Thumbs-up on the mentions of Insomnium and Oceans of Slumber!
Here’s my regularly scheduled delivery of farm-fresh metal recommendations:
Thraeg’s Albums of the Month for September 2017
Winner (tie):
It feels like a copout not to pick a single winner, but these two absolutely towered over the rest of the month for me. @craigm is absolutely right about Threshold’s whole catalog being worthwhile – I’ve gone back and checked out a bunch of it and it’s great, but the new one is still my favorite so far. And Archspire is as tech-death as you can get, which is normally a bit out of my wheelhouse, but it just really worked for me.
Archspire - Relentless Mutation
Threshold - Legend of the Shires
Also Noteworthy:
Caligula’s Horse - In Contact
Galderia - Return of the Cosmic Men
Twelve Boar - No Forgiveness
Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act I
Squalus - The Great Fish
Ufomammut - 8
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
Cradle of Filth - Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness of Decay
Woe Unto Me - Among the Lightened Skies the Voidness Flashed
Paradise Lost - Medusa