Yeah, I'm late with another episode, but the music is still brand-new. Life can get busy however that doesn't stop the promo inbox from filling up with upcoming and newly-released slabs of new heavy metal, so here's a healthy serving of some choice picks from the past couple of months. Bands featured on this episode hail from the US, UK, Finland, Sweden, Serbia, Norway, Spain, Greece, Chile, France, Canada, and Italy. Remember to follow up on anything that catches your fancy with the links in the playlist on the website and support the artists by picking up some of their music and merch!

Allfather - Citadels (0:33)

Krakow - Black Wandering Sun (5:10)

Morne - To the Night Unknown (8:50)

Kingcrow - Closer (16:11)

Gravewards - Thresholds of Lunacy (21:56)

Binah - Consuming Repulse (26:03)

Heads for the Dead - Deep Below (29:23)

Aethereus - Writhe (34:54)

Cliterati - Nuked at Birth (41:08)

Violation Wound - The Church of Go Fuck Yourself (43:23)

Bonehunter - Demonic Nuclear Armament (45:05)

Sepulcher - Corporeal Vessels (48:41)

Aeolian - Chimera (55:56)

A Flock Named Murder - Without Passage (1:00:53)

Void Ritual - A Sunless Dawn (1:09:51)

Blood of Serpents - As Nocturnal Dimensions Beckon (1:14:02)

Leeched - Guilt (1:19:53)

Throat - Bone Strike (1:22:42)

P.H.O.B.O.S. - Aurora Sulphura (1:26:09)

Invocation - Ouija (Mystifying Oracle) (1:30:37)

Twilight Fauna - Crooked Road (1:35:06)

All My Sins - U Mlazevima Krvi (1:41:30)

Primitive Man - Naked (1:45:20)

Unearthly Trance - Triumph (1:55:55)

You know what's funny about people who complain that metal is just a bunch of loud ugly noise? They're absolutely right. I'd like to think of us metalheads as connoisseurs of music that sounds like a deranged cookie monster manning a jackhammer.

This week's bands hail from the US, Australia, Sweden, Tunisia, Germany, Portugal, UK, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, and Finland.

Episode 91 Playlist:

Tuscoma - Aerial Views Over Barcelona (0:37)

Radiant Knife - All We Are Is All We Know (4:45)

Lurk - Nether (8:52)

Void Rot - Ancient Seed (12:25)

Aethereus - That Which is Left Behind (19:24)

Engulf - Misshapen Abomination (24:38)

Parius - Eldritch (27:33)

Cast the Stone - As the Dead Lie (33:15)

Void Ritual - The Howling Darkness (38:10)

Dauþuz - Buße: Des Zwerges Fluch II (42:38)

Blutvial - Black Silence (50:00)

Profezia - Obediah (52:05)

Mutilation Rites - Axiom Destroyer (56:06)

Descent - Skinwalker (59:57)

Gravewards - Souls Twisted Beyond Recognition (1:02:13)

Maligner - Oathbound (1:09:11)

GULCH - Flesh Pursuit (1:13:39)

Leeched - The Stone and the Steel (1:15:20)

Wømb - He is the Preacher of the Gods (1:17:16)

Transient w/ Bastard Noise - Full Recovery (1:19:03)

Shed the Skin - Luminous Transgression (1:22:46)

Brood of Hatred - Controlling (1:26:01)

Disgusted Geist - Reign of Enthrallment (1:30:59)

Snarky titles aside, I'm not nearly enough of an elitist to bash on the commercial stuff of the early millennium. It is, after all, what I grew up with and I still have a hell of a soft spot in my heart for it. That said, I'm not playing any on this podcast because there's only so much retro-nostalgic BS I can handle, and I already deal with enough promos from yesteryear-obsessed bands who think Incantation is just too cool not to shameless copy. So again, this is a podcast for new metal, not nu metal. Now that that's cleared up, let me help harm your eardrums.

Bands on this episode hail from the US, UK, France, Finland, Portugal, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Australia, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Greece.

