This week’s new heavy steel releases embody some yeehaw, some experimental weirdness, some epic stuff, and extra! To the metals…
Benthos – From Nothing
Style: Progressive steel
Origin: Milan, Italy
Label: InsideOut
Purchase now on Bandcamp
Getting this week’s social gathering began with some fairly rad prog. This document has these guys displaying off some djenty parts, a lot of melody, and even some shoegaze ambiance. They’re like a mix of The Contortionist and Good Tiger. Would advocate.
Elvenking – Reader Of The Runes – Luna
Style: Energy/folks steel
Origin: Sacile, Italy
Label: Reaper
Purchase now from River
Let’s get epic! The band’s third within the Reader of the Runes sequence is one other document that can make you need to mosh in your best animal pelt. Just a few well-done fantasy stuff right here.
Epica – Aspiral
Style: Symphonic steel
Origin: Reuver, Limburg, Netherlands
Label: Reigning Phoenix
Purchase now from Epic
Aspiral retains the hovering steel theme going, however much less of a folks lean. Regardless of having a VERY prolific 4 years with a lot of stay albums and EPs, that is the band’s full-length since 2021’s Omega. Log-time followers could also be excited to be taught that this one consists of three extra entries into the on-going “A New Age Dawns” saga. I very a lot sit up for the eventual (possible?) efficiency of your entire suite.
In The Woods… – Otra
Style: Progressive black steel/doom
Origin: Kristiansand, Norway
Label: Prophecy
Purchase now on Bandcamp
Bringing the darkness this week we’ve the newest from the proggy, bleak, and blackened In The Woods…. Otra is a seven track assortment of lengthy and catchy songs. Followers of Inexperienced Carnation and maybe Borknagar ought to examine this out.
The Mars Volta – soiled revenue; Vacuum’s eyes
Style: Progressive/experimental rock
Origin: El Paso, Texas
Label: Clouds Hill
Purchase now through Clouds Hill
I went to one of many current Deftones exhibits that The Mars Volta opened the place they performed this album in full. Assuming the studio model is not wildly completely different, it’s within the realm of their self-titled comeback document. Fairly chill, spacy, and experimental. Followers of the early chaotic years could also be left wanting (once more?).
Messa – The Spin
Style: Doom rock
Origin: Cittadella, Veneto, Italy
Label: Steel Blade
Purchase now on Bandcamp
The Spin is a type of information that I might see crossing over to the extra hip music retailers. It’s a enjoyable and darkish document with toes in each doom and post-punk. You may wanna dance and headbang.
Mark Morton – With out The Ache
Style: Southern rock
Origin: Williamsburg, Virginia
Label: Snakefarm Music Group
Purchase now from Mark
Are you THAT stunned {that a} dude from Virginia goes all in on Southern fried rock? Lamb of God’s most-bearded guitarist has a couple of heavy pals with Troy Sanders (Mastodon) and Neil Fallon (Clutch) guesting, however the remainder of the names that come out to me are dealt with by correct nation/Southern rock voices. If Chappell Roan’s boot-scootin’ flip does not do it for you, possibly Mark’s will.
Additionally dropping this week…
Aittala – Machines (Exitus Stratagem Information) – Doom
Black Map – Hex (Spinefarm) – Progressive rock
Blood Abscission – II (Debemur Morti Productions) – Atmospheric black steel
Celestial Sanctuary – Visions of Stagnant Blood (Steel Blade Information) – Dying steel
Church Of The Sea – Eva (These Fingers Soften) – Doomgaze
Cytotoxin – Biographyte (Self-relased) – Technical/brutal demise steel
Exiled Hope – Apocrypha (Self-released) – Symphonic/gothic steel
Ghörnt – Bluetgraf (Soulseller Information) – Black steel
Håndgemeng – A Path Much less Traveled (Ripple Music) – Stoner/doom
Herman Rarebell & Mates – What About Love? (Metalville) – Rock
Idle Heirs – Life Is Violence (Relapse Information) – Submit-metal
The Infernal Deceit – The True Dangerous Black (Private Information) – Black steel
Imperishable – Swallowing The World (Hammerheart Information) – Dying steel
Final Leaf Down – Weight Of Silence (Lifeforce Information) – Submit-rock/shoegaze
The Lord Bizarre Slough Feg – Traveller Complement I: The Ephermal Glades (Cruz Del Sur) – Experimental/stoner steel
Magnolia Park – Vamp (Epitaph) – Emo/hip hop
The Man-Consuming Tree – Evening Verses (Noble Demon Information) – Atmospheric steel
Mika Häkki – Mørker (Majestic Mountain Information) – Rock
Moonfall – Odes to the Ritual Hills (Iron Bonehead Productions) – Black steel/doom
Nightsteel – Nightsteel (Cosmic Fireplace Information) – Heavy/energy steel
Putrid Offal – Obliterated Life (Time To Kill Information) – Dying steel/grindcore
Rebelmatic – Black Gap Eats The Twister (Say-10 Information) – Heavy steel
Revengin – Darkish Dogma Embrace (Wormholedeath) – Symphonic steel
Rock-Out – Let’s Name It Rock N’ Roll (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – Rock
Samtar – The Bathroom Of Cosmic Delusions (Self-released) – Progressive rock/experimental steel
Ryoji Shinomoto – Kids Of Bushido (Napalm) – Smphonic steel/Kids of Bodom covers
Sons Of Ra – Normal Deviation (Free Electrical Sound) – Jazz steel
Speedway – A Life’s Chorus (Revelation Information) – Hardcore
Teen Mortgage – Satan Ultrasonic Dream (Roadrunner) – Onerous rock
Valhalore – Past The Stars (Rock Of Angels) – Folks steel
Vortex – Alien Realms (Self-released) – Symphonic steel
Vulvectomy – Aberrant Vaginal Gestation (Comatose Music) – Slam/brutal demise steel
Inside Destruction – Animetal (Sumerian) – Nu-metal/deathcore
Wurmian – Immemorial Shrine (Pest Information) – Melodic demise steel
Ye Banished Privateers – ‘Til The Sea Shall Give Up Her Lifeless (Napalm) – Folks steel
Additionally! Tomorrow is File Retailer Day. Peep the record right here so you already know what to go camp out for.
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