Showing posts with label 13/12/2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 13/12/2014. Show all posts

14 December 2014

RELEASE ROUND UP: 7/12/2014 - 13/12/2014


Krimh

Krimhera (Self-Released)
FFO: Decapitated, Rivers of Nihil, Ulcerate

The Ex-Decapitated Drummer and Multi-instrumentalist, known to the world as Krimh, has dropped a shiny new bombshell of technical metal wizardry in this latest release. Krimhera is a great mix of technicality, brutality and progression. A must for anyone who likes their metal fast and tight. If I were Slipknot right now, I’d be kicking myself for not allowing this unfairly talented man into the band.

White Arms of Athena

White Arms of Athena (Prosthetic Records)
FFO: Botch, Thrice, Cave In
Listen: Heavy Sleep 

Not content with being the best version of Between The Buried and Me that doesn't contain Tommy Giles Rogers, White Arms of Athena have taken a massive leap in a new direction on their sophomore, self-titled, release. Now sounding more akin to Thrice meets ambient noodling, White Arms… have released perhaps one of the most off-kilter -core releases of the year. Whilst it might not make you want to flail around your bedroom filled with only the purest teen angst, it will make you ponder: “What the hell is going on? And why do I like it so much?”

Centinex

Redeeming Filth (Agonia Records)
FFO: Entombed, Massacre, Obituary

Old School Death Metal is immortal and Centinex are a testament to that fact. The riffing on this album is pure 90’s Floridian throwback that is well enough executed to make you yearn for those glory days. It is however the vocals that really make this album. The tortured, bestial growls of Alex Hogbom will make even your favourite modern Death Metal vocalists seem tame in comparison. 

Other Releases

Angels & Airwaves - The Dream Walker (To The Stars Records)
Atomic Aggressor – Sights of Suffering (Hells Headbangers Records)
Barrier – Eventide (Self-Released)
Bloodlash – Drowning Amidst The Nebulae (EP) (Inverse)
Cretin – Stranger (Relapse Records)
Cult Of Fire – Čtvrtá Symfonie Ohně (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Death Wolf – III: Östergötland (Century Media)
Deathhammer – Evil Power (Hells Headbangers Records)
Decimation - Reign Of Ungodly Creation (Comatose)
Dimesland – Psychogenic Atrophy (Self-Released)
Dir En Grey – Arche (Firewall Div.)
Emigrate – Silent So Long (Spinefarm)
Encoffination - III - Hear Me, O' Death (Selfmadegod Records)
Exercration – Morbid Dimension (Hells Headbangers Records)
Faith No More – Motherfucker (Single) (Reclamation)
I Fight Dragons – The Near Future (Self-Released)
Jucifer – District of Dystopia (Nomadic Fortress)
Kathaarsys - Describing The Paradox Vol. 1 (Self-Released)
Lynch Mob – Sun Red Sun (Rat Pak Records)
Mesmur – Mesmur (code666)
Nervochaos – The Art of Vengeance (Greyhaze Records)
Pythia – Shadows Of A Broken Past (Golden Axe)
R.E.M. - 7IN-83-88 (CMG)
RAM/Portrait – Under Command (Split) (Metal Blade)
Sifisticator – Death By Zapping (Earthquake Terror Noise)
Taake – Stidens Hus (Dark Essence Records)
Thaw – Earth Ground (Witching Hour)
The Banner – Greying (Good Fight Music)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Monuments to an Elegy (Martha's Music/BMG)
These Arms Are Snakes/The Coathangers – Split 7” (Split) (Suicide Squeeze Records)
Unsacred – False Light (Forcefield Records)
Varathron – Untrodden Corridors of Hades (Agonia Records)
Yes - Like It Is: Live at the Bristol Hippodrome (Frontiers Records)