Sh*t That Came Out Friday: August 21, 2015

August 24th, 2015 at 10:00am
David Lee Rothmund

Ed. Note: Vince goofed and forgot to run this post on Friday, August 21st. Whoops! Here it is one weekday late, but still in plenty of time for you to get the week’s new releases before the next round rolls in at the end of this week.

Hello MetalSucks reader! Welcome to the new Shit That Comes Out Today, your satanic bible of this week’s heavy new releases. We list ‘em, we spotlight ‘em, we link you to their preview jams and full streams — and we stick ‘em in a fancy Spotify playlist too (below) — all for your jammage! Now crank this shit up!

Ghost
Meliora (Loma Vista)
On a playlist with: Lucifer, The Devil’s Blood, Mercyful Fate
Listen Meliora full stream (here)

Ghost is good. They write good studio albums. They make good cover albums. They have a cool stage presence. They sound snappy and fresh, but oddly familiar. They’re kinda dark, but then kinda not. They’re just evil enough, but if it was on in the background around your grandma, she’d think it was just the radio. Meliora is exactly as expected.

The Devil Wears Prada
Space EP (Rise)
On a playlist with: dingleberries, decaf, dysuria
Listen “Supernova” (here)

This one year long ago I got roped into going to Warped Tour. I saw TDWP play. I remember standing pretty far back, but I could still feel the bass thumping my chest. The lead singer at one point went on a monologue about some spiritual stuff and then it was all over. I had a beer and didn’t think about TDWP until like years later (ie. 30 seconds ago) when I saw that they have a new EP. It fucking sucks hard.

Scythian
Hubris In Excelsis (Hells Headbangers)
On a playlist with: Venom, Sodom, Bathory
Listen Hubris In Excelsis full stream (here)

Good death metal retains all the classic tropes but throws a new spin on things. That’s what can be said about Hubris In Excelsis, which opens with a fucking guitar solo and rips through nine tracks with middle fingers still up! Detractors may note the “we’re influenced by everything” ethos of Scythian — but that’s okay, cause more = merrier.

Lychgate
An Antidote For The Glass Pill (Blood)
On a playlist with: Macabre Omen, Dendritic Arbor, Fyrnask
Listen An Antidote For The Glass Pill full stream (here)

Here’s some good, funky, melodic blackened death metal! Or is it deathened black metal? Hard to say, really, but then again An Antidote For The Glass Pill is a hard-to-talk-about album. It’s weird, loud, and mean, etc., i.e. anyone into drama + suspense + tension will find great things within its ice-cold grasp.

Crown
Natron (Candlelight)
On a playlist with: Anaal Nathrakh, Nile, Rammstein
Listen Natron full stream (here)

Bandcamp might be the best place to buy music. Also you read great user reviews there: “Listening to this album is akin to being stalked by a giant, robotic tarantula; you know something huge and terrifying is after you by the bowel-rupturing racket it makes, but just as you think it’s about to come clanking out of the darkness to put an end to your misery, everything goes eerily quiet so you have no idea whether, if you run, you’re heading towards or away from it. Then it eats you anyway.”

Rivers Of Nihil
Monarchy (Metal Blade)
On a playlist with: Inanimate Existence, new Cattle Decapitation, the actual baby Jesus
Listen Monarchy full stream (here)

One of us here at MetalSucks wrote that Rivers Of Nihil is so good that it’s not fair. And pretty much: A mere mortal cannot qualify the sheer fucking moving power of this album. Sure, RoN’s debut The Conscious Seed Of Light (2013) was all-star from the get-go: pure, raw freshness from a totally green band. Monarchy is a maturity (and a blackening) of this incredible, bespoke, passionate heavy metal band. A must-listen! I guarantee this will appear on many year-end lists.

OTHER SHIT THAT COMES OUT TODAY

Act Of Defiance Birth And The Burial (Metal Blade) listen
Adversarial Death, Endless Nothing And The Black Knife Of Nihilism (Dark Descent) listen
Altar/Cartilage split reissue (Xtreem) listen
Archer Culling The Weak (Metalville) listen
Barrows Swine Race (Inverse) listen
Battlecross Rise To Power (Metal Blade) listen listen read
Bleach Everything Free Inside EP (Magic Bullet)
Blistered The Poison Of Self Confinement (6131) listen
Bonehunter Evil Triumphs Again (Hells Headbangers) listen
Buckcherry Rock N Roll (F-Bomb) listen
Butcher Babies Take It Like A Man (Century Media) listen
Coffins Craving To Eternal Slumber EP (Hammerheart) listen
Cruciform Atavism reissue (Infernal Devastation) listen
Dalkhu Descend Into Nothingness (Satanath) listen
Dark Sermon The Oracle (eOne) listen listen
Dead Lord Heads Held High (Century Media) listen
Diabolus Arcanium Path Of Ascension (Transcending Obscurity) listen
Disturbed Immortalized (Reprise) listen listen
Draugurinn Isavetur (Nordvis) listen listen
Extinction A.D. Faithkiller (Good Fight) listen listen listen
The Fiend Greed Power Religion War (Candlelight) listen
First Decree This Is Our Rise (FD Music) listen
Gamma Ray Heading For Tomorrow Anniversary Edition (earMusic) listen
Gaytheist / Rabbits Gay^Bits split (Good To Die) listen
Hate Eternal Infernus (Season Of Mist) listen
The Infamous Gehenna Deathkamp Ov The Soul + Funeral Embrace collection (Magic Bullet) listen
*Kadavar Berlin (Nuclear Blast) listen listen
Kaledon Chapter IV: Twilight Of The Gods reissue (Scarlet) listen
*Kyy Travesty Of Light (Saturnal) listen
Lewis & The Strange Magics Velvet Skin (Soulseller) listen
Lynch Mob Rebel (Frontiers) listen listen
Manegarm Vredens Tid reissue (Black Lodge) listen
The Murder Of My Sweet Beth Out Of Hell (Frontiers) listen
Myrkur M (Relapse) listen listen listen
Nathan Gray Nthn Gry EP (Good Fight) listen
Necrodium Remnants (Breaking Wheel) listen
Nekro Drunkz Absolute Filth (Moribund) listen
Nuclear Formula For Anarchy (Candlelight) listen
Oceans Of Slumber Blue EP (Century Media) listen
Pentagram Curious Volume (Peaceville) listen read
P.O.D. The Awakening (T-Boy/Universal) listen
Pop Evil Up (eOne) listen
Praying Mantis Legacy (Frontiers) listen listen
Publicist UK Forgive Yourself (Relapse) listen
Rainbow Denver 1979 (Cleopatra) listen
Raise Hell Written In Blood (Black Lodge) listen
Rotting Christ Lucifer Over Athens live (Season Of Mist) listen
Royal Hunt XIII: The Devil’s Dozen (Frontiers) listen listen
Rubikon Delta (Round Hill) listen listen listen
She Must Burn Under The Shadows EP (Ghost) listen
Skraeckoedlan Sagor (Razzia) listen
Spock’s Beard The Oblivion Particle (Inside Out) listen
The Sword High Country (Razor & Tie) listen listen listen
U.D.O. Navy Metal Night DVD/CD (AFM) listen
Unbreakable Hatred Ruins (Unique Leader) listen
Vaee Solis Adversarial Light (Signal Rex) listen
Vardan Between The Fog And Shadows (Moribund) listen
Via Sanitize This (Pavement) listen
Whoretopsy Never Tear Us Apart (Vicious Instinct) listen
Wildlights Wildlights (Season Of Mist) listen
Wolfheart Shadow World (Spinefarm) listen
Wombbath Downfall Rising (Pulverised) listen