Best New Noise

Infrared Horizon
Aye, robot
dB rating: 8/10

Ain-Soph Aur
Denver doom/sludge duo wax ecstatic, cowboy-style
dB rating: 8/10

Severed Monolith
On the chopping block
dB rating: 8/10

Hope Attrition
Answer the unending call (won’t go to voicemail)
dB rating: 8/10

Heartless
The power of the urn
dB rating: 9/10

Obsidian Arc
Vision quest
dB rating: 8/10

Primordial Malignity
Vehement morbidity
dB rating: 8/10

Hope
Black metal change you can believe in
dB rating: 8/10

Atonement
Making good for 29 years
dB rating: 9/10

Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love
Masterpiece, or ambition as a force of evil
dB rating: 8/10

Created in the Image of Suffering
Long live the king
dB rating: 8/10

The Grinding Wheel
The Blitz Abides
dB rating: 8/10

The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Synarchy in the EU
dB rating: 8/10

Appalling Ascension
Dark matters
dB rating: 8/10

Bethlehem
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning
dB rating: 9/10

The Well-Intentioned Virus
Shaking off the slumber
dB rating: 8/10

Interitus
Mass extinction in A minor
dB rating: 8/10

What Graceless Dawn
You had me at “rowan, ash, willow, oak”
dB rating: 8/10

Echoes of Dismemberment
Hack ‘n’ slash flashbacks
dB rating: 8/10

Shadows Swallowed the Flood
One more for the road
dB rating: 8/10

Sepulchral Psalms from the Abyss of Torment
Inverted, they’ve lived their lives
dB rating: 8/10

The Whole of the Law
Total fucking destruction
dB rating: 8/10

Dimensions Obscure
To elasticity and beyond!
dB rating: 8/10

Grim
Goddess of fertility and riffs
dB rating: 8/10

Pocho Aztlan
Larga vida a Juan Brujo
dB rating: 8/10

Rheia
Dawn of a different apocalypse
dB rating: 8/10

Stillicide
Natural-born explorers get transcending genre just right
dB rating: 8/10

Temple of Phobos
Cower power
dB rating: 8/10

Alpha Ghoul
Lactose tolerant
dB rating: 8/10

Pure
Not-so-strange in stereo
dB rating: 8/10