Best New Noise

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

Wretch
A master’s return
dB rating: 8/10

The Veil of Control
Dust never sleeps
dB rating: 8/10

Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
Satan is good, Satan is our pal
dB rating: 8/10

The Curling Flame of Blasphemy
Beats the Hockey Flame of Blasphemy
dB rating: 8/10

Dungeon Bastards
10-Sided DIEDIEKILLKILL
dB rating: 8/10

Dead Revolution
Full of life
dB rating: 9/10

Scale
Rejoice, potential lovers of proper Gothic psychedelic shoegaze lounge metal
dB rating: 8/10

The Unknown
The assessment favorable
dB rating: 8/10

Memento Collider
Infectious grooves, alternate realities
dB rating: 9/10

Unortheta
Nothing’s zhocking
dB rating: 8/10

Diamond Head
>Heady Topper
dB rating: 8/10

Bringer of Drought
Thirsty and miserable
dB rating: 8/10