new Dee Snider sounds fucking amazing
https://deesnider.bandcamp.com/album/fo ... e-of-metal

I was never the biggest Twisted Sister fan, aside from rocking to their hits back in the day.

This is.... unexpectedly good. Had no idea he would fit like this in a "proper" heavy metal band.

The track previewed above is now streaming in full on youtube, with the release date set at September 7.

The Skull - The Endless Road Turn Dark

He actually sounds incredible for his age too. He still has lots of power.

Should be a new EP out this year. It's halfway done now. Depends on label release schedules and plans.

Looking forward to the new Sear Bliss album Letters From The Edge. They already teased the album's closing track and its another really good emotional atmospheric track that this band is really good at pulling off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VsyDO_9RGo

From that track it seems to be kind of in line with their last one doesn't it? I truly miss the days of Glory and Perdition/The Arcane Odyssey...

...not really? This is a lot more straightforward sounding than their last album. And it's not like they haven't made tracks like this in the past. See "God Man" or "Blood Serenade".

Better than I thought too. Seems to me that he's way more known for making Al Gore and his wife look like idiots.

Eh, I get what you mean about Blood Serenade (fucking love that song!) but I still feel like the new song is a lot more "modern" sounding and, like you say, straightforward. Sorry, can't find the words right now to describe the differences I'm hearing...

Granted I haven't heard Eternal Recurrence in years so I might've just pulled that remark out of my ass, though I still feel like Shroud sounds more like something that could've been made by Klabautamann than Sear Bliss themselves. I miss the constant trombone barrage and the rage on Nagy's voice. On Shroud it just seems too "happy sounding" and not tense enough. I don't know, something like that.

Never heard these guys before, but this sounds great.

Cast the Stone, featuring Derek Engemann of ex-Cattle Decapitation and Scour fame and Mark Kloeppel of Misery Index. This came out quite good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2kx8PT ... e=youtu.be

I’m looking forward to the new Drawn and Quartered album “The One Who Lurks.” Decibel is streaming the new track “Deliverance to the Worms.”

https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/06 ... the-worms/

I finally got around to listening to the preview tracks and HOLY SHIT is all I can say. The title track especially is just a monster. Bought it instantly.

The new Funeral Mist obviously, which was just announced out of nowhere. There aren't any sample tracks yet but it's out in less than a week.

https://funeralmist.bandcamp.com/album/hekatomb

http://www.noevdia.com/news/

New Battleroar is streaming in full: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2018/06/04/full-album-stream-battleroar-codex-epicus/

I really like it. Overall, a definite improvement over Blood of Legends, imo.

The title track is insanely epic. Those riffs are just insane, especially at 10:37. Honestly WOW.

I can't stop listening to it. My only fear is that it will be one of those albums where the rest of it can't live up to the preview track. Their first album was excellent though so my hopes are high.

The second single was good, but nowhere near the title track yeah, so I can see that worry. But, I think the whole album will slay. I asked the band if the rest was as good as the title track and they said they just jammed each song with as many riffs and melodies as possible, so I think it'll be great.

Innumerable Forms - Punishment in Flesh out in August
New Evoken later this year hopefully

New Evoken is almost finished according to the band's FB, and it's been confirmed to be released on Profound Lore once again.

So apparently Unanimated announced a pre-album EP to be released on the 10th of August on Century Media. I guess the "three disc deal" just turned into a "let's release an EP to see if people spend money on this band, the album later on to milk the hype and then a) it goes south and we release a compilation to cut the deal, or b) it goes well and a second album is released" type of thing. At least that's how I'm reading it, and yeah that was a long as fuck quotation but I guess it makes sense to be written like that.

On a different field Tantara is also back from the dead and aiming for a September release of their sophomore album. New song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwNMniR455U

So another new Craft track.



Yeah this is gonna be one of my top albums of the year easily.

That Craft song is good.

Highly anticipating the new Gaerea - Unsettling Whispers

their bandcamp says it releases next week and from the short preview they have there sounds really something, the EP was really good
https://gaerea.bandcamp.com/

Russian pagan metal band Svarga announced a new albom (Черная Падь) for this autumn. I am really excited about this one. They haven't released anything major for years now.

New Funeral Mist album "Hekatomb" is out. What do you guys think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMvTLbwwIK4

It will be interesting to hear how Funeral Mist manages to stand out in this age, where a legion of black metal bands strongly influenced by Funeral Mist's innovations have crafted styles of their own, and now the dust has been settling for a couple of years, and even those then-new styles are starting to become stale.

Mortuus has been quite busy, releasing two major albums in the same year.

BOOM! It's here! (streaming only)

I am just now aware that Mark Kloeppel of Misery Index is in Scour now?! Jesus Christ, Anselmo, the cousins Jarvis, Engemann and Kloeppel together just made Scour's next EP my most anticipated project at the moment. I remember talks a while back the plan was 3 6 song EPs a year apart from each other so hopefully soon.

Khanus finally announced a full-length and the first track is extremely promising. I love it when weirdo bands don't feel the need to make long songs.
https://khanus.bandcamp.com/album/flammarion

Hey, I'll have you know that there's only a *few* long songs on my next album. Most of em are in a respectable duration!

I'm just listening to this now and this is an immediate purchase! Love it!

Just announced: Thrawsunblat IV!
Autumn 2018



https://www.facebook.com/thrawsunblat

This just became my most anticipated album of the year.. Can't imagine how they will top II and III!

I've heard three tracks of the upcoming Oubliette -The Passage.



Melodic BM that sounds fantastic.

sounds a lot like kent's om du var här

I see what you did there, ha ha.

Omnium Gatherum will be releasing their next album named "The Burning Cold" on August 31st! Album art spoilered for massive size.




Here's hoping for some new sounds. Grey Heavens was a dull affair. Still excited for it though!

Grey Heavens was weird, yeah. The Pit is an awesome opener, and then you have Frontiers, Ophidian Sunrise and especially Stormfront (one of the best OG songs ever), but there is a huge dull spot in the middle of the album. I do hope the new one gets them back on track. I've talked to people who have heard it and they all say it's amazing, so...here's hoping.

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