This week's new heavy metal releases include metal from Satan (the band), metal against Satan (the ruler of the underworld), epic prog, and more! To the metals…
Dale Crover – Glossolalia
Genre: Experimental
Origin: Aberdeen, Washington
Label: Joyful Noise
Boy now on Bandcamp
Melvins' long-time drummer Dale is starting off this week with his third solo record. As you'd expect this is a weird, experimental rock record. Lil stoner rock, lil indie, lil whatever-the-fuck. Features some pretty rad guests like Kim from Soundgarden, Rob from Pinback, and Ty Segall.
Luck Wont Save You – Through the Mountains of Melancholia
Genre: Progressive death metal/deathcore
Origin: Reno, Nevada/Boise, Idaho
Label: Self-released
Buy now on Bandcamp
It's been a bit since the duo of drummer/vocalist Jared Klein (Rivers of Nihil) and everything else guy Russell Eck have come together as Luck Wont Save You. As of this writing there are only two songs out and they are proggy, guest-filled powerhouses. This record has spots from Bobby from Cyborg Octopus, Nathan from Arkaik, and lots more.
Oceans Of Slumber – Where Gods Fear To Speak
Genre: Progressive metal/doom
Origin: Houston, Texas –
Label: Season Of Mist)
Boy now on Bandcamp
Oceans of Slumber remain one of the better kept secrets in a small scene of prog doom. Their sixth album features a pair of new guitarists, and the new guys shake up the sound nicely. It remains Cammie Gilbert's show though, and she shines as always.
Satan – Songs In Crimson
Genre: Heavy metal
Origin: Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Label: Metal Blade
Boy now on Bandcamp
This is no frills OG heavy metal. It feels like it, it sounds like it, and it hits like it. So many bands these days try to sound like this, and it's always nice when one of the old school bands show how to do it authentically.
Silly Goose – Bad Behavior
Genre: Groove/nu metal
Origin: Atlanta, Georgia
Label: Blue Grape Music
Stream/buy here
Next up, we have some late-90's/early-00's nü-metal worship. This sounds like Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and Korn blended together and given a modern slant and some Spongebob references. Not something I ever expected to type, but here we are.
Stryper – When We Were Kings
Genre: Heavy/glam metal
Origin: La Mirada, California
Label: Frontiers
Boy now on Amazon
I have to admit that when I first started building this week's entry that I thought it would be kind of funny to put Stryper right after Satan, but my insistence on alphabetizing bands screwed that up. Anyway, this is the band's fifteenth album of Christian heavy metal. I know the religious angle deters some, but what I've heard of this rips.
Winterfylleth – The Imperious Horizon
Genre: Folk/black metal
Origin: Manchester, England
Label: Candlelight
Boy now on Bandcamp
On to some black metal since that only feels appropriate. The band's first record in four years is a cold and evil affair. Lots of atmosphere and darkness. Just what you'd want from them.
Also dropping this week…
- 156/Silence – People Watching (SharpTone) – Alterntative metal/metalcore
- Manuel Barbara – Whisper in a Storm (Self-Released) – Djent/progressive metal
- Beastplague – Coerced Through A Killer (Barbaric Brutality) – Nu/groove metal
- Berthold City – Where Did We Go Wrong? (WAR Records) – Hardcore/punk
- Big Big Train – A Flare On The Lens (InsideOut) – Progressive rock
- Bones UK – Soft (Sumerian) – Rock
- Chastity – Chastity (Deathwish) – Pop punk
- Çöküs – An Hour Of Lies (Qumran Records) – Hard rock
- Consvmer – Seelenfrieden (Out Of Line Music) – Metalcore/progressive metal
- Crobot – Obsidian (Megaforce) – Hard rock
- Crypt Crawler – Crypt Crawler (Crypt Crawler) – Crypt Crawler
- Cursive – Devourer (Run For Cover) – Post-punk
- The Damned – AD 2022 – Live In Manchester (earMusic) – Punk
- Daufødt – Glitter (Fysisk Format) – Punk/hardcore
- Flotsam And Jetsam – I Am The Weapon (AFM) – Heavy metal/thrash
- The Funeral Portrait – Greetings From Suffocate City (Better Noise) – Emo/
- Go Ahead And Die – Better Dead Than Mainstream: Live At The Marquee Theater (Nuclear Blast) – Groove metal/thrash
- Hammerfilosofi – Solus (Igne Natura Renovator Integra) (Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum) – Black metal
- Helevorn – Espectres (Meuse Music Records) – Gothic metal/doom
- Herakleion – Necroverse (Self-released) – Death metal/thrash
- Horna – Nyx – Hymnejä Yölle (W.T.C.) – Black metal
- House Of Protection – Galore (Red Bull Records) – Experimental rock
- Insurrection – Obsolescence (Self-released) – Death metal
- Isolert – Wounds Of Desolation (Non Serviam Records) – Black metal
- The Jesus Lizard – Rack (Ipecac) – Noise/alternative rock
- A Killer's Confession – Victim 1 (MNRK Heavy) – Alternative/nu metal
- Killing Spree – Camouflage (Klonosphere) – Avant-garde
- Legions Of Doom – The Skull 3 (Tee Pee Records) – Doom
- Marcin – Dragon In Harmony (Masterworks) – Shred
- Motor!k – 5 (Out Of Line Music) – Kraut rock/post-rock
- Nada Surf – Moon Mirror (New West) – Alternative
- The Narrator – Lore (Self-released) – Metalcore
- NightWraith – Divergence (Self-released) – Black/death metal
- Oathbound – Until It's Gone (Self-released) – Metalcore
- Silent Theory – Tell Us How It Ends (ONErpm) – Nu metal
- Slomosa – Tundra Rock (MNRK Heavy) – Heavy/stoner metal
- Sully – Sully (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Grindcore
- Thy Will be Done – Pillar Of Fire (Self-released) – Metalcore/groove metal
- Trelldom – …By The Shadows… (Prophecy) – Black metal
- Trip To The Morgue – Toe Tagged And Body Bagged (Wormholedeath Records) – Death metal
- Victory – Circle Of Life (AFM) – Hard rock/heavy metal
- Wake The Nations – Heartageddon (Inverse Records) – Melodic hard rock
- Wolfbrigade – Life Knife Death (Metal Blade) – Crust/melodic death metal
- Zetra – Zetra (Nuclear Blast) – Gothic rock/art pop
