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Weekly Releases 5.13.2022

By Dewinged Wednesday May 11, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 13th, 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: May 13, 2022 –

The Black Keys: Dropout Boogie

Genre: Indie Rock
Label: Nonesuch

Bear’s Den: Blue Hours

Genre: Indie Folk / Rock
Label: Communion

Cage Fight: Cage Fight

Genre: Hardcore
Label: Candlelight / Spinefarm

The Chainsmokers: So Far So Good

Genre: Pop
Label: Columbia

Craig David: 22

Genre: r&b / Soul
Label: BMG

Corpus Christii: The Bitter End of Old

Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Label: Immortal Frost Productions

Demiricous: The Chaotic Lethal

Genre: Death Metal
Label: Post. Recordings

Ecstatic Vision: Elusive Mojo

Genre: Psychedelic Rock / Stoner
Label: Heavy Psych Sounds

Elcamino: Let There Be Light

Genre: Hip Hop
Label: Anti Gun Violence Co.

Emma Ruth Rundle: Eg2: Dowsing Voice

Genre: Ambient / New Age / Drone
Label: Sargent House

Ethel Cain: Preacher’s Daughter

Weekly Releases 5.6.2022

By Sowing Monday May 2, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 6th, 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: May 6, 2022 –

Let It Be Blue

!!!: Let It Be Blue
Genre: Indie-Rock/Post-Punk/Funk
Label: Warp

Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire: WE
Genre: Indie-Rock/Indie-Pop
Label: Columbia

My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me

AWOLNATION: My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers, and Me
Genre: Electronic/Indie-Pop
Label: Better Noise Music

Belle And Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian: A Bit of Previous
Genre: Indie-Pop/Indie-Folk
Label: Matador

Cosmic Putrefaction

Cosmic Putrefaction: Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones
Genre: Death Metal
Label: Profound Lore

Back From the Dead

Halestorm: Back From The Dead
Genre: Hard Rock/Pop Rock
Label: Atlantic

Haunter (USA-TX): Discarnate Ails
Genre: Death/Black Metal
Label: Profound Lore

Ibaraki

Ibaraki: Rashomon
Genre: Black Metal/Metalcore/Heavy Metal
Label: Nuclear Blast

Spell 31

Ibeyi: Spell 31
Genre: Trip-Hop/R&B/Jazz
Label: XL Recordings

Kumoyo Island | Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様

Kikagaku Moyo: Kumoyo Island
Genre: Folk/Psychedelic/Progressive Rock
Label: Guruguru Brain

Otoboke Beaver Super Champon

Otoboke Beaver: SUPER CHAMPON
Genre: Punk/Noise Rock/Hardcore
Label: Damnably

Above Cirrus

Pure Reason Revolution: Above Cirrus
Genre: Progressive Rock/Electronic
Label: Inside Out Music

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever: Endless Rooms
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Weekly Releases 4.29.2022

By Dewinged Wednesday April 27, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 29th, 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: April 29, 2022 –

Alexia Avina: A Little Older

Genre: Dream Pop / Singer Songwriter
Label: Lost Map

Al-Namrood: Worship the Degenerate

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Shaytan productions

And Hell Followed With: Quietus

Genre: Deathcore
Label: Hallowed

Archive: Call to Arms & Angels

Genre: Alt Rock / Electronic
Label: Dangervisit

Bloc Party: Alpha Games

Genre: Indie Rock
Label: BMG

Blossoms: Ribbon Around The Bomb

Genre: Indie Rock
Label: EMI

Congotronics International: Where’s The One

Genre: Root Rock / World Music
Label: Crammed Discs

Courtney Swain: Silver Lining

Genre: Indie Rock / Singer Songwriter
Label: Self Released / Many Hats Distribution

Czarface: Czarmageddon

Genre: Hip Hop
Label: Silver Age

dälek: Precipice

Genre: Hip Hop
Label: Ipecac Recordings

Devil Master: Ecstasies of Never Ending Night

Genre: Black…

Weekly Releases 4.22.2022

By Dewinged Thursday April 21, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 22nd, 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: April 22, 2022 –

Alex G: We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

Genre: Soundtrack
Label: Milan

Amenra / Cave In / Marissa Nadler: Songs of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III

