THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From BARONESS, RETINWAAV, and More Out Today – 12/18

You guys! This is the last edition of this silly piece of the year! What the fuck are you going to do with yourselves? I worry honestly. Anywhoozle, this edition includes some prog, some grandpa's guitars, and epicness. To the metals…

Aseptic White Age – Reminiscence 

Genre: Avant garde/progressive
Origin: Modena, Italy
Label: Memorial

Buy now on BigCartel.com

A rather cool mix of progressive metal, post-rock and fusion. One minute it has a Cynic vibe, the next Gorguts, then This Will Destroy You. Instrumental metal done right.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1SMcYH2lww[/youtube]

 

Baroness – Purple 

Genre: Progressive Sludge Metal
Origin: Savannah, Georgia
Label: Abraxan Hymns

Buy now on Amazon.com

This record is the best Baroness record in quite some time. There's enough of what was present in Yellow & Green without being a lazy follow-up, but more energy and experimenting then those records. Excited to hear it all over and over and over. This is a triumphant return.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS5osAdTnm0[/youtube]

 

Dolven – Navigating The Labyrinth 

Genre: Doom/acoustic
Origin: Portland, Oregon
Label: Goatprayer

Buy now on Bandcamp.com

This band is haunting acoustic folk/doom a combination I don't hear much, if ever. It sort of sounds like Agalloch without the black metal parts. Pretty neat.

 

Graveshadow – Nocturnal Resurrection 

Genre: Symphonic metal
Origin: Sacramento, California
Label: Mausoleum

Buy now on Amazon.com

This may have actually dropped last week, but I wasn't paying attention. Whatever, it's the last Weekly Injection of the year, I might as well give my fellow Sacramento area peeps a nod. Anyway, this is a solid mix of melodic death metal and symphonic metal. One of Sacramento's best kept secrets.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIxvMG0MU5w[/youtube]

 

Retinwaav – Ephemeris

Genre: Progressive
Origin: San Diego, California
Label: Unsigned

Pay what you want now on Bandcamp

Last year this act's release wound up in my top five for the year. And this one has potential to, if only it was dropped like two weeks earlier. Anyway, this release continues the lovely, technical, instrumental tradition that began on the Monuments record. Tremendous prog for fans of Pomegranate Tiger, Animals as Leaders, TesseracT, and more.

 

Also dropping today…

Against The Plagues – Purified Through Devastation (Non Serviam) – Blackened death metal
Anopheli – The Ache Of Want (Halo Of Flies) – Doom
Dark The Suns – Life Eternal (Inverse) – Gothic metal
Ekstasis – Wirklichkeitsraster (Geisterasche) – Black metal
Ellipse – A Nos Traitres (Finisterian Dead End) – Metal
Fucking Invincible – I Hate Myself And Want You To Die EP (Atomic Action) – Powerviolence
Grafvitnir – Necrosophia (Daemon Worship) – Black metal
Himinbjorg – Wyrd (Osmose) – Black metal/Folk
Ibex Angel Order – I (Daemon Worship) – Black metal
Kombur – I Am Alpha (Imminence) – Deathcore
Kluster Fuck – Crazymaker EP (Wooaargh) – Grindcore
Nachtzeit – Där Föddes En Längtan (Nordvis) – Black metal
Ripping Death – Tales Of The Ripper (Iron Bonehead) – Death metal
Taphos Nomos – West Of Everything Lies Death (Hammerheart) – Death metal/doom
Windfaerer – Tenebrosum (Hammerheart) – Black metal