This week's heavy new releases include an epic return after a decade, your favorite prize machine winning death metal vocalist, and more! To the metals…
3Teeth – EndEx
Genre: Industrial
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Century Media
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Starting this week off with some driving industrial from one of the modern scene's greats. This feels like their most diverse offering yet with some slower, more atmospheric songs, and yet plenty of aggression and digital walls of sound. Ho99o9 makes an appearance and this also features Mick Gordon (Doom) a lot.
Cannibal Corpse – Chaos Horrific
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Buffalo, New York
Label: Metal Blade
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When things were still pretty quiet tour-wise, Cannibal Corpse wrote 2021's Violence Unimagined, and got right to work on Chaos Horrific after that. It feels like a natural continuation of Violence. Then, like all CC records, you come for the death metal, but you stay for the uplifting song titles like "Fracture and Refracture," "Pitchfork Impalement," and more.
KEN Mode – Void
Genre: Noise rock/sludge
Origin: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Label: Artoffact
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Just a year after Null, KEN Mode have returned with another intense and noisy record of experimental unease. This one was recorded around the same time as Null, but is much more of a bummer record despite the fact that this is intended to be paired with Null. Get it? Null and Void?
Mercenary – Soundtrack To The End Of Times
Genre: Melodic death/power metal
Origin: Aalborg, Denmark
Label: NoiseArt
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It's been a decade since these epic greats have dropped an album, and they came back STRONG. This is a soaring melodic death prog event of an album. There's even a guest spot from Matt Heafy from Trivium bringing the screamies on the track below.
Thy Art Is Murder – Godlike
Genre: Deathcore
Origin: Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Label: Human Warfare
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Now for a pissed off record with some big chunky grooves and epic moments. This year has been really good for deathcore, and this is another win for fans of the subgenre. Also another successful partnership of TAIM and Will Putney.
Wormhole – Almost Human
Genre: Technical/brutal death metal
Origin: Baltimore, Maryland
Label: Season Of Mist
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Concluding this week with an heavy and complex metal record. Wormhole mix brutal death metal heft with dissonance and technical flurries in a successful way that few can pull off this well. I'm even selling it short with that description. This is a rewarding one beyond the singles and upon re-listens.
Also dropping this week…
- Angel Rising – Afterlife (Wormholedeath) – Progressive death metal
- Annisokay – Abyss Pt. 1 (Arising Empire) – Post-hardcore
- Apex Of Devastation – Apex Of Devastation (Self-released) – Deathcore/hardcore
- Bulletbelt – Burn It Up (Impaler Records) – Black metal/thrash
- Stu Brooks – 40Hz (Dine Alone) – Experimental
- Chaver – Of Gloom (BDHW Records) – Hardcore/nu metal
- Conspiracy Of Blackness – Pain Therapy (Wormholedeath) – Alternative/nu metal
- Cruel Force – Dawn Of The Axe (Shadow Kingdom Records) – Thrash
- Dayshell – Pegasus (Self-released) – Post-hardcore/metalcore
- Dead Feathers – Full Circle (Ripple Music) – Stoner/psychedelic
- Death Dealer Union – Initiation (Napalm) – Heavy metal/hard rock
- Destabilizer – Violence Is The Answer! (Horror Pain Gore Death) – Thrash
- Equivocator – Equivocator (Nefarious Industries) – Progressive death metal
- Exorcizphobia – Spiritual Exodus (Doomentia Records/Carnal Beast) – Thrash
- Final Gasp – Mourning Moon (Relapse) – Gothic metal
- Freya – Fight As One (Upstate) – Hardcore
- Grymheart – Hellish Hunt (Scarlet Records) – Power/melodic death metal
- Haurun – Wilting Within (Small Stone Recordings) – Psychedelic/stoner rock
- Heart Of A Coward – This Place Only Brings Death (Arising Empire) – Metalcore
- Hexvessel – Polar Veil (Svart) – Psychedelic/.folk metal
- The Holy Ghost – Ignore Alien Orders (Self-released) – Punk/experimental
- Iron Mind – Assume Your Ultimate Form (Flatspot Records) – Punk/hardcore
- Kal-El – Moon People (Majestic Mountain Records) – Hard rock/heavy metal
- Kill Devil Hill – Seas of Oblivion (Legend Recordings) – Hard rock
- Lacrau – Axioma (Monumental Rex) – Black metal
- The Moth – Frost (Exile On Mainstream) – Sludge
- Mythologik – Mythologik EP (Self-released) – Melodic death metal/thrash
- Neck Bolt – (dream dump) (Born Yesterday Records) – Experimental metal/math rock
- Necrotted – Imperium (Reaper Entertainment) – Death metal/deathcore
- Noctomb – Noctomb (Self-releasef) – Black metal/sludge
- Orbiter – Hollow World (Argonauta Records) – Stoner/doom
- Overt Enemy – Overt Enemy: Official Live Thunder In the Hill Country (Vault 32 Media/Confused Records) – Thrash
- Profanatica – Crux Simplex (Season Of Mist) – Black metal
- Rebaelliun – Under The Sign Of Rebellion (Agonia) – Death metal
- Reckless – Sharp Magick Steel (Dying Victims) – Thrash
- Bruce Soord – Luminescence (Kscope) – Progressive rock
- Spook The Beast – Guided By The Second Sun (Self-released) – Doom/sludge
- Staind – Confessions Of The Fallen (Alchemy) – Post grunge
- Teenage Fanclub – Nothing Lasts Forever (Merge) – Alternative rock
- Traindodge – The Alley Parade (Spartan) – Experimental/progressive rock
- Values Here – Take Your Time, I'll Be Waiting (End Hits) – Hardcore
- Various Artists – Blast No. 1 – Blastbeat Tribute To Type O Negative (783punx) – Type O Negative covers
- Wolves At The Gate – Lost In Translation (Solid State) – Metalcore
