Go your own way, do your own thing, dance to the beat of your own drum, compete with yourself…all are several ways of saying to forget everyone else’s shit and focus on you and your own shit. No one in the world knows you like you do so quit trying to be everyone else and just be you, do you, and worry about you. OK then, there’s your uplifting bit for the week AND my knee jerk reaction to all these sheep I see running around. Now, we’ve got new releases that I’m excited about starting with a QUALITY pair of death metal joints from Alchemy of Flesh and Carcinoid, then we’ve got thrash greats Sadus back in the saddle, and some filthy deathgrind from Rank and Vile. Indeed, plenty of excellent albums to be found this week so be sure to check these out, and the rest of the list, and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week…maybe.

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Alchemy of Flesh – By Will Alone (Redefining Darkness) – death metal

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Carcinoid – Encomium to Extinction (Me Saco Un Ojo / Headsplit) – death metal

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Sadus – The Shadow Inside (Nuclear Blast) – thrash

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Rank and Vile – Worship (Modern Grievance) – deathgrind

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Also on tap:

Acrolysis – Revolution (Independent) – heavy metal

Aeon Winds – Night Sky Illuminations (Avantgarde) – atmospheric black metal 

Aeturnus – Philosopher (Agonia) – dark metal

Aglo – Build Fear (Brilliant Emperor) – metal

Akersbog – Feelantropicoco (Vinter) – hardcore

Atars of the Moon – The Colossus and the Widow (Disorder) – post-black / doom

Bassoon – Succumbent (Nefarious Industries) – avant-prog

Black 7 – The 2nd Chapter (Independent) – instrumetal

Bloodphemy – Dawn of Malevolence (Non Serviam) – death metal

Bull Elephant – The Long War (Eat Lead and Die) – death / doom

Buried Souls – Zone 63, EP (Independent) – death metal

Cabrakaän – Aztlán (Independent) – folk

Ceremonial Bloodbath – Genesis of Malignant Entropy (Sentient Ruin) – bestial death metal

Client/Server – Hexentanz With No End (Independent) – doom / post-metal

Cruel Fate – Destin Cruel (Personal) – black metal

Dead Cosmonauts – Parasomnia (Trepanation) – post-rock

Deliquesce – Cursed With Malevolence (DAZE) – death metal

Draconicon – Pestilence (Inner Wound Recordings) – power metal

Dyssebeia – Garden of Stillborn Idols (Transcending Obscurity) – prog death

Eldritch – Innervoid (Scarlet) – prog

Elitist – A Mirage of Grandeur (Indisciplinarian) – death metal

Fellahin Fall – Urbana, EP (Independent) – goth

Foetal Juice – Grotesque (Gore House Productions) – death metal

Furnace Floor – S/T (Dawnbreed Records) – death doom

Graven Sin – Veil of the Gods (Svart) – heavy metal

Gridfailure – Shards in the Wire (Independent) – experimental noise

Gut Ripper – Necrowork (CDN Records) – death metal

Harmagedon – Dystopian Dreams (Svart) – melodic death metal

Horrenda – Handprints (Independent) – black metal

Hyperia – The Serpent’s Cycle (Independent) – thrash

Imparity – Tales of Rust and Bones (Schattenpfade) – doom

Infection Code – Sulphur (Time To Kill) – death / thrash

King – Fury and Death (Soulseller Records) – black / death

Leda Atomica – S/T (Atypeek Music) -0 synth punk

Litha – S/T (Tartarus) – black metal

Maul – Desecration and Enchantment (20 Buck Spin) – death metal

Miara – Hungering Inside (Inverse Records) – melodic death metal

MMTH – Infinite Heights (Independent) – post-metal

Modder – The Great Liberation Through Hearing (Consouling Sounds) – psych sludge

Neurectomy – Overwrought (Independent) – tech death

Plaguemace – Reptilian Warlords (Napalm) – death metal

Post Profit – Self Defeater, EP (SharpTone Records) – post hardcore

Psychic Trash – S/T (RidingEasy Records) – sludge punk

Ritual Clearing – Penitence (Eternal Death) – black metal

Ritual King – The Infinite Mirror (Ripple Music) – stoner rock

Robots of the Ancient World – 3737 (Small Stone) – stoner doom

Signum Regis – Undivided (Ulterium Records) – melodic power metal

Soledriver – Return Me To Light (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – melodic rock

Temic – Terror Management Theory (Season of Mist) – prog

Terromania – Nyctophobic (Ripple) – melodic death metal

Texas In July – Without Reason (Equal Vision Records) – heavy metalcore

The Crown Remnant – Rise of the Wicked King (Sliptrick) – metal

The Last Eon – Infernal Fractality (Soulseller Records) – extreme metal

The Manikins – Swedish Woods (Lövely Records) – garage punk

Vansind – Mørket (Mighty Music) – folk

Venus – Obscured Until Observed (Xtreem Music) – horror thrash

— Josh