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Obscura has announced the title of new record it is called davidum  this coming summer 

Killswitch engage is coming out new album in 2018

Rivers of nihil is coming out with new record due out in March through metal blade records 

Will heaven has a new album coming out in 2018 

pig destroyer is coming out with a new album in 2018

Gus g has a new solo album coming out in 2018

behemoth is coming out with a live dvd/Blu-ray  coming out in 2018  and also dimmu borgir is coming out with a new album in may 

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4 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

While you're here, I bet you'd like that Xenosis album I linked on the last page.

I will check it out today!  I'm one month through a new years resolution of listing and rating every new (to me) album I listen to this year, so the more suggestions I get the better :)

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1 minute ago, ButterLettuss said:

I will check it out today!  I'm one month through a new years resolution of listing and rating every new (to me) album I listen to this year, so the more suggestions I get the better :)

Ha, good luck with that. I'd probably be better off if I kept listening notes, a lot of stuff gets lost in the shuffle.

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Cool tracks.  I have never heard of "dissonant DM" before.
Really? It's kind of a huge thing right now, lots of bands have been exploring the sound over the last ten years. It started with the likes of Atrocity and Gorguts, but bands like Ulcerate, Portal, Mitochondrion, and a number of others have been carrying the torch for a while now.

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38 minutes ago, Balor said:

Cool tracks.  I have never heard of "dissonant DM" before.

Dissonance has really been gaining steam lately, both in death and black metal. Gorguts, Ulcerate, Deathspell Omega, Abyssal, Mitochondrion, Ad Nauseam, Artificial Brain, Ingurgitating Oblivion, Suffering Hour, Setentia, Sunless, Pyrrhon, Zhrine, Plebeian Grandstand, Voidthrone, Mortichnia, Imperial Triumphant, Dodecahedron, Ulsect, Portal, Thantifaxath, Krallice, Okazaki Fragments, and Jute Gyte have all put out distinctive albums I've really enjoyed over the past two or three years. I'm forgetting some, and I would guess you know some of those bands already, especially from the black metal side of things, but I'd recommend checking out any of them you haven't heard already.

Oh hey look, BAN posted while I was typing my list. Neat!

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1 hour ago, BlutAusNerd said:

Really? It's kind of a huge thing right now, lots of bands have been exploring the sound over the last ten years. It started with the likes of Atrocity and Gorguts, but bands like Ulcerate, Portal, Mitochondrion, and a number of others have been carrying the torch for a while now.

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I listen to death metal very rarely, so it does not surprise me that I missed a trend.  I will have to look into it.

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11 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

And was just tipped to this upcoming album from Golgothan Remains. Dissonant DM from Australia. These promo tracks are very promising:  https://golgothanremains.bandcamp.com/album/perverse-offerings-to-the-void

Those tracks are pretty cool. I'm slightly tempted to order the bundle as it'd be a rare case on Bandcamp where the postage wouldn't cost more than the item. 

10 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Oh hey look, BAN posted while I was typing my list. Neat!

Doesn't feel so good when it's happening to you.

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