Memorial Day (we remember) kicks off a good week for our top four: we’ve got Pupil Slicer who, in case you forgot, are an extremely exciting grind outfit, as well as a return from my favorite weeddoom band Bongzilla. Then we’ve got all out war from Tombstalker, excellent rock from Wytch Hazel, and a shit ton more in the list that follows. Plenty to dig into this week that should keep you busy for a minute. Enjoy…

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Pupil Slicer – Blossom (Prosthetic) – grind

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Bongzilla – Dab City (Heavy Psych Sounds) – weed metal

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Tombstalker – Age of Darkness, EP (Boris) – black / death

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Wytch Hazel – IV: Sacrament (Bad Omen) – rock

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Also on tap:

Aeffect – Theory of Mind (Independent) – prog

Autrest – Follow the Cold Path (Northern Silence) – black metal

Autumn Nostalgie / Hænesy – Awakening Mechanon (Purity Through Fire / Northern Silence) – black metal

Body Stuff – Body Stuff 4 (The Chain) – avantmetal

Buckcherry – Vol. 10 (Round Hill) – rock

Buggin – Concrete Cowboys (Flatspot) – hardcore

Cadaver Carnivore – Devouring Eclipse of Darkest Realm (Heretic Impalement / RUMF) – death metal

Corpsessed – Skeletal Grotesquery (Krucyator Productions) – death metal

Cosmic Burial – Far Away From Home (Purity Through Fire) – cosmic black metal

Death Dies – Stregoneria (Time To Kill) – black metal 

Demented Heart – Frantic Epidemic (Brutal Mind) – tech death

Diminishing – The Unnamable (Anti-Corporate Music) – heavy / experimental

Dog Tired – The Red Verse (Independent) 0 metal

Drep – Drastically Reducing Earth’s Population (Nomad Snakepit) – industrial / black 

En Esch – I’m So Sick (Give/Take) – industrial

Forced Hand – War, EP (Independent) – metal

Funeral Fullmoon – Unholy Kingdom of Diabolic Emperors (Inferna Profundus) – black metal

Gloryhammer – Return To The Kingdom Of Fife (Napalm) – power metal

Hemplifier – The Stoner Side of the Doom (Electric Valley Records) – doom/stoner

Hills Like White Lions – Meander (Independent) – prog / post-rock

Infernäl Mäjesty – None Shall Live (Nomad Snakepit) – death / thrash

Killhall – Skullsplitter (Inverse Records) – heavy metal

koningsor – Death Process (Silent Pendulum) – mathcore 

Kvad – So Old (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Leathürbitch – Shattered Vanity (Shadow Kingdom) – metal

Lieder Distortion – Don Giovanni (Shunu) – opera metal

Messiahvore – Transverse (Iron Head) – metal

Minas Morgul – Nebelung (Trollzorn) – black metal

Nothingness – The Hollow Gaze of Death (Violence In The Veins) – death metal

OK Goodnight – The Fox and the Bird (Independent) – prog metal

Omnium Gatherum – Slasher, EP (Century Media Records) – melodic death metal

Order of Decay – Mortification Rites (Sentient Ruin) -0 death / doom

Order of Nosferat / Lunar Spells – Shadowrealm Incantations (Purity Through Fire / Northern Silence) – black metal 

Panssarituho – Sanansaattaja (Independent) – death metal

Peace of Mind – Life Long Tragedy (Farewell) – metalcore

Prydain – The Gates of Aramore (Limb Music) 0- power metal

Red Cain – Näe Bliss (Independent) – prog metal

Saint Karloff – Paleolithic War Crimes (Majestic Mountain Records) – psych

Sapremia – Subconscious Existence, Reissue (Awakening) – death metal

Suffocate Faster – This Is The Way Vol. 1 (Smartpunk) – hardcore

Thanatomass – Hades (Nomad Snakepit) – black metal

Thantifaxath – Hive Mind Narcosis (Dark Descent Records) – avant-garde black metal

The Immortal Samsara Travelers – Hanging Gardens in Glacial Apocha (UTECH) – drone

The Ironfist – Tyrant’s Return (Sliptrick) – black / heavy

The Kryptik – A Journey to the Darkest Kingdom (Purity Through Fire) – symphonic black metal

The Mansters – Lessons In Giving Up (Loyal Blood) – punk / hardcore

Thunraz – Revelation (Planetary King) – extreme 

Thus – Inhale The Ash (Independent) – melodic death metal

Tortured Demon – Rise Of The Lifeless (Independent) – thrash

Unfurl – Ascension (Independent) – metalcore

Vacuous  – Katabasis (Sentient Ruin) – death metal

Weep – Life In Shaded of Gray (Liminal Dread) – dsbm

— Josh