This is a pretty destructive week in new releases, with a solid amount of grindcore and furious hardcore. There is a bit of reprieve from progressive black metal masters and a stunning melodeath debut. For all of our favorite new releases, both singles and albums, be sure to check out the official Knotfest New Flesh playlist.
Enslaved’s Heimdal is a rich, multi-layered album that will require repeat listens to fully absorb. The broad range of influences make this album a testament to metal as a whole, rather than being subject to the closed confines of a single genre. Enslaved have shown why they are, and will forever be, titans in this genre.
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Dark, nasty, brooding and bone-crushingly heavy – the collaboration between Full of Hell and Primitive Man is even darker than the individual efforts of both bands. These two have created something that is immersive and horrifying at the same time. Like a tunnel of horrors, you must just go along for the ride.
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Keeping it destructive and chaotic, the new EP from .Giffromgod is one of those anxiety-inducing albums that builds anticipation with each track. While only 6 tracks long, the band covers a lot of ground, with each step covered in grime and razor blades.
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Stepping away from the chaos and carnage for a moment, this is an absolutely stunning melodeath record, the brings back many of the elements of yesteryear that made the genre as strong as it was. This album is a journey that traverses the outer realms, weaving an otherworldly masterpiece. And to add impress to impressive, this album is a debut!
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Viscera are one of the more underrated bands in the deathcore scene. Their latest album Carcinogenesis is both elegant and destructive. Packed with emotion, soaring melodies, and breakneck rhythms, this band can hit you over the head and right in the feels at the same time.
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Impactful, ambitious, meaty, rich: the debut LP from Zulu is showing why they are one of the most exciting bands in the hardcore scene. As fierce, fast and destructive as Zulu can be, the band will surprise you with euphoric and soulful moments. Weaving so much history and culture into this record, not only is it an exciting debut, but it is poised to be one of the most important albums in the modern hardcore scene.
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71TonMan – Of End Times (Transcending Obscurity)
Absolon – A Portrait Of Madness (Sliptrick)
Agarwaen – Channel: Lunacy (Self)
Arriver – Azimuth (Self)
At The Altar Of The Horned God – Heart Of Silence (I, Voidhanger)
Bagorah – The Art Of Deviant Behavior (Self)
Baltavar – Dark Science (Wormholedeath)
Behind Bars – All In Due Time (Self)
Blak29 – The Waiting (Cleopatra)
Carma – Ossadas (Monumental Rex)
Carrion – Morbid Nailgun Necropsy (Wormholedeath)
Colpocleisis – Elegant Degradation (Reality Fade)
Cromlech – Ascent Of Kings (Hessian Firm)
Digital Negative – EP 2 EP (Self)
Disminded – The Vision (Black Sunset/MDD)
Earth Groans – Tongue Tied EP (Solid State)
Entheos – Time Will Take Us All (Metal Blade)
Eyes – Congratulations (Indisciplinarian)
Faim – Your Life And Nothing Else (Safe Inside)
Fake Names – Expendables (Epitaph)
Fury Of Five – Half Past Revenge EP (Upstate)
Fvzz Popvli – III (Retro Vox)
Haken – Fauna (InsideOut)
HamaSaari – Ineffable (Klonosphere)
Haradwaith – The M-Theory (Nihilistische KlangKunst)
John DeMena – Dreams And Lies (ADA)
Kekal – Eternitarian: The Essential Kekal 1995-2022 (Self)
Kold – Intet Mere Er (Vendetta)
Korrupt – Secret Sorrows (Holler)
Kruller – Dead Live! (HPGD)
Lawrence Wallace – Compilation Songs (Self)
L’Ira Del Baccano – Cosmic Evoked Potentials (Subsound)
Littu – Accolti da antiche radici (Self)
Lord Sonny The Unifier – America’s Newest Hitmaker (Interstellar Smoke)
Lunar – The Illusionist (Saibot Reign)
Maggot Crown – Apparition Of Faces (Vargheist)
Mommy’s Lil Monsterz – Mommy’s Lil Monsterz (Self)
Morcaint – Elessar EP (Nordvis)
Mural Crown – Coastal Towers (Xenoglossy)
Necropanther – Betrayal (Self)
Nemesis Sopor – Firmament (Self)
Nomad – The Mountain (Self)
Nuclear Holocaust – Sailing The Seas Of Nuclear Waste (Selfmadegod)
Ocean Of Grief – Pale Existence (Personal)
Phantom Fire – Eminente Lucifer Libertad (Edged Circle)
Plague Bearer – Summoning Apocalyptic Devastation (Nameless Grave)
Poseidon – Poseidon (Brucia)
Raum – Cursed By The Crown (LADLO)
Redlight King – In Our Blood (AFM)
Rodtgod – Graveside Service (Self)
Sandrider – Enveletration (Satanik Royalty)
Skrying Mirror – Omnimalevolence (I, Voidhanger)
Solus Grief – With A Last Exhale (Purity Through Fire)
Sortilege – Apocalypso (Season Of Mist)
Stargazer – Life Will Never Be The Same (Mighty)
Stoned Jesus – Father Light (Season Of Mist)
Story About Illusion – Perfect Equilibrium (Epictronic)
Temptress – See (Metal Assault)
Terminal – R.A.T.S. (Trepnation)
Terveet Kadet – Kaikki Kaikkia Vastaan (Svart)
Thunderblood – The Final Beginning (Self)
Thunderspell – Thunderwarriors (Self)
Tombstone – To The Existence Of Light (Gutter Prince Cabal)
Tragedy – I Am Woman (Napalm)
Trench Dogs – Stockholmania (Wild Kingdom)
Unholy Craft – Naar All Tid Er Omme (Purity Through Fire)
Vanishment – No More Torture (Dead Sage)
Vermineaux/Prieure – Split EP (Purity Through Fire)
Verminoth – Grotesque Manifestation EP (Grand Vomit)
Villagers Of Ioannina City – Through Space And Time (Alive In Athens 2020) (Napalm)
Witch Ripper – The Flight After The Fall (Magnetic Eye)
Witchthroat Serpent – Trove Of Oddities At The Devil’s Driveway (Heavy Psych Sounds)
Yaaroth – The Man In The Wood (I, Voidhanger)
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