The summer is solsticing and the halation is blinding. Need some cool blasts to beat the heat? Riff Index is your one-stop shop to stock up on all the week’s best new metal and metal accessories.
Shake off your Seppuku-punx blues, grab a molotov and join the Death Pill grrrrls rioting in Kyiv or start a Midsummer bonfire with Rites of Tara.
Hear the new decree from Valdrin now seated upon his lunar throne.
Get bewitched by the Diamanda Galás incanted Puppe Magnetik.
It took 17+ years but Destroyer Destroyer have found another destroyer to destroy and Insanity return to life after Death After Death.
Want to storm the Parthenon at the speed of black with the wild melodies of heavy metal? Aetos has you covered – just don’t get behind the gas-puffing dragon of Helms Deep.
-Azazzel
Tenebrae in Perpetuum – Vacuum Coeli
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Hellevaerder – Fakkeldragers
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
MYR – Helvegen
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Rites of Tara – Relic
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Stream: Bandcamp
Valdrin – Apex Violator
Genre: Slightly Symphonic Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Helheim – HrabnaR / Ad vesa
Genre: Viking Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Returning – Numinous
Genre: Post-Black
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Puppe Magnetik – Laudans Deum
Genre: Occult Neo-Folk Dark Ambient Death-Industrial
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Witherer – Shadow Without a Horizon
Genre: Funeral Doom / Black Metal / Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Patristic – Catechesis
Genre: Blackdeath with Disso Nods
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Sodomic Baptism – Contra Christum
Genre: Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Heretic Warfare – Perpetual Fire
Genre: Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Smouldering Tomb – Maledictions Upon the Wretched
Genre: Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Ectospire – Spiritual Dismemberment
Genre: OSDM
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Extinction Complete – All Life Ends
Genre: OSweDM / Melo / Roll
Streams: Bandcamp | YouTube
Blemish – Dunevah
Genre: OSDM / Thrash
Stream: Bandcamp
Insanity – Rotted Soul
Genre: Deathrash
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Extinctionism – Et diabolus incarnatus est. Et homo factus est
Genre: Death Metal / BDM
Stream: Bandcamp
Vaginal Swamp – Repulsive Stench
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Stream: Bandcamp
Porkfarm – Involuntary Surrender
Genre: Brutal Tech
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Melancholy Pessimism – Butchery Is Our Strategy
Genre: Tech Death / Deathgrind
Stream: Bandcamp
Butyric Acid – Vomitous Bile
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore
Streams: Spotify | YouTube Music
WOAT – Prevail in Absence
Genre: DM / Beatdown Hardcore
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Upon Stone – End Time Lightning
Genre: Melodeath
Streams: Spotify | YouTube Music
Destroyer Destroyer – Void
Genre: Mathcore
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Haggus – Destination Extinction
Genre: Crusty Goregrind
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Discouraged – Demo
Genre: Death-Doom
Stream: Bandcamp
Angel of Damnation – Ethereal Blasphemy
Genre: Trad-Doom
Stream: Bandcamp
Helms Deep – Chasing the Dragon
Genre: USPM
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Black Majesties – Oceans of Black
Genre: Symphonic Power Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Reflection – The Battles I Have Won
Genre: Epic Heavy Metal/Power Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Aetos – Ancient Power
Genre: USBM Heavy Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Psychic Armour – Pressure
Genre: Punk / Heavy Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Seppuku-punx – Seppuku-punx
Genre: Hikikomori Shoujo Dark Punk
Stream: Bandcamp
Death Pill – Sologamy
Genre: Riot Grrrrl Punk Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
Ravine – Chaos and Catastrophes
Genre: Stoner Metal / Doom
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music
More destroyer-destroying on…
