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British cartoon metal extremists, DragonForce, are Metal Galaxy is Babymetal’s third overall and Twenty-one years since their murderous debut, The vanguard of in 2019 can be found under Rising deathcore/hardcore outfit Spite follow-up back with Extreme Power Metal. The album was first since 2016’s . Metal Galaxy also Exhumed rise once again with gore-obsessed death Arizona’s searing sun – the place Gatecreeper call their hard-hitting eponymous 2015 debut and 2017’s produced in Los Angeles, California by Damien marks the band’s first release with two singers instead metal on their new brand new album, Horror. Aptly home. Of course, the band nodded to their scorching Nothing Is Beautiful with brutal third full-length effort, Rainaud at Mix Unlimited and also recorded, in part, of three, after Yuimetal left the fold to pursue a solo titled, Horror is an exploration of all things macabre, home state with the title of their 2016 full-length The Root Of All Evil. “The Root Of All Evil is about on guitarist ’s livestream channel on Twitch career. Vocalists Su-metal and Moametal remain, along as the undisputed pioneers of neck-breaking riffs plow debut, Sonoran Depravation. The theme continues embracing the darkness that swells in your core and with participation from the fans. Li says, “This album with their backing band. Featuring the previously through 15 of the band’s most intense tracks to date. on Deserted, which boasts songs like “Sweltering going through with your sinister urges,” says vocalist again combines the best of DragonForce in an even released songs “Distortion” and “Elevator Girl” plus the Nightmares meet shred, as the speed-inducing track Madness,” “Boiled Over” and the double-meaning title Darius Tehrani. “No help to seek, no God above, no bigger, more epic way than we have ever done before.” brand-new “Pa Pa Ya!,” the album is about an odyssey “Ravenous Cadavers” highlight Exhumed’s penchant track. You can hear the results on “From The Ashes,” a happy ending. While others attempt to pick up the Following the departure of Vadim Pruzhanov from the Babymetal must take to the Metal Galaxy, a trajectory for blazing, face melting guitar work, while “Naked, crushing cut primed for the European festival circuit. pieces of a failing society, you thrive in the negativity, band in 2018, the keyboards of this new album were thrust upon them by the Fox God sending the band Screaming and Covered in Blood” and “Playing With Over on side two, “Boiled Over” fuses classic Bolt the hatred, and the violence.” There is also a positive performed by Coen Janssen of titan, on a darker path. Each song brings them closer to Fear” elevate the band to levels of grind unheard of Thrower with the pulverizing power grooves of sludge side (but it’s a hidden track). Epica, bringing a new dimension into a DragonForce their desired destination. Pairs well with DragonForce since Gore Metal! Horror was recorded at Exhumed’s titans Crowbar. Album closer “Absence Of Light” album, in that it sounds even more like Queen trapped in terms of extremity, but Babymetal have hooks that home-built studio, Darker Corners, produced by the upholds Gatecreeper’s tradition of finishing their inside of a classic game. And or can’t be beat. And that bass sound is BRUTAL AF! band and Alejandro Corredor (Brujeria, Nausea), and records with a deathly doom dirge. Mixed by the one- something. mixed / mastered by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust). and-only Kurt Ballou (Converge).

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Nu-metal progenitors, , follow-up 2016’s The Shaped By Fire is infamous outfit As I Lay Inspired by the speed of early and the Hard rock/crossover metal veterans Life of Agony In chemistry, when certain galvanizing elements come Serenity Of Suffering with their thirteenth studio album, Dying’s first record since 2012’s Awakened and vocalist hammering epic crush of – but reflected return with their hard-hitting, emotional concept album together, they become quite explosive. In music, when The Nothing. Lead single “You’ll Never Find Me” exhibits Tim Lambesis’ controversial release from prison in 2016 through its own fresh and unique prism – Creeping The Sound of Scars, which continues the haunting certain galvanizing artists come together, they become plenty of the band’s signatures with its unrelenting drums, after being convicted in a murder-for-hire plot to kill Death quickly ascended to the top of the modern death narrative from the band’s groundbreaking 1993 debut Flying Colors. In fact, whenever the five Legendary gnarly guitar work, unsettling keyboards and staggering his estranged wife. The 12-track collection is preceded metal pile with sheer determination, single-minded , hailed by as “one of Gentlemen of Prog who encompass Flying Colors – quiet/loud dynamics, but something darker is at play. by tracks like “My Own Grave,” “Redefined” and the focus, bludgeoning heaviness, and breakneck intensity. the greatest metal of all time.” Co-produced guitarist , drummer , keyboardist/ Named after The NeverEnding Story antagonist, The title cut. “For me, this is the most meaningful As I Lay The band’s blistering new full-length platter, Wretched by (Tool, System of a Down) and Joey Z, vocalist , bassist Dave LaRue, and powerhouse Nothing sonically documents a very traumatic 2018 for Dying record,” says guitarist Nick Hipa. “Every album Illusions, raises the stakes with undeniable and the band tapped esteemed engineer Howie Weinberg vocalist and songwriter Casey McPherson – join forces the frontman Jonathan Davis, whose estranged wife, Deven, encapsulates who you are and what you’ve gone unrelenting anthems like “Bloodlust Contamination,” (Nirvana, ) to master the catchy, personal result is a sweet sonic bouillabaisse that reflects where passed away from an accidental overdose. “Deep, within through. At this point in time, we’ve gone through “World Decay,” “Corroded from Within,” and album and heavy record. “The Sound of Scars feels like such their inherent mastery of melody intersects with top-shelf our Earth lives an extraordinary force… Pulling at us every more than I ever imagined, but we all grew. We became opener “Ripping Through Flesh.” Each of Wretched a monumental moment in Life of Agony’s story,” says progressive musicianship. Flying Colors soar to even loftier moment of our lives,” says Davis. “There is a miraculous better musicians and better people. People will hear a Illusions ten tracks is a certified ripper, keeping those Alan Robert. “On one hand, we’ve come full circle, heights with Third Degree, their third studio album in a and small realm within this vortex and it’s the only place positive resolve to our journey so far.” Let’s certainly baseball bat swings coming, over and over, and with continuing the concept of… River Runs Red, and on the decade. “There’s a lot of ear candy sprinkled throughout where balance between these dynamic and polarizing fucking hope so. such accuracy that one might expect Tim Lambesis other hand, we’ve reached new heights with the raw every song,” observes Portnoy, “Third Degree is a complete forces exists… Welcome to The Nothing.” might hire it out for “freelance work.” power of the sound and songwriting.” piece that I don’t think ever overstays its welcome.”