By the time you read this I’ll be somewhere between Florida and my hometown returning from a much needed vacation, very sunburned but very relaxed. Well…except for that whole “returning to the real world” and the plethora of idiots that populate the road ways who will inevitably be in my craw. But, I digress. It’s another week of mucho metal here on Initial Descent so let’s not delay any longer. Kicking things off, Oregon’s Witch Vomit return for another (short) round of killer death metal on Poisoned Blood, Weregoat get bestial and downright nasty on their debut full length Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication, keeping with the theme established thus far is Pig’s Blood with their debut full length Pig’s Blood which offers little in the way of good feelings and rounding out the top slots is Weapönizer with their second full length Lawless Age which features a wicked amalgamation of black metal, thrash and crossover. An overall brutal way to start a Saturday but as always there’s so much more to check out right after the jump. So go, now.
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Witch Vomit – Poisoned Blood (20 Buck Spin) – death metal [full review]
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Weregoat – Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication (Iron Bonehead/Parasitic/Vault of Dried Bones) – bestial metal [feature review]
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Pig’s Blood – S/T (Gods Ov War Productions) – death metal [full review]
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Weapönizer – Lawless Age (20 Buck Spin) – blackened thrash metal
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Also on tap:
Black Messiah – Walls of Vanaheim (Trollzorn) – epic pagan metal
Burning Hatred – Carnage (Morbid Skull Records) – death metal
Contra – Deny Everything (Robustfellows/Shifty Records) – doom metal [feature]
Dead Ranch – Brumation (Wicked Lester Records) – sludge metal
Entity – Phobia of the Formless (Via Nocturna) – death metal
Evadne – A Mother Named Death (Solitude Productions) – doom death
Five Horse Johnson – Jake Leg Boogie (Small Stone Recordings) – blues rock
Grimmdrasil – Shadow of the Universe (Via Nocturna) – black metal
Grydleah – Passage Into The Night (Via Nocturna) – black metal
Helfir – The Human Defeat (My Kingdom Music) – gothic metal
Hexagon Trail – Broken Dialogue/Castlevanian Hunger, Double EP (Independent) – dark ambient/noise
Hollow Leg – Crown, Murder Edition (Argonauta/Southern Druid) – doom/sludge metal
Kafirun – Eschaton (Seance Records) – black metal
Laser Flames on the Great Big News – S/T (Wood and Stone Productions) – alternative metal
Ljosazabojstwa – Sychodžańnie, EP (Hellthrasher Productions) – blackened death/thrash
Lodo – S/T (Third I Rex) – post-metal
Madrost – The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh (Independent) – progressive thrash metal
MaidaVale – Tales of the Wicked West, US Release (The Sign Records) – blues rock, psychedelic [feature]
Mutation – Mutation III: Dark Black (Undergroove Records) – post-grindcore
Origin – Unparalleled Universe (Napalm Records) – death metal
Persecutory – Towards the Ultimate Extinction (Gods Ov War Productions) – blackened death metal
Prison of Mirrors – Unstinted, Delirious, Convulsive Oaths, EP (Signal Rex/De Essentia Diaboli) – black metal
Qrixkuor – Incantations From the Abyss (Invictus Productions) – death metal [feature review]
Robert W. Chambers – The Yellow Sign (Cadabra Records) – horror, spoken word
Siberian – Through Ages of Sleep (The Sign Records) – sludge metal
SinnerAngel – Sinister Decalogo (GrimmDistribution) – death/black/power
Speedclaw – Iron Speed, Cassette (Shadow Kingdom) – speed metal
Stallion – From the Dead (High Roller Records) – traditional heavy metal
Summon – Aesthetics of Demise, Cassette (Iron Bonehead) – death, doom metal
The Soundbyte – Solitary IV (ToT Records) – experimental metal
Uncommon Evolution – Junkyard Jesus, EP (Argonauta Records) – hard rock, stoner
Verthebral – Regeneration (Satanath Records) – death metal
Vintersorg – Till Fjalls del II (Napalm Records) – progressive folk metal [full review]
Vulpus – Certitude (Pest Productions) – post-black metal
Womb Eater – Demo (Independent) – death metal/grindcore
Ye Banished Privateers – First Night Back in Port (Napalm Records) – pirate folk
Zurvan – Gorge of Blood (Satanath Records) – black/death metal
– Josh
