Coastal Break - Passages (2014)

Artist: Coastal Break

Album: Passages

Genre: Ambient/Djent/Melodic Metal/Instrumental

Track Listing:

1. Passages

2. Interlude

3. A Means To An End

4. The Distant

5. Daylight (Matt&Kim cover)

Support: Bandcamp($2)

There's something about coastal break that I connect with on an emotional level, you can tell it's written with heart, and soul. Beautiful ambiance, killer Djenty tone/riffage, all around just killer instrumental work. It's 2 bucks, and that's a good price for such a beautiful instrumental album. Buy it, rock it, throw em a like on Facebook, and enjoy..

Goodthink - Interim (2014)

Goodthink
Album: Interim
Genre: Ambient//Post/Math/Instrumental/Metal
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Track Listing:
1. Would've
2. Particular
3. Snowfall
4. Oil On Canvas

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Preview: "Snowfall"

This album has a lot of different vibes within it, and each one is really cool. Very math-y at parts, post-metal at others. You'll hear some shoegaze, even prog riffs, and beautiful ambiance throughout. I highly recommend listening to this album.

Acirema - American Nightmare (2009)

Acirema
Album: American Nightmare
Genre: Metalcore/Deathcore
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Track Listing:
1. Retribution Through Blood
2. Good Old Fashioned Passionate Ass Thrashin'
3. Wield the Axe and Sever the Head of Hypocrisy
4. The Ghost You've Become
5. To The Death
6. Leaving Home for Hell
7. The Devil's Work
8. Plague of the Earth

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Preview: The Ghost You've Become

This is album has some serious late-2000's metalcore vibes, in a good way. I'd say it's most comparable to As Blood Runs Black's Allegiance album. Check it!

Forty Winters - Isolation (2013)

Forty Winters
Album: Isolation
Genre: Deathcore/Hardcore
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Track Listing:
1. The Darkening
2. Return To Earth
3. Isolate

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Here's a heavy ass band.

Shokran - Supreme Truth (2014)

 Artist: Shokran

Album: Supreme Truth

Genre: Progressive Deathcore

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Tracklist:

1. Interlude
2. Pray The Martyr
3. Ghost Ruins
4. Memories (feat. Sergey Oficerov from The Jackals)
5. Charon
6. Collapses
7. Original Sin
8. Crotalus
9. The Right To Sorrow
10. In Theatre Of Illusions
11. Supreme Truth
12. Sands Of Time
13. Punishment
14. Dark Desert
15. The New Battalions

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 I really like this blend of hard-hitting grooves, brutal vocals, BOO-like synths and this whole arabic/oriental vibe. Highly anticipated record, and no letdown here. Awesome record!

Shades Of Black - Ocean (2014)

Artist: Shades Of Black

Album: Ocean

Genre: Instrumental Progressive Metal/Groove

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Tracklist:

1. The Scorpion King

2. The Habitual

3. To Colossus

4. Samurai Sunrise

5. The Secret Council

6. Impending Circumstances

7. Face Of The Skies

8. The Sacred Union

9. Brohemoth

10. Ocean

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No words for this. Just brilliant.

Illudria - Sentient (2014)

Illudria
Album: Sentient
Genre: Progressive Metalcore
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Track Listing:
1.Savoy Ballroom
2.The Prime Meridian
3.Eden
4.Sleep Walking
5.House Of Cards
6.Empires
7.Cognitive Dissonance
8.Eons
9.Reflections
10.Terrarium
11.Triptych
12.Sentient
13.Shortcomings

Support: Bandcamp ($10) 

Wow. I've only listened to the first track so far, but I had to post this. I can already tell it's something special. For fans of The Human Abstract, Between the Buried and Me, and Art By Numbers.

