Not sure about anyone else but, we survived turkey day and black Friday. Mostly due to hosting at home on Thursday then just not even popping our head up on Friday. We had a great time that was NOT full of stress and that’s the best thing ever, obviously. With eyes looking forward to the first breath of December, we’ve got the mighty black metal institution of Panopticon returning for a very DEEP album pending your perspective but fret not as it’s an excellent way to welcome the true start of cold weather, then we’ve got some ripping grindcore from Walking Corpse, some beautiful doom — wait, yep that’s right I said BEAUTIFUL and believe it — from Oldest Sea, and some power metal from Axenstar. All that and much more awaits in the list below these top four. Happy hunting and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Panopticon – The Rime of Memory (Bindrune) – black metal

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Walking Corpse – Our Hands, Your Throat (Transcending Obscurity) – grindcore

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Oldest Sea – A Birdsong, A Ghost (Darkest) – doom

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Axenstar – Chapter VIII (Inner Wound Recordings) – power metal

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Also on tap:

Abduction – Toutes Blessent, la Dernière Tue (Finisterian Dead End / Frozen) – black metal

Abyssal Rift – Extirpation Dirge (Sentient Ruin) – death/doom

Anabaptists – S/T (Phillip K Discs) – noise

Aphelium Aeternum – Dark Interstellar Mysteries (Dominance of Darkness) – black metal

Beyondition – Abysmal Night (Chaos Records) – death/doom

Black Reuss – Arrival (Independent) – goth

Buried Shallow – S/T, EP (Independent) – deathcore

Cobra Spell – 666 (Napalm) – metal

Cryptosis – The Silent Call, EP (Century Media) – metal

Demoncy – Black Star Gnosis (Dark Descent) – metal

Demons of Noon – Death Machine (Evil Feast) – doom

Dethroned – A Bridge To Eternal Darkness (Dominance of Darkness) – black metal

Disorientation – Survival Mode (Independent) – avant

Dune Pilot – Magnetic (Argonauta Records) – stoner rock

Embrace Your Punishment – Made of Stone (Lacerated Enemy Records) – death metal

Ett Dödens Maskineri – Kulturkriget (Suicide Records) – hardcore punk

Fermentor – Mind Meld (Independent) – instrumetal

Gilded Form – S/T (Burning World) – stoner doom

Hatred Reigns – Awaken the Ancients (Independent) – tech death

Heimdalls Wacht – Mystagogie (Trollzorn Records) – black metal

Helfró – Tálgröf (Season of Mist) – black metal

Into Darkness – Cassini – Huygens (Invictus Productions) – death metal

Kong – Traders of Truth (Sliptrick) – prog

Malicious – Merciless Storm (Invictus Productions) – black / death

Mind Control – Elements (Independent) – prog death

Nornir – Skuld (Northern Silence) – black metal

ORO – Vid Vägs Ande (Hammerheart) – sludge

Paradise Lost – Icon 30(Nuclear Blast) – doom

Pharm – The Tower, EP (Independent) – stoner

Reap – Born From Plague (Selfmadegod Records) – death / grind

Serpents Oath – Revelation (Odium Records) – black metal

Shadow Age – Ours (Play Alone) – post-punk

Skiltron – Bruadarach (Trollzorn Records) – power metal

Soulprison – Lucid Nightmare (Blood Blast Distribution) – hardcore

Unprocessed – …and everything in between (Independent) – thrash

Varathron – The Crimson Temple (Agonia) – black metal

Visions of Atlantis – A Pirate’s Symphony (Napalm) – symphonic pirate metal

Voice of Ruin – Cold Epiphany (Independent) – melodic death metal

Yermo – S/Y (Negre PlanY) – death / doom

— Josh