Welcome to Heavy Rotation, the monthly playlist, of the best, Metal-Hard Rock, New Releases and Fresh Finds. Hand-picked by JE², from mainstream and underground artists.
December is the month for hidden gems when it comes to new releases. Music sites are focusing on year-end “Best Of” lists and don't focus much attention on new releases. That won't be this playlist.
Why this playlist?
- Discover New Releases, selected from a wide spectrum of Metal & Hard Rock genres, including:
• Death Metal • Hardcore • Tech Death Metal • Pirate Metal • Metalcore • Thrash • Symphonic Metal • Jazz Metal • Progressive Metal • Deathcore • Hard Rock • Screamo • Alternative Metal • Mathcore • Djent • Grindcore • Power Metal • Black Metal • Industrial Metal • Southern Metal • Doom Metal • Folk Metal - Updated on New Release Friday & throughout the week.
- Fresh Finds are amazing songs, I've found, but not released this month.
*My mix's are usually limited to one track per artist, but for this mix, I'll add multiple tracks If an artist releases more than one single, I enjoy, in the month or a single & album.
Starting with some releases that ended November
Track Title - Artist
Cavalry in Thousands – Tengger Cavalry
Eternal Recurrence – Oni
Starboard – Chiasma
Tense – Scoredatura
Brutal Behavior – Jack The Joker
Carnival – Borders of Byzantium
Selfecution – Neberu
11 Days – Jared Dines
Tremendous Strain – Science Of Sleep
Automated Distress Signal – Wormhole (Not a fan of the Vocals but love the music)
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Track Title - Artist
Stay – Disperse
Lost For Words – Betraying The Martyrs
The House Always Wins – Stray From The Path
Omega – Crystal Lake
No Longer – Nails
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Track Title - Artist
Furious Thoughts of Tranquility – Narrow House
Catharsis – Noctiferia
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Track Title - Artist
Oceans – Avven
Thin Blue Line – Three Years
The Seducer – Septa
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Track Title - Artist
The Fall of Sirius – Mute the Saint
Subrahmanya – Adagio
The Thread – Signals of Bedlam
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Track Title - Artist
Mein Element – Erdling
Scar(r)ed – In Days Forgotten
Sorry – Sleep Talk
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Keeping with the theme of this list we are touching on all genre's in heavy music. This new release Friday is filled with more "Mainstream" metal. As always these are the tracks that are just clicking with me.
Track Title - Artist
Cold Winter Sun – Demon Hunter
It's Over – Dreamshade
(Rock) Superstar – Hacktivist
Vicious Cycle – After Life
Bad Company – DVSR
SCUM – Vitja
Ophiophagy – Aversions Crown
A Well-Intentioned Virus – Zao (the Metalcore Kings are back)
Driven (feat. Garrett Russell) – Those Who Fear, Garrett Russell
Hive Mind – Circle of Dust, Celldweller
Superalien Coliseum (One Dimensional Being) – Earworms
These Rats We Deny – SIBIIR
Bloodwinter – Wolfchant
Frames – Crossnail
Burn – Tenth Electric
Main Theme – Galactic Empire
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Track Title - Artist
Beguiled (The Fanboy) – Adrian Weiss
Alpha – Descent (Intro to next track)
The Warrior Within – Descent
Zerotonin 2 – Darknet
Prince of Chaos – Beyond the Pleasure
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Track Title - Artist
Borrowed Lives and Borrowed World – Pitch Black Process
King Of Clubs – The Unguided
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Starting with some releases that ended November
Track Title - Artist
Versipellis – Benighted
The Great Disillusion – Betraying The Martyrs
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Track Title - Artist
Soen - Sectarian
Dream State Arsenal – Unearthly Trance
Apnea – Trinity Avenue, Molitoth
Bloom – Crossing the Rubicon (Great Fusion prog track)
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Track Title - Artist
The Rise of Hannibal – Ex Deo
Phantom Self – Sepultura
Torch – Emmure
Seeds of Ruin – Exhortation
Forgive Me Father – Benighted
The Chains of Misdeed – Hour of Penance
Destructive Currents – Immolation
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With Christmas coming this will probably be the last week I update this. Hopefully you've discovered some amazing Metal artists you've never heard of before.
Track Title - Artist
Knife in the Safe Room – Darkest Hour
The Venomous – Nightrage
Betrayed – Slechtvalk
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Track Title - Artist
A Home for All – Mate's Fate
Coming Home – Falling In Reverse
Kill The Creator – Code Orange
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Track Title - Artist
Null Point (feat. Sithu Aye) – Joel Lindfors, Sithu Aye
Year of the Gnat – Fero Lux
Dawg Dayz – DREGG, Dale Tanner
Sirens – If I Were You
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Track Title - Artist
Imperial March - Galactic Empire
We Are Murderers (We All) – Xandria
Morbid Dreams – Decipher
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Track Title - Artist
Nighttaker – The Unguided
Breed – The One Hundred
Imperium – The Lucid Archetype
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