To The Teeth: Paradise Lost, Katatonia, Old Man Gloom, Sweven
New albums
There are new albums, ep's, splits and demo's out from Sweven (prog death from Sweden), Malokarpatan (black/heavy from Slovakia), Myrkur (atmoblack/folk from Denmark), Serpent Column (avantgarde black/mathcore from the USA), four-way split 4 Doors To Death II (with songs from Nucleus, Ectoplasma, Fetid Zombie, & Temple of Void), Neck of the Woods (melodeath/hardcore from the USA), Medico Peste (black from Poland), Nite (heavy/black from the USA), Taake & Whoredom Rife (both black from Norway), Master Boot Record (industrial/electronic from Italy), Hyperdontia (death from Denmark/Turkey - a two song ep), Hemotoxin (prog death/thrash from the USA), Eye Flys (sludge/noise from the USA), Entheos (prog black from Canada - a two song ep), Fool's Ghost (dark/ambient post-rock from the USA), Thanatos (death/thrash from the Netherlands), Grift (black from Sweden), Feminazgul (atmoblack from the USA), Heaven Shall Burn (melodeath/metalcore from Germany), Hyborian (stoner from the USA), IIVII (ambient/post from the USA), Lucifer (heavy/doom from Germany/the UK), The Medea Project (doom/gothic/sludge from the UK), Mord'A'Stigmata (black/avantgarde from Poland - a live recording from Roadburn 2019), Soliloquium (doom/death from Sweden), Art of Shock (thrash/heavy from the USA), O Zorn! (doom/rock from the USA), a split from Nahtrunar & Hesychia (black/ambient from, I think, both Austria), Impure (black/death from the USA), Wardaemonic (black from Australia), Necrogosto (black/thrash from Brazil), Valac (raw black from the USA), Tethra (doom from Italy), Ruinas (death/grind from Spain), Stellar Descent (black from the USA), Gavran (sludge/doom from the Netherlands), Gaylord (black from the UK), High Tone Son of a Bitch (stoner from the USA, and the bandname we all wish we had thought of), Depraver (black/thrash from the USA), and you can check out (and buy) the new Nox Formulae (black from Greece) a week early.
There are longform single song ep's out from Moenos (black/noise from Japan) and the mighty Converge (metalcore from the USA - this is an experimental, ambient version of an older song, worth your time).
New singles
There are new songs, singles and advance tracks out from Paradise Lost (doom/death/gothic/rock from the UK), Old Man Gloom (sludge/noise from the USA), Katatonia (sadboy gothrock/metal from Sweden), Krallice (avantgarde black from the USA), Black Curse (death from the USA - with members of Primitive Man, Blood Incantation, Khemmis and Spectral Voice. Yes. That's a supergroup), Wolfheart (melodeath from Finland), Ripped To Shreds (death from the USA), Igorrr (black/electronic/avantgarde from France), Khôra (atmoblack from Germany), Deranged (brutal death from Sweden), Myth Of I (prog death/metalcore from the USA), Coldworld (depressive black from Germany), At The Altar Of The Horned God (black/darkwave from Spain), Lamb of God (groove/metalcore from the USA), Burial (black/death from the UK), Marrowfields (atmospheric doom/black from the USA), Abominable Putridity (slam/brutal death from Russia), Solitude Within (symphonic from Belgium), Sorcerer (epic doom from Sweden), Loviatar (doom/post from Canada), Entheos (tech death from the USA - yeah that's confusing), The Acacia Strain (metalcore from the USA), Nemus (atmoblack from Germany), Die Kreatur (industrial from Germany - with a member of Oomph!), Twilight Fauna (atmospheric black from the USA), Like Rats (death/metalcore from the USA), Errant (blackened doom/shoegaze from the USA), Bombs of Hades (death/crust from Sweden), Hexvessel (dark folk from Finland), Azusa (extreme prog from all over the world), Metal Church (heavy/power/thrash from the USA), An Autumn for Crippled Children (post black/shoegaze from the Netherlands), Destroyed in Seconds (thrash/crossover from the USA), Nyrst (black from Iceland), Symbolik (tech/melodeath from the USA), there's a Jesu-remix of an Oathbreaker song (post-black/post-hardcore from Belgium), a trailer for the new Xibalba (death/hardcore from the USA), and Devin Townsend (prog from Canada) makes the best out of isolation by doing a Vengaboys cover, and also this soft focus goodmorning song. I'm all for it.
Next week
I’m looking forward to next week because of: Telepathy, Wake and Candlemass.
Non-metal album of the week: Becca Stevens - Wonderbloom
Have a great weekend, please stay safe - Peter.