This is what happens when your Fearless Editor in Chief™ takes a few days off, you all freak out and get giddy about an earthquake, it’s the day of the solar eclipse and you have to make sure your dumb son doesn’t look directly at it with his friends as you get him to school and then – AND THEN – you realize no one got Initial Descent covered this morning. Taking the fastest look possible at this week’s offerings I can safely say I’m stoked for what soupy death metal Necrot is cooking up. From there Exist is back with their latest offering of technical progressive metal, Týr rages forth with a new slab of viking metal, and I can’t remember the last time I was interested in Attacker, but I can always use some new tasty thrash so here’s hoping The God Particle delivers. But have no fear: if none of those interest you we’ve got a full listing below of new releases so dig in, find some metal and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Necrot – Lifeless Birth (Tankcrimes) – death metal

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Exist – Hijacking the Zeitgeist (Prosthetic) – progressive metal

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Týr – Battle Ballads (Metal Blade) – viking metal

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Attacker – The God Particle (Cruz Del Sur) – heavy metal

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Ællevild – Hele Dagen Lang (Target Records) – folk

Arrow Minds – S.A.D. (Dead Serious) – hardcore

Battlecreek – Maze of the Mind (MDD) – thrash

Bottenhavet – Ljud i tysta rum (Fuzzorama) – rock

Blue Öyster Cult – Ghost Stories (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – hard rock

Corvus Corone – Finality of Winter (Syrup Moose Records) – funeral doom

Crown of Asteria – Cypher (Fiadh Productions) – atmospheric black metal

Crucifer – Led Astray (Iron Bonehead) – black/death

Cruel Mother – Cut Down for the Earth (Independent) – folk doom

Elk Witch – Azimuth (Majestic Mountain) – stoner

Erotica – The Undoing (Fiadh Productions) – raw black metal

Eventide – Waterline (Aesthetic Death) – drone

Givre – Le Cloître (Eisenwald) – experimental

Glacial Mass – The Passion (Gymnocal Industries) – doom/ambient

Great Dragon – Aria of Sorrow (Fiadh Productions) – raw black metal

Greyhaven – Stereo Grief, EP (Solid State Records) – post hardcore

Griefgod – Deterioration (Independent) – death metal

Grind – Grace & Misery (7Degrees) – hardcore

Heavy Temple – Gardens of Heathens (Magnetic Eye) – psych doom

Heresiarch – Edifice (Iron Bonehead) – black/death

Hypersonic – Kaosmogonia (Rockshots Records) – symphonic metal

Khüll – Where Shadows Rise (Naturmacht Productions) – melodic black metal

Kōya – Fragments (Independent) – post hardcore

Lares – Et in Arcadia Ego (Argonauta) – psychedelic black/doom

Love Sex Machine – Trve (Pelagic) – sludge/post metal

Martikor – Acedia (Fiadh Productions) – post metal

Midnite Hellion – Kingdom Immortal (Independent) – metal

Mother of All – Global Parasitic Leviathan (Independent) – prog/melodeath

NAG – Boys of Europe (Fysisk Format Records) – hardcore

Nest – Endeavors (Housecore Records) – hardcore industrial…shoegaze?

Nothing is Real – Acts of Despair and Faith (Independent) – doom/sludge

Oakfarm – S/T (Pink Tank Records) – rock

Ornamental – Verwandlung Im Schlaf (Pink Tank Records) – psych rock

Replicant – Infinite Mortality (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal

Riot (V) – Mean Streets (Atomic Fire) – heavy metal

Sarcasm – Morninghoul (Hammerheart) – death metal

Setyøursails – Bad Blood (Napalm) – metalcore

sleepmakeswaves – It’s Here, But I Have No Names For It (Bird’s Robe Records) – post rock

Speed Limit – The Broken Record – Chorus Sound Tapes (NRT-Records) – heavy metal

Subterraen – In The Aftermath Of Blight (Frozen Records) – atmospheric post sludge

Sulphur and Mercury – Alchemia Prophetica (Time to Kill) – trad metal

Tarot – Glimpse of the Dawn (Cruz Del Sur) – hard rock

Tenebrific – Labyrinth of Anguish (Independent) – blackened death

Tetsuo – Dots (Hypershape) – post metal

The Lunar Effect – Sounds of Green & Blue (Start) – psych

The Vision Bleak – Weird Tales (Prophecy) – goth

Throwing Bricks & Ontaard – Oud Zeer (Tartarus Records) – ????

Tonnerre – La nuit sauvage (Cruz Del Sur) – rock

Upploppet – Road Runner (The Sign Records) – punk n roll

Veriteras – The Dark Horizon (Independent) – melo death

Vulture – Sentinels (Metal Blade) – thrash/heavy metal

Walk Through Fire – Till Aska (N/A) – avant-garde doom/sludge

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That’s it. In the meantime, keep it heavy, keep it safe, and we’ll see you on the flip side, provided the eclipse doesn’t usher in the apocalypse.

— Chris