Welp folks. We're about to hit that dry period of album releases. Most labels have already pushed their best stuff and are prepping for 2015. I'd say we've gone one more really big week. This week…isn't it. We do have new releases from the Brazilian brothers you love so much, some goths, and more. To the metals…
Cavalera Conspiracy – Pandemonium
Genre: Thrash/Groove metal
Origin: Phoenix, Arizona by way of Brazil
Label: Napalm
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Pretty straight forward thrash with unmistakable Cavalera influence. The Cavaleras, Marc Rizzo and (new bassist) Nate Newton may have created their most diverse and pissed off offering under this moniker.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbYfxHhqq-Y[/youtube]
Devilment – The Great and Secret Show
Genre: Blackened rock
Origin: Ipswich, England
Label: Nuclear Blast
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Oh boy. This sure is something. Dani Filth, whom I actually hold a place in my heart from my early metal years, should just stick to that not-quite-black metal that he does so well. While this does have moments that have potential, over all it seems a tad elementary for a group of established musicians.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il61bCC4g3w[/youtube]
Liv Kristine – Vervain
Genre: Gothic rock
Origin: Stavanger, Norway
Label: Napalm
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Oh weird! Liv sang on the Cradle of Filth track "Nymphetamine" and is now sharing a release date with her once collaborator. Ok, weird is a strong word. Anyway, Kristine has a lovely operatic voice and she sings beautifully here. Musically it's more of what she usually sings over, but perhaps mid-tempo 4/4 chugging of standard chord progressions is your thing. This isn't really about the music though. Kristine is totally the star here.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdHG-gnVZPc[/youtube]
Toothgrinder – Schizophrenic Jubilee EP
Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Asbury Park, New Jersey
Label: Spinefarm
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Like Dillinger Escape Plan with Between The Buried and Me's sense of adventure. A truly unique and wonderful musical journey through many levels of chaos. Sample a bit here.
Also dropping today…
Absentia Lunae – Vorwarts (ATMF)
Adimiron – Timelapse (Scarlet)
Animus Mortis – Testimonia (ATMF)
Apostle of Solitude – Of Woe and Wounds (Cruz del Sur)
Ascension – Deathless Light EP (WTC)
Coil Commemorative Enslave – L'Infinita Vanita Del Tutto (ATMF)
Decaying – One To Conquer (Hellthrasher)
Divine: Zero – The Cold Asylum (Quality Steel)
Doombringer – The Grand Sabbath (Nuclear War Now!)
Embracer – My Father's Will (Imminence)
Exalt – Pale Light (New Damage)
Falls Of Rauros – Believe In No Coming Shore (Bindrune)
Fides Inversa – Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans (W.T.C.)
Emigrate – Silent So Long (Spinefarm)
Epitaph – Crawling Out of the Crypt (High Roller)
Foul Body Autopsy – So Close To Dehumanization (Grindscene)
Funerals – Human Ruin EP (Blasphemour)
Graveyard Shifters – Brainwashed By Moonshine EP (Eternal Sound)
Greber – Kiln Hardened Psalms (Handshake)
Gus G – I Am The Fire Expanded Edition (Century Media)
Heart In Hand – A Beautiful White (Siege of Amida / Century Media)
Helldorados – Lessons in Decay (Massacre)
Hell In the Club – Devil On My Shoulder (Scarlet)
Homewrecker – Circle of Death (A389)
Horror Vacui – Return Of The Empire (HPGD)
Inconcessus Lux Lucis – Crux Lupus Corona EP (I Voidhanger)
Ladder Devils – Clean Hands (Brutal Panda)
Laster – De Verste Verte Is Hier (Broken Limbs)
Lord of Pagathon – Nekros Philia (Inverse)
Lordi – Scare Force (AFM)
Lyriel – Skin and Bones (AFM)
Mare Cognitum – Phobos Monolith (I Voidhanger)
Nader Salek – The Malefic: Chapter III EP (Self)
Obtruncation – Abode of the Departed Souls (Vic)
Pestilential Shadows – Ephemeral (Seance)
Pharoah – Negative Everything (A389)
Piss Vortex – Piss Vortex (Indisciplinarian)
The Prophecy 23 – Untrue Like A Boss (Massacre)
Psychostick – IV: Revenge Of The Vengeance (Self)
Putrid Evocation – Echoes of Death (Xtreem)
Sahhr – Sahhr EP (Domestic Genocide)
Sick/Tired – Dissolution (A389)
Sidious – Revealed In Profane Splendour (Kaotoxin)
Sinners Burn – Disturbing Creatures (Vic)
The Skull – For Those Which Are Asleep (Tee Pee)
Spiders – Shake Electric (Spinefarm)
Tongues – Thelesis Ignis (I Voidhanger)
The Treatment – Running With the Dogs (Spinefarm)
Walking Dead On Broadway – Aeshma (Impericon)
Witch Meadow – Cry of the Wolf (Divebomb)