This week’s new heavy metal releases include tunes for all you lovers this Valentine’s Day. You’re getting intense metalcore, dissonant death metal, Gothic jams, and more! To the metals…
Bleeding Through – Nine
Genre: Metalcore
Origin: Orange County, California
Label: SharpTone
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On their second full-length since their reunion these metalcore greats are pulling zero punches. This is an angry and cathartic affair. It includes some friends like Brian from Shadows Fall, Doc from God Forbid, and Andrew from Comeback Kid.
Hangman’s Chair – Saddiction
Genre: Gothic metal/doom
Origin: Crosne, Île-de-France, France
Label: Nuclear Blast
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Now, get ready for Hangman’s Chair to bring the sad. As the album title’s portmanteau indicates, they cannot seem to not be a bummer. It’s really catchy while still having riffs though. This one should appeal to those in the middle of the Alice In Chains and Pallbearer fandom Venn diagram.
Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire
Genre: Gothic metal
Origin: Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Label: Century Media
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Let’s keep the Gothic metal party going with Lacuna Coil‘s tenth record. Their first album of new material in six years features a lot of your traditional LC sounds in addition to some modern dabbling. There are songs that feel like loving homages to Bad Omens and the likes. Randy from Lamb of God and Ash from New Year’s Day both make pretty sweet cameos here. So if Andrea and Cristina’s dueling vocals wasn’t already enough, you can enjoy an occasional third.
Love Is Noise – To Live In A Different Way
Genre: Shoegaze/hard rock
Origin: UK
Label: Century Media)
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Love Is Noise is new to me, but they’re an exciting younger act. They remind me a bit of Nothing with a wider ranger of sounds. The track below includes some hip hop and black metal influence amid the shoegaze wash. The rest of the album is just as varied.
Mantar – Post Apocalyptic Depression
Genre: Extreme/sludge metal
Origin: Bremen, Germany
Label: Metal Blade
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Next up we have Mantar swinging in like the evil cousin of Kvelertak. This is both a rockin’ good time and an intense record. You’ll burn things, you’ll headbang, and you’ll ponder your existential dread.
Obscureviolence – Refuting The Flesh
Genre: Dissonant/experimental death metal
Origin: Russia
Label: Transcending Obscurity
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Occasionally I will finish writing this thing, take a step back, and feel like I need one more heavy as hell thing. Well here that is. Over six tracks Obscureviolence take you on a dissonant ride though darkness. Vocals are low, rhythms are swift, and the fretwork are nasty.
Thomas Erak & The Ouroboros – (AU)
Genre: Post-hardcore/experimental rock
Origin: Mukilteo, Washington
Label: Equal Vision Records
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Wrapping this week with a fun one. Thomas Erak is the vocalist and guitarist of The Fall of Troy. His latest outfit isn’t THAT far off from FoT as it scratches the itch mathrock-ish noodling. However, this feels like it is more accessible and more layered.
Also dropping this week…
- Ameonna – The Birth Of Death (Self-released) – Metalcore/deathcore
- Apocalypse Orchestra – A Plague Upon Thee (Despotz Records) – Folk metal/doom
- Blood Cult – We’re Gonna Take Your Soul (Self-released) – “Redneck Black Metal”
- Bloodtrust – Silent Masses (People Of Punkrock Records) – Punk
- Carmeria – Trinity: Volume I (Self-released) – Gothic/symphonic metal
- Cantu Ignis – The Fathomless Dominion (Self-released) – Symphonic/melodic death metal
- Church Tongue – You’ll Know It Was Me (Pure Noise Records) – Metalcore/hardcore
- Crazy Lixx – Thrill Of The Bite (Frontiers) – Harc rock
- Dawn Of Solace – Affliction Vortex (Noble Demon) – Gothic metal/doom
- Dead American – Attention Deficit (Velocity Records) – Post-hardcore
- Decline Of The I – Wilhelm (Wydawnictwo Agonia) – Post-black metal
- Délirant – Thoughteater (Sentient Ruin) – Black metal
- Diamond Dogs & Spedding Chris Macon – Georgia Giant (Wild Kingdom / Sound Pollution) – Rock
- Dynazty – Game Of Faces (Nuclear Blast) – Power metal
- Dysangelium – Exxekratus (W.T.C.) – Black metal
- Ephemera – For Those Afraid To Die (Morning Star Heresy Music Group) – Hardcore/metalcore
- Fell Omen – Invaded by a Dark Spirit (True Cult Records) – Black metal/crust Punk
- Ginger Evil – The Way It Burns (Frontiers) – Hard rock
- Gore Animal – In The Name of Brutality (Pathologically Explicit) – Brutal death metal
- Haunted Mouths – A Collection Of Greetings (Rise Records) – Indie rock
- Klastos — Born to Ruin (Superlord Recordings) – Sludge
- Kosuke Hashida – Outrage (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions) – Thrash/grindcore
- Leadfeather – Roll The Dice (Indian Summer Records) – Southern rock
- Loanshark – No Sins To Confess (ROAR) – Heavy metal
- Mantric Momentum – Alienized (Frontiers) – Power metal
- Möuth – Global Warning (Bonebag Records) – Hard rock/psychedelic
- Novarupta – Astral Sands (Suicide) – Blackened sludge
- Pattern-Seeking Animals – Friend Of All Creatures (GEP) – Progressive rock
- Pothamus – Abur (Pelagic) – Post-metal
- Pyrrhic Salvation – When Society Crumbles (Self-released) – Technical/experimental death metal
- Raven – Can’t Take Away The Fire EP (Silver Lining) – Heavy metal
- Savage Lands – Army Of Trees (Season Of Mist) – Hard rock/heavy metal
- Scorpion Child – I Saw the End as it Passed Right Through Me (Noize in the Attic) – Rock
- Serpents Of Pakhangba – Air And Fire (Self-released) – Art metal
- Spiders – Sharp Objects (Wild Kingdom / Sound Pollution) – Rock
- Storm – Walking Dead (Indie Recordings) – Metalcore
- Vénus Bleue – Infâme Nectar (Wormholedeath) – Progressive/avant-garde metal
- Volatile – Ways Perfect Dark (Bereave In God Records) – Deathcore
- Warlung – The Human Touch (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Stoner/doom
- With Blood Comes Cleansing – With Blood Comes Cleansing (Self-released) – Deathcore
Source: metalinjection.net
