A roundup of new releases this week, presented in no particular order.
Sleep Token - Vore
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 Ocean - Parabiosis
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
Periphery - Atropos
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
Hypno5e - Slow Steams of Darkness, Pt. II - Solar Mist
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
Levels - Paracosm
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 - Drowning In It
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 - Heretic
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 Decapitation - We Eat Our Young
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
Sermon - The Distance
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
Klone - Meanwhile
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
Graphic Nature - Sour
Blistering industrial hardcore from Graphic Natures new album "A Mind Waiting To Die". Noisy, messey, cathartic.