NOW we are officially through the best of 2023 season and can look forward with clear, refreshed ears and eyes. And, what a week to start looking forward with being that speed demon death dealers Vitriol will no doubt be most folks, including me, first addition to their best of 2024 lists. Yes, that. Then we’ve got Dipygus that slithers through the grimy side of death metal, Jenner thrashes like they’ve got something to prove, and Exocrine fire up the tech death hot rod. This week is also the first week we’ve got TONS to choose from so the following list will keep you busy all week for once. Seek, destroy, and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Vitriol – Suffer & Become (Century Media) – death metal

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Dipygus – S/T (Memento Mori / Crypt of the Wizard) – death metal

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Jenner – Prove Them Wrong (Fighter) – heavy thrash

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Exocrine – Legend (Season of Mist) – death metal

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Also on tap:

Abyssius – S/T (Independent) – tech death

Almost Dead – Destruction Is All We Know (Innerstrength) – hardcore / thrash

Ancient VVisdom – Master of the Stone (Argonauta Records) – occult rock

Any Given Day – Limitless (Arising Empire) – metalcore

BIB – Biblical ,EP (Quality Control HQ) – hardcore punk

Blood Red Throne – Nonagon (Soulseller) – death metal

Boarhammer – II: Chemognosis – A Shortcut to Mushrooms (Naturmacht Productions) – black metal

Byron – Chapter II: The Lotus Covenant (The Goatmancer) – occult heavy metal

Cerulean – Carrion Angel (I, Voidhanger Records) – death / black

Cognizance – Phantazein (Willowtip) – death metal

Command – Resver (Jawbreaker Records) – black metal

Corax B.M – Pagana (The Circle Music) – black metal

Corrupted – Felicific Algorithm / Mushikeras (Cold Spring) – doom / drone

Crucible – The Savage Weapon, Demo (From The Vaults) – heavy metal

Dead Poet Society – Fission (Spinefarm) – alt rock

Dissimulator – Lower Form Resistance (20 Buck Spin) – sci-fi death / thrash

Dreamworm – The Journey (Independent) – metal

Dripping Decay – Ripping Remains, EP (Satanik Royalty) – deathgrind

Drowned – Procul His (Sepulchral Voice Records) – black metal

Drunk Thrasher – Raining Vomit (Godz Ov War) – metal

Forlesen / Lotus Thief – Split (I, Voidhanger) – metal

Funeral Winds – 333 (Osmose Productions) – black metal

Furnace Floor – S/T, EP, Vinyl Edition (Dawnbreed) – death / doom

Godfrost – S/T (Sliptrick) – industrial metal

Greengoat – A.I. (Argonauta Records) – psych doom

Guhts – Regeneration (Seeing Red / New Heavy Sounds) – post-metal

Heave Blood & Die – Burnout Codes (Fysisk Format) – post-punk

Hellman – Born, Suffering, Death (Black Lodge) – death n roll

Hiraes – Dormant (Napalm Records) – death metal

Hyloxalus – Make Me the Heart of the Black Hole (Independent) – metal

Jaunita – S/T (Sentient Ruin) – hardcore punk

Kalt Vindur – Magna Mater (The Circle Music) – black metal

Kill The Thrill – Autophagie (Season of Mist) – metal

Lucifer – Lucifer V (Nuclear Blast) – metal

Manticora – Mycelium (Mighty Music) – black thrash

Mega Colossus – Showdown (Cruz Del Sur Music) – melodic metal

Mouri Sunlight – Nestos Me Toi (Syrup Moose) – experimental

Necrotum – Defleshed Exhumation (Memento Mori) – death metal

New Model Army – Unbroken (earMUSIC) – punk

Olhava – Sacrifice (Avantgarde Music) – post-black metal

Onslaught Kommand – Visions of Blood and Gore (Godz Ov War) – metal

Poorhouse – XII (Independent) – metal

Roscian – The First Disgrace (Trepanation) – post-punk

Sacrofuck – Swieta Krew (Godz Ov War) – metal

Savaged – Night Stealer (No Remorse) – metal

Show N Tell – The Ritual Has Begun (No Remorse) – heavy metal

SINN-INC – Kill your Idols (Independent) – thrash

Slower – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – stoner doom

Solnedgang – Valkyrie (Independent) – post metal

Soulcarrion – Enthrone Death (Godz Ov War) – metal

Spinalkhor – One Eternity Later (Independent) – prog metal

Stuporous – Asylum’s Lament (Void Wanderer / War) – black / doom

Svitogor – S/T (Independent) – metal

Tanin’iver – Dark Evils Desecrate (Morning Star Heresy) – black / death

Temple of Void – The First Ten Years, Comp. (Hammerheart) – death / doom

The Infernal Sea – Hellfenlic (Candlelight) – black metal

The Oldest House – A Worm Through Time (I, Voidhanger Records) – sludge doom

To The Wire – Willpower (Dedication) – hardcore

Unsouling – Vampiric Spiritual Drain (I, Voidhanger Records) – death metal

Various – Mesmerized – A Tribute to Celtic Frost (Time To Kill Records) – Celtic Frost cover… duh

Vipassi – Lightless (Season of Mist) – metal

Wizard Death – I Am The Night (Independent) – fantasy metal

— Josh