)
Khadaver – Xaosblack (industrialish black metal)
A Killer’s Confession – Victim 3 (baddiecore)
Kingdom Of Giants – Usurper (pop rock)
Kintraitor – Beneath the Neon Skies (melodeath)
Last Prophecy – Kingdom of Shadows (heavy metal)
Live Skull – What Could Go Wrong? (rock)
Maledictus – Lazarvs (prog metal)
Malhavoc – The Masquerade’s Death (industrial black/death)
Merciless Law – Rebuilt by Force (heavy/power metal)
Minute After Midnight – Matter Of Time (nu metal, pop punk)
The Mosaic Window – Answered Prayers (proggy/melodic black metal)
Necropanther – The Book Of Change (death thrash)
NervoChaos – Chaosmongers (death metal)
Night Cobra – Beware the Dark Future (heavy metal)
Night In Gales – Bitter Harvest (melodeath)
Night Rider – Fatebringer (baddiecore)
Niva – Stratospheric (melodic rock/metal)
Nox Profunda – I Manifest (black metal)
Obits – Cake Shop (punk, rock)
1Thirty8 – A Reckless Game (melodic/prog metal)
Oreamnos – In Ruins (death metal)
Osserp – Les Homilies Del Desengany (death metal)
Phil Soussan – Cosmo Fighter Part One (rock)
Parius – Alchestronomy (prog metal) Review
Radiant Knife – Sankalpa (sludgy post-metal)
Raised On Candy – Play Marbles On The Turnpike (alt rock)
Remember the Light – Another Story (symphonic prog-metal)
Sable Hills – Homura (post-black metal/core)
Sally – Re:Raign (melodic power metal)
Sarcosuchus – De-Extinction (sludgy death metal)
Serpent – The Pit And The Pendulum (melodeath)
Silvertomb – The Interpretation Of Nightmares (doom grunge, alt metal)
Sinister – Lucid Nightmares (death metal)
Sinistrum – The Hammer of Conquest (death metal)
Skyjoggers – Frag Nicht Nach Sonnenschein (psych prog)
The Streamliner – The Thousand Faces Odyssey (sludgy stoner-doom)
Survivalist – Four Nails (deathcore)
Swampfoot – Swampfoot (Turnstile-core)
Teardrinker – I Hope This Hurts (DSBM)
Temple Of Bones – Walk The Winds (blackened hardcore)
U2 – Carnaval De Luz (please stop)
Utmarken – I gudarnas tjänst (melodic folk metal)
Valcata – The Dark Past the Stars (power prog)
Virologist – Subjugation Of Anthropoid Forms (slaming brutal death)
Walls Of Jericho – System Error: Humanity (hard/metalcore)
Weend’ô – Elveniga (post prog)
Winecraft – Wild Wine Quest (rock)
Wolf – Hour of the Wolf (heavy metal)
Wraith – Descent Into Darkness (thrash) https://youtu.be/pwt53WFxzO0
Xanadu – Leading the Way (heavy/power metal)
Yngwie Malmsteen – Hell or High Water (neoclassical power-shred)
Zombie Candyland – Sludgegaze (sludgegaze)