Another week down and another to go. Not too many more of these and we’ll have 2023’s ass whipped. What did you do with this year? Not do that you wanted to? Biggest letdown? Biggest surprise? Best “I Told You So!”? Feel free to leave those answers in the comments or on our socials if you’re so inclined but what I’m really getting at is, REFLECT folks. Then shut that door and move on 100% prepped for 2024. OK then, new releases are still happening and we’ve got death, death, and more death with Cryptworm, Revulsed, and Horrifier and all of these are a rippin’ good time. Why so much death you ask? Because I can, that’s why. Anyway, there’s many more in the list that follows this death trio so get to hunting and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Cryptworm – Oozing Radioactive Vomition (Me Saco Un Ojo / Pulverised / Extremely Rotten) – death metal

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Revulsed – Cerebral Contamination (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal

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Horrifier – Horrid Resurrection (Personal) – death metal

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As You Left – Silver Chains Golden Veins (Independent) – metalcore

Astral Sleep – We Are Already Living In The End Of Times (Sliptrick) – doom

Bergsvriden – Uråldrad, EP (Independent) – folk / black

Blackflow – Seeds of Downfall (Personal) – doom

Bunker 66 – Portraits of Dismay (Dying Victims Productions) – speed / thrash

Children of Bodom – A Chapter Called Children of Bodom (Spinefarm) – metal

Crust – Dissolution (Avantgarde) – black / sludge

Damnations – The Fallen Princess (WormHoleDeath) – metal

Demoncy – Diabolica Blasphemiae (Hells Headbangers) – black metal

Dievel – Sedimentale (Overdrive / Shove / The Fucking Clinica) – instru-metal

Drifter – Beggars Ransom (Dying Victims Productions) – rock

EMBR – S/T (Black Doomba) – prog doom

Evergrey – From Dark Discoveries to Heartless Portraits (Napalm Records) – metal

Feral Forms – Premalignant, EP (Night Terror / Filth Junkies) – death metal

Firmament / Midnight Prey – Gathered Under Open Skies (Dying Victims Productions) – speed metal

Gula – Birds of the Apocalypse (Independent) – psych doom

Hinsides – Hinsides hörs djävulsklockans urklang (Shadow Records / Regain Records) – back metal

Imperialist – Quantum (Transcending Obscurity) – black metal

Infernal Execrator – Diabolatry (Pulverised Records) – black metal

Insepultus – Deadly Gleams of Blood Steel and Fire (Independent) – black metal

MRTVI – Great Cleansing Come Upon Us (Life As A Dream Records) – black metal

MYAELIN – Naesekhnaetri (I, Voidhanger Records) – psych rock

Ringarë – Of momentous Endless Night (Avantgarde) – black metal

Ritvs – Der Tag Naht (Dying Victims Productions) – hard rock

SARTEGOS – Portais (I, Voidhanger Records) – black metal

Seconds To Sun – Live at the Third Rome (Independent) – melodic black metal

Solitary Sabred – Temple of the Serpent (Vinyl Store) – heavy metal

Soul Incursion – Eternal Darkness (Independent) – death metal

Spectral Lore – 11 Days (I, Voidhanger Records / Throne Records) – black metal

Strigampire – All To Dominate (Independent) – death metal

stroszek – about all the bad days on the world (Hypnotic Dirge) – neo folk

Sulfuric Hatred – S/T (Sentient Ruin) – black/death

Swim or Drown – Trapped (WTF) – metalcore

Therion – Leviathan III (Napalm Records) – symphonic metal

Tyrannus, Magicide – Tory Punching Music (Fiadh) – black / death

Undulation – An Unhealthy Interest In Suffering (I, Voidhanger Records) – blackened death metal

Vargrav – The Nighthold (Werewolf) – symphonic black metal

Warcoe – A Place for Demons (Helter Skelter Productions / Regain Records) – doom

Witchsnake – Deathcult of the Snake (Helter Skelter / Regain) – stoner

— Josh