This week's new heavy metal releases include nine dudes still trying to scare your parents, black metal from space that may actually scare your parents, and more! Get some of the below releases on CD and vinyl here via Gimme Metal, and always – to the metals…
Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Oakland, California
Label: Peaceville
Getting this party started with some nasty old school death metal with one of the old school masters of nasty death metal. This is gore-filled, evil, and heavy. What more could you want from an Autopsy record? Turns that thirty-five years into a career, you can still find new violent things to scream about. J. has a full review here. Get it on vinyl here via Gimme Metal.
Escuela Grind – Memory Theater
Genre: Grindcore
Origin: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Label: MNRK Heavy
With "grind" in the name, you can guess what you're in for here. This is a sonic flurry that only slows for hardcore breakdowns or moments of feedback. Rumor on the street is that this is a band to see live, and I can only imagine how intense their shows much be with a record this exciting. Get it on vinyl here via Gimme Metal.
Labyrinth of Stars – Spectrum Xenomorph
Genre: Death/black metal
Origin: Germany
Label: Translation Loss Records
Buy now on Bandcamp
Heavy week so far. This one has the intensity of Escuela Grind, but with a much darker aura. This sounds like Anaal Nathrakh without all the big melodic moments. Markus Siegenhort (Lantlos), Christian Kolf (Valborg) and Dirk Stark are giving you lots of dissonance here. If you're into unease, this one is for you. Get it here on vinyl via Gimme Metal.
Mythic Sunship – Light/Flux
Genre: Heavy metal/progressive
Origin: Copenhagen, Denmark
Label: Tee Pee
Taking a break for some saxophone-infused spacy jams and psychedelic freak outs on the latest from Mythic Sunship. Once you hit play, you'll be lost in their free-form riffage. This album will force your body to grow a mustache, and if you already have a mustache, all of your jackets will grow fringe. Get it on vinyl here via Gimme Metal.
Rage – Spreading The Plague
Genre: Heavy metal/thrash
Origin: Herne, Germany
Label: SPV/Steamhammer
Just a year after last year's Resurrection Day, Rage have already returned with this six song EP. There are a few new songs, an acoustic version of "A New Land," "Straight To Hell" live, and a reimagining of "The Price Of War" with their current lineup. This could serve as a unique introduction to a band with A LOT of history to them. Get it on vinyl here via Gimme Metal.
Slipknot – The End, So Far
Genre: Nu metal/heavy metal
Origin: Des Moines, Iowa
Label: Roadrunner
It's time for you maggots to don your jumpsuits once more, as the nine-headed beast known as Slipknot has returned. As always, you're getting driving rhythms, soaring choruses, record scratches, keg hits, and and all that curated chaos you know and love. This is Michael Pfaff's (aka Tortilla Man/Face/Guy/etc.) first with the band, which is fun for him. Jim seems unsure about this one, but how is it treating you? Get it on vinyl and CD here via Gimme Metal.
