It’ll officially be Fall later this month which means spooky season is right around the corner. I can’t think of a better way to get in that mood than the trio of death metal new releases that lead this week’s list; Revocation return with an album that after a few spins really hits a sweet spot for me, and even more so than anything they’ve done to date, then we’ve got Bloodbath who are on the forefront of every death metal fan’s mind, next up is I Am with a groovy bruiser (and killer album art to boot), and rounding out the top slots is Abrams who are not death metal but are favorites around this back office. Now, these four will definitely keep you busy, but don’t forget about the long list of other new stuff that follows as there’s a ton of good stuff out this week. Happy hunting and we’ll see you here throughout the next several days. Until next time…
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Revocation – Netherheaven (Metal Blade Records) – death metal [interview]
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Bloodbath – Survival Of The Sickest (Napalm) – death metal
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I Am – Eternal Steel (MNRK Heavy) – death metal
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Abrams – In The Dark (Small Stone Recordings) – metal
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Also on tap:
Allen Olzon – Army of Dreamers (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock
An Abstract Illusion – Woe (Willowtip) – prog death / black
Anders Buaas – The Edinburgh Suite (Apollon) – prog metal
Astral Spectre – Phantom Nightmare / The Oath is Broken (Northern Silence Productions) – magick metal
Awaken the Misogynist – Descended From Vast Dimensions (Comatose Music) – slam death
Black Pyramid – II, Reissue (Labyrinth of Thoughts) – stoner
Black Reuss – Metamorphosis (Sliptrick) – goth / doom
Blood Chalice – The Blasphemous Psalms of Cannibalism (Werewolf) – black / death
Bones – Sombre Opulence (Invictus) – death metal
Crosson – Ready Aim Rock (Galaxy Records) – glam rock
Crippled Black Phoenix – Banefyre (Season of Mist) – metal
Disadaptive – Apocryphal (Svanrenne Music) – death metal
Dispraised – Lines in the Dirt (Rottweiler) – punk
End x Cult Leader – Gather & Mourn (Deathwish / Closed Casket Activities) – metal
Escarnium – Dysthymia, EP (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
Fallujah – Empyrean (Nuclear Blast) – tech death
Goatchrist – Odes to the Radiant One (Wicker Man Recordings) – black metal
Greber – Fright Without (Hibernation Release) – grind / sludge / hardcore
Gridfailure & Megalophobe – Harbinger Winds (Nefarious Industries) – avantgarde [video premiere]
Grief Ritual – Spiritual Disease (Independent) – metal, core and post
Hellfuck – Diabolical Slaughter (Godz Ov War Productions) – thrash / speed
Hellgrimm – Ritual (Independent) – stoner metal
Herbstlethargie – Melancholie im Blattfall (Northern Silence Productions) – dbsm
High Tone Son of a Bitch – Live at the Hallowed Halls (Ripple Music) – metal
Holy Fawn – Dimensional Bleed (Wax Bodega) – rock
Inhuman Depravity – The Experimendead (Gruesome) – death metal
Jack 13’s Panzercrow – Murder Ballads (82) – horror punk
Lunar Spells – Demise of Heaven (Northern Silence Productions) – black metal
Meteora – …of Shades and Colours (H-Music) – symphonic metal
Moral Panic – Validation (Reptilian) – punk
Mourir – Disgrace (Throatruiner / Total Dissonance Worship) – black metal
Mo’ynoq – A Place For Ash (Independent) – black metal
Necrambulant – A Feast of Festering Flesh (Independent) – death / slam
Ole Devil & The Spirit Chasers – Apocalypse Blues (Apollon) – blues rock
Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9 (Epic) – metal
Pentagram – Makina Elektrika (Sony Music) – metal
Perversion – Dies Irae (Hells Headbangers) – death metal
Praise the Sun – The Proffer of Light (Art of the Night Productions) – melodic death metal
Premortal Breath – Of Angles and Wolves, EP (Independent) – modern metal
Rotborn – On the Perspective of an Imminent Downfall (Redefining Darkness) – death metal
rotting in dirt – I Am Eating My Shame, EP (Zegema Beach) – discordant metal
Sedate Illusion – Time Is Not the End – Black Untold (Independent) – prog
Slugcrust – Ecocide (Prosthetic) – southern grind
Taboo – S/T (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock
Taxi Caveman – Galactic Slope (Interstellar Smoke) – stoner
Therion – Theli, Vovin, Deggial, Secret of the Rune, Lemuria, Sirius B, Reissues (Hammerheart) – symphonic metal
Toughness – The Prophetic Dawn (Godz Ov War Productions) – death metal
Until I Wake – Inside My Head (Fearless Records) – metallic hardcore
Valborg – Der Alte (Lupus Lounge) – death sludge
Vrenth – Succumb To Chaos (Rotted Life) – death metal
Warforged – The Grove / Sundial (The Artisan Era) – black / deathWayward Dawn – All-Consuming Void (Emanzipation) – death metal
– Josh
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