ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Orbit Culture release jaw-dropping album 'Death Above Life' via Century Media.
"oozes class from start to finish."
Read out full review here.
Brace for impact as Imperishable are set to release 'Revelation In Purity' via Everlasting Spew Records.
"There’s a brutality separate and immeasurable in it’s professionalism"
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Hooded Menace are set to release seventh album 'Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration' via Season of Mist.
"they’ve created something evoking the earliest era of gothic death/doom"
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Celebrating 20 years of death dealing and devastation, De Profundis release EP 'The Gospel Of Rot'.
"'Gospel of Rot' delivers a modest yet enticing platter of deliquescing hors d’ouvres."
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Portuguese grindcore masters Besta return this week with 'John Carpenter Redux' on Raging Planet Records.
"a great deal of fun and a heck of a stomping listen"
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Dispossessed unleash devastating, sludgy doom on new album 'Dêmocide' released via Carbonized Records.
"easily digestible though equally pummelling"
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Manchester’s savage sons Wode return with their fourth album, 'Uncrossing The Keys', released via 20 Buck Spin.
"it strides with the unvanquished confidence of one who knows he packs a solid nine inches even on a cold day."
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Iconic, groundbreaking metal outfit Today Is The Day release 'Never Give In' via SuperNova Records.
"a righteously angry album"
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Dark dungeon metal titans Cultic release 'Lore' via Eleventh Key.
"Cultic prove their dark fantasy adoration is far from losing steam."
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LoHud/NYC-based noise faction Gridfailure ready themselves to release 'Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III' via Nefarious Industries.
"best consumed in full, allowing the entire thing to push over you like waves of razor wire."
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The virtuosic talisman Vernon Reid (of Living Color) releases 'Hoodoo Telemetry' via Mascot Records.
"these songs represent where he has come from, where he has been and where he is right now."
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Ukrainian blackened death metal outfit Orbstruct release 'Ostracism' via Paragon Records.
"the album simply brings the crushing power home in spades"
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South American occult doom stalwarts Mephistofeles re-issue Whore / I’m Heroin / Satan Sex Ceremonies via Heavy Psych Sounds.
"The three albums are doom grandeur from start to finish"
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And thats just the tip of the iceberg! Other releases today we think you should check out include...
Rock
Ash - Ad Astra (Fierce Panda Records)
Cory Marks - Sorry For Nothing Vol.2 (Better Noise Music)
Doctor, Doctor - Bad Case of Lovin' You (Self-Released)
Heathe - Control Your Soul's Desire For Freedom (Empty Tape / Virkelighedsfjern)
Leap - Entropy (tbc)
Michael Schenker Group - Don’t Sell Your Soul (earMUSIC)
Siena Root - Made in KuBa (Live) (Perception/Reigning Phoenix Music)
Solence - Angels Calling (Better Noise Music)
The Bateleurs - A Light In The Darkness (Self-Released)
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - X's For Eyes (Better Noise Music)
Vernon Reid (Living Color) - Hoodoo Telemetry (Artone / The Players Club Records)
Wolver - Act II: Scene I - Birth of an Empire [EP] (Rexius Records)
Heavy Metal
Agartha - The Hidden [EP] (No Remorse Records)
Dirkschneider & The Old Gang - Babylon (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Evil Scarecrow - Silicon Tea (Deadbox Records)
Kuro - Circling The Drain (Self-Released)
Sceptor - Wrath of the Gods (Metalizer Records)
Black Metal
Achathras - A Darkness of the Ancient Past (Cult Never Dies)
Hangatyr - Sumpf der Faule (Self-Released)
Inritvm - Ex Nohilo Ad Nihilum (EAL Productions)
Lucynine - Melena (Talheim Records)
Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore
Atavistic Decay - Immakulate Invokations [EP] (Night Terror Records)
Blood and Brutality - Wrath Upon [EP] (Blood and Brutality Records)
Cruentus - End Without End (Kvlt Und Kaos Productions)
Deathwinds - ...Towards Doom... (Sentient Ruin)
Enragement - Extinguish All Existence (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Horror Within - Soul Awakening (Dolorem Records)
Plague Pit - A Whispered Curse (Road To Masochist)
Ribspreader - As Gods Devour (Xtreem Music)
Ripping Remains - Necrodestiny [EP] (Satanik Royalty Records)
Rotting Demise - The Unholy Veil of SIlence (Self-Released)
Shemash - The Gulf Between Us (Rottweiler Records)
Sothoris - Domus Omnium Mortuorum (Fetzner Death/ADG Records)
Umulamahri - Learning the Secrets of Acid (Ordovician Records)
Valdur - Guilded Abyss (Bloody Mountain Records)
Warmarshall - The Diseased (Self-released)
Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych
Mephistofeles - Whore [REISSUE] (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Mephistofeles - I'm Heroin [REISSUE] (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Mephistofeles - Satan Sex Ceremonies [REISSUE] (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Modder - Destroying Ourselves for a Place In The Sun (Consouling Sounds/Lay Bare Recordings)
Mriodom - Vlies (Self-Released)
Sum of R - Spectral (Self-Released)
The Lancasters - The Word of the Mistral (retro Vox Records/Life on Saturn)
True Gloom - True Gloo (Not Sorry Records)
Hardcore
Breathe//Die - Gestalt (Tidal Force Records)
Supreme Mystic - Kala Rupa (MahaVishnu Records)
The Mansters - Snapshots from a Shitshow (Loyal Blood Records)
Post-Metal
Pain Magazine - Violent God (Humus Records)
Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound (The Flenser)
Außerwelt - Breath (Moment of Collapse Records)
Cranial - Structures (Moment of Collapse Records)
Progressive Rock / Metal
Miguel Kertsman - Paradoxes (Self-Released)
Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Lifeblood (Self-Released)
VØVK - Litera (kontrabass)
Punk
ColourMind - Trauma (Self-released)
Ida Maria - Seven Deadly Sins +3 (Indie Recordings)
Snooper - Worldwide (Third Man Records)
Templeton Pej - Savages (SBÄM Records)
... and the rest!
Carnage Inc. - Carnage Inc. [EP] (Self-Released) [Thrash Metal]
Clone - Galvanized (Little Cloud Records) [Post-Punk]
Constrict - Kadavergehorsam [EP] (783Label) [Grindcore]
Dolmen Gate - Echoes Of Ancient Tales (No Remorse Records) [Power Metal]
Mayday Parade - Sad (Self-Released) [Pop-Punk/Emo]
Nox Pulso - TWO / Plague town (Null Void Records) [Industrial]
