Just finished a run and now slamming some coffee on this beautiful day off. It is Memorial Day so be grateful others died and sacrificed so you could be here reading this without a care in the world. Moving along…It’s been a brutal last few weeks so you can bet your ass I’m going to enjoy these next several hours. You came for the new metals and that, my friends, we have in spades starting with one of my favorite grindcore bands Beaten To Death, next up is some black metal from SIG:AR:TYR which Corey is extremely excited about, following that is Young Acid with a killer album name, then we’ve got some really good death metal from Mortuary Sickness who probably will be signed somewhere after this album blows up, and last but not least are the rest of what’s left in the list here on Initial Descent. Good stuff to be found all around so get to diggin’ and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Beaten To Death – Sunrise Over Rigor Mortis (Mas-Kina) – grind

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SIG:AR:TYR – Citadel of Stars (Hammerheart Records) – black metal

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Young Acid – Murder at Maple Mountain (Majestic Mountain) – rock

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Mortuary Sickness – What Lies Beyond… (Self) – death metal

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Also on tap:

Abreaktion – Bornhatred (Chaos Records) – thrash

Adversarial – Solitude with the Eternal (Dark Descent Records) – death metal

Arhat – Secrets of Ancient Gods (Self) – death metal

Black Wound – Warping Structure (Chaos Records) – death metal

Carnwennan – Lotus (Darkest) – sludge / doom

Carrion Throne – The Feast of Human Vices (Lacerated Enemy Records) – brutal death metal

De Arma – Synthwave Sessions, Vol. 2 (Silent Future) – synth

Dekadent – Dionyst (Dusktone) – atmospheric black metal

Drive By Wire – Time Horizon (Argonauta Records) – psych desert rock

DRLCT – Médée (Sunday Fog) – post-rock

Dune – Years of Chains (Self) – thrash

Dusk – Industrie (Independent) – industrial black metal

Ebba Bergkvist & The Flat Tire Band – Four Wings (The Sign Records) – heavy blues rock

Envig – Eskatos (At Dawn) – death metal 

Ereley – Garden (WormHoleDeath) – rock

Euge Valovirta – Hardtones (Gramophone) – heavy metal

Four Stroke Baron – Data Diamond (Prosthetic) – avant

Halcyon Way – Night Crawling (Agonia Records) – power thrash

Haunted Plasma – I (Svart Records) – black metal

Heksegrav – Svart Portal (The Lasting Dose Records) – doom

Hellbutcher – S/T (Metal Blade Records) – black metal

High Desert Queen – Palm Reader (Magnetic Eye Records) – desert rock

House By The Cemetery – The Mortuary Hauntings (Pulverised Records) – death metal

José Luis Cano Barron – From Hades to Valhalla… BATHORY – The Epic Story (Pagan Records / Monomaniax ) – book

Krater – Phrenesis (Eisenwald) – black metal

Laetitia In Holocaust – Fanciulli D’Occidente (Dusktone) – avantgarde black metal

Louvado – Abismo (S/T) – Half Beast Records) – heavy post-punk

Lowlives – Freaking Out (Spinefarm) – alt rock/grunge

Mantarochen – In The Badger’s Cave (It’s Eleven Records) – post punk

Marjana Semkina – Sirin (Self) – dark folk

Myronath – Inferno (Dusktone) – black metal

Negative or Nothing – Vøid (Tragedy Productions) – metallic

Nemus Anima – The God of Forest (Self) – black / death

Nestor – Teenage Rebel (Napalm Records) – retro rock

New Hate Rising – As One (Dead Serious Recordings) – hardcore

Origod – Impression (Argonauta Records) – post-core

Our Noise – S/T (Epictronic Records) – rock

Perfect Sky – Hunting Demons (WTF Records) – hardcore

R.A.T.S. – Actions Have Reactions (Black Star Foundation) – hardcore

Redwood – Dry Rivers (Self) – heavy psych

Saltpig – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club – Kinnery of Lupercalia: Buell Legion (SCAC Unincoporated) – dark folk

Stormcrow – Path to Ascension (Time To Kill Records) – black metal

Suffering Souls – An Iconic Taste of Demise (Satanath / Fetzner Death) – symphonic black metal

Swampbeast – Offering of Chaos, Lamenting In The Blood of Man (Translation Loss Records) – blackened death metal

Sykofant – S/T (Self) – prog rock

The Human Condition – Foundations (Self) – prog doom

ViOS – SlaveForm (Lydian Impulse) – prog-instru-metal

Windswept – Der eine, wahre König (Primitive Reaction) – black metal

Witherfall – Sounds Of The Forgotten (Deathwave Records) – dark melodic metal

Wormwood – The Star (Black Lodge Records) – melodic black metal

— Josh