It’s not today as I’m writing this. As such, I’ve got a new bottle of Private Barrel Select Russell’s Reserve to get into so there’s a good chance you’ll be seeing more on a select few of the albums in this new release list later this week. That’s how I roll. Sometimes. Anyway, new stuff, we got it and you need it. First up is the outstanding new album from Vokonis who have come a loooong way since their debut, next up is Herzschlager who share members with another bearded bunch of beasts and subsequently have a beast of their own on a new EP, then we’ve got some dirty speed metal from Poisöned Speed and, honestly, who doesn’t love dirty speed metal… and bringing up the rear of top slots is Osiah and whether you call them death metal, deathcore, or just Satan’s death car, it all fits. Go and do the thing.
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Vokonis – Odyssey (The Sign) – metal
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Herzschlager – All the Nights Are Done (Rotting Throne) – d-beat / metal
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Poisöned Speed – Quick and Dirty (Morbid and Miserable / Unchained) – speed metal
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Osiah – Loss (Unique Leader) – death metal
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Also on tap:
Acid’s Trip – Strings of Soul (Heavy Psych Sounds) – rock
Aduanten – Sullen Cadence (Independent) – death metal
Ape Vermin – Arctic Noise (Koloss) – sludge
Arachnes – A New Day (Music for the Masses) – power / prog
Arteaga – Season of the Witch Chapter Two (Interstellar Smoke) – psych
Artillery – X (Metal Blade Records) – thrash
Beekeeper – Slaves to the Nothing (Metal Assault) – metal
Book of Wyrms – Occult New Age (Desert) – psych metal
Candlemass – Green Valley, Live (Peaceville) – doom
Coscradh – Mesradh Machae (Invictus Productions) – black / death
Darkfall / Mortal Strike – Thrashing Death Squad (MDD) – thrash
Disembodiment – Mutated Chaos (Everlasting Spew) – death metal
dochodiaga – słońce i umarły (Devoted Art Propaganda) – metal
Ereb Altor – Eldens Boning (Hammerheart Records) – pagan metal
Everlust – Diary of Existence (WormHoleDeath) – metal
Fange – Pantocrator (Throatruiner) – sludge / death / noise
Feed Them Death – Negative (Brucia) – avantgarde
Gateway – Flesh Reborn (Chaos Records) – doom
Grey Aura – Zwart Vierkant (Onism Productions) – black metal
Hadit – With Joy and Ardour Through the Incommensurable Path (Sentient Ruin / Caligari / Terror From Hell) – death metal
Hanternoz – Au Fleuve de Loire (Antiq) – black metal
Hecatomb – Horrid Invocations (Invictus Productions) – death metal
Human Failure – Crown On the Head of a King of Mud (Sentient Ruin) – death / noise / punk
Immortal Sÿnn – Force of Habit (Independent) – thrash
In Asymmetry – Ashes Of Dead Worlds (Comatose Music) – death metal
Jordfäst – Hädanafter (Nordvis) – black metal
Kardashev – The Baring of Shadows (Metal Blade Records) – deathgaze
Kataan – S/T, EP (Prosthetic) – death metal
Kosmodemonic – Liminal Light (Transylvanian Recordings) – doom / black
Kryptik Mutation – Pulled From The Pit (Redefining Darkness) – death / thrash
Last Agony – The Iminent Slaughter (Sentient Ruin) – punk
Lucid Sins – Cursed (Totem Cat) – psych
Lunar Mantra – Psychosomatika (Psychosomatika) – black metal
Mephitic Grave – Into the Atrium of Inhuman Morbidity (Carbonized) – death metal
Misstress – Resurrected (Blasphemous) – shock rock / glam
Moon Coven – Slumber Wood (Ripple Music) – doom
Múspellzheimr – S/T (Amor Fati) – black metal
Nehushtan – Book 1: Medusa’s Revenge (Trepanation Recordings) – black / sludge
Nightshadow – Strike Them Dead (Independent) – heavy metal
No Light Escapes – The Purity of Grief (Independent) – metal
Olhava – Frozen Bloom (Avantgarde Music) – black metal
Pressure – Path of a Shadow (Independent) – heavy metal
Reality Grey – Beneath This Crown (Independent) – melodic death metal
Rituals Of The Dead Hand – With Hoof And Horn (Dunkelheit Produktionen) – black metal
Servant Leader – Raised By Wolves Part 2 (Leighviathan) – alt rock
Seth – La Morsure du Christ (Season of Mist) – metal
Shevils – Miracle of the Sun (Independent) – hardcore
Slinky Vagabond – King Boy Vandals (Independent) – punk
Solstice – Casting the Die (Emanzipation Productions) – death / thrash
Supervøid – The Giant Nothing (Subsound) – avantgarde
Terminalist – The Great Acceleration (Indisciplinarian) – thrash
The Mammuthus – Last Trumpet of a Giant (Sliptrick) – psych / stoner
Torn Between Two Worlds – The Beauty of Deception / All Eyes On Me (Independent) – dark metal
Traumatory – Exterpation Paradigms (Gore House Productions) – brutal death metal
Wormlight – Nightmother (Black Lion) – black metal
Zmiarciviely – cornaje polymia (Caligari) – death / black / doom
-Josh
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