Way behind the 8 ball getting this written so let’s dive right into it… It’s death, death, and more death for this edition of Initial Descent with Cavalera taking on a stone cold classic that they are astutely familiar with, Vølus returns with another dissonant platter of the good stuff, Nuclear Remains gets brutal, and Ascendancy provide something right in the middle of all these. And, of course, there’s a ton more to dig into below these four so get to digging and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Cavalera – Morbid Visions (Nuclear Blast) – death metal

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Vølus – Oathsworn Vengeance (Vargheist) – death metal

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Nuclear Remains – Dawn of Eternal Suffering (Maggot Stomp) – brutal death metal

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Ascendancy – A Manifest of Imperious Destiny (Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent) – death metal

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Also on tap:

A Dark Halo – Omnibus One (Independent) – cyber metal

AmongRuins – Land of the Black Sun (Theogonia) – melodic death metal

Auralayer – Thousand Petals (King Volume Records) – prog doom

Baited – Cutting Teeth (Independent) – hardcore

Blodulv – S/T, II, III – Burial, Remastered (Ophidian Sun) – metal

Bray Road – Focused.Fierce.Relentless… (Independent) – thrash

Calligram – Position | Momentum (Prosthetic Records) – dbeat black metal

Cel Damage – No Volume (Silent Pendulum) – metallic hardcore

Chamber – A Love To Kill For (Pure Noise) – metalcore

Chloe Dancer – The Hum of Eternal Midnight (Syrup Moose) – black metal

Cinema Cinema – Mjolnir (Nefarious Industries) – art punk

Constant Hell – S/T (Independent) – grind

Crown Magnetar – Everything Bleeds (Unique Leader) – tech deathcore

Cutthroat – Fear By Design (Demons Run Amok Entertainment) – hardcore

Decayed – From Hell (Haloran Records) – black metal

Dehiscence – Colony (Blood Harvest) – deathgrind

Deitus – Irreversible (Candlelight) – black metal

Desekryptor – Vortex Oblivion (Blood Harvest) – death metal

Djinn-Ghül – Opulence (Vicious Instinct) – tech death

Eleine – We Shall Remain (Atomic Fire Records) – dark symphonic metal

Encephlaic – Wrapped In Suffering (Independent) – metal

End Reign – The Way of All Flesh Is Decay (Relapse) – metalcore

Evile – The Unknown (Napalm) – metal

Inhumed – Feasted Upon Like Carrion (Independent) – melodic death metal

Izrod – Sarajevski Odisej (Signal Rex) – black metal

Jaye Jayle – Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down (Pelagic) – rock

LanzerRath – Metagalactic Domination (Northern Spire Productions) – black metal

Median Omega – Insolence (Drakkar) – black metal

Progenitor – Eldritch Supremacy (Independent) – black metal

Pukewraith – Banquet of Slum (Blood Harvest) – death metal

Purtenance – The Rot Within Us (Xtreem) – death metal

Radiant Knife – Pressure (Independent) – progressive sludge

Scream Maker – Land Of Fire (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – melodic metal

Sludge Keeper – Slough of Despair (Selfmadegod) – death metal

Somniate – We Have Proved Death (Lavadome Productions) – black metal

Sutekh Hexen & Funerary Call – P:R:I:S:M (Sentient Ruin) – experimental black/doom

The Devil’s Trade – Vidékek vannak idebenn (Season of Mist) – dark doom folk

The Pit – Of Madness and Evil Whispers (Personal) – death metal

Valletta – Come Alive (Independent) – heavy metal

Various Artists – Best of Soundgarden Redux & Superunknown Redux (Magnetic Eye) – soundgarden tunes

Voyager – Fearless In Love (Season of Mist) – prog rock

Witchsnake – S/T (Helter Skelter / Regain) – stoner doom

— Josh