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New Releases From NECROT, TÝR, CASTLE RAT & More Out Today 4/12


This week’s new heavy metal releases include ballads that will make you want to fight, riffs on riffs, death metal fun, and more! To the metals…

Benighted – Ekbom

Genre: Brutal death metal/grindcore
Origin: Saint-Étienne, France
Label: Season Of Mist

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Starting this week off really heavy. The tenth record from these Frenchmen is techy, booming, and even a lil’ epic. Ekbom is a surprisingly diverse one as well.

Castle Rat – Into The Realm

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Genre: Heavy metal/doom
Origin: Brooklyn, New York
Label: King Volume Records

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Castle Rat have all the ingredients for a folk metal band. They’re rocking capes, fur pelts, and face paint and yet they’re bringing some very hip stoner rock to you instead. Honestly, just a rad record from a band I fully expect to crossover with the cool kids.

Eidola – Eviscerate

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Genre: Progressive metalcore/post-hardcore
Origin: Salt Lake City, Utah
Label: Rise Records

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Now here’s one for us prog dorks. Eidola are an underrated prog force and Eviscerate is another record mixing technical magic and catchy ass melodies. It’s closer to your Emerosa and Dance Gavin Dance-type bands, but fans of Coheed & Cambria and the likes should give this a go.

Heavy Temple – Garden Of Heathens

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Genre: Stoner/psychedelic metal
Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Label: Magnetic Eye

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Riffs. Plain and simple. Garden of Heathens is a record of fuzzed out everything, Orange amps, and fucking riffs. If you need additional convincing that you’re in for a good time you should know they fronted by High Priestess Nighthawk. Fuck yeah.

Necrot – Lifeless Birth

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Genre: Death metal
Origin: Oakland, California
Label: Tankcrimes

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This is a solid, straight-up death metal record. Look at the cover. This sounds exactly like that.

Northlane – Mirror’s Edge

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Genre: Progressive metalcore/alternative metal
Origin: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Label: Self-released

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On this six track EP Northlane are covering a lot of ground. There are some djent grooves, soaring choruses, and plenty of guests. Those guests include Ian from Karnivool, Winston from Parkway Drive, and even former bassist Brendon Padjasek.

Spit On Your Grave – Arkanum

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Genre: Death metal
Origin: Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Label: Concreto Records

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This one’s pretty rad. The third record from Spit On Your Grave is a death metal beating in sonic form, which is rad. Lyrically though, each track inspired by a tarot card. So there’s a little aura of spookiness throughout.

Týr – Battle Ballads

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Genre: Folk metal
Origin: Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Label: Metal Blade

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Taking us home in what might be the most epic way possible. Týr‘s latest has a name that is a bit of a misdirect. Not exactly ballads in the way you’d probably imagine. These are still very much battle tracks.

Also dropping this week…

  • About Us – Take A Piece (Frontiers) – Hard rock
  • Attacker The God Particle (Cruz Del Sur Music) – Heavy/speed metal
  • Belmont – Liminal (Pure Noise) – Pop unk
  • Blue Oyster Cult – Ghost Stories (Frontiers) – Rock
  • Bottenhavet Ljud i Tysta Rum (Fuzzorama Records) – Stoner
  • Jakobs Castle – Enter: The Castle (Epitaph) – Rock/pop
  • The Cosmic DeadInfinite Peaks (Heavy Psych Sounds) – Psychedelic metal
  • Elk WitchAzimuth (Majestic Mountain Records) – Psychedelic/doom
  • Exist – Hijacking The Zeitgeist (Prosthetic) – Progressive death metal
  • Friends of HellGod Damned You to Hell (Rise Above Records) – Doom
  • Greyhaven – Stereo Grief (Solid State) – Metalcore/alternative metal
  • Griefgod Deterioration (Self-released) – Death metal
  • Hypersonic Kaosmogonia (Rockshots Records) – Symphonic metal
  • Imminence – The Black (Self-released) – Metalcore/alternative
  • KarstEclipsed Beneath the Umbral Divide (Self-released) Death metal
  • Kharma A World Of Our Own (Flatspot Records) – Hardcore
  • King Zebra – Between The Shadows (Frontiers) – Hard rock
  • Martikor Acedia (Self-released) – Post-metal/ambient
  • Mòr Hear The Hour Nearing (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions) – Black metal
  • Mother of AllGlobal Parasitic Leviathan (Self-released) – Progressive/melodic death metal
  • Nag Boys Of Europe (Fysisk Format) – Punk/heavy metal
  • Nest – Endeavors (Housecore) – Sludge/doom
  • Replicant Infinite Mortality (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Technical/avant-garde death metal
  • Riot V – Mean Streets (Atomic Fire) – Heavy/speed metal
  • SarcasmMorninghoul (Hammerheart Records) – Blackened death metal
  • Setyoursails – Bad Blood (Napalm) – Metalcore
  • sleepsmakeswaves But I Have No Names For It (Bird’s Robe Records) – Post-rock
  • TårföddM​ö​rker (Self-released) – Atmospheric black metal
  • Tarot – Glimpse Of The Dawn (Cruz Del Sur) – Heavy metal/hard rock
  • Tenebrific Labyrinth Of Anguish (Self-released) – Blackened death metal
  • Throwing Bricks & OntaardOud Zeer (Tartarus Records) – Sludge/post-metal
  • Unborn Generation …and Lest We All Forget (Inverse Records) – Grindcore
  • Veriteras The Dark Horizon (Self-released) – Melodic death metal
  • The Vision Bleak – Weird Tales (Prophecy) – Gothic metal/doom
  • Vulture – Sentinels (Metal Blade) – Heavy metal
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