This week’s new heavy metallic releases embrace belligerent deathcore, a grindcore supergroup, and extra! To the metals…
Bent Sea – The Dormant Damage
Style: Grindcore
Origin: Wilrijk, Belgium / Birmingham, England
Label: Self-released
Purchase now on Bandcamp
It has been a bit since Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth and plenty extra) has gone on a grind tear. He, Sven de Caluwé (Aborted), and Shane Embury (Napalm Dying) may very well rip you aside on this one. They’ve some fairly cool company with Kevin Sharp (Venomous Idea), John Cooke (Napalm Dying) and Sylvain Coudret (Soilwork).
Darkish Angel – Extinction Stage Occasion

Style: Thrash
Origin: Downey, California
Label: Reversed Information
Purchase now from Reversed Records
For the primary time since 1991 Darkish Angel are releasing a brand new album. By no means thought we might see the day. It is a thrashing good time too. It is unhappy that Jim Durkin is not on this, however Laura Christine (ex-Zimmer’s Gap) kills it.
Fleshwater – 2000: In Search of the Infinite Sky

Style: Various/shoegaze
Origin: Georgetown, Massachusetts
Label: Closed Casket Actions
Purchase now on Bandcamp
Final week I wrote about Nova Twins and Pinkshift, and with Fleshwater I’m sharing one other new launch that is lives within the blurred strains between heavy metallic and indie, various, no matter. They opened for Deftones earlier this 12 months and this document has a few of their exhausting atmospheric vibes. It feels each recent and reversion. Great things.
Inexperienced Carnation – A Darkish Poem, Half I: The Shores Of Melancholia

Style: Progressive metallic
Origin: Kristiansand, Agder, Norway
Label: Season Of Mist
Purchase now on Bandcamp
It has been 5 lengthy years since these moody prog canine launched a document, and what a delightfully proggy return it’s. That is half one among a trilogy of data and that is splendidly nerdy. Most the songs listed below are over seven minutes lengthy they usually cowl lots of floor each musically and lyrically. So strap in and put together for some heavy introspection.
Primal Worry – Domination

Style: Energy/heavy metallic
Origin: Esslingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Label: Reigning Phoenix
Purchase now from Primal Fear
I really like that this document got here proper after Inexperienced Carnation. Each bands are epic in their very own approach, however in contrast to GC Primal Worry are right here to slay demons, and their music sounds prefer it. That is the band’s first document with new drummer André Hilgers (Silence Drive) and guitarist Thalìa Bellazecca aka Thalestris, Queen of the Lazer-Amazons of Caledonia (Angus McSix) who each knew the project.
Tallah – Primeval: Obsession // Detachment

Style: Nu metallic/metalcore
Origin: Pennsylvania
Label: Earach
Purchase now from Earache
What an fascinating band Tallah has develop into. This nonetheless has lots of the nu metallic resurgence factor that is been occurring, however there’s extra depth and talent right here than lots of their contemporaries. Unsurprisingly, the rhythm part is particularly compelling right here.
Ten56. – I/O

Style: Deathcore
Origin: Paris, France
Label: Out of Line
Purchase now from Bandcamp
Wrapping this week with some experimental deathcore. This belligerently heavy and darkish. It is a type of data the place each instrument hits like percussion.
Additionally dropping this week…
- Ambush – Evil In All Dimensions (Napalm Information) – Heavy metallic
- Anti Ritual – 80 Years (Indisciplinarian) – Hardcore/crust
- Earlier than The Daybreak – Chilly Flare Everlasting (Reaper Leisure) – Melodic loss of life/groove metallic
- Biolence – Violent Obliteration (Raging Planet) – Dying metallic/thrash
- blessthefall – Gallows (Rise) – Metalcore/powet-hardcore
- Bodyweb – deadwired (Flatspot Information) – Nu metallic/hardcore
- Cult Burial – Collapse Of Sample, Reverence Of Mud (Self-released) – Black metallic/doom
- Crypt Monarch – Codex Pestilentia (Cognitive Discordance Information) – Stoner/doom
- Dominant Chain – Wasteland Requiem (Inverse Information) – Melodic progressive metallic
- Desires Of Grey – A Starting (Self-released) – Excessive metallic
- Eleine – We Stand United (Reigning Phoenix) – Symphonic metallic
- Faetooth – Labyrinthine (The Flenser)
- Falling Leaves – The Silence That Binds Us (Self-released) – Melodic loss of life metallic/doom
- Faun – Hex (Consider) – Folks
- FM – Brotherhood (Frontiers) – Melodic rock
- Gjallarhorn’s Wrath – The Silver Key (Non Serviam Information) – Symphonic black metallic
- Hades Descent – The Monolith (ATLAS Inventive) – Symphonic loss of life metallic
- Glenn Hughes – Chosen (Frontiers) – Exhausting rock/blues
- Jord – Emellan Träden (Hammerheart Information) – Atmospheric black metallic/doom
- Korp – And Darker It Shall Turn into (Grind To Dying Information) – Black metallic/thrash
- Trendy Life Is Warfare – Life On The Moon (Iodine) – Put up-hardcore/punk
- Nailed To Obscurity – Era Of The Void (Nuclear Blast) – Melodic loss of life metallic/doom
- Nuclear Dudes – Fact Paste (Self-released) – Grindcore/synth…core?
- Pestilential Shadows – Wretch (Northern Silence) – Black metallic
- Progeny Of Solar – Prophets Of The Void (Inverse Information) – Blackened loss of life metallic
- Ritual Mass – Cascading Distress (20 Buck Spin) – Dying metallic
- Seilies – Between Fact & Lies (Self-released) – Metalcore
- Nonetheless In Love – Restoration Language (Church Street) – Hardcore
- Chic Eyes – IV: The Serpent’s Coil (Wormholedeath) – Melodic loss of life metallic
- Swollen Enamel – Ask Nothing (Blowed Out) – Nu metallic
- Unpunished – Echoes of Historical past (Self-released) – Metalcore
- Wolves – Wolves (Ripcord Information) – Put up-hardcore/mathcore
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