New Releases From NILE, ZEAL & ARDOR & More Out This Week 8/23

This week’s heavy new releases contains the top of a weirdly excessive variety of album gaps, a hell of a solo debut, and extra! To the metals…

Fleshgod Apocalypse – Opera

Style: Symphonic dying metallic
Origin: Perugia/Rome, Italy
Label: Nuclear Blast

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After a 5 12 months hole, Fleshgod Apocalypse are lastly again with a brand new report of epic dying metallic. Whereas there have been some singles through the years, this marks the primary full report for drummer Eugene Ryabchenko, guitarist Fabio Bortoletti, and clear vocalist Veronica Bordacchini. The three of them match proper in and assist make Opera a grand expertise.

Kingcrow – Hopium

Style: Progressive metallic/rock
Origin: Rome, Italy
Label: Season Of Mist

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Here is one other Italian band, however one with a wildly completely different vibe. Very long time readers know that I’ve a tender spot for prog, so this one is for me. Kingcrow‘s first report in six years dabbles in a whole lot of instructions, experiments with rhythmic jumps, and stays fairly catchy. Followers of current Leprous ought to give this a shot.

Soften-Banana 3+5

Style: Experimental rock/metallic
Origin: Tokyo, Japan
Label: A-Zap

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Here is one other band returning after a hell of an album hole. Save for some collaborations/splits, It has been eleven years for these weirdos. The little I’ve heard from this to this point is unmistakably Soften-Banana. Songs are chaotic and temporary as they twist and grind by your thoughts.

Nile – The Underworld Awaits Us All

Style: Technical/brutal dying metallic
Origin: Greenville, South Carolina
Label: Napalm

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Karl Sanders and the boys are again to kick your ass with their tenth album of Egyptian-themed dying metallic. You may discover a pair of latest friends on this one in bassist Dan Vadim Von (Morbid Angel) and guitarist Zach Jeter (Doomsday Revival). This one, after all, options the title everybody goes to be chanting for at exhibits, “Chapter for Not Being Hung Upside Down on a Stake within the Underworld and Made to Eat Feces by the 4 Apes.” Love me an extended tune identify, though you not often see “feces” within the textual content of a tracklisting. Max’s evaluation is here.

Simone Simons – Vermillion

Style: Symphonic metallic
Origin: Hoensbroek, Limburg, Netherlands
Label: Nuclear Blast

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On her first solo outing Epica’s Simone Simons is collaborating with Ayreon‘s Arjen Anthony Lucassen for an expansive, epic, and proggy report. It is nonetheless a symphonic metallic expertise with Simons within the highlight, but it surely’s positively obtained Lucassen’s logos all through the music. It additionally options some visitor spots from Mark Jansen (Epica), Alussa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy) and others.

Spectral Wound – Songs Of Blood And Mire

Style: Black metallic
Origin: Montréal, Quebec
Label: Profound Lore

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Here is some straight up black metallic for you. Pummeling drums, shrieking vocals washed in a void of reverb, and tremolo selecting all through. Some rocking moments to get your head bobbing, however that is largely a well-executed, windmill headbanging report.

Inside The Ruins – Phenomena II

Style: Melodic/technical dying metallic
Origin: Westfield, Massachusetts
Label: MNRK Heavy

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Ten years after the primary, Inside The Ruins are right here with the sequel to Phenomena. II options loads of heavy-ass grooves, shredding, and melodic flurries. I do not know the lore of the primary report to know the way they join, but it surely’s actually one other rad report of the band doing what they do nicely.

Zeal & Ardor – Greif

Style: Avant-garde/black metallic
Origin: Basel, Switzerland/ New York Metropolis
Label: Redacted GmbH

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Wrapping this week with one other report from Manuel Gagneux’s shape-shifting blackened band. Grief is probably the most private for the mission, but additionally looks like probably the most collaborative together with his reside band members. Take a look at Frank’s chat with Manuel here to search out out extra.

Additionally dropping right now…

• All For Metallic – Gods Of Metallic (Reigning Phoenix) – Heavy metallic
• Alleviate – DMNS (Arising Empire) – Technical metalcore/djent
• Bred For Slaughter – Kill For Devil (Horror Ache Gore Demise Productions) – Demise metallic/grindcore
• Buryfication – Gallows Rise (Kvlt und Kaos Productions) – Black/dying metallic
• Carmeria – Tragédie D’amour (Self-released) – Symphonic energy metallic
• Chained Saint – Blindside (Patriark Information) – Thrash
• Cypher – Cypher (Wormholedeath) – Progressive metallic
• Dampf – No Angels Alive (Silver Lining Music) – heavy metallic
• Useless Karma – The House Camaro (Self-released) – Onerous rock
• Demiser – Slave To The Scythe (Blacklight) – Black metallic/thrash
• Föhn – Condescending (Hypaethral Information) – Demise metallic/doom
• Technology Of Vipers – Guilt Shrine (Translation Loss Information) – Progressive Sludge/Publish-Hardcore
• Gravenoire – Devant La Porte Des Etoiles (Season Of Mist) – Black metallic
• Hatchend – Summer season Of ‘69 (Selfmadegod Information) – Demise metallic/grindcore
• Hellwrath – Sin Eater (Self-released) – Deathcore
• Jeris Johnson – Dragonborn (Scrappy Information) – Heavy metallic
• Knife – Reside Leather-based Hounds EP (Napalm) – Blackened velocity metallic
• Koldbrann – Ingen Skansel (Darkish Essence) – Black metallic
• Legions Of Doom – All Good Issues (Tee Pee Information) – Heavy metallic
• M.A.G.S. – Creator (Smartpunk Information) – Storage rock/varied
• Morgue Terror – Violent and Murderous Ideas (Self-released) – Demise metallic
• Mothica – Kissing Demise (Rise) – Various rock
• My Fictions – Contact Of Glass (1126 Information) – Metalcore
• Nebülith – Really feel Good Music For The Finish Of The World Vol. 1 (Self-released) – Stoner/doom
• The Oklahoma Child – Featherminded EP (Arising Empire) – Metalcore
• Paralydium – Universe Calls (Frontiers) – Progressive metallic
• Prisoner – Home of Playing cards (Self-released) – Heavy metallic
• Rising Insane – Wildfires (Lengthy Department) – Trendy metallic
• Scrunchies – Colossal (Studying Curve Information) – Punk/grunge
• Sidewinder – Talons (Wyrmwood Information) – Doom
• Siege Perilous – Creation’s Name (Crunchtronic Information) – Epic heavy metallic
• Silvera – World Behind Doorways (Mighty Music) – Onerous rock
• Mike Tramp – Songs Of White Lion – Vol. II (Frontiers) – Rock
• Uniform – American Commonplace (Sacred Bones) – Industrial
• Vonavibe – Locked Up (Eclipse Information) – Various metallic covers
• Warlord – From The Ashes To The Archives – The Scorching Pursuit Continues (Excessive Curler) – Heavy/energy metallic
• Wounded Contact / fallfiftyfeet – Traumatic Entanglement (Smartpunk Information) – Mathcore