Sectioned – Outlier (2013)

Sectioned

Album:  Outlier

Genre:  Chaotic Deathcore/Mathcore

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Track Listing:

1. Parasite

2. Trismus

3. Neverbeen

4. Hell Away From Home

5. The Body As A Deadweight

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Support:  Bandcamp (NYP)

Preview:  “Trismus”

Fans of The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza will shit themselves.  No, really.

What’s Left Of Her – Perceptions (2010)

What’s Left Of Her

Album:  Perceptions

Genre:  Progressive/Melodic/ Ambient Deathcore/Metalcore

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Track Listing:

1. Prologue

2. Oceans

3. When I Was Human

4. In Extremis

5. A New Aesthetic

6. Timekeepers

7. Que Act Two

8. Needlework

9. Fireball Jungle

10. Sleeping With Ghosts

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Preview:  “Timekeepers” / “A New Aesthetic”

Even people who aren’t a fan of the genre should give this one a spin, trust me.  “Perceptions” is one of the better, most thoroughly-unique prog. deathcore releases you’ll ever get your grubby little paws on…I’ve never heard ANYTHING that sounds quite like this.  The “progressive” label is bandied about a lot lately (I know, I know…I’m guilty myself), but this release truly IS progressive.  Synth-laden, upbeat melodies permeate the atmosphere, but there are lots of the technical precision and crushing grooves you’ve come to expect from the prog deathcore genre.  And, while I’m sure a lot of you enjoy the fact that there’s no cleans, I’m not particularly enamored with – if ever there’s been a deathcore album that called for at least a sprinkling of cleans, this would be it.  This album has received rave reviews from all around the internets, including this 4.0/5 on Sputnikmusic and this 4/5 review on Thrashmag!  Unfortunately, this band is now defunct…in this form – they reformed as the incredible Save Us From The Archon (posted HERE)!

PS:  Sorry, all I could find was 192kbps – all links are dead, and there aren’t even any purchase links available!  But somebody posted the album on their Facebook for free download...so here :)

Immerse – Immerse (2013)

Immerse

Album:  Immerse

Genre:  Experimental Deathcore/Metalcore/Mathcore

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Track Listing:

1. Obelisk

2. Gerun

3. Plenitude

4. Fallacy

5. Integra

6. Ray(e)

7. Mitigate

8. ZeroShift

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Support:  Bandcamp ($1.50)

Preview:  “ZeroShift” / “Fallacy”

The vocals aren’t my cup of tea at times, but damn…the music is just the bee’s-fricken-knees.  Mathy, chaotic, almost entirely unpredictable, and GROOVY-AS-HELL.  For fans of:  Atherial, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Monuments.

Face of Ruin – Within The Infinite (2011)

Face of Ruin

Album:  Within The Infinite

Genre:  Technical Death Metal/Groove

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Track Listing:

1. Torture of Silence

2. Within The Infinite

3. In the Depths of Blackness

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Support:  Bandcamp (NYP)

Preview:  “In the Depths of Blackness”

So sick!  This reminds me a LOT of newer Job For A Cowboy in places.

Acrania - The Beginning Of The End (2013)

Acrania
Album: The Beginning Of The End
Genre: Brutal Death Metal, "Politicore"
Location: UK
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Track Listing:
1. The Beginning...
2. Auctioneer Of Depravity
3. The Depopulation Programme
4. Dimensional Molecular Transcedance
5. A Trophy Of Corporate Disfigurement
6. Susceptible To Retinal Based Reprogrammability

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Support: Bandcamp
Preview: "A Trophy Of Corporate Disfigurement"

This band didn't just release a very sexy EP... They released a very sexy EP for FREE (that's like $0). You should buy one of their sexy shirts while you're downloading the EP ;)

Drag The Lake - I Am Violence (2012)

Drag The Lake

Album: I Am Violence

Genre: Deathcore

Location: Toronto, Canada

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Track Listing:

1. Widowmaker

2. Deathrow

3. I Am Violence

4. Claymore

5. To The Crows (ft. Michael Burton)

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Preview: "I Am Violence"

Punch your fucking face off.

