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