New Metal Releases: 6/12/2022-6/18/2022
Here are the new (and recent) metal releases for the week of June 12th, 2022 to June 18th, 2022. Releases reflect proposed North American scheduling, if available. Expect to see most of these albums on shelves or distros on Fridays.
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New Releases
White Ward — False Light | Debemur Morti Productions | Black Metal | Ukraine (Odessa)
From Brandon Nurick’s review:
With their third album, False Light, the Odessa-based troupe expand on their blackened foundation, allowing a fresh round of influences to reinforce the beams of blackgaze and noir they’ve built their sound upon.
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Esoctrilihum — Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh | I, Voidhanger Records | Black Metal | France
More extremely intricate and bizarre black/death from this one-man powerhouse project — the sheer insanity on display helps keep Esoctrilihum’s aggressive release cadence from feeling too routine.
–Ted Nubel
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Inexorum — Equinox Vigil | Gilead Media | Melodic Black + Death Metal | United States (Minneapolis, MN)
From Colin Williams’s full album premiere:
Equinox Vigil is a restless, autumnal record that benefits from Inexorum’s most richly layered melodies and cleanest production to date.
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Consecration — Cinis | Redefining Darkness Records | Death + Doom Metal | United Kingdom
A heightened sense of tragic melody elevates this rotting death-doom release, which can root around in the sewers with the best of them while still delivering some traditionally-inspired doom metal mood.
–Ted Nubel
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Horns & Hooves — I am the Skel Messiah | Invictus Productions | Black Metal | United States (Brooklyn, NY)
From Jon Rosenthal’s track premiere of “Baphomet in Steel”:
Filled with raunchy sex act references (this might be the only time we ever cover anything which mentions “bussy” in a serious, conceptual manner) and anti-Christian messages, it’s Horns & Hooves’ brand of disgusting, riff-oriented black metal which hearkens back to black metal’s edgier salad days, when being ridiculous was the norm as a young genre found its footing.
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Oblivion Castle — Sorcière | Independent | Black Metal + Doom + Ambient | Mexico
Elegant synthesizers adorn this dour, humid black metal release, with ambient interludes conjuring up a miasma that floods the mossy stonework.
–Ted Nubel
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Dessication — Cold Death Earth | Transilvanian Tapes | Black + Doom Metal | United States
Dessication’s debut album is a vast soundscape of black and doom metal, but the way that it traverses enormous swaths of emotions using these genres also ventures into post-metal territory.
–Ted Nubel
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Chevallier Skrog — Dethrone de Imperial Bloodline | Pant Y Meddygon | Black Metal | Czechia
Crude, punky black metal that revels in its impropriety. Beware, elite: Chevallier Skrog is coming for your silverware.
–Ted Nubel
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