Pretty solid week this week. New releases from a couple reunited bands, some grimness, some grimy, some prog, and more! To the metals…
Coal Chamber – Rivals
Genre: Nu metal
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Napalm
Buy now on Amazon.com
Not really sure what inspired the nu metal revival that's been sorta going on lately, but Coal Chamber are dropping a record just in time. Sounds just like 2001. Groovy and heavy like they're supposed to be. You can almost hear the over-sized cargo pants rustling in the recording.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reS5QpGf4b8[/youtube]
Drudkh – A Furrow Cut Short
Genre: Black metal
Origin: Kharkiv, Ukraine
Label: Season Of Mist
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Drudkh have really grown on me over the last few records. Nothing profoundly new on each release, but they're solid throughout. Equal parts grim black metal and melodic atmosphere for a pleasant juxtaposition.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mScw86GYJBY[/youtube]
Faith No More – Sol Invictus
Genre: Alternative metal
Origin: San Francisco, California
Label: Reclamation / Ipecac
Buy now on Amazon.com
I'm sure at this point that anyone that wants to hear this has and loves it or is bored by it. FNM are one of my all time favorites and I dig it. Sounds like the logical step after Album of the Year. The band is pretty timeless and unique and this feels very natural, rather than them trying to be who they were.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKP98hDBJ8w[/youtube]
King Parrot – Dead Set
Genre: Thrash/grindcore
Origin: Melbourne, Australia
Label: Agonia / Housecore
Buy now on Amazon.com
Grimy music from grimy dudes. Really dark sounding without being black metal. Little unsettling. I respect this. No surprise that their video features the longest peeing scene in any music video that I've seen.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWt_Eh_JGM4[/youtube]
Secrets Of The Sky – Pathway
Genre: Sludge
Origin: Oakland, California
Label: Metal Blad
Buy now on Amazon.com
A tremendous evolution from their first record To Sail Black Waters. This one is more diverse, more melodic, heavier, and prettier. I highly recommend this to fans of post metal, sludge, and the likes. I saw them last Monday, and these songs are crushing live too.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfNRTse-lLw[/youtube]
TesseracT – Odyssey/Scala DVD/CD
Genre: Djent/Progressive
Origin: Milton Keynes, England
Label: Century Media
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This band has been a revolving door of vocalists for their entire existence. They've had more singers than albums. Their first guy, Daniel Tompkins, is back and before they drop some new stuff with him they're reminding you why you loved him in the first place as they tear though stuff from One and showing you why you won't miss the last guy as Tompkins does his take on stuff from Altered States. This sorta restored my faith in this band.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAodZJhE_Ws[/youtube]
Valkyrie – Shadows
Genre: Doom/Stoner
Origin: Harrisonburg, Virginia
Label: Relapse
Buy now on Amazon.com
A catchy blues-based stoner band that will infect your brain and keep you coming back for more. Features a dude from Baroness, but sounds nothing like them. They sound closer to The Sword or Pentagram.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZsEGe7kj-s[/youtube]
Weedeater – Goliathan
Genre: Stoner
Origin: Wilmington, North Carolina
Label: Season of Mist
Buy now on Amazon.com
This band sounds like fuzz and marijuana. Simple as that.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NakYRUlsn7c[/youtube]
Also dropping today
Alcoholator – Escape From Reality (High Roller) – Alcohol
Ars Irae – Dunkle Klange (Quality Steel) – Black metal
Artaius – Torn Banners (Bakerteam) – Progressive folk metal
Cain's Offering – Stormcrow (Frontiers) – Power metal
Corpse Garden – Entheogen (Satanath/RTM) – Death metal
Corpse Light – Without Form (Grimoire) – Death metal
Death Alley – Black Magick Boogieland (Tee Pee) – Metal
Doomed – Wrath Monolith (Solitude) – Death doom
Doom Snake Cult – Love Sorrow Doom (Nuclear War Now!) – Doom death
Dysteria – Fuck The Future (Vetala) – Optimistic hardcore
Entrails – Obliteration (Metal Blade) – Death metal
Eversin – Trinity: The Annihilation (My Kingdom) – Progressive power metal
Eschaton – Sentinel Apocalypse (Unique Leader) – Deathcore
Galley Beggar – Silence & Tears (Rise Above) – Folk
George Kollias – Invictus (Season of Mist) – Death metal
Groteskh – Code: End (Cursed) – Black metal
Gutter Instinct – The Insurrection EP (Prosthetic) – Death metal
Haste The Day – Coward (Solid State) – Metalcore
Hypothermia – Svartkonst (Agonia) – Post rock/black metal
Ironsword – None But the Brave (Shadow Kingdom) – Heavy metal
Profanator – Mvtter Vicivm (Chaos) – Thrash
Sammal – Myrskyvaroitus (Svart) – Progressive rock
Sirens Over Sumeria – Sirens Over Sumeria (Imminence) – Metalcore
Tau Cross – Tau Cross (Relapse) – Crust
Tengger Cavalry – Blood Sacrifice Shaman (Metal Hell) – Folk metal
Valborg – Romantik (Temple of Tortuous) – Progressive doom
Valve – Apnee (Wooaaargh) – Stoner
Venomous Maximus – Firewalker (Shadow Kingdom) – Doom
Vorum – Current Mouth EP (Sepulchral Voice) – Death metal
Vulcano – Bloody Vengeance (Greyhaze) – Death metal
Whitesnake – The Purple Album (Frontiers) – Heavy metal
Winterfylleth – The Fathers of Albion-An Anthology: 2007-2012 (Candlelight) – Black metal
