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