Still spinning that Ihsahn from last week, man that dude knows how to make some killer music. However, we’ve got a killer week here of new releases kicking off with one of my faves, DARKEST HOUR! Been waiting patiently and holy crap has it ever been worth the wait…then we’ve got another player we haven’t heard from in forever: Toadliquor! Honestly I’d forgotten how much I miss their brand of lethargic sludge. Next up is some kick ass heavy metal from Toxikull and equally kick ass death metal from Morta Skuld so you know what to do from here. Buuuut, in case you forgot, scroll below to check out the rest of the list then go get some from these bands via whatever platform you can. See you here throughout the week.

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Darkest Hour – Perpetual / Terminal (MNRK) – death / thrash / hardcore

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Toadliquor – Back In The Hole (Southern Lord) – sludge

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Toxikull – Under the Southern Light (Dying Victims) – heavy metal

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Morta Skuld – Creation Undone (Peaceville) – death metal

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Also on tap:

A Burial At Sea – Close To Home (Pelagic) – post-rock

Anubis – Dark Paradise (M-Theory Audio) – thrash / power

Autumnblaze – Auf zerfetzten Schwingen (Argonauta) – dark

Blood Opera – Songs in the Key of Death (Independent) – horror rock

Borknagar – Fall (Century Media) – metal

Coffin Womb – Godless (Syrup Moose) – deathgrind

Coltre – To Watch With Hands… To Touch With Eyes (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal

Counting Hours – The Wishing Tomb (Ardua) – dark metal

Craneium – Point of no Return (The Sign) – psych rock

Crowskin / Bad Luck Rides On Wheels – Verstummt / Monocelestial Chords (Exile On Mainstream) – drone / sludge

Cuntroaches – S/T (Skin Graft) – black noise

Desolate Tomb – Scorned By Misery (Rottweiler) – brutal death

Disastroid – Garden Creatures (Heavy Psych Sounds) – rock / noise

Druadan Forest – Dismal Spells Part 2 – The Night Circus (Werewolf) – black metal

Electric Deathhbeat – A Ghost Triangle & The Past Beats of the Death (Sliptrick) – modern metal

Endlevel – Weekend War (Independent) – death / thrash

Fange – Perdition (Throatruiner) – noise

Fragment Soul – Galois Paradox (WormHoleDeath) – metal

Gods & Punks – Mountains of Garbage, EP (Abraxas) – stoner / metal

Guiltless – Thorns (Neurot Recordings) – experimental industrial

Hand of Kalliach – Corryvreckan (Prosthetic) – melodic death / folk

Headless Dawn – Freakshow Ballet (Independent) – grind

Hypoxia – Defiance (Selfmadegod Records) – death metal

Imperceptum – Chaos Pilgrimage (Darkwoods) – black metal

Iron Curtain – Savage Dawn (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal

Jamart – OmiNoUS (Independent) – prog

Job For a Cowboy – Moon Healer (Metal Blade) – death metal

Karkosa – Esoterrorcult (Redefining Darkness Records) – black metal

Keres – Homo Homini Lupus (Independent) – black / death

Life Cycles – Portal To The Unknown, EP (1126) – crossover

Maurda – Cultus Brachypter (Sentient Ruin) – black/death

Monkey3 – Welcome to the Machine (Napalm) – psych rock

Moonin Down – The Third Planet (Argonauta) – psych

Nemedian Chronicles – The Savage Sword (No Remorse Records) – power metal

North Sea Echoes – Really Good Terrible Things (Metal Blade) – prog

Rhino – Human Farm (Argonauta) – stoner

Rifforia – Axeorcism (Metalville) – heavy metal

Schubmodul – Lost In Kelp Forest (Tonzonen Records) – psych rock

Skuggor – Whispers of Ancient Spells (Naturmacht) – black metal

Smorrah – Welcome To Your Nightmare (Independent) – death thrash

Sun Atoms – Ceiling Tiles, 7” (Little Cloud Records) – psych rock

Stygian Crown – Funeral for a King (Cruz Del Sur Music) – doom

The Body / Dis Fig – Orchards of a Futile Heaven (Thrill Jockey) – noise

They Came From Visions – The Twilight Robes (Eisenwald) – black metal

Thorndale – Lightning Spawn (Independent) – stoner / doom

Traveler – Prequel To Madness (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Tvinna – Two – Wings of Ember (By Norse Mvsic) – metal

Utgaroar – Fire Smoked Upon the Wolf’s Back (ATMF) – black metal

Vincent Crowley – Anthology Of Horror (Hammerheart Records) – dark heavy metal

— Josh