Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 22, 2016. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. As our staff post reviews of these albums, links will appear below the art work so that you can read about the release, see how we scored it, and more.
– July 22, 2016 –
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Assignment: Closing the Circle
Genre: Progressive Power Metal // Label: Massacre
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The Birthday Massacre: Imagica (Reissue)
Genre: Industrial/Goth/Alt. Metal // Label: Metropolis Records
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Black Crown Initiate: Selves We Cannot Forgive
Genre: Progressive Death Metal // Label: eOne Music
Read the Contributor Review for Selves We Cannot Forgive.
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Breanna Barbara: Mirage Dreams
Genre: Southern Blues/Psychedelica // Label: No Roads Records
Stream Mirage Dreams here.
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Capsize: A Reintroduction: The Essence of All That Surrounds Me
Genre: Post Hardcore // Label: Equal Vision Records
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Centinex: Doomsday Rituals
Genre: Death Metal // Label: Agonia Records
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Crown the Empire: Retrograde
Genre: Post Hardcore/Metalcore // Label: Rise Records
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Defeated Sanity: Disposal of the Dead
Genre: Death Metal // Label: Willowtip Records
Check out the staff review for Disposal of the Dead.
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Despised Icon: Beast
Genre: Deathcore // Label: Nuclear Blast
Read the Contributor Review for Beast.
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Despite: Synergi
Genre: Metalcore // Label: Eclipse Records
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Dragonforce: Killer Elite
Genre: Power Metal // Label: Spinefarm
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Gucci Mane: Everybody Looking
Genre: Hip-Hop // Label: Atlantic
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Gus McArthur: Chapter 1: Hysterics From the Book of Gus
Genre: Experimental Technical Metal // Label: Independent
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Hammers of Misfortune: Dead Revolution
Genre: Heavy Metal/Folk/Progressive // Label: Metal Blade Records
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Harakiri for the Sky: III: Trauma
Genre: Post Black Metal // Label: Art of Propaganda
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Heavenwood: Part 1: The Tarot of the Bohemians
Genre: European Heavy Metal // Label: Massacre
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Jamila Woods: Heavn
Genre: Soul/Hip-Hop/R&B // Label: Closed Sessions
Stream Heavn here.
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Karmakanic: Dot
Genre: Progressive Rock // Label: InsideOut Records
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Killing the Messenger: Fuel to the Fire
Genre: Metalcore // Label: EPM Music
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Look Park: Look Park
Genre: Alt. Country // Label: Yep Roc Records
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Mizery: Absolute Light
Genre: Metal/Hardcore Crossover // Label: Flatspot Records
Stream Absolute Light here.
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MSTRKRFT: Operator
Genre: Electronic // Label: Last Gang Records
Check out the Staff Review for Operator.
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Numenorean: Home
Genre: Post Black Metal // Label: Season of Mist
Stream Home here.
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Periphery: Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Genre: Progressive Metal/Metalcore // Label: Sumerian Records
Check out the staff review for Periphery III.
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Profanatica: The Curling Flame of Blasphemy
Genre: Black Metal // Label: Hell’s Headbangers
Read the Contributor Review of The Curling Flame of Blasphemy and stream it here.
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Relient K: Air For Free
Genre: Alt. Rock // Label: Mono vs Stereo
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Revocation: Great is Our Sin
Genre: Thrash/Death // Label: Metal Blade Records
Stream Great is Our Sin here.
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Vanhelgd: Temple of Phobos
Genre: Death/Black/Doom // Label: Dark Descent Records
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Witherscape: The Northern Sanctuary
Genre: Progressive Death Metal // Label: Century Media
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Wreck and Reference: Indifferent Rivers Romance End
Genre: Experimental/Electronic/Progressive Rock // Label: The Flenser
Check out the staff review for Indifferent Rivers Romance End.
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very metal-heavy this week by the looks of it, i guess i'll check the new Harakiri and Despised Icon at some point
also why would you waste art like that on Crown the Empire?
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And btw can that Harakiri for the Sky album cover be more archetypical for the genre?
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