Upcoming Metal Releases: 5/11/2014 – 5/17/2014

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Hello and welcome to Metalfone! Using your touch-tone keypad, please enter the first three letters of your local thea-BEEP. Playing at your local theater. . .HEL-VETE. . .today:

9 AM: Hornss, Rated PG
In this inspirational sports story, a snake defies the odds, wining a spot on the University of Texas football team.

11 AM: Vallenfyre, Rated PG-13
This Swedish sex-romp follows three teenage valets over a summer they’ll never forget. Subtitled.

1 PM: High Spirits, Rated R
Two enterprising tax evaders convert their liquor store into a church, but everything changes when one strange attendee begins performing the miraculous.

3 PM: Dante Alighieri’s Down IV, Part 2, Rated R
The next chapter in this acclaimed fantasy comedy features four escaped inmates who dug themselves too deep a hole and now must break out of hell.

5 PM: Agalloch, Rated PG
This adaptation of the young adult series centers on a 13 year old Scottish boy who undergoes unexplained physical changes: he’s growing flippers! Warning: extreme whimsy.

8 PM: Toll of the Wound, Rated R
A supernatural tale of horror concerning a commute on an evil highway. Produced by Stephen King’s ’80s coke dealer.

10 PM: Prong, Rated X
A fork factory worker discovers a local sex dungeon and his life changes forever in this controversial erotic thriller.

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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 5/11/2014 – 5/17/2014. 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:

Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere | Profound Lore Records | Folk metal, doom, black metal
Fifth full-length from these Portland-based US metal darlings. Lead single “Celestial Effigy” suggests another synthesis of varied metal styles, twisted into a shape that’s Agalloch’s alone.

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Dornenreich – Freiheit | Prophecy Productions | Neofolk, black metal
An Austrian trio bouncing between library whispers, spirited strummers, and elegant tremmers. Their eighth long-player.

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Down – Down IV: Part Two | Down Records | Stoner metal, doom
This NOLA supercrew collecting players from Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, and Eyehategod, among others, gives birth to a brother for their 2012 EP. The group flavors a Saint Vitus broth with fried leads and Southern Gothic drippings.

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Graves At Sea / Sourvein – Sourvein / Graves At Sea | Seventh Rule Recordings | Doom, sludge
Two highly regarded makers of the murky find split kinship in crushing heaviness.

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High Spirits – You Are Here | Hells Headbangers Records | Heavy metal
Man of many metals Chris Black (Pharaoh, Dawnbringer) perfects an ’80s hard rock ideal without it smacking of nostalgia.

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Hour Of Penance – Regicide | Prosthetic Records | Death metal
Italian brutality navigated by the nimbleness of tech vets. Fun fact: The band no longer has original members.

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Miasmal – Cursed Redeemer | Century Media Records | Death metal
Two Agrimonia members (one a Martyrdöd) roll up the ol’ Wolverine Blues.

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Prong – Ruining Lives | Steamhammer | Hard rock, thrash
20 years after their breakout, Cleansing, these New York City rippers offer their ninth LP of now-streamlined rock that barks thrash.

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Vallenfyre – Splinters | Century Media Records | Death metal
Second from these UK superdoomers, sporting a CV including My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, and At the Gates. The group goes OSDM with a familiar flavoring of death/doom.

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Whitehorse – Raised Into Darkness | Vendetta Records | Doom, sludge
Australian droners continue their quest to get slower and lower.

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Of Note:

Ab·est – Asylum | This Charming Man Records | Sludge, metalcore
Chunky core tipping the scales thanks to sludge’s heft.

Aggravator – Populace Destructor | Mulligore Production | Thrash
A deathly blitzkrieg hailing from San Antonio. Re-thrash refusers take note: no Big 4 devotion here.

Blatant Disarray – The Harbinger | Self-released | Thrash
Raleigh riff collectors raised on decades of Mandatory Metallica radio blocks.

Deathrow – The Eerie Sound of the Slow Awakening | Folter Records | Black metal
A grim molo molder in the vein of Taake‘s less eccentric gallops. Bonus: Pretend it’s Suge Knight.

Decembre Noir – A Discouraged Believer | FDA Rekotz | Death/doom
Melodic-inclined chuggers mirroring older Anathema or Paradise Lost, just sans the ’90s-isms.

Entrench / Insane – Entrench / Insane | High Roller Records | Thrash
Swedish slayers get kreative (sorry) on this seven inch slab of speed.

Greenleaf – Trails And Passes | Small Stone Recordings | Stoner rock
Scandinavian tokers take the same shoots and ladders as Truckfighters or Dozer.

Hexis / Primitive Man – Primitive Man / Hexis | Halo of Flies | Doom, black metal, hardcore
Danes (Hexis) and Denverites (Primitive Man) unite to provide a portal to a bad trip. Unrelenting ugliness on both sides, though the methods of madness are different. Hexis do blackened core while Primitive Man blast rotten-with-noise drone doom.

Hornss – No Blood No Sympathy | Easy Rider Records | Stoner rock
A garage-y biker boogie in the form of a dusted Fu Manchu.

Infernal Curse – The End Upon Us | Iron Bonehead Productions | Blackened death metal
Another find courtesy of the Iron Bonehead metal detector. Argentinean evilness in the manner of Leviathan lost in a cavern.

Japanische Kampfhörspiele – Welt Ohne Werbung | Apocaplexy Records | Grindcore
Gonzo German grinders using punk and pop to pepper their pummel.

Metal Inquisitor – Ultima Ratio Regis | Massacre Records | Heavy metal
A stout trad banger recalling old Manilla Road. Singer Blumi also serves in Metalucifer.

Narbeleth – A Hatred Manifesto | Folter Records | Black metal
A Cuban din of cutting kvlt-ness.

Necrodeath – The 7 Deadly Sins | Scarlet Records | Blackened thrash
O.G. Italian purveyors of speedy satanism. Turns 30 next year.

Of Spire & Throne – Toll of the Wound | Broken Limbs Recordings | Doom
Doom loading up to unleash a whale of a walloping. Ocean if reincarnated as Scots.

Owl – Into The Absolute | Zeitgeister Music | Death/doom
Like how a shark swims, Zeitgeister is always experimenting. Rhythmically intriguing death/doom that can go hot or cold.

Ranger – Shock Skull | Ektro Records | Speed metal
Finnish flying flayers find time for a single of smokers.

Somnambulist Red – Birth Throes, Shadows And Serpentine Curves | Wraith Productions | Prog
Busy bees from Fort Wayne who share Zeitgeister’s restlessness. Self-described soundtrack stylists. Sometimes math-knotty, sometimes a synthy woosh.

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Things We Missed:

908‘s core was ignited by grind’s flash and death metal’s fury.

Dr Colossus doomed tunes derived from The Simpsons. Reads crazy, is actually crazy good.

Goetic Equivalent spiraled towards the stars, blown by a stiff blackened wind.

Katakombi buried themselves six feet deep under a ton of muck. Filthy blackened death/doom.

Remains shambled through the streets of Mexico City, infecting their prey with OSDM.

SOMRAK‘s grimy black metal was loose enough to groove often.

Svartmörke‘s blackened punk was rawer than a slab of uncooked meat atop a classic Eddie Murphy photo.

Timekiller effused mighty ‘OOGH!’s over thick punk chords by way of Motörhead.

Voidcraeft emitted a bizarre blargh. Deathspellers, grab on this one.

Witchthroat Serpent slithered up the stoner dopethrone.

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