Kythera - Chosen (2014)

Artist: Kythera
Album: Chosen
Genre: Technical Death Metal/Deathcore/Metal

Track Listing:
1. Phrenic Dissonance
2. Virtue
3. Somber Reveries
4. System Of Deception
5. Sleeper
6. Chosen
7. A Grand Illusion

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So this little gem is badass. Awesome technical riffage, great vocals, sound construction, and all around good metal. Pick this up, it's worth every penny.

Existential Animals - Mriga (2014)

Existential Animals
Album: Mriga
Genre: Instrumental Progressive/Technical Death Metal
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Track Listing:
1. Stalked Vestige
2. Brace
3. Traglodon
4. The Road and the World

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Support: Bandcamp (NYP)
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My bud Zach from Wings Denied introduced me to this band, and boy, so glad he did! This guys merge some crazy technical stuff with progressive grooves and it sounds just amazing. Even though it sounds a bit rough, it just adds up a little something extra to it. Can't wait to here more from this project!

Anup Sastry – Lion (2014)

Anup Sastry

Album:  Lion

Genre:  Progressive Metal/GROOVE/Funk

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Track Listing:

1. Nemesis

2. Lion (feat. Jakup Zytecki)

3. Thousands

4. Free Fall

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Support:  Bandcamp (NYP)

Preview:  “Nemesis”

The intro groove in the preview song is one of my favorite things EVER, holy shit.  As many of you know, Anup does drums for Intervals, Jeff Loomis, Skyharbor, and probably a couple other bands I’m missing.  Homeboy has rhythm for MILES.

Divinex - Movement (2014)

Divinex
Album: Movement
Genre: Instrumental Progressive Metal
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Track Listing:
1. Audio Addiction
2. Drift Away
3. Transcendence
4. Event Horizon

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Instrumental prog goodness for fans of Between the Buried and Me, Intervals and such. Filled with sweet flows and grooves to make you drool all over.

Anewabyss - Dreading My Thoughts (2014)

Artist: Anewabyss

Album: Dreading My Thoughts

Genre: Instrumental Progressive Metal/Progressive Death Metal/Jazz

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Tracklist:

1 Sypher

2. System Meltdown

3. Insperion

4. Doppelgänger Theater 

5. Whirlwind

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These clean parts....these clean parts are so fucking beautiful.

Existem - Phoenix (2014)

Artist: Existem

Album: Phoenix

Genre: Progressive Metal

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Tracklist:

1. Epitaph

2. Phoenix

3. Memento Mori

4. Above Or Below

 

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Absolutely amazing stuff. These guys deserve way more attention, very unique blend of modern Progressive Metal.

Satellites on Parade - Miles (2013)

Satellites on Parade
Album: Miles
Genre: Post Hardcore
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Track Listing:
1. Release the Hounds
2. Montoneros
3. Water, Sun & Holy Coast
4. Argentavis
5. Miles

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Preview: "Release The Hounds"

I don't know how many of you listen to post hardcore, but trust me and try this. It's not the kind with whiney feminine male vocals. I found these guys by chance when they promoted themselves on Reddit, and I was amazed at how few Facebook likes they have. They're unsigned but the production and songwriting is top notch. I think they'll be big given some time, they definitely deserve it.

Separatist – Motionless (2014)

Separatist

Album:  Motionless

Genre:  Progressive/Blackened/Technical Deathcore

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Track Listing:

1. Prelude

2. The Reprieve

3. Plagues

4. A Gentle Reminder

5. Anaclasis

6. Untitled

7. In Dissonant Silence I:  Censura

8. In Dissonant Silence Ii:  Decessus

9. The Earth Defiled

10. I Despise

11. Like Shattered Stars

12. The Harvest

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Support:  Bandcamp (NYP)

Preview:  “The Reprieve”

How in the fuck have I never heard of this band?  They sound SORT of like a more brutal version of “Akeldama”-era The Faceless, at least in my opinion.  Exactly what I’m looking for in my technical/blackened deathcore.  Spine-crushingly heavy, blisteringly fast-paced, technical, groovy, and pretty well-produced.  GRIM.  Apparently these guys came out with another album on the same day, which was already posted on our blog HERE.  Snag them both for free!

