10/6/2023:

 

 

 

Of Mice & Men, Tether (SharpTone): Of Mice & Men went for more of a feeling than a particular sound on their eighth studio effort.

 

 

 

 

 

Prong, State Of Emergency (Steamhammer/SPV): According to frontman Tommy Victor, Prong’s 13th studio album is “genre transcending” and “covers a lot of different angles.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dogstar, Somewhere Between The Power Lines And Palm Trees (Dillon Street): Featuring actor Keanu Reeves on bass, the band recently reunited and will be releasing their first album in 23 years. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Citizen, Calling The Dogs (Run For Cover): Alt-Rock band Citizen’s fifth studio effort was produced by Rob Schnapf and features the first time touring musicians Ben Russin and Mason Mercer recorded with them. Early reviews for the album are positive, with New Noise calling it “the band at their best.”

 

 

 

 

 

Dopelord, Songs for Satan (Blues Funeral Recordings): According to the band’s bandcamp, Dopelord’s latest release is their best so far, describing it as an “iconoclastic milestone that rumbles the earth and shakes our figurative foundations.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trevor Rabin, Rio (InsideOut): It’s been more than a decade since prog-rock guitarist Trevor Rabin released a solo album. It’s been more than three decades since he sang lead vocals on an album. That changes with his sixth studio effort.

 

 

 

 

 

Another Day Dawns, Finding Peace Through All The Noise (Century Media)

Capra, Errors (Blacklight)

Carnifex, Necromanteum (Nuclear Blast)

Heavy Load, Riders Of The Ancient Storm (No Remorse)

Iron Savior, Firestar (AFM)

The Keening, Little Bird (Relapse)

Linus Klausenitzer, Tulpa (AOP)

Nytt Land, Torem (Napalm)

October Tide, The Cancer Pledge (Agonia Records)

Putrascension, Forever Below (HPGD)

Restless Spirit, Afterimage (Magnetic Eye)

Stonemiller Inc., Welcome To The Show (Massacre)

Svalbard, The Weight Of The Mask (Nuclear Blast)

Third Storm, The Locust Mantra (Chaos)

Torn The Fuck Apart, Kill.Bury.Repeat (Gore House)

Apotheus, Ergo Atlas (Black Lion Records)

Goatburner, Fatal (Time to Kill Records)

Salacious Gods, Oalevluuk (Hammerheart Records)

Xorsist, At the Somber Steps to Serenity (Prosthetic Records)

Sühnopfer, Nous sommes d’hier (Debemur Morti Productions)

Restless Spirit, Afterimage (Magnetic Eye Records)

Heretoir, Nightsphere (Northern Silence Productions)

Decapitated Christ, Glorious Tyrannizing of Human Rats (F.D.A. Records)

Distaste, Der Ertraeger und das Fleisch (F.D.A. Records)

Notturno, Inside (Hypnotic Dirge Records)

SolNegre, The Spiral Labyrinth (Meuse Music Records)

Michael Abdow, S​é​ance in Black (Independent)

Gore Grave, Pain (Independent)

Eradikated, Descendants (Indie Recordings) 

King ov Wyrms, The Womb ov Borealis (Independent)

Tabahi, Thrash for Justice (CDN Records)

Shrapnel Storm, Silo (Great Dane Records)

Lunar Tombfields, An Arrow to the Sun (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions)

Gruzja, Koniec wakacji (Independent)

Revenant Marquis, All the Pleasures of Heaven (Death Prayer Records)

Putrascension, Forever Below (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)

Heavy Load, Riders of the Ancient Storm (No Remorse Records)

Taliesin, Disciple (Independent)

SlugWeed, Forever Animated (Independent)

Ghorot, Wound (King of the Monsters Records)

Essence of Datum, Radikal Rats (Independent)

Fires in the Distance, Air Not Meant for Us (Instrumental) (Prosthetic Records)

Patriarchs in Black, My Veneration (MDD Records) 

Barbarian Swords, Anti-Dogma Megaforce (Eternal Juggernaut Records) 

Spectral Temper, Chimeric (Independent) 

Hästspark, Ostiarius Inferni (Ozium Records) 

Bloodletting Prince, Sanguine Insight (Independent) 

Sand into Glass, Slopes of Doubt (Independent) 

Worn Mantle, Hole (Ordovician Records) 

Rtęć, Wszyscy nosimy w sobie śmierć (Independent) 

Lancaster, Hell Campaign (Independent) 

Akitsa, Devenir le diable (Independent) 

 

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Elise Yablon