Finally, I’m back! I know, I know, it’s been over a month since my last post but I have been very busy with travel and work and family. Now, it’s time to catch up on the weeks in September that I missed.
While I was on vacation, a lot of music dropped including tons of awesome metalcore from popular and smaller bands such as As Paradise Falls, Confessions of a Traitor, The Devil Wears Prada, Novelists FR, Space of Variations, and Traitors Among Us amongst many others. Within the same few weeks we were also blessed with some stellar deathcore from Art of Attrition, Darko US, and Within Destruction. On top of that, nu metal heavyweights Slipknot and Drowning Pool released new albums as well. However, the goodness doesn’t stop there. The heavy and alternative music communities received loads of other great albums and EPs from dozens of smaller bands that are all worth checking out. Here are my choices.
September 16th
Top 5:
Confessions of a Traitor – ‘Punishing Myself Before God Does’ [metalcore]
The Darling Fire – ‘Distortions’ [alt rock/post hardcore/shoegaze]
Destrage – ‘SO MUCH. too much.’ [progressive metal]
The Devil Wears Prada – ‘Color Decay’ [metalcore]
Traitors Among Us – ‘Perceptions’ [metalcore]
Honorable Mentions:
Anti-Clone – ‘Human’ EP [industrial nu metal]
Fault Lines – ‘Quiet Sickness’ [metalcore]
For the Likes of You – ‘Pain Perspective’ EP [metalcore/deathcore]
Ghosther – ‘Immersion’ [alt metal]
Harmed – ‘The Everchanging Gap Between Life and Loss’ [metalcore]
Irist – ‘Gloria’ EP [progressive metal]
Lybica – ‘Lybica’ [progressive instrumental rock]
Omega Diatribe – ‘My Sphere’ EP [metalcore]
Reliqa – ‘I Don’t Know What I Am’ [alt progressive metal]
Sublation – ‘The Path To Bedlam’ [tech death metal]
Subscale – ‘The Last Submission (Remaster)’ [groove metalcore]
Wolfheart – ‘King Of The North’ [melodic death metal]
September 23rd
Top 5:
As Paradise Falls – ‘Madness/Medicine’ EP [deathcore/metalcore]
Aspen Way – ‘Return to Source’ EP [progressive metalcore]
Novelists FR – ‘Déjà Vu’ [metalcore]
Space Of Variations – ‘Imago’ [metalcore]
The Wonder Years – ‘The Hum Goes On Forever’ [pop punk]
Honorable Mentions:
Drabik – ‘Mannequin’ [alt metalcore]
Eternal Closure – ‘At The Center Of It All‘ [progressive death metal]
Gaerea – ‘Mirage’ [post black metal]
Kid Kapichi – ‘Here’s What You Could Have Won’ [alt rock]
Tyson Motsenbocker – ‘Milk Teeth’ [indie rock]
Art of Attrition – ‘The Void Eternal’ [blackened deathcore]
Eva Under Fire – ‘Love, Drugs & Misery’ [hard rock]
Our Last Night – ‘Empires Fall (Deluxe)’ [post hardcore]
SiM – ‘Beware’ EP [reggae hardcore]
Wolves at the Gate – ‘Eulogies (Live Sessions)’ [live metalcore]
September 30th
Top 5:
All Else Fails – ‘The Incident At Black Lake’ EP [progressive metalcore]
Amongst the Giants – ‘Desolate Minds’ EP [metalcore]
Aviana – ‘Corporation’ [metalcore]
Darko – ‘Oni’ [deathcore]
Within Destruction – ‘Lotus’ [deathcore/trapcore]
Honorable Mentions:
Aura – ‘Underwater’ [post rock/progressive metal]
Clifford – ‘Soulless’ [progressive deathcore]
Dark Divine – ‘Halloweentown’ EP [modern hard rock]
Dark Forest – ‘Ridge & Furrow’ EP [heavy metal/power metal]
The Dead Daisies – ‘Radiance’ [southern hard rock]
Drowning Pool – ‘Strike A Nerve’ [heavy metal/nu metal]
Graves End – ‘Call of the Void’ EP [metalcore/deathcore]
Hunting Giants – ‘Mythos’ [progressive hard rock]
Regulate – ‘Regulate’ [hardcore]
Resist The Ocean – ‘In Death We Are Equal’ [metalcore]
Slipknot – ‘The End, So Far’ [heavy metal/nu metal]
Tell You What Now – ‘Tell You What Now’ [metalcore]
My next blog post should come out in a couple days covering my 3 top releases from September as well as list all of the releases from the month that I thought were notable. After that, I’m going to take a break for a while from posting every week. At the moment I just don’t have the time to sift through sometimes over a hundred releases each week. I’m planning to post once a month on my favorite albums of the month but I’ll be covering a lot less releases; most likely just the big ones. I also have a few other blog posts written up that I’m waiting to release. You’ll read them soon!
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