An Autumn For Crippled Children – try not to destroy everything you love (2013)

An Autumn For Crippled Children

Album:  try not to destroy everything you love

Genre:  Atmospheric/Post Black Metal/Shoegaze

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Track Listing:

1. autumn again

2. the woods are on fire

3. never complete

4. try not to destroy everything you love

5. hearts of light

6. sepia mountains for her lament

7. closer

8. avoiding winter

9. starlit spirits

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Support:  Bandcamp ($6.80)

Preview:  “autumn again”

Really different from my usual fare, but move over, deafheaven – There’s a new sheriff in town.  I don’t even like deafheaven’s style of shoegaze/post-black metal, but this is OUTSTANDING.  So beautiful, atmospheric, and thoroughly immersive.  Probably one of my most-jammed albums of the past couple months!  Don’t believe me?  Heavyblog gave this album a stellar 4.5/5 review a while back :)

Xenomorphic Contamination – Chasm of No Return (2014)

Xenomorphic Contamination

Album:  Chasm of No Return

Genre:  Technical/Brutal Deathcore/Death Metal

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Track Listing:

1. Metamorphic Oblivion

2. Descent of Unearthly Hate

3. Biomechanical Retaliation

4. Alien Deception

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Support:  Bandcamp ($5.44)

Preview:  “Metamorphic Oblivion”

Fucking AWESOME tunes!  These guys sound like Abominable Putridity meets early Thy Art Is Murder, unngghhh.  Also kind of in the vein of Behold The Desecration, who put out one of my favorite EP’s of last year (ever?).  DO NOT MISS THIS.

I Am Waves - Bella Monte (2012)

I Am Waves
Album: Bella Monte
Genre: Post Hardcore/Experimental
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Track Listing:
1. Distance Between
2. Rule Another Day
3. Bella Monte
4. Circa

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Preview: "Bella Monte"

This isn't a typical Duckcore post, but it's something that you all need to hear. This ep is chock of full beautiful melodies, wacky song structures, ridiculously tasteful guitar work, and even some math rock goodness. The band is no longer together, but this begs to be heard by loads of people. Don't fuck up.

The Mothman Prophecies - The Fallen Crown (2014)

Artist: The Mothman Prophecies

Album: The Fallen Crown

Genre: Deathcore/Groove

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Tracklist:

1. Age Of Terror

2. The Fallen Crown

3. Scorched Land

 

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Very solid stuff, not very original but heavy and groovy!

Separatist - Closure (2014)

Separatist
Album: Closure
Genre: Progressive/Blackened/Technical Deathcore
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Track Listing:
1. Monuments
2. Isolation
3. Ω
4. Deluge Arterial
5. Carrier
6. Immersion
7. Void
8. Altars
9. Closure

Support: Bandcamp (NYP)

Banging, crushing awesomeness! Haven't heard anything like this in quite a while now! Proggy, techy insanity that will for sure make you change your pants!!!

Grim State - Illness (2013)

Grim State
Album: Illness
Genre: Death Metal/Hardcore
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Track Listing:
1. Insanity
2. Volatile
3. Unstable
4. Absent
5. Illness
6. Torn
7. Dream
8. Madness

Preview/Support/Download: Bandcamp ($8)

This album is really cool in the sense that it meshes straight up hardcore and death metal beautifully, and without sounding "metalcore" in the slightest. Definitely a solid listen. Check it out!

Meridian - Reformation (2013)

Meridian
Album: Reformation
Genre: Melodic Hardcore
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Track Listing:
1. Conscience
2. Mother
3. Enemies
4. Misery
5. Reflection
6. Father
7. Hollow
8. Reformation

Bandcamp ($5)
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Preview: "Father"

This is some really emotive melodic hardcore right. The melodies, song writing, and vocalist are all on point. Not to mention it gets heavy when it needs to. Oh, and the singer has the voice of a freaking angel. Seriously, if you are a fan of goosebumps or just melodic music in general you NEED to get on this. Side note: this band just signed to Victory Records, so expect them to blow up really soon.

