2020 is, and has been, a dumpster fire of epic proportions—this is not news. All I can say is; ya’ll stay safe and stay well. Now, new metal time so let’s conjure up some actual good stuff, shall we? The best sludge band on the planet, 16, is back for another all killer, no filler eighth full length. These guys can do no wrong and for as long as they’ve been excellent at what they do, they just get better and better. Kult Mogił offers up a lightning rod of classic strained death metal full of speed and adrenaline that will raise the heart rate inside of its first twenty seconds, and Exhumed & Gruesome team up for a blood spraying, neck whipping, ass kicking split release from two different spectrums of death metal—two for one type of deal. Well, what are you waiting for? It all awaits, below.
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16 – Dream Squasher (Relapse) – sludge
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Kult Mogił – Torn Away the Remains of Dasein (Pagan) – death metal
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Exhumed / Gruesome – Twisted Horror (Relapse) – death metal
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Also on tap:
156/Silence – Irrational Pull (Independent) – metalcore
Above Aurora – The Shrine of Deterioration (Pagan) – black metal
Azziard – Liber Secondus – Exégèse (Malpermesita) – black metal
Blight – Temple of Wounds (Svart) – avant-metal
Calling All Astronauts – #Resist (Independent ) – goth
Covet – technicolor (Triple Crown) – rock
Currents – The Way It Ends (SharpTone) – metalcore
Dätcha Mandala – Hara (Mrs Red Sound) – rock
Death Courier – Necrotic Verses (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Dreichmere – The Fruit of Barren Fields (Necrotic) – death / dark
Ebonivory – The Long Dream I (Wild Thing) – prog metal
Eisenhauer – Blessed Be the Hunter (Independent) – heavy metal
End – Splinters From An Ever-Changing Face (Closed Casket Activities) – extreme
Ferus Din – The Great Dying (Tridroid) – metal
Fraser Edwards – The Architect (Independent) – power metal
Front – Antichrist Militia (Iron Bonehead) – metal
Gridfailure – Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery II (Nefarious Industries) – noise
Mustasuo – Katharsis (Inverse) – crust / hardcore
Ormskrik – S/T (Fysisk Format) – metal
Re-Armed – Ignis Aeternum (Black Lion) – melodic death metal
Sanctifying Ritual – S/T (Iron Bonehead) – black / thrash
Sarpa – Solivagus (Independent) – black metal
Solemnity – Through Endless Darkness, EP (Independent) – melodic death metal
Sorge – S/T, EP (Independent) – stoner / sludge
The Hollowed Catharsis – Killowner (Lacerated Enemy) – prog death
The Opium Cartel – Valor (Apollon) – synth
The Suns Journey – Through the Night (Eternal Black Transmissions) – Repose black metal
Throne Torcher – The Mechanics of a Nightmare (Independent) – hardcore
Witches – The Fates (Mighty Spells) – thrash / death
Witchfinder – Hazy Rites (Mrs Red Sound) – doom / stoner
Witching – Vernal (Independent) – black / sludge
Witnesses – Doom II (Independent) – doom
YounA – Zornvlouch (Into Endless Chaos) – black metal
– Josh
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