This constant vortex of uncertainty, pressure, and stress is a bitch. No other way to describe it and I know this is news to literally nobody. But, it’s nice to know we’ve got some cantankerous music this week to avert attention. What, you ask? Hang in there and let’s find out… Of Feather and Bone are sitting on one the most unflinchingly violent death metal albums in recent memory, Machetazo do for gore grind what Carcass did for death metal many years ago and even though it’s a compilation of scattered tracks, this thing is intense, Puteraeon bring a heavy dose of Lovecraft to their maiming buzzsaw of Swedeath, and Novarupta offer an intense and heavy respite of first class post-metal. Do the thing and go support a ton of new music.
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Of Feather and Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration (Profound Lore) – death metal
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Machetazo – Ultratumba II (Selfmadegod) – gore grind / death
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Puteraeon – The Chtulhian Pulse: Call From the Dead City (Emanzipation Recordings) – death metal
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Novarupta – Marine Snow (Suicide) – post-metal
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Also on tap:
Accuser – S/T (Metal Blade) – thrash
AC/DC – Power Up (Columbia) rock
Beaten To Death – Laat maar, deel een: ik verhuis naar Mastbos (Independent) – grind
Booby Trap / Pitch Black / Buried Alive – Bastards Unite (Firecum) – metal
Boundaries – Your Receding Warmth (Unbeaten) – modern metal
Brutal Kraut – Progression In Madness (Boersma) – progressive death metal
Chastain – Mystery of Illusion, Re-Release (Divebomb) – metal
Cidesphere – Dawn of a New Epoch (Testimony Records) – death metal
Code Noir – Jack of All Spades (Leviaphonic Records) – heavy metal
Cognizent – S/T (Selfmadegod) – tech death / grind
Dark Buddha Rising – Mathreyata (Svart) – drone
Death Dealer – Sorcerer Supreme (Steel Cartel) – heavy metal
Deathroll – Into the Vortex, EP (Independent) – thrash
Dismal – Quinta Essentia (Independent) – gothic metal
Doro – Magic Diamonds – Best of Rock, Ballads & Rare Treasures (Rare Diamonds) – metal
Dune Sea – Moons of Uranus (All Good Clean) – psych metal
Everson Poe – Rituals (Trepanation Recordings) – doom
Enigma Experience – Question Mark (Fuzzorama) – heavy rock
Firing Squad – Police State of Mind (Independent) – thrash
Ghøstkid – S/T (Century Media) – metal
Gnarl – The Great Blackness (Trepanation Recordings) – doom / noise
Harlott – Detritus of the Final Age (Metal Blade) – thrash
Hexis – Exstirpo / Exsorbeo (WOOAAARGH) – black / hardcore
Houkago Grind Time – Bakyunsified – Moe to the Gore (Outrageous Weeb Power / Grindfather / Psychocontrol) – grind
Humanity Is Cancer – S/T, EP (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
In Malice’s Wake – The Blindness of Faith (Independent) – thrash / death
Isolert – World In Ruins (Nihilistische KlangKunst) – black metal
Katatonia – Dead Air (Peaceville) – live kat
Katla – Allt þetta helvítis myrkur (Prophecy Productions) – doom / dark
L. A. Guns – Renegades (Golden Robot Records) – modern hair
Lizzy Borden – Best of Lizzy Borden, Vol. 2 (Metal Blade Records) – heavy metal
Mad Butcher – Metal Lightning Attack (Dying Victims Productions) – metal
Megaton Sword – Blood Hails Steel – Steel Hails Fire (Dying Victims Productions ) – metal
Mustard Gas and Roses – We Are One, EP (Pax Aeternum) – cinematic
Nuclear – Murder of Crows (Black Lodge) – death metal
Omegavortex – Black Abomination Spawn (Invictus Productions) – black / death
Overt Enemy – Inception x Possession, Expanded Edition (Confused) – thrash
Phil Campbell and The Bastard Sons – We’re the Bastards (Nuclear Blast) – rock
Polyphozia – Suitcase of Voices (Nefarious Industries) – post-rock
Post Truth – Responses to Trauma (Resist) – metal
Precaria and Oros Kaù – Theosulphuros (I, Voidhanger) – black metal
Putrid Offal – Live at Hellfest 2017 (Xenocorp) – death metal
Pyramaze – Epitaph (AFM) – power metal
Ramchat – Znelo Lesom (Slovak Metal Army) – metal
Scalp – Domestic Extremity (Creator-Destructor) – metalcore
Scream At the Sky – S/T, EP (Independent) – industrial
Seismic – S/T, EP (Independent) – instru-doom
Sépulchre – Ascent Through Morbid Transcendence (Invictus Productions) – death metal
Soul Dissolution – Winter Contemplations, EP (Viridian Flame) – post-black metal
Soulburn – Noa’s D’ark (Century Media) – black / death
Soulskinner – Seven Bowls of Wrath (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Sunyata – The Great Beyond (Independent) – funeral doom
Tammatoys – I Will Follow (Apollon) – metal
Thrudvangar – Vegvisir (Trollzorn) – viking metal
Time Rift – Eternal Rock (Dying Victims Productions) – rock
Under – Training Resource #5 (APF) – avant-sludge
Until the Sky Dies – Forgotten Pact (Independent) – post-metal
Uthullun – Dirges for the Void (Wolves of Hades) – black metal
Völur – Death Cult (Independent) – avant-doom
Warfect – Spectre of Devastation (Napalm) – thrash
Witchrider – Electrical Storm (Fuzzorama) – stoner
Wudewuse – Northern Gothic (Apollon) – gothic folk
Ymir – S/T (Werewolf) – black metal
Ysgaroth – Storm Over a Black Sea (Independent) – black / thrash
– Josh
