ALBUMS I MISSED, JULY 2024 - Flat Black, Category 7, Krallice, Kryptos, etc.

[@thehighground_]

Some other albums to check out from July Ironflame - Kingdoms Torn asunder Laceration - I Erode Void Witch - Horripilating Presence

[@Oldy-dingo]

This was actually pretty solid July for metal. July is usually quiet but this month had at least a few a week.

[@wheelsofmercury]

Some albums in the month of July that really impressed me were as follows: - Mayhemic - Toba: amazingly fast yet dynamic blackened thrash metal from Chile. Seriously, this thing is nuts! - Ironflame - Kingdom Torn Asunder: another solid US power metal album from Andrew D’Cagna of Nechochwen fame! It doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it really doesn’t have to. - Mothman and the Thunderbirds - Portal Hopper: What an impressive album! This is like if Tupperware Remix Party went heavy. it had so many different influences from so many different genres of music that you just have to listen for yourself.

[@embertheraccoon37]

Surprised there wasn't a video on A Wake in Providence. The album was a really solid record of symphonic blackened deathcore with operatic elements and an interesting concept behind it. I also rather enjoyed Graphic Nature's album.

[@jarek3750]

Third album from Aussichtslos. Marching, melodic black metal from Austria, as good as their previous two records. This is what i recommend from July, or maybe last days of June.

[@HeavyArtTalk]

The Meatcanyon Anthony Fantano video was hilarious and brilliant marketing for the Cask record.

[@flynnhale1243]

Every single year it's like there is so many good metal albums in October please start talking about good metal next month tho and yes I have something more something of a idea of what you should talk about

[@jdg1120]

One of my favorites of the month was Morbus Grave - Feasting the Macabre. Simple, dirty, groovy Italian death metal.

[@Ativan_Halen]

Duality by Defacement was a nice surprise; being a fan of FoH, krallice, Imperial Triumphant one can see tinges of influence

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

Oh? Sounds cool, gonna check that out.

[@evilone1079]

Also check out Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus, it’s an awesome album imo

[@kamo124]

I discovered them yesterday. Sounds good!

[@MrLando0]

That Krallice is killer. I'm late to this band, loving this new direction. Early stuff is more straightforward I take?

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

No, not really lmao. I mean, maybe? Depends on the album. Definitely check out more of their stuff though.

[@DaveMcElroy-ru8yi]

Laceration I Erode on 20 buck spin was the best album of July old school head bashing brutality you definitely should have reviewed it.

[@carbon6372]

Another 4.5 for Krallice, in my opinion. It's an incredible record for sure. It's probably my 5th or maybe even 4th favourite of theirs. Definitely ordering it on order! Mass Cathexis 2 was high up, but after revisiting all of their albums, it's at 7th or 8th, but still a low 4.5 (leading to 4 for me). I think, I've given them four-five 4.5's at this point, and two 5's. At worst a 3.5, but that's maximum 2-3 albums for me. They're so damn consistent. How come you keep "missing out" on them (kidding), hehe? Please review all of their albums! My favourites are Crystalline Exhaustion, Years Past Matter, Ygg Huur and Dimensional Bleedthrough, but I like all of their albums. Dimensional Bleedthrough would be my favourite if it wasn't for 'Untitled'. Even at this point, everything from Demonic Wealth to Inorganic Rites is very great to incredible!

[@fari8034]

Also Defacement - Duality. Should be right down your alley, some flavourful dissonant tech death.

[@nickroitman6743]

I liked Horripilating Presence

[@DashieNegan41]

Same

[@DashieNegan41]

You should check out Void Witch's debut album Horripilating Presence it's one of the best doom/Death Metal albums of 2024

[@alexchavarria2582]

Octoploid follows what Elegy from Amorphis left, look at the keyboard player

[@dimmufrost666]

Seth - "Le Frances Des Maudits" French Black Metal (Season Of Mist) Akhlys - "House Of The Black Geminus" US Black Metal (Debemur Morti) These are the two best Black Metal LPs to drop in July

[@marktaylor7162]

Well, I for one definitely love the Octoploid album. It's frickin' awesome.

