I had this big long thing I was going to lead with but the more I thought about it, the more I decided that this week’s new releases couldn’t wait. So, here we go… I have said this recently and I’m saying it again now because the sweet ass death metal from Hour Of Penance kicks off us off in style. Then we move to one of my favorite sludge metal bands, Iron Monkey, who are still one of the nastiest to ever do it, next up we’ve got a beautiful rock / metal outing from Dool (this one hangs around until EOY time, trust me), and last up top this week is The Neptune Power Federation who Chris was super high on so it should be one hell of a good time. And, of course, we’ve got a full listing elsewhere so dig in to those and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Hour Of Penance – Devotion (Agonia) – death metal

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Iron Monkey – Spleen And Goad (Relapse Records) – sludge

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Dool – The Shape of Fluidity (Prophecy) – dark rock / metal

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The Neptune Power Federation – Goodnight My Children (Cruz Del Sur) – rock / metal [feature review]

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Acid Mammoth – Supersonic Megafauna Collision (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom

Aequorea – Departure (Fiadh Productions) – post-metal/doom

Aristarchos – Martyr of Fire and Star (Vendetta Records) – black metal

Austere – Beneath the Threshold (Lupus Lounge) – black metal

Belore – Eastern Tales (Northern Silence Productions) – epic black metal

Bilwis – HameIn (Northern Silence) – black metal

Brutalism – Solace In Absurdity (Comatose) – death metal

Cistvaen – At Light’s Demise (Independent) – atmospheric black/doom

Concrete Age – Motherland (Soundage) – metal

Degraved – Whispered Morbidity & Exhumed Remnants (Chaos) – death metal

Destroyer of Light – Degradation Years (HFR) – doom

Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations (Sentient Ruin) – black death metal

Dialith – Alter, EP (Independent) – power metal

Drungi – Hamfarir Hugans (Independent) – experimental

Empanadas Ilegales – Creepy Mambo: Rooftop Sessions (We Are Time) – psych rock

Enrapture – DRØNN (Independent) – progressive extreme metal

Erra – Cure (UNFD) – progressive metalcore

Eyes of Simurgh – Legendas Ruraus (Fiadh Productions) – sludge

Filth – Southern Hostility (Independent) – deathcore

Friends of Hell – God Damned You to Hell (Rise Above) – heavy metal

Funeral Leech – The Illusion Of Time (Carbonized Records) – death/doom

Furze – Caw Entrance (Devoted Art Propaganda) – black / psych

Greyhawk – Thunderheart (Fighter) – power metal

Hardraw – Abyss of Mankind (Pitch Black Records) – heavy metal

Hellwalker – Coldblooded (Self) – death metal

Herxheim – Contrapasso (I, Voidhanger Records) – heavy metal

Horndal – Head Hammer Man (Prosthetic Records) – rust metal…?

Icosandria – A Scarlet Lunar Glow (Black Lava Records) – post-metal

Ingested – The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams (Metal Blade Records) – death metal

Ischemic – Condemned to the Breaking Wheel (Self) – death doom

Korpiklanni – Rankarumpu (Nuclear Blast) – folk metal

Kvadrat – The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion (Nuclear Winter Records) – black / death

Llefelys – Of Fallen Leaves and Inevitable Fate (Fiadh Productions) – fantasy synth

Manasseh – Tunneling To Paradiso (I, Voidhanger Records) – dark ambient

Nitritono – Cecità (My Kingdom) – noisecore

Noel Husser – Beyond, EP (Independent) – melodic metal

Ondfødt – Oldfodt (Black Lion) – black metal

Once Upon the End – Archive 200 (Independent) – melodeath

Planet On A Chain – Culture Of Death (Revelation Records) – hardcore punk

Protosequence – Bestiary (Lacerated Enemy) – tech death

Purulency – Transcendent Unveiling Of Dimensions (Pulverised Records) – death metal

Rageful / Ruttenskalle – Misery / Disgorged Exsanguination (Independent) – death metal

Red Sun – From Sunset to Dawn (Subsound Records) – heavy psych

Säteilijä – S/T (Inverse) – stoner

Shred Rogers – The Circle (Heavy Armor) – riffs

Straight On View – Gotta Step Up (Strange Mono Records) – hardcore punk

Temple of the Fuzz Witch – Apotheosis (Ripple Music) – black / doom

The Dredge – Torches (Apollon) – rock

The Rottening – Seeds of Death (Personal Records) – death metal

Venomous Echoes – Writhing Tomb Amongst The Stars (I, Voidhanger Records) – death metal

Venomous Echoes – Split Formations And Infinite Mania (I, Voidhanger Records) – death metal

White Dog – Double Dog Dare (Rise Above) – fuzzy rock

Witch Vomit – Funeral Sanctum (20 Buck Spin) – death metal

Wolf Lichen – Empyreal Alpine Lysergy (Fiadh Productions) – raw black metal

WrekTomb – Bovine Mockeries of Human Posturing (Personal) – doom

— Josh