Why is the air conditioning on in fucking April?! Oh right, the planet’s burning up. Hooray! At least we can all get over the impending end of the world with some new metal music. Double hooray!!!
Abrams
Loon (Blues Funeral Recordings)
We’ve been up on this band for a while, so we’re of course going to give ’em a little more love. These guys fall in the same sonic arena as bands like Baroness, so if you like that, you’ll very likely enjoy this.
Crippled Black Phoenix
Sceaduheim (Season Of Mist)
his time around, they’re channeling serious “The Cure, but pissed off” energy—and it absolutely works. Gloomy, sharp-edged, and way more venomous than usual, it hits hard. There’s also a version floating around with a bonus 10″ featuring covers of A-Ha, False Prophets, and Mission of Burma, which honestly sounds like a weird mix in the best possible way.
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life
The Dead Ones (Metal Blade Records)
It beats ass. Is there much more you need to read before playing this as loud as you can?
Nekrogoblikon
The Boiling Sea (Self-released)
If you’re in the mood for some grade-A nonsense—and yeah, that’s absolutely a compliment—this is your pick for the week. It’s stupid fun in all the right ways: five live tracks, five new ones, and somehow one of them ropes in Reel Big Fish because of course it does. It’s chaotic, catchy, and a solid reminder that metal could stand to loosen up and let a little more ska crash the party.
Nine Inch Nails/Boys Noize
Nine Inch Noize (Self-released)
The Nine Inch Nails / Boys Noize tag team just tore through Coachella with a 45-minute barrage of thumping low end and extra layers of electronic grime welded onto some very familiar material. If you caught the Peeled Back tour and were into the B-stage chaos with Boys Noize, you already know the deal—this leans hard into that same “let’s make it louder, dirtier, and more club-floor hostile” energy.
Other Shit That Comes Out Today:
.gif from god, Dissimulation (Prosthetic Records)
Crimson Glory, Chasing The Hydra (BraveWords Records)
Doodswens, Doodswens (Svart Records)
Draken, Here Be Draken (Dark Essence Records)
Muerto, Eclipsed Realms (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Seether, Beneath The Surface (Fantasy Records)
Skindred, You Got This (Earache)
Sun Fall Down, Burn (Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records)
Thundermother, Live’n’Alive (Napalm Records)
Wage War, IT CALLS ME BY NAME (Fearless Records)