Sh*t That Comes Out Today: November 18, 2014

Hi MetalSucks reader! Welcome back to Shit That Comes Out Today, your satanic bible of each week’s heavy new releases. We list ‘em, we spotlight ‘em, we link you to their preview jams and full streams — and everybody wins. And if we missed any legit new shit, we beg you to email us! Thanks! Now crank it up!

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Korzus
Legion (AFM)
On a playlist with: Sodom, Torture Squad, Machine Head
Listen “Bleeding Pride” (here)

Throwback vocals: love or hate ’em? They’re an acquired taste when matched with modern, core-sensible thrash. On this new Korzus jam, they work 80% of the time; but never on Legion‘s choruses. Not sure why some bands insist on clean-screaming (cough, Machine Head). Still, Legion is a forward attempt at music for driving and moshing. Not at the same time please.

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Stormvold
Third Bestial Mutilation demos (Xtreem)
On a playlist with: Sarcofago, Hail Of Bullets, Bolt Thrower
Listen “Brilliance Of Thunder” (here)

From a band called Stormvold you may expect high-pitched power metal, not cut-and-slash death-inspired thrash! Beyond the surprise factor, Third Bestial Mutilation is a beast with every classic thrash hook imaginable amplified by 110%. An album that’s just “pure energy” might lack cohesion, but not this. Listen to “Brilliance Of Thunder” and pay special attention around 3:30. Horns on horns on horns as that shit speeds up even more!

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Timeworn
Luminescent Wake (Disiplin)
On a playlist with: Summon The Crows, Eskatol, Black Blood World
Listen Luminescent Wake full stream (here)

Timeworn is a fuckin’ sweet name for a band, and Luminescent Wake is a fuckin’ sweet album of dirty, Scandinavian, rock-inspired bar thrash. For those new to this sort of thing, there’s no better introductory album to help learn your brain. It’s got everything you want to hear and nothing that you don’t.

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Bloodbath
Grand Morbid Funeral (Peaceville)
On a playlist with: Hypocrisy, Decapitated, Dying Fetus
Listen Grand Morbid Funeral full stream (here)
Read Excretakano MetalSucks review (here)

One honest gripe about Grand Morbid Funeral is that it kinda sounds like the work of Decapitated. We appreciate both bands (in the same way that we appreciate apple pie topped with American cheese), the ultra-polish chic of Decapitated’s latest album doesn’t play out with the Bloodbath’s gritter songwriting and raunchier appeal. Elsewhere Grand is one of the year’s best modern, mean, fuck-you-up death album. Pay special attention to its third track, “Anne,” which literally cuts skulls.

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The Dead
Deathsteps To Oblivion EP (Transcending Obscurity)
On a playlist with: Lair Of The Minotaur, Disbelief, Illdisposed
Listen Deathsteps To Oblivion EP full stream (here)

Good metal seeps out of the proverbial woodwork deep underground, and only matures as it comes out into the light. You can clock that type of evolution for The Dead, an Aussie band who’ve actually been around since 2005. The Deathsteps To Oblivion EP is messy at points and produced poorly, but some monstrous moments emerge for those who can disregard the potato recording quality.

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Nesseria
Fractures (Throatruiner)
On a playlist with: As We Draw, Plebeian Grandstand, Cowards
Listen Fractures full stream (here)

Throatruiner is probably the best label for French post-metal, and Nesseria is a worthy companion to the likes of As We Draw (whose latest album rules) and Plebeian Grandstand. Fractures has what you’d expect from Euro post-metal: tons of overdrawn discordance, massive choruses, and tremolo picking for centuries. In a departure from the sometimes messier North American analogues, though, Nesseria keeps each song tight, packaged, and rockable — a refreshing, punchy take on a sometimes muddled and overblown subgenre. (Oh btw, Fractures can be had for free — but oh so worthy of a “name your price” donation. Kinda like your weekly STCOT!)

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OTHER SHIT THAT COMES OUT TODAY

Adaliah Shedding Skin (Mediskare) listen
Albert Bell’s Sacro Sanctus Deus Volt (Metal on Metal) listen
» Anguish Mountain (Dark Descent) listen
» Aphonic Threnody When Death Comes (Doomentia) listen
Axx of Hate Risen (Mulligore) listen
Born Of Fire Dead Winter Sun (Pure Steel) listen listen
Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band Black Power Flower (Napalm) listen
Cadaveria Silence (Scarlet) listen
Carnal Agony Preludes & Nocturnes (Sliptrick) listen
Crimson Blue The Angelic Performance (My Kingdom) listen
» Cuff Transient Suffering Through The Ergosphere (Gore House) listen
Dantalion Where Fear Is Born (Sleaszy Rider) listen
The Deathtrip Deep Drone Master (Svart) listen
Dimension Revolution (Nightmare) listen
Dire Omen Wrestling The Revelation Of Futility (Dark Descent) listen
Dominanz Noxious (Industrial Silence) listen
» Evil Spirit Cauldron Messiah (Horror) listen
The Ghost Inside Dear Youth (Epitaph) listen
Hands Of Orlac Figli Del Crepuscolo (Horror) listen
» Hi-gh Til Death And After (Metal on Metal) listen
» Hombre Malo Persistent Murmur Of Words Of Wrath (Disiplin) listen
In This Moment Black Widow (Atlantic) listen listen read
In Tormentata Quiete Cromagia (My Kingdom) listen
Kaledon Antillius: The King Of The Light (Scarlet) listen
Kult Ofenzivy Nauky Ruznic (Iron Bonehead) listen
Metal Cross Metal Cross (Horror) listen
Manimalism Manimalism (Adversum) listen listen
Monster Magnet Milking The Stars: A Re-Imagining Of ‘Last Patrol’ (Napalm) listen listen
Mortuary Drape Spiritual Independence (Iron Tyrant) listen
Paul Di’Anno The Beast Arises DVD (Metal Mind) watch
P.O.D. SoCal Sessions acoustic (Universal) listen
Satan Trail Of Fire: Live In North America (Listenable) listen
Scott Ian Swearing Words In Glasgow DVD (Megaforce) watch watch
Senser Stacked Up XX remaster (Strike Back) listen
Sonata Arctica Ecliptica Revisited: 15th Anniversary Edition (Nuclear Blast/Metalville) listen
Soulburn The Suffocating Darkness (Century Media) listen
Stubb Cry Of The Ocean (Ripple) listen
Thanatos Global Purification (Century Media) listen
These Are They At The Feast Of Seven Funerals (Unruly Sounds/The End) listen
Threshold For The Journey (Nuclear Blast/Metalville) listen
Ulver Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997 box (Century Media) listen
V-Anger In Shovel We Trust (Sliptrick) listen
When Cities Sleep What Lies Lay Between Us (Indianola) listen listen listen
While Heaven Wept Suspended At Aphelion (Nuclear Blast) listen
Xtrmst Xtrmst (Dim Mak) listen