New releases from AMON AMARTH, SOULFLY and more today 8/5

This week’s new heavy metal releases include metal from dudes with bags over their heads, grooves, Vikings, and more! To metals…

Amon Amarth- The Great Heathen Army

Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
Tag: Metal blade

Hegg album number twelve and the boys see Amon Amarth bringing the melodic heaviness as they always do. You know what awaits you and you are delighted. Go steal a ship because your summer sailing soundtrack has arrived. Peep Chad’s review here.

Aether Convent – The relationship between the hammer and the nail

Genre: Mud/Hardcore
Origin: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Label: Good Fight Music

Bring heaps of comments and heaps or rage are Aether Convent. They hit with the hammer in a slow mud act but have bursts of energy like a Converge. Darkness all over this one.

Bathers of the Tombs – Rock’n’roll fetishism

Genre: Heavy Metal/Doom
Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Label: See Red Discs

Buy now on Bandcamp

Rock and metal are stupid and Bathers of the Tombs are an act that turns all the cliches of the genre up to 11 (oh hey, there’s a cliche right there!) to great acclaim. With Rock’n’roll fetishism they release the funniest record of the week. Heads will smack as you get old-school inspired riffs and beats.

Psycroptic – divine advice

Genre: Technical Death Metal
Origin: West Hobart, Australia
Tag: Prosthetics

One of tech death’s oldest bands is back to show you that the scene isn’t just for young people. While it has been four years since As the kingdom drowns, the winning streak they started there continues with this album. You also get guest voices from Origin Jason Keyser throughout. Stream it all here as part of Tech-Death Tuesday

Savage Master – Those who hunt at night

Genre: Heavy Metal
Made in: Louisville, Kentucky
Label: Shadow Kingdom Records

Buy now on Bandcamp

Goes well with Bathers of the Tombs – in aesthetics at least – we have the latest from heavy metalers wild master. fans of Judas Priest and Huntress will have a great time with this one. Fans of musicians with bags over their heads will also appreciate this. I’m sure it’s a scene of his own.

Soulfly – Totem

Genre: Groove Metal/Thrash
Origin: Phoenix, Arizona
Label: Nuclear Blast

Concluding this week with the busiest man in groove metal Max Cavalera. the whole comes four years after the killer Ritual and feels like a sequel to that one with some additional experimentation. Some pretty cool guests here too like John Tardy from obituarysome guys from Eternal Champion, Power Tripby Chris Ulsh and Richie Cavalera incite. Our Max has a full review here.

Also falling today…

• Abaddon incarnate – The miserable sermon (Transcending Obscurity Records) – Deathgrind
• strip – meditations (Tartarus Records) – Experimental/doom
• vael carrion – Hateful obsessions (Unique Leader Records) – Technical/melodic death metal
• Disconnected Souls – kintsukuroi (Self-Released) – Cinematic Metal
• dub war – Westgate Under Fire (Earache) – Reggae/metal
• first moods – first moods (RidingEasy Records) – Hard rock/doom
• Einherjer – Norse And Dangerous (live… from the land of legends) (Napalm) – Folk-metal
• Scary – Bloodwyrx (Dead Sage Records) – Industrial/Experimental
• Grigorian – The gospel of power (Signal Rex) – Black Metal
• HEAT – Force Majeure (earMusic) – Heavy Metal
• When hearts wake up – Green Is The New Black Soundtrack (UNFD) – Metalcore
• The switches – In nature (Hellcat) – Ska/Punk
• liminal shroud – All the virtues on fire (Willowtip Records) – Black Metal
• Andy McCoy – jukebox addict (Cleopatra) – Rock
• Corpse Entanglement Shuriken – Build Cataclysm (Comatose music) – Death metal
• Too much to die for – In the dark (Out of Line Music) – Electronic Metal
• Toxic – This mortar (Massacre Records) – Thrash
• turian – more human (Wise Blood Records) – Noise Metal