Welp, Halloween is just behind us and right on damn cue…the dreaded christmas music and displays and commercials and sales tactics and…ugh. Dammit can’t we just have thanksgiving first? Or just do without all the holly jolly horseshit? Whatever. Oh, and yea, there’s a christmas album here, in this list, for all you nerds that get down with that before we even have turkey. Anyway, new releases we’ve got and that’s what we’re highlighting so let’s get to it with some filthy death metal from Vastum that’s sure to chase ol’ santa away, super heavy post-metal from Sâver, excellent metal from Autarkh (psst: you’ll be hearing more about this one in the coming days), and another grimy death metal entry from Left Cross. And, as always, there’s several more in the list that follows these four so get to scanning and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Vastum – Inward To Gethsemane (20 Buck Spin) – death metal

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Sâver – From Ember and Rust (Pelagic) – post-metal

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Autarkh – Emergent (Season of Mist) – metal

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Left Cross – Upon Desecrated Altars (Profound Lore Records) – death metal

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Also on tap:

Acid Throne – Kingdom’s Death (Trepanation) – stoner doom

Aglo – Build Fear (Brilliant Emperor) – sludge

Bazooka Troopaz – Bombs, Babes and Bazookas (Independent) – thrash

Concrete Caveman – Feral (Strange Mono) – deathgrind

Dagtum – Revered Decadence (Malevolent Sound) – tech death

Dead Waves – Secret Violence / The Visitor Part 2 (Entheon) – rock

Death Magick – Demo MMXXIII (Dawnbreed) – dark metal

Deorbit – Retrogradient (Independent) – psych doom

Empire of Disease – Shadows in the Abyss (Xtreem Music) – melodic death metal

Escalpo – Unnus (Thrash Out Records) – punk / metal

Ex Everything – Slow Change Will Pull Us Apart (Neurot) – post-hardcore

Fallen Utopia – Ruin (Independent) – death metal

Gama Bomb – Bats (Prosthetic) – thrash

Hinayana – Shatter and Fall (Napalm) – melodic death metal

Lodestar – Polaris (Independent) – gothic doom

Lower 13 – Deception (Independent) – melodic metal

Mephorash – Krystl-AH (Shadow / Regain) – black metal

Metal Life Crisis – Theatre of Fire (Sliptrick) – power metal

MouthBreather – Self-Tape (Good Fight Music) – metal

MTVoid – Matter/s Knot, Pt. 1 (Lobal Orning) – avantgarde

Nur NH – Unbroken, EP (Independent) – modern metal

Plague Rider – Intensities (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal

Pyrolatrous – Inveterate (Gilead Media, 7 Degrees) – black / death

Receiver – Whispers of Lore (Gates of Hell) – heavy metal

Returning – Severance (Breath Sun Bone Blood) – black metal

Sébastien Guérive – Obscure Clarity (Atypeek Music) – ambient/neoclassical

Sherpa – Land of Corals (Subsound Records) – post-rock

Shylmagoghnar – Convergence (Napalm) – atmospheric black metal

Silent Weapon – The Fear of the Possibility of Chaos, EP (Blindsight) – industrial

Sodom – 1982 (Steamhammer / SPV) – metal

Tarja – Dark Christmas (earMUSIC) – symphonichristmas

The Color Of Rain – Oceans Above (Void Wanderer) – black metal

The Mosaic Window – Plight of Acceptance (Willowtip) – black / death

Vantage Point – Against Myself (Triple B Records) – hardcore

Verilehto – Kuoleman Siipien Havina (Inverse) – black metal

Weightless World – Sleepwalker (Inverse) – modern melodic metal

— Josh