New Rude album sounds extremely promising. Kickass riffs abound. Truly old school sounding death metal.





And a bump for this.

Some extremely solid sounding blackened death doom with tasteful symphonic / piano elements due for release on the 1st. Whole thing is streamable now though.

New stuff coming out from thisquietarmy (mz being a fan of them if I recall). The 3 available songs aren't really metal but other tracks might be so will put it here (because I'm too lazy to create a 2017 non-metal thread). Meticulous and interesting sounding drone and ambient. The second track is particularly good.

Really cool sounding Dutch black metal thing due out next year. Sounds rather psychedelic and hypnotic to me, though others may disagree. Love that perpetual alien sounding warble in the background. Currently my most anticipated thing for next year that I've heard. Love it.


And another upcoming black metal thing with a really interesting sound, with two releases it seems. Loving the wobbly clean guitars on this one. Really distinctive and atmospheric.





This one seems to favour more bold leads. Sounds great also; the band seem to have a penchant for really infectious eerie melodies.



In fact this project has a third release on the cards: Grav - Projektioner af Död



Promising sounding atmospheric black metal from Brazil with a melancholic atmosphere and big sound.

Also 3rd could you edit out the artworks in the opening post. I think we're all going to get sick of scrolling past them all by the end of the year

Also, there's a couple of tracks up from this now. They sound absolutely fucking mental here...

Edited the first post and added some stringent rules for people who try to post whatever new stuff they seem to glance upon. And regarding that Psudoku album, some people including me are guessing that it might be released this year Dec 31st. The songs are insanely mind blowing and the guitar playing is the most intricate and complex its ever been in a Psudoku material. Stellar stuff and such a rare band in the almost deserted cybergrind genre.

Rude album is cool, knew it was coming but didn't know songs were out, good meat and potatoes stuff. Best thing about it is Mr.Dan Spacecatacomb still being active in the metal scene.

That Sadael sounds very good, love the keyboards and melody in that. Will have to give a full listen later.

Love the bass in the Turia album and I think the wobbly sound could be bass guitars or something. Good lo-fi bm thing.

That Grav and Dead Limbs are both good quality genre fodder. Grav especially having a good melodic sound.

Chinese thrash metal on a German label. Sounds stellar and with really fun as balls soloing. Thrash as thrash should be.

Tumourboy - Damaged System

Ukranian black/thrash from the same label. This is actually part of an MCD. Not as fun as the one above but still no-bullshit no-nonsense metal. Both releases will be out by Jan 31st, 2017.

Hellfire - Goat Revenge

Written by [user id=4365] on 24.12.2016 at 21:28

Also, there's a couple of tracks up from this now. They sound absolutely fucking mental here...

They were already streaming months ago

Written by Zap on 25.12.2016 at 11:59

They were already streaming months ago

No one tells me these things

Written by [user id=4365] on 25.12.2016 at 12:18

No one tells me these things

I am surprised he even listens to these.

Written by 3rdWorld on 25.12.2016 at 13:17

I am surprised he even listens to these.

How did I know what that link would be

I find them insanely boring but a lot of people seem to like this band. New song from Midnight Odyssey.

Thats from an upcoming compilation. Get ready to get more bored Joe cuz there's also a full length 14-track double disc concept album coming up probably next year as per what the label told me in facebook.

Christ, that's going to be at least 73 hours long then -_-

Post-black from Ukraine. Has that very "post-black" sound and includes fairly subtle use of the saxophone. Very not bad at all. Probably not quite my thing at the end of the day but will certainly be other's.




Vicious and cavernous blackened-ish death on Invictus Productions. Sounds pretty damn good tbh.




Awesomely groovy doom-ish heavy metal / hard rock out next year. Seriously though: those grooves. Beastly art too.




More cavernous death metal. Bit more simple and direct but nice sound and sufficiently riffy.




Very relaxing drone doom number with some ambient and post-rock elements. Somehow manages to convey the heaviness of the genre with an inherent softness as well, perhaps more akin to a funeral doom album. Could do without the vocals but they're few and far between. Full thing streaming. Not particularly great but not bad either.

Wouldn't be an album rec page without the obligatory Deathspell worship. As it goes this sounds like it's right at the top of the competency scale, if not the originality one.




More deathy black / blacky death goodness coming out on Profound Lore. Very nice.




Black metal with a more standard sound, but quite decent sounding.




And yet more super-solid-sounding OSDM coming from Invictus.

Invictus productions seem to be just similar to Iron Bonehead. Solid quality throughout all their releases.

Here's some more awesome sounding death metal teaser from them.

Surprisingly clean sounding black metal split from the rock solid and consistently awesome German label Iron Bonehead productions.

"IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS is proud to present Funeral Rite, a split mini-album between FUNERAL STORM and CELESTIAL RITE, on both CD and 12" vinyl formats. Although IRON BONEHEAD is largely known/infamous for the scuzzier, filthier end of extreme metal, long has its heart pumped to the beat of classic Greek black metal. Just in recent years, the label has released KAWIR's long-awaited comeback album alongside celebrated EPs by ancient-minded newcomers ITHAQUA, not to mention a long-overdue collection from DISHARMONY among others, and with Funeral Rite, IRON BONEHEAD once again hails the banner of Greek black metal classicism.
Kicking off Funeral Rite on Side A are FUNERAL STORM. Although brewing for the better part of the past 15 years, FUNERAL STORM's discography to date has been sparse but of uniformly high quality. Listening to the two tracks they contribute here is like being whisked away to 1994/1995, when Greek black metal's foremost pioneers - Rotting Christ, Varathron, Necromantia, Septic Flesh, and Nightfall - were all starting to spread their wings creatively and deliver triumphant, otherworldly art. Underlining those ancient ties are exclusive guest vocals by Varathron's Necroabyssious. The two tracks that CELESTIAL RITE contribute here, sadly, are the band's epitaph - but what a glorious epitaph they leave. Comparably aligned with FUNERAL STORM in their deeply seated, deeply studied iteration of classic Greek black metal - pulsing, mystical, muscular, dusky - CELESTIAL RITE weave a more occult fabric with Funeral Rite, and one shot through with a sort of melancholy, perhaps suggestive of the band's final days.
Together, the past is indeed alive with Funeral Rite!
To be released 24 February 2017."

