This edition doesn't include Time II, but it does include technicality, dance tunes, fuzz, and more! To the metals…
Ded – Mis-An-Thrope 
Genre: Nu metal
Origin: Phoenix, Arizona
Label: Suretone)
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In a world where Nu Metal nostalgia is becoming more rampant, a band like Ded is rearing its head at the right time. There are some modern flairs, but for the most part they are just combining Mudvayne, Linkin Park, Flaw, and others into a groove based, melodic, glitch sound infused….thing.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIAnddiMAL8[/youtube]
In This Moment – Ritual 
Genre: Metalcore
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Roadrunner/Atlantic
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I feel like my inclusion of this record this week will only appeal to a handful of readers, the rest of you will cry "I thought it was METAL Injection." Anyway, Maria Brink and her band on masked randos are back with a new record of the metalcore/hard rock sound they do very well. I really, really enjoy the cover of "In The Air Tonight" (stream below), but why do a lyric video? Everyone knows ALL the words to that song. The little of the rest of the record I've heard will probably appeal to fans.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azeh1ZbxWwI[/youtube]
Decrepit Birth – Axis Mundi 
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Origin: Santa Cruz, California
Label: Nuclear Blast/Agonia
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Want some metal? Here you go. Decrepit Birth play all the notes, with all the heaviness a band could muster on this album. Low-tuned, technical as fuck, and guttural. Everything you've ever wanted in your tech death.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nILVpu1R5kU[/youtube]
Mr. Big – Defying Gravity 
Genre: Hard rock
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Frontiers
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Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan, and the rest are back with another album of melodic, technical, dad rock to brighten your Friday. They may not be heavy, but they are better musicians than you are. Even the overly excited tambourine man in the video below.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elkYpuUeB3w[/youtube]
Nine Inch Nails – Add Violence 
Genre: Hard rock/Industrial
Origin: Cleveland, Ohio
Label: The Null Corporation
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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross took a break from making soundtracks for Oscar bait to make a few Nine Inch Nails songs. Neat! This is the second of three EPs the guys are dropping whenever they remember that NIN is a thing. "Less Than" and "This Isn't The Place" already make me dig this one more than Not The Actual Events, and I look forward to the rest and whatever the "Physical Component" is this time. I'm guessing just a bag of bleach and a few trading cards of professional golfers or something.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDV-dOvqKzQ[/youtube]
The Tangent – The Slow Rust Of Forgotten Machinery
Genre: Progressive
Origin: England/Sweden
Label: Inside Out
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Fans of The Flower Kings rejoice! Here's the ninth studio album of what was supposed to be a one-off project. This record is melodic, bombastic, and prog as fuck.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ins8XqqRI[/youtube]
Tau Cross – Pillar Of Fire 
Genre: Heavy metal/crust
Origin: Montreal, Canada/Isle of Skye, Scotland/Minneapolis, United States
Label: Relapse
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On their second album, this international quintet of are once again taking nasty, crusty metal and infusing some surprisingly catchy melodies. I haven't heard too much like this band, and that's pretty cool. They're like if High On Fire slowed down a bit, listed to some punk, but refused to tone down any of their distortion.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gd3xYtars8[/youtube]
Wintersun – The Forest Seasons
Genre: Symphonic death metal
Origin: Helsinki, Finland
Label: Nuclear Blast
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Looks like fans still waiting for the next Time record, are gonna have to keep on waiting. Instead, Jari and the boys are heading into the forest! This is still a pretty rad melodic death metal record that includes four lengthy tracks about the four seasons. The Fancy version of the release (The Forest Package) includes instrumental versions of the record, a remaster of their debut album, and a live set from 2013. Aaron has a full review here.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70p0_0fmB4[/youtube]
Also dropping today…
As Paradise Falls – Digital Ritual (Eclipse) – Metalcore
Ereb Altor – Ulfven (Hammerheart) – Folk/black metal
Europe – The Final Countdown 30th Anniversary Show: Live At The Roundhouse CD/DVD (Hell & Back) – Heavy metal
Pathology – Pathology (Comatose Music) – Brutal death metal
Projected – Ignite My Insanity (Rat Pak) – Hard rock
Prospekt – The Illuminated Sky (Sensory) – Progressive
Shattered Sun – The Evolution Of Anger (Victory) – Metalcore/thrash
Soul Remnants – Ouroboros (eOne) – Death metal
To Speak Of Wolves – Dead In The Shadow (Solid State) – Metaclore
