I’ll assume we all made it out of the holiday weekend with just a few pounds gained and no bodily harm due to drunken turkey frying or Black Friday. I did say assume, so there’s that. One month to go until we turn the page on 2022 and we’ve STILL got heaters landing; this week gives us frozen death from Qrixkuor, black metal of the avantgarde sort from Veilburner, thrash from Hammers of Misfortune, straightforward black metal from T.O.M.B., and more in the list that follows. So, go forth in your carb comas and pick up some of these. Happy hunting and see you here throughout the week.
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Qrixkuor – Zoetrope, EP (Invictus / Dark Descent) – death metal
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Veilburner – VLBRNR (Transcending Obscurity) – avantgarde black metal
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Hammers of Misfortune – Overtaker (Independent) – thrash
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T.O.M.B. – Terror Winds (Dark Essence) – black metal
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Also on tap:
Aawks – (((((Heavy on the Cosmic))))) (Black Throne Productions) – fuzz
Acid Blade – Power Dive (Personal Records) – heavy metal
Aktopasa – Journey to the Pink Planet (Argonauta) – psych space rock
Amberian Dawn – Take a Chance – A Metal Tribute to ABBA (Napalm Records) – ABBA metal
Anterbila – S/T (Nordvis) – black / folk
Antimonument – Concealment, Vinyl Reissue (Sentient Ruin) – experimental death metal
Appalling – Sacrilege (Personal) – black / death
Arabrot – Heart, EP (Pelagic) – art rock
Asterise – Two Worlds (Inverse) – symphonic power metal
Binary Order – Messages From The Deep (Independent) – industrial
Celestial Season – Mysterium II (Burning World) – doom
Destroyer 666 – Never Surrender (Season of Mist) – black / death
Dystopia A.D. – Doomsday Psalm (Independent) – prog death
Frøkedal / Saver – Split, EP (Pelagic) – post-metal
Funeral Mass – Shadow of the Raventhrone (Independent) – black metal
Gavran – Indistinct Beacon (Dunk!records) – doom / sludge
Getsemane – Viimaa (Svart) – prog rock
Grava – Weight of God (Aesthetic Death) – sludge
Heron – Empires of Ash (Sludgelord) – doom
Hoofmark – Blood Red Lullabies (Raging Planet) – experimental black metal
Hrad – The Forgotten Legacy (WereGnome) – black / dungeon synth
Imha Tarikat – Hearts Unchained – At War With A Passionless World (Independent) – black metal
Isafjørd – Hjartastjaki (Svart) – post-rock
Isolated Earthlings – S/T (Independent) – punk / metal
Krushhammer – Blood, Violence & Blasphemy (Helldprod Records) – black thrash
Lebrique – Head Trap (Trepanation Recordings) – noise
Lisieux – Abide! (Throatruiner) – dark folk
Lull – That Space Somewhere (Cold Spring) – drone
Mick’s Jaguar – Salvation (Tee Pee Records/Totem Cat Records) – rock
Necrodeath – Singin’ in the Pain (Time To Kill) – black / thrash
Nighnacht – Asking To Be Killed, EP (Morbid and Miserable) – death / black / thrash
Nihilist Death Cult – Death To All Tyrants (Independent) – deathpunk
Nostalghia – Wounds (Flowing Downward) – post black metal
Obvurt – Triumph Beyond Adversity (Unique Leader) – death metal
Phlebotomized – Devoted to God, Reissue (Hammerheart) – death metal
Prophetic Suffering – MMXXII (Sentient Ruin) – death metal
Ryth – Deceptor Creator (Independent) – extreme
Vector Seven – Modified (Darkhan Music) – cyberpunk
Vis Mystica – Celestial Wisdom (Dark Star) – star wars power metal
Written In Blood – S/T (Trollzorn) – melodic death metal
– Josh
Nine Circles 