This week's new heavy metal releases include some wild death metal, some big riffs, and more! To the metals…
Atreyu – The Moment You Find Your Flame
Genre: Metalcore/hard rock
Origin: Yorba Linda, California
Label: Spinefarm
Buy now from Spineform
On their second EP of the year, Atreyu are keeping the anthemic melodic metal jams going. The four tracks are full of earworm moments and shredding guitars. Pretty much what you'd expect (and hope for as a fan) at this point in their career.
Horrendous – Ontological Mysterium
Genre: Death/heavy metal
Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Label: Season Of Mist
Buy now on Bandcamp
If you like your death metal with the melodies of an Iron Maiden record, then Ontological Mysterium should be right up your alley. This record mixes a lot of metal into one blender and hits you with a unique combination that's success is hard to deny. Jeff's full review is here.
Nott – Hiraeth
Genre: Death metal/doom
Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Label: Silent Pendulum Records
Buy now on Bandcamp
After a couple melodic records, let's diverge from that…like, a lot. Hiraeth is dark and heavy. When it's not pummeling you with death metal blasting, it crushes with lumbering doom. The shifts between these two speeds can be wonderfully jarring.
Ringworm – Seeing Through Fire
Genre: Hardcore/thrash
Origin: Cleveland, Ohio
Label: Nuclear Blast
Buy now on Bandcamp
Seeing Through Fire is a brief, pit-inducing, rage filled record. Hardcore breakdowns breakup the thrash speed a bit, but the energy rarely dips. Stretch before putting this one on since it'll give your neck a hell of a workout.
Skálmöld- Ýdalir
Genre: Folk metal
Origin: Reykjavík, Iceland
Label: Napalm
Buy now on Bandcamp
Are you prepping for battle? Yes? Weird, but good news! Skálmöld have your new battle soundtrack. No members wearing pelts or horns on this one, but you're still getting all the powerful folk metal harmonies. I really feel like I could conquer something with this one in my earbuds.
Spirit Adrift – Ghost At The Gallows
Genre: Heavy metal/doom
Origin: Mesa, Arizona
Label: Century Media
Buy now on Bandcamp
Now to take us home we're going to riff city on the new Spirit Adrift. Guitarmonies, headbanging grooves, and just top-notch songwriting are all here. Nate Garrett and his crew really know how to do the kinda-doom, heavy metal thing. This is catchy and cool as hell. Jordan's review is here.
Also dropping this week…
- After Earth – The Rarity Of Reason (Self-released) – Melodic death metal
- As Friends Rust – Any Joy (End Hits Records) – Melodic hardcore
- Atria – Ground Zero (Self-released) – Groove metal/metalcore
- Bat Sabbath – Masters Of Duality (Bat Skull Records/New Damage Records) – Black Sabbath covers
- Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree – Aion (Magnetic Eye Records) Psychedelic/doom
- Blight House – Blight the Way (Nefarious Industries) – Death metal/rindcore
- Bone Dagger – The Veil (Self-released) – Hard rock/heavy metal
- Borracho – Blurring The Lines of Reality (Kozmik Artifactz) – Hard rock/stoner
- Cales – Chants Of Steel (Edged Circle Productions) – Death metal
- Creak – Depth Perception (Prosthetic) – Nu metal/hardcore
- Cyhra – The Vertigo Trigger (Nuclear Blast) – Heavy metal/hard rock
- Fall Of The Albatross – Rite (Self-released) – Progressive metal
- Fiddlehead – Death Is Nothing To Us (Run For Cover Records) – Post-hardcore
- Flo – Long Way Done (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Hard rock
- Godthrymm – Distortions (Profound Lore) – Doom
- Imperial Tide – Existence In Crisis EP (Mascot) – Hard rock
- Invultation – Feral Legion (Sentient Ruin) -Black/death metal
- Movements – Ruckus! (Fearless) – Post-hardcore/punk
- Nocte Obducta – Karwoche (Die Sonne der Toten pulsiert) (Supreme Chaos Records) Black metal
- Oblivion Protocol – The Fall Of The Shires (Atomic Fire) – Progressive rock
- Occult Blood – The Room in the Ground (Self-released) – Black metal
- Orbit Culture – Descent (Seek & Strike) – Melodic death metal
- OXX – The Primordial Blues (Nefarious Industries) – Avant-garde/experimental metal
- Pyrkagion – The Katechon And the Unending Fire (Cestrum Nocturnum) – Black metal
- Sanguine Glacialis – Maladaptive Daydreaming (Self-released) – Melodic death/gothic metal
- Seraina Telli – Addicted To Color (Metalville) – Rock
- Something Is Waiting – Absolutely (Learning Curve Records) – Hard/noise rock
- Tusmørke – Hestehoven (Karisma) – Progressive/folk rock
- Unblessed Divine – Portal To Darkness (Massacre) – Atmospheric death metal
- Virgin Black – Requiem – Fortissimo (Dark Escapes) – Gothic/doom metal
- Warmen – Here Are None (Reaper Entertainment) – Power/heavy metal
- Witness Chamber – True Delusion (DAZE) – Hardcore
- Worm Shepherd – The Sleeping Sun (Unique Leader) – Symphonic deathcore