Beneath The Wake – Synthetic Creation (2013)

Beneath The Wake

Album:  Synthetic Creation

Genre:  Deathcore

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Track Listing:

1. Archons

2. Apparitions of Guilt

3. Illusions of Free Choice

4. The Shadows Nocturne

5. Leech Trauma

6. Mortal Gods

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Support:  Bandcamp ($4.54)

Preview:  “Mortal Gods”

Dear lord this is heavy.  Reminds me of new Thy Art Is Murder at parts.  Thanks to Beantown for the link...even though I probably won’t listen to this much myself, I’m sure some of you guys will.

Emissary – Discography (2012-2013)

Emissary

Genre:  Progressive Deathcore

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Album:  New Songs (2012)

1. Contagion

2. Oddworld

Album:  Emissary (2013)

1. Prometheus

2. Harbinger

3. Desolate

4. Sovereign

5. Like Clockwork

6. Leviathan

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Support:  Bandcamp ($5)

Preview:  “Like Clockwork”

The triumphant return of me actually posting regularly…BUY THIS.  Please, for the love of god, BUY THIS.  I’ve been waiting for this for what feels like forever!  Outside of maybe Delta, this is far and away the best deathcore EP so far this year…they actually have an ambience and atmosphere similar to Delta, crushing songs and skull-shattering grooves, but they incorporate shredding a little more liberally.

Irukandji – Necromatocyst + New songs (2012)

Irukandji

Album:  Demo + New Songs

Genre:  Technical Deathcore/Death Metal

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Necromatocyst EP (2012):
1. Necromatocyst
2. Reaper's Harvest
3. Deadly As Fuck
4. Sands of Oblivion
5. The Virus On Earth
6. Sewerline Water Slide

New songs (2012):

1. Crowbar Anesthetic (New song)

2. Flesh Hammer (New song)

3. Livin La Vida Loca (New song)

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Preview:  “Crowbar Anesthetic”

Holy mother of FUCK this is sick!  Give these guys all your likes, god damn!  Sounds like a BEASTLY combination of Rings of Saturn and Depths of Hatred.  Yeah, that good.

And why yes, that IS a cover of Ricky Martin’s “Livin La Vida Loca”…and it is absolutely awesome lol

My Iron Heart – Guardian (2013)

My Iron Heart

Album:  Guardian

Genre:  Experimental Deathcore/Djent/Mathcore

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Track Listing:

1. Roderic (feat. Mack Dapz)

2. Grains of Sand in the Hourglass

3. Looking Out from my Own Casket (feat. Scott Bornick)

4. Architects Drafting Mountain Sketches (feat. Jayson Vochal)

5. Takeshi the Ender

6. Absalom (feat. Jordan Bahno)

7. Guardian

8. Karoshi

9. Benigno

10. Bridgeburner

11. The Strength

12. Omerta Omari

13. Jujitsu

14. Cherish Every Moment

15. Architects Drafting Mountain Sketches (Acoustic) (feat. Aisha Polite & Jayson Vochal)

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Support:  Bandcamp (NYP)

Preview:  “The Strength”

Wow this is a long record at 178+ MB…I thought for sure it would be instrumental, but nope!  Every song has its own little unique groove, and plenty of heavy to go around.  Not sure I’ll remember a single song by the time I’m done listening, but I’m having a pretty good time listening right now.

Cognizance – Inquisition (2013)

Cognizance

Album:  Inquisition

Genre:  Technical Death Metal

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Track Listing:

1. Clones of the Night Sky

2. The Perennial Struggle

3. Epistemology

4. Defying a Natural Process

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Support:  CD Baby ($3)

Preview:  “The Perennial Struggle (feat. Alex Rudinger)”

Fucking PERFECTION.  Far and away my favorite EP this year…until Slice the Cake and Ovid’s come out, this is pretty firmly at the top of my list.  This UK twosome actually has studio appearances from such monstrous names as Alex Rudinger (studio drums, The Faceless, ex-Threat Signal, ex-The HAARP Machine, Ordinance, Fleshwrought), Scott Corstairs (Fallujah), Reece Fullwood (Eumeria), Sacha Laskow (Walk As Chaos).  Just unbelievably good metal.  BUY IT ON CD BABY.

