This week’s new heavy metallic releases embody numerous 9 Inch Nails covers, the start of stay album season, Black Friday soundtracks, and extra! To the metals
Blut Aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons
Style: Black/avant-garde metallic
Origin: Mondeville, Calvados, France
Label: Debemur Morti
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Getting this Black Friday began with some black metallic. Appears becoming. Album quantity sixteen feels – dare I say – extra palatable than the previous few. Whereas the Disharmonium data despatched them right into a dissonant area, these songs really feel extra epic and melodic.
Brutus – Stay In Brussels
Style: Different/stoner rock
Origin: Leuven, Belgium
Label: Problem Information
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Simply over a yr in the past Brutus took to the Ancienne Belgique stage in Brussels, Belgium and recorded this stay album. It options nearly all of their most up-to-date album Unison Life in addition to seven older tracks. I’ve solely had the privilege of seeing this band as soon as (on this tour cycle, truly), and I used to be left wanting extra. That is precisely what I needed and you need to use this as an entry level to an incredible band.
Dream Theater – Quarantième: Stay à Paris
Style: Progressive metallic
Origin: Boston, Massachusetts
Label: InsideOut
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Final yr Dream Theater reunited with Mike Portnoy on set out on a tour with him behind the package in for the primary time a bunch of years. In traditional DT trend, they’re dropping a stay document from the tour. It contains “Night time Terror” from their newest document, some traditional tunes like “Dwelling” and “Panic Assault,” and even a pair Mangini-era songs.
Equilibrium – Equinox
Style: Folks metallic/metalcore
Origin: Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
Label: Nuclear Blast
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Whereas that is their first full album in six years, a few of these songs have been singles three years in the past. It is rad to have all these songs and extra in a single grand metallic document. It is folksy with out being corny and metalcore-y with out being – effectively, corny, I assume. This has quite a lot of associates like Heidevolk, people from Viscera Path, (stay) Eluveitie, and extra.
Josh Freese – Simply A Minute Vol. 2
Style: Different rock
Origin: Orlando, Florida
Label: Loosegroove Information
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Josh Freese is already the busiest man in rock by drumming for all of the bands. Hell, I noticed him with 9 Inch Nails and A Good Circle this yr. In some way he discovered the time to document twenty-five one-minute songs within the follow-up to 2021’s Only a Minute, Quantity 1. As of this writing solely the observe beneath is out, but when Quantity 2 is something like Quantity 1, it is going to be a short however rewarding whirlwind.
male//gaze – Too Late Now
Style: Excessive pop
Origin: Kingston, Washington
Label: Self-released
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Each every so often I will get an e mail a couple of band and so they’ll use a mix of phrases that catches my eye. Within the case of male//gaze it was “excessive pop.” Now, I believed I knew what that may sound like. I anticipated one thing like Poppy or possibly Sleep Token. I used to be mistaken. Too Late Now as an alternative is an EP of catchy songs that hit you with a distorted wall of sound and twists which might be surprising. The Armed are the closest factor to their sound. However yeah, “excessive pop” feels right.
Moron Police – Pachinko
Style: Progressive metallic
Origin: Norway
Label: Mighty Jam Music Group AS
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Positive, there’s nonetheless a couple of month left within the 2025, however that is the season the place individuals think about the yr wrapped on the subject of albums. So coming in slightly below this fictional wire is likely one of the finest prog metallic albums of the yr. That is chaotic, melodic, numerous, catchy, techy, and dense. Moron Police is a reputation I knew, however when Mike Portnoy went to instagram to reward this, I gave it an actual go, and good golly is he proper.
Varied Artists – Greatest Of 9 Inch Nails (Redux)
Style: Varied
Origin: Varied
Label: Magnetic Eyes Information
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There are just a few bands/acts that folks actually should not cowl. Save for Johnny Money‘s cowl of “Damage,” I thought-about 9 Inch Nails to be a kind of bands. Depart it to Magnetic Eye to choose a assorted pool of bands who nearly all shut up this fanboy. The Greatest Of is the primary of two NIN tributes and this one contains The Ocean killing “Even Deeper,” a haunted doom model of “Proper The place It Belongs” by Grayceon, a completely nasty model of “Suck” by Thou, and plenty extra.
