New week. New tunes. Even though Monday’s don’t mean all this is out and ready for consumption, it does mean you get a front row seat for a ton of preorders. So, be thankful. Or not, the choice is yours. We’ll keep plastering them here every week and you do as you will. This week’s batch features Night Goat front and center and I’m telling you now, if you’ve never caught this band live you are missing out so at least do yourself a favor and grab their new slab of death rock, thank us later. Moving on we’ve got heavy metal from Night Demon (seems like we’ve been anticipating this thing forever…just me?), post-black metal from Downfall of Gaia, and a healthy mixture of black and death metal from Úlfúð. That’s a heavy hitting top four, but there’s a ton more hiding out below so happy hunting and we’ll see you here throughout the week.
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Night Goat – Totem (Black Donut) – death rock
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Night Demon – Outsider (Century Media Records) – heavy metal
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Downfall of Gaia – Silhouettes of Disgust (Metal Blade) – post-black metal
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Úlfúð – Of Existential Distortion (Dark Descent) – black / death
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Also on tap:
8 Hour Animal – Kill Your Boss (Sentient Ruin) – industrial
Anarkhon – Obiasot Dwybat Ptnotun (Debemur Morti Productions) – death metal
Arcanica – Elemental, EP (Independent) – prog metal
Shadow Kingdom – S/T (Wise Blood Records) – melodic death thrash
Artch – Another Return, Remastered (Hammerheart) – power metal
Blind Oath – S/T (Horton Records) – heavy metal
Choir – Songs for a Tarnished World (Independent) – metal
Contrarian – Sage of Shekhinah (Willowtip Records) – progressive death metal
Cross Country Driver – The New Truth (Frontiers s.r.l.) – rock
Dark Sanctuary – Cernunnos (Avantgarde Music) – darkwave
Death Reich – Disharmony (Non Serviam) – swedeath
Death Vanish – Hermitic Fire, EP (Eternal Death) – black metal
Décryptal – Sabazios Culte (Me Saco Un Ojo / Rotted Life) – death metal
Desolate Realm – Legions (Independent) – doom
Dez Dare – Perseus War (CH!MP Records) – psych punk
Die Like Gentlemen – Hard Truths (Drink This Music) – prog rock
Downshot – Endgame (WTF Records) – hardcore
Ecstatic Vision – Live at Duna Jam (Heavy Psych Sounds) – acid rock
Embryo – A Vivid Shade on Misery (Rockshots) – melodic death metal
Entropia – Total (Agonia) – experimental black metal / sludge
Expunged – Visions of Agony (CDN) – death metal
Fange – Privation (Throatruiner) – experimental
Fargo – Geli (Kapitän Platte/ Apollon Records) – instrumental rock
Foretoken – Triumphs (Prosthetic Records) – black / death
Gideon – More Power. More Pain. (Equal Vision) – metalcore
Hanoi Rocks – Oriental Beat, The 40th Anniversary Re(al)mix (Svart Records) – glam metal
Harboured – S/T (Lost Future) – tech death / black
He Who Walks Behind The Rows – The Lucky Ones Died First (HepTown) – horror rock
Hex A. D. – The Memory Division (Apollon Records) – hard rock
Ikarie – Arde (Avantgarde Music) – post-metal
Invent Animate – Heavener (UNFD) – rock
Jaodae – Chimera (Independent) – avant
John Diva & The Rockets Of Love – The Big Easy (Steamhammer/SPV) – hair metal
Kruelty – Untopia (Profound Lore) – metalcore
Litost – Pathos (Independent) – melodic metal
Narnia – Ghost Town (Narnia Songs) – melodic metal
Necrovescent Ruiner – Untouchable Faith Decay (Miserable Pyre) – atmospheric black metal
Ordalie – Mass of Perdition (Paragon Records) – black metal
Phantom Elite – Blue Blood (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – alternative metal
RPWL – Crime Scene (Gentle Art of Music) – atmospheric
Sepulcrum – Lamentation of Immolated Souls (Chaos / Canometal / Burning Coffin) – death metal
Seven Spires – Live At Progpower USA XXI (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – heavy metal
Søstre – S/T (Loyal Blood) – black metal
Spirit of Hamlet – Northwest of Hamuretto (Broken Sound Tapes) – rock
Stömb – Massive Disturbed Meta Art (Klonosphere) – instru-modern metal
Temtris – Khaos Divine (WormHoleDeath) – metal
The Lords Of Altamont – To Hell with Tomorrow, The Lords Are Now! (Heavy Psych Sounds) – garage rock
Treedeon – New World Hoarder (Exile On Mainstream) – sludge / noise
Verminous Serpent – The Malign Covenant (Amor Fati) – black metal
Wishing Well – Sin and Shame (Inverse Records) – heavy metal
Words That Burn – Cut Throat Culture (Blood Blast Distribution/Believe Digital) – metalcore
— Josh
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