Genre: Folk (Covers)
Label: Neurot

Armory: Mercurion

Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Dying Victims Productions

Audrey Horne: Devil’s Bell

Genre: Alt Rock / Stoner
Label: Napalm

Blxst: Before You Go

Genre: Hip Hop / r&b
Label: Evgle

Bonnie Raitt: Just Like That…

Genre: Blues Rock
Label: Redwing

Caliban: Dystopia

Genre: Metalcore
Label: Century Media

Claire Rousay: Everything Perfect Is Already Here

Genre: Experimental / Ambient
Label: Shekter Press

Corpsessed: Succumb To Rot

Genre: Death Metal
Label: Dark Descent

Crime Of Passing: Crime of Passing

Genre: Coldwave / Post Punk
Label: Feel It

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter: Wilde Kinder…

Weekly Releases 4.15.2022

By Dewinged Wednesday April 13, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 15th, 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: April 15, 2022 –

Abstracted: Atma Cornflux

Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Label: M-Theory Audio

Aevum: Glitch

Genre: Symphonic Metal
Label: darkTunes

Alunah: Strange Machine

Genre: Stoner / Doom / Heavy Rock
Label: Heavy Psych Sounds

Analepsy: Quiescence

Genre: Brutal Death / Slam
Label: Self released?

Axel Rudi Pell: Lost XXIII

Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Steamhammer

A Wilhelm Scream: Lose Your Delusion

Genre: Punk Rock
Label: Creator-Destructor

Azaab: Summoning the Cataclysm

Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Label: Satanah / Maxima Music

Charlie Simpson: Hope Is a Drug

Genre: Singer Songwriter
Label: Komorebi

Cremation Lily: Dreams Drenched in Static

Genre: Experimental / Ambient / Shoegaze
Label: The Flenser

Darkher: The Buried Storm

Genre: Doom / Dark Folk
Label: Prophecy Productions

Disfuneral: Blood Red Tentacle

Genre: Death Metal
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Weekly Releases 4.8.2022

By Nocte Thursday April 7, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 8th, 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: April 8, 2022 –

Angel Nation: Antares

Genre: Power Metal
Label: Inner Wound Recordings

Archive: Call To Arms & Angels

Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Dangervisit

BANKS: Serpentina

Genre: Electronica, Alt-R&B
Label: AWAL

Bekëth Nexëhmü: De Dunklas Gravrit

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Purity Through Fire

Black Swan: Generation Mind

Genre: Melodic Hard Rock
Label: Frontiers Music SRL

Calexico: El Mirador

Genre: Alternative
Label: City Slang

Camila Cabello: Familia

Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Label: Epic Records

Concilivm: A Monument In Darkness

Genre: Black Metal, Death Metal
Label: Iron Bonehead Productions

Destruction: Diabolical

Genre: Speed Metal
Label: Napalm Records

Epitaphe: II

Genre: Blackened Doom
Label: Aesthetic Death

Et Moriemur: Tamashii No Yama

Genre: Atmospheric Doom/Black Metal
Label: Transcending Obscurity

Father John Misty: Chloe and the Next 20th Century

Genre: Alt Rock
Label: Sub Pop Records

Hällas: Isle Of Wisdom

Genre: Adventure Rock

Weekly Releases 4.1.2022

By Dewinged Tuesday March 29, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 1st, 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: April 1, 2022 –

Alabaster DePlume: GOLD – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love

Genre: Jazz / Pop / Comedy
Label: Debt Records

Bhleg: Fäghring

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Nordvis

Black Death Cult: Diaspora

Genre: Black Metal / Doom / Death Metal
Label: Profound Lore

Brainwaltzera: ITSAME

Genre: Electronic / IDM
Label: FILM

Carpenter Brut: Leather Terror

Genre: Synthwave
Label: No Quarter Prod

Centinex: The Pestilence

Genre: Death Metal
Label: Agonia

Dare: Road To Eden

Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Legend

The Dead Tongues: Dust

Genre: Americana
Label: Psychic Hotline

Decrapted: Bloody Rivers Of Death

Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal
Label: Xtreem Music

Evil Invaders: Shattering Reflection

Genre: Speed Metal
Label: Napalm

GGGOLDDD: This Shame Should Not Be Mine

Genre: Electronic / Experimental
Label:…

Weekly Releases 3.25.2022

By Nocte Thursday March 24, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 25th of 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: March 25th, 2022 –

