March rumbles on with another round of #NewMusicFriday album and EP releases. It is seemingly a metal-heavy week, yet there is a trio of highly recommended albums. The first is the return of Poison The Well with ‘Peace In Place’. It’s their first album in 17 years. You can read more about that here.
Next, there is ‘Loss’ by anonymous Portuguese metallers Gaerea. Having joined the Century Media Records roster, the Porto-based five-piece’s fifth album aims to go big. ‘Loss’ is a monstrous onslaught that blends blastbeat black metal with towering metalcore choruses (including singing for the first time). By using haunting melodies, walls of sonic distortion, pummelling percussion, and occasional cinematic flourishes, Gaerea deliver one of the year’s most irresistible metal (or metalcore – you decide) releases so far.
Then there is the second full-length of Chicago’s Footballhead. Ahead of making their UK debut this summer, ‘Weight of The Truth’ sees them evolve their brand of alt-rock. Across its 12 tracks, it embraces 2000’s melodic post-hardcore, taking stylistic cues from influential names such as Finch and their modern contemporaries, One Step Closer. Loaded with power chord driving choruses along a raw DIY ethos, Footballhead continue to be an exciting band worth paying attention to.
Today also sees new releases from The Dear Hunter, Filth Is Eternal, Lost In Hollywood, Exodus, King 810, and more.
What is out on #NewMusicFriday?
Metalcore | Progressive | Hardcore | Metal | Death Metal / Deathcore | EPs
Albums
Rock / Alternative Rock / Hard Rock
Footballhead – Weight of The Truth
Tyketto – Closer To The Sun
Alternative / Indie / Post-Rock
The Dear Hunter – Sunya
Vain Valkyries – Wonders
Ringing – another cycle in the cosmic wash
Emo / Pop-Punk / Pop-Rock / Punk / Post-Punk
Microwave – Much Love (10th Anniversary Live)
Filth Is Eternal – Impossible World
Crimson Riot – Third Time’s A Charm
Sick Shooters – Super Sonic Rock Saga
Metalcore
Poison The Well – Peace In Place
Lost In Hollywood – Lost In Hollywood
Hardcore
Mizery – Mizery
Progressive
TesseracT – War Of Being (Instrumentals)
Crouch – Breaking The Catatonic State
Metal
Neurosis – An Undying Love For A Burning World
Gaerea – Loss
King 810 – K8 rustbelt numetal 3
Exodus – Goliath
Night Thieves – METAXIS
Veil of the Serpent – Born To Burn
ClockTowers – Genesis
S8NT ELEKTRIC – Off The Edge
Dawn Of Ashes – Anatomy Of Suffering
Death Metal / Deathcore
The Silver – Looking Glass Hymnal Blue
EPs
Heriot – Heriot on Audiotree Live
mclusky* – i sure am getting sick of this bowling alley
Black Water County – Second Best
Cowboy Hunters – EPeepee
Norna & Legbiter – Split EP
Flatwounds – Chain Of Command
Homebase – Close To Something
If you think I’ve missed something or have a new album/EP/song to tell us about, tell us about it here.
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