[@DamnableReverend]

Cool to hear a name-drop for Vulture Industries. I got no opinion on any of these albums mentioned today, but a couple sounding interesting. never really got into Kralice butI hve tochck out progressive black metal bands because I just never know if they'll be my cuppa goatsblood.

[@peterhalkjrhedegaard4861]

To me july was a killer month my favourite albums of the month was Wake Up the Wicked by Powerwolf (German Powermetal) Unyielding Night by Assemble the Chariots (Symphonic Deathcore/Deathmetal) Nightfloating by Forgotten Tomb(DSBM from Italy) The Withered Roots of Reality by Alburnum (Dutch atmospheric/folk black metal) Contagation Zero by Horned a Almighty (danish blackmetal)

[@leonardolaleonardo4924]

Big love for KRALLICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MarcoReusel]

No laceration review wtf. Check the better ones . Thanks!

[@dannypriceandthebloodmoney]

Kryptos, Heavy Sentence, and KNife are my 3 favorite newer bands!

[@blakegunnels9205]

Uprising-3 if you want to hear music from the members of panopticon and waldgefluster you will like it

[@KnightJirka05]

Krallice, Powerwolf, Vulvodynia, Diocletian, Visions of Atlantis, Wormed, Orden Ogan, Orange Goblin... Yeah, July was a pretty great month for me. June was almost dead, I only cared about Wraith.

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

I guess my power metal bias is showing because I don't care about half the bands you mentioned lmao, I think Dream Evil had a new album too

[@CraigMader]

Three times more records came out in June. That's... information...

[@KnightJirka05]

@@CraigMader Sure, but I don't (and can't) listen to everything.

[@ashleybrown4754]

Why does Category 7 have a straight to video disaster movie as their album artwork?

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

Fr, it reminds me of 2012 lmao

[@joecurrier4086]

Looks like rejects from Sharknado!

[@reljandino]

That artwork is so 2007, like it’s for burnout or any nfs game of that era

[@TheNightmareRider]

The album I was most looking forward to this past month was, of course, Powerwolf - Wake Up the Wicked, and it's everything I've come to want and expect a Powerwolf album to be. It's epic, it's cheesy, it's bombastic, but it also has some extra melodic fair with the band dipping their toes a little more into history. I don't think it'll be for you, since Power Metal isn't your jam (which is fine, obviously!), but if you're curious, I say there's no reason not to give it a chance. Other than that, there's the punch, aggressive beat down of Nu core band Graphic Nature with their new album "A Mind Waiting to Die" that needs a hell of a lot more love. There's oldschool Death Metal bangers Cryptic Hatred with "Internal Torment", which finally gave me the riff-based brutalism that I look for in Death Metal, and Obscene with "Agony & Wounds" with a touch more black metal influences. But yeah, overall, July has been a bit of a dry spell, but there's been enough good albums to get me through, personally. Plus Gojira's Olympic performance \m/

[@Skycladatdusk78]

That Powerwolf album helped to save July for me. Lots of good up tempo anthemic songs, the kind of album I've been wanting them to make for a while now.

[@CraigMader]

​@@Skycladatdusk78you might like the new IRONFLAME record, as well. Almost no power metal this month.

[@Skycladatdusk78]

@@CraigMader Thanks I'll have to check that one out .

[@Oldy-dingo]

Did you review Akhlys? Because that might be AOTY for me. It's comfortably sitting at number 1 currently. Also, here's some others that you seemingly missed... Nyktophobia Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa Vanhelgd Void Witch Obscene Piah Mater

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

I did not and I've explained a couple of times that I will not.

[@Oldy-dingo]

@@themetalmeltdownofficial are you not a fan of the band?

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

Naas is a white supremacist. I'm not interested in giving anything he makes oxygen.

[@kamo124]

@@themetalmeltdownofficial NOOOOOO i literally discovered them yesterday.....fuck!

[@ASMRsonist]

You had me at Psychedelic when it comes to Octoploid

[@colonelbasic9736]

Have you heard the album by Dogma yet? It's 🔥🔥🔥

[@blackwaterrust476]

Understandable July was pretty mid. I remember listening to the 1st minute from that flat black album on KZbin and then yawned and listened to something else instead immediately. Krallice is always interesting, you never know in which direction they’ll go. Summoning the Lich is pretty good Cask was fun, Meatcanyon struck gold with that Fantano music critic video for promotion. Was a genius move. I’ll be interested if Cask will make more stuff.