Oh, and they'll be releasing a track featuring Aaron Matts from Betraying the Martyrs soon!

Forlorn Path – Man’s Last Portrait (2013)

Forlorn Path

Album:  Man’s Last Portrait

Genre:  Melodic/Symphonic Black Metal/Doom

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Track Listing:

1. The Coming of Winter

2. Empire of Decadence

3. Words Only Wind Can Speak

4. Masquerade

5. A Moment of Silence

6. As Hope Fades

7. Ghosts

8. Man’s Last Portrait

9. What Lies Beyond

10. Relics

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Support:  Bandcamp (NYP)

Preview:  “Words Only Wind Can Speak”

Definitely not my typical post, but this sounds a little like what would happen if Be’Lakor and Carach Angren had a baby deep in a snow-covered forest.  A hybrid between evil and sorrow, definitely some extremely high-quality metal!

Moth – Endlessly In Motion (2013)

Moth

Album:  Endlessly In Motion

Genre:  Progressive Death Metal/Industrial?

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Track Listing:

1. The Structure

2. Dissolved

3. Vision

4. Reverse

5. Vast Expansion

6. Dark Sea

7. Drifting

8. Endlessly In Motion

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Support:  Bandcamp ($5)

Preview:  “Dissolved”

A simply incredible record.  A more aggressive, groovier version of Gojira – these guys received a glowing 4/5 review from the usually harsh critics over at Sputnikmusic!

Avoidant – Involution (2013)

Avoidant

Album:  Invoidant

Genre:  Progressive/Technical Death Metal

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Track Listing:

1. Witness

2. Enslaved

3. Interlude

4. Human

5. Animals

6. Archetype

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Support:  Bandcamp (NYP)

Preview:  “Witness”

A lot more proggy than their previous release.  Brilliant though!  A LOT of “Planetary”-era The Faceless influence.  Even some tastefully-used breakdowns :)

Fuck You And Die – Demo (2011)

Fuck You And Die

Album:  Demo

Genre:  Technical Death Metal

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Track Listing:

1. Natural Death

2. Human Torch

3. Terror rotting fetus crushing torso corpse cadaver

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Preview:  “Natural Death”

Extraordinary.  I shouldn’t really even have to say that these guys sound like a poor-man’s Necrophagist, you should just see the name of that third track and instantly have this on your playlist.  Enough said.

Empyrion – Mindshifter (2012)

Empyrion

Album:  Mindshifter

Genre:  Symphonic/Blackened Death Metal

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Track Listing:

1. Empty Vessels

2. Delimitation

3. Fragments

4. Void Beyond the Horizon

5. Infested

6. The Tower

7. Soundless Realm

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Preview:  “Fragments”

Beautiful brutality that the band released for free download!  Some of the theatricality of Fleshgod Apocalypse meets some of the riff-writing of Hideous Divinity.  Not too shabby, no? <3

Delta - Voyage (2013)

Delta

Album: Voyage

Genre: Technical Metalcore, Death Metal

Location: Chicago, US

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Track Listing:

1. Release (Intro)

2. Clairvoyance 

3. Veils

4. Reflections

5. Harlot

6. Reaper

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Support: Bandcamp (FREE)

Preview: Full Album (+Lyrics)

I saw these guys on facebook a little bit ago and decided to give them a try. Was impressed needless to say, so I posted them on old theduckcore... Josh beat me to posting their EP when it came out, but they're pretty nice guys and definitely deserve the attention they have received. 

Caricature - Birth By Sleep (2012)

Caricature

Album:  Birth By Sleep

Genre:  Progressive/Technical Metal

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Track Listing:

1. Birth By Sleep

2. Saviors

3. Monuments

4. Burning Damnation Down

5. Divine Unrest

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Support:  Bandcamp (NYP)

Preview:  “Saviors”

WELCOME TO THE NEW BLOG MOTHERFUCKERS!!  At least temporarily, anyways.

First posts don’t get much better than this <3  Massachusetts metal ALWAYS kills it!