Truckin’ right through summer and before you know it all the kiddos will be back in school. What the fig? Anyway, pretty good new release week in store for you all starting with some sweet Swedeath sounds from Coffin Mulch, more death metal fun from the always reliable Avulsed, a physical edition of the excellent Guts album (yes, more death metal), some partytime heavy metal from Raven, and a whole host more in the list below. As usual, definitely something for everyone and every taste here. Happy huntin’…

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Coffin Mulch – Spectral Intercession (Memento Mori) – death metal

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Avulsed – Extraterrestrial Carnage (Xtreem Music) – death metal

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Guts – Decay (Vargheist Records) – death metal

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Raven – All Hell’s Breaking Loose (Silver Lining Music) – heavy metal

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Also on tap:

Aathma – Dust From a Black Sun (Ardua Music) – sludge / doom 

Avdagata – The Faceless One (At Dawn) – black / death

Beltfed Weapon – Darkened Demise, EP (Independent) – thrash

Budgie – Budgie: Never Turn Your Back On A Friend (Pale Wizard Records) – rock

Cache – S/T (Independent) – sludge

Death Ray Vision – No Mercy From Electric Eyes (Metal Blade) – punk / hardcore

Demonized – Abyss Vanguard (Osmose) – black / death

Disaffect / Sanctus Iuda – Fuck All Borders (Armageddon Label) – punk

Dusk – Spectrums (WormHoleDeath) – prog djent

Following The Signs – Conflictions (Independent) – groove metal

Grafvitnir – Into the Outer Wilderness (Shadow / Regain) – black metal

Inhuman Depravation – Servants of Supremacy (Pathologically Explicit) – death metal 

Kapnas – S/T (Independent) – fuzzy doom

KHNVM – Visions of a Plague Ridden Sky (Independent) – black / death

Lightlorn – These Nameless Worlds (Black Lion Records) – black metal

Lucifixion – Trisect Joy of Pierced Hearts (Sentient Ruin) – black metal

Mictlantecuhtl – As Eagles Descend (Independent) – blackened thrash

Mutual Hostility – Inhuman Anguish (Lethal Scissor) – death metal

No One Cares – Pause/Reboot (Quarock Records) – modern metal

None – Inevitable (Hypnotic Dirge) – doom

Oceanica – Panta Rhei (Independent) – post-metal

Ofnus – Time Held Me Grey And Dying (Naturmacht Productions) – atmospheric black metal

OK WAIT – Signal (Golden Antenna) – instru post-rock

Orelisk – The Underworld Obscura (Northern Spire Productions) – black metal

Oxblood Forge – Cult of Oblivion, EP (Independent) – metal

Paroxysmal – Force Feeder (CDN) – death metal

Pestilence – Malleus.. / Consuming.. / Testimony.. / Spheres, Remasters (Agonia) – tech / prog death

Rise Above – For Better For Worse (WTF) – metalcore

Schattenmann – Dia De Muertos (AFM) – metal

Serpent of Old – Ensemble Under The Dark Sun (Transcending Obscurity) – black / death

Slow Wake – Falling Fathoms (Argonauta) – psych doom

Static Abyss – Aborted From Reality (Peaceville) – death doom

Systemik Viølence – Negative Mangel Attitude (RSR / Doomed / Ragingplanet / Regulator / Ring Leader) – hardcore / punk / metal

The Cartographer – The Cold Black, EP (Independent) – tech death

The River – A Hollow Full Of Hope (Cavernous Records) – post doom

Velcros – Spit Takes (Crazysane) – hardcore 

Virgin Steele – The Passion Of Dionysus (Steamhammer) – power metal

Vordona – Quadrivium (Sliptrick Records) – progressive metal

— Josh