Kind of a slower week for y'all. A few solid droppings from your record label overlords though. These include weird avant Norway fellas, live Swedish Melo-death chaps, and more!
Dodheimsgard – A Umbra Omega 
Genre: Avant-garde metal
Origin: Oslo, Norway
Label:Â Peaceville
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Very weird and awesome. Imagine if Enslaved mixed with renown avant-garde jazz legend John Zohn and a slower Anaal Nathrakh. You'd get pretty close to these guys.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJrI07bNfnc[/youtube]
Moonspell – Extinct 
Genre: Gothic metal
Origin: Brandola, Portugal
Label: Napalm
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Portugal's epic collective known as Moonspell have returned with more driving gothic jams to perk up your doomy day. This would pair well with Borknagar and Tyr. Also, these guys have a rather fun video below that has some neat ritualistic break dance fighting stuff going on.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXWMYmNcUqI[/youtube]
The Order of Apollyon – The Sword and the Dagger 
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Paris, France
Label:Â Listenable
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Since the last two highlighted releases have you feeling weird and/or vampiric, here's a kick in the teeth. France's The Order of Apollyon aren't reinventing the blackened death metal wheel, but they are certainly able to do this genre right. This is a tremendous sophomore release.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bjiu4dMaCg[/youtube]
Pyramids – A Northern Meadow 
Genre:Â Experimental doom
Origin:Â Texas
Label:Â Profound Lore
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I can't say that I've ever heard anything like Pyramids. They work in elements of many genres, and do so at the same time. Whether it be black metal, doom, industrial, shoegaze, beautiful post rock and so much more. I highly recommend this release for those looking for something different.
Soilwork –Â Live in the Heart of Helsinki
Genre: Melodic death metal
Origin: Helsingborg, Sweden
Label: Nuclear Blast
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The Living Infinite really restored my faith in Soilwork. I grew to be pretty bored of their work over the albums before their double release, yet I missed them on the tour that followed what became my favorite Soilwork record. It's awesome to relive the tour through this release with new faves and classics.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RsAF6r3gQw[/youtube]
Also dropping today…
The Answer – Raise A Little Hell (Napalm)
Ashes Of Moon – The Darkness Where The Past Lay Sleeping (Aural)
Attack Vertical – The Great Waste (Tenacity)
Bad Guys – Bad Guynaecology (Riot Season)
Beautality – Einfalen: A Tale Ov Torment & Triumph (Nordavind)
Bulldozing Bastard – Under The Ram (High Roller)
Crimson Swan – Unlit (Quality Steel)
Crom Dubh – Heimweh (Van)
Darke Complex – Widow EP (Spinefarm)
Dirty Fingers – 250 Dollars (Illogic)
Dissident Clone – State Of Dysphoria EP (Tridroid)
Drakkar – Run With The Wolf (My Kingdom)
Dynfari – Vegfero Timans (Code 666)
Father Murphy – Croce (The Flenser)
Flummox – Phlummoxygen (Tridroid)
Ghost Bath – Moonlover (Northern Silence)
Horizont – Break the Limit (Rise Above)
Ideogram – Life Mimics Theatre (Aural)
Katavasia – Sacrilegious Testament (Floga)
Macabre Omen – Gods Of War: At War (Van)
Negative Self – Negative Self (High Roller)
Nocturnus – The Science of Horror (Nuclear War Now!)
Norse – Pest (Transcending Obscurity)
Purple Nail – Embrace The Dark (Aural)
Ranger – Where Evil Dwells (Spinefarm)
Reign Of Fury – Death Be Thy Shepherd (Static Tension)
Rellik – Spiraling Infinite Chaos (HPGD)
Simbiose – Economical Terrorism (Anticorpos)
Sleeping With Sirens – Madness (Epitaph)
The Slow Death – Ark (Chaos)
Yorblind – Blind…But Alive (Klonosphere)
