Shit That Comes Out Today: September 9, 2016

Hello MetalSucks reader! Welcome to 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 all for your jammage!

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Black Funeral
Ankou And The Death Fire (Iron Bonehead)
On a playlist with: Chthonic Cult, Temple Below, Zom
Listen “Ankou And The Death Fire” (here) “Gwyn ap Nudd” (here)

Some metal people seem to feel that listening to an album with rough production is like watching a movie out of focus. Or like a musician with perfect pitch being tormented by a refrigerator’s constant off-key hum. Or a priceless painting crooked behind its security glass. That type of metal fan will be so much happier once they get over that. It’s not like tempos wobble and guitars are out of tune; that’s malfunction, this is untidiness.

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Faith No More
King For A Day reissue (Rhino)
Album Of The Year reissue (Rhino)
On a playlist with: Jane’s Addiction, Talking Heads, Black Sabbath
Listen “Absolute Zero” (here) “Ashes To Ashes [Hardknox Alternative mix]” (here)

Last month, Faith No More unveiled a fancy anniversary edition of their very first album, We Care A Lot. Everything about it is pretty wonderful: It arrived on the record labels controlled by members of FNM and on the heels of a very positive new album cycle. Plus, it’d been out of print for a while, and it routes money to the pockets of original FNM vocalist Chuck Mosley. Great, right? Oh, and FNM did a pair of shows to promote WCAL‘s return with Mosley on the mic. Totally awesome vibes. This week, their old business partners have some reissues too! These represent the other end of the FNM timeline. Remixes, tons of great b-sides, but nothing that hasn’t been around.

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Serpent Crown
Incantations Of Vengeance
On a playlist with: Slayer’s South Of Heaven, Warbringer, Overkill’s I Hear Black
Listen Incantations Of Vengeance full stream (here)

You may be concerned about the decision-making powers of just about any metal musician. That life, now more than ever, can be desperate and enabling of the worst habits, so those who choose it must see no other choice. That means they’re wrong (ie. a better life awaits them) or it means it’s a deep need of theirs to scream for weeks at a time (ie. they’re at least a bit crazy). Feels like Serpent Crown is the latter; their new album is fanatical. I swear it feels like each song’s energy is about to take physical form and knife you between the shoulders.

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Banisher
Oniric Delusions (Deformeathing)
On a playlist with: Decapitated, Suffocation, God Forbid
Listen Oniric Delusions full stream (here)

Some bands have terrible luck. Take Decapitated, whose drummer died in a tourbus accident at 23. Four years later, they boarded a plane with bad landing gear that had to crash-land on its belly. Here in 2016, they’re mired in a public dispute with Earache Records over money. Then again, things may be looking up for Decapitated — they just hired a member of an awesome little band called Banisher. Judging from Oniric Delusions — one of those albums in a genre that seems so knowable yet it dazzles again and again — that’s awesome luck.

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Ayahuasca
Yin
On a playlist with: Voivod, Alice In Chains, Astronoid
Listen Yin full stream (here)

Ayahuasca frontman Luke Roberts: “Our last record was much more progressive, long winded, and full of details. This is a much more fast-paced, vomitus, cathartic release of anger that is kind of childish at times, if I may speak frankly.” Yes you definitely may!!! Awesome album!

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Devin Townsend Project
Transcendence (Inside Out)
On a playlist with: Katatonia, Cave-In’s Jupiter, Soilwork
Listen “Stormbending” (here) “Failure” (here)

It’s fun to make fun of super-prolific artists. It’s even funner when their albums are long as fuck. You can be like, No I don’t have time to start a family — I’m a Soilwork die-hard. Or, if you’re not a bachelor, you can propose an addition to the family home not for mother-in-law, not for hobbies, but for a massive server that stores the John Zorn discography. And so on. Devin Townsend is the most conscientious person on Earth, so we could wager that he gets this vibe about his own manic release schedule; maybe that’s why Transcendence arrives after a nearly two-year gap. If the rare wait hasn’t caused anticipation to overtake you, then consider that the album’s finale is a cover of a profoundly awesome Ween song.

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OTHER SHIT THAT COMES OUT TODAY

Amphisbaena MMXVI EP (Iron Bonehead) listen
Artifex Pereo Passengers (Tooth And Nail) listen
Belenos Kornog (Northern Silence) listen
Caustic Resin The Medicine Is All Gone reissue (Scavenger Cult) listen
Colosso Obnoxious listen
Cortez Initial reissue (Wooaaargh) listen
Cover Your Tracks Fever Dream (Epitaph) listen listen
Debauchery Vs. Blood God Thunderbeast (Massacre) listen
Dwell Innate (Blood & Ink) listen
Earthshine Doomed To Wander And Never Die (Northern Silence) listen
Elm Street Knock ‘Em Out…With A Metal Fist (Massacre) listen
Evergrey The Storm Within (AFM) listen
Exalt The Shape You Took Before The Ache (Good Fight/New Damage) listen listen
F.A.M. Human Cargo (Deformeathing) listen
Fractal Cypher The Human Paradox listen
Herman Frank Loyal To None reissue (AFM) listen
Herman Frank Right In The Guts reissue (AFM) listen
Inthyflesh The Flaming Death (Altare) listen
Kurokuma Advorsus (Medusa Crush) listen
Leaves Eyes King Of Kings deluxe (AFM) listen
Les Discrets Virée Nocturne EP (Prophecy) listen
Letters From The Fire Worth The Pain (Sand Hill) listen listen
Light The Fire Ascension (Standby) listen listen
Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel Human Collapse (Ripple) listen
Loth Loth (Northern Silence) listen
Norma Jean Polar Similar (Solid State) listen
Nuclear Holocaust Overkill Commando (Selfmadegod) listen listen
Oddland Origin (Sensory) listen
Of Mice & Men Cold World (Rise) listen
Pain Coming Home (Nuclear Blast) listen
Quake The Earth Declaration Of War (Inverse) listen
Rev Theory The Revelation (Another Century) listen
Self Defense Family Colicky EP (Iron Pier) listen
Serious Black Mirrorworld (AFM) listen
Sorcery Garden Of Bones (Xtreem) listen
Steve’N’Seagulls Brothers In Farms (Spinefarm) listen
Tardive Dyskinsia Harmonic Confusion (PlayFalse) listen
Various Artists 20 Years: Metal Addiction (AFM) listen
Xalpen Black Rites (Morbid Skull) listen