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Cavernlight – As We Cup Our Hands and Drink From the Stream (Gilead Media) – atmospheric, dark metal [full review]
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Impetuous Ritual – Blight Upon Martyred Sentience (Profound Lore) – death metal
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Aposento – Bleed To Death (Xtreem Music) – death metal [full review]
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Iced Earth – Incorruptible (Century Media) – heavy metal [full review]
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Tombs – The Grand Annihilation (Metal Blade) – black metal
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Also on tap:
Anima Nostra – Atraments (Malignant Records) – industrial/doom
Arbor Inversa – Anticipattern ( Wormholedeath) – death metal
Arcadea – S/T (Relapse Records) – cosmic synth/psych
Cenotaph – Perverse Dehumanized Dysfunctions (Hammer Muzik) – brutal death metal
Chaos – All Against All (Transcending Obscurity) – thrash metal
Chiral – Gazing Light Eternity, Cassette Release (Folkvangr Records) – black metal
Coffeinne – Circle of Time (Fighter Records) – melodic metal
Confessions of a Traitor – Illuminate (Sliptrick Records) – metalcore
Cult of Erinyes – Tiberivs (Caverna Abismal Records) – black metal
Currents – The Place I Feel Safest (SharpTone Records) – metalcore
Dead Head – Swine Plague (Hammerheart Records) – thrash metal
Demised – A Warm Place to Stay (Wormholedeath) – gothic metal
Dephosphorus – Impossible Orbits (Selfmadegod) – grindcore
Elevn – Digital Empire (Digital Heavy Records) – synthwave
He Whose Ox Is Gored – Paralyzer, 7″ (Chain Letter/Void Assault) – sludge
In Tormentata Quiete – Finestatico (My Kingdom Music) – avantgarde metal
Khemmis/Spirit Adrift – Fraught With Peril, Split (War Crimes Recordings) – doom metal
Khost – Governance (Cold Spring Records) – death/industrial/doom
Legacy of Emptiness – Over the Past (Black Lion Records) – symphonic black metal
LLNN/Wovoka – Traces/Marks, Split EP (Pelagic Records) – doom, post-metal
Moonaadem – S/T (Independent) – ambient black metal
Mutank – W.H.A.T.S.T.H.A.T., EP (Boonsdale Records) – thrash metal
Perpetual Rage – Empress of the Cold Stars (Inverse Records) – heavy metal
Sharzall – Black Sun (NRT Records) – gothic metal
Synodic – Infinite Presence in a Violent Universe (Independent) – atmospheric black metal
The Cold Stares – Head Bent (Small Stone Recordings) – blues rock
(The) Medicine Theory – Rain Follows the Plow, EP (Independent) – post punk, rock
The Summoned – Sessions (Independent) – technical metal
Ustalost – Spoor of Vipers, Vinyl (Gilead Media) – black metal [feature]
Vampillia + the body – xoroAHbin (Gilead Media) – experimental
White Suns – Psychic Drift (The Flenser) – instrumental rock
– Josh