Pretty nice if somewhat underproduced blackened melodeath type thing. Decent melody / rough sound combination anyway.





And some nice Norwegian black metal with pleasantly thick sound and nice sweeping melodies and use of keys.





Hate the artwork with a passion but bugger me sideways, the music is awesome. Some kind of brooding dark metallic rock with amazing female vocals being released on Ván Records. Just reeks of greatness from top to bottom.





Moody black metal with cool artwork! Music isn't terrible either.




Something for 3rd: upcoming blistering death metal from Xtreem Music.




Ethereal doom-rock from King Woman. Fuzzy and hypnotic stuff.

Written by [user id=4365] on 27.12.2016 at 15:15

Hate the artwork with a passion but bugger me sideways, the music is awesome. Some kind of brooding dark metallic rock with amazing female vocals being released on Ván Records. Just reeks of greatness from top to bottom.

Sounds nice. Especially that first song

Written by Karlabos on 27.12.2016 at 15:57

Sounds nice. Especially that first song

I think the next track it goes on to is from an older album. But yeah the new one has definitely grabbed my interest.

Yes I loved that Nasty Surgeons track. Really groovy and double-bass filled death metal with a punch. Actually I was planning to recommend that and the Imha Tarikat release but thanks to godawful 3rd world wifi infrastructure quality Joe beat me to it. Both are good stuff anyway.

Well lets get on with it. Here's some pounding and insanely heavy black metal from Poland. To be released via Malignant Voices/Under The Sign Of Gazazel.



One-man wrecking crew Leon Macey of Mithras returns to 2017 with one of his other bands along with blastbeat specialist George Kollias. Just an album sample streaming now but will be a decent release to look forward to.

3rdWorld's 3rd world internet

Icelandic black metal, thankfully not a DsO clone! Technical, and songs shift and morph quite a bit to the point where I would be tempted to call it prog black, but without the prog meandering. Quite good. Album art is familiar which means it might have been posted elsewhere.

Soild sounding funeral doom. Standard for the genre but I guess that's what people want.




More doom, this time more melodic and epic but still in the death doom region. Solid again.

Fuzzy, heavy stoner doom. Very diverse vocal approaches on this song alone. Actually pretty dope. Spectacular art too.




Good sounding psyche-rock / doom thing with female vocals.

Also very decent sludge doom type thing with excellent vocals.






Don't actually know what I would call this but I like it a lot. Sort of alternative metal with hardcore and sludge elements. Described on their Facebook page as grunge / post-hardcore. Nice either way. Heavy but brooding atmosphere and fantastic clear sound.

Again, don't know exactly what to call this but it's frigging great sounding. Crunchy, almost industrialsed noise rock or thereabouts. Really heavy sledgehammer, fist pounding sound with a digital hardcore feel. Ooph.




Fairly fun blackened thrash / speed metal. Sounds exactly like you would expect.

Solid Swedish death metal... from Sweden. Again, you know what you're getting here and that's not really a bad thing.

Turkish osdm.

Engulfed - Engulfed In Obscurity

Austrian lo-fi black metal.

Traunmeller - Golden Dawn / Apeiron

Obscure raw lo-fi underground black metal demos. The stuff of Iron Bonehead productions indeed. Absolutely love that promo poster style announcement too.

A Sun Traverse has about fivee previous members of Saturnus in it. Only one who never played in Saturnus is the vocalist. Btw the e.p. some quite solid death doom and not as melodic as Saturnus.

I quite enjoyed Engulfed's e.p. from 2011 so am looking forward to the upcoming release.

German one-man funeral doom. The single track streaming right now sounds decent enough but neither insanely heavy, gloomy or excessively melodic. Let's see how this turns out to be as doom is one of the genres which could really do with a lot of better releases next year.

Frowining - Extinct

Written by 3rdWorld on 28.12.2016 at 14:17
Frowning

Lol, pay attention, posted that yesterday


New supergroup (I guess) project featuring the bassist and drummer from The Devil's Blood, and the guitarist from that excellent GOLD band I posted earlier on. They played at Roadburn this year. I guess it's a fairly mellow form of dark rock. Definitely not bad, quite emotive stuff.

Doesn't matter. What it needed was my seal of approval which now officially has been provided.

Written by [user id=4365] on 28.12.2016 at 14:23

New supergroup (I guess) project featuring the bassist and drummer from The Devil's Blood, and the guitarist from that excellent GOLD band I posted earlier on. They played at Roadburn this year. I guess it's a fairly mellow form of dark rock. Definitely not bad, quite emotive stuff.

Yeah, I saw that show. Wasn't quite my thing but it might work better on album, so I will check it out.

Written by Zap on 28.12.2016 at 16:00

Yeah, I saw that show. Wasn't quite my thing but it might work better on album, so I will check it out.

Tbh it's a bit tame for my tastes but I can see people who had a strong emotional attachment to The Devil's Blood maybe getting something from it.