Happy Halloween, IT IS UPON US. I’ve loved this day since being a kid and even though there’s no bag of candy for me come night time, I’ve had a treat bag full of horror movies since the month changed. But really, that’s an all year thing and no excuses needed. My point? There’s not one, ha. Anyway, speaking of horror and new metal releases, we’ve got two extremely well timed picks kicking the week off from Acid Witch and VHS that show just how thin the veil between horror and metal is. Following that we’ve got a banger from Black Anvil, more death metal from Ingested, and many more treats in the list that follows. Why yes, there might be some tricks here too but you’ll have to see for yourself. Be careful out there tonight with all the kiddos wandering around and by all means, watch a horror movie (PSA: Screambox is premiering Terrifier 2 today for those of us that didn’t have the option of a theater viewing and they offer a healthy free trial). Jump below and investigate, we’ll see you here throughout the week.
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Acid Witch – Rot Among Us (Hells Headbangers) – death / doom / horror
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VHS – Deep Gashes and Long Lashes (HPGD) – death / horror
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Black Anvil – Regenesis (Season of Mist) – black / death
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Ingested – Ashes Lie Still (Metal Blade Records) – death metal
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Also on tap:
9 Dead – S/T (Comatose) – death metal
96 Bitter Beings – Synergy Restored (Nuclear Blast) – rock
Apollo’s Army – End of the Road (Independent) – metal
Atomic Witch – Crypt of Sleepless Malice (Redefining Darkness) – death / thrash
Aurora Borealis – Prophecy is the Mold in which History is Poured (Hammerheart) – black / death
Black Mirrors – Tomorrow Will Be Without Us (Napalm) – rock
Bran – Odchazeni (Signal Rex) – black metal
BRKN Love – Black Box (Spinefarm) – rock
Burning Sister – Mile High Downer Rock (Independent) – psych doom
Casket Grinder – Sepulchral Trip (Awakening Records) – death metal
ChuggaBoom – Death Pledge (Dead Serious) – metalcore
Contracult – The New Torment (Hogwasche Music) – metal
Cydemind – The Descent (Independent) – prog
Dayseeker – Dark Sun (Spinefarm) – rock
Demona – Dirty Speed Metal (Morbid And Miserable) – speed metal
Denial of Death – A Failed Exorcism (Independent) – black / death
Devin Townsend – Lightwork (InsideOut) – hevydevy
Disillusion – Ayam (Prophecy Productions) – progressive metal
Dragonhammer – Second Life (My Kingdom Music) – power metal
Echolot – Curatio (Independent) – doom
Edge of Haze – The Convoy of Ruin (Darkening Tone Records) – progressive metal
EF – We Salute You, You and You! (Pelagic) – post-rock
Epidermal Veil – Psalms of the Flayed (Independent) – tech death
Evillution – Elements of Genocide (Firecum) – thrash
Exordium Mors – As Legends Fade and Gods Die (Praetorian Sword Records) – blackthrash
False Figure – Castigations (Transylvanian Recordings) – death rock
Fliege – One Day They’ll Wonder What Happened Here (Independent) – metal / synth
Foul Body Autopsy – Shadows Without Light: Part 3 (Independent) – melodic death metal
Funeral Harvest – Redemptio (Signal Rex) – black metal
Fuzznaut – Apophenia (Independent) – psych doomgaze
Gorgatron – Agony Reborn (Blood Blast Distribution) – death metal
Gorycz – Kamienie (Pagan) – metal
Grift – Vilsna andars utmark, EP (Nordvis) – folk
Grip – Structure, EP (Independent) – skramz
Hellsingland Underground – Endless Optimism (Wild Kingdom) – rock
Helvellyn – The Lore of the Cloaked Assembly (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Houkago Grind Time – Houkago Grind Time 2: The Second Raid (Outrageous Weeb Power Productions) – grind / mincecore
Impugner – Advent of the Wretched (Sentient Ruin) – death metal
Indignu – Adeus (Dunk!records / A Thousand Arms Music) – post-metal
Insonika – Pithos (Independent) – metal
InTechnicolour – Midnight Heavyweight (Small Pond) – rock
Iron Flesh – Limb After Limb (War Anthem) – metal
Iron Kingdom – The Blood of Creation (Independent) – heavy metal
Licht des Urteils – Uhraamo (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Lokurah – Distorted Truth (Crimson Productions) – death / thrash
Lucifer Jones – Awful (Rotten Xore) – doom
Mammock – Rust (Venerate Industries) – noise
Mandragora Thuringia – Rex Silvarum (MDD) – folk
Mist of Misery – Severance (Non Serviam) – symphonic black metal
Mord’A’Stigmata – Like Ants and Snakes (Pagan) – black metal
Mournument – Smouldering Into Dust (Ardua) – doom
Munitions – Blackwind, EP (Independent) – black / death
Ninth Realm – A Fate Unbroken (Mercenary Press) – thrash
Nothing Is Real – The End Is Near (Cave Dweller) – doom / sludge
Os – Tehom (Iron Bonehead) – primitive death metal
Oxytoxin – Don’t Lose Your Head (Independent) – alternative metal
Pale Spektre – Bereft of Xerotic Layers (Amor Fati / Nuclear War Now!) – black metal
Pit Lord – Gallery of Skewered Swine (Independent) – metal and bbq wut
R.A.M.B.O. – Defy Extinction (Relapse) – hardcore punk
Sarcator – Alkahest (Black Lion Records) – black thrash
Stälker – Cranking Evil, 12″ (Napalm) – thrash / punk
Strychnos – A Mother’s Curse (Dark Descent) – extreme
Suborbital – Planetary Disruption (War Anthem) – death metal
Sweet Cobra – Threes (Hawthorne Street / Pax Aeternum) – post-rock
The Bedroom Witch – A Place of Hurt (Psychic Eye / Ratskin) – synth pop
The Grand Mal – II (APF) – metal
The Offering – Seeing The Elephant (Century Media Records) – heavy metal
The Pretty Reckless – Other Worlds (Fearless) – rock
Time To Kill – S.B.A.H. (Sliptrick) – thrash / punk
Tiwanaku – Earth Base One (Avantgarde Music) – prog death
Trocar / Fluids / Lipoma – Dissertations (Scumlord Distro) – death / goregrind / extreme
Vacuous Depths – Corporal Humiliation (Blood Harvest / Chaos / Goat Throne) – death metal
Vægtløs – Kakofoni (many) – blackgaze
Various Artists – Brown Acid: The Fifteenth Trip (RidingEasy) – proto metal
Vitskär Süden – The Faceless King (Ripple Music) – rock
Voivod – Ultraman, EP (Century Media) – metal
Warlung – Vulture’s Paradise (Heavy Psych Sounds) – heavy metal
We Are To Blame – Duality I (Independent) – melodic metal
White Mare – Isle of Bliss (Negre planY / Symbol Of Domination) – doom
Wolfcross – From The North (Grind To Death) – black metal
Wyrmwoods – No Sun Nor Moon (Inverse Records) – avant-garde metal
YFEL 1710 – Zlatuja sie Cmy (Pagan) – black metal
Zvylpwkua – Anomalous Altrium (Witchhouse) – black / death metal
– Josh
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