Varied Artists – The Downward Spiral (Redux)
Style: Varied
Origin: Varied
Label: Magnetic Eyes Information
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As is a Magnetic Eye custom, please discover a traditional album coated front-to-back to pair with the Greatest Of above. This one has extra stunning takes on un-fuck-withable classics. Daevar‘s gradual burn cowl of “Nearer” made me a fan of them, Creator & Punisher one way or the other made a extra mechanical and industrial model of “Reptile,” Between The Buried And Me discovered the proper stability of honoring the unique and making “Damage” their very own, after which the remainder of the document is introduced in fascinating and largely profitable methods.
Along with this yr’s Black Friday Record Store Day releases listed here are albums additionally dropping this week…
- 1349 – Winter Mass (Season Of Mist) – Stay black metallic
- 5RAND – Ordhalia (Artwork Gates Information) – Melodic loss of life/groove metallic
- All We Depart Behind – In Absence Of Mild (Octopus Rising / Argonauta Information) – Gothic/loss of life metallic
- Avdagata – The Apocalyptic Aeon (At Daybreak Information) – Melodic loss of life/black metallic
- Azzaya – Infernal Blasphemia (Maledict Information/Battle Prod) – Black metallic
- Bezdan – Upon the Altar (I Hate Information) Black metallic/thrash
- Black Magic Tree – Terra (Majestic Mountain Information) – Stoner rock
- Carnal Savagery – Crypt Of Decay (Moribund Information) – Demise metallic
- Lifeless And Dripping – Nefarious Scintillations (Transcending Obscurity Information) – Brutal loss of life metallic
- Ergot – Decade (ATMF) – Black metallic/ambient
- Excide – Bastard Hymns (SharpTone) – Hardcore/various
- Feather Mountain – A Liminal Step (Self-released) – Progressive metallic
- Lungtoucher – My Consort, Everlasting (Phantom Lure)
- Lynch Mob – Dancing With The Satan (Frontiers Music Srl) – Onerous rock
- Magnetic Morning – A.M. (Outer Battery) – Rock/psychedelic
- Malefic Throne – The Conquering Darkness (Agonia Information) – Demise metallic
- Grasp’s Hammer – Maldorör Disco (Darkness Shall Rise) Experimental black metallic
- The Outdated Lifeless Tree – London Classes (Season Of Mist) – Gothic/progressive rock
- The Ominous Circle – Cloven Tongues Of Hearth (Osmose) – Demise/black metallic
- Onsetcold – Apocalyptic Sleep (Wormholedeath) – Avant-garde loss of life metallic
- Paintrail – Nocturnals (Corrupted Information) – Progressive rock/metallic
- Pale Horse Ritual – Diabolic Formation (Black Throne Productions) – Stoner/doom
- Phobocosm – Gateway (Darkish Descent) – Demise metallic/doom
- Soho Dukes – Nighthawks, Acrobats And The whole lot Underneath The Moon (Cargo) – Rock
- Starmen – Starmenized II (Melodic Ardour Information / Sound Air pollution) – Onerous rock
- Struck A Nerve – Struck A Nerve (Listenable Information) – Thrash
- Struggling – Issues Seen However At all times Hidden (Apocalypse Witchcraft) – Black metallic/doom
- The Tea Membership – Chasm (Self-released) – Progressive rock
- Thermality – Idea 42 (Sound Air pollution / Black Lodge Information) – Melodic loss of life metallic/metalcore
- Triskelyon – Maelstrom of Chaos (Moribund Information) – Thrash
- Unviâr – Disglaç (ATMF) – Black metallic
- Huge Pyre – Bleak (Octopus Rising/Argonauta Information) – Stoner/doom
- Verilehto – Aarnihauta (Self-released) – Black metallic
- Voyna – Monsters (Aenaos Information) – Submit-punk/darkwave
- Will O’ Nightfall – The Lengthy Lasting Nightfall (Diotima Information) – Heavy metallic/onerous rock
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