New Music for 6/15/15

Date: June 15, 2015

High on Fire - Slave to the Hive

One of the most influential stoner metal bands which started off as an offshoot another one of the most influential stoner bands (Sleep). This track and album as a whole is a lot faster and in your face than almost anything they have release before, and they really had a lot of thrash vibes in this. The intro of this song could honestly pass for a Slayer song. As Anthony Fantano describes this song "it sounds like every blood vessel is collapsing at once."

RIYL: Sleep, Slayer, Black Tusk

Parkway Drive - Vice Grip

This new song is a slight departure from their previous albums as they've softened their sound a little bit, but still sounds like the Parkway Drive that everyone knows. And not as heavy for an Australian metalcore band is still heavier than almost any other metalcore band.

RIYL: The Ghost Inside, August Burns Red, I Killed The Prom Queen

Bullet For My Valentine - No Way Out

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, name in modern metalcore right now. They're about to head out on tour with Slipknot, Lamb of God and Motionless in White. This song brings BFMV back to the Poison days, which a lot of people consider a good thing.

RIYL: Atreyu, Killswitch Enagage, Trivium

KEN Mode - I Just Liked Fire

A band that changed their sound constantly, mixing post-rock, post-hardcore, sludge, math and almost everything in between into their sound. Probably one of the hardest bands in metal to classify by genre.

RIYL: Refused, Old Man Gloom, The Dillinger Escape Plan

Vattnet Viskar - Settler

Well produced black metal which already sets it aside from most of its competition. I'm getting real Deafheaven vibes, but with the vocals as more of a feature than they were in Deafheavens albums. The atmospheric instrumentals make it a lot easier to digest for your non-black metal listener as well.

RIYL: Deafheaven, Inter Arma, Wolves in the Throne Room

Edge of Paradise - Children of the Sea

Female fronted power metal, covering Children of the Sea by Black Sabbath. Not that different from the original because Dio basically invented power metal, but still an interesting take on the song

RIYL: Sabaton, Nightwish, Epica

Fight Amp - I Perceive Reptoids

A really sludgy punk/hardcore band. The band says that this album is heavily Queens of the Stone Age influenced and the guitar works sounds a lot like their self-titled album with sludge-punk vocals layered on top of it. Really cool stuff.

RIYL: KEN Mode, Melvins, Queens of the Stone Age

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