Finally, It’s Halloween week. Not sure what you’ll be doing but as long as it involves horror movies and metal, all will be right in the world for at least a day. Since metal is in the equation, we have a looooong list for this week. So long, in fact, it seems everyone waited for Halloween to push out an album. Good news for us. Anyway, Sarcator open the pit of flayed bodies with their Swedeaththrash and holy smokes is this so crazy good for such a young band—I mean, age 16-21. All that to say, jump on this immediately. And, the mighty Carcass return for a quick hitter EP but quick hitter doesn’t mean slack on quality, it’s Carcass so you know what you’re getting. Stälker put both a classic metal feel and tons of demonspeed in their effort and those vocals? GLORIOUS. Rounding out the top spots is Wolverine who are back with their lush but impressive progressive metal and in audio visual format which is nothing short of amazing so please get your ears, and eyes, on this come Saturday. No matter what you do with Halloween this year, you’ll have plenty of metal to take along for the ride. Just don’t forget to load up on blood and gore as well.
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Sarcator – S/T (Redefining Darkness Records) – Swedish death thrash
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Carcass – Despicable, EP (Nuclear Blast) – CARCASS
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Stälker – Black Majik Terror (Napalm) – speed metal
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Wolverine – A Darkened Sun (Independent) – progressive metal
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Also on tap:
Alien Mustangs – Beat of the Earth (Cardinal Fuzz/Little Cloud Records) – psych rock
Allison Cotton – Only Darkness Now (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube Records) – rock
Angel Rising – S/T (Music-Records) – death metal
Atheos – Words of Eroding Worlds (Niflhel Records) – death metal
Audn – Vökudraumsins Fangi (Season of Mist) – black metal
Ba’al – Ellipsism (Clobber) – post-metal
Beauty In Chaos – A Kind Cruelty (The Sinistrality Mix) by Tim Palmer (33.3 Music Collective) – alternative rock
Begräbnis – Izanaena (Weird Truth Productions) – funeral doom
Bleeding Out – Lifelong Death Fantasy (Profound Lore) – deathgrind
Bliss of Flesh – Tyrant (Listenable) – death metal
Boreal – The Battle of Vosad (Nebulae Artifacta / King of the Monsters) – metal
Botanist – Photosynthesis (The Flenser) – avant
Clawing – Black / Living Together (Trepanation Recordings) – noise
Convulse – Deathstar (Transcending Records) – death metal
Corners of Sanctuary – Heroes Never Die (RFL) – heavy metal
Curimus – Garden of Eden (Inverse) – death / thrash
Cursed Blood – Taker of Life (War Anthem) – death metal
Cyanbaal – Cautionary Tales (Independent) – dark wave
Cynabare Urne – Obsidian Daggers and Cinnabar (Helter Skelter / Regain) – extreme
Dead End America – Crush the Machine (Southern Lord) – hardcore
Dead Head – Kill Division (Petrichor) – thrash
Desaster / Decayed – 7″ Split (Hellprod Records) – black/death
Disrupted – Pure Death (Memento Mori / De:Nihil) – death metal
Draconian – Under a Godless Veil (Napalm Records) – doom
Essence of Blasphemers – Calyx of Black Metal Blood (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Fearsore – Wetworks (Dead Sage) – industrial/avant metal
Forlorn World – Umbra (Independent) – melodic death metal
Funeral Harvest – S/T (Signal Rex) – black metal
Gilby Clarke – Tightwad (Golden Robot Records) – fuzz rock
Glacier – The Passing of Time (No Remorse) – heavy / power metal
Hell Is Here – S/T (Seeing Red) – crust
Hydrogyn – The Boiling Point (RFL) – rock
Icare – Kaos (Division) – grind
Insidious Disease – After Death (Nuclear Blast) – death metal
