Fearless Editor Josh™ is on a much needed vacation from the 9C offices cooking up some lovely shrimp dishes with his family, so I’m taking the reins for this week’s Initial Descent to let you heathens know what’s the what in new music being released this week. And right off the bat we got Matt Harvey and the gang from Exhumed serving up their new platter just in time for, uh…monsters and pirate cosplay, I guess? Who knows, the album kicks ass. Elsewhere we got a pair of post-rock hammers falling with both God Alone and Lost in Kiev, the re-emergence of SubRosa in their new guise of The Otolith and finally, since you know you’re curious, rising like a one-eyed yellow and black phoenix it’s Stryper. Because I don’t know if we’ve ever mentioned Stryper on this site, and I admit I dig the single.
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Exhumed – To The Dead (Relapse) – death metal
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God Alone – ETC (Prosthetic) – math/post-rock
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Lost in Kiev – Rupture (Pelagic) – post-rock
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The Otolith – Folium Limina (Blues Funeral) – avant-garde doom
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Stryper – The Final Battle (Frontiers Music, s.r.l.) – metal
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Also on tap:
A Wake in Providence – Eternity (Unique Leader) – deathcore
Abduction – Black Blood (Candlelight) – black metal
Battalions – King of a Dead World (APL) – sludge
Black Math Horsemen – S/T EP (Profound Lore) – metal
Black Royal – Earthbound (M-Theory Audio) – sludge
Black Space Riders – We Have Been Here Before (Cargo) – psych
Black Widows – Among the Brave Ones (Inverse) – metal
Blakk Ledd – Heavy Metal Fans (Independent) – heavy metal
Burker – S/T EP (Independent) – death metal
Cabal – Magno Interitus (Nuclear Blast) – black/death metal
Chez Kane – Powerzone (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock
Coathanger Abortion – Plan C (Comatose) – death metal
Crooked Royals – Quarter Life Daydream (3DOT Recordings) – metal
Darko – Sparkle EP (Thousand Island Records/Lockjaw Records) – punk
Demogorgon – You Are Worthless and I Want You Dead (Sliptrick) – black metal
Diabolical Raw – Elegy of Fire Dusk (Base Record Production) – black metal
Folkrim – On Foaming Waves (Inverse) – folk metal
Ggu:II – Ex Est (Consouling Sounds) – black/doom
Gospelheim – Ritual & Repetition (Prophecy) – goth rock
Kajoshin – Chrisalys (WormHoleDeath) – progressive rock
Kathryn Mohr – Holly (The Flenser) – experimental
Mal – Malburn (Ordovician) – noise/metal
Martyred – The Relegation (Time to Kill) – death metal
MesaVerde – KY (Apollon) – rock
Metrolight – S/T (Tee Pee) – synthpop
Michael Rudolph Cummings – You Know How I Get (Ripple Music) – folk
Militarie Gun – All Roads Lead to the Gun, Deluxe (Independent) – metal
Nameless Theory – Into the Void (WormHoleDeath) – metal
No Return – Requiem (Mighty Music) – melodic death metal
Ols – Pustkowia (Pagan) – dark neofolk
Omegavortex / Pious Levus – Split (Invictus / Dark Descent) – death metal
O.R.k. – Screamnasium (Kscope) – rock
Prezir / Beastlurker – Faustian Hallucinations (Chaos) – black metal
Radiant – Ora EP (Jarane) – noise
Rattlesnake Venom Trip – Dead Empire (Independent) – metal
Renunciation – Autelmorte (Independent) – black/death
Ruby the Hatchet – Fear is a Cruel Master (Magnetic Eye) – psych metal
Sarcator – Alkahest (Black Lion) – black/thrash
Sede Vacante – Conium (Scarlet) – symphonic metal
Steel Inferno – Evil Reign (From the Vaults) – metal
Taking Balfour – Dawn of Polaris (Independent) – prog
Teratoma – Chaosmakers (Base Record Production) – death metal
The 40 Thieves – The White Album (WormHoleDeath) – heavy rock
The Lord & Petra Haden – Devotional (Southern Lord) – progressive doom
The New Roses – Sweet Poison (Napalm) – rock
Ugly Kid Joe – Rad Wings of Destiny (Metalville) – rock
Vigilance – ST (Dying Victim Productions) – heavy metal
Vikvanir – On the Shoulders of Gods (Independent) – black metal
Wesenwille – III The Great Light Above (LADLO) – black metal
Wizrd – Seasons (Karisma) – rock
– Chris
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