The Metal Epidemic Podcast

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Massachusetts-based devastators, The Acacia Strain. The bands new album, You Are Safe From God Here, will be released on October 24th via Rise Records. FFO: Bare King, Orphan, Filth, Traitors, Distinguisher, Spite, Heavy//Hitter, Admiral Angry, Monolith, Primitive Man. Band: https://www.facebook.com/Theacaciastrain/ Pre-Order: https://theaca...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from UK experimental metal collective, Dawnwalker. The bands new album, The Between, will be released on October 24th via Room312. FFO: Opeth, Enslaved, Alcest, The Pineapple Thief, Hexvessel, Porcupine Tree. Band: https://www.facebook.com/dawnwalkeruk Pre-Order: https://dawnwalker.bandcamp.com/album/the-between #Prog #Doom #PostMetal #ArtRock #B...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from UK filth bringers, Conjurer. The bands new album, Unself, will be released on October 24th via Nuclear Blast Records. FFO: Amenra, Armed For Apocalypse, Sumac, Oathbreaker, Gojira, LLNN, Neurosis, Cult Leader, Predatory Void. Band: https://www.facebook.com/conjureruk Pre-Order: https://conjureruk.bandcamp.com/album/unself #Sludge #Doom #Hard...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the surprise new album from Denver, CO duo Thrillrot. The bands new album, Thrillrot, will be released on October 17th via Lost Future Records. FFO: Castxdown, Great American Ghost, DIESECT, Decoy, Playin For Keeps, Stitched, Dealer, End It All, If It Bleeds, thrown, Error. Band: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556069326777 Pre-Order: https://thrillr...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Finnish powerhouse, BATTLE BEAST. The bands new album, Steelbound, will be released on October 17th via Nuclear Blast Records. FFO: Amaranthe, Beast in Black, Bonnie Tyler, Primal Fear, Dynazty, Arion, Bloodbound, Eclipse, Tungsten, Care Of Night, Rhapsody of Fire, Pat Benatar. Band: https://www.facebook.com/battlebeastofficial Pre-Order: ht...

Join Dave & Duncan as they check out the new release from Texas death metal quintet, TRIBAL GAZE. The bands new album, Inveighing Brilliance, will be released on October 17th via Nuclear Blast Records. FFO: 200 Stab Wounds, Sanguisugabogg, Vomit Forth, Morbid Angel, Xibalba, Bonginator, Misery Whip, Iron Front, Fleshrot. Band: https://www.facebook.com/TribalGazeTX/ Pre-Order: https://tribalgaz...

Join Dave & Duncan as they check out the new album from Brooklyn hardcore legends, BIOHAZARD! The bands new album, Divided We Fall, will be released on October 17th via BLKIIBLK. FFO: Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Hatebreed, Slayer, Pro-Pain, Sick Of It All, Terror. Band: https://www.facebook.com/BiohazardDFL Pre-Order: https://ffm.to/biohazard_dwf #Hardcore #HardcorePunk #GrooveMetal #Crossover S...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Glasgow-based alternative project, Caustic Waves. The new album, ECHOES, will be self-released on October 10th. FFO: Incubus, Far, Deftones, Helmet, Hoobastank, Handsome, Kerbdog, Hell Is For Heroes. Band: https://www.facebook.com/causticwaves Pre-Order: https://causticwaves.bandcamp.com/album/echoes #AlternativeRock #AlternativeMetal #Grung...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Ohio death metal band, Sanguisugabogg. The band new album, Hideous Aftermath, will be released on October 10th via Century Media Records. FFO: Cannibal Corpse, 200 Stab Wounds, Nightmarer, Baring Teeth, Godflesh, Portal, Vomit Forth, Defeated Sanity. Band: https://www.facebook.com/sanguisugabogg/ Pre-Order: https://sanguisugabogg.bandcamp.co...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Louisville, KY riff-slingers, GREYHAVEN. The bands new album, KEEP IT QUIET, will be released on October 10th via Solid State Records. FFO: Every Time I Die, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Glassjaw, Moon Tooth, Johnny Booth, Norma Jean, Stray From the Path. Band: https://www.facebook.com/greyhavenband Pre-Order: https://gh.ffm.to/keepitquiet #Ha...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Nashville heavy melodic duo, FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS. The bands new album, Bear, will be released on October 10th via Magnetic Eye Records. FFO: Torche, Smashing Pumpkins, Floor, Kyuss, Soundgarden, Cave-In, Hum, Slung, AlphaWhores. Band: https://www.facebook.com/friendshipcommanders/ Pre-Order: https://friendshipcommanders.bandcamp.com/album/...

Join Dave & Duncan as they check out the new album from Paris multi-instrumentalist James Kent – aka Perturbator. Perturbators new album, Age of Aquarius, will be released on October 10th via Nuclear Blast Records. FFO: HEALTH, GOST, Carpenter Brut, Dan Terminus, Nine Inch Nails, Author & Punisher. Band: https://www.facebook.com/Perturbator Pre-Order: https://perturbator.bandcamp.com/album...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Portland, Oregon’s COASTLANDS. The bands new self-titled album will be released on October 10th via Translation Loss. FFO: Mogwai, Thrice, We Lost The Sea, Flesh of the Stars, Chrome Waves, Alcest, Holy Fawn, Sylvaine, Rosetta. Band: https://www.facebook.com/coastlandsofficial Pre-Order: https://coastlands.bandcamp.com/album/coastlands #Post...

