Where does the time go? Not only are we halfway through November but 2016 is almost done. And I’m pretty sure none of us are sad to see it pass, of course with the exception of the quality metal we’ve had thus far. I will miss that aspect of 2016. Speaking of, we have another chocked full list of metal on this edition of Initial Descent. Green Bastard rub elbows with Sleep and Yob on their fantastic debut Pyre. Metallica break an 8 year silence on Hardwired…To Self Destruct and yes, to answer the burning question, it’s a really good album, and one that finds the band in a form we haven’t heard from them in a very long time. HORNNS blow smoke rings of stoner sludge on Telepath, and yet another band breaking a long silence — 16 years to be exact — is Quicksand Dream with their epic brand of traditional metal on Beheading Tyrants, and Projections I finds Headless Kross even further down the psychedelic doom tunnel. So, an already huge week but there’s so much more to seek out after the jump.
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Green Bastard – Pyre (Midnight Werewolf) – doom metal [full review]
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Metallica – Hardwired…To Self Destruct (Blackened Recordings) – heavy metal
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HORNNS – Telepath (Ripple Music) – doom metal, fuzz [full review]
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Quicksand Dream – Beheading Tyrants (Cruz Del Sur) – traditional heavy metal [full review]
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Headless Kross – Projections I (At War With False Noise) – doom metal, psych
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Also on tap:
Conceived by Hate – Death & Beyond (Morbid Skull Records) – death metal, thrash
Cross Vault – Miles to Take (Iron Bonehead) – heavy metal, epic
Ctulu – S/T (MDD Records) – extreme metal
Dead Conspiracy – S/T (Independent) – death metal
Diabulus In Musica – Dire For the Archons (Napalm Records) – symphonic metal
Distant Sun – Into the Nebula (Metalism Records) – power metal, thrash
Eternal Deformity – No Way Out (Temple of Torturous Records) – doom metal
Evil Madness / Infant Death – Split (Doomentia) – thrash metal
FlaktiiN – Souls For The Legions (War Arts Production) – black metal
Furia – Ksiezyc milczy luty (Pagan Records) – nekrofolk
Gravehill / Mordbrand – Skullbearer / In Nighted Waters, Split LP (Doomentia) – death metal
Grossty – Crocopter (Transcending Obscurity) – grindcore
Heavy Temple – Chassit (Tridroid Records) – doom metal, psych
Inire – Cauchemar (Independent) – groove metal, stoner
Initiated – World On Fire (Svart Records) – heavy rock n roll
Ion Dissonance – Cast the First Stone (Good Fight Music) – progressive metal
Karg – Weltenasche (Art of Propaganda) – black metal, ambient
Mindahead – Reflection (Revalve Records) – progressive death metal
Misanthropic Rage – Gates No Longer Shut (Godz of War Productions) – black metal, avant-garde
Perikato – Kuka hyötyy (Svart Records) – grindcore, punk
Reject the Sickness – Chains of Solitude (Mighty Music) – progressive death metal
Rising Steel – Return of the Warlord (Mighty Music) – power metal, traditional
Shambles – Realm of Darkness Shrine (Nero One Records) – death metal, dark
Siaskel – Haruwen Airen (Signal Rex) – death metal, black metal
Soulburn – Earthless Pagan Spirit (Century Media) – death metal, doom
Teethgrinder – Nihilism (Lifeforce Records) – death metal, crust
– Josh
