Did you find a ton of metal from last week that still has you reeling? I, for one, certainly did and between all the new release lists out there, Bandcamp, unknown, and surprise releases, if you didn’t find something I’d be shocked. And here we are with another new week and another new list of releases to sink your teeth into, as we do. This week we’ve got Bummer who continue to harsh your mellow with grueling sounds, Full of Hell return with another deathgrind beast, Xenosis successfully tick off all the tech death boxes, Enslaved are back with an EP that dives deeper and deeper into their progressive black metal, and, as always, there’s a ton more lying in wait below. So, another stacked week here on Initial Descent that’ll have everyone walking away with something. Enjoy.
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Bummer – Dead Horse (Thrill Jockey) – grueling
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Full of Hell – Garden of Burning Apparitions (Relapse Records) – death / grind
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Xenosis – Paralleled Existence (Independent) – tech death
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Enslaved – Caravans To the Outer World, EP (Nuclear Blast) – progressive black metal
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Also on tap:
1000 Bone Cylinder Explosion – Bind (Independent) – black thrash
6:33 – Feary Tales For Strange Lullabies: The Dome (Wormholedeath) – experimental metal
Absorption – Enveloping Womb of Astringent Void (Talheim) – death metal
Abstracter – Abominion (Sentient Ruin) – black / doom
Actors – Acts of Worship (Artoffact) – cinematic
Alkuharmonian Kantaja – Shadowy Peripherals (I, Voidhanger Records) – experimental
Arctic Sea Survivors – The Longest Dawn (the souls burn in everlasting fires) (Talheim Records) – doom
Aussichtslos – Einsicht (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Azothyst – Blood of Dead God (Vault of Dried Bones) – metal
Bonnie Cosby – Virginiana (Pax Aeternum) – instrumentalist
Bull Brigade – Il Fuoco Non Si E Spento (Demons Run Amok) – hardcore
Caveman Cult – Blood and Extinction (Nuclear War Now! Productions) – death metal
Cosmic Burial – …to the past (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Crystal Spiders – Morieris (Ripple Music) – doom rock
Demolizer – Upgrade, EP (Mighty Music) – thrash
Doro – Triumph And Agony Live (Rare Diamonds) – heavy metal
Draghkar – At the Crossroads of Infinity, Re-Release (Nameless Grave / Nuclear Winter) – death metal
Duel – In Carne Persona (Heavy Psych Sounds) – rock
Fiat Nox – In Contemptuous Defiance (Personal) – metal
Foul Body Autopsy – Shadows Without Light: Part One (Independent) – melodic death metal
Gaawk – Meaningless, EP (Independent) – death metal / powerviolence
Goatpsalm & Horthodox – Split (Aesthetic Death / Death Scream) – doom
Hautakammio – Pimeyden Kosketus (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Hideous Death – Remnants of Archaic Evil (Invictus Productions) – death metal
Hrom – Legends of Powerheart: Part II (Independent) – power metal
Imaginature – S/T (Independent) – symphonic metal
Infrared – From the Black Swamp (Independent) – thrash
Katavasia – Invoking the Spirit of Doom, EP (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Katre – Behind the Resilience (Independent) – metal
Lavaborne – Black Winged Gods (Wise Blood Records) – epic doom metal
Lord Mortvm – Diabolical Omen of Hell (Helter Skelter / Regain) – doom
Majesty of Silence – Die Schöpfung Tohuwabohu (Boersma) – black metal
Malgöth – Glory Through Savagery (Iron Bonehead) – war metal
Megalith Levitation – Void Psalms (Aesthetic Death / Addicted / Pestis Insaniae) – doom
Mental Torment – EGO:GENESIS (Metallurg Music) – death doom
Michael Oscillate – Hyperbolic Hypnosis of Luminescence (Leafland Audio) – dark ambient
Minus Life – Contorted Reality (Independent) – extreme
MRTVI – Autology: The Shadow Work (Independent) – death / grind / black
NecroticGoreBeast – Human Deviance Galore (Comatose Music) – brutal death metal
Nigrum Pluviam – Eternal Fall Into the Abyss (Signal Rex) – black metal
Nocturnal Nightmare – Abstrakt Sinne (Talheim Records) – black metal
Pharmacist – Carnal Pollution (Black Hole Productions) – goregrind
Primitive – Metal Baphomet (Murder Records) – blackened death metal
Putrevore – Miasmal Monstrosity (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Schavot – Galgenbrok (Void Wanderer Productions & War Productions) – black metal
Seltar – Autoscopia (Casus Belli Musica/ Beverina Productions) – atmospheric black metal
Sentiero dei Principi – Lustmord (Xenoglossy / Esercito della Chiesa Dorata) – black metal
Sepulchre By the Sea – Ratiocinations, EP (Independent) – atmospheric black metal
Skverna Liniya – In a Garland of Wax (Casus Belli Musica / Beverina) – atmospheric black metal
Snares of Sixes – MoonBladder (Nefarious / Transcending) – experimental
Solitvdo – Hegemonikon (ATMF) – experimental
Stolen Kidneys – Maailma loppuu (Trepanation Recordings) – sludge / noise
Supercorruptor – Remote Viewing (Independent) – noise / stoner
Tempter’s Sacrament – Temptation Steel Scourge (Invictus Productions) – black / death
Tentation – Le Berceau Des Dieux (Gates of Hell Records) – heavy metal
Terdor – De Goddeloze Tolgaarder (Negra Nit) – black metal
The Scars In Pneuma / Ogen – Split (Deadwoods Productions) – black metal
TOOM – Behold the Basilisk (APF) – stoner doom
Torture of Hypocrisy – Humanufacture (Independent) – groove metal
Tri State Corner – Stereotype (Drakkar Entertainment) – rock
Triacanthos – Apotheosis (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Varnok – Anthropogenic (Independent) – death metal
Venefixion – A Sigh From Below (Iron Bonehead) – death metal
Vetrar Draugurinn – The Night Sky (Dark Skies Coming) – post doom metal
Wage War – Manic (Fearless) – metal
Wingless – Nonconform (selfmadegod) – death / doom
Wooden Throne – Under the Moon They Wander Until Fading Away (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
– Josh
