Weekly Welease Wednesday (10/16/24)
There are few things more shocking than a kiss from Poseidon in the early morning, with frost still clinging to the bathroom window. A shot of adrenaline accompanies this sphinctorial wet willy—an asspresso shot that will keep you on your toes for hours. With brown eyes open wide, peruse this week’s offerings: we’ve got metamorphosis metal, undying avians, and misunderstood arachnids. Bergy bits form on the surface of the bowl waters, and there is certain to be much more hidden below the surface. Let us know what we missed in the comments!
Deathrite – Flames Licking Fever (Into Endless Chaos Records) [Blackened Death / Hardcore Punk]
Flames Licking Fever begins with a maddening litany—three notes of trepanation opening the skull for conquest. Stomping death ‘n roll quickly passes through the blood-brain barrier into memory, accompanied by Tony Heinrich’s blackened hardcore bark. The band draws equal inspiration from Daeva‘s spidery, trilling riffs and the acrid, blown-out chaos of Foreseen, creating a densely textured sound that belies the simple songwriting. By the time “Restless Eyes'” tom-heavy groove travels down your axons, Deathrite will have full control; you will walk into the pit, thrashing in futility against your marionette strings. -Roldy
Aggresion – Covil de Feras (Independent) [Deathrash]
Ashen Tomb – Ecstatic Death Reign (Everlasting Spew Records) [Death]
Astral Doors – The End of It All (Metalville) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Bloodrust/Regicide – Through Death We Reign (Masters of Kaos Productions) [Death]
Bonjour Tristesse – The World Without Us (Supreme Chaos Records) [Black]
Camos – Hide from the Light (Murder Records) [Black / Heavy Metal]
Carnosus – Wormtales (Independent) [Tech Death]
Chrysalïd – Breaking the Chains (Rockshots Records) [Power / Heavy Metal]
Clot – Dehiscence (Independent) [Deathgrind]
Contrition – Pariahs (Independent) [Deathgrind]
Cortez – Thieves and Charlatans (Ripple Music) [Stoner Doom / Hard Rock]
Crest of Darkness – My Ghost (My Kingdom Music) [Blackened Death]
Cursed Cemetery – Magma Transmigration (Dusktone) [Death/Doom / Ambient]
DGM – Endless (Frontiers Records) [Prog/Power]
Dawnwalker – The Unknowing (Independent) [Post-Metal / Rock]
Deserts of Mars – Dead Planet Exodus (Independent) [Stoner Metal / Rock]
Disentomb – Nothing Above (Unique Leader Records) [Brutal Tech Death]
Distrüster – Obscurum Per Obscurius (Ossuary Records) [Death / Crust Punk]
Ensiferum – Winter Storm (Metal Blade Records) [Folk Metal]
Fate – Reconnect ‘n Ignite (Frontiers Records) [Heavy Metal / Hard Rock]
Feral – To Usurp the Thrones (Transcending Obscurity Records) [Death]
Frozen Crown – War Hearts (Napalm Records) [Power]
Fórn – Repercussions of the Self (Persistent Vision Records) [Doom / Sludge]
Ghostheart Nebula – Blackshift (Meuse Music Records) [Melodeath/Doom]
Gorebringer – Condemned to Suffer (Great Dane Records) [Blackened Melodeath]
Grand Magus – Sunraven (Nuclear Blast) [Doom / Heavy Metal]
Harsh Realm – Death Carries On (Independent) [Death/Doom]
Harvestman – Triptych: Part Three (Neurot Recordings) [Folk / Drone / Ambient]
Holy Dragons – Ветер крепчай (Independent) [Thrash / Heavy Metal]
Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia (20 Buck Spin) [Blackened Sludge / Crust]
Ixion – Regeneration (Independent) [Doom / Electronic]
Jerry Cantrell – I Want Blood (Independent) [Grunge / Alt Metal]
Jewel Throne – Blood Vultures (Inverse Records) [Deathrash]
Korkvak – The Hermetic Ritual (Masters of Kaos Productions) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Kreyl – Obscure Rise of Ancient Eulogy (Inverse Records) [Blackened Death]
Maatkare – Rise to Power (Independent) [Symphonic Death]
Misanthropic Aggression – Insect Politics (Boris Records) [Black / Crust Punk]
Mother of Graves – The Periapt of Absence (Profound Lore Records) [Melodeath/Doom]
Oannes – Spiders Crawl in the Abode of Enki (An Key to Absu; The Threshold of Mystery) (True Order of the Black Flaming Circle) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Obnoxious Youth – Burning Savage (Svart Records) [Blackthrash / Speed / Heavy Metal]
Onslaught Kommand – Malignancy (Godz ov War Productions) [Death / Goregrind]
Oryx – Primordial Sky (Translation Loss Records) [Death/Doom / Sludge]
Outworld – Way of the Samurai (SDJ Records) [Power]
Parfaitamour – Malus (Independent) [Power]
Persecutory – The Glorious Persecution (Godz ov War Productions) [Blackened Death]
Profane Serenity – As I Breathe for the Last Time (Hellenic Metal World) [Symphonic Death/Doom]
Royal Glam – Shields Ain’t Gunna Save Ya (Independent) [Glam / Heavy Metal]
Ruin Dweller – Apocalyptic Ruin (Independent) [Death]
Saddayah – Lila (Loud Rage Music) [Tech Death]
Seid – Hymns to the Norse (Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum) [Black]
Sex Messiah – Sexus-Mortem Ouroboros (Sex Desire Records) [Blackened Death]
Swallow the Sun – Shining (Century Media Records) [Melodeath/Doom]
The Hypothesis – Evolve (Noble Demon) [Melodeath / Groove Metal / Electronic]
The Resilient Dream Project – Te recordaré (Independent) [Power]
Tribe of Ghosts – CITY (Independent) [Metalcore / Industrial / Electronic]
Valac – Under the Ophidians Curse (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Vanik – IV (Independent) [Blackthrash / Heavy Metal]
Veonity – The Final Element (Scarlet Records) [Symphonic Power]
War Dogs – Only the Stars Are Left (Fighter Records) [Trad / Speed / Heavy Metal]
Weeping – Spiritual Barbarism (Independent) [Deathgrind / Powerviolence]
Winter Lantern – Hymne to a Dismal Starre (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]
Wreck-Defy – Dissecting the Leech (Massacre Records) [Thrash]
