Upcoming Metal Releases: 4/27/2014 – 5/3/2014
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I guess I should check my email before I hit the list. Huh, I wonder what Doug wants. . .
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To: Ian
From: Doug
Subject: The Editor Keys
Alright. Enjoy the crown, don’t make mistakes, and you’ll avoid the deathrace. It’s all you. No pressure.
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It’s. . . all me? Dear Dio. It’s all me. What should I do? Wait. . .
I can do anything.
Condolences, folks. If you popped in to peruse the busiest round-up of the year, I’m sorry to say it’s in the trash. I mean, you didn’t really care that Autopsy plopped out a possible calendar-ender, right? That Fu Manchu and Floor got your road trip playlist shored up for the upcoming summer? That Lord Mantis wants to burn your soul until it resembles coal? Nah, those records aren’t why you’re here.
I know why. I do. You bet I do.
That inkling is the reason for me flushing Of Note, despite two Germanic deities reloading their thrash blasters. Heck, even a wonderful weirdo of Spectral Lore‘s caliber is going to have to hit the pine. Because, hey, you heard the man: It’s all me. And now it’s time to reward you with exactly what I’m confident you’ve been aching to read:
Welcome, fine reader, to “Upcoming Power/Prog Releases.” Finally!
Whoa, hold on, got another email.
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To: Ian
From: The Commissioner
Subject: You’re Fired
I want your claw and orange on my desk, ASAP.
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Oof. That was quick. Just, uh, kidding?
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To: Ian
From: The Commissioner
Subject: No, You’re Still Fired
You’re a loose cannon of typos. I can’t have you out on the streets.
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Oh look, I found the regular ol’ list. Haha! Ha. Ha. Ha?
Sigh. Gonna miss you, Mr. Moore.
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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New metal releases for the week of 4/27/2014 – 5/3/2014. 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.
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Anticipated Releases:
Aborted – The Necrotic Manifesto | Century Media Records | Death metal
Eighth LP from these Belgian butchers who push core, death metal, and melodeath out of the meat grinder.
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Abysmal Torment – Cultivate The Apostate | Willowtip | Death metal
Maltan marauders wrangle racing BDM trems and supersize slams to slay unsuspecting speakers.
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Archspire – The Lucid Collective | Season of Mist | Death metal
Absurd sweep n’ widdle, plotting the path of the planets in the tradition of fellow Canuck nutters like Augury.
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Autopsy – Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves | Peaceville Records | Death metal
The highly decorated legends continue to crush and crawl through classic DM filth.
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Floor – Oblation | Season of Mist | Stoner metal, sludge
For their first LP since reforming, the sludge-popsters resume pulling hooks from a feel-good well deeper than their guitar tone. Members play/have played in Cavity, Dove, and Torche.
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Forest Of Tygers – Bruises | Primitive Violence | Sludge, metalcore
A deftly wielded core battle club, shaking akin to old Harkonen. Stream the EP here.
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Fu Manchu – Gigantoid | At the Dojo Records | Stoner rock
These stoner vets peel out of the garage, revving smoking valves chromed with classic rock. Stream a track here.
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Insomnium – Shadows Of The Dying Sun | Century Media Records | Melodeath
Finnish lead-slingers shred up their sixth full-length of melo epics.
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Lantlôs – Melting Sun | Prophecy Productions | Post-black metal
This German solo chef superheats blackened thumps and alt rock reveries, allowing one to gaze into the stew while the two congeal gracefully together.
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Lord Mantis – Death Mask | Profound Lore Records | Black metal, experimental
Brutish Chicagoans collected from Avichi, Indian, and Abigail Williams violently fling hateful muck. Stream the whole darn thing here.
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Portrait – Crossroads | Metal Blade Records | Heavy metal
Swedish tradsters toy with Fate on their third LP.
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Wold – Postsocial | Profound Lore Records | Black metal, noise
These secretive Canadians suggest May Day will be the date of their final white noise transmission. However, it’s Wold, so who knows. Take a test drive of old material here.
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Of Note:
Abhorrent Castigation – Throne of Existential Abandonment | New Standard Elite | Death metal
Brees bloom in spring, apparently. These Germans lead off a busy week in brutal death, pinching and pummeling jud-juds out of hibernation.
Anti Ritual – Anti Ritual | Indisciplinarian | Sludge, hardcore
Though mired in sludge, these Danes can cruise at crust’s clip.