Join Dave & Duncan as they check out the new album from San Diego industrial band, Author & Punisher. The new album, Nocturnal Birding, will be released on October 3rd via Relapse Records. FFO: Nine Inch Nails, Godflesh, The Body, Sunn 0))), Thou, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy. Band: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorandPunisher/ Pre-Order: https://authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com/album...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Trailblazing rock visionaries, Thrice. The bands new album, Horizons/West, will be released on October 3rd via Epitaph Records. FFO: Alexisonfire, Anberlin, Emery, IDLES, Sparta, Biffy Clyro, Boysetsfire, The National, Radiohead. Band: https://www.facebook.com/officialthrice Pre-Order: https://thrice.ffm.to/horizonswest https://officialthric...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Kentucky Rock trio, WHITE REAPER. The bands new album, Only Slightly Empty, will be released on September 26th via Blue Grape Records. FFO: Weezer, The Dirty Nil, PUP, Wavves, The Nightmares, Alkaline Trio. Band: https://www.facebook.com/whitereaperusa Pre-Order: https://whitereaper.bandcamp.com/album/only-slightly-empty #Rock #AlternativeRo...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Portland, Oregon metalcore band, Dying Wish. The bands new album, Flesh Stays Together, will be released on September 26th via Sharptone Records. FFO: Heriot, Ithaca, Foreign Hands, Serration, Knocked Loose, END, Johnny Booth, Great American Ghost. Band: https://www.facebook.com/DyingWish503 Pre-Order: https://bfan.link/flesh-stays-together...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Helsinki-based Progressive Metal outfit, Royal Sorrow. The bands new album, Innerdeeps, will be released on September 26th via InsideOutMusic. FFO: Edge of Haze, Tesseract, Voyager, Karnivool, Dreams They Have Stolen, Black Orchid Empire, Artifer, Vola, Evergrey, Cold Night For Alligators, Twelve Foot Ninja, Soilwork. Band: https://www.faceb...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from New York City's fantasy heavy metal sensation, CASTLE RAT. The bands new album, The Bestiary, will be released on September 19th via King Volume Records (North America) & Blues Funeral Recordings (UK/Europe). FFO: Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Lucifer, Avatarium, Orchid, Led Zeppelin, Jex Thoth, Electric Wizard, Lowen. Band: https://www...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Apocalyptic Post-Punk project, Scorpion Milk. The bands new album, Slime of the Times, will be released on September 19th via Peaceville Records. FFO: Beastmilk, Grave Pleasures, Killing Joke, Flux Of Pink Indians, Joy Division, Crisis, early Sisters of Mercy, High Vis, Yass, Duran Duran. Band: https://www.facebook.com/scorpionmilkmusic/ Pre...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from German post-metal/blackgaze band, HERETOIR. The bands new album, Solastalgia, will be released on September 19th via AOP Records. FFO: Alcest, Lantlos, Harakiri For The Sky, Fen, Deafheaven, Lifelover, Unreqvited, Celeste, Les Discrets, Shores of Null, Opeth, Katatonia. Band: https://www.facebook.com/heretoir/ Pre-Order: https://artofpropaga...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Connecticut noise-rock wrecking crew, INTERCOURSE. The bands new album, How I Fell in Love with the Void, will be released on September 12th via Brutal Panda Records. FFO: Jesus Lizard, Chat Pile, Couch Slut, Pissed Jeans, Deadguy, Bummer, Cancer Bats. Band: https://www.facebook.com/outsiderxhardcore/ Pre-Order: https://intercourse.bandcamp....

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Norwegian punk rockers, LÜT. The bands new self-titled album will be released on September 12th via Indie Recordings. FFO: Kverlertak, The Hives, Pixies, Turbonegro, Blood Command, Bad Nerves, Die Ärzte. Band: https://www.facebook.com/bandlut/ Pre-Order: https://lutnorway.bandcamp.com/ #PunkRock #AlternativeRock #HardcorePunk #PopPunk #Scand...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from North Carolina progressive metal band, Between the Buried and Me. The bands new album, The Blue Nowhere, will be released on September 12th via InsideOutMusic. FFO: Protest The Hero, Devin Townsend, The Human Abstract, Yes, King Crimson, Mr. Bungle, Native Construct, Cynic. Band: https://www.facebook.com/BTBAMofficial/ Pre-Order: https://btb...

Join Dave & Duncan as they review the new album from Massachusetts alternative metal band, Fleshwater. The bands new album, 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky, will be released on September 5th via Closed Casket Activities. FFO: Deftones, Hum, Far, Glassjaw, Finch, Narrow Head, Soul Blind, Modern Color. Band: https://www.facebook.com/fleshwater.fm Pre-Order: https://fleshwater.bandcamp.com/alb...