New Releases From ROTTING CHRIST, VALE OF PNATH & More Out Today 5/24

This week’s new heavy steel releases embrace some riffs, some mashups, and extra! To the metals…

Abrams – Blue Metropolis

Style: Sludge/post-metal
Origin: Denver, Colorado
Label: Blues Funeral Recordings

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The most recent from Abrams is taking you to an ethereal aircraft. Blue Sky has all of the heaviness of The Ocean however with the catchy song-writing of Chevelle. This has riffs for days.

lespecial – Sandwich Cage

Style: Progressive rock/mash-up
Origin: Millerton, New York
Label: Self-released

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Final September I snuck lespecial into the Weekly with their report Odd Occasions to showcase an exquisite band that is taking part in in each the heavy and jam band realms. They’re already again this week with this EP that’s positive to show heads as they’re hitting you with some unlikely mashups. They mixing “Enter Sandman” with “Sandstorm” (“Enter Sandstorm”), “Raining Blood,” “Blind,” and “Too Many Puppies” (“Raining Blind Puppies”), and some others.

Sound&Form – Pillars Of Creation

Style: Progressive/exhausting rock
Origin: nashville, Tennesee
Label: Vydia Distribution

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Sound&Form are a type of bands that has the adventurous spirit of prog however would not skimp on power. They hit you with large riffs whereas mid sing-along or some rhythmic shifts beneath emotive breaks. They remind me of early Biffy Clyro or Dredg whereas sounding little or no like both.

Rotting Christ – Professional Xristou

Style: Melodic black steel
Origin: Athens, Greece
Label: Season Of Mist

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Now for one thing epic and darkish. Professional Xristou is a report of large, grim tracks that pays homage to the the Pagans. It is a report filled with historical past and lore. Jeff has a full overview here.

Teramaze – Eli: A Great Fall From Grace

Style: Progressive steel
Origin: Melbourne, Australia
Label: Wells

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Let’s hold the epic factor going, however shift in each different approach conceivable. Teramaze‘s newest is the third in a prog steel trilogy that began in 2015. It is nerdy, shreddy, and enjoyable.

Vale Of Pnath – Between The Worlds Of Life And Dying

Style: Technical loss of life steel
Origin: Denver, Colorado
Label: Willowtip

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On their first full album in eight years, Vale Of Pnath are again and darker than ever. They’re nonetheless fairly technical, however there may be extra of a blackened lean than ever and maybe it’s because all three of those guys are additionally in Abigail Williams. Plenty of visitor spots from of us like Christian Münzner (Eternity’s Finish), Wayne Ingram (Wilderun), Miles Baker (Interloper), and extra.

Additionally dropping this week…

• Bass Communion – The Itself of Itself (Lumberton Buying and selling Firm) – Experimental/drone
• Bleakheart – Silver Pulse (Seeing Pink Information) – Dreamgaze
• Boneripper – World Ablaze (Self-released) – Hardcore
• Cathari – It Will Damage the Total Time You Are Alive (Self-released) – Noisecore
• Capstan – The Mosaic (Fearless) – Laborious rock/metalcore
• Darkish Affliction – 5 Phases Of Grief (Theogonia Information) – Black steel
• Useless Harrison – None For All (Self-released) – Gothic rock/doom
• Defects – Fashionable Error (Mascot Information) – Metalcore
• Eregion – Non Omnis Moriar (Rockshots Information) – Energy steel
• Evildead – Poisonous Grace (Steamhammer/SPV) – Thrash
• Fly Over States – Ghosts (Fever Ltd.) – Put up-hardcore/screamo
• Gnarwhal – Altered States (Self-released) – Stoner/progressive
• I Minimize Out Your Title – Testomony der Dekandenz (Bastardized Recordings) – Fashionable steel/metalcore
• Kati Rán – SÁLA (Svart Information) – People
• Locusts And Honey – Train Me To Reside That I Dread The Grave As Little As My Mattress (Hypaethral Information) – Black steel
• Clint Lowery – Do not Say It (Self-released) – Rock
• MoonKill – MoonKill (MoonKill) – MoonKill
• Ethical Putrefaction – Ethical Putrefaction (Self-released) – Dying steel
• Mortal Wound – Anus Of The World (Darkish Descent Information) – Dying steel
• Evening Laser – Name Me What You Need (Steamhammer/SPV) – Sleaze rock
• Pardoner – Paranoid In Hell (Convulse Information) – Slacker rock
• Peeling Flesh – 3 12 months Peeling Spree (Distinctive Chief Information) – Slam/brutal loss of life steel
• Puya – Potencial (The Orchard) – Progressive steel
• Pink Handed Denial – A Journey By way of Digital Dystopia (Paid Trip Information) – Metalcore
• Rotten UK – Age Of Chaos (Hells Headbangers) – Punk
• Sailor Hunter – Evolution (Inverse Information) – Metalcore
• Semuta – Glacial Erratic (Self-released) – Progressive sludge
• Sentiment Dissolve – The Orwellian Dream (CDN Information) – Technical loss of life steel
• Summoner’s Circle – Cult (Black Lion Information) – Progressive loss of life steel/doom
• Valfreya – Daybreak Of Reckoning (Self-released) – Melodic black/people steel
• Vredehammer – God Slayer (Indie Recordings) – Black/loss of life steel
• Vulgaris – Seat Of The Fireplace (Wormholedeath) – Blackened heavy steel