Upcoming Metal Releases: 8/6/2023-8/12/2023
Here are the new (and recent) metal releases for August 6th through August 12th. 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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Upcoming Releases
Kataklysm — Goliath | Nuclear Blast | Death Metal | Canada
A death metal band almost as prolific as the genre itself, Kataklysm have been around since 1991, and this is their 15th album. While they definitely aren’t reinventing the wheel, or their sound, with this record, the band are still tuned into their signature blend of death and thrash and deliver it well, despite no longer being in their 20s. Not a starter album, but a most for longtime fans.
–Addison Herron-Wheeler
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Werewolves — My Enemies Look And Sound Like Me | Prosthetic Records | Death Metal + Black Metal | Australia
Many bands play simple death metal, but few play it as if they’re trying to wring every ounce of potential from the genre. Werewolves’ newest album is anything but flashy or forward-thinking. It delves into death metal catacombs to discover how much enjoyment a band can derive from the mere basics, an approach that holds up four albums into the group’s career.
–Colin Dempsey
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Claret Ash — Worldtorn: Anemoia | Hypnotic Dirge Records | Black Metal | Australia
Worldtorn: Anemoia satiates those awaiting a new Claret Ash full-length. While it’s short on new material, it includes third new revisions of their older work that either modernize them, pair them with orchestral backing, or turn them into full acoustic tracks.
–Colin Dempsey
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Mycorrhizae — The Great Filtration | Big Bovine Waste Industries | Black Metal | United States (Minneapolis, MN)
Ain’t no black metal like mushroom black metal. The Great Filtration roots itself (look, I’m not sure mushrooms actually have roots, so it’s not a pun) in thick and mystical density, blending triumphant marches to the sky with blissful, meandering weirdness and field recordings.
–Ted Nubel
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Urne — A Feast On Sorrow | Candlelight Records | Stoner + Doom + Metalcore | United Kingdom
Chunky grooves carve out a surprisingly elegant pathway on A Feast On Sorrow, which runs early metalcore pathos through a hundred-foot pipe of industrial waste. What spills out at the exit is battle-tested, bitter, and entirely caustic.
–Ted Nubel
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Nox Eternus — Eternal Night | Reaping Scythe Records | Black Metal + Death Metal | United States (North Carolina)
Nox Eternus’ blackened death metal is a far cry from the subgenre’s beefy brand that’s currently in vogue. It’s biting and raw without being lo-fi. Instead of flattening black and death into one miasma, they circulate between the two dynamically, teetering towards one end of the spectrum depending on whether the situation calls for a guttural or thorny expression.
–Colin Dempsey
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Temple of Dread — Beyond Acheron | Testimony Records | Death Metal | Germany
With just enough old school charm and a penchant to let riffs marinate, Temple of Dread’s fourth album is a fine death metal album that doesn’t upend what came before it.
–Colin Dempsey
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Blessed Curse — Pray for Armageddon | M-Theory Audio | Thrash Metal | United States (California)
There’s a timeless quality to Pray for Armageddon. It’s dangerous and rough around the edges in a manner more similar to thrash’s early releases than the polished party rocking of contemporary thrash metal. It’s not retro or revivalist – Blessed Curse just understand their intention and execute it smoothly.
–Colin Dempsey
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