New Releases From HEILUNG, HAMMERFALL & More Out This Week 8/9

This week’s new heavy releases embrace joyous rock stuff, grooves, and extra! To the metals…

And So I Watch You From Afar – Megafauna

Style: Progressive/math rock
Origin: Belfast, Northern Eire
Label: Pelagic Information

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Whereas not a steel act per se, And So I Watch You From A Far have practically twenty years of compelling (principally) instrumental rock will all of the ebbs and flows of a post-metal wall of sound report. Megafauna is one other album of enjoyable guitar theatrics and catchy melodies that deserves your consideration. Numerous style dabbling right here too.

Fucked Up – One other Day

Style: Hardcore/experimental
Origin: Toronto, Ontario
Label: Fucked Up Information

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Final yr Fucked Up put out a report known as One Day and that is the sequel to mentioned report. The little I’ve heard thus far would pair properly with ASIWYFA’s Megafauna as it’s joyous and filled with enjoyable melodies. Nonetheless, Damian Abraham cannot not sound intense. So no matter how enjoyable the music is, he is bringing the fashion.

HammerFall – Avenge The Fallen

Style: Heavy/energy steel
Origin: Gothenburg, Sweden
Label: Nuclear Blast

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Album quantity 13 from these legends is one other epic energy steel trip. No frills or sudden twists right here. You are getting heavy steel, songs about heavy steel, and empowering anthems. Jordan has a full assessment here.

Heilung – Lifa Iotungard

Style: Avant-garde/people
Origin: Denmark
Label: Season Of Mist

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Subsequent up is a stay report that was recorded at Pink Rocks. Exhibits are recorded there on a regular basis, however in keeping with Heilung they “don’t play ‘exhibits’. They carry out a ritual.” So this can be a full ritual carried out in 2021 on the legendary venue. The monitor itemizing is essentially from their album Futha which was the latest launch on the time, however you are still getting stuff from Ofnir and even a monitor from a earlier stay launch Lifa.

In Aphelion – Reaperdawn

Style: Black/heavy steel
Origin: Sweden / Netherlands
Label: Century Media

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Sure, sure. I do know “Steel” Injection. Properly right here you go. In Aphelion‘s sophomore launch is one other darkish and harmonious report. Reaperdawn is only a stable blackened steel report. I actually do not have a variety of flowery phrases to throw at it.

Mushroomhead – Name The Satan

Style: Industrial/nu steel
Origin: Cleveland, Ohio
Label: Napalm

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On their first report in 4 years Mushroomhead are again swinging. They’re experimenting with a extra accessible sound like they did on the final report A Fantastic Life. It is a various providing, however when the nu steel grooves hit, they HIT. It is also the primary to characteristic a visit of recent faces in vocalist Scott Beck, guitarist Joe Gaal, and drummer Aydin Kerr.

Additionally dropping this week…

• Bless The Lifeless – We Create This (Wormholedeath) – Southern/groove steel
• Blue Oyster Cult – fiftieth Anniversary Dwell – Second Night time (Frontiers) – Arduous rock
• Carnivore Diprosopus – Rise Of The Riot (Comatose Music) – Brutal dying steel
• Crushuman – CrusHuman (Horror Ache Gore Loss of life Productions) – Loss of life steel
• Darkish Deeds – Loss of life Retains (Self-released) – Deathcore
• Duhkha – A Place You Cannot Come Again From (Good Combat Music) – Metalcore
• Earth Ship – Soar (The Lasting Dose Information) – Sludge/doom
• 4 Yr Sturdy – evaluation paralysis (Pure Noise Information) – Pop punk
• Fulci – Duck Face Killings (20 Buck Spin) – Brutal dying steel
• Hell Can Wait – Reaching The Level The place Ache Ends (Finest Life/Genet/Our Satisfaction) – Melodic hardcore
• Jim Peterik & World Stage – Roots & Shoots Vol. 2 (Frontiers) – Rock
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – FLIGHT b741 (p(doom) information) – Blues rock
• Kurokuma – Of Amber and Sand (Self-released) – Sludge/doom
• Monument Of Misanthropy – Vile Postmortem Irrumatio (Transcending Obscurity Information) – Brutal/technical dying steel
• Nova Charisma – Metropolitan (Equal Imaginative and prescient) – Put up-hardcore
• Oxygen Destroyer – Guardian Of The Universe (Redefining Darkness Information) – Black steel/thrash
• A Rising Pressure – Fact (Darkstar/Sony/Common) – Arduous rock
• Siamese – Parts (Lengthy Department) – Arduous rock
• SJS – A Sequence of Errors (Self-released) – Progressive rock
• Stahlmann – Phosphor (Out Of Line Music) – Industrial/different steel