That chill in the air signifies the landscape surrounding us has begun its slow progression towards death. It also means that you need to sharpen your fire making skills because seriously, there’s nothing better than a crisp night under the stars with thought provoking metal and a roaring fire. With that, let’s begin: grim, frostbitten, technical and majestic all describe the black metal found on Throne of Heresy’s third full length Decameron, the heavy metal freight train that is Sweden’s Ram continues to barrel mightily down the tracks on Rod, on third full length and Colin Marston produced IAO 269 death metallers Corpse Garden show a new, outstanding, experimental side we’ve yet to hear and putting the final squeeze on this Halloween season is Autumns Eyes with their Type O Negative vibed Ending Life Slowly — dark, gloomy, goth tinged with a pinch of melodic death metal equates to a ton of fun here. Cozy up with us by this amazing fire we started (with lighter fluid, shhh – our secret) and explore all that this week has to offer…
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Throne of Heresy – Decameron (The Sign Records) – black / death [feature review]
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Ram – Rod (Metal Blade Records) – heavy metal [full review]
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Corpse Garden – IAO 269 (Godz Ov War Productions) – death metal
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Autumns Eyes – Ending Life Slowly (Independent) – doom / goth
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Also on tap:
Acid Witch – Evil Sound Screamers (Hells Headbangers) – doom / death
Anima Damnata – Nefarious Seed Grows to Bring Forth Supremacy of the Beast (Godz of War Productions) – death metal
Annihilator – For the Demented (Silver Lining Music) – thrash / heavy metal
Batushka – Litourgiya, Reissue (Metal Blade) – black / death [full review]
Bergrizen – Der Unsterbliche Geist (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Big Dumb Face – Where is Duke Lion? He’s Dead… (Edison Sound) – experimental
Black Capricorn – Omega (Stone Stallion Rex) – psych doom
Boson – Domain of Ember (Anxious & Angry Records) – sludge
Cannibal Corpse – Red Before Black (Metal Blade) – death metal
Clouds Taste Satanic – The Glitter of Infinite Hell (Independent) – doom
Converge – The Dusk In Us (Epitaph) – hardcore
Disabuse – Death Machines (Raw Skull Recordz) – thrash punk
Eero Koivistoinen & Jussi Lehtonen – Illusion (Svart Records) – jazzy
Feral – Forever Resonating In Blood (Horror Pain Gore Death) – black metal
Fragarak – A Spectral Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Friendship – Hatred, LP (Southern Lord) – extreme metal
Haema – Insurrection, EP (Sliptrick) – industrial groove metal
Hangman – A Vile Decree (Flatspot Records) – hardcore
Hazytones – S/T (Ripple Music) – stoner rock
High Reeper – S/T (Independent) – stoner metal [feature]
Hobosexual – Monolith (Kitchentable Records) – prog rock
Invertia – The Crimson Screen Vol. 1 (Independent) – industrial metal
Ixion – Return (Finesterian Dead End) – atmospheric doom
Kawir – Exilasmos (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Khandra – All is of No Avail (Redefining Darkness Records) – black metal
KO:MI – Songs of Them (Svart Records) – experimental pop
Long Arms – Young Life (Dead Serious Recordings) – rock
Lóstregos – Lendas Baixo o Luar (Fólkvangr Records) – pagan black metal
Lustre – Still Innocence (Nordvis Produktion) – atmospheric black metal
Malokarpatan – Nordkarpatenland (Invictus Productions) – black metal
Metamorphosis – The Secret Art (The Devil’s Ground) – black / death
Moloch – The Vatican Cellars, Comp. (Via Nocturna) – dark synth
Moonspell – 1755 (Napalm Records) – dark metal
Mother of Millions – Sigma (ViciSolum Records) – progressive alt-metal
Motherslug – The Electric Dunes of Titan (Independent) – psych fuzz / doom
Niviane – The Druid King (Pitch Black Records) – power metal
Opium Warlords – Droner (Svart Records) – black metal
Pink Mass – Necrosexual (Independent) – crust / grind
Perdition’s Light – Endzeit (Independent) – extreme metal
Primitive Race – Soul Pretender (Metropolis Records) – industrial rock
Procession – Doom Decimation (High Roller Records) – doom
Profanatica – The Enemy of Virtue (Hells Headbangers) – black metal
Scour – Red, EP (Housecore) – extreme metal
Signs of the Swarm – The Disfigurement of Existence (Unique Leader Records) – death metal
Sisyphean – Illusions of Eternity (Drakkar Productions) – black metal
Sleeping Romance – Alba (Napalm Records) – symphonic metal
Stahlsarg – Mechanisms of Misanthropy (Non Serviam Records) – black / death
Stairs of Life – The Man In a Glass (Sliptrick Records) – alt prog-rock
Tero Ikäheimonen – The Devil’s Cradle – The Story of Finnish Black Metal, Book (Svart Publishing)
Tetragrammacide – Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix (Iron Bonehead) – black death [feature review]
The Earth and I – The Candleman (Independent) – progressive metal
Ubiquity – Forever / Denied (Third I Rex) – black / hardcore
Until the Sky Dies – The Year Zero Blueprint (Cimmerian Shade Recordings) – avant metal
Various Artists – Brown Acid The Fifth Trip (RidingEasy Records) – obscure rock
Vaultwraith – Death is Proof of Satan’s Power (Hells Headbangers) – black / death
Voëmmr – Nox Maledictvs (Harvest of Death/Signal Rex) – black metal
Zao – Pyrrhic Victory (Independent / Holy Mountain Printing) – metal
Zifir – Kingdom of Nothingness (Duplicate Records) – black metal
– Josh
