This edition includes long-running death metal lads, dreamy git-fiddles and more! To the metals…
Bell Witch – Four Phantoms
Genre: Funeral doom
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: Profound Lore
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Straight up lurching doooooooooooooooooom! Also, these chaps say "FUCK GUITARS!" Bass, drums and the atmosphere between notes. Pretty epic.
Klone – Here Comes The Sun
Genre: Progressive
Origin: Poitiers, France
Label: Pelagic
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Why not keep this atmospheric train rolling? Unlike the funeral doomsters I just mentioned, Klone envelope the listener in a world of dreamy guitars and post-metal crunch. The band sounds a lot like the prettier moments of The Ocean, which is fitting since The Ocean mainman's label put these guys out.
Nightrage – The Puritan
Genre: Melodic death metal
Origin: Thessaloniki, Greece/Gothenburg, Sweden.
Label: Despotz
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I could see this band pairing well with a modern Haunted, Arch Enemy, or any number of the more melodic Swedish bands we all know and love. Thrashier than their peers at times though, so that should separate them from the pack.
Unleashed – Dawn of the Nine
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Kungsängen, Sweden
Label: Nuclear Blast
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This band has twenty-five years of ripping a hole into you under their belts and they don't seem like they'll ever stop tearing away. I was surprised to find out that this wasn't their ninth album, which I'm pretty thankful for. It would have been a bit on the nose. Fans of these blackened death metal titans shan't be disappointed, or left standing.
Also dropping today…
Ages – Malefic Miasma (Black Lodge) – Black metal
Airstream – Kingdom of Isolation (Metalville) – Hard rock
Austerymn – Sepulcrum Viventium (Memento Mori) – Death metal
Axel Rudi Pell – Magic Moments: The 25th Anniversary Concert DVD/CD (SPV) – Power metal
Band Of Spice – Economic Dancers (Scarlet) – Stoner
Blackwelder – Survival Of The Fittest (Goldencore) – Power metal
Celtachor – Nuada Of the Silver Arm (Trollzorn) – Black metal/Celtic
Dark Quarterer – Ithaca (Metal On Metal) – Progressive
Demonical – Black Flesh Redemption EP (Agonia) – Death metal
Disrupted – Morbid Death (Memento Mori) – Death metal
DSG – Still a Warrior (Pure Steel) – Power metal
Emerged – Letting Go Of Certainties (Vic) – Stoner
Godsized – Heavy Lies The Crown (Metalville) – Groove
Gost – Behemoth (Blood) – Electronic
Implode – I Of Everything (Cramada) – Melodic death metal
JPT Scare Band – Acid Acetate Excursion/Rape Of The Titan's Sirens (Ripple) – Rock
Kommandant – The Architects Of Extermination (ATMF) – Thrash/black metal
A Life Divided – Human (AFM) – Synth rock
Lustre – Blossom (Nordvis) – Black metal
Monolord – Vaenir (Riding Easy) – Doom
Mordenial – Where The Angels Fall (Vic) – Melodic death metal
Noise-A-Tron – Vast Arcane (Bleeding Light) – Sludge
Norot – Nathrach (Naturmacht) – Atmospheric black metal
Paganland – Fatherland (Svarga) – Black meta
Raven – ExtermiNation (SPV) – Speed metal
The Resistance – Torture Tactics (EarMusic) – Death metal
Risen Prophecy – Into The Valley Of Hinnom (Metal On Metal) – Power metal
Seagrave – Stabwound (Art Of Propaganda) – Post black metal
A Secret Revealed – The Bleakness (Bastardized) – Post metal
Secret Sphere – A Time Never Come Re-Recorded (Scarlet) – Power metal
Stonegriff – Come Taste The Blood (Metal On Metal) – Doom
Throes – Disassociation (Rain Without End) – Blackened death metal
Vardan – Despicable Broken Hope (Moribund) – Black metal
Voice Of Ruin – Consumed EP (Tenacity) – Groove metal
Whorion – The Reign Of The 7th Sector (Inverse) – Symphonic death metal
