It’s another slow week for new metal, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing that’ll frazzle your synapses. Case in point, the gurgle-icious new Vomitory album, Terrorize, Brutalize, Sodomize (Metal Blade). The band’s fourth disc is their first in 15 years to not feature guitarist Ulf Dalegren. He has been replaced by Peter Östlund, and to our mangled ears, there’s no a whole lot of difference. The disc is raw, savage and destructive and features the best production of Vomitory’s splattery career, courtesy of Rikard Löfgren, who, we have been assured, is no relation to Nils. Even the slow most parts of this album are brutal. This is modern death metal at its finest.
Beyond the Sixth Seal - The Resurrection of Everything Tough (Metal Blade) This Weymouth, Massachusetts band released an album and an EP before breaking up in 2003. Recently they reformed as the side project of The Red Chord guitarist and vocalist Mike McKenzie and bassist Greg Weeks. And though they’re not going to tour and are no longer anyone’s main priority, their second full-length album, The Resurrection of everything Tough, is a powerful return, combining the ferocity of post-hardcore and noisecore with the gleaming thrust of Scandinavian melodic death metal.
Also of note:
Deadlock — Wolves (Lifeforce)
The Fall Of Troy - Manipulator (Equal Vision)
Tub Ring — The Great Filter (The End)
