Look here, it got real out there so everyone please stay safe and well and virus free. And stop HOARDING every damn thing in site. You know the family down the street barely making it by? Yea, that’s the one you’re hurting by being a dick and selling toilet paper and hand sanitizer for 10x face value. I don’t mean YOU, dear reader. Unless YOU have done this. Shame, for shame. Anyway, metal will keep you sane if ordered in the house so let’s get to this week’s list. Kansas City’s answer to damn near perfect sludge by way of hard hitting metal, Hyborian, are back and better than ever, Neck of the Woods show that being slightly progressive with a hint of metalcore and a lot of death metal can be a great thing when done right, Sweven — offshoot of Morbus Chron — have a debut album on tap that forces you to hear death metal through a partially acoustic lens, and it’s AMAZEBALLS, and Lucifer still rock in all the right occultish, 70s inspired, metal ways. Stay safe, well, and loaded with metal.
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Hyborian – Vol. II (Season of Mist) – metal
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Neck of the Woods – The Annex of Ire (Pelagic) – death metal
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Sweven – The Eternal Resonance (Ván) – metal
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Lucifer – Lucifer III (Century Media) – metal
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Also on tap:
Bad As – Crucified Society (Sliptrick Records) – metal
Brain Stem – Symptoms of Annihilation: Stage 2 (Independent) – experimental death metal
Caskets Open – Concrete Realms of Pain(Nine) – doom
Death On Fire – Ghost Songs(Independent) – death metal
Ecnephias – Seven – The Pact of Debauchery (My Kingdom Music) – dark / doom / black
Escuela Grind – Indoctrination (Armageddon Label / To Live a Lie / RSR) – extreme
Fool’s Ghost – Dark Woven Light (Prosthetic) – metal
Grave T – Silent Water (Seahorse Recordings) – prog metal
Grift – Budet (Nordvis) – folk metal
Helion – The Great Fall (Revalve) – death metal
Hell Obelisco – Cyclopian (Independent) – sludge
Hemotoxin – Restructure the Molded Mind (Unspeakable Axe) – death / thrash
Leiru – Ido (Sun & Moon) – black metal
Lost Legacy – In the Name of Freedom (Pure Steel) – metal
Malokarpatan – Krupinské ohne (Invictus / The Ajna Offensive) – black metal
Medico Peste – The Black Bile (Season of Mist Underground Activities) – black metal
Mord’A’Stigmata – Songs for the Exiles, Live at Roadburn 2019 (Pagan) – atmospheric black metal
Myrkur – Folkesange (Relapse) – black metal
Necro Chaos – Spiral of Obscurity (Helldprod) – death metal
Necrogosto – Ancestral Bestiality (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – extreme
Needful Things – Deception, Reissue (Give Praise) – grind
Neorhythm – Terrastory (Independent) – groove metal
New Primals – Horse Girl Energy (Learning Curve) – noise
Nite – Darkness Silence Mirror Flame (Creator-Destructor) – heavy metal
O Zorn! – Your Killer (Seeing Red) – metal
Saltas – Mors Salis: Opus I(Nuclear War Now! Productions) – experimental death
Satan’s Cross – Celebration of the Fallen (Sun & Moon) – black metal
Skull Crusher – Messiah, EP (Independent) – death metal
Soliloquium – Things We Leave Behind (Naturmacht Productions / Rain Without End) – death / doom
Svengali – Sayonara (Independent) – metal
Tethra – Empire of the Void (Black Lion) – melancholic death / doom
The Medea Project – Sisyphus (Independent) – gothic doom
Ulvdalir – Hunger for the Cursed Knowledge, EP (Inferna Profundus) – black metal
Various Artists – 4 Doors to Death Vol. II (Unspeakable Axe) – metal
Vectis – No Mercy For the Weak, EP (Helldprod) – black / thrash
Virocracy – Irradiation (Black Sunset / MDD) – prog death
Waltari – Global Rock (Metalville) – metal
Wardeamonic – Acts of Repentance (Transcending Obscurity) – black metal
– Josh
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