Last week was a good week. Finally. Lots of reasons and none of which matter to anyone but me. I mention it because it was an anomaly as of late and demanded mentioning. And, I’m all out of witty one liners—even though last week was full of crappy but funny movie quotes—so you got that for an opening statement. Yay you. Anyway, new week means new releases and we got a ton of them to get to and from all corners of the vast metal and metalish landscape. Looking for some incredible sludge that bites back? Black Sheep Wall has your back. How about some shamanic doom? Sunnata saves the day. Or maybe some filthy doom/sludge is calling? 16 and Grime do it and do it well on a split so you’re covered there. Or maybe some exceptionally low end driven, crazy, avant-metal fits the bill? You guessed it, Timo Ellis is looking out for you—just sayin’, I’ll die on the hill of Timo Ellis and Netherlands so there’s that to entice you. All that and a very long list to follow so GET AFTER IT, folks.
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Black Sheep Wall – Songs for the Enamel Queen (Silent Pendulum) – sludge
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Sunnata – Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth (Independent) – doom
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16 / Grime – Doom Sessions Vol. 3 (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom
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Timo Ellis – Death Is Everywhere, EP (Independent) – avant-rock / metal
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Also on tap:
Abstrakt – Uncreation (Inverse) – symphonic black / death
Aeonblack – The Time Will Come (Black Sunset) – heavy metal
Ævangelist – Dream an Evil Dream III (Dead Seed Productions) – dark metal
Ambassador – Care, Vinyl Issue (Independent) – post-punk
Amon Acid – Paradigm Shift (Helter Skelter / Regain) – doom / stoner
Anime Torment – Void Terror (Slovak Metal Army) – extreme
Black Totem – II: Shapeshifting (Svart) – blackened blues / doom / punk
Blitzkrieg – A Time of Changes, Reissue (High Roller) – heavy metal
Bonfire – Roots (AFM) – metal
Caligonaut – Magnified As Giants (Apollon Records Prog) – prog
Cannibal Accident – Nekroluster (Time To Kill) – grind
Cave of Swimmers – Aurora (BroomTune) – metal
Chainsword – Blightmarch (Godz Ov War Productions) – death metal
Coffin Mulch – Septic Funeral (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
Cortége – Chasing Daylight (Desert) – ambient doom
Cult Graves – Strange Customs (Godz Ov War Productions) – death metal
Culted – Nous (Underground Activities) – black / doom
Dead Mammals – S/T (Trepanation) – noise
Dead Register – Don’t Fail Me, EP (AVR) – post-rock / avant-doom
Detestor – The Abysswalker, Single (Sound Revival Production) – deathcore
Domestic Terror – S/T (x7Ax) – grind
Druadan Forest / Old Sorcery – Split (Werewolf) – dungeon synth
Empyrium – Über den Sternen (Prophecy Productions) – folk / dark metal
Evergrey – Escape of the Phoenix (AFM) – prog metal
Evulse – Pustulant Spawn (Godz Ov War Productions) – death metal
Fellowcraft – This Is Where You’ll Find Me (Independent) – rock
Five the Hierophant – Through Aureate Void (Dark Essence) – psych / doom / jazz
FM Einheit – Exhibition of a Dream (Cold Spring) – industrial / electronic
Furia – W śnialni (Pagan Records) – nekrofolk
Gatuplan – Kampen Gâr Vidare! (Wild Kingdom) – punk
Grale – Agitacion (Independent) – heavy metal
Grizzle – Fly You Fat Bastard (Independent) – metalcore
Gypsy Pistoleros – Lost In A Town Called Nowhere (Riot) – rock n’ sleaze
Herr Nox – Where Shadows Fade (Independent) – gothic metal
Hidden Intent – Dead End Destiny (Independent) – thrash
Inflabitan – Intrinsic (Soulseller) – black metal
Innersphere – Omfalos (Slovak Metal Army) – melodic death metal
Ionophore – Knells (Independent) – ambient
Iotunn – Access All Worlds (Metal Blade) – metal
Jameson Raid – Raiderstronomy, Reissue (High Roller) – heavy metal
Jarhead Fertilizer – Product of My Entertainment (Closed Casket Activities) – deathgrind
Kombi Killers – Don’t Start (Riot) – punk
Korpse – Insufferable Violence (Unique Leader) – death metal
Los Males Del Mundo – Descent Towards Death (Northern Silence Productions) – black metal
Lost For Life – Don’t Let It Consume You (Dead Serious Recordings) – hard rock
Lun – Chamanes, EP (Independent) – neofolk
Melvins – Gluey Porch Treatments, Vinyl Reissue (Ipecac Recordings) – melvins
Melvins – Hostile Ambient Takeover, Vinyl Reissue (Ipecac Recordings) – melvins
Melvins 1983 – Working With God (Ipecac Recordings) – melvins
Mephistofeles – A Path of Black (Helter Skelter / Regain) – stoner doom
Messiahvore – S/T (Coffin & Bolt) – doom / stoner
Metalite – A Virtual World (AFM) – melodic power metal
Minefield – Seventh Heaven, Single (Golden Robot) – rock
MIY – Work (Independent) – darkwave / synth
Mountainscape – Acceptance (Trepanation Recordings) – post-metal
Night Prowler – No Escape (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal
Ominous Ruin – Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone (Willowtip Records) – tech death
Paranorm – Empyrean (Redefining Darkness) – thrash / black / death
Performed – Moronia (Slovak Metal Army) – thrash
Plague Weaver – Ascendant Blasphemy, EP (Independent) – metal
Profond Barathre – Tinnitus (Hummus Records) – black metal
Sadistic Drive – Anthropophagy (Blood Harvest) – death metal
Sandstorm – Desert Warrior (Dying Victims Productions) – metal
Scald – There Flies Our Wail!, EP (High Roller) – doom
Shadows – S/T, EP (Agonia) – doom
Significant Point – Into the Storm (Dying Victims Productions) – speed / heavy
Sinira – The Everlorn (Northern Silence Productions) – melodic black metal
Skam – Intra, EP (Golden Robot Records) – power rock
Slough of Despair – Catacombs of Terror (Chaos / Personal) – doom / death
Sow Discord – Quiet Earth (Tartarus) – electro-heavy
Spelljammer – Abyssal Trip (RidingEasy Records) – desert rock
Sullen Guest – Chapter III (Independent) – death / doom
Summoning the Lich – Untied In Chaos (Prosthetic) – death metal
Tenebro – Liberaci dal Male (Xtreem) – horror death metal
Terminal Bliss – Brute Err/ata (Relapse) – punk
The Generals – To Hell (Black Zombie) – death n roll
The Slumbering – Looking For Sorrow Within One’s Fear (Independent) – doom
The Split – Reminiscences (Slovak Metal Army) – prog metal
Valdaudr – Drapsdalen (Soulseller) – black metal
Varang Norg – Pārķiuņa Uomurs (Sliptrick) – folk / pagan / viking
Vladimir Pavelka – Spomienky (Beyond Eyes) – metal
Volvopenta – Simulacrum (Tonzonen) – post-rock
Wehrmacht – Biermächt (Hammerheart Records) – thrash
Wehrmacht – Shark Attack (Hammerheart Records) – thrash
Wolvencrown – A Shadow of What Once Was (Clobber Records) – atmospheric black metal
Wolves of Perdition – Ferocious Blasphemic Warfare (Folter Records) – black metal
Wych – Agony (Independent) – deathcore
Xeper – Ad Numan Satanae (Soulseller) – black metal
–Josh
Nine Circles 