Death metal band Anomaly are out with a new record this week. Tormented, haunted riffage. Relentless blast beats. Roared lyrics of endless pain. Great terrors lurking in the woods and winds. All these things are features of Anomaly’s forceful odyssey through technical, prog, and melodic brutality. Embedded in the heaviness is an acoustic track about disappearances and curses in the
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Kenosha powerviolence act Livid released a new album today. Ten blistering tracks of grinding riffs, shouted growls and crashing rhythm breathe total inferno. If you’re looking to headbang and blow off steam, look no further – the final track “Beaten Dog” even features a Gran Torino quote. Livid bring the beatdowns with “Compiled Hatred.”
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If anyone could make bowling sound like a trudging experience from hell, it’s doom band Snailtooth.
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Opening with a minute of foreboding guitar plucking, this track sounds like it could go anywhere.
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“Deathsludge” metal band It Is Dead have unleashed their debut full-length album. Setting the scene of a cold, dark, treacherous place, “Hell is Now” blends many styles of metal (black, doom, crust) into a cohesive odyssey of vociferous rage. Through the crushing doom of “Violent Winter” to the grinding speed of “Womb,” It Is Dead roar and screech from the
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The metal band blend eras of the genre on their most recent album.
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Doom-sludge metal band Northless are out with their first album in five years. Out on Translation Loss Records, this album is an onslaught of warlike riffage, fire-breathing shrieks, and jarring subject matter of pain, suffering and shadows. It feels like one is helplessly descending into the dark pit of judgment, stranded under the elephantine cacophony as hellish rituals unfold. Northless
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Progressive doom metal band Sleestak are out with their fifth album. Venturing into a psychedelic hell-realm, the band undertakes long and drawn-out songs with soul-crushing riffs, thundering melodies, spookish synths, and lyrics from the helpless abyss. It’s a record that deals with prophecy, love, death, and reclamation through viscerally dark depictions. Sleestak set sail through the void with “Harbinger.”
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616 have anthemic metal qualities on their new single.
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The metalcore act pulverize with a recent video.
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Metalcore band Seven Cites Dead are out with a new EP. It’s three raging tracks of awakened suffering, being forsaken, and hate being sown. There’s a recurring theme of being controlled and pitted against one another here, and that gets channeled through shrieks, smacks and slams. Rob Ellis is featured on the title track’s vocals. Seven Cities Dead deliver the
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Blackened metal band It Is Dead dropped a new single last week. With utter brutality, this track rages about silencing the already voiceless as mankind is annihilated. Monstrous shrieks and tenderizing riffs break open the gates of Hell as the final judgement is completed, unrivaled in ensuing wastage. Stay tuned for It Is Dead’s record out on Auris Apothecary on
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The metal band give us a video to coincide with their “Everend” release.
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The metalheads speed through a single from “Light The Fires.”
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Metalcore band Still Stayer released their highly-anticipated debut EP today. The band brings dense melodies, spacious atmosphere, and hardhanded vocals in their deeply emotional sonic odyssey. There’s recurring themes of perpetual suffering and imminent doom, where one struggles to grasp for the light at the end of the tunnel while keeping damnation at bay. “Dream” features a powerful singing passage
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Things get extra heavy in the metalcore band’s new video.
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Blackened thrash-crust metal band To the Dogs released their debut full-length album on Life After Death Records. If you like your metal with blistering speeds, diabolical growls, devilish contempt for life and unrelenting ferocity from every instrument, then you’re in for a treat. The canines of death take no prisoners here, blazing destruction across eleven tracks. “Light the Fires” rattles
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The metalcore band give you a hard-hitting preview of their debut EP.
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The doom-rock band takes you into the darkness.
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Occult metal band Lost Tribes of the Moon are out with their long-awaited sophomore album. Brace yourself for a dense odyssey of moons, monsters, Hell, and deceit. It’s like a chapter book of dark, epic fantasy that implements instruments such as vibraphone, theremin, synthesizer, several types of guitar, and gongs to make the storytelling as vivid as possible. Lost Tribes
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Nick Hill’s one-man metal power trip is as heavy as any band out.
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Milwaukee bands Reality Check and Enervate played a sold-out show at X-Ray Arcade Sunday night alongside Boston hardcore band Vein.fm, Santa Cruz hardcore band Scowl, and Rockford metal trio Pains. Reality Check are a hardcore band consisting of vocalist Emilio Nunez, guitarist/vocalist JJ Kaiser, guitarist Nick Walloch, bassist Dereck Miles, and drummer Ben Skowronek. Kaiser said on the band’s formation,
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Hard rockers Scarlet dropped a video from their recent EP “The Violent Bewitching.” The band is found playing on a downtown Milwaukee rooftop as a storyline depicts a woman who clearly has the dream of becoming a successful musician. She receives an invitation to a studio, so she immediately packs her guitar and embarks. The song is about not living
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A stacked bill of heavy music took place at X-Ray Arcade Friday night, featuring Milwaukee bands In Cursive, Graysea, Still Stayer, and After Hour Animals alongside Minneapolis-based “grungegaze” atmospheric rockers Comatose. In Cursive are an experimental emo rock sextet consisting of vocalist/guitarist Joe Brandt, guitarist Jake Arndt, guitarist Connor Nash, bassist Graeme Kostich, drummer Joey Koepp, and keyboardist Trent McClanahan.
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Scarlet deliver anthemic metal on their most recent EP.
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