It's year-end list season! December is typically the leanest month for new music, but the search for fresh tracks still continues.
I'm currently compiling metal and metal-adjacent music for Territory's Edge,
my monthly recap column on New Fury Media. After the last Friday of
the month, I will select 5-8 albums or songs to discuss in
detail. My favorites of the month are marked with 🐅.
December Release Tracker
Singles
Katatonia - "Austerity" (Dec 1, progressive metal)
Wake - "Vast and Infinite" (Dec 1, doom death metal/deathgrind)
Zulu - "Fakin Tha Funk" (Dec 1, hardcore/powerviolence)
Distant - "Orphan of Blight" (Dec 2, symphonic deathcore)
Falsifier - "Drown in Misery" (Dec 2, deathcore)
Gideon - "Too Much is Never Enough" (Dec 2, nu metal/metalcore)
PhaseOne/Erra - "World Unknown" (Dec 2, EDM-core/progressive metalcore)
Jesus Piece - "An Offering to the Night" (Dec 5, hardcore)
Casey - "Great Grief" (Dec 5, post-hardcore)
Ne Obliviscaris - "Equus" (Dec 6, progressive metal)
Silent Civilian - "My Addiction" (Dec 6, metalcore)
Zeal and Ardor - "Firewake/Cinq" (Dec 7, black metal/blues rock)
Suicide Silence - "Alter of Self" (Dec 9, deathcore)
Time the Valuator - "Binary Pulse" (Dec 9, progressive metal)
Afterdusk - "Plastic Memories" (Dec 9, metalcore)
The Acacia Strain - "Untended Graves" (Dec 14, deathcore)
Albums/EPs
Indepth - Ancient Architects (Dec 1, technical death metal)
In Search of Solace - The Endless Ache (Dec 2, hardcore/metalcore) 🐅
Dead/Awake - Vile (Dec 2, hardcore) 🐅
Despite Exile - Wound (Dec 2, technical death metal/deathcore)
Dystopia A.D. - Doomsday Psalm (Dec 2, melodic death metal/thrash)
Lost Baron - Dark Messiah (Dec 2, blackened death metal)
Obvurt - Triumph Beyond Adversity (Dec 2, technical death metal)
Synestia - Maleficium (Dec 2, deathcore)
Colonial Wound - Easy Laugh (Dec 9, sludge/hardcore)
Thousand Below - Hell Finds You Everywhere (Dec 9, post-hardcore)
Harakiri for the Sky - Aokigahara MMXXII (Redux) (Dec 9, post-black metal)
Harakiri for the Sky - Harakiri for the Sky MMXXII (Redux) (Dec 9, post-black metal)
Filth - Murder Inc (Dec 9, deathcore)
