I find it amusing how deadlines get tighter and tighter yet info to meet these deadlines gets later and later. If you feel this pain, gimme a hell yeah in the comments. Anyway, as we journey deeper into the backside of 2020 the new release lists grow longer which just means more to choose from. Or overload, depending on perspective. But, either way, we win. This week sees the legendary grind masters Napalm Death return with their sixteenth(!) full length and it’s, as expected, a mindblowing experience—might just be their finest since we turned a new century, Hostia puts up their second full length of deathgrind and it’s clear these guys have honed their skills since their debut, generally a Various Artists album wouldn’t make top billing but Dirt, Redux is a fantastic homage to Alice In Chains with a fantastic list of contributing bands so do it, and Atlanta’s Palaces offer up some brutal, nasty noise metal. And, tons more to follow so get in there and spend some cabbage.
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Napalm Death – Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism (Century Media) – grind
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Hostia – Carnivore Carnival (Deformeathing Productions) – grind / death
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Various Artists – Dirt, Redux (Magnetic Eye) – metal
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Palaces – Hellas Chasma (Independent) – noise rock [profile]
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Also on tap:
1782 / Acid Mammoth – Doom Sessions Vol. 2 (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom
Alfonso Corace – Fo’s Room (Independent) – prog
Ambassador – Care Vale (Independent) – post-metal
Automatism – Immersion (Tonzonen) – instru-psych rock
Bangladeafy – Housefly (Nefarious Industries) – industrial
Behemoth – And the Forests Dream Eternally, Reissue (Metal Blade) – black / death
Brick – Done Counting My Scars (Sliptrick) – heavy metal
Carnation – Where Death Lies (Season of Mist) – death metal
Cross Bringer – The Signs of Spiritual Delusion (Consouling Sounds) – metal
Dan Weiss Starebaby – Natural Selection (Pi Records) – electronic doom
Daufødt – 1000 Island (Fysisk Format) – avantgarde
Dynfari – Myrkurs er pörf (code666) – black metal
Enwretch – Sermon of the Dead (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
Evoke – Seeds of Death (Pulverised) – speed metal
Face Off – Machines, EP (Independent) – post metal
Fight the Fight – Deliverance (Metal Blade) – metal
Fires in the Distance – Echoes From Deep November (Prosthetic) – melodic death metal
Hark From the Tomb – Let Them Die (Independent) – black metal
Hidden Mothers – S/T, EP (Surviving Sounds) – blackgaze / screamo
Hildenhauta – Riivin (Inverse) – folk
Hræ – par see skepnur reika (Goathorned Productions) – black metal
Illkynja – Sæti Sálarinnar (Goathorned Productions) – black metal
kariti – Covered Mirrors (Aural Music) – folk
Khors – Where the World Acquires Eternity (Ashen Dominion) – atmospheric black metal
Lacittadolente – Salespeople (Trepanation Recordings) – hardcore
Maahes – Reincarnation (MDD Records) – black metal
Maul – Deity Demise (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
Melted Bodies – Enjoy Yourself (Sweatband Records) – hard rock
Movements – No Good Left To Give (Fearless) – post-punk
Mynskh – Chapter 01: Obliterating Perfection (Atmaah) – metal
NoN – III (Crusader) – rock
Novae Militiae – Topheth (Goathorned Productions) – black metal
Offset – Bent Benevolence (Pulverised) – punk / death
Orochen – Thylacine (Suicide Records) – folky hardcore
Ottone Pesante – DoomooD (Aural Music) – brass metal
Pimmit Hills – Heathens & Prophets (Independent) – doom rock
Plague Years – Circle of Darkness (eOne) – death / thrash
Ragehammer – Into Certain Death (Pagan) – black / death
Sadistic Embodiment – Blood Spell (CDN) – metal
Sinsid – Enter the Gates (Pitch Black) – heavy metal
Soulbound – Addicted to Hell (Metalville) – industrial / gothic metal
The Infernal Sea – Negotium Crucis (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – metal
The Last Reign – Evolution (Independent) – melodic death metal
The Mercy Kills – Fall (Golden Robot Records) – punk
The White Swan – Nocturnal Transmissions, EP (War Crime Recordings) – atmospheric sludge
Thorn – The Encompassing Nothing, EP (Independent) – death / doom
Thrasherwolf – We Are Revolution (Independent) – thrash
Varg – Zeichen (Napalm) – black / death
Vatican Shadow – Persian Pillars of the Gasoline Era (20 Buck Spin) – industrial / ambient
Wail – Civilization Maximus (WormHoleDeath) – heavy metal
– Josh
