This week's new heavy metal releases include a grim off-shoot of a post-rock band, intense industrial, and more! To the metals…
Extreme – Six
Genre: Hard rock
Origin: Boston Massachusetts
Label: earMusic
Buy now on Amazon
It's been fifteen years since Gary Cherone, Nuno Bettencourt, and pals have shown us that they are more than "More Than Words." It's well known that Nuno is a guitar god, but holy shit. The straight ahead hard rock foundation may not do it for everyone, but the shredding is top notch throughout.
Geld – Currency // Castration
Genre: Hardcore
Origin: Melbourne, Australia
Label: Relapse
Buy now on Bandcamp
Next up we have a real noisy one from Australia. This one is hardcore first, but there's a subtle bed of almost psychedelic atmosphere beneath. The result is a beatdown with an otherworldly aura.
Godflesh – Purge
Genre: Industrial
Origin: Birmingham, England
Label: Avalanche
Buy now on Bandcamp
After six years Godflesh are back to provide sonic nightmare fuel. It's impressive how much this album does while remaining minimal in song structure and composition. If you are a fan of their record Pure, this will likely be an intriguing listen as it calls back to that record.
Johnny The Boy – You
Genre: Black metal/sludge
Origin: UK/Sweden
Label: Season Of Mist
Buy now on Bandcamp
Heavy and dark is what you're getting with You. This Crippled Black Phoenix off-shoot is mixing the CBP experimentalism with black metal, sludge, and post-metal. The result is like the evil twin of the core band.
Legion Of The Damned – The Poison Chalice
Genre: Blackened thrash
Origin: Helden, Netherlands
Label: Napalm
Buy now on Bandcamp
Now this is just rad. Sinister licks, driving rhythms, and evil vocals. Circle pits are likely to summon demons in then when this one speeds up. The hellish landscape that emerges will be worth it.
Scar Symmetry – The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph)
Genre: Melodic death metal
Origin: Avesta, Sweden
Label: Nuclear Blast
Buy now on Amazon
It's been way too long since these sci-fi infused melodic death metalers have brought the epic stuff. Phase II picks up where its 2014 counterpart left off and should please fans of material since Dark Matter Dimensions. Also, nine years since Phase I? Who do they think they are George RR Martin? Jordan has a full review here.
Also dropping this week…
- A Light Within – Count With Your Eyes (Self-released) – Post-metal
- The Arcane Order – Distortions From Cosmogony (Black Lion Records) – Extreme metal
- Ray Alder – II (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
- Aodon – Portraits (Willowtip) – Atmospheric black metal
- Art Nation – Inception (Frontiers) – Hard rock/heavy metal
- Avarice – Avarice (Uprising) – Thrash/melodic death metal
- Black Rainbows – Superskull (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Psychedelic/stoner
- The Bleeding – Monokrator (Redefining Darkness) – Death metal/thrash
- Brahmashiras – Brahmashiras (Caligari Records) – Hardcore
- Carry the Torch – Delusion (Black Lion Records) – Death metal/thrash
- Dead Quiet – IV (Artoffact Records) – Doom/stoner
- The Defiants – Drive (Frontiers) – Rock
- Ekrom – Uten Nådigst Formildelse (Edged Circle Productions) – Black metal
- Max Enix – Far From Home (Wormholedeath Records) – Symphonic metal
- False Memories – Hybrid Ego System (Frontiers) – Heavy metal
- Gardner and James – No Strings (Pavement) – Melodic rock
- Glass Casket – Glass Casket EP (Silent Pendulum) – Technical deathcore
- Grant The Sun – Voyage (Mas-Kina Records) – Progressive metal
- Gridfailure & Interstitia – Sunyata Ontology (Pax Aeternum) – Experimental/hardcore
- Kill Division – Thoughts And Prayers (Self-released) – Death metal/grindcore
- King Howl – Homecoming (Electric Valley Records) – Heavy metal/doom
- McFly – Power To Play (BMG) – Rock
- No Lights – Dream Eraser (The Ghost Is Clear) – Noise rock
- Rise To Fall – The Fifth Dimension (Noble Demon) – Melodic death metal
- Shakra – Invincible (AFM) – Hard rock
- Slow Fall – Obsidian Waves (Out Of Line Music) – Melodic metal/progressive rock
- Split//Bite – 404 Ends (Loyal Blood Records) – Hardcore
- Stellar Circuits – Sight To Sound (Nuclear Blast) – Progressive metal/rock
- Torture Rack – Primeval Onslaught (20 Buck Spin) – Death metal
- Vortex – The Future Remains In Oblivion (Self-released) – Symphonic death/black metal
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