This week's new heavy metal releases include spacy tech death, some mighty returns after long waits, something something what Corey Taylor thinks joke, and more! To the metals
Alkaloid – Numen
Genre: Progressive death metal
Origin: Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Label: Season Of Mist
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It's been half a decade since this outfit brought the prog, and in those five years the weirdness of the world around us has seeped into their music. Straight-ahead death metal has never really been these guys' bag, but the soundscapes that accompany the heavy here are other worldly. Still lots and lots of shredding. They haven't gone full Pink Floyd "Echoes" or anything.
Baroness – Stone
Genre: Progressive/sludge metal
Origin: Savannah, Georgia
Label: Abraxan Hymns
Buy now on Bandcamp
Did you dig Gold & Grey? If you said no, you're wrong, but if you said yes then you'll enjoy Stone as well. This is not the same album, but this feels like the logical next step. Jeff has a full review here and you can find the bossman's cha with Joh Baizley here.
Brujeria – Esto Es Brujeria
Genre: Death/extreme metal
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Nuclear Blast
Buy now on Amazon
One of metal's most infamous is back with their first album in seven years. Esto Es Brujeria is frantic death metal sans bullshit from front to back. The press photos show six people while the press releases list nine, but you can at least tell you're getting Shane Embury (Napalm Death), Jeff Walker (Carcass) and Jessica Pimentel among others this time.
Gridlink – Coronet Juniper
Genre: Melodic grindcore
Origin: Hoboken, New Jersey
Label: Willowtip Records
Buy now on Bandcamp
Like everyone so far, it's been a minute since there has been some new GridLink. The new album is their first since reuniting and is nineteen minutes of technical, grinding chaos that retains enough melody to be catchy. Looks like you can also get what they're calling the "karaoke" versions of the songs to really bring down the house next time there's karaoke at the local pub too.
Corey Taylor – CMF2
Genre: Hard rock
Origin: Des Moines, Iowa
Label: Decibel Cooper
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Corey Taylor's hard rocking side, side project is back with more Guns N Roses-ish rock. There's the right amount of a bluesy through -ine to get the heads of those skeptical dads out bobbing their heads. Ironically the track "Post Traumatic Blues" could have been a Slipknot song, so he'll keep you guessing.
TesseracT – War Of Being
Genre: Progressive metal
Origin: Milton Keynes, England
Label: Kscope
Buy now on Bandcamp
The latest from these Brits really has this fan of the first record coming back over and over. This has all the TesseracT trademarks of slapping bass, djenty grooves, epic passages, but it really just hits in a way the last couple didn't quite. Daniel Tompkins is once again showing that he is an underrated voice in heavy stuff here.
Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Toronto, Ontario
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Buy now on Bandcamp
Wrapping this week with something that will get you modern death metal fans all hot and bothered. This surprise-ish record includes seven new tracks that were recorded with returning pal Sean Pearson. Is it obvious that as of this writing (hi from the past!), I haven't heard a second of this? Anyway, if you wanna hold it, you have to wait until October, but you can hear it all now.
Also dropping this week…
- Beastwars – Tyranny of Distance (Self-released) – Stoner/sludge
- Blind Equation – Death Awaits (Prosthetic) – Electronic/experimental metal
- Damnation's Hammer – Into The Silent Nebula (Massacre) – Groove metal/doom
- Danko Jones – Electric Sounds (AFM) – Rock
- Deadly Carnage – Endless Blue (A Sad Sadness Song) – Post-black metal
- Electric Boys – Grand Explosivos (Mighty) – Hard rock
- Eerie – The Delirium Of The Believers (Negra Nit) – Black metal
- Fabricant – Drudge To Thicket (Profound Lore) – Death metal
- Fâché – Fâché (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Grindcore
- Flesher – Tales of Grotesque Demise (Redefining Darkness Records) – Death metal
- Gotland – Rise (Earth And Sky Productions) – Folk/black metal
- Great Falls – Objects Without Pain (Neurot) – Sludge/noise
- Holycide – Bazookiller EP (Xtreem) – Thrash
- Hyro The Hero – Bound For Glory (Better Noise) – Rap metal
- Ignition – Vengeance (Self-released) – Power metal
- Infernal Throne – Caelum Et Infernum (Theogonia Records) – Black metal/thrash
- Kicked In The Head By A Horse – Sporadic Dystrophy (Self-released) – Hardcore
- Magnitude – Of Days Renewed… (Triple B Records) – Hardcore/punk
- Mayhem – Daemonic Rites (Century Media) – Black metal – Review
- Molybaron – Something Ominous (InsideOut) – Alternative/progressive metal
- New Model Army – Sinfonia (earMusic) – Power metal
- Night Verses – Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night Part 1 (Equal Vision) – Metalcore
- Otep – The God Slayer (Cleopatra) – Nu/groove metal
- Psygnosis – Mercury (Season Of Mist) – Industrial/progressive death metal
- Resolve – Human (Arising Empire) – Metalcore
- Ronnie Romero – Too Many Lies, Too Many Masters (Frontiers) – heavy metal
- Serration – Simulations Of Hell (Daze) – Hardcore/grindcore
- Shade Empire – Sunholy (Candlelight Records) – Symphonic/melodic black metal
- Shining – Shining (Napalm) – Black metal
- Slave Steel – In Fieri (Wormholedeath Records) – Death metal
- Smokeheads – All In (Wormholedeath) – Power metal/hard rock
- Staind – Confessions Of The Fallen (Alchemy) – Post-grunge
- Tar Pond – Petrol (Prophecy Productions) – Post-metal/doom
- The Coffinshakers – Graves, Release Your Dead (Svart Records) – Psychobilly
- Thorn – Evergloom (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Death metal/doom
- Violent Life Violent Death – Break.Burn.End (Innerstrength Records) – Metalcore
- War Of Ages – Dominion (Facedown Records) – Metalcore
