Banned: Anaal Nathrakh, Lamb of God, Dissection

Restricted:

Paroled: Mgla & Gorguts.

Greetings. As we have done in the past, the eve before the Top X vote is devoted to martialish law for the subreddit in what people want to see. While not entirely democratic, the provide active users a chance to moderate what is seen on the sub. With that said, any grievance or addition can be brought up at those quarterly discussions. The mods then take these discussions and decide among themselves what gets banned, restricted, and jokingly blacklisted for a whole year.

Keywords:

• Banned: No Songs Posted By The Band Except for New Releases Within 2 weeks of Release Date. Discussion on any band is welcome.

• Restricted: Most Popular Songs, Song from popular albums from Band are Banned. Deeper Cuts Are Allowed Plus New Releases. Discussion around band is always welcome.

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Going Forward

I remember last quarter where I was bragging that our Banned list was getting smaller and that we would be using the Restricted list more as some sort of future utopia. I was wrong. From the most recent discussion combined with the serious looks the mods gave me in the Shreddit breakroom, it seems that we needed to put a stop to some bands that were posted too frequently. Most of the new banned bands would get around the Restricted sentence just with name recognition.

Paroled Bands

I would like to welcome Mgla and Gorguts back into society after being restricted. This doesn't mean we need to hear Hearts Towards None or whatever new EP Gorguts just made but rather let us celebrate a success story.

WATCHLIST

(Bands that we are looking at from across the room)

• Cryptopsy

• Cannibal Corpse (Again)

• Fear Factory

• Children of Bodom

• Chainwhirler

Doesn’t have to be death metal specifically but I think the gunshots used in the song are so cool, there’s no way they haven’t been down elsewhere in other genres

Do you feel like Deathcore isn't extreme enough for you anymore? Do you want to feel like listening to extreme metal music for the first time again? Give Anaal Nathrakh a shot, it's 100% gonna be worth it.
This band combines black metal with grindcore in a very unique way. It's shockingly heavy, loud and intense.
When I discovered them I've been listening to stuff like Infant Annihilator and Signs of the Swarm for a long time, yet this band made me feel like I've just discovered extreme metal again. It left me with mouth open wide. It's that kind of heaviness which no deathcore/death metal band can quite deliver.

What i adore about this band is them incorporating clean vocals in choruses. Songs like endarkenment, obscene as cancer are great examples of what i meant. I also really love this catchy riff in Singularity 1:23-1:44. I looked up that this band is more grindcore than deathcore but i didn't really notice a significant difference between these two genres so i guess all things this band related can be posted here

Welcome to Fresh Metal, where I talk a bit about some releases that came out this week. Man, I actually got up early on a saturday to post this in time. I hate getting up early. But this week's releases do endorse that necessity, because it's a week with the potential to mess up some of your aoty-lists. Especially when you do those reverse alphabetically. The quality is high, the quantity is engulfing.

What you may know by now: my metallic detections here are mostly based on what I collect for my blogs on Facebook, , and the playlist I keep . You might trip over some of my personal views and choices and you'll sure miss bands I just missed or have too easily dismissed. Don't hate: it would be great to discuss unmentioned records in the comments. You'll find everything that's on Spotify in . If I can find Bandcamp/YouTube/Soundcloud links, I put them in the text. Here goes Fresh Metal #5.

Double U

If you listen to without concentrating, you'll find yourself wondering what the hell you were doing, what year it is and what the hell the purpose of everything you've ever believed is. This is commanding, overwhelming, technical death metal, but there are shimmers of beauty scattered throughout new record Shrines of Paralysis too. Little rimples in between the thundering waves of crushing heaviness to which you can hold on for dear life. I've listened to it a lot the past weeks, and everytime I did, I discovered new aspects. And everytime I feel exhausted afterwards. Empty, hungry for beauty.

Beauty and darkness strangle each other within the black robes that cloak . Apart from easily the most beautiful of the month, Urfaust have more advantages: their mix of doom, occult rock and black metal is scary and intimidating and hard to leave behind once you're captured. I wasn't even very familiar with my own countrymen, but their new work instantly clicked and I'll enjoy myself a lot getting familiar with their back catalogue.

Say, someone is annoying you by going on and on about how they absolutely hate metal because it's dumb and stupid and never anything good came from it or ever will. Tell them to try again because, please, heavy metal is like eating spicy food, you see. Really, you'll start to enjoy the nuances once you're past the initial heat. If you would just take a nibble of something really accessible first. I know just the thing... this new record.

