Alright folks, THIS IS IT: Halloween week. Do all the things associated and do them with vigor, we’ve been discussing this for weeks now so if you’re behind, GET CAUGHT UP. Moving on, bands are fighting for your attention this week — it’s the devil’s week so why not? — seeing as we’ve got the longest list in recent memory so let’s get to it.
Nile has always understood how to make some of the best death metal around and this week’s new album is no exception, expect more Egyptian tales and more vitriol. Score. November’s Doom officially usher in the gloominess of winter on their eleventh powerhouse, Paganizer keep Swedeath punchy and neck-breaking on their eleventh full length, and Wilderun make a strong case for uniquely different progressive metal that’s truly one for the ages AND it’s not another Opeth clone, finally. So much music to get to and so many Halloween things to do, it’ll be a busy week on so many levels. Go forth and destroy…
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Nile – Vile Nilotic Rites (Nuclear Blast) – death metal
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November’s Doom – Nephilim Grove (Prophecy Productions) – doom
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Paganizer – The Tower of the Morbid (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
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Wilderun – Veil of Imagination (Independent) – progressive metal
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Also on tap:
Aegrus – Wolves Howl Revenge, EP (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Aeons Abyss – Impenitent (Independent) – death metal
American Grim – Ultra Black (eOne) – hard rock
And Now the Owls Are Smiling – The Comforting Grip of Misery (Clobber) – atmospheric black metal
Angel Witch – Angel of Light (Metal Blade) – heavy metal
Apotheus – The Far Star (Black Lion) – melodic death metal
Asphodele – Jours Pâles (LADLO) – black metal
Blackhearth – S/T (Sliptrick) – heavy metal
Bleach Everything / Integrity – RFTCC x SDK (Dark Operative) – hardcore
Byzanthian Neckbeard – Minaton (Independent) – doom / death [profile]
Caïna – Gentle Illness (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – black metal
Cannabis Corpse – Nug So Vile (Season of Mist) – weed-metal, duh
Carcinoid – Metastatic Declination (Blood Harvest) – doom
Chthonic Deity – Reassembled In Pain, EP (Carbonized / Wood Smoke / Lunar Tomb) – death metal
Cinema Cinema – CCXMD (Nefarious Industries) – experimental punk
Clouds Taste Satanic – Second Sight (Kinda Like Music) – doom
Coldside – A Call for Justice, 7” (Demons Run Amok) – hardcore
Cradle of Filth – Cruelty and the Beast, Remixed and Remastered (Music For Nations) – gothic black metal
Cunts – S/T (Ipecac) – hardcore
Deaf Rat – Ban the Light (AFM) – hard rock
Deform / Mortuous – Lamenting Reflections, Split (Carbonized and Dawnbreed / Unholy Domain) – death metal
Die Kunst der Finisternis – Revenant In a Phantom World (Lamech / Amor Fati Productions) – death metal
Ectoplasma – White-Eyed Trance (Caligari / Memento Mori / Repulsive Echo) – death metal
Eigenstate Zero – Sensory Deception (Independent) – death metal
Golden Core – Fimbultyr (Fysisk Format) – doom
Gridfailure – Psychological Badlands: Henchpersons Instrumentals (Independent ) – noise / experimental
Griiim – Pope Art (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Grond / Graceless – Endless Spiral of Terror (Raw Skull) – death metal
Kaamos Warriors – Shadows of Northern Chaos (Inverse) – metal
King Hiss – Earthquaker (Independent) – metal
Kosmokrator – Through Ruin… Behold (Ván) – black / death
Legendry – The Wizard and the Tower Keep (High Roller) – epic metal
Les Chants Du Hasard – Livre Second (I, Voidhanger) – metal
Locean – Chav Anglais (Artificial Head) – experimental
Lvx Caelis – Maher Shalal Hash Baz (Lamech) – black metal
Meth Fetish – S/T, EP (Dry Cough) – sludge
Midnight Odyssey – Boilume Part I – In Tartarean Chains (I, Voidhanger) – black / doom
Minenwerfer – Alpenpässe (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Nachtig – S/T (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Nemesis – The Beginning of the End, EP (Necromance) – death / thrash
Nocturnal – The Great Emptiness (Seance) – black metal
Oniricous – La Maldición, Mini Album (BlackSeed Productions) – death metal
Ordiosordo – Con Il Buio Nel Sangue (Third I Rex) – black metal
Örnatorpet – Vid Himinsenda (Nordvis) – dungeon synth
Orthodoxy – Novus Lux Dominus (The Sinister Flame / Dark Descent) – death metal
PH – Osiris Hayden (Svart) – electronic
Psychomancer – Shards of the Hourglass (Orchestrated Misery Recordings) – death metal
Purulent Necrosis – Cadaverized Humanity (Comatose Music) – brutal death metal
Qayin Regis – Doctrine (BlackSeed Productions) – black metal
Runes Order – Fase XIV (Terror From Hell) – dark ambient
Sarke – Gastwerso (Indie Recordings) – black metal
Serpent Warning – Pagan Fire (Topillo) – doom
The Kryptik – When The Shadows Rise (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Turkey Vulture – In the Pines, Demo Single (Independent) – punk / metal
Úlfarr – Hate & Terror – The Rise of Pure Evil (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Valosta Varjoon – Oberpfälzer Wald (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Vanhelga – LPT, Remastered (War Against Yourself) – black metal
Vaultwraith – Light the Candle In Honour of Devils (Hells Headbangers) – speed / thrash
Violation Wound – Dying to Live Living to Die (Peaceville) – hardcore
Voimaton – Demo 2019 (Blood Harvest) – death / doom
Voyager – Colours In the Sun (Season of Mist) – metal
Vulture – Drowned In Gangrenous Blood (Memento Mori) – death metal
Woodhawk – Violent Nature (Independent) – metal
Xeno Ooze – Parasligm Shift (Last World) – grind
Year of the Cobra – Ash and Dust (Prophecy Productions) – stoner / doom
– Josh
