This week's new heavy metal releases include danceable noise, nods to the classic eras of rock, and more! To the metals…
Confess – Destination Addiction
Genre: Groove metal/thrash
Origin: Tehran, Iran
Label: Self-released
Buy now on Bandcamp
Confess are a band with a hell of a backstory. The duo were sentenced to prison for playing metal in Iran and are currently in Norway after being granted political asylum. This is their second album since relocating to Norway and per their bandcamp this is about their 2015 arrest and fallout from that. It hits HARD. Perhaps thanks to the literal hits of Nile's George Kollias guesting on drums.
Enterprise Earth – Descent Into Madness
Genre: Deathcore
Origin: Spokane, Washington
Label: Self-released
Buy now on Bandcamp
Next up, a heavy as hell EP from these modern deathcore kings. Like all their music, this is intense and full of breakdowns a moments of unease. This ought to hold you over while you wait for the next full-length.
L.S. Dunes – Violet
Genre: Post-hardcore
Origin: Chicago, Illinois
Label: Fantasy
Buy now on Bandcamp
I'm frankly surprised how prolific this band has been considering all their members are in active bands and that L.S. Dunes tours pretty regularly. What they've put out so far has been pretty solid, and the sophomore album from them is no different. The Coheed & Cambria, Circa Survive, My Chemical Romance, and Thursday supergroup continues their win streak here.
Lunar – Tempora Mutantur
Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Sacramento, California
Label: Saibot Reigns Records
Buy now on Bandcamp
If you like your progressive metal equal parts weird and rocking then look no further than the latest from Lunar. There's a little bit of an Opeth vibe sometimes, but like recent Opeth, Lunar have a love for the classics. Tempora Mutantur is a fun one and an early favorite of mine in this new-ish year.
The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us The Moon
Genre: AOR
Origin: Sweden
Label: Napalm
Buy now on Bandcamp
Like Lunar, The Night Flight Orchestra love the old school. On their seventh album Sharlee D'Angelo (Arch Enemy), Bjorn Strid (Soilwork and every other band's vox for hire), and the rest are back after four years with album oriented rock earworms. There is also an air of sadness this time as this is their first with Rasmus Ehrnborn on guitar taking over for his fallen Soilwork collaborator David Andersson.
Tayne – Love
Genre: Noise pop/industrial
Origin: London, England
Label: Inside Job/MNRK
Buy now on Bandcamp
This one caught me off guard, and I love it. Love has a sound somewhere between Health, No Spill Blood, Nine Inch Nails, and Genghis Tron. You'll dance, you'll fight, and you'll cower in fear.
Also dropping this week…
- Admire The Grim – Resist (Inverse Records) – Melodic death metal
- All That Remains – Antifragile (Self-released) – Metalcore
- ASkySoBlack – Touch Heaven (Self-released) – "Anti-shoegaze"
- Confess – Destination Addiction (Self-released) – Nu/groove metal
- Demon Sacrifice – Under The Blacklight Of Divine (Morbid And Miserable Records)
- Gus Baldwin & The Sketch – The Sketch (Permanent Teeth Records) – Rock
- Great American Ghost – Tragedy Of The Commons (SharpTone) – Metalcore
- Grief Ritual – Collapse (Church Road) – death metal/hardcore
- Chris Harms – 1980 (Napalm) – Synthwave
- Hawkwind – Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Cherry Red) – Psychedelic rock
- The Hellacopters – Overdriver (Nuclear Blast) – Garage rock
- Hell Comes Home – Dying Breed (Self-released) – Metalcore/deathcore
- Jonathan Hultén – Eyes of the Living Night (Kscope) – Alternative/singer-songwriter
- Jaye Jayle – After Alter (Pelagic) – Experimental/folk rock
- Kelsey Karter + The Heroines – Love Made Me Do It (Self-released) – Hard rock
- Kilmara – Journey To The Sun (Rock Of Angels) – Heavy metal
- Maceration – Serpent Devourment (Emanzipation Productions) – Death metal
- Mad Parish – The Dust Of Forever (Self-released) – Progressive metal
- Nachash – Eschaton Magicks (Signal Rex) – Black metal
- Naked Whipper – Chapel Defilement (Iron Bonehead) – Black metal/grindcore
- Pyre – Where Obscurity Sways (Osmose) – Death metal
- Rats Of Gommorrah – Infectious Vermin (Testimony) – Death metal
- Relics Of Humanity – Absolute Dismal Domain (Willowtip) – Brutal death metal
- Revenge – Violation.Strife.Abominate (War Metal) – Black/death metal
- Saliva – Revelation: Retold (Judge & Jury Records) – Nu metal/rock
- Selvans – Saturnalia (Avantgarde) – Progressive black metal
- Shrieking Demons – The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity) – Death metal
- Skaldr – Samsr (Avantgarde) – Black metal
- TheCityIsOurs – Will You Still Love Me? (Arising Empire) – Pop metal
- A Tyrants Lament – Offerings Of The Inhumane (CDN Records) – Death metal
- Void Of Hope – Proof Of Existence (Avantgarde) – Avant-garde black metal
- Weed Demon – The Doom Scroll (Electric Valley Records) – Stoner/thrash
- Zangoma – Faka Mulilo (Svart) – Psychedelic rock
