It always seems that October flies by faster than any other month. Here we are, already halfway through and thankfully, the new metal releases just seem to get better each week. This one is no different but with Darkthrone‘s Arctic Thunder, it just got a lot bigger and for a lot of metalheads that have been anxiously awaiting their return. But we also have the latest entry into grindcore perfection with Voices from Wormrot, Waldgeflüster return with their pagan, atmospheric black metal on Ruinen, hard driving contemporary metallers Anciients offer up their second full length Voice of the Void, 40 Watt Sun‘s Wider Than the Sky is an emotionally stirring doom album and Our Place of Worship is Silence give us some gritty death metal on The Embodiment of Hate. Powerful week for sure, and we haven’t even scratched the surface yet so dive deeper after the jump.
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Darkthrone – Arctic Thunder (Peaceville) – black metal
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Wormrot – Voices (Earache) – grindcore
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Waldgeflüster – Ruinen (Bindrune Recordings) – black metal, melancholic
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Anciients – Voice of the Void (Season of Mist) – progressive metal [full review]
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40 Watt Sun – Wider Than the Sky (Radiance Records) – doom metal, atmospheric
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Our Place of Worship is Silence – The Embodiment of Hate (Broken Limbs Recordings) – death metal [full review]
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Also on tap:
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel – Keep it Greasy (Rise Above Records) – rock
Agatus – The Eternalist (Hells Headbangers) – heavy metal
Black Table – Obelisk (Silent Pendulum Productions) – black metal, progressive
Blasphemer – Ritual Theophagy (Comatose Music) – death metal [full review]
Captain Crimson – Remind (Small Stone) – progressive
Cara Neir – Perpetual Despair Is the Human Condition (Broken Limbs Recordings) – crust punk
Cardinal Wyrm – Cast Away Souls (Svart Records) – doom metal, dark
Condor – Sangreal (Independent) – heavy metal, doom, death
Darkrypt – Delirious Excursion (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal, dark
Demoncy – Faustian Dawn (Nuclear War Now!) – black metal [feature review]
Départe – Failure, Subside (Season of Mist) – black metal, atmospheric
Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation (Party Smasher Inc.) – mathcore, experimental
Elixir – Where The Secret Lies (Maple Metal Records) – power metal
Hobbs’ Angel of Death – Heaven Bled (Hells Headbangers) – black metal
Homewrecker – Extinction by Design (Good Fight Music) – hardcore, thrash
Horse – For Twisted Minds Only, Reissue (Rise Above Records) – classic metal
Life’s December – Fatigue (Dark Wings) – deathcore
MONO – Requiem for Hell (Temporary Residence) – post rock
Northern Crown – The Others (Independent) – doom metal
Noise Pollution – Unreal (Scarlet Records) – heavy metal
Oozing Wound – Whatever Forever (Thrill Jockey) – grungy thrash metal
Red Fang – Only Ghosts (Relapse Records) – hard rock, metal
Sacred Steel – Heavy Metal Sacrifice (Cruz Del Sur Music) – heavy metal [full review]
Sons Of Balaur – Tenebris Deos (Season of Mist) – black metal
Spectral Voice / Phrenelith – Split (Iron Bonehead / Dark Descent) – death metal
Superlynx – LVX (Duplicate Records) – noise, fuzz
Theatres Des Vampires – Candyland (Scarlet Records) – gothic metal
Throneum – Morbid Death Tales (Hells Headbangers) – death metal
Torturum – Rotten. Dead. Forgotten. (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal
Venom Prison – Animus (Prosthetic Records) – death metal, hardcore
Vorvan – Once Love Was Lost (WOOAAARGH) – hardcore punk
– Josh
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