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

That lil video was some top notch promo work

[@KnightlyTruth]

King Diamond “St Lucifer’s Hospital” is coming this winter 🫠

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

Sure it is lmao. King's been talking about new music for years, at this point I won't believe an album is real until I'm holding it in my hands.

[@KnightlyTruth]

@@themetalmeltdownofficialI got the email from metal blade this morning and there’s a winter tour

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

King also toured back in 2019 in support of the same album, even released a single. Like I said, I won't believe it's finally real until it's here.

[@justin-w8x]

@@themetalmeltdownofficial the new album is coming in 2025 but the tour with Overkill and Night Demon will be Great just got tickets will you finally review every King Diamond album will you see King Diamond as well or no

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

@@justin-w8x The answer to both questions is a not so mildly enthusiastic 'maybe, we'll see'

[@CraigMader]

CASK was a fun surprise. Thanks for that nugget. Here's my July playlist. FEBRUUS-Surveillance Orgy; KRYPTICY-The Non Return; DEFACEMENT- Duality; AMNIO STASIS -S/T; BEYOND ALL HOPE -Lifecycles; ABHORRED-None Shall Be Spared; OBSCENE-Agony And Wounds; BLACK HOLE DEITY-Profane Geometry; CRYPTIC HATRED-Internal Torment; BLOODSTREAM-Our World Blackened; CARVED IN BLOOD- Throughout An Ancient Ride COLDCELL-Age Of Unreason; CONJURING-Odium; BLOODCROWN-The Sound Of Flesh And Bone; DEATH RACER- Gravel To Grave; SAASIL-Novilunium; HORNED ALMIGHTY- Contagion Zero; BLOODCROSS- Gravebound; MALCONFORT- Humanism; MAYHEMIC-Toba; NAKHTERON-When Darkness Fell CLAN DOS MORTOS CICATRIZ- Debil; PARTHOLON-The Ocean Pours In; TURIN- Unforgiving Reality In Nothing; GNASCH- Infinihate; STABBING JABS-S/T; MIND YOUR HEAD!!-Last Stop Before Hell; COUGHIN' VICARS- Curses & Prayers; ASSEMBLE THE CHARIOTS-The Unyielding Night; PLUTOCRACY PLANET- S/T; SPREAD THIN- World of Snakes; RESPIRE-Hiraeth; GLOOP-Tension SPEEDFREAK- Hellspeed Rock n Roll; MAYHEMIC-Toba; IREFUL-Agents of Doom ABSORB-Smog; HARVESTMAN-Triptych Pt. 2; GODS & PUNKS- Death; POHL-Mysteries; MEAN MISTREATER- S/T; SACRI MONTI- Retrieval; VOID WITCH- The Horripilating Presence; OLDD WVRMS-Abyssephale; TOTTENGOTT-Beyond the Veil; OCCULT WITCHES-Sorrow's Pyre; DUEL-Breakfast With Death; INERTH-Hybris; ENDLESS FLOODS-Rites Futurs; MEIFU-Haunted Dreams; VUUR & ZIJDE- Boezem; THE OTHER SUN-Daimon, Devil, Dawn; ORESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE-Orgone Unicorn; PERISHING-Lutum Hope this helps,guys. Next week is the thinnest yet.

[@BrainPollution]

Judging from a video I saw on The Accusation Network’s KZbin channel, August isn’t looking any better. When the two new records I’m thinking of buying are actually reissues, that says a lot about how dry of a month it’ll be. But that’s my opinion. I could be wrong.

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

@@BrainPollution nahh, August is A LOT better: Nile, Dark Tranquility, Zeal & Ardor, Nails, Anciients, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Fulci, Spectral Wound, the list goes on.

[@BrainPollution]

@@themetalmeltdownofficial Oh shit, I forgot about Fulci and Nile! And Anciients. I did say I could be wrong, right? Haha.

