CASKETS – REFLECTIONS – METALCORE

Let’s start the weekend with the solid sophomore effort from Caskets. Caskets have shown they aren’t a formulaic band and are willing to take risks, branching away from what made their first album so successful and stretching their creative muscles. By building upon the foundation they built with their first album, but introducing new layers and elements, they have delivered something that is both honest and dynamic. 

COPSE – OLD BELIEF/NEW DESPAIR – POST-BLACK METAL

WIth soaring melodies, blistering but neve dull drums, tortured vocals and eruptive soundscapes, Copse are paving blazing the trail for the future of blackened post-metal. Equal parts shimmering and scorching, Corpse finds the balance between beauty and brutality perfectly. Two EPs in, hopefully a full-length masterpiece is in the works.

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KATAKLYSM – GOLIATH – MELODIC DEATH METAL

Can you believe we are on album 15 from these guys!? It’s not even remotely surprising to reveal that Goliath is awesome. Groove-laden, djenty at times, and chorus-rich, with riffs for days, fans both old and new will find something to love. THe melodic death metal foundation is there, but they still manage to surprise, even 15 albums deep. 

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MEGAHERZ – IN TEUFELS NAMEN – INDUSTRIAL METAL

Praise Satan! In Teufels Namen (In The Devil’s Name) is a devilishly good time with industrial metal anthems, solid riffing and fun yet hard hitting composition. Megaherz remain mostly underground outside of their native Germany, but for those looking to scratch their industrial metal itch, you have 30 years of music to dig through. Megaherz know how to travel through the many shades of black as they transition from rock and metal elements, to industrial to goth for an entirely engaging listen. 

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URNE – A FEAST ON SORROW – SLUDGE/METALCORE

If Urne knows how to do one thing, it is write a gutwrenchingly sad album. Combining metalcore melodies with sludge weight, Urne have delivered an album-length reckoning with personal trauma. Frontman Joe Nally’s experiences with dementia and the pain and sorrow that comes from watching someone you love disappear drip from every note of this album. Cathartic but tortured, this one will hit you hard. 

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WEREWOLVES – MY ENEMIES LOOK AND SOUND LIKE ME – BLACKENED DEATH METAL

In the four years since their inception, Werewolves has not slowed down for a second. This is some top tier extreme metal, which is not surprising since each of the three members has been  featured in some of the most celebrated black and death metal acts over the past 20 years. To put it simply, there is not a bad song here. So have your face melted and bones broken and be thankful for the opportunity. 

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ALSO OUT THIS WEEK…

Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree – Aion (Magnetic Eye)
The Black Skeleton – The Rear View (Golden Robot)
Blessed Curse – Pray For Armageddon (M-Theory)
Blindstone – Scars To Remember (Mighty)
Bunsenburner – Ritual (Bensnburner)
Claret Ash – Worldtorn: Anemoia EP (Hypnotic Dirge)
Coney Hatch – Postcard From Germany (EX1)
Cunabula – The Weight Of Sleep (Sleaszy Rider)
Cystic – Palace Of Shadows (Chaos)
Danicide – Broken (Sliptrick)
Dead And Dripping – Blackened Cerebral Rifts (Transcending Obscurity)
Din Of Celestial Birds – The Night Is For Dreamers (A Thousand Arms)
Dismal Crux – The Hope Of Things To Come (Self)
George Lynch & Jeff Pilson – Heavy Hitters II (Cleopatra)
Groundstate – The Things We Leave Unsaid (Auspicious/Wolf)
Hail The Sun – Divine Inner Tension (Equal Vision)
Hell In The Club – The Lion’s Road (Frontiers)
Hemina – Romancing The Ether (Bird’s Robe)
Kind – Close Encounters (Ripple)
King Kobra – We Are Warriors (Cleopatra)
Lancer – Tempest (Fireflash)
Malkasian – The Macabre (Self)
Miss Vain – Crocus Biflorus EP (Inverse)
Moonaadem – Douleur de Renaitre (Self)
Move – Black Radical Love (Triple B)
The Mystical Hot Chocolate Endeavors – Clock Without A Craftsman (Massacre)
Neal Morse – The Dream – Joseph: Part One (Frontiers)
Necronomicon Ex Mortis – Silver Bullet EP (Self)
Parker Barrow – Jukebox Gypsies (Self)
The Prophecy 23 – Live At Summer Breeze (Massacre)
Rezn and Vionnum Sabbathi – Silent Future (Blues Funeral)
Sarayasign – The Lion’s Road (Frontiers)
Shadow Legion – Shadow Legion (Self)
Silverburn – Self Inducted Transcendental Annihilation (MSH)
Smth Wssn – Smth Wssn (Syrup Moose)
Sorrow – Death Of Sorrow (Xtreem)
Soulkick – Hide The End (Self)
Streetlight – Ignition (Frontiers)
Tarja – Rocking Heels: Live At Metal Church (earMusic)
Temple Of Dread – Beyond Acheron (Testimony)
To Kill Achilles – Recovery (Arising Empire)
Uncaved – Dogmatorraistes (Self)
Upsetter – Doomgaze EP (Self)