This week's new heavy metal releases include a couple divisive records, an unnerving collaboration, and more! To the metals…
Full Of Hell + Andrew Nolan – Scraping The Divine
Genre: Noise/experimental hardcore?
Origin: Ocean City, Maryland/Toronto, Ontario
Label: Closed Casket
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First up, some noisy aggression. This is a hard one to nail down. It sounds like you're stuck in a computer being ravaged by a demonic virus sometimes, and a straight ahead hardcore record others. In addition to our collaborators you're also getting guest spots from Justin Broadrick (Godflesh), Intensive Care, and more.
Linkin Park – From Zero
Genre: Nu metal/alternative rock
Origin: Agoura Hills, California
Label: Warner
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Linkin Park has returned in a new form. This is their first with new vocalist Emily Armstrong and overall it seems like what one might expect from Linkin Park at this point. The band that put out One More Light is still there, but there feels like there are deliberate nods to Meteora as well.
Mammoth Grinder – Undying Spectral Resonance
Genre: Death metal/hardcore
Origin: Austin, Texas
Label: Relapse
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It's been five years since Mammoth Grinder put out any music, and it's great to have them back with this five track EP. You're getting their usual hardcore death metal hybrid performed in an echo-abyss. Half the band is new, but it still feels right.
Mugger – Luck Forever
Genre: Hardcore
Origin: Austin, Texas
Label: Quiet Panic Records
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Luck Forever is a pretty straight forward hardcore record, but it's weirdly a lot of fun. The songs are brief, action packed, and catchy without sacrificing grit and rage. Would recommend for fans of Filth Is Eternal.
Poppy – Negative Spaces
Genre: Metalcore/modern metal
Origin: Boston, Massachusetts
Label: Sumerian
Stream/but here
Speaking of catchy, here's the new Poppy. As always, she's hitting you with massive choruses, djent-y grooves, and the perfect blend of modern metal and pop. It seems like a hard one to be mad at, but I'm some of you will find a way.
Thy Catafalque – XII: A gyönyörű álmok ezután jönnek
Genre: Avant-garde metal
Origin: Makó, Hungary
Label: Season Of Mist
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Going to conclude this week with the shape-shifting Thy Catafalque. After just over a year since his last record Tamás Kátai is already back with another record. This time it's sometimes folk, sometimes blackened, sometimes disco-inspired metal. There's a lot more to it than that. So if something doesn't grab you, wait a couple minutes and give TC a chance to morph.
Also dropping this week…
- Apocryphal – Facing The End (The Circle Music) – Atmospheric death metal
- Alkymist – UnnDerr (Indisciplinarian) – Progressive doom
- All Involved – The Enemy Within (Al Promotions) – Metalcore/modern metal
- Aptorian Demon – Liv tar slutt (Kyrck Productions & Armour) – Black metal
- Bayway – Bayway Takes Manhattan (DAZE) – Hardcore/rap
- Beyond Unbroken – Destruction (FiXT) – Metalcore/pop
- Chuzo – M.T.M.D (Self-released) – Hardcore/death metal
- Dose Of Adolescence – Zircon Ave. (XOVR Records) – Alternative/punk
- Empires Of Eden – Guardians Of Time (Massacre) – Power metal
- Furze – Cosmic Stimulation Of Dark Fantasies (Devoted Art Propaganda) – Psychedelic dooml
- Gotho – Gothron Versus Fartark (Supernatural Cat) – Experimental sludge
- Kill Lonely – Temptation (Ghost Killer Entertainment) – Nu metal
- Less Than Jake – Uncharted (Pure Noise) – Ska
- Lionville – Supernatural (Frontiers) – AOR
- Lurking Terror – A World In Darkness (M-Theory Audio) – Death metal
- Miracle Blood – Hello Hell (Nefarious Industries) – Noise rock
- Monolithe – Black Hole District (Hammerheart Records) – Melodic death metal/doom
- The Mosaic Window – Hemasanctum (Willowtip Records) – Melodic black metal
- Nepenthe – The Fading Promise Of Tomorrow & Elegies Of Loss And Doom (Hypaethral Records) – Blackened doom
- Nickelback – Live From Nashville (BMG) – Rock
- Nukore – The Blackout (Revolution Records) – Rap metal
- Obeyer – Chemical Well (3DOT Recordings) – Hardcore/metalcore
- Ocean Asylum – Committed (Shattered Earth Records) – Progressive death metal
- Of The Sun – Pattern Rebirth (Self-released) – Progressive metal
- Primal Code – Opaque Fixation (Relapse) – Death metal
- Rebel Souls – Leviathan (Self-released) – Blackened death metal
- Solar Wimp – Trails of Light (Self-released) Progressive thrash
- Spider God – Posses The Devil (Repose Records) – Melodic black metal/metalcore
- Starchaser – Into The Great Unknown (Frontiers) – Heavy metal
- Suffer No Fools – To Live Is To Suffer (Heroes + Martyrs) – Hardcore
- Super Monster Party – Rage Quit (Super Monster Records) – Video game metal
- The Tale Untold – Counterculture (Self-released) – Metalcore
- Thrown Into Exile – Passageways (Self-released) – Metalcore
- Tidal Shock – Riffs Of Ha (Self-released) – Heavy/groove metal
- Time Lurker – Emprise (Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions) – Atmospheric black metal
- Toxaemia – Rejected Souls Of Kerberus (Emanzipation) – Death metal
- Tribal Gaze/Deadbody – Split (Closed Casket Activities/Maggot Stomp) – Death metal
- Trollwar – Tales From The Frozen Wastes (Self-released) – Folk/death metal
- Tzimani – I Feel Fine (Glory or Death Records/Noize Cartel) – Heavy metal
- Veilburner – The Duality Of Decapitation And Wisdom (Transcending Obscurity) – Black/death metal
- Voodoo Circle – Hail To The King (AFM) – Rock
- Wildheart – Searching For Life Beyond Tragedy (Self-released) – Metalcore
- Chelsea Wolfe – Unbound (Loma Vista Recordings) – Doom/folk
- Yellfire – Dear Gods (The Ghost Is Clear Records) – Post-hardcore/metalcore
- Zebrahead – I (MFZB Records) – Rap rock
