This edition includes lots of feedback, weirdness, metal icons, and more! To the metals…
Black Tusk – T.C.B.T.
Genre: Sludge/stoner
Origin: Savannah, Georgia
Label: Season Of Mist
This album is a two headed monster with one head delivery pleasant rock jams, and the other unleashing lurching horror. The band even dabbles in the realm of old school punk. Overall, this is a diverse release which can be a hard thing to find in their corner of metal.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zay6IUFBPv4][/youtube]
Doro – Forever Warriors, Forever United
Genre: Heavy metal
Origin: Düsseldorf, Germany
Label: Nuclear Blast
One of metal's most iconic voices has returned with a pair of albums that will get a fist in the air. This is classic metal at its finest. The album even features a rather surprising guest in Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg who bellows like a demon on the included track below.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeaYkEzpvLo][/youtube]
Moonspell – Lisboa Under The Spell DVD/CD
Genre: Gothic metal
Origin: Brandoa, Portugal
Label: Napalm
Moonspell have released a ton of material in their roughly thirty years as a band. Lisboa Under The Spell is a live collection that includes performances of twenty-nine tracks over almost three hours. So, if you're a fan of the band, this is the marathon of a live album you've wanted.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rRgr5SU8eE][/youtube]
Primitive Man/Unearthy Trance – Split
Genre: Sludge
Origin: Denver, Colorado/New York City, New York
Label: Relapse
Golly, split releases are sure all the rage these days. If you want some sludge with a side of sludge though, this should be your pick for the week. It features four Unearthly Trance jams and three Primitive Man jams, so there isn't much to be mad at here.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoNN9pAOp-4][/youtube]
Rebel Wizard – Voluptuous Worship Of Rapture and Response
Genre: Black metal/heavy metal
Origin: Melbourne, Australia
Label: Prosthetic
There is a song on this called "Drunk on the Wizdom of Unicorn Semen." Enough said. Listen to this album.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IEiy6WEW_4][/youtube]
Trappist – Ancient Brewing Tactics
Genre: Hardcore/crust
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Relapse
Like all good hardcore albums this is full of feedback, chaos, and riffs. This one is made even better with appearances from chaps from Torche, Municipal Waste, and Pig Destroyer.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51w_aAxuQ0A][/youtube]
Zevious – Lowlands
Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: New York, New York
Label: Nefarious Industries
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Gonna end this week with a band that is quite unique. Take a some sludge, take some prog, and a dash of jazz and you have the incredible good Zevious. Lowlands is all atypical rhythms and general weirdness. This was a great way to get introduced to a band that is worthy of your attention.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOzQArRwva0][/youtube]
Also dropping today…
A Dying Planet – Facing The Incurable (CynNormal Lab Recordings) – Progressive
Annisokay – Arms (SharpTone) – Post-hardcore
Burial Invocation – Abiogenesis (Dark Descent Records) – Death metal
Carnation – Chapel Of Abhorrence (Season Of Mist) – Death metal
Exocrine – Molten Giant (Unique Leader) – Technical death metal
The Five Hundred – Bleed Red (Long Branch) – Djent
Forming The Void – Rift (Kozmik Artifactz) – Sludge
Innumerable Forms – Punishment In Flesh (Profound Lore) – Death metal
Parasite INC. – Dead and Alive (Reaper Entertainment) – Melodic death metal
Private Life – Private Life (Dark Operative Digital) – Cyber Psych
Sails of Serenity – The Crossing (Famined) – Metalcore
Spacetrucker – Smooth Orbit (Self) – Doom/stoner
Sulaco – The Prize (Translation Loss) – Death metal/grindcore
Tile – Come On Home, Stranger (Limited Appeal Records) – Rock
Tragedy Of Mine – Tenebris (Out Of Line Music) – Metalcore/melodic death metal
Uniform – The Long Walk (Sacred Bones) – Rock/industrial
Sid Wilson – Sexcapades of the Hopeless Robotic (sidthe3rd productions) – Hip hop/electrnic