Also dropping today…
- Acephalix – Theothantology (20 Buck Spin) – Death metal
- Alice Cooper – Live From The Astroturf (earMusic) – Rock
- All Else Fails – The Incident at Black Lake (Self-released) – Metalcore
- Amaurot – …To Tread the Ancient Waters (Obelisk Polaris Productions) – Doom/death metal
- Angmodnes – The Weight of Eternity (Black Lion Records) – Doom
- Arctora – The Storm Is Over (Wormholedeath) – Melodic black/death metal
- Autophagy – Bacteriophage (Pulverised Records( – Death metal
- Ceaseless Torment – Victory Or Death (Wormholedeath)
- City Of Caterpillar – Mystic Sisters (Relapse) – Post-hardcore
- Cruz – Confindes de la Cordura (Nuclear Winter Records) – Death metal/thrash
- Cryptic Brood – Caustic Fetid Vomit (Lycanthropic Chants) – Death metal/doom
- Darkest Era – Wither On The Vine (Candlelight) – Folk metal
- Dark Forest – Ridge & Furrow EP (Cruz Del Sur) – Heavy/power metal
- The Dead Daisies – Radiance (SPV) – Rock
- Deadly Vipers – Low City Drone (Fuzzorama Records) – Stoner metal
- Devouror – Diabolos Brigade (Listenable Records) – Black/death metal
- Dirty Vicar – Dirty Vicar (Self-released) – heavy metal
- Dropkick Murphys – This Machine Still Kills Fascists (Self-released) – Celtic punk
- Drowning Pool – Strike A Nerve (T-Boy/UMe) – Alternative metal
- Ellende – Ellenbogengesellschaft (AOP Records) – Ambient black metal
- Erzfeynd – Muspilli (Ván Records) – Black metal
- FERN – Intersubjective (Pelagic Records) – Electronic rock/synthwave
- Firtan – Marter (AOP Records) – Folk/black metal
- Gonemage – Handheld Demise (Self-released) – 8-bit/black metal
- Hexed – Pagans Rising (ViciSolum Productions) – Progressive metal
- Humans Etcetera – Part Of Being Human (Nefarious Industries) – Experimental
- Hunting Giants – Mythos (Seld-released) – Rock/grunge
- Huracán – We Are Very Happy (Dunk!records) – Post-metal
- Internal Organs External – The Brutality of Tomorrow (Vicious Instinct Records) – Brutal death metal
- Krankheit – Gargantua (Wormholedeath) – Groove/death metal
- The Lord – Devotional (Southern Lord) – Doom
- Lord Of Confusion – Evil Mystery (Gruesome Records) – Doom/stoner
- Lost Society – If The Sky Came Down< (Nuclear Blast) – Metalcore/thrash
- Mamaleek – Diner Coffee (The Flenser) – Experimental….doom(?)
- Manic Abraxas – Foreign Winds (Self-released) – Doom/stoner
- Rick Massie – Guided To An Imperfect Light (Self-released) – Progressive
- OFF! – Free LSD (Fat Possum Records) – Punk
- Pestlegion – Sathanas Grand Victoria (Osmose Productions) – Black metal
- Pixies – Doggerel (BMG) – Alternative rock
- Power from Hell – Shadows Devouring Light (Debemur Morti Productions) Black metal
- Regulate – Regulate (Flatspot Records) – Hardcore
- Sacrilegia – Sold Under Sin (Invictus Productions) – Blackened thrash
- Sammy Hagar & The Circle – Crazy Times (UMe) – Rock
- Scarlet Dorn – Queen Of Broken Dreams (SPV) – Dark metal
- Septic – Nailed to Ignorance (Szatanie) – Technical death metal
- SilentLie – Equilibrium (Rockshot Records) – Heavy metal
- Skelator – Blood Empire (Gates Of Hell Records) – Heavy metal
- Sonata Arctica – Acoustic Adventures – Volume Two (Atomic Fire) – Acoustic power metal
- Soul Dissolution – SORA (Viridian Flame Records) – Atmospheric black/post-metal
- Spectrum Mortis – Bit Meseri – The Incantation (Listenable Records) – Doom/death metal
- Stormland – The Human Cost (Seld-released) – Death metal
- Strangle Wire – Shaped By Human Frailty (Grindscene Records) – Death metal
- Strigoi – Viscera (Season Of Mist) – Death metal/crust
- Syn Ze Şase Tri – Ultimul Lup (code666) – Black metal
- Tankard – Pavlov's Dawgs (Reaper) – Thrash
- Tension Span – The Future Died Yesterday (Neurot Recordings) – Dark punk
- Terra – Für Dich Existiert Das Alles Nicht (code666) – Atmospheric black metal
- Thulsa Doom – A Fate Worse Than Death (Invictus Productions) – Death metal
- Tons – Hashension (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Sludge
- Trauma – Awakening (Massacre) – Thrash
- Umbilicus – Path Of 1000 Suns (Listenable Insanity Records) – Hard rock/heavy metal
- Vånda – Covenant of Death (Majestic Mountain Records) – Death metal
- VoidOath – Ascension Beyond Kokytus (Cognitive Discordance Records) – Death metal/sludge
- Within Destruction – Lotus (Ultra Heavy Records) – Deathcore/nu metal
- Wizzerd – Space?: Issue No.001 (Fuzzorama Records) – Hard rock/stoner
