Last one of these before Halloween. So, who are you parading around town as? I’m going as myself, straight from work. Should be fun. Get your horror movies on this weekend people, seriously. I tip my hat to all of you that I see on social media getting it done — handful of nights left to go, DO NOT let us down. Anyway, lots of metal here on Initial Descent this week: All Pigs Must Die place a nasty drillbit made of hardcore squarely in the temple on Hostage Animal, Blut Aus Nord slice the rib cage wide open with a machete of black metal on Deus Salutis Meae, DeathCrawl peels the skin back painfully slow with sludgy fingertips on Acceptable Level of Misery and Mendacium severs limbs then uses them to beat the blackened dead to a pulp on Decimating Titans. Sounds fun right? Of course it does. But that’s not all, we have much more fun lying in wait. Head inside and see for yourself — you never know what might be lurking around the corner…
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All Pigs Must Die – Hostage Animal (Southern Lord) – extreme metal [full review]
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Blut Aus Nord – Deus Salutis Meae (Debemur Morti) – black metal [full review]
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DeathCrawl – Acceptable Level of Misery (Independent) – sludge / death [feature]
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Mendacium – Decimating Titans (Independent) – black / death
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Also on tap:
30.000 Monkeys – Starrrrrrrring (Vibrancy Records) – noise rock
Acheulean Forests – The Enchantment (Pacific Threnodies) – dungeon synth
Agusa – S/T (Laser’s Edge) – psych / progressive rock
Apotelesma – Timewrought Kings (Solitude Production) – death / doom
Band of Spice – Shadows Remain (Scarlet Records) – experimental
Barrowlands – Tyndir (Vendetta) – black metal
Beyond Visions – Catch 22 (Bleeding Music Records) – melodic metal
Brandon Seabrook – Needle Driver (Nefarious Industries) – experimental alt-metal
Bunker 66 – Chained Down in Dirt (High Roller Records) – black / speed
Caïnan Dawn – F.O.H.A.T. (Osmose Productions) – black metal
Camerata Mediolanense – Le Vergini Folli (Prophecy) – neofolk post-punk
Complete Failure – Crossburner (Season of Mist) – hardcore
Cryptic Fog – Staring Through the Veil (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Cursed Moon – Rite of Darkness (Hells Headbangers) – gothic black metal
Delain – Live at Paradiso (Napalm Records) – symphonic metal
Devangelic – Phlegaton (Comatose Music) – brutal death metal
Dr. Living Dead! – Cosmic Conqueror (Century Media) – thrash
Dragonhammer – Obscurity (My Kingdom Music) – power / progressive
Eneferens – In the Hours Beneath (Nordvis/Bindrune) – black metal
Forefather – Tales From a Cloud-Born Land, Cassette EP (Fólkvangr Records) – pagan black metal
Gnaw – Cutting Pieces (Translation Loss) – experimental / noise
Honeymoon Disease – Part Human, Mostly Beast (The Sign Records) – swedish rock
Katla – Móðurástin (Prophecy) – prog icelandic stuff
Khazaddum – Plagues Upon Arda, CD (Black Market Metal Label) – orchestral death metal [full review, interview]
Malleus – Storm of Witchcraft (Blood Harvest) – black / thrash / speed
Minus Youth / Blood Shot Down – Split (Demons Run Amok) – hardcore
Mirror Queen – Verdigris (Tee Pee Records) – melodic hard rock
Natvres – Early Cvlts (Argento Records) – black metal
Necrotted – Worldwide Warfare (Rising Nemesis Records) – death metal
Ne Obliviscaris – Urn (Season of Mist) – progressive tech metal
Odious Icon – Planet of Immense Decay (Negative Vibe Records) – death metal
Oreida / Holocausto Em Chamas – Split (Harvest of Death / Signal Rex) – black metal
Párodos – Catharsis (Inverse Records) – avantgarde / post black metal
Pile of Excrements – Escatology (Memento Mori) – death metal
Plaque Marks – Anxiety Driven Nervous Worship (Learning Curve Records) – extreme noise
Promethean Misery – Ghosts (PRC Music) – neoclassical doom
Sacroscum – Drugs & Death (Unholy Prophecies) – dirty black metal
Savage Messiah – Hands of Fate (Century Media) – heavy metal
Serenity – Lionheart (Napalm Records) – symphonic metal
Siinai – Sykli (Svart Records) – instrumental prog
The Decrees – Sons of Rage (Independent) – rock
Thy Serpent’s Cult – Supremacy of Chaos (Ordo MCM) – black / death
Torchia – Of Curses and Grief (Inverse) – death metal
Vrona – Impermanence (Independent) – progressive metal
VVon Dogma I – Communion, EP (Independent) – progressive metal
War Possession – Doomed to Chaos (Memento Mori) – death metal
Wojczech/Krupskaya – Split,7” (Degrees Records) – grindcore
Worm – Evocation of the Black Marsh (Iron Bonehead) – swampy black metal
zhOra – Ethos, Pathos, Logos (Independent) – progressive sludge
– Josh
