This week’s new heavy metal releases include atmospheric heaviness, cathartic chaos, operatic doom, and more on this Good Friday! To the metals…
Blackwater Holylight – If You Only Knew
Genre: Doom/psychedelic indie
Origin: Portland, Pregon
Label: Suicide Squeeze
Buy now on Bandcamp
Starting this week off with a little trip of an EP. Over four tracks Blackwater Holylight take you to space. This is the kind of thing that fans of shoegaze, harder indie, Chelsea Wolfe, and Blood Ceremony can all agree on.
Divide And Dissolve – Insatiable
Genre: Neo classical/experimental doom
Origin: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia –
Label: Bella Union
Buy now on Bandcamp
This is a record of slow builds and heavy rewards. Most tracks are not doom on the surface, but when they hit they HIT. More often though, this is an experimental, string-forward (or at least string synth) affair.
Gama Bomb – Necronomicon Automaton
Genre: Thrash
Origin: Dublin, Ireland
Label: Prosthetic Records
Buy now from here…maybe?
Here is a fun one after the calm introspection of the above releases. This is a thrash EP with a song called “Nunchucks!” and two songs with “Necro-” in their titles. There’s nothing to be mad about. Play loud and get rowdy.
Iron Lung – Adapting // Crawling
Genre: Grindcore/hardcore
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: Self-released
Buy now on Bandcamp
Iron Lung‘s first release in twelve years consists of eighteen tiny slabs of chaos. It sounds so angry, but when you dive into the lyrics it’s much sadder and darker. This winds up being a brief catharsis.
Lik – Necro
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
Label: Metal Blade
Buy now on Bandcamp
Speaking of “Necro,” here’s some straight up death metal fury. Some melodic elements are present here, but this is largely death metal that sounds like it was fueled by three metal zone pedals in a row (in a great way). Quite the return following a five year gap.
Melvins 1983 – Thunderball
Genre: Sludge
Origin: Montesano, Washington
Label: Ipecac
Buy now from Bandcamp
As the artist name would indicate, this is a return to a twist on King Buzzo‘s usual antics. This is the reunion of the 1983 era of the band with Buzz Osborne and Mike Dillard. This time they are joined by noise artists Void Manes and Ni Maîtres. The latter is also credited as contributing “hand gestures.” So have fun listening for for those?
Sick N’ Beautiful – Horror Vacui
Genre: Hard rock/modern metal
Origin: Rome, Italy
Label: BLKIIBLK
Buy now from Sick N’Beautiful
Sick N’ Beautiful‘s latest feels like both a throwback to classic Rob/White Zombie and a snapshot of where hard rock and metal are now. This has buzzing industrial elements, massive choruses, electronic beds, and horror nods. Overall a fun one. I could see them on any of the Danny Wimmer festivals and doing well.
Superheaven – Superheaven
Genre: Shoegaze/grunge
Origin: Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Label: Blue Grape
Buy now on Bandcamp
I must be in some sort of mood to keep coming back to these shoegaze-y rock acts. Anyway, the self-titled release from Superheaven could pair with Nothing or Deftones nicely. Lots of atmosphere and crashing walls of sound when it gets heavy.
Svnth – Pink Noise Youth
Genre: Atmospheric black metal/post-hardcore
Origin: Rome, Italy
Label: These Hands Melt
Buy now on Bandcamp
Next up, we’re keeping things atmospheric, but working in some blackened bits. It would be easy to hear a little of this and consider them a Deafheaven-esque band. However, the deeper you goes on this release the more variety and rewards you find. There are times when it reminds me of Ghost even.
Tribunal – In Penitence And Ruin
Genre: Operatic doom
Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Buy now on Bandcamp
Wrapping this week with a weird and wonderful one. This is a slow, heavy, and epic record. There’s cello and operatic vocals mixed with doooooooooooooooom. Hell yeah.
Also dropping this week…
- Ancestor Of Kaos – Animal Ritual (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Black metal
- Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution (Profound Lore) Death metal
- Anoxia – Revel In Sin (Brilliant Emperor Records/Gutter Prince Cabal Records) – Death metal
- Atrox Trauma – Where Death Haunts (Wormholedeath) – Thrash
- Cirkus Prütz – Manifesto (Metalville) – Rock
- Crypts Of Despair – We Belong In The Grave (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Death metal
- Dormant Ordeal – Tooth And Nail (Willowtip Records) – Death metal
- Empyrean Sanctum – Detachment From Reality (Self-released) – Progressive metal
- Exterminatus – Echoes From A Distant Star Part 1 (Self-released) – Technical death/groove metal
- Face Yourself – Martyr (Sumerian) – Deathcore
- Horrid Human Condition – Perpetual Imbalance (Time To Kill Records) – Crust/grindcore
- Karg – Marodeur (AOP Records) – Post-black metal
- Laurenne/Louhimo – Falling Through Stars (Frontiers) – Heavy metal
- Maestitia – Hate Of Sorrow (Via Nocturna) – Melodic death/black metal
- Operation Suffocate – Feudal Age (The Doorway to Label) – Industrial/noise
- Övervåld – Vigarv (Self-released) – Grindcore
- Silver Knife – Silver Knife (Amor Fati Productions) – Post-black metak
- Tetramorphe Impure – The Sunset of Being (Self-released) – Death metal/doom
- Tigerleech – Bicephalous (Argonauta Records)
- Unidad Trauma – Paradigma Egocéntrico Fatalista (Concreto Records) – Death metal
- Vetus Sanguis – Capítulo I – Dimensão Horrenda (Helldprod Records) – Black metal
- Wind Down – Burning Past (Wormholedeath) – Progressive/groove metal
Source: metalinjection.net
