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This week’s new heavy metal releases include a band’s farewell, a triple split, some really solid catchy stuff, and more! To the metals…
Genre: Experimental rock/Primus
Origin: Los Angeles/El Sobrante, California
Label: Puscifer Entertainment
Buy now from the tour site
Maynard James Keenan is turning 60 and to celebrate his non-Tool bands are hitting the road with Primus. Just before all that, the bands are putting out this EP(PP) that features a new song from all three. The Primus song features Maynard, which I guess is in the spirit of the tour where all the bands perform with one another throughout the show.
Genre: Melodic death metal
Origin: Tampa, Florida
Label: Listenable Insanity
Buy now on Bandcamp
Now for some melodic death metal with some of that old school MDM flair. There are plenty of guitar earworms here that’ll keep you coming back. The aggression from the vocals, and really everything else will keep you moving.
Genre: Surf/black metal
Origin: Dallas, Texas
Label: Otitis Media Records
Buy now or sample on Bandcamp
You all know that I love to highlight the weird when possible. When I got an email about a band that combines black metal and surf rock this had my attention. It’s both frosty and summer-y. You’ll wanna hang loose and windmill headbang while in a forest of palm trees. Very fun record.
Genre: Punk/hard rock
Origin: Ajax, Ontario
Label: Rise
Buy now on Amazon
On what they’re claiming will be their final record Sum 41 are saying goodbye with a double-album. Disc one is their melodic punk side (Heaven), and disc two features their more hard rock/straight ahead heavy metal side (Hell). It winds up feeling like a career retrospective despite being all new material. Should this farewell stick this would be quite the send off.
Genre: Metalcore/hard rock
Origin: Stuttgart, Germany
Label: Arising Empire
Buy now on Amazon
On Transience, Venues are combining grand, catchy choruses with some heavy grooves, and occasional techy bursts. Their a sonic cocktail that seems designed to take over their scene. This isn’t one for the old school heavy heads, but this is undeniably solid modern metal.
Genre: Metalcore/hard rock
Origin: Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Label: Sleeps Brothers/Spinefarm)
Buy now from While She Sleeps
After almost twenty years, While She Sleeps has their melodic hard rock meshed with metalcore thing down to a science. There are so many earworms on this record and they usually come sandwiched between some undeniably badass grooves. You get to enjoy features from Aether and Malevolence as well.
Also dropping this week…
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