Hello one and all to another edition of Initial Descent where I’ve got nothing quippy due to it being Monday and all. And, I’d love one more weekend day but that ain’t happening so here we are. New stuff, we got it and you want it so let’s get after it… This week we’ve got a couple of tech death albums from Abiotic and Demon King, but holy crap look at that Abiotic album artwork! Kung Fu movies anyone? The answer is yes with this playing in lieu of the tv sound. Elsewhere we have a death metal banger from Humanity’s Last Breath and one that has made our very own Zyklonius happy; the misery pop of Emptiness who travel waaaaay outside the lines of expectations and offer up a whole lot of something, or in Zyklonius’ words: ‘something and nothing at the same time.’ Decode that and you win the week. Speak with him for your prize. As always, much more follows these four so dig in.
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Abiotic – Ikigai (The Artisan Era) – tech death
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Humanity’s Last Breath – Välde (Unique Leader) – death metal
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Emptiness – Vide (Season of Mist) – misery pop
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Demon King – The Final Tyranny (The Artisan Era) – tech death
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Also on tap:
Ablaze My Sorrow – Among Ashes and Monoliths (Black Lion Records) – melodic death
Aborym – Hostile (Dead Seed Productions) – electronic metal
Abythic – Dominion of the Wicked (Iron Bonehead) – doom
Ad Nauseum – Imperative Imperceptible Impulse (Avantgarde Music) – black / death
Alltar – Live At Ceremony of Sludge (Independent) – post doom
Amoriello – Dear Dark (Sliptrick) – trad metal
Arcaeon – Cascadence (Independent) – metalcore
Black Pyramid – S/T, Reissue (Labyrinth of Thoughts) – stoner / doom
Blessed Black – La Brea (Independent) – doom
Blue Hour Ghosts – Due (Rockshots) – melodic death
Caedes Cruenta – Of Ritual Necrophagia and Mysterious Ghoul Cults (Helter Skelter / Regain) – black metal
Camera Obscura Two – D.O.D. (Selfmadegod) – grind / thrash / crossover
Chmcl Str8jckt – DRK PRGRSSN (Cleopatra) – old school industrial
Crawl Below – 9 Mile Square (Independent) -0 doom / post-metal
DayGlo Mourning – Dead Star (Black Doomba) – doom
Death By Unga Bunga – Heavy Male Insecurity (Jansen) – rock
Déhà / Humanity Defiled – So Humanity Burns (Back From the Grave) – death metal
Disout – Mien (Independent) – rock
Grand Cadaver – Madness Comes, EP (Majestic Mountain) – melodic death
Hogstul – Ominous Fragmenta Tuptdair (Independent) – symphonic black metal
Immortal Guardian – Psychosomatic (M-Theory Audio) – power prog
Narakah – Blast Haven (Independent) – deathgrind
Nathr – Beinahrúga (Signal Rex) – doom
Ordo Cultum Serpentis – Derej Najash (Signal Rex) – black / death / doom
Pestis Cultus – S/T (Signal Rex) – black / death
Sacred Reich – Ignorance (Metal Blade Records) – thrash
Sacred Reich – Surf Nicaragua (Metal Blade Records) – thrash
Sacred Reich – The American Way (Metal Blade Records) – thrash
Stone Mammoth – S/T (Inverse) – stoner / doom
Sur Austru – Obârsie (Avantgarde Music) – folk black metal
Surut – S/T (Petrichor) – hardcore / gazey
Swampbeast – Seven Evils Spawned Of Seven Heads (Translation Loss Records) – black / death
The Mercy Kills – New Rule, EP (Golden Robot) – sleaze rock
Torressian Call / Welldweller – Split (Eternal Death) – black metal
Tragedy In Hope – Sleep Paralysis (Independent) – metal
Vestindien – Null (Dark Essence) – dark metal
–Josh