Axecutor – Aggressive Extermination | StormSpell Records | Blackened thrash
Bulgarian Sodomites rip and rasp by way of a thrash crash.
Beneath – The Barren Throne | Unique Leader Records | Death metal
Icelandic clatter of floe-melting fire. Related to Azoic and Ophidian I. Previously had a member of the sorely under-appreciated Sororicide.
Beyond the Structure – Nauseating Truth | Self-released | Death metal
Want an Estonian brother for Aborted? You’re encouraged to investigate this splatterer.
Cloak Of Altering – Plague Beasts | Crucial Blast Records | Black metal, avant-garde
Mories (De Magia Veterum, Gnaw Their Tongues) takes the brown acid and frees himself from earthly entanglements.
Coldwar – Pantheist | Candlelight Records | Death metal
Irish quintet constructing stout slices of deathly grooving.
Dead In The Manger – Transience | 20 Buck Spin | Blackened death metal
Mysterious core-tinged cacophony of frequently shifting ferocity.
Grey Skies Fallen – The Many Sides of Truth | Xanthros | Death/doom
A heartfelt trudge recommended to those in the market for the downer days of Peaceville.
Helstar – This Wicked Nest | AFM Records | Power metal
30 years after their LP debut, Houston’s powah station still deals speed.
Holy Moses – Redefined Mayhem | Steamhammer | Thrash
These long-running Germans part the waves of thrash and death.
Infestus – The Reflecting Void | Debemur Morti Productions | Black metal
A dynamic, modern blast of proggy blarghing. Sole proprietor Andras can certainly play.
Maat – As We Create the Hope from Above | Aural Attack Productions | Death metal
German archeologists clear Egyptian dig sites via chunky chugs.
Machetazo / RAS – Machetazo / RAS | Equinox Discos | Grind
Nutso Spanish slayers go toe to toe. Machetazo grinds death with a b-flick flair while RAS absolutely rages.
Malhkebre – Revelation | I, Voidhanger Records | Black metal
Twitchy widdles encased in blackened blurs.
Mekong Delta – A Mirror Darkly | Steamhammer | Thrash
Flying thrash tempered by a prog finesse. The catchy Teutonic titans turn 30 next year.
Nefandus – Reality Cleaver | Daemon Worship Productions | Black metal
Swedish spinners of second-wave elegance, adorning their trems with rough ‘arghs.’
Poisonous / Daemonic – Death Apparitions of the Damned Souls | Crypts of Eternity Productions | Death metal
Brazil battles SoCal in an OSDM coliseum rewarding Christian persecution.
Salem’s Pot – “…lurar ut dig pa° pra¨rien” | Easy Rider Records | Doom
The electric weedians take deep tokes from fried amp stacks.
Schammasch – Contradiction | Prosthetic Records | Blackened death metal
An ambitious double disc of Swiss slithering and coiled build-ups.
Spectral Lore – III | I, Voidhanger Records | Black metal
Gonzo molo epics matching DSBM howls to bombastic bewitchment.
Stworz – Cóz po zyznych ziemiach…? | Werewolf Promotion | Pagan metal
Riffs of the elbow-tendinitis variety kept in line by raw roars.
Super Massive Black Holes – Calculations of the Ancients | When Planets Collide | Progressive death metal
Calgarian string-physicists experiment with the properties of time.
Svartidauði – The Synthesis Of Whore And Beast | Terratur Possessions | Black metal
Icelandic inciters of chaos and discordance. DsO disciples will be smitten.
Thine – The Dead City Blueprint | Peaceville Records | Doom, sludge
Once owners of blackened hearts, these Brits have gone Anathema airy. Clever and catchy, if you’re in the mood.
Twitch of the Death Nerve – A New Code of Morality | Comatose Music | Death metal
Members of Beef Conspiracy and Defeated Sanity burp up a buffet of brutality.
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Things We Missed:
Aevium got misty thinking of Atheist.
Dismemberment charred thrash to a crisp and skewered it alongside OSDM.
Flametal swished and swayed to the Spanish rhythms. Yep, that’s a fusion of flamenco and prog metal.
Horsebastards wrecked necks on the strength of furious fastcore.
Ggu:ll clogged ears with gutter sludge gunk.
Infinite Earths traveled to a dimension where Perseverance-era Chuck wore corpsepaint.
Mind‘s punk and grind was made for Doomers.
Psycho Horrified anyone allergic to coffin rot.
Sentience received Swanö’s sign-off.
Slaughterer loaded a total thrash onslaught.
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