This week's heavy new releases include death metal in spaaaaaaaaaaace, banjos, and more! To the metals…
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1349 – The Wolf and The King
Genre: Black metal
Origin: Oslo, Norway
Label: Season of Mist
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Starting this week off with a blackened masterclass. This is the perfect soundtrack to a morning ritual that involves painting your face and go out to windmill headbang in a forest. That's most of my mornings. Jeff's full review is here.
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Genre: Ambient/technical death metal
Origin: Denver, Colorado
Label: Century Media
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This is some wild shit. Blood Incantation are no strangers to experimental turns, but this time they're channeling Pink Floyd-esque grandeur, S U R V I V E's electronics, and then modern death metal into a unique adventure. They're taking you to space by way of the deepest recesses of your mind… or something.
Fever 333 – Darker White
Genre: Rapcore/hard rock
Origin: Inglewood, California
Label: Century Media/333 Wreckords
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On Darker White, Fever 333 has returned with an entirely new band behind Jason Aalon Butler. You're still getting all grooves of a classic nu metal band with enraged hip hop vocals and the emotional melodic breaks akin to Linkin Park though. Then this is politically charged as always because, look around you. Why wouldn't it be?
Mötley Crüe – Cancelled
Genre: Glam metal/hard rock
Origin: Hollywood, California
Label: Big Machine
Buy now on Amazon
On this brief EP, Mötley Crüe are dropping a trio of songs with new guitarist John 5. These don't scream 80's glam rock to me, but maybe that's not really want you want from them in 2024. Among the three songs is a cover of "Fight For Your Right To Party" which John shreds nicely on. It is funny to hear Vince Neil whine about his mom throwing away his "best porno mag" on it.
The Native Howl – Sons Of Destruction
Genre: Thrash grass
Origin: Detroit, Michigan
Label: Sumerian Records
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As the lil' genre label above lets you know Sons of Destruction is an album of "thrash grass," which is exactly what you think – thrash and bluegrass. On the band's fifth album of this atypical combo, you'll spend about half your time stomping and the other half in circle pit. All of this with banjos and acoustic guitars throughout.
Undeath – More Insane
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Rochester, New York
Label: Prosthetic Records
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Wrapping this week with some straight ahead death metal done well. And this is the gory stuff too, so there are songs like "Disattachment of a Prophylactic in the Brain" and "Wailing Cadavers." There's plenty of rad guitarwork throughout too.
Also dropping this week…
- Abramelin – Sins of the Father (Hammerheart Records) – Death metal
- Allt – From The New World (Century Media) – Progressive metalcore
- Balance And Composure – with you in spirit (Memory Music) – Post-punk/hard rock
- The Barbarians Of California – And Now I'm Just Gnashing My Teeth (ONErpm) – Punk
- Bike Routes – Rush of Energy (Blue Grape Music) – Pop punk
- Bile Caster – Writhing Between Birth And Death (Road To Masochist) – Sludge/doom
- The Bug – Machine (Relapse Records) – Experimental
- Canyoneer – Disarmer (Self-released) – Emo/rock
- Chain Code – Synthetic Outcomes (Self-released) – Progressive metal
- Corpsefucking Art –Tomatized (Comatose Music) – Brutal death metal
- Cosmic Putrefaction – Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains (Profound Lore) – Death metal
- D-A-D – Speed Of Darkness (AFM) – Hard rock
- Bobbie Dazzle – Fandabidozi (Rise Above) – Rock
- Devenial Verdict – Blessing Of Despair (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Avant-garde death metal
- Dreadmask – Thy Prime Dead (Self-released) – Melodic death metal
- Drug Church – Prude (Pure Noise) – Post-hardcore
- The Electric Mud – Ashes And Bone (Small Stone Recordings) – Hard rock
- God Bullies – As Above, So Below (Reptilian Records) – Noise rock
- Greenwitch – Forced Out Of Existence (HardLore Records/Maggot Stomp) – Death metal
- Hermano – When The Moon Was High… (Ripple) – Stoner rock/metal
- Human Impact – Gone Dark (Ipecac) – Noise rock
- Ignominous – Dawn With No Light (Vinyl Store) – Black metal
- Krosis – Infinite Circuity (Seek & Strike) – Deathcore
- Life Abuse – Systemization (Armageddon Label) – Hardcore punk
- Livløs – The Crescent King (Self-released) – Melodic death metal
- Lords Of The Trident – V.G.E.P. EP (Self-released) – Power/heavy metal
- Mammoth Caravan – Frostbitten Galaxy (Blade Setter Records) – Doom/stoner
- Maul – In The Jaws Of Bereavement (20 Buck Spin) – Death metal
- Mexican Standoff – Raiders Of The Dutch Rudder (Rockshots Records) – Hard rock/heavy metal
- The New Roses – Attracted To Danger (Napalm) – Hard rock
- Rat Boy – Suburbia Calling (Hellcat) – Punk rap
- Restless Spirit – The Doomed And The Dead…Live EP (Magnetic Eye) – Stoner/doom
- Soror Dolorosa – Mond (Prophecy) – Post-punk
- Sugar Horse – The Grand Scheme Of Things (Pelagic Records) – Post-metal/shoegaze
- Temple of Dread – God of the Godless (Testimony Records) – Brutal death metal
- Texas Hippie Coalition – Gunsmoke (MNRK Heavy) – Southern/groove metal
- Thrasher Wolf – Inside The Sickened Mind (Vicious Witch Records) – Thrash
- Torena – No Control (Daze) – Hardcore
- Town Of Lake – Lilac (Self-released) – Metalcore
- Transport League – We Are Satan's People (Sound Pollution) – Groove metal
- Trash Boat – Heaven Can Wait (Hopeless Records) – Punk/pop punk
- Tripper – Faceless (Thirty Something Records) – Hardcore
- Valletta – Summer (Forcefield Records) – Black n roll
- Wind Rose – Trollslayer (Napalm) – Power/folk metal
