Release Day Weekly Spam - (13/11/2026)

This week again will feature a couple misses from last week, even having the list of releases in my face makes me miss some stuff that I have been waiting for, only to be drowned on the wave of other deliveries in that week. That's one of the main reasons I wanted to do this weekly writing, there can be so much interesting stuff that falls through the cracks, self-releases that don't get promoted in the channels I follow and/or don't interest people "in the know" because it's not in their particular taste or something like that. Anyway here is this week's music that at the very least piqued my curiosity.

Artificial Brain - Antillia

A good Tech Death release can become my obsession for the next 6 months to a year. But otherwise good releases that don't trigger that excitement on me they just leave me stumped. Artificial Brain has always had good releases, their debut was one of such obsessions to me, the next ones not as much, so they really never occupied a space in my memories. But this one, their fourth after some major lineup changes and a somewhat lengthy hiatus, it really does hit for me. I'll probably be replaying it a lot in the coming months.

The Body / Cel Genesis - Whole Wide World

Back in 2013 I got my first exposure to the work of The Body, and I've been constantly positively challenged by them recording after recording. And even their collabs have always been stellar, be it with the Doom Metal masters of Thou or Full of Hell, or with a band that I've honestly never heard before like now with Cel Genesis, I know I'm gonna have a stank face the whole time and struggling to not get too dizzy headbanging at my age. Any artist that's so self confident to sample Kenji Kawai's legendary The Ballade of Puppets from Ghost In The Shell: Innocence into a hulking Industrial cruel nastiness like in the track "Memories", is surely someone that's A-OK in my book.

Teardrinker - I Hope This Hurts

A couple of weeks ago I shared the debut of The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir, a self-professed Antifascist Black Metal artist that showcased the anger that I was missing from modern counter-culture. And I was hoping that it signaled more of that righteous fury upcoming, and just a few days after I get more goodness coming from the Netherlands, an also proudly antifascist band, with a healthy mix of Screamo and Post-Hardcore added to the mix. I think this one can really take a lot of people by surprise cause it's really, really good, and I've barely seen any buzz for it as of today.

illyria - Artifacts of a Bygone Era

This band has always been kind of a complicated listen for me, sometimes their stuff hits, sometimes it leaves me cold. Most of what is presented on this full-length is working for me though, so make of that what you will.

1000 Eyes - Anesthesia

Now for something out of the left field for me: A couple years ago a little indie game took a certain section of the Internet by storm, that little game's name was Signalis, and one of the many reasons it was so celebrated was its music, and one of the artists involved in that was 1000 Eyes, which in turn has now amassed a sizable following from that collaboration and others that have also struck a chord in the hearts of many. This is a new album with some tracks that have been previously released as singles but also has some original music in it, pretty good Ambient music to enjoy during the weekend

Heilung - Seidh (Single)

Second single from the upcoming Sagas album, and this is the track that was made for that amazing Games Awards Senua's Saga trailer. A bittersweet reminder that Ninja Theory is no more, so we probably will never get another Senua game, but at least we will have the music and the memories.

Skagos - Cleft From The Immanence (Single)

I wasn't aware that Skagos was launching a new full-length this year, and fairly late at that. And from this single, I'll probably have to wait to hear it to make a good list of the best of 2026.

The last week misses are:

Hyperion - Elysia

With so many bands taking the same name or similar ones with a spelling variation, it really didn't click on me that when I read the name Hyperion on last week releases was the same Swedish Melo-Death/Melo-Black band that took the Metal charts by storm 10 years ago with their debut full-length. Despite that lengthy lapse, they don't seem to have lost any edge in my ears at least.

Spider God - Murder Machine

Merely 4 years ago I first heard Spider God's beatblasting cover of High School Musical's "Bet on it" and got completely blown away for the great translation of Pop sensibilities into Black Metal madness that got fully showcased on their rager full-length Black Renditions with great covers that go from Backstreet Boys to the K-Pop band Thrice and everything in-between. Now they have just completed a full original trilogy that keeps that Pop infused melodic sense in their scorching sound with great results, and doing a completely independent release this time around.

For the notable live performance of the week we have a brand new Chelsea Wolfe KEXP session promoting her new material that just dropped:

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