Episode 90 Playlist:

Shed the Skin - We of Scorn (0:23)

Temple Desecration - Entering the Void (3:44)

Zombiefication - Echoes of Light (9:17)

Atavisma - Sacrifice Unto Babalon (14:44)

Secret Cutter - Trampled by Light (20:47)

Dygora - Lucy (24:04)

Dallian - The Lie Vision (28:44)

Art of Deception - Cosmic Fire (34:59)

Gyre - Faces Through the Flames (41:49)

Antisoph - Teleport Maze (46:38)

Black Elephant - Helter Skelter (51:26)

Spaceslug - Obsolith (58:27)

Uada - Sphere (Imprisonment) (1:07:29)

Délétère - Cantus III, Ichthus Os Tremoris (1:15:24)

Blutvial - Beneath the Moon (1:22:04)

Embrace of Thorns - The Wanderer and His Shadow (1:30:46)

Lurk - Reclaim (1:36:46)

Coldbound - My Solace (1:42:21)

Parius - Phylactery (1:49:34)

Depths of Hatred - Throes of Desperation (1:55:24)

Barren Altar - Delirium Vivens (2:00:02)

Mongrel’s Cross - From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells (2:07:58)

Khanus - A Timeless Sacred Art (2:14:01)

Decline of the I - Organless Body (2:19:23)

Forget the good ol’ days; anyone who says there’s no worthwhile new heavy metal out there is just lazy and jaded. There’s plenty of fresh bands out there doing great things, which is what this podcast is all about. So sit back and listen to some great things.

Bands on this episode hail from Russia, US, Canada, Australia, Greece, UK, Austria, Norway, Germany, Slovakia, and South Korea.

Uada - Cult of a Dying Sun (0:34)

Hallig - Neues Land (8:52)

Embrace of Thorns - Stoking the Fire of Resentment (13:07)

Firtan - Tag verweil (18:05)

Drug Cult - Acid Eye (24:39)

Witchkiss - A Crippling Wind (28:40)

Kielkropf - Song I’ll Be Gone (34:35)

Witch Mountain - Burn You Down (40:34)

Eye of Solitude - The Cold Grip of Time (49:16)

Barren Altar - Nexus of Grief (57:36)

Amarok - VIII Skeleton (1:05:04)

Mordant Rapture - Quell the Voiceless (1:17:01)

Oubliette - The Passage (1:22:14)

Sahon - At the Edge of Cliff (1:28:44)

Tomb Mold - Blood Mirror (1:31:55)

Urarv - Kråkekjøtt (1:40:29)

Second to Sun - Region 13 (1:45:35)

Gravecoven - Furios Fires (1:49:32)

Eskhaton - Omegalitheos (1:54:19)

Cokegoat - Night Rainbow (2:00:01)

Barren Heir - Tracing Light II (2:04:24)

Baptists - Bevel Down (2:11:00)

Secret Cutter - 4 ½ (2:14:11)

Tujarot - Hesperidské nymfy (2:16:54)

A week behind, but better late than never, right? However, while summer sun can provide Vitamin D, it does not provide a useful way to keep the promo box from overflowing, so here we are with another episode of Another Metal Podcast. As always this all new stuff, a lot of it by new bands, so make sure to check out the ones you like and pick up some of their goods.

This week's bands hail from Russia, Portugal, Finland, US, Sweden, Norway, Italy, and Canada.

Episode 88 Playlist:

Light This City - The Wake of My Will (0:30)

Unflesh - Erosive Devotees (4:11)

Dischordia - Binge (9:32)

Ails - The Echoes Waned (20:33)

Tomb Mold - Final Struggle of Selves (28:20)

Hukutus - Nadiirit (33:14)

Petrification - Arcane Exsanguine (37:05)

Mortuous - Bitterness (40:04)

Abstracter - Nether (44:29)

Anicon - Wither and Waste (54:13)

Wayfarer - The Dreaming Plain (1:00:10)

Baptists - Outbreeding (1:11:42)

Comess - Bitten (1:14:27)

Deathgrave - Live Fast Die Slow (1:16:04) 2:40

Northwoods - Moebius (1:18:42)

Witch Mountain - Midnight (1:21:21)

Kite - The All-Penetrating Silence (1:26:13)

Ghostbound - The Wildest of Rivers (1:32:43)

Soliloquium - Catharsis (1:38:25)

Grá - Gjallarhorn (1:44:08)

Soul Gutter - Wound (1:49:25)

Gaerea - Absent (1:53:09)

Second to Sun - The Wall (1:58:21)

Which Came First, The Heavy Or The Metal?

Just kidding, there's no philosophy on this episode, only brutal, blackened, and abrasive new music to enjoy with the family. Those bringing the torture this time around come from the US, UK, Canada, Norway, Turkey, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Poland, and Portugal.

