As Glenn Frey once sang: “the heat is on.” If you’re anywhere near the South you know what I mean but I’m sure it’s hot as ass everywhere, and I’m happy with that. Yes, you read that right. Also, a little birdie told me that some of y’all are mad over a country song? Freakin’ LOL. Whatever. Anyway, it’s time for the real deal nasty shit so plug in for a split between Trocar and Jesus Wept… this thing will peel the skin clean off your bones so jump on that STAT, then we’ve got some body snatching black metal from Wyrgher and honestly this is pretty damn close to Gaerea so score! Next up is some arcane death metal from Eternal Rot then some exquisite (chef’s kiss) progressive death metal from Fleshvessel. And, as always, there’s a bunch more in the list that follows so hop to it and happy hunting…

—

Jesus Wept & Trocar – White Room Torture (Night Shift Merch) – death / grind / extreme

—

Wyrgher – Panspermic Warlords (I, Voidhanger) – black metal

—

Eternal Rot – Moribound (Memento Mori / Godz Ov War) – death metal

—

Fleshvessel – Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed (I, Voidhanger) – deathprog

—

Also on tap:

AcidBrain – The Lust Murders (Independent) – deathgrind

Artanor – In Servitude of Darkness (Gutter Prince Cabal) – black metal

Ashtar – Wandering Through Time (Eisenwald) – black / doom

Astralborne – Across the Aeons (Prosthetic) – melodic death metal

Atonement – Sadistic Invaders (Dying Victims) – death thrash

Black Sorcery – Deciphering Torment Through Malediction (Eternal Death) – black metal

Black Spell – Walpurgis Night (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records) – stoner doom

Black Uniforms – Splatter Punx of Acid (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records) – hardcore punk

Blasphemous Fire – Beneath the Darkness (Godz Ov War) – death metal

Contrarian – Demos & Oddities 1995-1999 (Independent) – prog death

Countess Erzsebet – S/T (Independent) – black metal something

Damned To Downfall – Slavery For You, EP (Self) – industrial black metal

Dead Heat – Endless Torment, EP (Tankcrimes / Triple B) – crossover

Decoherence – Order (Sentient Ruin) – industrial / black

Eave – Fervor (Bindrune) – atmospheric metal

En La Niebla – El Limbo de Los Callados (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records) – stoner metal

Excrement – Flesh & Blood (Chaos) – death metal

Fabio Frizzi – Zombie: Composer’s Cut (Cadabra) – film score

Flight – Echoes of Journeys Past (Dying Victims) – proto-metal

Formless Oedon – Streams of Rot (Memento Mori) – death metal

Hell’s Coronation – Transgression of a Necromantical Darkness (Godz Ov War) – black metal

Hooker Spit – Krötch Splitter (Independent) – death metal

IPCC – Impact Adaptation Vulnerability (Self) – grind

Lokust – Infidel (Independent) – metal

Lowlife – Leader of a New Generation (Earache) – hardcore

Machinations of Fate – Celestial Prophecies (Redefining Darkness) – melodic death metal

Mairu – Sol Cultus (Trepanation) – post-metal / sludge

Nuclear Power Trio – Wet Ass Plutonium (Metal Blade) – djent

Organ Dealer – The Weight Of Being (Everlasting Spew Records) – grindcore

Panzerchrist – Last Of A Kind (Emanzipation Productions) – black / death

Porta Nigra – Weltende (Soulseller) – black metal

Sadistic Vision – Destroyer of All Dreams (Boris) – death metal

Saul – This is it… The End of Everything (Spinefarm Records) – hard rock

Signs of the Swarm – Amongst the Low & Empty (Century Media) – deathcore

Spectre – Lonesome Gambler (Dying Victims) – heavy metal

SOG – Man Demonic (Violent Creek Records) – thrash

Sznur – Ludzina (Godz Ov War) – black metal

Teloch Vovin / Viserion – The Iron Age of Kali Yuga (Indepedent) – black metal

The Glorious Dead – Cemetery Paths (Bindrune) – death metal

The Gorge – Mechanical Fiction (Pelagic) – prog

Thedus – Hypnosis (Argonauta Records) – post sludge

Thra – Forged in Chaotic Spew (Translation Loss Records) – death metal

Tongues  – Formlose Stjerner (I, Voidhanger) – black / death

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Slaughter on First Avenue (Rise Above) – rock

Urbain – A Soul Purged (Hypnotic Dirge) – black metal

Vinsta – Freiweitn (Eisenwald) – black / death

— Josh