A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
FFO: Desolated, Boundaries, Nasty
FFO: Whitechapel, I Declare War, Oceano
FFO: The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Aversions Crown, Humanity's Last Breath
FFO: Vildhjarta, Uneven Structure, TesseracT
A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
FFO: Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera
FFO: Polaris, Make Them Suffer, Invent Animate
Bury Tomorrow's album came out this week, check out the track "Abandon Us".
FFO: Our Hollow, Our Home, In Hearts Wake, Feed Her to the Sharks
FFO: Enterprise Earth, Signs of the Swarm, Mental Cruelty
FFO: Misery Index, Dying Fetus, Aborted
FFO: Zheani, Siiickbrain, ZAND
FFO: Soft Blue Shimmer, Teenage Wrist, Soul Blind
FFO: Shokran, The Dali Thundering Concept, Unprocessed
FFO: Heavenward, PÆRISH, Money
FFO: Northlane, Elitist, Carcer City
FFO: Neon Indian, Brothertiger, Blackbird Blackbird
FFO: Arcturus, Sigh, Borknagar
Sermon's album came out this week, check out the track "The Great Marsh".
FFO: Fires in the Distance, Frozen Dawn, Disillusion
FFO: FreqGen, Daedric, Circle of Dust
FFO: As Sirens Fall, Crushed By Waves, BLACKGOLD
Greg Puciato's album came out this week, check out the track "Lowered(Live in Los Angeles, 11/11/22)".
FFO: Dead Cross, Killer Be Killed, The Black Queen
FFO: VENUES, Annisokay, Our Mirage
FFO: Coridian, Vulkan, In Search Of Sun
FFO: Valborg, Dodecahedron, Nightmarer
FFO: Drewsif, The Aurora Borealis Project, Greylotus
A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
Depeche Mode's album came out this week, check out the track "Ghosts Again".
FFO: Yazoo, New Order, The Human League
FFO: Papa Roach, Hoobastank, Breaking Benjamin
Chelsea Grin's album came out this week, check out the track "Leave with Us".
FFO: Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Carnifex
FFO: City State, Memorist, NOVELISTS
FFO: VENUES, Annisokay, Our Mirage
FFO: Intronaut, Cult Of Luna, ISIS
FFO: Solefald, Manes, Vulture Industries
Hanging Garden's album came out this week, check out the track "The Construct".
FFO: Kaunis Kuolematon, Trees of Eternity, Rapture
A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
FFO: Miss May I, Underoath, blessthefall
FFO: Bad/Love, Windwaker, Banks Arcade
FFO: Honningbarna, Major Parkinson, Oslo Ess
FFO: Voices From The Fuselage, Valis Ablaze, Kadinja
FFO: The Sixpounder, FrontSide, Pale Path
FFO: Fires in the Distance, Frozen Dawn, Disillusion
A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
Periphery's album came out this week, check out the track "Atropos".
FFO: TesseracT, Animals As Leaders, SikTh
HOST's album came out this week, check out the track "Tomorrow's Sky".
FFO: Hanging Garden, Grave Pleasures, Strigoi
Hypno5e's album came out this week, check out the track "Sheol, Pt. I - Nowhere".
FFO: Uneven Structure, Vildhjarta, Klone
A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
HOST's album came out this week, check out the track "Tomorrow's Sky".
FFO: Hanging Garden, Grave Pleasures, Strigoi
Hypno5e's album came out this week, check out the track "Sheol, Pt. I - Nowhere".
FFO: Uneven Structure, Vildhjarta, Klone
A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
FFO: Time, The Valuator, Unprocessed, Invent Animate
FFO: Our Hollow, Our Home, In Hearts Wake, Feed Her to the Sharks
FFO: TesseracT, Animals As Leaders, SikTh
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs's album came out this week, check out the track "Mr Medicine".
FFO: REZN, Acid King, Elder
Code Orange's album came out this week, check out the track "So Below".
FFO: Jesus Piece, Left Behind, Twitching Tongues
Graphic Nature's album came out this week, check out the track "Killing Floor".
