Missed a week in light of my disappearance to the coast but you didn’t miss much other than Krieg and…whatever else came out. Did you guys get a load of that new Prong? DAMN! Anyway, I’m back and we’ve got a new list of stuff landing this week starting with Angelus Apatrida who has always scratched that dirty thrash itch for me, brutal death metal from Afterbirth coming in next, heavy metal from one of the undisputed kings of it: Cirith Ungol, and we have Lynch Mob closing out the top four. Yes, that’s right…LYNCH MOB because George Lynch is a damn guitar god. As always, though, we’ve got a ton more hiding out in the list below and there’s plenty to scratch any sort of itch that exists so get to it. Oh, and also, ’tis scary season so get to them horror movies as well.

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Angelus Apatrida – Aftermath (Century Media) – metal / thrash

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Afterbirth – In But Not Of (Willowtip) – brutal death

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Cirith Ungol – Dark Parade (Metal Blade Records) – heavy metal

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Lynch Mob – Babylon (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – metal

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Also on tap:

20 Watt Tombstone – The Chosen Few (Independent) – metal

Abigail / Nekrofilth – Fuck in Hell’s Evil Bitches (Hells Headbangers) – black thrash

Aldaaron – Majestic Heights, Melancholic Depths (Paragon) – black metal

Animamortua – Gods Among Us (Underground Symphony) – power / thrash

Appalooza – The Shining Son (Ripple Music) – rock

Archangel – Total Dark Sublime (Scarlet) – metal / punk

Askesis – Beyond the Fate of Death (Time To Kill) – black / death

Baring Teeth – The Path Narrows (I, Voidhanger) – metal

Bismut – Ausdauer (Lay Bare / Spinda) – psych

Blood Lightning – S/T (Ripple Music) – heavy metal

Cronies – L1V3 S1CK0 L0V3 F3ST (Reptilian) – rock

Cult Burial – Reverie of the Malignant (Independent) – death / doom / black

Conny Ochs – Wahn Und Sinn (Exile On Mainstream) – avantgarde

Day Drinker / The Gundown – Split (Rebellion) – rock

Display of Decay – Vitriol (Gore House Productions) – death metal

death pose – Midnight Society (Brutal Panda) – noise

Domhain – Nimue (These Hand Melt) – atmospheric black metal

Dreamwell – In My Saddest Dreams, I Am Beside You (Prosthetic) – screamo

Elegy of Madness – XI (Scarlet) – symphonic 

Entierro – The Gates of Hell (Independent) – trad metal

Gameover – Hellframes (Scarlet) – thrash

Garden Gnome – Phegnomenology of Spirit (Voices Of The Ainur) – black metal/synth

GLDN – First Blood, Deluxe Edition (Independent) – industrial punk

Goad – Titania (My Kingdom Music) – rock

Grauwsaem / Doodskrijs – Grafroof  (Nomad Snakepit Productions) – black metal

Grief Suit – The Rot / Rotted (Syrup Moose) – extreme

Hippie Death Cult – Helichrysum (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych rock

Hold My Own – In My Way, EP (9DAZE) – hardcore

Hounskull – The Faces of Evil (Independent) – psych metal

Jason Blake – Radiant Dusk (Independent) – guitarist

Kalmo – Dominus Meus (Independent) – doom

Marchafunebre – Veil of Death (Witches Brew) – doom

Mephistofeles – Werewolf Boogie / Lucky Spin (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records) – stoner rock

Monosphere – Sentience (Independent) – post-metal

Mortajas – Mortajas II (Sun & Moon Records) – doom 

Myrkur – Spine (Relapse) – folk / black

Noitila – Langennut (Nordvis) – black metal

Occult Hand Order – Silence By The Raging Sea (Independent) – psych doom

OWDWYR – Receptor (Independent) – extreme

Poseydon – Through the Gate of Hatred and Aversion (Necktwister) – death/thrash

Putrid Torso – Trails of Hypnotized Human Veins (Pathologically Explicit) – brutal death

Reckless – Sharp Magick Steel (Dying Victims) – speed 

Reginn – S/T (Independent) – death / black

Sangdragon – Hierophant (Wake Up Dead Records) – symphonic death/black

Savage – Glory Riders (Dying Victims) – metal

Slowburn – Fire Starter (Fighter) – heavy metal

Solemn Vision – Despite the Rise of the Sun (Black Lion) – melodic death metal

Steel Rhino – In Rhino We Trust (GMR) – metal

Stomach – Parasite (Hibernation) – extreme

Svartsyn – Destruction of Man (Nomad Snakepit Productions) 0 black metal

Sylvatica – Cadaver Synod (Mighty Music) – doom 

Temperance – Hermitage – Daruma’s Eyes Pt. 2 (Napalm) – rock

The Callous Daoboys – God Smiles Upon…, EP (MNRK Heavy / Modern Static) – mathpunk

The Spacelords – Nectar Of The Gods (Tonzonen Records) – psych rock

Trounce – The Seven Crowns + Live at Roadburn (Independent) – alt metal

Unpure – Prophecies Ablaze (Nomad Snakepit Productions) 0- black metal

Vertebra Atlantis – A Dialogue With the Eeriest Sublime (I, Voidhanger) – metal

Within Temptation – Bleed Out (Independent) – modern metal

Unverkalt – A Lump of Death: A Chaos of Dead Lovers (Argonauta) – post-metal

War Curse – Confession (Blacklight Media) – thrash

Wratheon – Becoming Nil (Seek and Strike) – black/death metal

— Josh