FRIDAY RELEASES

[twosuitsluke]

Friday’s a big one. We’ve got…

Queens Of The Stone Age - In Times New Roman
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Petrodragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
Sigh - Live: Eastern Forces of Evil 2022
Thy Catafalque - Alföld
Boris - Bright New Disease
Sigur Rós - Átta

[SoundscapeMN]

Sigur Ros - ÁTTA
https://open.spotify.com/album/0PhjFcIDPt9cBRfYSJou3v

Childish Japes - Not Made for This [Single]
https://open.spotify.com/album/4omJ2vtLspzaP50kjo8IpR

Dream the Electric Sleep - Forged in the Furnace [Single]
https://open.spotify.com/album/3SUQrvGKSCkirni3kLy9gc

[nick_z]

New Saturnus out today too

[ariich]

No way King Gizzard have a new album out? What a shock.

For me it's:

Arkona - Kob
Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman...
Thy Catafalque - Alföld

[TAC]

Do you video game junkies know about Nestalgica?



https://open.spotify.com/album/4wyN1gCODL6KiOPoRD0gb5?si=rifolJ08QCuYouXmvrF8tQ

[jingle.boy]

I don't know when specifically these came out but for the traditional metalists:

[pfillion]

My favorite new album this week  (FFO Opeth, PT and Anekdoten)

https://youtu.be/0M3d-BuTf4o

[Blind_FaithX]

New Saturnus out today too

Only the second spin for me but this looks like a masterpiece.

[nick_z]

New Saturnus out today too

Only the second spin for me but this looks like a masterpiece.

I only gave it one listen, but the first impression was very, very good

[TAC]

Never heard of them. I'm on it!

[nick_z]

They can get VERY doomy, and are sometimes a bit over the top with the spoken word and such. But they are very good at what they do (been around for a long time, despite the relatively sparse output)

The song "The Calling", from their last album, moves along at a relatively brisker pace and it's a tasty one.

Oh, and the album was produced by Fleming Rasmussen!

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

New Saturnus out today too

Only the second spin for me but this looks like a masterpiece.

I only gave it one listen, but the first impression was very, very good

I'm not sure how I missed this. Going to find the album now....

[TAC]

They can get VERY doomy, and are sometimes a bit over the top with the spoken word and such. But they are very good at what they do (been around for a long time, despite the relatively sparse output)

The song "The Calling", from their last album, moves along at a relatively brisker pace and it's a tasty one.

Oh, and the album was produced by Fleming Rasmussen!

Just finishing the title track of the new album. Yeah, it's pretty slow, and those vocals may prove a bit too deep for me. Sounds cool though. I'll stick with a few more songs. Er.. It's all pretty slow.

[nick_z]

They can get VERY doomy, and are sometimes a bit over the top with the spoken word and such. But they are very good at what they do (been around for a long time, despite the relatively sparse output)

The song "The Calling", from their last album, moves along at a relatively brisker pace and it's a tasty one.

Oh, and the album was produced by Fleming Rasmussen!

Just finishing the title track of the new album. Yeah, it's pretty slow, and those vocals may prove a bit too deep for me. Sounds cool though. I'll stick with a few more songs. Er.. It's all pretty slow.

Try the third one 

[pfillion]

The new Anchoret album is my favorite of the year so far, and it is set to be released this Friday.

https://theprogspace.com/the-anchoret-premiere-debut-it-all-began-with-loneliness/

https://theanchoretofficial.bandcamp.com/album/it-all-began-with-loneliness

[TAC]

The new Anchoret album is my favorite of the year so far, and it is set to be released this Friday.

https://theprogspace.com/the-anchoret-premiere-debut-it-all-began-with-loneliness/

https://theanchoretofficial.bandcamp.com/album/it-all-began-with-loneliness

The two songs available on bandcamp are pretty tasty.

[twosuitsluke]

Was hoping to have something more to check out other than these two…

Swans - The Beggar
Power Trip - Live in Seattle

Closure in Moscow’s new album was originally due out today but it’s been pushed back a month 

[MinistroRaven]

Was hoping to have something more to check out other than these two…

Releases coming out Next Friday:

Crepitation - Monstrous Eruption of Impetuous Preposterosity
High Priest - Invocation
Jag Panzer - The Hallowed
Nocturnal Breed - Carry the Beast
Pyramaze - Bloodlines 
Nocturnal Breed - Carry the Beast
Off Road Minivan - May This Keep You Safe From Harm
The Anchoret - It All Began With Loneliness
Tsjuder - Helvegr
Wizard Tattoo - Fables of the Damned

[HOF]

The new Anchoret album is my favorite of the year so far, and it is set to be released this Friday.

https://theprogspace.com/the-anchoret-premiere-debut-it-all-began-with-loneliness/

https://theanchoretofficial.bandcamp.com/album/it-all-began-with-loneliness

The two songs available on bandcamp are pretty tasty.

