Upcoming Metal Releases 11/9/2014 – 11/15/2014
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Here are the new metal releases for the week of 11/9/2014 – 11/15/2014. 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:
A Pregnant Light – My Game Doesn’t Have a Name | Colloquial Sound Recordings | Post-black metal | United States
DIY machine Damian Master cross-pollinates black metal with post-punk and rock. Find older material here.
Related to: Askumite
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Anatomy of Habit – Ciphers + Axioms | Relapse Records | Avant-garde, doom | United States
Uses doom timbres for off-kilter and unsettling experiments.
Related to: Indian, Middian, Wolves in the Throne Room, Tortoise, Bastro
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Anguish – Mountain | Dark Descent Records | Doom | Sweden
Epic doom scuzzed up with a Celtic Frost sneer. Out on Thursday (November 13). Find older material here.
Related to: Veternus, Acolytes of Moros
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Carcass – Surgical Remission / Surplus Steel | Nuclear Blast | Melodeath, grind | United Kingdom
Collects extra scraps from Surgical Steel.
Related to: Brujeria, Napalm Death
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The Deathtrip – Deep Drone Master | Svart Records | Black metal | United Kingdom, Norway
Singer Aldrahn provides a typically charismatic performance atop stinging black metal. Dan “Storm” Mullins plays session skins. Available on Friday (November 14).
Related to: Thorns, Dødheimsgard, Thine
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Desecravity – Orphic Signs | Willowtip | Death metal | Japan
Nutso purveyors of the brutal blast n’ widdle shred through another inhuman performance.
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Dire Omen – Wresting the Revelation of Futility | Dark Descent Records | Blackened death metal | Canada
A beastial display of death metal nastiness. Out on Thursday (November 13). Find older material here.
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Foreseen – Helsinki Savagery | 20 Buck Spin | Thrash, crossover | Finland
A zero-B.S. thrash attack from a Finnish scene continuously growing in stature.
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The House of Capricorn – Morning Star Rise | Svart Records | Stoner rock | New Zealand
A quick gallop herded into the void by driving riffs.
Related to: Ulcerate, Vassafor, Creeping
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Mortuary Drape – Spiritual Independence | Iron Tyrant | Death metal | Italy
This nearly 30-year-old group casts more black magick on their fifth full-length.
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Ne Obliviscaris – Citadel | Season of Mist | Prog, death metal | Australia
Sweepingly epic constructors of ambitious tunes. Find older material here.
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Old Man Gloom – The Ape of God | Profound Lore, SIGE Records | Sludge, post-metal | United States
The Old Man Gloom Alien Simian Defence League arise once more and arm themselves with thick riffs and concussive noise.
Related to: Isis, Converge, Cave In, Zozobra, Doomriders, Cavalera Conspiracy
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Usnea – Random Cosmic Violence | Relapse Records | Doom, black metal | United States
An exorcism invoked by drawn-out riffs and strident screeches.
Related to: The Makai, Amarok
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Of Note:
11Paranoias – Stealing Fire From Heaven | Ritual Productions | Doom, sludge | United Kingdom
An out-there, though thorough, dooming. Written and recorded in the studio using an “automatic process.”
Related to: Ramesses, Bong
Appalachian Winter – The Epochs That Built The Mountains | Nine Gates Records | Black metal | United States
Symphonic extravagances are draped across this quirky blast of Americana-inflected black metal.
Arroganz – Tod & Teufel | F.D.A. Rekotz | Death metal | Germany
A steady blast of blackened OSDM.
Blodhemn – H7 | Indie Recordings | Black metal | Norway
Quick riffs and flying tempos. Notable for the production values.
Broughton’s Rules – Anechoic Horizon | Relapse Records | Math rock, post-rock | United States
Wild and free-wheeling in the This Heat sense of the genre tag.
Related to: Don Caballero
The Dead – Deathsteps to Oblivion | Transcending Obscurity | Death metal, doom, sludge | Australia
A trio taking OSDM on an unexpected path. Think of the days when death metal wasn’t so codified.
Downfall of Gaia – Aeon Unveils the Thrones of Decay | Metal Blade Records | Sludge, post-metal | Germany
Longform gales of heaviness given a crusty touch.
Godmaker – Godmaker | Aqualamb | Sludge, stoner | United States
Vibrates with the energy of old sludge as opposed to this century’s atmospheric variant.
Grorr – The Unknown Citizens | Vicisolum Records | Groove metal | France
Accents a neck-snapping chug with big synths.
Hollow Earth – Silent Graves | Panic Records | Hardcore | United States
Noisy metallic hardcore in the Converge mold.
Hombre Malo – Persistent Murmur of Words of Wrath | Disiplin Media | Sludge, stoner rock | Norway
A smoked-out circular groove energized by punk. Out on Friday (November 14). Find older material here.
Related to: Ictus
Job For a Cowboy – Sun Eater | Metal Blade Records | Death metal | United States
A once-reviled hunk of bree continuing its move towards the middle.
Related to: Goratory, Cephalic Carnage
Machine Head – Bloodstone & Diamonds | Nuclear Blast | Thrash, groove metal | United States
Eternally divisive modern metallers go long with more of their post-Supercharger material.
Related to: Vio-lence, S.A. Slayer, Sacred Reich
Mothership – Mothership II | Ripple Music | Stoner rock | United States
The Juett brothers craft smokey songs that can be spray-painted on the side of vans. Find older material here.
Nesseria – Fractures | Throatruiner Ṙecords | Death/grind, metalcore | France
Grindy core recalling Converge or Cursed‘s heavier turns.
Saille – Eldritch | Code666 Records | Black metal | Belgium
Bombastic brutality. Like Bal-Sagoth with a straighter face and a streak of death metal.
Soen – Tellurian | Spinefarm | Prog | Sweden
Streamlined forays into subtly complex rock.
Related to: Amon Amarth, Opeth
Space God Ritual – From Void to Ocean | Self-released | Doom | United States
Oregon exporters of H.P. Doomcraft.
Spires – The Whisperer | Eulogy Media | Prog, death metal | United Kingdom
Experimental and musically adept progsters promise more “varied instrumentation” on their sophomore full-length. Find older material here.
Skelator – King of Fear | Swords and Chains Records | Heavy metal, speed metal | United States
A lovingly presented throwback for the true.
Short Sharp Shock – Limp.Gasp.Collapse | Prosthetic Records | Thrash, crossover | United Kingdom
Bite-sized thrash ’em ups with a big tone.
Stealing Axion – Aeons | Self-released | Prog | United States
Prog with a heavier gait. Djent-y, but dodges some of that genre’s baggage.
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Things We Missed:
• Black Metal
Modern Dark Age – The End of Eternity (USA, black metal, blackened crust)
• Core
Colossvs – Unholy (AUS, hardcore, black metal)
• Death Metal
Atavisma – Where Wolves Once Dwelled (FRA, death/doom, OSDM)
Codedecoded – Vorace (GRE, death metal, tech death)
Deathronation – Hallow the Dead (GER, OSDM)
• Doom/Sludge/Stoner
Dö – EP 2014 (FIN, doom, stoner)
• Prog
Schizoid Lloyd – The Last Note in God’s Magnum Opus (NED, experimental, avant-garde, batshit)
• Thrash/Speed Metal
Hellbringer – Horror from the Grave (AUS, blackened thrash, speed metal)
Riot City – Livin’ Fast (CAN, speed metal, heavy metal)
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