Here we are at the dawn of October. One of the finest months of the year, obviously. What better way to kick it off than with a stacked list of metal that is as varied as the many horror movies you need to watch over the next 31 days. Anyway, Initial Descent knows you need it so, this week we have the amazing new album The Dark Hereafter from Winterfylleth, a jazzy avant-garde self titled debut from Brain Tentacles, Okkultokrati‘s Raspberry Dawn that is satan rock at it’s finest and of course Sorceress from everyone’s favorite target Opeth. For everyone still mad about the whole no death metal thing, news flash, they’re still great. Also Veilburner returns with their third full length of inherently evil and challenging black/death/experimental The Obscene Rite and Halshug cracks the earth in half with their brutal new album Sort Sind. Plenty here for you to enjoy so without further delay, get busy after the jump.
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Winterfylleth – The Dark Hereafter (Spinefarm Records) – black metal
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Brain Tentacles – Brain Tentacles (Relapse Records) – metallic jazz [full review]
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Okkultokrati – Raspberry Dawn (Southern Lord) – metal, rock, satan
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Opeth – Sorceress (Nuclear Blast) – metal, death, progressive
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Veilburner – The Obscene Rite (Independent) – black metal, death metal [full review]
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Halshug – Sort Sind (Southern Lord) – hardcore
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Also on tap:
A Constant Knowledge of Death – Vol. II, Organic Emotions (Independent) – progressive metal
Abigail – The Final Damnation (Nuclear War Now!) – black metal
Abigorum & Cryostasium – Unholy Ghost Liturgy, Collaboration (Satanath Records) – black metal, doom, ambient
Alcest – Kodama (Prophecy Productions) – blackgaze
Altar of Oblivion – Barren Grounds, EP (Shadow Kingdom Records) – doom metal
Anomalistic – Human Decimation (Reality Fade Records) – death metal, brutal
Asphyx – Incoming Death (Century Media) – death metal
Brant Bjork – Tao of the Devil (Napalm Records) – metal, rock
Brutally Deceased – Satanic Corpse (Doomentia) – death metal
Clouds Taste Satanic – Dawn Of the Satanic Age (Independent) – doom metal
Colombian Necktie – All Paths Lead to Nowhere (Black Voodoo Records) – hardcore
Conqueror – War.Cult.Supremacy (Nuclear War Now!) – death metal, black metal [NWN feature]
Cryfemal – D6s6nti6rro (Osmose Productions) – black metal
Dead – Untitle (We Empty Rooms) – punk, post, sludge
Death Is Liberty – A Statement Darkness (Concorde Music Company) – progressive metal
Deathcult – Beasts of Faith (Invictus/Iron Bonehead) – death metal
Emma Ruth Rundle – Marked For Death (Sargent house) – doom, singer/songwriter
Epica – The Holographic Principle (Nuclear Blast) – symphonic metal
Evil Invaders – In For the Kill, EP (Napalm Records) – thrash metal, classic
Excuse – Goddess Injustice, 12″ MLP (Shadow Kingdom Records/Hell’s Headbangers) – thrash metal [full review]
Fuzz Evil – Fuzz Evil (Battleground Records) – metal, psych
Goatflesh – Pilgrimage To Icon Of Sin (Independent) – black metal, death metal
Harri Kauppinen – Helvetin Iaulat (Concorde Music Company) – dark metal
Holy Serpent – Temples (Riding Easy Records) – heavy psychedelic
Invoking the Abstract – Aural Kaleidoscopes (Unique Leader) – death metal, tech, instrumental
Iraconji – Global Genocide (Independent) – death metal, thrash
Katla – Embryo (Svart Records) – psychedelic
Kzohh – Trilogy: Burn Out The Remains (Ashen Dominion) – black metal
Lost Empires – Death: The Unveiling of Eternity, (Independent) – heavy metal, power
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Y Proffwyd Dwyll (New Heavy Sounds) – doom metal
Negura Bunget – ZI (Prophecy Productions) – black metal, experimental
Noctem – Haresis (Prosthetic Records) – death metal, black metal
Nonexist – The New Flesh (Independent) – swedish thrash, death metal
Nordwitch – Mørk Profeti (Satanath Records) – death metal, black metal
Oathbreaker – Rheia (Deathwish, Inc.) – black metal, metallic hardcore
Re-Armed – The Era of Pracarity (Saarni Records) – thrash metal, death
Seremonia – Pahuuden äänet (Svart Records) – heavy psychedelic
Seven Kingdoms – In the Walls (Independent) – power metal [full review]
Skálmöld – Vogguvisor Yggdrasils (Napalm Records) – viking metal
Suicidal Tendencies – World Gone Mad (Suicidal Records) – thrash metal, hardcore
S U R V I V E – RR7349 (Relapse Records) – synthwave, horror
The Agonist – Five (Napalm Records) – heavy metal
Triple Cripple – Nursing Home for Retired Hookers (Horror Pain Gore Death) – grindcore
Truckfighters – V (Century Media) – stoner metal
Unyielding Love – The Sweat of Augury (Sentient Ruin) – grindcore, noise, black metal
Vorgrum – Last Domain (Via Nocturna) – folk metal, pagan
Yeti On Horseback – The Great Dying (Medusa Crush Recordings) – doom metal
– Josh
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