FFO: Half Me, Darknet, HEAVENSGATE
FFO: Intronaut, Cult Of Luna, ISIS
FFO: QuietKind, A Sense of Purpose, Above, Below
FFO: Uneven Structure, Vildhjarta, Klone
FFO: Fires in the Distance, Frozen Dawn, Disillusion
A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
Finally completing their transformation to full blown Deftones-core, Sleep Token continue to both rise in popularity, and drip feed their albums track by track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zDjAtG_y5A
FFO: Deftones, Deftones self-titled, Deftones-core, Deftones B-Sides
The second single from the Oceans forthcoming "appendix" to their geology themed album series. A lot more electronic, a lot more laid back than you might expect from the prog-hardcore group.
Don't worry, there are still riffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjGQHsnuG8o
FFO: Isis, Mastodon, Progressive metal
Continuing their winning streak of singles, another from the forthcoming Periphery album. You know what you're getting with Periphery at this point - riffs, 000000, and soaring melody - but they do it so well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppg8kpG-lio
FFO: Other Periphery songs, djent, 1st generation tech metal
Hypeno5e sound like Gojira-gone-full-prog-metal - and they have a wonderful sense of drama and tension covered in angular riffs and big drops. Everything they do is about ten minutes long, so go in with paitence, and be rewarded with big riffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWY1Sjme-Mw
FFO: Gojira, chunky riffs
15th generation tech metal to get your stank-face on to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AooWGyhYXi0
FFO: djent, djent, djent, djent, abstract shapes, stank faces
Code Orange increasingly converging on "Nine Inch Nails circa The Perfect Drug" territory on their new album "What is Really Underneath?". Brooding industrial metal isn't where anyone saw them going, but I'm here for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjrVHSAdl5Q
FFO: Mid-90s Nine Inch Nails, Goth dance floor fillers, Aggrotech
Bury Tomorrow's new single from their upcoming album "The Seventh Sun" is an absolutely polished to a sheen piece of modern metalcore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ULISYZXhM
FFO: Architect because everyone sounds like Architects now.
Cattle Decap are still mad that we're ruining in the world, and they're still expressing it with blastbeats. Their distinctive deathgrind sound is still here, and their followup to Death Atlas is out May 12th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nSo_H92Zmc
FFO: Grindcore, Very fast guitars, existential dread
Modern prog/alt. metal from Sermon, who are definitley worshipping at the altar of 1990s Tool and the modern resurgence of that sound from the likes of Wheel and Soen. Expect lots of drop D and polyrhythms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxPPeiNX-b8
FFO: Soen, 90s Tool, Wheel
Ok ok, this came out last week - the new Klone album is a bit of a chill departure from their last couple, but the title and final track from "Meanwhile" helps you remember how good they are at writing hooks when it drops. Expect slickly produced modern prog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmh6FHnWkAM
FFO: Porcupine Tree, Riverside
Blistering industrial hardcore from Graphic Natures new album "A Mind Waiting To Die". Noisy, messey, cathartic.
A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
Groove driven prog from Londons Black Orchid Empire. A little bit of a 90s alt-rock vibe, with tech metal riffs. The missed the boat with their debut album launching as Covid hit, but were a lot of fun live when I caught them in Camden last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1uukX9KALY
FFO: Grunge, Tech metal, Tool
Hook filled pop-metalcore from Dream State. A bit of a 90s alt rock vibe mashed into the obligatory tech metal riffs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7diiJbdpgFY
FFO: 90s alternative, metalcore, PVRIS
A re-issue of Leprous' 2021 album Aphelion, with a bonus live album recorded across their subsequent tour. Leprous are the tightest prog-metal band touring small venues today, so the bonus live recordings make this essential this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by7vOjaM_lI
FFO: Melanchoy, Progressive Metal, Clean Vocals
A creepy etherial standalone single from Slipknot. Gestating since the grey chapter, with suitably eerie accompanying visuals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu3-3Yr5PPE
FFO: trip-hop, horror
Trip-hop infused alt-industrial-rock from Web Are PIGS, in this case, co-written by The Smashing Pumpkins front-man Billy Corgan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCYbDtYJFpc
FFO: trip-hop, 90s alternative
Latest single from Currents, from their forthcoming album "The Death We Seek" (May 5th). Architects-core-metalcore with some good groove.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0E5kGyoRI0
FFO: Modern metalcore
New doom/death crossover from Hanging Garden. A little Woods of Ypres, a little Paradise Lost, a little My Dying Bride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyatSIo9yRY
FFO: Doom metal, folk metal
Downtuned deathcore from Osiah - all low end, all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSuukJSPqCQ
FFO: Deathcore, 000000s, cookie monster death metal
Modern death / hardcore metal crossover from Employed to Serve and Alien Weaponry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXn9PQJQXOI
FFO: Industrial, modern metalcore
A mashup of straight up death metal and those big beautiful Soilwork hooks courtesy of Bjorn "Speed" Strid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7dQNMbMSI8
FFO: Death metal, Soilwork
There's also a new Smashing Pumpkins record out, but it's terrible, sorry.
