Change blows. I hate change when it hits somewhat close to home. Generalities here as no one cares about the details, but let me just say that if change finds you and there’s nothing you can physically do about it, don’t let it eat you up. Embrace it and move on as life is too short. Anyway, the only change to endure here is a new batch of fresh metal and again, we’ve got tons of it; death metal from vastly different ends of the spectrum from Baest, Bonecarver, and Exanimis, then a rather gazey post-metalish outing from Som. All of these are excellent in their own ways and are can’t miss efforts, but that’s definitely just the beginning so keep reading and explore everything else. And, don’t be afraid to branch out of your comfort zone simply due to genre tags. You might miss something crazy good. Enjoy the hunt and we’ll be seeing you throughout the week.
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Baest – Necro Sapiens (Century Media) – death metal
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Bonecarver – Evil (Unique Leader) – death metal
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Som – Awake (Blood Blast Distribution / Pelagic) – gazey
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Exanimis – Marionnettiste (Klonosphere) – symphonic death metal
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Also on tap:
Acid Mammoth – Caravan (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom
Arctic Sleep – By the Horns, Original Soundtrack (Independent) – metal
Blind Monarch – What Is Imposed Must Be Endured, Vinyl (Dry Cough / Heavenly Vault) – doom
Butterfly – Doorways of Time (Petrichor) – trad metal
Dayeater – Sweet Earth (Independent) – psych
Dreamshade – A Pale Blue Dot (Independent) – metal
Eptagon – a.va.lon (Independent) – noise
Flesh of the Stars – Mirror / Vessels, EP (Independent) – prog doom
Golgotha – Remembering the Past – Writing the Future (Xtreem Music) – doom
Gorr – Kvit Som Snøen, Kald I Blikket (Independent) – doom
Hænesy – Garabontzia (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Hallucination – S/T, Demo Tape Reissue (Sentient Ruin) – hardcore / noise
Kaskaskia – Fleecian Winter Majesty (Pacific Threnodies) – atmospheric black metal
Kjeld – Ôfstân (Heidens Hart) – black metal
King Bong – Ogopogo (Mandrone) – psych rock
Magefa – Exenteration (Independent) – death metal
Meuchelmord – Mordmelodien (Purity Through Fire) – german black metal
Mork – Katedralen (Peaceville) – black metal
Nadsvest / Necrobode – Split (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Nixil – All Knots Untied (Independent) – black metal
:Nodfyr – Eigenheid (Van) – metal
Order of Nosferat – Necuratul (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Pustilence – The Birth of the Beginning Before the Inception of the End (Personal Records) – death metal
Reaper – The Atonality of Flesh (Iron Bonehead) – death/black metal
Recall the Remains – Dead Dreams, EP (Independent) – modern metal
Recluse – Lay Your Darkness Down With Me (Independent) – rock
Requiem For Oblivion – Hindsight 2020, EP (Independent) – tech death
Spam Javelin – The Three Chords of the Apocalypse (Link2Wales) – punk
Sporae Autem Yuggoth – The Plague of the Aeons (Personal) – death / doom
Starscape – Colony (Stormspell) – heavy metal
Stella Research Committee – A Proposed Method for Determining Sanding Fitness (Fernald Feed Archives / Cruel Nature) – noise
Stormtide – A Throne of Hollow Fire (Metal Hell) – death metal
Suburban Savages – Demagogue Days (Apollon Records Prog) – prog
Sullen – Nodus Tollens – Act I: Oblivion (Independent) – prog
Terror – Trapped In A World (Independent) – hardcore
The Harvest Trail – Instinct (Independent) – melodic death metal
The Hyena Kill – A Disconnect (APF) – rock
Ungraven / Slomatics – Split (Blackbow) – sludge
Vorkuta – Wandering Alone In the Forest of Transcendence, EP (Deathlike Noise / Metal Or Die) – black metal
Vulture Industries – The Malefactor’s Bloody Register (Dark Essence) – prog metal
Witherfall – Curse of Autumn (Century Media) – melodic metal
Wolf King – The Pathof Wrath (Prosthetic) – metal
Wolvennest – Temple (Van) – psych / black metal
Wÿntër Ärvń – Abysses (Antiq) – neofolk
Xibalba – Ancients (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – black metal
Zaratus – In the Days of Whore (Van) – black metal
–Josh
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