Much like past new release lists of late, this is another one as packed as I am when readying bourbon for a vacation…or just a weekend away…or, you get the idea. Anyway, Diabolizer kick things off with one of the best examples of ass kickin’, speed demon death metal that I’ve heard all year. ALL. YEAR. Next up, Sewer Fiend get nasty on their all too quick death metal EP that I wish had at least 30 more minutes of runtime, Year of No Light continue to expand post-metal’s limits, and brutal death metallers Anthropophagus Depravity (say that 10 times fast) snap necks and cash checks. I DON’T KNOW, it just came out of my head, sounded good, and here we are. Moving on, the comment section is open so you can flood us with all the shit we missed or need to hear. After all, we’re one site and can’t know or hear them all despite what anyone else tells you. Pop a top, folks.
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Diabolizer – Khalkedonian Death (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal
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Sewer Fiend – Echoes From The Cistern (Dry Cough Records / Sewer Rot Records) – death metal
(go here and hope for a stream, trust me)
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Year of No Light – Consolamentum (Pelagic) – post-metal
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Anthropophagus Depravity – Apocalypto (Comatose Music) – brutal death
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Also on tap:
Antolagi – Chronicles of Catastrophe (Vrykoblast Productions) – metal
Arcane Sun – S/T (Sentinel Records) – atmospheric doom/death
Assault – Aevum Et IIustrata (Eastbreath Records) – melodic death metal
At The Gates – The Nightmare of Being (Century Media) – death metal
Bizarrekult – Vi Overlevde (Petrichor) – post-black metal
Blood of the Phoenix – From What We Used To Know (Independent) – metal
Burning Darkness – Dödens Makt (Non Serviam Records) – black metal
Concilium – Desecration (Sentient Ruin) – black / death
Drawn and Quartered – Congregation Pestilence (Krucyator Productions) – death metal
Dream Tröll – Realm of the Tormenter (Independent) – rock
Duvel – S/T (Fysisk Format) – post-punk
EnforcE – Deep Blue (Independent) – metal
Euthanized – Sanguine Spectacle (Helldprod Records) – death metal
Evil In – An Ethereal Force Beyond (Independent) – death / thrash
Felled – The Intimate Earth (Transcending Obscurity) – folk / black metal
Fermentor – Continuance (Metal Assault) – death metal
Funeral Chasm – Omniversal Existence (Aesthetic Death) – doom
Godhead Machinery – Masquerade Among Gods (Black Lion) – black / death
Heavy Metal Addicted – Criminal Ways (Murder Records) – black n’ roll
Hnagash – Ritual Over the Grave, CD Issue(Personal Records) – death metal
Kvasir – 4 (Glory or Death) – doom / heavy
Mannveira – Vitahringur (Dark Descent) – black metal
Mondo Generator – Live at Bronson (Heavy Psych Sounds) – metal
Mordian – January Moon (Independent) – goth
Noctambulist – The Barren Form (Willowtip) – black / death
OLÓRIN – Through Shadow and Flame (Rafchild Records) – doom
Paradise Lost – Draconian Times MMXI Live (Birth Ritual) – doom
postcards from new zealand – city islands (Mandrone) – atmospheric
Rocking Corpses – Death Blues (Inverse) – horror metal
Ruach Raah – Misanthropic Wolfgang (Signal Rex) – black metal
S.A.A.P.S.S.S. – Reprisals (Trepanation Recordings) – chiptune / synthwave
Sea Mosquito – Fire, Magic & Venom (Onism Productions) – black metal
Sun Crow – Quest for Oblivion (Ripple Music) – doom / blues
Taake – Avvik (Dark Essence) – black metal
The Black Thunder – Into the Darkness We Fall (Defense / Mythrone) – sludge
Thy Darkened Shade/Amestigon/Inconcessus Lux Lucis/Shaarimoth – SamaeLilith: A Conjunction of the Fireborn (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal
Vanta – Zero Kelvin (Independent) – doom / sludge
Virtual Symmetry – Exoverse Live – Out of the Shadow (Independent) – prog metal
Voland – Царепоклонство – Il culto degli Zar (Xenoglossy Productions) – symphonic black metal
Vrykolakas – And Vrykolakas Brings Chaos & Destruction (Dark Blaphemies / Vidar / Sadist) – metal
–Josh
