atmospheric metal

Finnish psychedelic black metal experimenters Oranssi Pazuzu announce a new West Coast leg of dates to their upcoming headlining fall North American tour.
 

On October 12th, 1993, Life Of Agony’s iconic debut “River Runs Red” was released. Hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the greatest metal records of all time”, “River Runs Red” was an emotional concept album that focused on a troubled teenager’s inability to cope with what seemed to be the worst week of his life. The album connected to a broken generation in a visceral way through its cathartic message and hard-hitting approach, and the band developed a cult-following in the process.
 

Salt Lake City, Utah-based quintet Pinewalker is preparing to release their sprawling debut album, “Migration”. Completed for release in early September, the album boasts a cathartic concept, an homage to loved ones lost to cancer, delivered through a crushing display of thundering, groove-heavy doom/sludge metal. The album’s details including preorders and the first single, “Bone Collector”, have been posted.
 

On September 20th, 2019, Cult Of Luna will release their new album, “A Dawn to Fear”, the band’s first material under their sole name since 2013’s “Vertikal 1&2”.

Watch the video for the new single, “The Silent Man”, below.

Pre-order “A Dawn to Fear”, here, in the following formats:
• limited edition digibook 2CD

Sludge metal heavyweights Cranial return with their sophomore album, “Alternate Endings”, to be released on September 27th, 2019, by capable Moment of Collapse Records! Risen from the ashes of almighty Omega Massif, Cranial took the best ingredients, created their own sound and developed it even further. Powerful and earth shattering, apocalyptic and destructive, melodies as uplifting as they are depressive - once again the band pushed themselves forward and refined their songwriting.

Fast-rising North Carolinian instrumental progressive metal band Anamorph are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of their ambitious, otherworldly full-length album, “Lucid”, scheduled for independent release on September 6th, 2019.

Metal Blade Records is proud to welcome Intronaut to its worldwide roster! Currently working on the follow-up to the critically acclaimed “The Direction of Last Things” (2015), Intronaut plans to release their new album - and Metal Blade Records debut - in 2020.

Finnish melodic death/doom band Shadecrown released a second single “Rain’s Edge”, which is taken from the upcoming second album “Riven”. The album will be released later in 2019 by Inverse Records and it is mixed and mastered by keyboardist & songwriter Saku Tammelin at Painwood Studio, Viitasaari, Finland.
 
Check out the lyric video for “Rain’s Edge” below.
 
Saku Tammelin comments:

After a long and intensive work period at Drudenhaus Studios, Alcest can finally announce that they have finished the recordings of their sixth studio album. The first long-player to appear under their new label, Nuclear Blast, is titled “Spiritual Instinct” and will see the light of day on October 25th, 2019, leading the band into darker yet still dreamy and spiritually profound soundscapes.