This week’s new heavy metal releases include prog legends, guitar shredding, and more! To the metals…
ALSO! Today, Bandcamp is doing their monthly day of giving 100% of what you pay directly to the labels and artists as Covid-19 Pandemic relief. So if you can get stuff from Bandcamp, please do.
Celebrity Sex Scandal – The Fundamental
Genre: Avant-garde metal
Origin: Rockville, Maryland
Label: Razor To Wrist
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There are so many Dog Fashion Disco spinoffs that it's hard to keep track of them all. This one features past and present members Greg Combs, Jeff Siegel and John Ensminger. On this you're getting some horns, lots of mood changes, and solid grooves. It's a hell of a thing to Google this one though.
Déluge – Aego Templo
Genre: Black metal/post-hardcore
Origin: Metz, France
Label: Metal Blade
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I can't say that I've heard another band quite like Déluge. They have a unique take on atmospheric black metal that includes more emotion than I'm used to since they infuse post-hardcore into their sound. Then, you're also getting some piano, saxophone, post-metal, and noise. Fans of Deafheaven and The Ocean sound get in on this band.
Fates Warning – Long Day Good Night
Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Hartford, Connecticut
Label: Metal Blade
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On their first record in four years, and thirteenth overall, these old school prog gods are proving why they're still prog gods. They sound as epic and weird as ever. Guitarist Jim Matheos especially shines on this.
Nitesoil – Abusement Park
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Brooklyn, New York
Label: Self-Released
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On their debut EP Frank Godla (Meek Is Murder/Metal Injection) and Nick Emde (White Widow Pact/Contracult Collective) are kicking your teeth in with six silly heavy death metal tracks. They brought friends alone with them like Trevor Strnad (The Black Dahlia Murder), Jessica Pimentel (Brujeria), Dave Davidson (Revocation) and more.
Orianthi – O
Genre: Hard rock
Origin: Adelaide, Australia
Label: Frontiers
While not metal I thought I'd include this since O is a collection of rockin' tracks that should appeal to fans of Slash's solo output. There are solid riffs and catchy melodies throughout this. Might be a bit too polished and/or twangy for some.
Pulchra Morte – Ex Rosa Ceremonia
Genre: Death metal/doom
Origin: Various, US
Label: Transcending Records
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Pulchra Morte are about as heavy as you'd expect with two members of Eulogy, two members of Wolvhammer, and Skeletonwitch's vocalist. These guys wasted no time in dropping another crushing album after last year's Divina Autem et Aniles. This is dark, lurching, and continues the work they started last year in a successful way.
Solstafir – Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love
Genre: Post-metal
Origin: Reykjavík, Iceland
Label: Season Of Mist
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Now for this week's most diverse offering. Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love has post-rock, sludge, and straight up heavy metal, often all in one track. This is a lush, epic album in every way. Get lost in the whole dang thing below.
Two Minutes To Late Night – Covers Vol. V
Genre: All-star heavy metal covers
Origin: Various
Label: Self-released
Two Minutes To Late Night pivoted their whole thing during this quarantine and have been putting out fun star-studded covers. Today (November sixth) and today only, they are putting out their fifth (and spookiest) Bandcamp exclusive EP to help out the artists that have contributed to these covers. Get it before it's gone.
Also dropping today…
- Ancient Thrones – The Veil (Self-released) – Death metal/thrash
- Avoid – The Burner (Revival Recordings) – Hard rock
- Countless Skies – Glow (Willowtip Records) – Melodic death metal
- Cult Burial – Cult Burial (Self-released) – Death metal/blackened doom
- Dark Quarterer – Pompei (Cruz del Sur Music) – Progressive metal
- Eleanora – Mere (ConSouling Sounds) – Post-Metal/hardcore
- Eternal Idol – Renaissance (Frontiers) – Symphonic/power metal
- Feed Them Death – For Our Culpable Dead (Brucia Records) – Death metal/grindcore
- Garmarna – Förbundet (Season Of Mist) – Folk rock
- Gaia Guarda – Anatomy of Fear (Pentapus Records) – Experimental/gothic rock
- Hanging Fortress – Darkness Devours (Redefining Darkness Records) Death metal/hardcore
- Jucifer — نظم (Self-released) – Experimental/drone
- Lionheart – Live at Summer Breeze (Nuclear Blast) – Hardcore/metalcore
- Lords of Black – Alchemy of Souls – Part I (Frontiers) – Heavy metal/progressive
- Loudblast – Manifesto (Listenable) – Thrash/death metal
- Lykantropi – Tales To Be Told (Despotz Record) – Psychedelic/hard rock
- Malfested – Shallow Graves (Self-released) – Death metal
- Mountain Caller – Chronicle I: The Truthseeker (New Heavy Sounds) – Post-metal
- Rosaries – Anomie (Self-released)- Doom/shoegaze
- Scard – Rusted Lock (Scry Recordings) – Ambient/industrial
- Shaidar Logoth – Chapter III: The Void God (Sentient Ruin) – Black metal
- Shattered Hope – Vespers (Solitude Productions) – Doom/death metal
- Jeff Scott Soto – Wide Awake (In My Dreamland) (Frontiers) – Hard rock
- Surma – The Light Within (Metal Blade) – Symphonic metal