Junior Bruce – Pray for Death (Sludgelord) – stoner / sludge
Kallias – The Fourth Phase, EP (Independent) – prog metal
King Bull – Why Happened Here?, EP (Riot) – rock
Kiova – Empty Fields and Smoke-Filled Skies (Off / Maniyax) – metal
Kratzer – …Alles liegt in Scherben (7 Degrees / 783 Punx) – noise
Kyrios – Saturnal Chambers (Caligari) – black metal
Loss of Infection – Dark Dimension (Sliptrick) – death metal
Malicious – Deranged Hexes (Invictus Productions) – death metal
Mavorim / Ad Mortem – Iudicium Ultimum (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Mr. Bungle – The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo (Ipecac) – thrash
Mugstar – Graft (Cardinal Fuzz/Centripetal Force Records) – space rock
Nahemia – AR-CAOSAJI (Misanthropic Assault Productions) – black metal
Netherlands – Zombie Techno Undead (Records and Tapes Records) – netherlands metal
Night Cobra – In Praise of the Shadow (NCR) – metal
No Life On Earth – Nothing Is Real (Blood Blast) – groove metal
Noxis – Expanse of Hellish Black Mire (Pulverised / Rotted Life) – death metal
Nuclear Power Trio – A Clear and Present Rager (Metal Blade) – grind
Occult Burial – Burning Eerie Lore (Invictus / Stygian Black Hand) – speed metal
October Falls – Syys (Purity Through Fire) – folk / black
Orcrypt – Balrog & Roll (Death To Music Productions) – metal
Odiosior – Syvyyksistä (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Poison Wind – Virus! (Eleventh Key) – grind / sludge
Possessor – Damn the Light (APF) – proto-metal
Powerstroke – The Path Against All Others (Independent) – metal
Puscifer – Existential Reckoning (Alchemy Recordings) – electro-rock
Ring Van Möbius – The 3rd Majesty (Apollon Records Prog) – progressive metal
Romasa – Insufferable Cave of Rotting Aspiration, EP (Hand of Death) – sludge / crust / death
Ruff Majik – The Devil’s Cattle (Mongrel) – stoner rock
Sad – Misty Breath of Ancient Forests (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Scardust – Strangers (M-Theory Audio) – prog / symphonic metal
Serpents of Secrecy – Ave Vindicta (Moving The Earth Records) – doom
Sick Society – URNØ1 (Independent) – metal
Slagmark – Radical Malice (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Spectral Child – Moribund Kingdom (Trepanation Recordings) – synth
Streams of Blood – Erløsung (The Hidden Art) – black metal
Sulfur Sun – Placodermic Heraldry (Independent) – death metal
Svabhavat – Black Mirror Reflection (Eisenwald) – black metal
Svartsyn – Requiem (Carnal) – black metal
The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – Berserkir Volume II (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube Records) – progressive rock
The Kryptik – Behold Fortress Inferno (Purity Through Fire) – symphonic black metal
The OBGMs – The Ends (Black Box Music) – punk
Undertakers – Dictatorial Democracy (Time To Kill) – deathgrind
Violent Life Violent Death – The Color Of Bone (Innerstrength Records) – metallic hardcore
Visions of Atlantis – A Symphonic Journey To Remember (Napalm) – symphonic metal
Vulgarian – Human Scum (Independent) – hardcore sludge
Vyrion – Nil (Independent) – black metal
War On Women – Wonderful Hell (Bridge Nine) – punk
Watashi Dake – Feral (Inferna Profundus) – experimental black metal
Windchimes – Enervation, EP (Independent) – blackmetalcore
Witchtrap – Evil Strikes Again (Hells Headbangers) – speed metal
Wombripper – Macabre Melodies (Memento Mori) – death metal
Wytch Hazel – Wytch Hazel III: Pentecost (Bad Omen) – heavy metal
Yaotl Mictlan – Sagrada Tierra del Jaguar (American Line Productions) – black metal
Yawning Man – Live at Giant Rock (Heavy Psych Sounds) – desert rock
– Josh
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