Weekly Release Radar 13/01/2023

01/13/2023 00:01:00

A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.

Periphery - Wildfire

From their upcoming album, "Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre", out March 10th. You kinda know what you're going to get with Periphery, but this time, you also get to be surprised by a saxophone along with all the riffs.

Periphery just always seem like they're having a good time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFKSiOkRzb4

FFO: Memes, djent, sax solos

Periphery - Zagreus

Putting out one single wasn't enough, so apparently Periphery also recorded one about the game Hades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDgNhyz-z5s

FFO: Hades, djent

KING 810 - Brains on the Asphalt

KING 810 are more delicate and stylistically interesting that people give then credit for. Somewhere between beat poetry, gangster rap, and industrial metal, they're unapologetic and unique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzeSQtotOmQ

FFO: Guns, industrial metal

Graphic Nature - Headstone

A noisy chaotic blend of nu-metal and hardcore - from their upcoming album, "A Mind Waiting To Die", out February 17th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTFOHtTU0TM

FFO: Loathe, Code Orange, nu-metal

Grave Pleasures - Society of Spectres

Grave Pleasures perpetually sound like it's 5am at Slimelight and that's absolutely fine. Throwback, old-school new wave goth, recorded last week. It's a vibe, just go with it. From forthcoming album "Plagueboys".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2Nk0HFd5Y

FFO: The Goth Two Step, Beastmilk

Enterprise Earth - Death Magick

Deathcore with groove. Relatively accessible. Full of breakdowns. You kinda know what you're getting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeekED8EAV4

FFO: Deathcore, Whitechapel, Bands with no original members

Weekly Release Radar 06/01/2023

01/06/2023 09:00:00

A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.

Katatonia - Birds

Katatonia's third and final single before the wonderfully titled "Sky Void of Stars" releases. Nobody does melancholy like them, and they're still at the top of their game three decades in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ILWPwc4KaY

FFO: People with taste? Gloom?

Sleep Token - The Summoning

Sleep Token stepping up and away from the piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJNbtYdr-Hg

FFO: Tesseract, Riffs, Chonk

Sleep Token - Chokehold

Sleep Token stepping... back to the piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UUSUrr6zyo

FFO: Pianos

Berried Alive - Nowhere to Grow

About as Gen-Z as metal could humanly get. Anime video, half rapped, half growled vocals, and huge riffs in a genre bending mashup with an anime video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux0Dzg8qcYw

FFO: Fruit? Chonk?

Banshee + Satin Puppets - ETERNAL TRIP

An absolutely weird mix of lo-fi black metal vocals and trip-hop and trap beats. Weird, unusual, but interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L-osJPFqjo

FFO: Trap metal, black metal.

Hail The Sun - Mind Rider

A hundred notes a second progressive metal a-la Coheed and Friends. Shades of At The Drive-In - though without being quite as irritating as either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7oQkBRv3c

FFO: Coheed and Cambria, At The Drive-In

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