Wild Hunt - Odious Gamble (0:31)

Wolvhammer - Eternal Rotting Misery (7:22)

Wilt - Into the Unknown (13:16)

Djevelkult - En Ny Tid (21:00)

Mos Generator - The Destroyer (27:32)

SÜLFÜR Ensemble - Sertkaya (31:53)

Sergeant Thunderhoof - Stellar Gate Drive (38:28)

Deamon’s Child - Schlafes Parasit (44:06)

Rundown -- Lead-in (47:20)

Taphos - Thrive in Upheaval (48:16)

Sadistik Forest - Destructive Art (52:07)

Petrification - Stagnation of Transmigration (56:04)

Our Place of Worship is Silence - The Blind Chimera and It’s Death (59:09)

The Konstortium - Stormen (1:04:57)

Panegyrist - Idylls of the Cave (1:09:52)

Grá - King of Decay (1:16:14)

Wayfarer - On Horseback They Carried Thunder (1:20:31)

Coltsblood - Mortal Wound (1:34:25)

Lesser Glow - Ruined (1:40:53)

Kite - Pissingwell (1:53:33)

Ackeron - Come Closer (2:00:23)

The Flesh - A Knife to the Conformist (2:05:44)

The Shiva Hypothesis - Praedormitium (2:10:10)

Hostia - Holy Extortion (2:16:22)

Filii Nigrantium Infernalium - Virtudes da Prostração (2:18:23)

I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority of metalheads in that I don't like moshing. Sweaty shirtless men, pent-up testosterone, unresolved daddy issues; it's just not for me. Besides, the show is on the stage (assuming the particular band puts in the effort as far as energy and/or production), and it's rather hard to take it in while being shoved around by smelly man-children who may or may not have been hugged often enough in their early lives. But goddammit if we all don't love the same loud obnoxious music, and I think we can all drink/toke/high-five to that.

This episode's bands hail from the lands of the US, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Switzerland, UK, France, Sweden, and Canada. If you dig what you hear, remember you can help out a lot by rating, reviewing, and recommending the show; it gets more ears hearing these awesome bands. As always, Stay Heavy!

Episode 86 Playlist:

Wolvhammer - Law of the Rope (0:27)

Ascension - Pulsating Nought (5:22)

Wilt - Strings of a Lingering Heart (11:15)

Nekrokraft - Lechery (17:58)

Sanhedrin - Collateral Damage (24:18)

Sergeant Thunderhoof - Diesel Breath (31:29)

Chrch - Aether (39:00)

Confusion Master - Reaper’s Fist (48:26)

Micawber - In Shadow and Light (56:25)

Stortregn - Through the Dark Gates (1:02:11)

Fractal Gates - Bound By Time (1:08:53)

Burial in the Sky - The Pivotal Flame (1:13:04)

Svalbard - Unpaid Intern (1:20:40)

LLNN - Appeaser (1:24:43)

Fister - Cazador (1:30:08)

Knelt Rote - Rumination (1:37:25)

Ghastly - Death by Meditation (1:41:56)

Ripped to Shreds - Talisman to Seal the Hopping Corpse Before it Steals Your Qi (1:45:12)

Abythic - Redemption through Soul Transfusion (1:50:28)

Sadistik Forest - Monsters of Death (1:54:27)

Wound Collector - Divine Music, Unholy Flesh (1:59:11)

Apocrophex - The Oracle Room (2:04:45)

Estuarine - Eternal Womb Terminal (2:10:04)

Graveborn - The Shapeshifter (2:15:16)

I think 'beautifully ugly' sums up heavy metal fairly well; it's harsh, abrasiveness, often dissonant, but at the same time it can convey the same depth of thought and emotion as any 'beautifully beautiful' art. At least, that is, if you have an ear for it; for most people it's just a wall of buzz saws and puking sounds. Well, here's to the recorded art of power tools and violent regurgitation.

Bands on this week hail from the US, Finland, Poland, Costa Rica, Belarus, Switzerland, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Greece, Germany, Denmark, and Bulgaria. You can find your way to more of their music (and merch) through the links in the playlist on the site, so please, show your support and pick up some goods from any of them who happen to resonate with you.

