Another week down and another ahead of us. One foot in front of the other sort of thing. Walk of life. Whatever. The time changed, finally, and I’m stoked to get my days back. And, of course, I’m constantly daydreaming about sand and salt that will be in my future. Moving on, new metal time so let’s do it; we’ve got some serious atmospheric black metal from Perennial Isolation that sounds exactly as cold as its album cover (this is a very good thing), a slab of old school death metal from Celestial Sanctuary, some post-black metal with a message from Decline of The I, and an album I genre termed as ‘raucous’ from ’68 because it’s rock, metal, bluesy, but most of all it’s a DAMN GOOD TIME. And right now, we all need a damn good time. Right? Right! All that and much more awaits in the lengthy list below so hop to it and load up.
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Perennial Isolation – Portraits (Non Serviam) – atmospheric black metal
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Celestial Sanctuary – Soul Diminished (Redefining Darkness / Church Road) – death metal
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Decline of the I – Johannes (Agonia) – post-black metal
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‘68 – Give One Take One (Cooking Vinyl) – raucous
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Also on tap:
1782 – From the Graveyard (Heavy Psych Sounds) – horror doom
Abjection – Malignant Deviation (Godz Ov War Productions) – death metal
Arepo – S/T (Pax Aeternum) – ambient
Aussichtslos – Völlig Aussichtslos (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Aziola Cry – The Ironic Divide (Sensory) – instru-metal
Baalberith – Manhunt (Godz Ov War Productions) – death / black
Band of Spice – By the Corner of Tomorrow (Scarlet) – modern metal
Breaths – Lined In Silver (Independent) – post-metal
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – Nightmare Withdrawals (Independent) – prog death metal
Burn Down Eden – S/T (Kerkraftritter) – melodic death metal
Byron – The Omega Evangelion (Goatmancer) – doom
Cambion – Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium (Lavadome Productions) – death metal
Castroe – Fall Into You (Lazerdiscs) – synthwave
Christian Liljegren – Melodic Passion (Independent) – melodic metal
Concrete Ships – In Observance (Trepanation Recordings) – noise / post-metal
Cryptosis – Bionic Swarm (Century Media) – metal
Death of a Dryad – Hameln (WormHoleDeath / Aural Music) – medieval metal
Demande A La Poussiere – Quietude Hostile (My Kingdom Music) – post-black / doom
Dirge – Vanishing Point (Division) – prog metal
Draken – S/T (Majestic Mountain) – prog rock
Drip-Fed – Kill the Buzz (I.Corrupt.Records) – fuzz
Escumergamënt – …ni degu fazentz escumergamënt a mesorga… (Avantgarde Music) – black metal
Evilizer – Solar Quake (Punishment 18) – heavy metal
Genghis Tron – Dream Weapon (Relapse Records) – grind / metal / electronic
Ghostbound – Extended Play for My Sweet Mary Thyme (Red Nebula) – black / post-punk
Ghosts of Atlantis – 3.6.2.4 (Black Lion) – symphonic black / death
Grande Royale – Carry On (The Sign) – rock
Grorr – Ddulden’s Last Flight (Vicisolum Productions) – rock / djent
Hallowed Butchery – Deathsongs From the Hymnal of the Church of the Final Pilgrimage (Aesthetic Death) – industrial doom
Hound – I Know My Enemies (Metalville) – hard rock
I At Last – Magenta (Inverse) – metalcore
Ildskær – Paa Dækket Kalder de Døde (Wolfspell) – black metal
Inception of Eternity – Last Exit to the Past (Dark Sign Music) – gothic rock
Iniquity – Five Across the Eyes, Reissue (Emanzipation Productions) – death metal
Kanga – You and I Will Never Die (Artoffact) – dark pop
Kärbholz – Kontra. (Metalville) – rock
Kill the Con Man – Operation Just Cause (Independent) – deathgrind
La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio – Trivial Visions (Svart) – psych metal
Legendry – Mists of Time (High Roller Records) – epic metal
Manilla Road – Spiral Castle, Re-Release (High Roller) – metal
Marasmus – Necrotic Overlord (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Mephisto – Pentafixion (WormHoleDeath) – black metal
Monte Penumbra – As Blades In the Firmament (End All Life Prod. / Oration) – black metal
Mourning Dawn – Dead End Euphoria (Aesthetic Death) – black / doom
Mur – Inner Hole, EP (Ladlo) – metal
Nachtig – Der stille Wald (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Nanga Parbat – Downfall and Torment (Sliptrick) – progressive death metal
Nazxul – Irkalla (Seance) – black metal
Necronomicon – The Final Chapter (El Puerto) – thrash
Nordicwinter – Sorrow (Hypnotic Dirge) – atmospheric / dbsm
Odd Dimension – The Blue Dawn (Scarlet) – prog metal
Paladine – Entering the Abyss (No Remorse) – heavy / power metal
Pando – Rites (Aesthetic Death) – drone / black metal
Plastic Tears – Anthems for Misfits (WormHoleDeath) – metal
Portal to the God Damn Blood – Rotten Fruit (Ripcord) – post-rock / screamo
Putrescine – The Fading Flame (Tridroid) – death metal
Sanguisugabogg – Tortured Whole (Century Media) – death metal
Sarkrista – Sworn to Profound Heresy (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Servants to the Tide – S/T (No Remorse) – doom
Shiva the Destructor – Find the Others (Robustfellow Productions) – psych prog
Shrines – Ghost Notes, EP (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – post-punk
Solbrud – Levende I Brøshøj Vandtárn, Live (Eisenwald) – black metal
Stepson – Help Me, Help You (SharpTone) – punk / hardcore
Stonus – Séance (Electric Valley) – stoner / doom
Suicide Forest – Reluctantly (Avantgarde Music) – dbsm
Synastry – Dividing the Double Helix, EP (Independent) – modern metal
Tattva – Nirjara (Void Wanderer Productions) – black metal
The Drowned God – Pale Home (Solid State Records) – blackgaze
The Mobile Homes – Trigger (Wild Kingdom) – synth
The Quill – Earthrise (Metalville) – hard rock
The Sombre – Into the Beckoning Wilderness (Chaos Records) – death doom
Thermohaline – Maelström (Onism Productions) – progressive black metal
Tomahawk – Tonic Immobility (Ipecac) – avant
Valosta Varjoon – Das Flammenmeer (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Varde – Asgaardsreien, Reissue (Nordvis) – black metal
Witchfuck – Black Blood Baptism (Godz Ov War Productions) – black / death / thrash
Witchseeker – Scene of the Wild (Dying Victims Productions) – metal
Wratheon – Black Thrash Mass (Independent) – black thrash
Wyrthersake – Antiquity (Scarlet) – black / death
Yawning Sons – Sky Island (Ripple Music) – post / desert / rock
Zeit – Betonkrebs (Independent) – black / sludge / grind
–Josh
