We’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving here in the States this week where folks stuff themselves to complete oblivion then Black Friday where folks go to war over saving a buck for their favorite shit. It is nice to spend some quality time with family so that’s what I’m most looking forward to. Before we get ahead of ourselves, we’ve got tons of new releases to be thankful for and we kick things off with the first sludge band to actively and successfully challenge Eyehategod for the throne, Slôdder, and yes their sludge is the grimy, dangerous kind that we rarely ever get and I’m super into it (best of the year into it, to be clear), next up is some death / doom from Convocation, stoner doom from Demonio (we don’t feature enough stoner doom so there’s that), and some black metal from Swords of Dis. All this and tons more hiding out directly below so grab your wallets, laptops and/or internet surfing device, and go crazy with some killer metal. Enjoy, and do whatever thing you’ll be doing this week with gusto.

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Slôdder – A Mind Designed to Destroy Beautiful Things (Majestic Mountain) – sludge

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Convocation – No Dawn For The Caliginous Night (Everlasting Spew) – death / doom

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Demonio – Reaching for the Light (Helter Skelter / Regain) – stoner doom

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Swords of Dis – Melencolia (I, Voidhanger) – black metal

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Also on tap:

A Hill to Die Upon – The Black Nativity (Rottweiler Records) – progressive black death

Abject Mentor – Abominaciones (Awakening Records) – death metal

Aeolian – Echoes of the Future (Black Lion) – melodic death metal

Aldrig – Yağmur (Wolves And Vibrancy) – black doom

Almost Honest – The Hex of Penn’s Woods (Argonauta) – fuzz

Ancient Wargod – When Darkness Rises…, Vinyl Reissue (98Records) – black metal

Bards of Skadi – Glysisvallur: Musick from the Frozen Atlantis (Nordvis) – norse folk

Beyond Grace – Welcome to the New Dark Ages, EP (Independent) – metal

Cargo Lift – When Least Expected (Independent) – metal

Contorted – Deities of Uncreation, EP (Independent) – death metal

Coven Japan – Earthlings (No Remorse) – heavy metal

Deathcode Society – Unlightenment (Osmose) – black metal

Deimler – Immortalized (Awakening Records) – death metal

Délétère – Singes d’une Nuit Souillée (Sepulchral) – black metal

Demogorgon – A Hate For All That Grows (Sliptrick Records) – black metal

Destructor – Blood, Bone, and Fire (Shadow Kingdom) – thrash

Dughpa – 4 (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records) – black metal

Dungeon Wolf – The White Elf (Independent) – classic metal

Everson Poe – the tower (Trepanation) – doom / sludge

Fraught – Transfixed On Dying Light (Argonauta) – black / sludge

From North – Raven Banner (At Dawn) – melodic death metal

Gnaw Their Tongues – The Cessation of Suffering (Consouling Sounds) – noise

Goaten – Midnight Conjuring (Tapes of Terror) – heavy metal

Helga – Wrapped In Mist (Season of Mist) – prog

Herzog – Furnace (Amor Fati) – black metal

i Helvete – Yksi Yhteinen Yhteiskunta (Inverse Records) – extreme metal

Korgonthurus – Jumalhaaska (Woodcut Records) – black metal

KVELGEYST – Blut, Milch und Thr​ä​nen (Eisenwald) – black metal

Laang – Riluo (Talheim) – black metal

Leonov – Procession (Vinter) – post-metal

Lilyum – We Are Disobedience (Independent) – black metal

Maladie – For We Are The Plague (Apostasy) – metal

March To Die – Tears of the Gorgon (No Remorse) – modern metal

Mêlée des Aurores – Aube Cannibale (Sepulchral) – black metal

Midnight Odyssey – Biolume Part 3: A Fullmoon Madness (I, Voidhanger) – metal

Misanthrophi – Principles of Cosmicism and Decimation (Independent) – melo death

Mourn the Light / High Priest / Ice Howl / Archdruid – Split (Independent) – metal

One Day In Pain – In Pain We Trust (Awakening records) – death metal

One Master – The Names of Power (Eternal Death) – black metal

OPHANIM – Tä​mpelskl​ä​ng (Eisenwald) – atmospheric

Ossuary – Stellar Annihilation (Awakening Records) – death metal

Paradogmata – Endetid (Independent) – metal

Parseltongue – Pyre of the Cosmic Cult (Total Deathcore) – deathcore

Pessimystic – Burnt Offering (Independent) – death metal

Sadism – Obscurans (Hammerheart) – thrash / death

Serpents Oath – Revelation (Odium) – black metal

Shatterface – Anodize, EP (Independent) – death metal

Sigh Of Defeat – Immortal Black Flame (Malevolent Sound) – black metal

SOL – Promethean Sessions (I, Voidhanger) – folk doom

Somber Héritage – Inter Duo Mundi (Sepulchral) – black metal

Sonologyst – Shortwave Spectrum (Cold Spring) – drone

Sort Sind – I Skyggen af Livet (Nuclear Winter) – black / death

Strange New Dawn – New Nights of Euphoria (Svart) – heavy psych metal

Sunmancer – Nothing Ever Happens, EP (Indepedent) – metalcore

Temple of Scorn – Funeral Altar Epiphanies (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal 

The Crotals – Conjure (Argonauta) – sludge

The Curse of Sahara – Phantom Member / Cheap Luv (Helter Skelter / Regain) – doom

Todomal – A Greater Good (Ardua Music) – dark metal

Tweedledead – Infernotes (Lethal Scissor) – black / death

Valdrin – Throne of the Lunar Soul (Blood Harvest) – black / death

Void Below – World Undone, EP (Independent) – death metal

Weeping Silence – Isles of Lore (ViciSolum) – gothic death metal

Wet Cactus – Magma Tres (Electric Valley) – desert rock

Zahn – Adria (Crazysane) – rock

— Josh