New Metal Releases This Friday: Exhumed, Trauma Ray, Dissentience, The Recreant, Necronomicon Ex Mortis and The Album of Last Week (Reviews and Ratings)  episode artwork

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New Metal Releases This Friday: Exhumed, Trauma Ray, Dissentience, The Recreant, Necronomicon Ex Mortis and The Album of Last Week (Reviews and Ratings)

from The Distorted Dialogue Podcast · host Metal Institute of Thrashology

This week on Fired Up For Friday, we discuss the new metal albums dropping on Friday, February 20th, which include the Exhumed's "Red Asphalt", Trauma Ray's "Carnival", Dissentience's "Kaiju", The Recreant's "The Code is V...Outlive The Code", Necronomicon Ex Mortis' "Zombie Blood Nightmare" and Converge's "Love is Not Enough". An action packed week of music discovery, I not only tell you what albums are dropping, but I review them, telling you what I thought of these albums, give a rating for the album, and even give a small snippet of a song for a free sample. As a lifelong music fan, who loves metal, rock, punk and any other style of heavy music, I scour the earth looking for the best in music from new releases to those hidden gems that passed us by. Fired Up For Friday is a new podcast series letting listeners know the new, must hear music dropping every Friday. Usually posting on Wednesday's, this allows listeners the opportunity to see what is coming up for release, what they have to hear giving them something to look forward to, to finish out the week. Make sure you follow for weekly album releases, reviews and the hottest of metal releases. If you are looking for more metal content besides reviews and ratings, also check out the Distorted Dialogue Podcast, where I sit with members from the metal, punk and hardcore communities, doing deep dives into their albums, bands, and anything else we decide to discuss. New Episode every Sunday.Make sure you follow, so you don't miss the latest content dropping. 

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