You can hear the whole album in that first link. Pretty unusual project for Andy Tillison to be involved in. Some interesting instrumental passages at least.

[jingle.boy]

Nocturnal Breed - Carry the Beast
Pyramaze - Bloodlines 
Nocturnal Breed - Carry the Beast

Looking forward to the Pyramaze.  And Nocturnal Breed is so important, it had to be listed twice??

[Glasser]

Pyramaze- Bloodlines. June 23. (In case Chad missed it) 

[Glasser]

Nocturnal Breed - Carry the Beast
Pyramaze - Bloodlines 
Nocturnal Breed - Carry the Beast

Looking forward to the Pyramaze.  And Nocturnal Breed is so important, it had to be listed twice??

"...And I reary want new Rearymaze"  🎶

[jingle.boy]

Pyramaze- Bloodlines. June 23. (In case Chad missed it) 

I didn't 

Also, Entering Polaris double release this morning - ATLANTEAN SHORES / AND SILENTLY THE AGE DID PASS

Guitarist Tom Tee is writing a quadrology of albums, the first two (mixed by Simone Mularoni) releasing today:

Album 1: 'Atlantean Shores' -- six-string guitars; traditional melodic/progressive Metal
Album 2: 'And Silently the Age Did Pass' – fully acoustic; dark and atmospheric
Album 3: 'Myths in Motion' -- seven-string guitars; modern, heavy and progressive
Album 4: 'Songs of Ivory and Obsidian' – all piano; delicate and emotional

The full cast of vocalists for these first two albums (in order of appearance) is:

Mike Andersson (Tungsten, Cloudscape,...)
Nick Holleman (Powerized, Methusalem,...)
Sindre Nedland (In Vain)
David Marcelis (Thorium, Lord Volture, Black Knight,...)
Thomas Vikström (Therion,...)
Audrey Dandeville (Irradiance)
Roy Khan (Conception, Kamelot)
Benny Willaert (23 Acez, Thorium)
Henrik Fevre (Anubis Gate)
Arno Menses (Subsignal, Sieges Even)
Fabio Lione (Angra, Rhapsody, Vision Divine,...)
Jeffrey Rademakers (Spartan)
Lance King (Balance of Power, Pyramaze, solo,...)
Louis Soenens (Fields of Troy)
Georg Neuhauser (Serenity)
John Yelland (Judicator, Principium, Disforia, Dire Peril,...)
Anneleen Olbrechts (Thorium)

[nick_z]

Pyramaze- Bloodlines. June 23. (In case Chad missed it) 

I didn't 

Man, this thing is CATCHY!  The last thing I'd heard from them was Disciples of the Sun, which I enjoyed greatly. Bloodlines seems a little more straightforward melodic metal, but I'm not complaining.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

straightforward melodic metal

I'm never sure what people mean by "melodic metal".  It gets used for power metal, hair metal, melodic death metal, symphonic metal, etc.

[nick_z]

straightforward melodic metal

I'm never sure what people mean by "melodic metal".  It gets used for power metal, hair metal, melodic death metal, symphonic metal, etc.

Yeah, you are not wrong there  I purposefully left as generic as possible...I mean, it's all clean vocals, with keys very prominent in the mix, pop-like hooks in the choruses, and mostly mid-paced (i.e. not much of the helicopter double-bass you hear in Euro power metal)

I'd say the previous records I'd heard were more in a power-prog vein...never too complex anyway...but this one leans more into the straightforward, melodic side of things. Very enjoyable stuff.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

straightforward melodic metal

I'm never sure what people mean by "melodic metal".  It gets used for power metal, hair metal, melodic death metal, symphonic metal, etc.

Yeah, you are not wrong there  I purposefully left as generic as possible

It just always prompts further questions in a conversation.  There's not really a whole lot of metal that isn't melodic to some degree.  An umbrella like "extreme metal" at least indicates a significant amount of harsh vocals and aggression over normal, but it could be death, could be black, maybe grindcore, possibly some doom or thrash, etc.  The "melodic" tag just gets used so strangely though, like Metal-Archives lists Sonata Arctica as "power metal", but Jani Liimatainen as "melodic power metal".  As if SA isn't melodic? 

[TAC]

Litho is like the Stadler on the Music side.

[nick_z]

 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Sigged!

[wolfking]

Litho is like the Stadler on the Music side.

 

[twosuitsluke]

Only got these two Friday, anything else coming?

East of the Wall - A Neutral Second
Joe Hisaishi & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - A Symphonic Celebration

[ariich]

I have zilch this week. On the plus side I can focus even more on my roulette.

[twosuitsluke]

I have zilch this week. On the plus side I can focus even more on my roulette.

Yes, you’ve really been slacking off.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Only got these two Friday, anything else coming?

East of the Wall - A Neutral Second
Joe Hisaishi & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - A Symphonic Celebration

I also have East of the Wall on my list and I have the new album by The River as well.