Questionable listacle

There's a lot more to this great week. is known for the great atmospherics in their black metal, which they still display on new 7" Gelderland. But this has a touch of rawness to their usual brew. Speaking of raw.. if you can look past the questionable iconography of you should check out their new track, full of their truly unique and already (after just a demo and two ep's) trademark sound. , also from Switzerland, is a whole different taste of raclette: their big, icy black metal feels fitting for this time of the year. Avantgarde/black metal outfit never feels fitting, and that's a good thing - they don't want to, and they shouldn't. grinds death metal apart with a bit of groove (which I don't hear too often lately, and I'm a sucker for a good groove!), dives underneath the earth with their very dark death metal, spits all that dirt out again all over you, and thrashers do what they've been doing well for so long.

Check out this dishonorable list of names that prove this week is too good for just one column: sludgy goodness from , Corpsegrindian death metal by , a nice cover ep (Grave and Rotting Christ) from , heavy death metal with , Turkish folk act , psychedelic two-piece doom attacks from , atmoblack from , top tier Swedish (but American sounding) death metal from , cool mathcore from , nice blackened folk from and a new thrash-smasher from .

Stream the new in full on their own Bandcamp page, check out ' new carefully constructed record at Invisible Oranges and the new at Clrvynt.

Welcome to , a roundup of new, heavy releases. You can find most albums and songs in the . Support this via and don't forget to sign up for the . Here goes Fresh Metal #131.

New albums

There are new albums, demo's splits and ep's uit from (🌶️ prog black/viking from Norway), (🌶️ black from the USA), (🌶️ hey hey it's Fenriz), (🌶️ avantgarde black from the USA), (industrial black/grind from the UK), (🌶️ prog black from the USA), (🌶️ black from the USA - featuring members of Chaos Moon and Misþyrming), (death from Finland), (noise/industrial from Brazil/UK, featuring Iggor Cavalera and guest LG Petrov), (doom/death from the Netherlands - such a cool surprise, I didn't know they were still active!), (🌶️ black from Iceland), (alternative/darkwave from the USA), (experimental death/doom from the Netherlands), (black from Belgium), a compilation from (black from Mexico), and a split from (black from Mexico and black from Belgium, you guessed that right), (black from Greece), (🌶️ black/thrash from the USA - a two track ep), (atmospheric sludge from Canada/USA), (heavy/power from France), (post black/groove from Russia - I thought this was out last week), (🌶️ atmoblack from Canada - one song ep), (prog death from Chili), (death from the USA - two track ep), (technical brutal death from the USA - members of Krallice), (prog from Switzerland), (death/doom from Germany), (death/black/grind from the USA), (electronic/power from Sweden), (post from Belgium), (black from Italy - soloproject Omega, who is in Blut Aus Nord, Darvaza etc), (black from Germany), (avantgarde ritualistic scary shit from Greece), (doom from the UK), (groove/melodeath from the USA), (post-black from Germany), (you have got to be kidding me with this release), (black from Finland), (melodic gothic/black from Germany) and a live record from (thrash/black from the USA).

Also out: 🌶️ a benefit compilation for the Soroka family. The father of Markov Soroka (Tchornobog, Drown, Aureole, Krukh) had a heart attack and the medical bills grew over their heads. Bands like and many others are trying to help a brother out with this amazing compilation.

New Songs

There are new songs, singles and advance tracks out from (death from the UK/Germany/Netherlands), (🌶️ death/black from Sweden), (heavy from Germany), (🌶️ death from Denmark), (grind from Canada - missed it last week), (avantgarde black from the USA), (prog death from the USA), (black/post from the USA), (🌶️ speed from New Zealand), (symphonic from Czechia/Faroe Islands - members of Bohemian Metal Rhapsody and Týr), (alternative metal from the USA - featuring Deftones' Stephen Carpenter and members of Sikth), (prog black from the USA), (death from Finland), (death/grind from Canada), (🌶️ melodeath from Finland), (death from Germany), (avantgarde black from the USA - featuring a member of Imperial Triumphant), (death from Norway), (black/doom from Finland), (tech/brutal death from the USA), (prog death from Switzerland - featuring ex-Nile guitarist Dallas Toller-Wade), (industrial/post from France), (blackened death from the USA), (atmoblack from Germany), (thrash from the USA), (black/death from New Zealand - a bonus track from the last full length), (thrash from Sweden), (black from Norway/Italy), (folk/black from Ireland), (folk from Norway), (folk from Sweden), and live tracks from (thrash/prog from Canada), (prog from Canada) and (🌶️🌶️🌶️ fucking hell it's Maiden).

Next Week

Non-metal album of the week: (don't @ me)

I’m looking forward to next week because of: Gargoyl, Hellripper and Necrophobic.

Have a great weekend!

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