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Here is the Cutting Edge Metal team’s roundup of this week’s essential new metal releases…
Havamal – Age of the Gods
Genre: Symphonic / Viking / Melodic Death Metal
About: Swedish band Havamal return in epic fashion with Age of the Gods. Their signature mix of Viking-themed lyrics, orchestral arrangements, and melodic death metal is in full force, delivering dramatic scope and heroic atmosphere.
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Depravity – Bestial Possession
Genre: Death Metal
About: Australian death metal unit Depravity unveil Bestial Possession, a brutal and technically refined album that fuses their old-school roots with modern intensity. Expect feral riffing, pulverizing percussion, and vocals soaked in total malevolence.
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Dead Head – Repression Tank
Genre: Thrash / Death Metal
About: Dutch thrash veterans Dead Head continue to smash with Repression Tank, pushing their vicious riff-focused attack with renewed force. The record reinforces the band’s legacy of relentless, aggressive, no-frills extremity.
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Flesher – Gore on Gore
Genre: Death / Gore Metal
About: Flesher’s Gore on Gore delivers exactly what the title promises — a brutal, gruesome death-metal onslaught. The band leans hard into horror-influenced themes and slam-leaning structures, embracing a blood-soaked, cinematic level of brutality.
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Fear Connection – Where Suffering Remains
Genre: Death Metal
About: Fear Connection unleash Where Suffering Remains, a crushing death-metal effort steeped in bleak atmosphere and blistering heaviness. Guttural vocals and grim riffing drive a suffocating, pain-ridden sonic assault.
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AngelMaker – This Used to Be Heaven
Genre: Melodic Deathcore / Deathcore
About: Canadian deathcore force AngelMaker return with This Used to Be Heaven, delivering extreme heaviness interwoven with melodic phrasing, layered vocals and dynamic songwriting. Crushing breakdowns collide with emotional intensity and tightly woven guitar work.
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And the unearthed and on rotation underground bands this week include: Pater Tenebrarum
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