Episode 85 Playlist:

Wolf King - Further (0:26)

Defiatory - Bane of Creation (4:29)

Inferi - A Beckoning Thrall (9:36)

Augury - The Living Vault (15:06)

Skeletal Remains - Catastrophic Retribution (22:24)

Angerot - Rivers of Chaos (27:51)

Ghastly - The Magic of Severed Limbs (32:30)

Æpoch - The Expiration (38:54)

The Elephant Parallax - The Conscious (45:45)

Brond - Voice of the Void (50:25)

Sanhedrin - A Funeral for the World (56:50)

Altars of Grief - Broken Hymns (1:03:10)

Abraham - Vulvaire (1:12:27)

LLNN - Parallels (1:16:43)

Totalselfhatred - Black Infinity (1:22:23)

Raven Throne - Pole cicha šaptała kałossiem… (1:30:13)

Cist - Injected Obsession (1:37:11)

Ascension - Dreaming in Death (1:40:58)

Varathron - Saturnal Sect (1:45:29)

Cult of Extinction - Existermination (1:50:15)

Distances - Market Price (1:53:47)

Voidthrone - Phantasm Epoch (1:59:24

Above Aurora - Path to Ruin (2:05:33)

Advent of Bedlam - The Ever Watchful Eye (2:11:43)

Like the episode title says, this is a pretty damn heavy one. Granted, they always are but this week's slab of heavy just feels...heavier. Lots of brutality is on display thanks to an abundance of solid heavy metal releases lately, especially in the past month. Make sure to check out the bands that strike your fancy and pick up some of their music and merch. If you want to help the show while you're at it, remember to rate and review the show if you're using iTunes, or just get the word out and tell your metalhead friends so these awesome bands can get their music in more ears.

Episode 84 Playlist:

Inferi - Behold the Bearer of Light (0:37)

Xenoblight - Nocturnal Manifestations (7:04)

Lecherous Nocturne - Unidimensional Eclipse (14:01)

Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality (18:20)

Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Eagduru (23:38)

Slomatics - Ancient Architects (33:58)

Black Salvation - Floating Torpid (42:09)

Altars of Grief - Desolation (46:13)

Scientist - Barbelith (53:23)

Distances - God Rest (59:31)

Deadly Carnage - Hyle (1:06:33)

Offret - We Are Waiting (1:10:46)

Wormlight - Feast of the Mountain Kin (1:18:12)

Quantum Hierarchy - The Third of Capricornus (1:26:29)

Abjection Ritual - Body of Filth (1:30:00)

Shrine of the Serpent - Desecrated Tomb (1:33:13)

Of Feather and Bone - Pious Abnormality (1:42:36)

Nigredo - Mental Glimpses at Cosmic Horrors (1:46:36)

Scarificare - Crystal Skull (1:51:40)

Adzalaan - False Cleansing (1:57:30)

Neolithic - Cult of Ignorance (2:03:11)

Scorched - Fevered Souls (2:06:24)

Vomitor - Abracadabra (2:09:50)

Vahrzaw - Fiends in the Aether (2:14:35)

I mentioned to a friend recently that I've been doing this podcast for a little over two years now and their response was simply: "Why?"

And I have to admit the main reason is pretty selfish, because honestly I like having a reason to listen to metal all day (other than just because I want to). If the added benefits are helping get underground bands heard by more ears and giving other metalheads something to blast then I'm a happy headbanger.

Bands on this episode hail from the US, New Zealand, Sweden, India, Italy, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Spain, and Columbia. Now crank it!

Episode 83 Playlist:

Smooth Sailing - Stevie Ray Oiye (0:23)

Into the Storm - Murder Murder Murder (2:38)

Hell to Pay - Bleed to Me (6:41)

Slaves BC - We Are All God’s Fault (8:42)

Black Wizard - James Wolfe (12:36)

The Black Swamp - Event Horizon (18:39)

Chivo - Gaijin Hunter (25:22)

Witch Tripper - White Lines (29:36)

Of Feather and Bone - Mockery of the Ascension (34:14)

Noose Rot - The Creeping Unknown (39:24)

Demonical - Torture Parade (43:12)

Blood of the Wolf - Campaign of Extermination (46:34)

Black Mare - Woman the Throne (51:38)

Leechfeast - Sacrosanct (57:37)

Convocation - Allied POWs (1:06:55)

Parasight - Alt falder sammen (1:16:58)

Xenoblight - Shapeshifter (1:20:51)

Sol de Sangre - Perros con Sarna (1:26:25)

North Hammer - Written in the Stars (1:31:04)

Wormlight - Nightmare (1:34:27)

Replicant - Inescapable Grief (1:43:23)

Deadly Carnage - Lumis (1:47:03)

Sojourner - Titan (1:52:39)

Stark Denial - As Life Descends (1:59:07)