ABBATH: Dread Reaver

Genre: Black/Death Metal
Label: Season of Mist

Absent In Body: Plague God

Genre: Doom/Post/Sludge Metal
Label: Relapse Records

Aldous Harding: Warm Chris

Genre: Alternative Folk
Label: 4AD

Ande: Vehemence

Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Label: Naturmacht Productions

Animals As Leaders: Parrhesia

Genre: Progressive Metal/Djentlemen
Label: Sumerian Records

Architects: For Those That Wish to Exist at Abbey Road

Genre: Metalcore, Live
Label: Epitaph

As The World Dies: Agonist

Genre: Death Metal
Label: Transcending Obscurity Records

Bâ’a: Egrégore

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Osmose Production

BillyBio: Leaders And Liars

Genre: Hardcore/Metal
Label: AFM Records

Bomber: Nocturnal Creatures

Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Napalm

Camp Cope: Running with the Hurricane

Genre: Self-Described Power Emo
Label: Run for Cover

Caracara: New Preoccupations

Genre: Alternative
Label: Memory Music

Confidential: Devil Inside

Genre: Symphonic Metal
Label: Massacre Records

Crystal Viper: The Last Axeman

Weekly Releases 3.18.2022

By Dewinged Wednesday March 16, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 18th of 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: March 18th, 2022 –

Aeviterne: The Ailing Facade

Genre: Death Metal
Label: Profound Lore

Aktarum: Trollvengers

Genre: Folk Metal
Label: Art Gates

Agathodaimon: The Seven

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Napalm

Babeheaven: Sink Into Me

Genre: Trip Hop / Soul
Label: Self released

Black Fucking Cancer: Procreate Inverse

Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Label: Sentient Ruin

Blue States: World Contact Day

Genre: Electronic
Label: Memphies Industries

Broadcast: Maida Vale Sessions

Genre: Indie Pop
Label: Warp

Charli XCX: CRASH

Genre: Pop
Label: Asylum

Cypress Hill: Back in Black

Genre: Hip Hop
Label: MNRK Group

Dark Funeral: We Are The Apocalypse

Genre: Black Metal
Label: Century Media

Dawn Of Ashes: Scars Of The Broken

Genre: Industrial
Label: Artoffact

Déhà: Decadanse

Genre: Black Metal /…

New hires, genre tags, and site updates

By Jom Thursday March 10, 2022

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Hello to all:

Depending on where you are in the world, Happy Mar10 Day (woohoo!) or Happy 311 Day.

Thanks very much to those participating in the 2022 application cycle, submitting new genre tag proposals, and providing feedback on site changes you’d like to see implemented.

Some of your proposals (e.g., “what if we had a nice shiny fire engine”) are unfortunately not in the budget (and this will come to bite us when the servers finally go out in a blaze of glory), but others were well-received when passed along to the one person who can make magic happen.

This entry will start with 2022 promotions, followed by a discussion of the community’s submissions for proposed genre tags (along with confirming that new genres will be added at a date TBD; current projections are late Q2), and then concluding with reviewing some of the consistent themes in your feature proposals.

My sincere thanks once more to all users for their participation in the community survey.

Part I: New Hires

First: congrats are in order to dmathias52, JesperL, Kompys2000, and Sunnyvale as the newest staff contingent, and a welcome to fogza and normaloctagon as new contributors, along with a “Welcome back!” to anat as well as ian b, who exercised their right to a grace application. Any former writer who stepped away because work/school/IRL responsibilities took precedence but would like to…

Weekly Releases 3.11.2022

By Sowing Wednesday March 9, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 11, 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: March 11, 2022 –

Alex Cameron

Alex Cameron: Oxy Music
Genre:Indie-Pop/Rock
Label: Secretly Canadian

Angelmaker

Angelmaker: Sanctum
Genre: Death Metal/Metalcore
Label: Angelmaker

Blazemth: The Return Of Lucifer
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Xtreem Music

Bodega

Bodega (US-NY): Broken Equipment
Genre: Indie-Rock/Punk
Label: What’s Your Rupture?

