Upcoming Metal Releases 11/23/2014 – 11/29/2014
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Here are the new metal releases for the week of 11/23/2014 – 11/29/2014. 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:
Baring Teeth – Ghost Chorus Among Old Ruins | Willowtip | Death metal, progressive | United States
Inventively inverts death metal without losing sight of the style’s calling cards.
Related to: Man is Mostly Water
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Bog Oak – A Treatise On The Resurrection And The Afterlife | Svart Records | Doom | United States
Subwoofer-punishing doom given another dimension via ethereal and hypnotic vocals.
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Full Of Hell & Merzbow – Full Of Hell & Merzbow | Profound Lore Records | Grind, punk, noise | United States, Canada / Japan
Merzbow, maestro of maelstroms, hooks up with hardcore grinders Full of Hell for an unholy onslaught of distortion.
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Isole – The Calm Hunter | Cyclone Empire | Doom | Sweden
These epic doomers take flight on the back of Daniel Bryntse’s soaring croons. Out on Friday (November 28).
Related to: Ereb Altor, Withered Beauty
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Lotus Thief – Rervm | Svart Records | Experimental, black metal, psych rock | United States
Ancient and futuristic timbres smeared together, producing a 4AD sort of shade. Out on Friday (November 28).
Related to: Botanist
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Primordial – Where Greater Men Have Fallen | Metal Blade Records | Black metal, folk metal, doom | Ireland
The ultra-charismatic Alan Averill leads his crew through another sturdy set of Bathory-derived downer epics filtered through Celtic themes. Drinking music for the solitary.
Related to: Dead Sovereign, Twilight of the Gods, Blood Revolt
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Skálmöld – Með vættum | Napalm Records | Viking metal, folk metal | Iceland
Tales of the old order are given a rockin’ overview.
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Zom – Flesh Assimilation | Dark Descent Records | Death metal, black metal | Ireland
A ruthless and nasty OSDM assault. A little thrash, a little punk, a lot of aggression.
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Of Note:
Air Raid – Point of Impact | High Roller Records | Heavy metal | Sweden
Takes a winking look back at NWOSHM like Proud.
American Heritage – Prolapse | Solar Flare Records | Sludge, hardcore | United States
Agents of the riff pace their attack with hardcore tempos. Recommended to fans of Big Business. Find older material here.
Ария – Через все времена | M2BA | Heavy metal | Russia
Nearing their 30th anniversary, these tradsters keep galloping along with themes of “Metal, Strong Personality, War, Religion, Bikers.”
Related to: Мастер
Avatarium – All I Want | Nuclear Blast | Doom | Sweden
Two new tracks and a handful of live cuts plot the next path for this Leif Edling/Jennie-Ann Smith collaboration.
Related to: Candlemass, Krux, Tiamat, Royal Hunt
Blaspherian – Upon the Throne…of Eternal Blasphemous Death | Iron Bonehead Productions | Death metal, death/doom | United States
Two tracks of crawling and croaking evilness.
Related to: Morbosidad, Infernal Dominion, War Master
Cadaveric Fumes / Demonic Oath – Entwined in Sepulchral Darkness | Iron Bonehead Productions / Impious Desecration Records | Death metal | France
Two underground OSDMers make the leap to official release status. Cadaveric Fumes are of the reverbed-to-hell variety. Demonic Oath are a solo project of incanted chugs.
Related to: Demonic Oath: Perversifier.
Dirty Mike & the Boys / Violation Wound / First Class Elite – Grime! Greed! Gore! | Horror Pain Gore Death Productions | Punk, crossover | United States / Netherlands
Three on-the-side punk projects from players with legendary résumés.
Related to: Dirty Mike & the Boys: Phobia, Gravehill. Violation Wound: Autopsy, Abscess, Death. First Class Elite: Asphyx, Grand Supreme Blood Court, Hail of Bullets, Pestilence, Thanatos.
Doctor Smoke – The Witching Hour | Totem Cat Records | Hard rock, stoner rock | United States
Has a prescription for a throwback boogie.
The Flight of Sleipnir – V | Napalm Records | Stoner rock, folk metal | United States
Trades in the typical weedian one-liners for Norse tales befitting the occasional forays into folkiness.
Related to: Acheronian Dirge, Throcult
Foscor – Those Horrors Wither | Alone Records | Black metal, avant-garde | Spain
Intriguingly progressive fusion of black metal and rock. Will rankle purists.
Related to: Vidres a la Sang
Frostbitten Kingdom – The Winter War Symphony | WormHoleDeath Records | Black metal, death metal | Finland
An Immortal-esque speedy sleigh ride that rages with a rasp.
Grimoire – L’aorasie des spectres rêveurs | Eisenwald Tonschmiede | Black metal | Canada
Lush and atmospheric-rich black metal that can still pack a wallop.
Related to: Csejthe, Ephemer, Forteresse
Heavydeath – They Had No Names | Caligari Records | Death/doom | Sweden
Death and doom vets unleash this slow and low monstrosity.
Related to: Runemagick, Relevant Few, Lord Belial, The Project Hate MCMXCIX, The Funeral Orchestra, Deathwitch, Sacramentum, Swordmaster, Necrocurse
Hierophant – Peste | Bridge Nine | Hardcore, sludge, d-beat | Italy
Deafening and dense core. A reinvention Hierophant is not, but they do it louder and heavier.
Related to: The Secret, Dawn Under Eclipse
In Aevum Agere – Limbus Animae | Pure Steel Records | Doom, power metal | Italy
Doom with a strong power metal streak. Out on Friday (November 28). Find older material here.
Lae – Break The Clasp | The Compound | Post-rock, psych rock, experimental | Canada, United States
Steve Austin sits in on vocals and provides a varied performance over textural experiments that don’t drag.
Related to: Today is the Day
Lectern – Fratricidal Concelebration | Sliptrick Records | Death metal | Italy
A death metal debater in favor of Satan. Out on Saturday (November 29).
Omit – Medusa Truth Part 1 | Secret Quarters | Doom, goth | Norway
Gorgeous and stately doom tunes wallowing in depression. Find older material here.
Related to: Skumring, Vestige of Virtue
Skelethal – Interstellar Knowledge of the Purple Entity | Iron Bonehead Productions | Death metal | France
Endearingly sloppy OSDM with a familiar thrashiness.
Related to: Infinite Translation
Urzeit / Akatharsia – Urzeit / Akatharsia | Self-released | Black metal | United States
A Northwest battering. Urzeit dole out off-kilter punishment. Akatharsia has a stripped-bare, punk quality.
Related to: Urzeit: Ash Borer, Mizmor. Akatharsia: Fell Voices, Negative Standards.
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Things We Missed:
• Black Metal
Barrowlands – Thane (USA, black metal, atmospheric black metal, folk metal)
Deep Mountains – Changtu Islands (CHN, post-black metal, atmospheric black metal)
Hornwood Fell – Hornwood Fell (ITA, black metal, atmospheric black metal)
• Death Metal
Decease – Age of the Covenant (ROU, death metal, death/thrash)
Lector – Bubonic Dawn (SWE, OSDM, death/thrash)
• Doom/Sludge/Stoner
Vestige of Virtue – Sophia (NOR, doom, goth)
• Power Metal/Trad
Noble Beast – Noble Beast (USA, power metal, heavy metal)
Viathyn – Cynosure (CAN, power metal, prog)
• Progressive
Doctor Smith – Into the Unknown (USA, prog)
• Thrash/Speed Metal
Hypertension – Distant Thunder Calls (SWE, thrash, speed metal, death/thrash)
Moshpit Justice – Justice is Served (BUL, thrash)
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