Not much happening these last couple weeks of the year, new release wise, but there’s still some gold to be found in them hills… not sure where that cowboyism came from but…oh yeah, just finished Jim Harrison’s Legends of the Fall so that explains it. Excellent book if you’ve never read it. Anyway, we do have a couple noteworthy releases here with some evil AF blackened death from Grave Gnosis and the excellently named Frostbite Orckings which I know zero about other than that name whips all kinds of ass. Then, there may be a couple more hiding out in the following list worth seeking out but don’t shoot us if you come up with snake eyes. See you here throughout the week. Maybe. Probably.

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Grave Gnosis – Pestilence Crowned (Independent) – black / death

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Frostbite Orckings – The Orcish Eclipse (Metalverse) – heavy metal

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Also on tap:

Atronos – Erwachen (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Avskräde – Undergång (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Bergrizen – Die Falle (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze – The Fractal Ouroboros (Vita Detestabilis / Fiadh) – black metal

Challenger Deep – The Path (Independent) – post-metal

Descent – Far From Glory (Wormholedeath) – heavy metal

Funeral Vomit – Monumental Putrescence (Xtreem Music) – death metal

Locus Amoenus – Gloem Heil (Independent) – black doom

Malevolent – S/T (Necktwister) – symphonic metal

Nighthawk – Structures on the Moon (Sliptrick) – psych

Ofermod / Black Altar / Acherontas – Drakonian Elitism (Odium Records) – black metal

Overlorde – Awaken The Fury (No Remorse Records) – power metal

Sad – Black Metal Craft (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Serpent’s Oath – Revelation (Odium Records) – black metal

Ulfarr – Orlegsceaft (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

— Josh