Hopefully all the dads out there got the LED out yesterday. But, if not, let us introduce you to this week’s batch of stuff that you can do just that with. Oh, you miss me? Of course you didn’t since Dan took excellent care of all you heathens. NOW, one of my favorite instrumental progdoomers Stinking Lizaveta return, cinema grinders Graf Orlock are calling it quits but not without dropping a nuclear warhead first, Jag Panzer continue to put a capital H in heavy metal, Pylar go all occult drone and doom on us, and there’s a ton more in the list below. Seek these out and play them loud. See you here throughout the week…

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Stinking Lizaveta – Anthems and Phantoms (Indepedent) – instruprogdoom

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Graf Orlock – End Credits, EP (Vitriol) – cinemagrind

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Jag Panzer – The Hallowed (Atomic Fire) – heavy metal

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Pylar – Lymite (Cavsas / Cyclic Law) – occult drone / doom

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Also on tap:

Black Eucharist – Inn of the Vaticide (Stygian Black Hand) – black metal

Crepitation – Monstrous Eruption of Impetuous Preposterosity (Vicious Instinct) – death metal

DeathCollector – Death’s Toll (Unique Leader) – death metal

Dee Calhoun – Old Scratch Comes to Appalachia (Argonauta Records) – doom folk

Degrees Of Truth – Alchemists (Scarlet) – prog

Deinonychus – Bleak & Vile, 8 album box set (My Kingdom Music) – doom

Despair Eternal – S/T, EP (Syrup Moose) – black metal

Fore – Skin (Blood Blast) – punk

Forged In Black – Lightning In The Ashes (Fighter Records) – heavy metal

High Priest – Invocation (Magnetic Eye) – stoner doom

Infernal Curse – Revelations Beyond Insanity (Iron Bonehead) – metal

Jegong – The Complex Inbetween (Pelagic) – rock

KHNVM – Visions of a Plague Ridden Sky (Neckbreaker / Bitter Loss) – death metal

Krigsgrav – Fires in the Fall (Wise Blood) – black metal

Lithik – Geomorphology (Independent) – blackened melodic doom

Lost Relics – Die + Cry + Loathe (Iron Head Records) – noise rock

Maniak – Speed Metal Terrorist, EP (Dawnbreed / De Nihil) – speed metal, duh

Mental Cruelty – Zwielicht (Century Media) – black metal

Mirakler – How I Became The Devil (Reptilian) – noise

Miserere Luminis – Ordalie (Sepulchral) – atmospheric black metal

Nocturnal Breed – Carry the Beast (Dark Essence) – metal

Obscure Form – The Infinite Unknown (Independent) – prog death

Perracide – Underdog (Emanzipation) – black / death

Persekutor – Snow Business (Indepedent) – black n roll

Phantom Corporation – Fallout (Supreme Chaos Records) – death metal

Polymerase – Dreams And Realities I & II (Sliptrick Records) – stoner rock

Protean Shield – S/T (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Rage and Fire – The Last Wolf (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Rainer Landfermann – Mehr Licht, EP (Independent) – avantgarde metal

Sacrenoir – Comme des Revenants Parmi les Ruines (Sepulchral Productions) – black metal

Seek – Kokyou De Shinu Otoko (Silent Pendulum) – black / hardcore

Simone – Love Forever (Independent) – doom / drone 

Soul Grinder – Filth Encrusted (Independent) – thrash

Sphaeros – Possession (Tee Pee) – psych 

Structural – Decrowned (ViciSolum Productions / Sound Pollution) – melodic tech death

The Anchoret – It All Began With Loneliness (Willowtip) – prog metal

Trepas – Les Ombres Malades (Sepulchral) – black metal

Tsjuder – Helvegr (Season of Mist) – black metal

Vacant Voice – Cathartic Beauty (Independent) – metalcore

Wizard Tattoo – Fables of the Damned (Independent) – doom rock

Wooden Veins – Imploding Waves (Ardua Music) – melodic doom

Xasthur – Inevitably Dark (Lupus Lounge) – black metal / neofolk

— Josh