As of last week, Deicide’s self titled album turned 30 years old. I look back on it like it was yesterday as that album was the one that really pushed me headfirst into death metal. Sure, I had dabbled in the tape trading circles but nothing I had heard to that point really grabbed me like “Lunatic of God’s Creation” or the pummeling of “Dead By Dawn.” Stone cold classic. Anyway, there’s no way to know which album off of these new release lists we’ll be looking back on with the same admiration but damn if it ain’t fun searching. About that search; this week brings us a sick manifestation of blackened death metal from Myrkridia, a soul crushing epic of death/doom from Convocation, and a tumultuous amalgamation of black metal, doom and noise from Swarming. And, as always, so much more below. Seek and enjoy.
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Myrkridia – Termination Entity (Vargheist) – black / death
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Convocation – Ashes Coalesce (Everlasting Spew / Sentient Ruin) – death / doom
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Swarming – Primeval Arteries of the Sacred Dead (Nihilistic Noise Propaganda) – black / doom / noise
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Also on tap:
666 – S/T (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – black metal
Aleah – S/T (Svart) – dark folk
Athanatheos – Prophetic Era (Or How Yahveh Became the One) (Lavadome) – death / black
Awake the Mutes – Eyes (Bastardized Recordings) – modern metal
Black Altar / Kirkebrann – Deus Inversus (Odium) – black metal
Black Funeral – Scourge of Lamashtu (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Bloodhunter – S/T (Independent) – melodic death metal
Blood Stronghold – Spectres of Bloodshed (Nebular Carcoma / Satanik Requiem) – black metal
Bofo Kwo – Space/Time Carnivorium (Sliptrick) – symphonic black metal
Bury Tomorrow – Cannibal (Music for Nations / Sony) – modern metal
Ddent – Couvre-sang (Chein Noir) – post-rock
Dead Tree Seeds – Push the Button (Music-Records) – thrash
Deeper Graves – Open Roads (Disorder Recordings) – shoegaze
Enshadowed – Stare Into the Abyss (Odium) – black metal
Godless North – Dark Rites of the Mystic Order (Nebular Carcoma) – black metal
Gramma Vedetta – A.C.I.D. Compliant (Independent) – heavy rock
Ignea – The Realms of Fire and Death (Kadabra Music) – melodic metal
IRN – S/T, EP (Rope Or Guillotine / Craniophagus Parasiticus) – sludge
Isaurian – Chains of Blue (Independent) – doomgaze
K.F.R. – Nihilist (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Levendleed – Algehele Malaise (Back From the Grave Tapes / War Productions) – dsbm
Limos – Tales of the White Eye (Inverse) – melodic death metal
Northern Crown – In a Pallid Shadow (Independent) – doom rock
Of Wolves – Balance (Trepanation Recordings) – sludge / metal / punk
Pixie Ninja – Colours Out of Space (Apollon Records Prog) – instru-prog
Powerwolf – Best of the Blessed (Napalm) – power metal
Sickening Horror – Chaos Revamped (Pathologically Explicit Recordings) – tech death
Somniate – The Meyrinkian Slumber (Lavadome) – black metal
Torrefy – Life is Bad (Independent) – black / speed / thrash / death
Victim Unit – Hopeless Failure, EP (Hibernacula / Affair) – harsh noise / industrial
Virtual Symmetry – Exoverse (Independent) – prog metal
Walpurgia – Altar of the Goatbaphomet (Helter Skelter / Regain) – war metal
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– Josh
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