This week’s new heavy steel releases embrace historic steel, haunted steel, battle steel, and extra! To the metals…
Battle Beast – Steelbound
Style: Heavy/energy steel
Origin: Helsinki, Finland
Label: Nuclear Blast
Purchase now on Bandcamp
Beginning this week off with some epicness. Album quantity seven from BB consists of each ingredient of the band’s previous in addition to some new ones. “Right here We Are” appears like a contemporary pop anthem whereas the title-track appears like ABBA. All with added guitar thrives, in fact.
Biohazard – Divided We Fall
Style: Groove steel/hardcore
Origin: New York Metropolis, New York
Label: BLKIIBLK
Purchase now on Amazon
Subsequent we’ve got Biohazard‘s first album in 13 years and their tenth over all. Evan Seinfeld is again fronting the band and the entire outfit appears actual pissed. That is uncooked and heavy hardcore that does not let up.
Coroner – Dissonance Principle
Style: Technical thrash
Origin: Zürich, Switzerland
Label: Century Media
Purchase now on Bandcamp
Talking of steel that does not let up. The primary album from Coroner in twenty-two years is an onslaught of thrash. The guitar work is very stellar right here juxtaposing lots of melody into the pummeling.
Flagman – Earlier than The Blast
Style: Avant-garde steel
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: Self-released
Purchase now on Bandcamp
For those who’re searching for some bizarre, them dig into the brand new Flagman. This launch is somewhat Primus, somewhat Nuclear Rabbit, and typically even somewhat Ministry. That is simply the one beneath. Like all their stuff, this is stuffed with surprises.
Carach Angren – The Cult Of Kariba
Style: Symphonic black steel
Origin: Landgraaf, Netherlands
Label: Season Of Mist)
Purchase now on Bandcamp
It has been 5 years since this ghouls launched any new music and I am glad the wait is lastly over. These 5 new tracks are epic, evil, and inform the story of Schinveld’s White Girl (Google it. It is creepy). With Halloween on a Friday and so shut, it nearly appears like they need to have waited a pair weeks because it’s the right soundtrack.
Sabaton – Legends
Style: Energy steel
Origin: Falun, Sweden
Label: Higher Noise
Purchase now on Bandcamp
On album quantity eleven Sabaton have shifted their war-obsessed sights away from WW1 and such and on to all of historical past. This consists of your common epic energy steel stylings, however this time you are studying (whether or not you prefer it or not!) about Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Vlad the Impaler, and extra. For those who’re a historical past trainer put one in all these songs on and contemplate that a part of your curriculum coated.
Unto Others – I Imagine In Halloween II
Style: Gothic rock/heavy steel
Origin: Portland, Oregon
Label: Century Media Information)
Purchase or pattern now on Bandcamp
Only a bit over a yr since their superior By no means, Neverland report, Unto Others are again with their sequel to their 2021 I Imagine In Halloween EP. This time they’re haunting you with three new tracks and a pair of covers of Ramones and MIsfits songs. Like Carach Angren, this appeared poised for a Halloween day launch, however this fashion you may have all of the phrases down for once you scream the lyrics at trick or treaters.
Sunn O))) – Eternity’s Pillars b/w Increase the Chalice & Reverential
Style: Drone
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: Sub Pop
Purchase now on Bandcamp
The shock EP with a catchy title has been out for just a few days now, however earlier this week Sunn O))) got here lurching again with a trio of recent songs on a brand new label. They’re now labelmates with Father John Misty. Now there is a collaboration I might love to listen to. Existential dread over bleak, fuzzy, riffs and suggestions.
Wretched – Decay
Style: Melodic/technical loss of life steel
Origin: Charlotte, North Carolina
Label: Metallic Blade
Purchase now on Bandcamp
Concluding this week of bands with weirdly lengthy album gaps with one final weirdly lengthy album hole. Wretched‘s fifth album comes eleven years after their earlier one and options the return of early vocalist Billy Powers. There’s been a very long time between eras right here, however this has lots of the early vibes so long-time followers needs to be stoked.
Additionally dropping this week…
- 84 Tigers – Nothing Ends (Spartan) – Submit-hardcore
- Age Of Break – Nothingman (Darkmoonempire) – Melodic loss of life steel
- Argesk – Moonlight Pyromancy (Matriarch Information) – Melodic black steel
- Basaltic Plateau – Lifeless Dinosaurs Echoes (Electrical Valley Information) – Psychedelic/stoner
- Carcosa – The Axe Forgets, The Tree Remembers (Self-released) – Deathcore
- Counting Seasons – Above Us The Waves (Self-released) – Metalcore
- Daedric – As The Gentle Left (FiXT) – Various steel/rock
- Defigurement – Endbryo (Nefarious Industries) – Technical grindcore
- Future Bond – The Love (Convulse Information) – Hardcore
- Erdling – Mana (Out Of Line Music) – Industrial/rock
- Evoken – Mendacium (Profound Lore) – Doom
- Flitcraft – Transmission Echo (Pitch Black Information) – Loss of life steel/thrash
- Grailknights – Without end (Notion) – Melodic loss of life/energy steel
- Graveripper – From Welkin To Tundra (Sensible Blood) – Thrash
- Greet – I Know How To Die (Fiadh Productions) – People
- Herakleion – Stay By way of Eternity (Self-released) – Loss of life steel/thrash
- Excessive On Wheels – The Monkey (Klonosphere Information) – Desert rock
- Human Fortress – Stronghold (Bloodbath) – Energy steel
- Impermanence – Anicca (Satanath Information/Sanatorio Information) – Technical black/loss of life steel
- Infinity Dream – Silver Lining (Anonymous Grave Information) – Heavy steel
- Inside Bleeding – Settle All Scores (Maggot Stomp Information) – Brutal loss of life steel
- Irreparable – The Destiny Of All Life (These Arms Soften) – Black steel/electronica
- Kaupe – Destroyer of Worlds (Morbid Subculture) – Progressive steel
- Ladon Heads – Metal For Fireplace (Misplaced Realm Information) – Heavy steel
- Lammoth / Gonemage – Aetherfrost Caverns (Fiadh Productions) – Symphonic black steel
- Psychological Maze – Right here Goes Nothing (Self-released) – “brutalcore”
- Meteora – Damaged Thoughts (H-Music) – Symphonic steel
- Militarie Gun – God Save the Solar (Loma Vista) – Hardcore/indie
- Monkeys On Mars – Monkeys On Mars (Mrs Purple Sound) – Psychedelic
- Now I’ve Completed It – An Sick Visitor (Lör Information) – Avnat-garde steel
- Paaris – Sic Parvis Magna (Self-released) – Shred
- Perishing – Malicious Acropolis Unveiled (Transcending Obscurity Information) – Loss of life steel/doom
- Saüc – Catarsi (RockCD Information) – Heavy steel/onerous rock
- Foolish Goose – Keys to the Metropolis (Blue Grape Music) – Rap steel
- Sintage – Unbound Triumph (Excessive Curler) – Heavy steel
- :Cranium & daybreak: – The Harvest (The Circle Music) – Gothic americana
- Spaced – No Escape (Pure Noise Information) – Hardcore
- Synthre – Heterodoxa (Self-released) – Black steel
- Tombs – Feral Darkness (Redefining Darkness) – Experimental/blackened steel
- Tribal Gaze – Inveighing Brilliance (Nuclear Blast) – Loss of life steel
- Wild Past – Black Websites In Decrease Chambers (Fiadh Productions) – Black steel
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