There’s too many choices in the trail shoe category. Probably will randomly pick one or just go with the most absurd design I can find. Yep, that’ll do it. Ok then, let’s do the new release thing…Aborted are back with one of the best albums I can think of for a deadlift PR, this is slap yo mama death metal and while it may not be groundbreaking it sure is a shitload of fun. Then we’ve got some heavy metal from Armagh and while not quite what I had expected after their amazing debut this is pretty good, Brat is up next with barbiecore…wait, wut? Anyway, yea and Ian has all the deets on it so be sure and hit that review link, Leather Lung – who always kill it with album covers – are back with another platter of southern tinged boogie metal so getcha dancin’ shoes ready, or not, but whatever you do don’t miss the rest of this week’s list as there’s something in there for everyone and every taste. See you here throughout the week.

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Aborted – Vault of Horrors (Nuclear Blast) – death metal

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Armagh – Exclamation Point (Dying Victims) – heavy metal

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BRAT – Social Grace (Prosthetic Records) – death/grind (album review)

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Leather Lung – Graveside Grin (Magnetic Eye) – boogie metal

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A. MOORTAL – Hollow (SelfMadeRecords) – nu metal

Aardvark – Tough Love (Dying Victims) – heavy metal

Above Aurora – Myriad Woes (War Anthem) – black / doom

Alpha Warhead – Code Red (Firecum Records) – thrash

Ancient Remains – Burn It All, EP (Independent) – metalcore

Backstabber – Patterns of Domination (Independent) – death metal

Blastomycosis – A Feast For The Tasteless (CDN) – brutal death

Bongzilla – Dabbing (LIVE) Rosin In Europe (Heavy Psych Sounds) – weeeeeeeeed

Call of the Void – On Grief and Dying (Independent) – death/doom

Cloven – Chance Encounter of Flesh and Nail (Independent) – black metal

Comeback Kid – TROUBLE, EP (Sharptone Records) – hardcore

Compress – The Final Level of Consciousness (Eternal Death) – black metal

Corr Mhóna – Abhainn (Fiadh Productions) – progressive doom

Coventhrall – Legacy of Morfuidra (Inverse Records) – power metal

Crypt Moss – Pulvis et Umbra Sumus (Fiadh Productions) – blackened dungeon synth

Daemoniac – Visions of the Nightside (Xtreem) – swedeath

De Mal En Pire – Sã Mo (Independent) – metal

Defect Designer – Chitin (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal

Doinysiaque – Diogonos (I, Voidhanger) – doom

DragonForce – Warp Speed Warriors (Napalm Records) – speed metal

Gouge Away – Deep Sage (Deathwish Inc) – something

Hadit – Metaphysical Engines Approaching The Event Horizon (I, Voidhanger) – death metal

Hellgrimm – Sacrifice (Independent) – hard rock

Ironbound – Serpent’s Kiss (Ossuary) – heavy metal

Iterum Nata – From the Infinite Light (Nordvis Produktion) – black / folk / doom

Kid Kapichi – There Goes The Neighbourhood (Spinefarm) – punk

Lucifer Was – En Fix Ferdig Mann (Apollon Records Prog) – prog

Lustmord – Much Unseen Is Also Here (Pelagic) – drone

Lutharo – Chasing Euphoria (Atomic Fire Records) – melodic metal

Malsten – The Haunting of Silvåkra Mill – Rites of Passage (Svart) – horror doom

Nastergal – The Untold War (Wormholedeath) – black metal

NEID – Still Offensive (Time to Kill Records) – grindcore

O Zorn! – Vermillion Haze (Hard Drugs / Seeing Red) – post-metal

Ohpen Ahrms – Lying Beside You (Independent) – progressive rock

Per Wiberg – The Serpent’s Here (Despotz Records) – lots of stuff

Piyakdu – Vissiones ov Naeku the’e Plowmanne (Fiadh Productions) – medieval ambient

Prisoner – Putrid / Obsolete (Persistent Vision) – metallic hardcore

Reaper’s Scythe – Shielded. Abandoned. Rearranged. (Independent) – rock

Rifforia – Axeorcism (Metalville) – heavy metal

Shadowpath – The Aeon Discordance (Independent) – progmelodeath

Shock Withdrawal – The Dismal Advance (Brutal Panda Records) – extreme metal

Silver Mountain – Universe (Regain Classics) – heavy metal

Simulakra – Reincarnation, EP (DAZE) – metallic hardcore

Sol Anahata – Syncretic Sovereignty (Independent) – heavy metal

Stress Angel – Punished By Nemesis (Dying Victims / Stygian Black Hand) – black / thrash

Surgical Strike – 24/7 Hate (Metalville) – thrash

Sweat – Love Child (Vitriol Records) – hardcore punk

The Dread Crew of Oddwood – Rust & Glory (Independent) – pirates

The Moor – Ombra (Inertial) – prog death

The Progressive Souls Collective – Sonic Rebirth (Metalville) – progressive metal

Throne of Exile – The Endless Sky (Shattered Earth) – metal

Udåd – S/T (Peaceville) – black metal

Vltimas – Epic (Season of Mist) – black / death

Wasted Death – Season of Evil (APF) – horrorgrind

Wax Donut Presents – Goat: A Jesus Lizard Tribute (Wax Donut Records) – noise

Weston Super Maim – See You Tomorrow Baby (Independent) – extreme

Wounds – Ruin (Everlasting Spew Records) – techdeath

— Josh