Churchill once said “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.” I’ll leave you with that to ponder and apply at will. Moving on, new releases this week are yet again on fire with a much anticipated debut from Absent In Body that features none other than a mix of Amenra and Neurosis and is, as expected, amazing. We’ve also got new stuff from Abbath which is always fun, Kontusion offer up a devastating debut death metal EP, Falls Of Rauros continue to reside on top shelf in the progressive black metal genre, and a whole host of other stuff hiding in the list below. Seek and destroy…your wallet.
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Absent In Body – Plague God (Relapse Records) – dark doom
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Abbath – Dread Reaver (Season of Mist) – black metal
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Kontusion – S/T, EP (Independent) – death metal [profile]
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Falls Of Rauros – Key to a Vanishing Future (Gilead Media) – progressive black metal
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Also on tap:
8 Kalacas – Fronteras (Atomic Fire Records) – skacore
Above All – Disarm the Gods, EP (Independent) – metalcore
Ad Finem Omnia – No Peace – No Dawn (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Aesthus – Hänen temppelinsä varjoissa (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Animals As Leaders – Parrhesia (Sumerian) metal
Arrow Minds – Worrier (Dead Serious Recordings) – metalcore
As the World Dies – Agonist (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal
Åskväder – Fenix (The Sign Records) – garage rock
Astral Tomb – Soulgazer (Blood Harvest) – death metal
BÂ’A – Egregore (Osmose Productions) – black metal
Black-Out Arises – Oneself (Klonosphere) – rock
Bloodgate – Solace In Mourning (Independent) – modern metal
Caedeous – Obscurus Perpetua (Independent) – symphonic black metal
Capricorn – For the Restless (Wild Kingdom) – rock
Carnage of Children – Darkness Within (Music-Records) – black / death
Chaos Invocation – Devil, Stone & Man (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal
CirkeIn – A Song To Sorrow (True Cult) – black metal
Crown Magnetar – Alone In Death (Unique Leader) – deathcore
Crown of Madness – The Void (Independent) – atmospheric death metal
Day of Departure – S/T (Bravemusic) – metal
Desert Clouds – Planexit (Mandrone Records) – psych rock
Desolate Shrine – Fires of the Dying World (Dark Descent) – death metal
Die With Fear – (I) Favor the Brave (Independent) – melodic death metal
Emily Jane White – Alluvion (Talitres) – dark
Eucharist – I am the Void (Helter Skelter / Regain) – melodic death metal
Falamh – Aeons Effigy, EP (Independent) – metal
Father Befouled – Crowned In Veneficum (Everlasting Spew) – death metal
Grand Harvest – Consummatum Est (Messor Grandis Productions) – metal
Hallux Valgus – Reflections of Distant Dreams (Edged Circle) – metal
Hellblind – A Plague On All Your Horses, EP (Revenger) – metal
Heltekvad – Morgenrodens Helvedesherre (Eisenwald) – black metal
Hilltops Are For Dreamers – In Disbelief (Rockshots) – metal
Ignite – S/T (Century Media) – hardcore
Infested Angel – Submit to Death (Independent) – black / death
Kanonenfieber – Yankee Division, 7″ (Avantgarde Music) – black metal
Killing Joke – Lord of Chaos, EP (Spinefarm) – metal
Light Beneath – S/T (Inverse) – post-metal
Lost Tribes of the Moon – Chapter II: Tales of Strife, Destiny, and Despair (Independent) – metal
Lucid Conformity – Escape the Construct (Independent) – metal
Lucifer’s Child / Mystifier – Under Satan’s Wrath (Agonia) – black / death
Luzifer – Iron Shackles (High Roller) – metal
Mortify – Fragments at the Edge of Tomorrow (Chaos) – death metal
Mortuus Infradaemoni – Immortuos Sum (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
MWWB – The Harvest (New Heavy Sounds) – metal
Necrom – All Paths Are Left Here… (Osmose Productions0 – death metal
Necromante – XI (Iron Bonehead) – black metal
Niamh – Autumn Noir (Electric Talon) – metal
Night Demon – Year of the Demon, Compilation (Metal Blade) – heavy metal
Nightwraith – Offering (Reaping Scythe) – melodic death metal
Nite – Voices of the Kronian Moon (Season of Mist) – metal
NONE – Interdimensional War Poetry, EP (WormHoleDeath) – neofolk / black metal
On The Loose – Midnight (Independent) – doom
Order of Nosferat – Nachtmusik (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Pist.On – Cold World, EP (Independent) – rock
Plakkaggio – Verso La Vetta (Time To Kill / Hellnation Music) – metal / punk
R.A.I.D – Defiance (Rottweiler Records) – hardcore thrash
Rise of Kronos – Council of Prediction (Independent) – death metal
Senzar – Pyre of Throes (Independent) – black metal
Soonago – Fathom (Kapitän Platte) – post-metal
Spill Your Guts – The Wrath It Takes (PermaCityPunk Records / Trepanation Recordings / Graboid Of The Ground Records) – blackened hardcore
Spiral Skies – Death Is But A Door (AOP) – psych rock
Straight Opposition – Path of Separation (Time To Kill) – hardcore
Sum Of R – Lahbryce (Consouling Sounds) – psych doom
VR Sex – Rough Dimension (Dais Records) – acid punk
Witchpit – The Weight of Death (Heavy Psych Sounds) – sludge
– Josh
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