For this week’s new release listing, Wayfarer with their infectious blend of Western black metal would’ve won out top spot if it hadn’t been for the godfathers of extreme death metal Autopsy. How do you top that? Right, you can’t. So, Autopsy kicks us off in style. And, as mentioned, we’ve got Wayfarer bringing in the second spot but damn! What an album. Then we’ve got a killer EP from Vokonis who know a thing or two about rocking the f… out, last up top is some extremity from The Amenta to close the top four in true maximum ass kickin’ fashion. Stick around though, as always we’ve got a TON more to dig into so happy hunting and we’ll see you here throughout the week. Oh yea, trick or treat next week so get your scaries on folks…

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Autopsy – Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts (Peaceville) – death metal

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Wayfarer – American Gothic (Profound Lore) – western black metal

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Vokonis – Exist Within Light (Majestic Mountain) – prog sludge

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The Amenta – Plague of Locust (Debemur Morti Productions) – extreme

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Also on tap:

Adzes – Inver (Independent) – post-rock

Aegrus – Invoking the Abysmal Night (Osmose) – black metal

Bacterial Husk – Anthropogenic Ruin (Independent) – death metal

Beware Wolves – Vol. 1 (Aqualamb Records) – rock

Broder – Skarpretterfossilet (Extremely Rotten) – death metal

Cardinals Folly – Live By The Sword (Soulseller) – death metal

Cemetery Urn – Suffer the Fallen (Hells Headbangers) – death metal

Darkness Is My Canvas – White Noise (Inverse Records) – progressive metal

Darkplace – About the End of the World (Icons Creating Evil Art) – experimental

Darren Michael Boyd – Hexalogy (Sliptrick Records) – hard rock

Dave Neabore – Star Feels (Cadabra) – synth

Dead Serenity – When worlds Turn To Gray (Inverse) – melodic death metal

Dokken – Heaven Comes Down (Silver Lining) – hair

Ecocide – Metamorphosis (Memento Mori) – death metal

Efraah Enhsikaah – One Thousand Vultures Waiting to Be Fed (Osmose) – black metal

Ego Planet – S/T (Argonauta) – rock

End – The Sin of Human Frailty (Closed Casket Activities) – metalcore

Endseeker – Global Worming (Metal Blade) – death metal

Ershetu – Xibalba (Debemur Morti Productions) – atmospheric metal

Falling Stars – Lonely No More (Tee Pee) – fuzz rock

Farsoth – Morbid Symphonies (Black Lion) – death metal

Flesh of the Stars – The Glass Garden (Independent) – progressive doom

Flukt – Omen Ov Darkness (Dusktone) – black metal

Ghosts of Atlantis – Riddles of the Sycophants (Hammerheart) – symphonic metal

Glacier Eater – Tempest (Glacier) – melodic death / thrash

Graven Dagger – S/T (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records) – stoner metal

Gravesend – Gowanus Death Stomp (20 Buck Spin) – black / death

Half Empty Glasshouse – Restricted Repetitive Behaviour (Independent) – post-punk / sludge

Hollow Front – The Fear of Letting Go (UNFD) – rock

Howling Giant – Glass Future (Magnetic Eye) – stoner

Ignited – Cradle of the Wicked (Independent) – metal

Iku-Turso – Ikuinen Kirous (Purity Through Fire) – metal

Immortal Guardian – Unite and Conquer (M-Theory Audio) – power metal

Legendry – Time Immortal Wept (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Lightlorn – At One With The Night Sky (Black Lion Records) – post black metal

Lucid Sins – Dancing In The Dark (Totem Cat) – rock

Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive) – occult rock opera

Mangled Carpenter – Salvation Syndrome (Rottweiler) – deathgrind

Martyrdoom – As Torment Prevails (Memento Mori) – death metal

Mavro Gala – Tenderness (Venerate) – screamo / post-hardcore

Mört – Fabulas Vulgaris (Independent) – crossover

Mouth For War – Bleed Yourself (MNRK Heavy) – metalcore

Nebelkrähe – ephemer (Crawling Chaos) – black metal

Nebula  – Livewired in Europe (Heavy Psych Sounds) – stoner

NYOS – Waterfall Cave Fantasy, Forever (Pelagic) – noise

Nôidva – Lappish Shatanism (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Oerheks – Velkengebed (Amor Fati / Babylon Doom Cult) – doom

Omission – Disciples of Ravens Vengeance (Xtreem) – thrash 

One of Nine – Eternal Sorcery (Wolves of Hades) – doom

Peine Kapital – S/T (Sludgelord) – doom / sludge

Phantom Winter – Her Cold Materials (This Charming Man) – instru-doom

Ragana – Desolation’s Flower (The Flenser) – black metal

Sepulchral Curse – Abhorrent Dimensions (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal

Shadowspawn – Blasphemica – Absolution Carved From Flesh (Emanzipation) – death metal

Sky Empire – The Shifting Tectonic Plates of Power – Part One (ViciSolum) – prog

Sonus Mortis – Of Red Barren Earth (Independent) – symphonic death/doom

Sorcerer – Reign of the Reaper (Metal Blade) – heavy / doom

Stu Brooks – 40HZ (Dine Alone) – bass something

Summoning Death – A Traumatic Noght of the Creeps (Chaos) – death metal

Suol – S/T (Swarte Yssel) – black metal

Sweatpants Boner – Regurgitation of Bonerific Cuisine (Maxima Music / Gore Cannibal) – goregrind

Thanamagus – Lie In Wait (Carbonized Records/Seed Of Doom Records) – death metal

Three Eyes of the Void – The Atheist (Independent) – black metal

The Lovecraft Sextet – The Horror Cosmic (Denovali Records) – dark jazz

The Plague – Erosion of Gods (Brilliant Emperor) – death metal

Throat – We Must Leave You (Svart) – noise

Tortuga – Iterations (Napalm) – stoner rock

Tower Hill. – Deathstalker (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Treebeard – Nostalgia (ird’s Robe Records) – post-metal

White Tundra – S/T (All Good Clean) – metal

Witching – Incendium (Translation Loss) – extreme

Wolfskull – Hexum+, EP (Independent) – metal

— Josh