Welcome back to Initial Descent! There’s finally enough new stuff dropping this week to make a post out of! Plus, definitely had to get back in the swing ahead of next week’s slate of new releases, which promises to be absolutely ridiculous. Anyway, we’ve got some death, some funeral doom, some black…a little of everything this week. So check out our highlights after the jump:

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January 15, 2016

Aborted – Termination Redux EP (Century Media)

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Lycus – Chasms (Relapse)

[full review]

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Hostium – The Bloodwine of Satan (Iron Bonehead)

[full review]

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Other New Releases of Note:

• Casualties of Cool – Casualties of Cool [reissue] (Inside Out) [interview]
• Gomorrah – The Haruspex (Test Your Metal)
• Augrimmer – Moth and the Moon (Northern Silence)
• Kosmokrator – To the Svmmit (Van)
• Varg – Das Ende Aller Lagen (Napalm)
• Witchcraft – Nucleus (Nuclear Blast)
• Third Sovereign – Perversion Swallowing Sanity (Transcending Obscurity)

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Keep it heavy,
Dan