Tough week last week losing Terry Funk and Bray Wyatt. RIP to both. Then on the flip side football is back, so there’s that to get us through. And, we also have music to get us through, new metal music to be exact and leading the charge this week is a dynamic duo of death metal from Undergang and Heads for the Dead, then a pair of black metal outings from Imperial Crystalline Entombment and Marduk. All that and many more in the list that follows and trust me when I say there’s some good stuff lying in wait. Get some and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Undergang – De syv stadier af fordaev (Dark Descent / Me Saco Un Ojo) – death metal

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Heads for the Dead – In The Absence Of Faith, EP (Pulverised Records) – death metal

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Imperial Crystalline Entombment – Ancient Glacial Resurgence (Debemur Morti) – black metal

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Marduk – Memento Mori (Century Media) – black metal

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Also on tap:

Arcas – Where the Light Once Shone (Silence) – atmospheric black metal

Asidie – Inside a Restless Mind (Independent) – doom / goth

Baxaxaxa – De Vermis Mysteriis (The Sinister Flame) – death metal

Belial’s Throne – Forgotten Land of the Lost Souls (Spread Evil) – black metal

Bigstrut – S/T (Cave Dweller) – noise

Black Birch – S/T (Vita Destatabilis / Fiadh) – atmospheric black metal

Black Magic Six – Black Cloud Descending (Svart)- rock

Blessed Black – Seasons: Vol. 1 (Independent) – doom

Boréalys – L’héritage (Northern Silence Productions) – atmospheric black metal

Crucible of Hate – The Unknown Path (Independent) – metal

Demoniac – Nube Negra (Edged Circle) – metal

Diamonds and Guns – Making Cash for Heartless Crooks (Sound Pollution) – punk

Dikasterion – Chaos as a New World (Amor Fati) – black / death

Egregore – Synchronistic Delusions (Sentient Ruin) – grind

Far Beyond – The Moment of Creation (Independent) – metal

Fierce Atmospheres – The Speed Of Dreams (Sliptrick Records) – progressive metal

Gendo Ikari – ROKUBUNGI (Independent) – grind / noise

Glista – Never Apologise for Defending Yourself from Being Violated (On Parole) – death / grind

Gutted Alive – Human Taxidermy (CDN) – brutal death

Gwar – Battle Maximus, 10th Anniversary Edition (Pit) – gwarmetal

Hån – Conquering Magnificent Halls (Northern Silence Productions) – black metal

Kambodsja – Resilient (Mas-Kina) – prog rock

Ledmotiv – An Astronaut’s Diary (Independent) – prog – orchestral

Lord of Shadows – Echoes of Yore (Meuse Meuse / Tragedy) – doom

Luring Triumphant – Fall of the Malignant Christ (Iron Bonehead) – black metal

MIND/KNOT – Phase FourEsigenza (Time To Kill Records) – hardcore

Mind Swell – Hands of Fire, EP (Independent) – deathcore

Outergods – A Kingdom Built Upon the Wreckage of Heaven (Prosthetic Records) – extreme metal

Polaris – Fatalism (SharpTone) – rock

Primal Fear – Code Red (Atomic Fire) – heavy metal

Raven Banner – Rise Up Clan (Independent) – death metal

Reverence To Paroxysm – Lux Morte (Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent) – death metal

S A R R A M – Pàthei Màthos (Subsound Records) – post rock

Silent Skies – Dormant (Napalm) – rock

Spider Kitten – A Pound for the Peacebringer (APF) – sludge

Stitched Up Heart – To The Wolves (Century Media) – rock

Symbiotic Tomorrow – Rise of the Pharaoh (Independent) – death metal

Taake – Et Hav av Avstand (Dark Essence) – black metal

Timechild – Blossom & Plague (Mighty Music) – heavy rock

Weird Tales – Second Coming, Second Crucifixion (Interstellar Smoke) – doom

— Josh