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Dystrophy – Wretched Host

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 I think anyone who sees that album cover can all immediately agree that this is death metal without a doubt. But it’s not normal death metal, otherwise it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting. While still retaining that feel of old school death metal, Dystrophy brings a 5-string electric violin into the mix. Albeit it’s only heard on the opening and closing tracks, it’s still interesting enough and very unique compared to what you’d hear from a not so unique death metal album. In between those two tracks are beefy and intricate death metal tracks that absolutely destroyed. Brutal vocals mixed … Continue reading Dystrophy – Wretched Host

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Ahab – The Boats of The Glen Carrig

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 There’s nothing like hearing from a band who pioneered a genre of their very own. Much like how Alestorm invented pirate metal and A Breach of Silence tweaked metalcore into powercore, Ahab have transformed their doom metal into a seaworthy subgenre of doom metal: nautic (or nautik) doom. As you might have guessed by the word choice and album cover, Ahab’s new album “The Boats of The Glen Carrig” is heavily influenced by the sea. More specifically, a novel of the same name written by William Hope Hodgson first published in 1907. Regarded as a “survival and adventure story with elements of … Continue reading Ahab – The Boats of The Glen Carrig

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Myrkur – M

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 After Myrkur put out her first album, people who heard it were absolutely ecstatic to hear what else this one-woman band could whip up for a sophomore release. And what she has created is something that will not be forgotten any time soon by fans of Myrkur itself, black metal, or both. Her new upcoming album, simply titled “M” (drops August 21st), is a beautifully elegant 12-track album that is brutal, entrancing, and as hauntingly exquisite as atmospheric black metal gets. Each track off of “M” has their own strengths that have a flawless mix of vocals that range from … Continue reading Myrkur – M

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Cities of the Plain – Salt

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 Instrumental bands have always peaked my interest as they can manage to create an interesting feel and flow while also lacking lyrics which is usually what helps bring everything together and sound better, and Cities of the Plain is one such band. This guy has put out 2 albums previous to his newest, “Salt”, and they were fantastic, and he continues that chain with this being my personal favorite of all his albums by far. “Salt” is a mere 20 minutes long with 5 tracks, but it literally does and is so much more than what so many other bands … Continue reading Cities of the Plain – Salt

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Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction

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 I remember hearing the intro track, “Manufactured Extinct”, off of this album months ago and thinking “I cannot fucking wait for this album!” Thankfully, those words weren’t said with false hope as Cattle Decapitation’s newest album “The Anthropocene Extinction” is more than I could’ve fucking wanted. Ergo, this album is fucking amazing in every sense of the term for any sort of death metal mixed with grind and progressive metal. This album absolutely shreds in just about every single track and it just made my brain melt out of my deafened ears after I played “The Anthropocene Extinction” at least … Continue reading Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction

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Siderian – Reduced Aisle (single)

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 The beginning of band is defined by their first EP, but before that’s released all we have would be the band’s debut single. That’s the case with Siderian and their upcoming debut, “Cancel Your Future”, coming out soon, and all we have to discern of Siderian is their debut single, “Reduced Aisle”. This song is a solid 3 and a half minute track that only shows good things will come of “Cancel Your Future” when it drops as this song has all nine yards. The vocals have an intense black metal screech feel to them that makes them all the … Continue reading Siderian – Reduced Aisle (single)

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Shadows of Violence – Rise

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 Sometimes “heavy metal” is the only term that you can use to describe a band whose music doesn’t belong in any one genre that you can think of. Shadows of Violence is one such band with their upcoming album “Rise” being one of those albums that I can only call heavy metal, and it’s good heavy metal at that. Each song are solid and crunchy tracks that are just what the metal witch doctor ordered as there has been a lack of metal with a real crunch to it that holds promise and literally sounds like it should be played … Continue reading Shadows of Violence – Rise

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Behold! The Monolith – Architects of the Void

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 That is one of those album covers that is so badass that you cannot help but think “I hope the music is the same as the cover” (meaning epic). Stoner metal has always been a genre for me that is never consistent with being good or bad to my ears, and the same thing goes for doom metal, and especially not to mention if they were combined. They’ve both had their moments their, and Behold! The Monolith’s new upcoming album “Architects of the Void” is one of them as this combo of stoner and doom metal is more than anything … Continue reading Behold! The Monolith – Architects of the Void

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Fallen Angels – World in Decay

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 There have been far too many bands that have attempted to create their own renditions of the famous thrash that was rampant in the 80s, and the vast majority of those bands fail miserably. But here is Fallen Angels and their new album “World in Decay” that shows that thrash isn’t dead yet and this US band is the cultivation of decades of awesome thrash bands influencing this band to create an amazing thrash album. Everything down to the rhythm of the vocals and the melody of the guitars and drums show that Fallen Angels have truly heard and know … Continue reading Fallen Angels – World in Decay

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Despite – Praedonum (single)

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 Despite is one of those bands for me that no matter they pump out, I manage to love it. Their last EP, “Epic”, was fucking amazing and so was their last single, “Chaos Trigger”. Now this 6-man, 8-stringed melodic death metal band has done it again with their brand new song “Praedonum”. Tackling the issue of children who have been abused and kidnapped are captured within the powerful lyrics as they tell how the disgusting people who commit such crimes will pay for their hellish deeds and then some. The vocals for this song are slightly different from Despite’s previous … Continue reading Despite – Praedonum (single)