The New Music Thread : The Fallen Edition
Candlemass - "The Door To Doom" (Release date: 22nd February)
The twelth album from these Swedish doom metallers. Marks the return of original vocalist Johan Langquist for the first time since 1986's classic "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" album. Also features a guest appearance from Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi.
Saint Vitus - "12 Years in the Tomb" single (Release date: 28th February)
The first single from the new self-titled album which is due for release on 17th May 2019.
Sunn O))) - "Life Metal" (Release date: 13th April)
The latest album from the masters of drone metal.
High On Fire - "Bat Salad" single (Release date: 13th April)
High On Fire recently announced they'd be participating in Record Store Day 2019 with a new EP called "Bat Salad". The EP features a new song that doubles as the title track and then covers of "Into The Crypts Of Rays" by Celtic Frost and "Don't Bother Me" by Bad Brains. While the band hasn't yet released the new song in full, they've posted a full one minute of it on their Instagram.
The Howling Void - "Bleak and Everlasting" (Release date: 30th April)
The seventh album from this San Antonio funeral doom metal outfit.
Moonspell - "Scorpion Flower" single (Release date: 13th April)
The new single from this Portugese symphonic/gothic metal outfit.
October Tide - "In Splendor Below" (Release date: 17th May)
The sixth album from this Swedish doom/death metal outfit.
Saint Vitus - "Useless" single (Release date: 19th April)
The new single from these traditional doom metal legends is pure hardcore punk.
My Dying Bride - "A Harvest Of Dread" compilation (Release date: 24th May)
My Dying Bride will celebrate their 25th anniversary by releasing a new book called “A Harvest Of Dread” on December 9. This release is a 92-page 12″ hardback book, which also includes 5 CDs with rarities, early works, demos, band favourites, and live tracks.
“From humble beginnings of demo tape, draughty rehearsal rooms and transit vans up to the heady heights of digi-packs, hotels and tour buses, we’ve done just about everything a rock n roll band is supposed to do. Members have come and gone, some lost forever and others staying in touch and all, thankfully, still friendly and welcoming. I look back at our extensive career, much of it laid out here for all to see in this impressive collection, and feel strong and thrilled at what our output has achieved”
Track Listing:
CD 1:
01. Vast Choirs
02. The Thrash Of Naked Limbs
03. The Snow In My Hands
04. Black Voyage
05. Apocalypse Woman
06. The Light At The End Of The World
07. Feel The Misery
CD 2:
01. Like A Perpetual Funeral
02. Two Winters Only
03. My Hope, The Destroyer
04. I Cannot Be Loved
05. A Doomed Lover
06. You Are Not The One Who Loves Me
07. And Then You Go
CD 3 – Early releases and pre-production tracks:
01. Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium (Demo)
02. Vast Choirs (demo)
03. The Grief Of Age (Demo)
04. Catching Feathers (demo)
05. God Is Alone
06. De Sade Soliloquy
07. The Bitterness And The Bereavement
08. The Sexuality Of Bereavement
09. A Sea To Suffer In
10. From Darkest Skies
11. Your Shameful Heaven
12. The Cry Of Mankind (studio Instrumental)
CD 4 – Pre-productions and rarities:
01. All Swept Away
02. Like Gods Of The Sun
03. The Whore, The Cook, The Mother
04. An Unforgettable Journey
05. I Believe
06. On Monolith
07. Glorious Midnight
08. The Fool
09. The Child Of Eternity
10. Scarborough Fair
11. Failure
12. Hollow Cathedra
CD 5 – Live in Voorst, The Netherlands 1997
01. From Darkest Skies
02. The Cry Of Mankind
03. The Dark Caress
04. For You
05. A Kiss To Remember
06. Like Gods Of The Sun
07. All Swept Away
08. Your Shameful Heaven
Thou - "Ceremonies of Consolidation" compilation (Release date: 19th April)
2018 was quite the year for Thou. Not only did they release their 5th full-length album, Magus (Sacred Bones), but they also released a series of vinyl-only EPs leading up to it. Rhea Sylvia (Deathwish Inc.), The House Primordial (Raw Sugar), and Inconsolable (Community Records). Each of these albums is written in a drastically different style, but all serve to provide context for the full-length, Magus, while each is capable of standing alone as individual EPs.
Rhea Sylvia is an album of songs drenched in total grunge worship, while The House Primordial is noisy and caustic. Inconsolable closes out the series by feauturing somber, acoustic tracks with clean singing.
Ceremonies of Consolidation collects those 3 12” EPs in a 2xCD set, packaged in a thick, Stoughton gatefold tip-on CD jacket and includes a 12-page booklet with new and expanded artwork.
Recorded in 2017 and 2018 at Hightower Studios by James Whitten. All tracks mastered by Adam Tucker. Additional vocals by KC Stafford, Emily McWilliams, Melissa Guion, Nicole Estill, Jacques Boudreaux, Michael Moss, Clayton Hunt, and Dr. Scott Francioni. Violin by KC Stafford and Jacques Boudreaux.
The extra acoustic tracks on disc two are from the Rhea Sylvia demo written by Matthew Thudium and recorded by James Whitten in 2015.
Tracklist:
Rhea Sylvia
1. The Only Law
2. Unfortunate Times
3. Non-Entity
4. Deepest Sun
5. Restless River
6. Lasting Dose
The House Primordial
7. Wisdom in the Open Air
8. Premonition
9. The Sword Without a Hilt
10. Diaphonous Shift
11. Corruption and Mortal Trauma
12. Psychic Dominance
13. Prideful Dementia and Impulsive Mayhem
14. Occulting Light
15. Birthright
16. Malignant Horror
Inconsolable
17. The Unspeakable Oath
18. Come Home, You Are Missed
19. The Hammer
20. Behind the Mask, Another Mask
21. Fallow State
22. Into the Scourge Pit
23. Find the Cost of Freedom
24. Entombed in Man
Rhea Sylvia demos (not yet released elsewhere on CD or LP)
25. The Only Law (Acoustic Demo)
26. Unfortunate Times (Acoustic Demo)
27. Deepest Sun (Acoustic Demo)
28. Restless River (Acoustic Demo)
29. Inevitable (Acoustic Demo)
Blood Of The Black Owl - "Rivers Within Shadows" (Release date: 30th April)
Funeral doom metal/dark ambient from Washington, USA.
Pallbearer - "Atlantis" single (Release date: 14th June)
The new single from these US doom metal merchants.
Ufomammut - "XX" box set (Release date: 9th September)
This box set (released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this Italian stoner/sludge/doom trio) compiles their nine albums in one box offering numerous re-recorded bonus tracks, a special book, photos, lyrics, poster & backpatch.
Cough - "More Dead Than Live" (Release date: 9th August)
Limited edition vinyl-only live album from these US doom/sludge metal outfit. It was recorded during the closing series of their local venue Strange Matter.
Boris - "Love" single (Release date: 15th August)
The new single taken from the legendary Japanese dronesters upcoming album "LφVE & EVφL".
Sunn O))) - "Pyroclasts" (Release date: 25th October)
Yet another new album from the LA drone metal masters.
Om - "BBC Radio 1" E.P. (Release date: 9th October)
The new E.P. from these San Francisco stoner metallers.
Esoteric - "A Pyrrhic Existence" (Release date: 8th November)
The eighth album from these English funeral doom metal maestros.
Rosetta - "Terra Sola" E.P. (Release date: 1st October)
Post-metal from Philadelphia, USA.