Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of July 15, 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 15, 2016 –
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9electric: The Damaged Ones
Genre: Industrial Rock // Label: Another Century
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16: Lifespan of a Moth
Genre: Sludge/Hardcore // Label: Relapse Records
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Abra: Princess
Genre: Electronic/Pop // Label: True Panther
Read the staff review for Princess.
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Akani: Through My Darkest Infernal
Genre: New York Hardcore/Swedish Death Metal // Label: Spinnup
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Blood Red Throne: Union of Flesh and Machine
Genre: Death Metal // Label: Spinefarm
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Cane Hill: Smile
Genre: Metalcore/Nu Metal // Label: Rise Records
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Castle: Welcome to the Graveyard
Genre: 70s Doom // Label: Van Records
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Chapter and Verse: The Wolves Back Home
Genre: Alt. Rock // Label: Independent
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Clams Casino: 32 Levels
Genre: Hip-Hop // Label: Columbia
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ColdWorld: Autumn
Genre: Black Metal // Label: Cold Dimensions
Check out the staff review of Autumn.
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Dirty Heads: Dirty Heads
Genre: Alt/Pop/Hip-Hop // Label: Five Seven Music
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Eritherium: If You Feel Its Presence
Genre: Melodic Death Metal/Doom // Label: Independent
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Family: Future History
Genre: Modern Progressive Metal // Label: Prosthetic Records
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Fistula: Longing For Infection
Genre: Sludge/Hardcore // Label: Patac Records
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Good Charlotte: Youth Authority
Genre: Pop/Pop Punk // Label: Kobalt
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Grave Digger: Let Your Heads Roll: The Very Best of the Noise Years
Genre: Power Metal // Label: Noise Records
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Heliotropes: Over There That Way
Genre: Psychedelic Rock // Label: The End Records
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Helloween: Ride the Sky: The Very Best of the Noise Years
Genre: Power Metal // Label: Noise Records
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Imperium: Titanomachy
Genre: Death Metal // Label: Ultimate Massacre Productions
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Jack and Amanda Palmer: You Got Me Singing
Genre: Indie Pop // Label: Cooking Vinyl
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Jeff Beck: Loud Hailer
Genre: Blues/Rock // Label: Rhino Records
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Kamelot: Where I Reign: The Very Best of the Noise Years
Genre: Progressive/Power Metal // Label: Noise Records
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Kreator: Love Us or Hate Us: The Very Best of the Noise Years
Genre: Thrash/Death Metal // Label: Noise Records
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Meek is Murder: Was
Genre: Metalcore/Grind // Label: Independent
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Michael Kiwanuka: Love and Hate
Genre: R&B/Soul // Label: Interscope
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NEEDTOBREATHE: H A R D L O V E
Genre: Alt/Pop // Label: Atlantic Records
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The Night Watch: Boundaries
Genre: Progressive/Instrumental // Label: Independent
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Necronautical: The Endurance at Night
Genre: Black Metal // Label: Cacophonous Records
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Orbs: Past Life Regression
Genre: Progressive Metal // Label: Equal Vision Records
Check out our staff review of Past Life Regression
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Pestifere: Hope Misery Death
Genre: Black/Death/Thrash // Label: Eihwaz Recordings
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Polarheart: Polarheart
Genre: Electronic/Pop // Label: Marshmallow Pavement Records
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Psalm Zero: Stranger to Violence
Genre: Goth/Industrial/Metal // Label: Profound Lore
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Running Wild: Riding the Storm: The Very Best of the Noise Years
Genre: Power Metal // Label: Noise Records
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Seedna: Forlorn
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal // Label: Transcending Obscurity
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Set On End: The Dark Beyond
Genre: Metalcore/Death Metal // Label: Artery Recordings
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Skyclad: A Bellyful of Emptiness: The Very best of the Noise Years
Genre: Folk/Power Metal // Label: Noise Records
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Slow Season: Westing
Genre: Rock // Label: RidingEasy Records
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Steven Tyler: We’re All Somebody From Somewhere
Genre: Rock/Country // Label: Dot Records
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Tankard: Oldies & Goodies: The Very Best of the Noise Years
Genre: Heavy Metal/Speed Metal // Label: Noise Records
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Terraform: Adrift
Genre: Progressive Metal // Label: Independent
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Tides of Sulfur: Extinction Curse
Genre: Death/Sludge // Label: Black Bow Records
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Today Forever: Derangement
Genre: Hardcore // Label: Verona Records
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Underling: Bloodworship
Genre: Death/Black Metal/Post Hardcore // Label: Neuropa
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Vow of Thorns: Farewell to the Sun
Genre: Melodic Black Metal/Post Rock // Label: Forest Dweller Inc.
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And it rules too.
07.13.16
Done.
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I only vaguely remember their first album. I'll check this one out, though.
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I loved Asleep Next to Science - it's probably one of my favorite albums of all time and I've really never let it go.
Past Life is really reminding me how much effort it took for me to get into it, though. I really feel like this new album is on a new level, though it's very different and very stylistically diverse, which makes it less cohesive. There's just a lot of "YOU SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO THAT BUT YOU DID IT" moments on the record, which I really dig. And Adam sounds incredible as always, but people either really love his voice (like me) or can't stand it.
It definitely won't be everyone's cup of tea, for sure.
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