Upcoming Metal Releases 11/16/2014 – 11/22/2014

November 17, 2014

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Here are the new metal releases for the week of 11/16/2014 – 11/22/2014. Release dates are formatted according to proposed North American scheduling, if available. Expect to see the bulk of these records on shelves or distros on Tuesday unless otherwise noted. Blurbs and designations are based on available promotional material and perceived buzz.

See something we missed? Goofs? Let us know in the comments. Plus, as always, feel free to post your own shopping lists. Happy digging.

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Anticipated Releases:

Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral | Peaceville Records | Death metal | Sweden
Old Nick hops in the OSDM time machine and Bloodbath turns the dial to “way back.”
Related to: Katatonia, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Diabolical Masquerade, Witchery, October Tide

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Fen – Carrion Skies | Code666 Records | Black metal | United Kingdom
Vast, naturalistic black metal given a post-rock-esque grandeur. Out on Saturday (November 22).
Related to: De Arma, Landskap, To-Mera

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Owl – The Last Walk | Zeitgeister Music | Doom, death/doom | Germany
A single, 25-minute track. It’s Zeitgeister, so it should be equally aggressive and adventurous. Out as a digital download Wednesday (November 19). Find older material here.
Related to: Centaurus-A, Valborg, Island, Woburn House, Skarab, Slon

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Raspberry Bulbs – Privacy | Blackest Ever Black | Black metal, punk | United States
Fuses early American hardcore with a blackened atmosphere. Does right by both styles without sacrificing key aspects of either.
Related to: Bone Awl, Rorschach

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Soulburn – The Suffocating Darkness | Century Media Records | Blackened death metal | Netherlands
OSDM meets old school black metal under the guidance of these Dutch vets.
Related to: Asphyx, Grand Supreme Blood Court, Bunkur, Sauron, Flesh Made Sin, Legion of the Damned, Verbum Verus, Xenomorph

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Thanatos – Global Purification | Century Media Records | Death/thrash | Netherlands
This long-running ripper tears through 10 tracks in under 40 minutes.
Related to: Asphyx, Hail of Bullets, Melechesh

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While Heaven Wept – Suspended At Aphelion | Nuclear Blast | Prog, epic doom | United States
Powered-up doom that sweeps elegantly.
Related to: Twisted Tower Dire, October 31, Revelation, Brave

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Of Note:

Adversarial / Paroxsihzem – Warpit of Coiling Atrocities | Vault of Dried Bones | Blackened death metal | Canada
Two bestial, blackened, war metal monstrosities.
Related to: Nuclearhammer, Dead of Winter, Lapidate

Bereft – Lost Ages | Silent Pendulum Records | Post-black metal, post-metal | United States
Walls of sound built from bits of black metal and post-metal.

Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band – Black Power Flower | Napalm Records | Stoner rock | United States
Stoner rock packed with MC5-esque proto-punk.
Related to: Kyuss, Vista Chino, Fu Manchu, Mondo Generator

Caskets Open – To Serve the Collapse | Ranka Kustannus | Doom, hard rock | Finland
Quirky “slow rock,” like if the Melvins were into the timbres of horror punk. Find older material here.
Related to: Horse Latitudes

Dominanz – Noxius | Industrial Silence Productions | Industrial, black metal, avant-garde | Norway
A mechanized blackened chug that finds space for experimentation in between the gears. Jørn Inge Tunsberg, of church arson fame, plays guitar.
Related to: Hades Almighty, Helheim, Thy Grief

Ellende – Weltennacht | Talheim Records | Black metal | Austria
The band name is purportedly pulled from a “…Middle High German word meaning ‘unclaimed wilderness‘…” which aptly describes the sound. Fans of early Agalloch will dig it.

Entrench – Violent Procreation | War Anthem Records | Thrash, death/thrash | Sweden
Though lo-fi, Entrench stack together a tall monument dedicated to the thrash riff. Out on Friday (November 21).

Eternal Sex and War – Negative Monoliths | Quality Steel Records | Black metal, blackened death metal | Italy
Fast and filthy bullet-belt-bedecked black metal. Out on Friday (November 21).
Related to: Grimness 69

Idol Of Fear – All Sights Affixed, Ablaze | Self-released | Post-metal, experimental | Canada
Makes sense of its myriad influences, most of which are core- and doom-derived.

Into Infernus – End Of Eden | Hollowed Records | Black metal, deathcore | United States
Slams together two reviled genres (symphonic black metal and deathcore) and earns points for ambitiousness.

Kult Ofenzivy – Nauky různic | Iron Bonehead Productions | Black metal | Czech Republic
Frills-free negativity that blasts towards the void.

Manimalism – Manimalism | Adversum | Avant-garde, black metal | Norway
A progressive, yet unexpectedly off-kilter descent into the dissonant. Think if Ulver hooked up with Virus.

Morodh – The World of Retribution | Witching Hour Productions | Black metal | Russia
DSBM that’s atmospheric without the sad wizard wispiness. Out on Thursday (November 20).

Neoplasmah – Auguring the Dusk of a New Era | Helldprod | Death metal | Portugal
Tech-precision helps launch this blaster into the cosmos.
Related to: Grog, The Firstborn

Northumbria – Bring Down The Sky | Consouling Sounds | Drone, ambient | Canada
A legitimate entry into the once-winking ‘power ambient’ tag.

Savage Master – Mask of the Devil | Van Records | Heavy Metal | United States
If Cirith Ungol skipped the fantasy for the gutter and comic book horror.

These Are They – At The Feast of Seven Funerals | Unruly Sounds | Death metal | United States
Paul Kuhr and Steve Nicholson’s project of stout, classic death metal.
Related to: Novembers Doom, Subterranean Masquerade

Thou Shell of Death – Cave Hill | Talheim Records | Black metal | Estonia
Slightly spacier and more askew than labelmates Ellende (Under Ein Blodraud Maane keys abound, for instance), but traverses similar themes. Out on Saturday (November 22).

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