Did you get lucky yesterday? HA. I’ll leave that on you to define and figure out. Alrighty then…we’ve got the new releases for this, the week of March 17 – 23, so let’s do it: one I’ve been ecstatic about, just from its sheer level of brute force, kicks things off from Hideous Divinity and thankfully you’ll hear more about this one later in the week from someone that 100% knows their way around a review, next up is a sludgy one from Mastiff and if somehow you are still unaware this band isn’t just sludgy they’re violently sludgy, then we’ve got a blackened thrash split between Wormwitch and Sadistic Ritual, then last up top is some black metal from Dödsrit which we will also be hearing more about this week from yet another one of our team that knows their way around a review, and then we’ve got all the other releases that we know about hanging out below these. Plenty here to sink your teeth into so get to digging and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Hideous Divinity – Unextinct (Century Media) – techish death

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Mastiff – Deprecipice (MNRK Heavy) – sludge

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Wormwitch / Sadistic Ritual – Split, EP (Boris Records) – black thrash

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Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will (Wolves of Hades) – black metal

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Also on tap:

Aberration – Refracture (Sentient Ruin) – dark death metal

Acethexis – Immerse (Amor Fati / Extraconscious) – atmospheric black metal

Achelous – Tower Of High Sorcery (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Ad Mortem – In Honorem Mortis (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Alestorm – Voyage of the Dead Marauder (Napalm) – pirates

Alpha Lyræ – S/T (Independent) – death doom

Altar of Betelgeuze – Echoes (Independent) – doom

Android’s Cottage – Welcome Ohm (Fiadh Productions) – dungeon synth

Apocalypse – Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum (Independent) – metal

Apparition – Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State (Profound Lore) – death metal

Artificial Language – Distant Glow, EP (Independent) – progressive metal

Atrexial – The Serpent Abomination (Non Serviam Records) – black metal

Avralize – Freaks (Arising Empire) – rock

Basque – Pain Without Hope Of Healing (No Funeral Records) – screamo

Blestemat – Poisonous Metal (Silent Future Recordings) – black metal

Browbeat – Unbreakable (Time To Kill) – metalcore

Carpet – Collision (Kapitän Platte) – prog stoner 

Chapel of Samhain – Black Onyx Cave (Nuclear Winter Records) – death metal

Civerous – Maze Envy (20 Buck Spin) – metal

Critical Defiance – The Search Won’t Fall… (Unspeakable Axe Records / Dying Victims Productons) – thrash

Daevar – Amber Eyes (The Lasting Dose) – doom / grunge

Deception – Daenacteh (Mighty Music) – metal

Devastatiön – Rise of the Dead (Empire) – black / thrash

Duindwaler – In het Heemskerks duin (Void Wanderer / War / Zwaertgevegt) – black metal

Evergreen Refuge – Reflection / Resolution (Fiadh Productions) – folk metal

Evil Will Bless – And The Gods Shook (Independent) – black metal

Funeral Oration – Antropomorte (Avantgarde) – black metal

Furor Gallico – Future to Come (Scarlet Records) – folk metal

Glitter Wizard – Hunting Gatherers, Reissue (Ripple Music) – proto-metal

Granitader – Der Wald zwischen den Welten (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Halny – Zawrat (Via Nocturna) – black metal

Hamferð – Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk (Metal Blade Records) – death/doom

Hammer King – König und Kaiser (Napalm Records) – power metal

Hashstronaut – No Return (Blues Funeral) – stoner

Heraldic Blaze – Blazoned Heraldry (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Holler – Reborn (Scarlet Records) – hard rock

Iota – Pentasomnia (Small Stone Recordings) – psych heavy rock

Ivory Altar – The Eventual Echo (Fiadh Productions) – dark ambient/dungeon synth

Keygen Church – Nel Nome Del Codice (Metal Blade Records) – gothicy doom

Leaves’ Eyes – Myths of Fate (AFM Records) – symphonic metal

Lhaäd – Beneath (Amor Fati / Extraconscious) – post-metal

Livgone – Almost There (Svart) – doom

Meister Leonhardt – Thanatopoiea (Purity Through Fire) – metal

Moon Incarnate – Hymns to the Moon (Iron Bonehead) – doom

Omnivide – A Tale of Fire (Independent) – progressive metal

Order of Nosferat – The Absence of Grace (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Pyramid – Beyond Borders of Time (Subsound) – psych

Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol – Big Dumb Riffs (Permanent Teeth) – fuzz

Sausage Wallet – Bad Habit (Syrup Moose Records) – grind

Scavenger – Beyond The Bells (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Severoth – By The Way of Light (Avantgarde) – atmospheric black metal

Shaving the Werewolf – God Whisperer (Independent) – mathcore

Sonic Wolves – III (Argonauta) – rock

Spaced – This Is All We Ever Get (Revelation Records) – hardcore

Stormhunter – Best Before: Death (MDD Records) – heavy power metal

Sylvaine – Eg Er Framand, EP (Season of Mist) – post-metal

Temor – My Sorrow’s Rage (Independent) – death / black 

The Bleak Picture – Meaningless (Ardua) – melodic death / doom

The Lightbringer – Seven Thrones (Independent) – melodic power/black metal

The Wizards – The Exit Garden (High Roller Records) – heavy metal

Velcros – Strange News From the Vault (Crazysane Records) – punk

Vlad in Tears – Relapse (Metalville) – rock

VR SEX – Hard Copy (Independent) – post-punk

Zirael – Broklion (Fiadh Productions) – dungeon synth

Zombi – Direct Inject (Relapse) – experi-prog-tronic

— Josh