A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
"Sky Void of Stars", Katatonia's 12th full length is out today, and it's beautiful, brilliant and miserable.
This is the "almost-title-track" and has been on permanent rotation in my head since I first heard it in December.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRLXpFSmsPE
FFO: Melanchoy, Progressive Metal, Clean Vocals
The Ocean are on a hot streak at the moment after their two part Phanerozoic albums, which feel like how Isis would sound if they were still making music today. German weird progressive hardcore at it's best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAEo3VTgNWc
FFO: Isis, Cult of Luna, Melanchoy
Destined to be a breakout band in 2023, As Everything Unfolds are a progressive metalcore band from the UK. Huge pop hooks, big riffs, big clean choruses. A little bit Spiritbox, a little bit Paramore. 2021's "Within Each Lies The Other" was a super promising debut (check out "On the Inside" - a total banger), excited to see where this band goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E8yl8GXEPM
FFO: Nu Metal, Pop Metal, Progressive Metalcore
The grandfather of progressive black metal. You never quite know where he's going - and this time it's blackened wailing 80s virtuoso galloping guitar. If you've always been curious about black metal, but never "got" it - this is a good place to start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeRx0ndgg80
FFO: Black Metal, Progressive Metal, Wailing guitars
Softcult continue their current run of relatively harrowing, but somehow achingly beautiful sounding singles. Their videos are often a tough watch - frequently dealing with trauma and sexual assault. Musically, they're a touch pop, and a little throwback grunge. Thematically, they're as heavy as it comes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr_vtDU94PY
FFO: The Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, Shoegaze
Another beautiful turn from French progressive metal band Hypno5e. They're on a roll of putting out "three track run" concept albums and EPs of sprawling, beautiful, crushing singles. Big fans of drama, always takes a little time to get going, but when it hits it really, really, hits. On tour around Europe with Devin Townsend in February - don't miss the support. A little like of The Ocean and Gojira had a baby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiOSJdQ-0ws
FFO: The Ocean, Isis, Gojira
It feels like every album is billed as In Flames' "return to form" - which probably telegraphs the obvious - they're always on form, just stylistically diverse. What todays EP release does show though, is that they still have that old school Gothemburg melodic death metal sound in them. I think there's something to celebrate about a band who have multiple albums that people lament "they will never sound like again".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_MSqS1-Ubs
FFO: In Flames! Soilwork, Melodic Death Metal
Insomnium have been doing crossover melodic death / doom metal for over 20 years now. They have that unmistakable "2000s Swedish underground metal" Jens Bogren mix sound. From their forthcoming album "Anno 1696" out Feb 24th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyXHvjS_8d8
FFO: Doom/Death crossover, Soaring guitars
A weird indie-metalcore crossover. Legitimately interesting sounding. Tonnes of atmosphere and big hooks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3vUaY1JmUA
FFO: Modern metalcore
A tiny hardcore band from Nottingham, UK - Those Once Loyal feel like they're on the edge of breaking out with very slickly produced hardcore with the melodic edge of bands like Counterparts and Killswitch Engage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Zv9Ep15MM
FFO: Knocked Loose, KSE
Electronic infused progressive metal, from "another band wearing masks". Reminiscent of bands mid-era Paradise Lost with slick synths. From their forthcoming album "Of Golden Verse" out March 31st.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm8xPOiHJ-U
FFO: Drama, Progressive Rock, Synths
I probably do not need to explain who Metallica are - production polished to an absolute sheen, another old-school-trash meets bluesy track. Hetfield sounds a touch different than usual. You know what you're getting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDyDpdFZHBo
FFO: Metal? Throwback thrash
Sleep Token are doing the same thing they did with their last couple of albums and dropping them track by track week by week - so another two tracks this week in their distinctive "tech metal meets r&b" style. Unashamedly pop music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om4dEGKnEmw
FFO: R&B, Breakdowns, Tech Metal