Greetings, Decibel readers!
Have an particularly lethal set of releases for you this week. However if you wish to know who my favourite fashionable old-school heavy metallic band is, scroll to the underside.
Take pleasure in!
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Coffin Feeder – Huge Hassle
Do you want brutal loss of life metallic, Nineteen Eighties action-movie references, and crystal clear political metaphors? Properly, have I obtained a deal with for you!
Stream: Apple Music
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Disfuneral – In Horror, Reborn
Some strong loss of life metallic. Easy as. Followers of Vader, Grasp, and Asphyx will discover lots to take pleasure in on this album.
Stream: Apple Music
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Insineratehymn – Irreverence of the Divine
Brutal, satisfying evil set to music. Deicide clearly looms giant over this band’s music, however there’s echoes of Immolation, Incantation and Imprecation to be discovered right here as nicely. I imply, you’re bought already, aren’t you?
Stream: Apple Music
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Samiarus – Reign Destroyer
Talking of evil, let this sink its tooth into you, you received’t remorse it. The Oakland-based band has entered the world with a supremely violent new launch, a piece that mixes blackened loss of life metallic with the angle of grind and powerviolence in a approach that’s much like bands like Gravesend and Caustic Wound.
Stream: Apple Music
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Venator – Psychodrome
Among the many legions of “new old-school heavy metallic” bands which have emerged over the past 10 years, none looms bigger for me that Venator. The whole lot concerning the band’s sound comes collectively so nicely, channeling Judas Priest, The Scorpions, WASP and Thundersteel-era Riot and updating all of it for the 2020s. Superb however by no means tacky, aggressive however nicely balanced, melodic however nonetheless completely badass — it simply completely guidelines. The riffs are there, the vocals are there (and most singers on this fashion actually flip me off, however Hans simply owns the fabric so expertly), and the songwriting is just supreme (these choruses!). This might be one of many few non-black or loss of life metallic albums on my finish of 12 months listing for 2025, assured.
Stream: Apple Music