Alrighty then…it’s spooky month, finally, and I’m happy about that. Time to stock up on all the horror you can feast on. That is unless, like me and co-conspirator Chris, you do that all year, in which case you already win and this will just give you an excuse to gorge. And, do remember all the nasty metal that goes so well with this season, soak it all up folks. Speaking of metal, it’s a new week which means we’ve got a fresh batch of new releases to kick the month off right. First up is an album we’ve all been waiting on for faaar toooo long from Kowloon Walled City (FINALLY!), next up is a stunning technical death entry from Atræ Bilis, then a quick chapter of brutish death metal from Creeping Death that you’ll hear more about later in the week, an epic dash of symphonic deathcore from The Breathing Process, and several more that follows in the list below. Dive headfirst into the coffin and find yourself something devilish to kick the month off with.
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Kowloon Walled City – Piecework (Neurot / Gilead Media) – sludge / post-hardcore
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Atræ Bilis – Apexapien (20 Buck Spin) – technical death metal
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Creeping Death – The Edge of Existence, EP (eOne) – death metal
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The Breathing Process – Labyrinthian (Unique Leader) – deathcore
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Also on tap:
Alda – A Distant Fire (Eisenwald) – folk black metal
Antichrist Siege Machine – Purifying Blade (Profound Lore) – black / death
Black Sites – Untrue (Independent) – progressive metal
Blood Red Throne – Imperial Congregation (Nuclear Blast) – death metal
Bornwithhair – When the Witches Fall (Trepanation Recordings) – blackened death rock
Death’s Eminence – In a Hideous Dream Made True (Independent) – black / death
Desalmado – Mass Mental Devolution (Gruesome Records) – grindcore
Endless – Lapse: The Guilt We Hold (Independent) – post hardcore
Eternal Silence – Timegate Anathema (Rockshots) – symphonic metal
Haerdsmaelta – All Alone In the Danger Zone (Sliptrick) – post-punk
Horn Project – Illusions of Maya (Planet K) – black metal
Karloff – S/T (No Funeral) – hardcore
Kirril – S/T (Tartarus) – dark industrial
Kite – Currents (Majestic Mountain) – sludge / post-hardcore
Liktjern I – Ruiner (Folter) – black metal
Misticia – XVA (Yahuar Mallcu Records) – thrash / groove metal
Non Residents – Against Police Brutality (Independent) – heavy metal
Norse – Ascetic (Transcending Obscurity) – black metal
Our Man In the Bronze Age – Hexed Endeavors (Fr33zehead) – rock
Paydretz – Chroniques de l’Insurrection (Antiq) – black / folk
Shy, Low – Snow Behind the Sun (Pelagic) – instru-post-rock
Siren’s Rain – Rise Forth (Independent) – folk metal
Slowshine – Living Light (TLD) – stoner / psych
Sordal – June & Jupiter (Apollon) – prog
Spacegoat – Catharsis (Independent) – alternative metal
Spectral Darkwave – At Outer Dark (Occidental Records) – dark metal
Spiritual Deception – Oxymoron (Independent) – tech death
Stheno – Wardance (7 Degrees / Chaos & Hell) – grind / black metal
Sugarcult – Start Static, 20th Anniversary Edition (Craft) – rock
Teramaze – And the Beauty They Perceive (Wells Music) – prog rock
The Circular Ruins and Mystified – Fantastic Journey (Cold Spring) – dark ambient
The Omnific – Escapades (Wild Thing Records) – progressive metal
Trivium – In The Court Of The Dragon (Roadrunner) – heavy metal
Wreche – All My Dreams Came True (I, Voidhanger Records) – black metal, in a sense
– Josh
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