Nine Circles

Alright y’all, no farting around with anything other than getting to this stellar week of new metal…GRIDLINK IS BACK! Let that sink in……. yes, it’s true and this album rips but no surprises there at all. Death-doom-tickets-to-the-slow-suffering-of-humanity otherwise known as Thorn return with an album full of slowburn ditties fit for dragging bodies to the burn pile, TesseracT keep the progressive metal wheels rolling—notice I didn’t just say ‘prog’ here because it’s waaaay more than that, and rounding out the top four is a band I’ve always loved for their abrasiveness and don’t give a F attitude, Brujeria, and this one is no different. All that and a complete, lengthy list of other metal well worth your time and effort to seek out. As Metallica said “SEEK AND DESTROY!” See you here throughout the week.

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Gridlink – Coronet Jupiter (Willowtip) – grind 

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Thorn – Evergloom (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal

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TesseracT – War of Being (Kscope) – progressive metal

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Brujeria – Esto Es Brujeria (Nuclear Blast) – metal

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Also on tap:

Alkaloid – Numen (Season of Mist) – progressive death metal

Antumbra – Oblivion (Loud Rage Music) – atmospheric black metal

Baroness – Stone (Abraxan Hymns) – metal / rock

Blackened Halo – Extinction Inbound, EP (Independent) – thrash

Blind Equation – Death Awaits (Prosthetic) – cybergrind

Blood Oath – Lost in an Eternal Silence (Caligari / Raise the Dead) – death metal

Bolt Gun – The Tower (Avantgarde) – post-metal

Cairn Temple – Deadwinds (Engraven) – death / doom

Carathis – The Haunting of Sablewood (Personal) – horror metal

Chorosia – Stray Dogs, EP (Grazil Records and Kvlt und Kaos Productions) – prog sludge

Contorsion – The Children Of The Snake (Independent) – thrash

Deadly Carnage – Endless Blue (A Sad Sadness Song) – post-black metal

Earth Altar / Sun Below – Inter Terra Solis (Black Throne) – space rock / doom

Eerie – The Delirium of the Believers (Negra Nit) – black metal

Fabricant – Drudge to the Thicket (Profound Lore) – death metal

Fever Dog – Alpha Waves (Helter Skelter / Regain) – fuzz

Field of Fear – Beyond the Reach of Light (Whited Sepulchre) – noise

Flesher – Tales of Grotesque Demise (Redefining Darkness) – death metal

Fulanno – Ruido Infernal (Helter Skelter / Regain Records) – stoner doom

Gotland – Rise (Independent) – extreme symphonic metal

Great Falls – Objects Without Pain (Neurot Recordings) – noise/post-metal

Ignition – Vengeance (Independent) – power metal

Lark – Antarctica (Sliptrick) – prog

Lords Of The Drift – Throat (Stay Gold Records) – drone/doom

Mayhem – Daemonic Rites (Century Media) – black metal

Mondo Drag – Through The Hourglass (RidingEasy Records) – psych prog

Old Ruins – Always Heading East (Independent) – black metal

Ostrogoth – Ecstasy and Danger, Reissue (High Roller) – metal

Perverticon – Extinguishing the Flame of Life (Personal Records) – black metal

Psygnosis – Mercury (Season of Mist) – progressive extreme metal

Quits – Feeling It (Sleeping Giant Glossolalia) – noise / hardcore

Roots of the Old Oak – The Devil and His Wicked Ways (Hammerheart) – death metal

Shade Empire – Sunholy (Candlelight) – symphonic black metal

Shining – S/T (Napalm Records) – black metal

Slaamaskin – Trollveggen (A Production) – metalcore

Slave Steel – In Fieri (WormHoleDeath) – metal

Tar Pond – Petrol (Prophecy) – doom

The Coffinshakers – Graves, Release Your Dead (Svart) – rock

Thy Art Is Murder – Godlike (Human Warfare) – extreme

Tideless – Eye of Water (Chaos) – death / doom

Torpor – Abscission (Independent) – doom / sludge

Violent Life Violent Death – Break. Burn. End. (Innerstrength) – metalcore

Vrajitor’s Tenebrarium – E.N.L.D. (Avantgarde) – occult rock

— Josh