This week's new heavy metal releases include dark yet uplifting black metal, epic doom, and more!
You can also check out select new releases here on vinyl via Gimme Metal. Now, to the metals…
Ché Aimee Dorval – The Crowned
Genre: Alternative
Origin: Vancouver, British Colombia
Label: Icons Creating Evil Art
Buy now on Bandcamp
Ché is a name and voice some of you may know from her frequent collaborations with Devin Townsend (Casualties of Cool, Ki, Empath). Her latest solo record is dark, experimental, poppy, soulful, and a lil twangy. The Crowned is a very cool record that's worth your time. It's not a heavy record, but she's one of us as far as I'm concerned.
Imperium Dekandez – Into Sorrow Evermore
Genre: Black metal
Origin: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Label: Napalm
Buy now via Gimme Metal
Now on to the grim stuff. Into Sorrow Evermore is a dark record, but is one that doesn't feel like a bummer – despite the best efforts of the title. In our full review Jillian says, "Despite its doom and gloom, Into Sorrow Evermore leaves you feeling reinvigorated." And this is the best way to sum up this record.
Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars
Genre: Progressive rock/doom
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
Label: Napalm
Buy now via Gimme Metal
Let's keep the darkness going, shall we? Their dozenth album is a varied adventure through a gothic metal landscape. This is progressive, sad, heavy, catchy, and more. Chad has a full review here.
Maneskin – Rush!
Genre: Hard/glam rock
Origin: Rome, Italy
Label: Epic/Sony
Buy now via Gimme Metal
While not the heaviest record of the week, this is a record of catchy rocking tracks with lots of swagger. This is a band with oodles of hype behind them, and I see why. Tom Morello does as well popping in to help on the track below.
Re-Buried – Repulsive Nature
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: Translation Loss Records
Buy now on Bandcamp
The last record was not the heaviest of the week. This one probably is though. This is some of that nasty death metal with lots of reverb on the vocals making the whole thing sound like it was recorded in a nightmare. Max's full rundown is here.
Riverside – ID.Entity
Genre: Progressive rock
Origin: Warsaw, Poland
Label: InsideOut
Buy now on Amazon
Now here is something for the straight up prog fans. Their first album in half a decade is all the quirky grooves, lengthy compositions, and dense concepts you could hope for from these guys. This also marks the first with Maciej Meller (who took over for the fallen Piotr Grudziński) as a full member.
Tribunal – The Weight Of Remembrance
Genre: Gothic metal/doom
Origin: Vancouver, British Colombia
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Buy now via Gimme Metal
How about some more sad spookiness? Tribunal's debut brings the slow riffs and rhythms of doom, but they're shaking things up with some cello and moody turns. This hits hard in several ways. Max is at it again with a review here.
Turbid North – The Decline
Genre: Death metal/sludge
Origin: Forth Worth, Texas
Label: Self-released
Buy now on Bandcamp
Wow this hits hard! The Decline sounds like old-old Mastodon if they were in a John Wick state of revenge rage. And it's also weirdly varied while remaining consistently heavy too. Very glad this caught my ear!
Also dropping today…
- Atrocity – Okkult III (Massacre Records) – Death metal
- Big City – Sunwind Sails (Frontiers) – Hard rock
- Black Star Riders – Wrong Side Of Paradise (Earache) – Hard rock
- Celestial Scourge – Dimensions Unfurled (Time To Kill Records) – Brutal death metal
- Laura Cox – Head Above Water (earMusic) – Rock/blues
- Dark Princess – Phoenix (Out of Line Music) – Gothic/symphonic metal
- Deiquisitor – Apotheosis (Extremely Rotten Productions/Night Shroud Records) – Death metal
- Dryad – The Abyssal Plain (Prosthetic) – Black metal
- Dying Light – Shallow Grave (Self-released) – Melodic metal
- Gypsy Chief Goliath/End Of Age – Turned To Stone Chapter 7 Split (Ripple) – Heavy metal
- Half Life – Like A Jungle (Club Inferno) – Heavy metal
- Heroes And Monsters – Heroes And Monsters (Frontiers) – Hard rock
- Issa – Lights Of Japan (Frontiers) – Melodic hard rock
- Kiberspassk – Smorodina (Out of Line Music) – Industrial
- Natt – Natt (Edged Circle) – Progressive/post-rock
- Slegest – Avstand (Dark Essence) – Blackened doom
- Scarlatamusic – Skatepunk (Self-released) – Heavy/speed metal
- Ten – Something Wicked This Way Comes (Frontiers) – Hard rock
- Tidal Wave – The Lord Knows (Ripple) – Stoner rock
- Twilight Force – At The Heart Of Wintervale (Nuclear Blast) – Symphonic/power metal
