Nine Circles

I never considered myself as an audiobook guy yet here we are. I read somewhere that any runners that are not should at least try it once. I did. And now I’ve already clipped off two in just the past three weeks and only during my runs. I love it but I also love huge metal new release hauls which is what we have here on this week’s Initial Descent. Horn kicks us off with a stunning black metal release that leans heavily yet mightily on the metal side of things, Wheel is back to rock our damn socks off, Dååth returns with an album that a few of us Nine Circlers have very much anticipated as it’s not your normal, run of the mill metal outing, Crawl offers up a disgusting combo of death metal and crust, and we’ve got a ton more in the list that follows. With this batch of new releases it might be a hot minute before I get back to my audiobooks so take that as a sign that you need to check these out. Do that and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Horn – Daudswiärk (Northern Silence) – black metal

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Wheel – Charismatic Leaders (Inside Out) – metal

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Dååth – The Deceivers (Metal Blade) – experimental death metal

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Crawl – Altar of Disgust (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death / crust

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Also on tap…

Aoryst – Relics Of Time (MDD Records) – thrash

As The Sun Falls – Kaamos (Theogonia Records) – melodic death metal

Ba’al – Soft Eyes (Ripcord Records) – blackened post metal

Bismarck – Vourukasha (Dark Essence) – doom

Black Pyramid – The Paths of Time Are Vast (Totem Cat Records) – psych doom

Botched Pneumonectomy – Promo 2024 (Kill All Music) – grind

Brume – Marten (Magnetic Eye) – doom / goth

Child – Blueside, Reissue (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych blues rock

Child – Soul Murder, Reissue (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych blues rock

Chunked – Inhaling the Infestation (Gore House Productions) – death metal

Dauþuz – Uranium (Amor Fati) – black metal

Dead Flesh – Dehumanize, EP (Independent) – deathcore

Decline and Fall – Gloom (Bleak Recordings) – dark wave

Deliria – Phantasm (Self) – post black metal

DEMANDE À LA POUSSIÈRE – Kintsugi (My Kingdom Music) – post black doom

Djiin – Mirrors (Klonosphere) – psych rock

Doubtsower – Nothing Reduced to Everything (Self) – experimental doom

Enablers – Almost To Who Knows Where (Atypeek Music) – post-rock

Fessus – Pilgrims of Morbidity (Darkness Shall Rise) – death metal

Feuerschwanz – Warriors (Napalm Records) – folk metal

From Dying Suns – Calamity (Self) – progressive death metal

Futuro Primitivo – Declive (lots) – metal

Ghost on Mars – Out of Time and Space (Willowtip Records) – progressive metal

Hässlig – Apex Predator (Sentient Ruin) – black metal/punk

Hi/Jack – Everything You Know is Yesterday (Blue Collar Records) – hard rock

Hollow Leg – Dust (Self) – sludge

Idle Ruin – The Fell Tyrant (Darkness Shall Rise) – black / thrash

Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury, Remixed & Remastered (Century Media Records) – avant black metal

Isospin – Aftermath Chronicles (Sliptrick Records) – prog heavy metal

Kratti – Matka Kohti Kosmista (Signal Rex) – black metal

Mob Rules – Celebration Day – 30 Years of Mob Rules (Steamhammer / SPV) – metal

Mons Veneris – Ascent Into Draconian Abyss (Signal Rex) – black metal

Mooch – Visions (Black Throne Productions) – psych rock

MoonKill – S/T (Independent) – heavy punk

My Silent Wake – Lost In Memories, Lost In Grief (Ardua) – doom

Natthammer – The Hammer Of The Witch (Black Legion Records / Ultraviolencia) – heavy metal

Necropanther – Oblivion Jones: A Tale of False Consciousness, EP (Self) – metal

Nihilo – Machina (The Black River (Self) – black metal

Nokturnal – Shades of Night (Pulverised) – death metal

North – We Are, We Remain… (Pagan) – black / death

NOTSM – Only Death Brings Silence (Self) – death metal

Nyrak – Devourer of All (Phoenix Mortis Productions) – atmospheric black metal

Oðkraptr – S/T (Signal Rex) – black metal

Olamot – Path of Divinity (Lethal Scissor Records) – extreme metal

Ossilegium – The Gods Below (Personal Records) – blackened death metal

P.O.D. – Veritas (Mascot) – rock

Profanation – Skull Crushing Violence (Iron Bonehead) – death metal

Skulldozer – Non Stop Ruthless Crushing (WormHoleDeath) – death metal

Sons of Thunder – Thunderhood (Time To Kill) – hard rock

SOOMA – Drü (Gluttony) – noise

StarGazer – Bound By Spells, EP (Personal) – prog

Stoned Space – I (Self) – psych stoner

Sunwise – Crime Gardens (Half Empty Records) – post hardcore

Temple of the Beast – Geminian Arcana (Iron Bonehead) – black metal

Ten Ton Slug – Colossal Oppressor (Independent) – sludge

Terminal Nation – Echoes Of The Devil’s Den (20 Buck Spin) – death metal

The Rogues – Songs Of Praise (Atypeek Music) – pop-punk

The Watchers – Nyctophilia (Ripple Music) – heavy metal

Transonic Science – Psychobulb (Argonauta Records) – stoner metal

Unearthly Rites – Ecdysis (Prosthetic) – death metal

Unleashed – Before the Creation of Time (Darkness Shall Rise) – death metal

Urza / Calliophis – Dawn Of A Lifeless Age (Meuse Music Records / Aesthetic Death) – funeral death doom

Urzah – The Scorching Gape (APF) – post-sludge

Verzauber – Frankincense & Vitriol (Naturmacht Productions) – black metal

Vesseles – I Am a Demon (Self) – symphonic black metal

Violet Eternal – Reload The Violet (Rockshots Records) – power prog

Wolves Don’t Sleep – Fears & Fractures (Independent) – metalcore

Zolle – Rosa (Subsound) – rock

— Josh