Witch Ripper - _ (2014)

Artist: Witch Ripper

Album: _

Genre: Doom Metal/Progressive Metal

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Tracklist:

1. Space Debris

2. Hydra

3. Ice Wizard

4. Queen Of The Green

 

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The perfect meshup between rough and sludgy Neurosis-esque parts and progressive/stoner Mastodon-esque parts. 

For all of you who wait for a new Mastodon release, this is the right one.

  

Lionfight - Lionfight EP (2014)

Artist: Lionfight

Album: Lionfight EP

Genre: Djent/Groove Metal

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Tracklist

1. Vortex

2. Fake Friend

3. Uncle Ben

4. Wrightwood

5. Vine

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 Very catchy stuff. The vocalist reminds me a lot of Chris Baretto, and they have some awesome funky grooves.  

Auric - Auric (2014)

Auric
Album: Auric
Genre: Sludge/Doom Metal/Crust
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Track Listing:
1. Abject
2. Black Rivers
3. Abrasion
4. Among The Refuse
5. Swept And Swallowed
6. In Memory

Download: Bandcamp ($5)
Preview: "Among The Refuse"

I'm not usually into this kind of stuff, but this is some extremely well executed sludgy, doom-y, crusty, METAL. The vocals are very black metal, which adds another really cool element to the band for me. Buy this shit, or at least stream it on Bandcamp.

Cycles - Enceladus (2014)

Cycles
Album: Enceladus
Genre: Progressive Metalcore
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Track Listing:
1. Completion
2. The Offer
3. Enceladus
4. Drifting

Download: Bandcamp ($6)
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Preview: "Drifting"

SUPER cool proggy metalcore band right here. Premiered through our dude at BeheadingTheTraitor, so you know it's gunna be good. Great atmosphere, good vocals, groovy, and heavy when it needs to be. Support these guys!

Polygons - Rifts (2014)

Artist: Polygons
Album: Rifts
 Genre: Progressive Metal/Ambient/Djent

Track Listing:
1. The Flood
2. Fracture
3. Celestial imbalance
4. Rifts
5. Collapse

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Support: "Bandcamp(NYP)"

This is some pretty good prog/djent haha. Full of ambiance, killer prog riffage, and good vocals, it's super well rounded. Now there's some clean singing in this, but don't let that discourage you because they're good with the structure of the songs. This is free on bandcamp which is crazy because it's really good, but if your into it and feel generous, then throw em something and enjoy.

Tria Mera - Extinction (2014)

Artist: Tria Mera
Album: extinction
Genre: Heavy Metal/Melodic Metal

Track Listing:
1. Requiem
2. The Sacrifice
3. Severance
4. The Solace Of Tomorrow
5. Illusions
6. Waiting For Destruction

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Support: Bandcamp(NYP)

So this is a little outside of my normal genre's, but its actually really good. Great heaviness, Strong vocals, kinda makes me feel like im going to battle, idk that's just me haha. It's free on bandcamp but if  you got it and wanna throw some they're way, then definitely do it..

Methiums - Methiums (2014)

Artist: Methiums

Album: Methiums

Genre: Progressive Metal/Instrumental

track Listing:
1. Buster Rancher

2. Bouyanci

3. Effluvium

4. Nelipot

5. Dank (Bonus Track)

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Support: Bandcamp(NYP)

This is some cathcy stuff right here. A little bit of inervalish riffage with some really good prog influence behind it. I believe he has somewhere around 32 likes on Facebook because this is really good. It's free on bandcamp but its worth so much more than that. Download it, buy it, give him a like on facebook, and enjoy.

FFO: Intervals/Spherian