[@CraigMader]

​@@themetalmeltdownofficialyou can add OXYGEN DESTROYER, DEMISER, GRAVENOIRE, WITHIN THE RUINS, HATCHEND, MODERN RITES, TANTRUM, REDFACE, POISON RUIN to the list, just not in Week One.

[@mikepenny8940]

Love the shirt

[@Jayagebee]

I was interested in Category 7, but I also ended up a little bored with it.

[@Grislybaer]

Werewolves are the kings of releasing albums I almost don't notice and get mad that they slide under my radar... I REALLY liked What A Time To Be Alive but From The Cave To The Grave wasn't AS good as WATTBA but still cool... This new werewolves feels like a worthy part two of WATTBA... just my opinion

[@JRewinski]

Kryptos is pretty awesome - glad to see them getting recognition, even with some criticism thrown into the mix. Yeah their stuff does sometimes blend together, but it's not really that much of an issue if pure heavy metal goodness is what one wants. Not thought-provoking but definitely has headbang-inducing properties🤘

[@rockmovieswithtyler1989]

Octoploid was awesome and I surprisingly liked Flat Black...😮... honestly a better record than anything FFDP ever did...but I guess I am alone in that thought, Damn!😢...Regardless best album this month was from Moutaineer because that for sure is what great accessible Post Metal (especially if you like Deftones Alice In Chains and Intronaut)should sound like and it's in my Top 10 securely!😎🤘🏻

[@rawkguy4896]

So are Ivan Moody and Zoltan Bathory the only people capable of writing a hook in Five Finger Death Punch? Its insane how hard Jeremy Spencer and Jason Hook fell off after quitting that band. Flat Black is also one of the worst band names I've ever heard. I guess all the cool names really are taken

[@reljandino]

3:19 i mean, does FFDP have anything original to offer to begin with?

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

I mean if you consider combining the worst elements of Pantera and Godsmack then... maybe? Still no, not really lmao

[@charlieo.possum5501]

"a watered down version of Five Finger Death Punch" 🤢🤮

[@DashieNegan41]

Kryptos is amazing Werewolves is insanely good Category 7 is fine Octoploid great debut Summoning The Litch maybe their best album yet Flat Black GARBAGE

[@Chatman666]

99% of the times you say that something is "Boomer Metal" i end up really enjoying it. So Category 7 SHOULD be a slam dunk, right? My final veredict is gonna be after listening to the whole record. But the single i checked out is Meh City. You go from this great Thrashy Groovy (kinda repetitive) intro build up to verses that honestly sound like they're from another song. WTF!? 🙈

[@UnsungUnderground]

Lol I love paul dianno, easily my favorite maiden singer but the dude should've retired in the early 00s. I'll give it this though, Warhorse isn't as bad as his comeback show at keep it true in 2022

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

I have yet to see any concert footage of him that wasn't really mediocre honestly

[@UnsungUnderground]

​@themetalmeltdownofficial his set at KIT was like a day after he got out of a Croatian hospital then had to haul ass to Germany. I'm pretty sure he was also drunk. Genuinely some kf the worse live footage this side of motley crue, especially since the festival live streamed the entire set

[@ManekiNeko1972]

Category 7 and Kryptos rules.

[@sungazer333]

Is this just an Anthony Fantano impersonation/parody channel or is this guy serious?

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

yeah nothing says 'parody' quite like... talking about underground music for 18 minutes?

[@jasonboardman2796]

I don't know is it just me but sorry to say but you sass a lot these days. Plus I didn't not know at all that Paul Di'Anno had his new band really.

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

@@jasonboardman2796 I'm a sassy boy

[@DylanTheCDAndVinylCollector]

For me, I surprisingly like Flat Black but do understand that it’s not gonna be for everyone and that Category 7 and Summoning The Itch album was really good too.

[@lionlissauer7104]

Category 7 was such a disappointment. John Bush is one of my favorite metal vocalists and on paper with a line up like that it sounds right up my alley. But man that album is overproduced, too bombastic and the songs sounded too inconsistent to me...

[@themetalmeltdownofficial]

we might be in the minority, seen a weird amount of positive reviews.

[@lionlissauer7104]

@@themetalmeltdownofficial Wouldn't be the first time for me 😆