The Boo Radleys

The Boo Radleys: Keep on with Falling
Genre: Britpop/Shoegaze
Label: Boostr

So Happy It Hurts Deluxe

Bryan Adams: So Happy It Hurts
Genre: Pop/Rock
Label: BMG

Cailleach Calling: Dreams Of Fragmentation
Genre: Black Metal
Label: Debemur Morti P

Chemicide: Common Sense
Genre: Thrash
Label: PRC Music

Cryptivore

Cryptivore: Celestial Extinction
Genre: Death Metal/Grind
Label: Bitter Loss

The Districts

The Districts: Great American Painting
Genre: Indie-Rock/Folk Punk
Label: Fat Possum

Drug Church

Drug Church: Hygiene
Genre: Punk/Post-Hardcore
Label: Pure Noise

E-L-R

E-L-R: Vexier
Genre: Doom/Post-Metal
Label: Prophecy Productions

Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand: Hits to the Head
Genre: Indie-Rock/Post-Punk
Label: Domino Recording Co

Ghost:…

Weekly Releases 3.4.2022

By Dewinged Tuesday March 1, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 4th of 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: March 4th, 2022 –

As I May: Karu

Genre: Metalcore
Label: Uprising

Band of Horses: Things Are Great

Genre: Folk
Label: BMG

Belmont: Aftermath

Genre: Pop Punk
Label: Pure Noise

Crowbar: Zero and Below

Genre: Sludge
Label: MNRK Heavy

Daigo Hanada: Satori

Genre: Ambient
Label: Moderna

The Defaced: Charlatans

Genre: Death Metal
Label: ViciSolum Productions

Deserted Fear: Doomsday

Genre: Death Metal
Label: Century Media

Dolly Parton: Run, Rose, Run

Genre: Country
Label: Butterfly

Fueled By Fire: Past...Present...No Future Pt. 2 [EP]

Genre: Thrash Metal
Label: M-Theory Audio

The Flower Kings: By Royal Decree

Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: InsideOut Music

Guided by Voices: Crystal Nuns Cathedral

Genre: Indie Rock
Label: Guided By Voices Inc.

Godless Truth: Godless Truth

Genre: Tech Death
Label:…

Weekly Releases 2.25.2022

By Nocte Wednesday February 23, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 25th of 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: February 25th, 2022 –

Abraham: Débris De Mondes Perdus

Genre: Post Metal, Progressive, Sludge
Label: Pelagic Records

Allegaeon: Damnum

Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Label: Metal Blade Records

Avril Lavigne: Love Sux

Genre: Pop Punk
Label: Warner

Bad Omens: The Death of Peace of Mind

Genre: Rock, Metalcore
Label: Sumerian Records

BAMBARA: Love on My Mind

Genre: Alternative, Pop, Noise
Label: WHARF CAT RECORDS

Basia Bulat: The Garden

Genre: Alternative, Folk
Label: Secret City Records Inc

Blood Incantation: Timewave Zero

Genre: Ambient (This Release)
Label: Century Media

Brood Of Hatred: The Golden Age

Genre: Death Metal
Label: Gruesome Records

Caroline: Caroline

Genre: Minimal Folk
Label: Rough Trade Records

Carson McHone: Still Life

Genre: Country
Label: Merge Music Publishing

CMAT: If My Wife New I’d Be Dead

Genre: Pop
Label: AWAL Recordings

Cobra The Impaler: Colossal Gods

Genre: Metal
Label: Listenable Records…

Weekly Releases 2.18.2022

By Dewinged Tuesday February 15, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 18th of 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.

– List of Releases: February 18th, 2022 –

And So I Watch You From Afar: Jettison

Genre: Post Rock
Label: Velocity records

Annihilator: Metal II

Genre: Thrash Metal
Label: earMUSIC

Beach House: Once Twice Melody

Genre: Dream Pop
Label: Bella Union

Big K.R.I.T.: Digital Roses Don’t Die

Genre: Hip Hop
Label: Multi Alumni / BMG

The Birthday Massacre: Fascination

Genre: Alt Rock / Goth
Label: Metropolis

Bloodywood: Rakshak

Genre: Rap metal / Folk
Label: Self released

The Body & OAA: Enemy of Love

Genre: Devotional
Label: Thrill Jockey

Broods: Space Island

Genre: Indie Pop
Label: Island Records

Buñuel: Killers Like Us

Genre: Post Punk / Avant Garde
Label: Profound Lore

Dagoba: By Night

Genre: Industrial Metal
Label: Napalm

Goodbye June: See Where The Night Goes

Genre: Blues Rock
Label:…

Weekly Releases 2.11.2022

By Nocte Thursday February 10, 2022

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Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 11th of 2022. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff and/or contributors.