There is a little something for everyone in this week’s new releases. From melodic metalcore jams, to blistering death metal, to stoners gone thrash and more, you’ll find something to love. For all of our favorite new releases, both singles and albums, be sure to check out the official Knotfest New Flesh playlist.
Alt. – Abeyance - Melodic Metalcore
Kicking off this week we have the debut full-length from melodic metalcore outfit Alt. Abeyance is full of everything from heavy metal instruments to fantastic breakdowns. Melodic and emotive vocals, electronic elements and some rapping all work quite well together to create an album that is heavy, accessible, and a honest good time.
Get your copy HERE.
Creeping Death – Boundless Domain - Death Metal
There is no denying that the death metal scene is absolutely bursting at the seams right now. Texan death metal favorites Creeping Death have turned out 43 minutes of solid bludgeoning. The range on this album is what is most impressive, with weighty riffs, killer solos, thrashy turns and filthy groove, the album goes beyond death metal basics to showcase what Creeping Death are really made of.
Get your copy HERE.
Elder Devil – Everything Worth Loving – Grindcore
Everything Worth Loving is a violent, gritty, and dizzying album with punk stylings, flurries of furious riffs and solos, and beautiful and heartfelt lyrics. The vocal delivery is explosive, while the musicianship is a masterclass in controlled chaos. Taking extreme to new extremes, Elder Devil will scratch your grindcore itch.
Get your copy HERE.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalypse - Hard Rock
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are relentless in the best way possible. This marks album 24 (yes - TWENTYFOUR) from the Australian outfit and it finds them exploring new territory, ditching their trademark stoner-rock for more thrashy metal. Blistering guitar work and pummeling drums drive you through fantasy fueled fury.
Get your copy HERE.
Queens Of The Stone Age – In Times New Roman… - Hard Rock
In Times New Roman…, may be Queens of the Stone Age’s heaviest, angriest work since 2007’s Era Vulgaris, which is understandable given the past few years Josh Homme has had. The album is a balancing act of vulnerable and vindictive with flashes of dark humor. Cinematic at times, In Times New Roman… feels quite grand. The third of the trilogy that started with …Like Clockwork, this completes the set.
Get your copy HERE.
Thy Catafalque – Alföld - Avant-garde
Tamas Katai, mastermind being Thy Catafalque, returns to break down barriers once again with Alföld. As you progress through the album, each song will never be what you anticipate. Everything from sludgy death metal, to black metal, to cosmic notes, to majestic atmospheres, this album will take you through the band’s evolution and history in a microcosm.
Get your copy HERE.
Also out this week…
Altar Of Oblivion – Burning Memories EP (From The Vaults)
A.M.E.N. – The Book Of Lies (I, Voidhanger)
Arkona – Kob (Napalm)
Avkrvst – The Approbation (InsideOut)
Boris and Uniform – Bright New Disease (Sacred Bones)
Church Of Misery – Born Under A Mad Sign (Rise Above)
Diesomnia – Pray For The Flood EP (Self)
Diminishing – The Unnamable (Anti-Corporate)
Disillusive Play – Songs For The Non-Existent (Wormholedeath)
Duivel – Heiligschennis (Nomad Snakepit)
EB And The Deadlights – Echoes Of A Dreamless Life (Self)
Endeavour – For The Time Being (Self)
Fifth Angel – When Angels Kill (Nuclear Blast)
Frozen Land – Out Of The Dark (Massacre)
Geist Of Ouachita – Imprisoned In The Graven Wood (Signal Rex)
Helleruin – Devils, Death And Dark Arts (New Era)
Infinite Spectrum – Cage (DistroKid)
Joel Hoekstra’s 13 – Crash Of Life (Frontiers)
Lanayah – I’m Picking Lights In A Field… (Anima)
Memorrhage – Memorrhage (Big Money Cybergrind)
Methedras – Human Deception (Self)
Nailbomb – 1000% Hate (Dissonance)
Nargathrond – Killing Season (Wormholedeath)
New Dawn Fades – Forever EP (Self)
OneFromTheNorth – Regime, Salvation & The Pyre (Sliptrick)
Phantom Horde – Prince Of Death (Self)
Pire – Grief World (Self)
The Poison Arrows – Crime And Soda (Solid Brass)
Pride Of Lions – Dream Higher (Frontiers)
Rana – Richtfeuer (Breath Sun Bone Blood)
Reaping Flesh – Abyss Of Existence (Redefining Darkness)
Religion Of Fear – The First Sin (Self)
Rise To The Sky – Two Years Of Grief (Meuse/Tragedy)
Roseneath – Nowhere Safe (Thirty Something)
Royal Thunder – Rebuilding The Mountain (Spinefarm)
Sammath – Grebbeberg (Hammerheart)
Sarmat – Determined To Strike (I, Voidhanger)
Saturnus – The Storm Within (Prophecy)
She – Goodpaster (Self)
Sicksense – Fools Tomorrow EP (Self)
The Sigil – Argante EP (Self)
Speed Limit – Cut A Long Story Short (NRT)
Stardust – Kingdom Of Illusion (Frontiers)
Synapse – After Echoes EP (Self)
Thymata – Embraced By Death (Adirondack Black Mass)
Trip The Wire – Trip The Wire (Self)
Varmia – nie nas widzę (M-Theory)
Vile Ritual – Caverns Of Occultic Hatred (Sentient Ruin)
Vulture Industries – Ghosts From The Past (Dark Essence)
Vypera – Race Of Time (Frontiers)
Witchskull – The Serpent Tide (Rise Above)
Wonders – Beyond The Mirage (Limb)
Wooden Shadow – Eternal Land Of Wrath And Mourn (Inverse)
World Eater – An Insidious Remedy (HPGD)
Yawning Man – Long Walk Of The Navajo (Heavy Psych Sounds)
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