April 29th. A day that will live.. in infamy.... just kidding. This coming Tuesday is a pretty big day for metal though, as there's a big whopping list of killer bands that'll be coming out with new stuff this day - most notably among them, Edguy, Aborted, and Insomnium.
Aborted, ‘The Necrotic Manifesto’ (Century Media)
Abysmal Torment, ‘Cultivate the Apostate’ (Willowtip)
Adestria, ‘Gilded Hearts’ (Artery)
Annihilator, ‘Feast Limited Edition’ CD/DVD (UDR)
Anti-Mortem, ‘New Southern’ (Nuclear Blast)
Anti Ritual, ‘Anti Ritual’ (Indisciplinarian)
Archspire, ‘The Lucid Collective’ (Season Of Mist)
Autopsy, ‘Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves’ (Peaceville)
Beneath, ‘Barren Throne’ (Unique Leader)
Brody Dalle, ‘Diploid Love’ (Carolline)
Centurian, ‘Choronzonic Chaos Gods’ Reissue (Hells Headbangers)
Centurian, ‘Of Purest Fire’ Reissue (Hells Headbangers)
Cloak of Altering, ‘Plague Beasts’ (Crucial Blast)
Coldwar, ‘Pantheist’ (Candlelight)
Curimus, ‘Artificial Revolution’ (Freezing Penguin/Svart)
Dead In The Manger, ‘Transience’ EP (20 Buck Spin)
Death, ‘Leprosy’ Reissue (Relapse)
Devil You Know, ‘The Beauty of Destruction’ (Nuclear Blast)
Dismemberment, ‘Embrace the Dark’ (Horror Pain Gore Death)
Edguy, ‘Space Police: Defenders of the Crown’ (Nuclear Blast)
Existance, ‘Steel Alive’ (Mausoleum)
Exorcism, ‘I Am God’ (GoldenCore)
Fake Idols, ‘Fake Idols’ (Lifeforce)
Floor, ‘Oblation’ (Season Of Mist)
Forest of Tygers, ‘Bruises’ EP (Primitive Violence)
Fu Manchu, ‘Gigantoid’ (At the Dojo)
Grey Skies Fallen, ‘The Many Sides of Truth’ (Xanthros)
Helstar, ‘This Wicked Nest’ (AFM)
Holy Moses, ‘Redefined Mayhem’ (SPV)
Ikillya, ‘Vae Victus’ (Megaforce)
Infestus, ‘The Reflecting Void’ (Debemur Morti)
Insomnium, ‘Shadows of the Dying Sun’ (Century Media)
Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus, ‘Spirit Knife’ (Small Stone)
Klogr, ‘Black Snow’ (Zeta Factory)
Lake of Tears, ‘By the Black Sea’ DVD/CD (AFM)
Lord Mantis, ‘Death Mask’ (Profound Lore)
Kublai Khan, ‘Balancing Survival & Happiness’ (Artery)
Manilla Road, ‘Mystification’ Reissue (Shadow Kingdom)
Martyr Defiled, ‘No Hope No Morality’ (Century Media)
Mekong Delta, ‘A Mirror Darkly’ (SPV)
Mind, ‘Save Yourself From Hell’ (Selfmadegod)
Miss May I, ‘Rise of the Lion’ (Rise)
Portrait, ‘Crossroads’ (Metal Blade)
Psycho, ‘Chainsaw Priest’ (Selfmadegod)
Reformers, ‘Abolish’ (Mediaskare)
Revelation, ‘Salvation’s Answer’ Reissue (Shadow Kingdom)
Romantic Rebel, ‘Romantic Rebel’ (Pavement)
Saliva, ‘Rise Up’ (Rum Bum)
Saxon, ‘St. George’s Day Sacrifice – Live In Manchester’ (UDR)
Schammasch, ‘Contradiction’ (Prosthetic)
So Hideous, ‘Last Poem / First Light’ (Prosthetic)
Super Massive Black Holes, ‘Calculations of the Ancients’ (Minotauro)
Thine, ‘The Dead City Blueprint’ (Peaceville)
Twitch of the Death Nerve, ‘A New Code of Morality’ (Comatose)
Unlight, ‘The Katalyst of the Katharsis’ (War-Anthem)
Upon This Dawning, ‘We Are All Sinners’ (Artery)
Vanhelga, ‘LÃĪngtan’ (Art of Propaganda)
Whitechapel, ‘Our Endless War’ (Metal Blade)
Quite a list, isn't it? I'm the most excited for Insomnium out of all of them, and I've been on a little Insomnium kick lately which may or may not be influencing my excitement. We've also got Lord Mantis, Edguy's incredibly awesome album Space Police: Defenders of the Crown which you will absolutely love as much as I do if Iron Maiden is your thing. Aborted's new album should be pretty badass.
Also radio rockers Saliva are apparently still around, which I was not aware of at all though I admit to have jammed to "Click Click Boom" once or twice in my younger days. (Who hasn't, really?) And if you really must, there's some new Whitechapel too. Meh.
So there you have it... all the new new stuff coming at you this coming Tuesday in a neat, tidy little list. Count me glad that this is also the day I pick up my new glasses. What more could I ask for?
Enjoy!