I’m back! For the one of you that missed me: Hi, how are you? Me? I’m great and rested from a week by the sea, thanks for asking. Logged 60ish miles running on the beach and holy hell what a head clearer that was. But, time to get back to the grind and this here grind kicks off with some new tunes from Bangladeafy who spent many of my 60 beach miles with me. LOVE the craziness of this album and love how it just slowly worms its way into your soul, tasty! Next up we’ve got some incredibly vicious death metal from Gorgatron, some melodic black metal from Inherits the Void (spoiler: you’ll be reading more on this later in the week), some straight forward metal from Sarke, and a whole host of other stuff hiding away in the list that follows this week’s opening four. It’s another excellent week here on Initial Descent and will be another excellent week ’round these 9C parts so stay tuned for what we’ve got cooking.

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Bangladeafy – Vulture (Nefarious Industries) – avantmetal [profile]

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Gorgatron – Sentience Revoked (Redefining Darkness Records) – death metal

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Inherits the Void – Scars of Yesteryears (Avantgarde) – melodic black metal

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Sarke – Endo Feight (Soulseller Records) – metal

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Also on tap:

Abysmal Winds – Magna Pestilencia (I Hate Records) – death metal

Adelon – Resurgence (Self) – tech death

Alcest – Les Chants De L’Aurore (Nuclear Blast) – blackgaze

Anthropophagus Depravity – Demonic Paradise (Comatose) – brutal death

Ancient Entities – Echoes of Annihilation (Self) – death metal

Aphelion Entity – S/T, EP (Lifeless Chasm Records) – cosmic death metal

Assimilator – Expelled Into Suffering (HPGD) – death metal

Aussichtalos – Schicksalstotschlag (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Autumns Eyes – Grimoire of Oak & Shadow (Self) – gothic metal

Black Veil Brides – Bleeders, EP (Spinefarm) – modern metal

Blóð – Mara (Talheim Records) – sludge doom

Cainites – Revenant (Scarlet) – melodic death metal

Codex Mortis – Tales of Woe (Black Lion Records) – black metal

Construct of Lethe – A Kindness Dealt In Venom (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal

Danava – Live (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych hard rock

Derelict – Versus Entropy (Self) – melodic tech death

earthtone9 – In Resonance Nexus (Candlelight) – nu metal doomgaze… core

Feed Them Death – The Malady (Brucia) – deathgrind

Foreign Hands – What’s Left Unsaid (SharpTone) – metalcore

Gasket – Babylon, EP (Bluegrape Music) – crusty hardcore punk

Greenleaf – The Head & The Habit (Magnetic Eye Records) – heavy rock

Grim Colossus – Descent Into Madness (Self) – doom

Ground2A – Communication (Dead Serious Records) – hardcore punk

Horseburner – Voice of Storms (Blues Funeral Recordings) – sludge prog

Hyperdontia – Harvest of Malevolence (Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo Records) – death metal

Inner Schrine – Aita (Lands of Glory) – gothic metal

King Bastard – From Whence They Came (Self) – doom

Kraanerg – Heart of a Cherry Pit Sun (Not Music) – avant-garde metal

Kvaen – The Formless Fires (Metal Blade Records) – melodic black metal

Les Chants Du Hasard – Livre Quart (Self) – blackened orchestral

Lucifericon – Sabatraxis (Invictus) – death metal

Mylingen – Under En Svart Himmel (Self) – progressive extreme metal

Nel Buio – S/T, EP (Avantgarde) – blackwave

Ogasawara – The Age of Stars (Self) – black metal

Paragnosis – S/T, EP (Independent) – progressive/instrumental

Portrait – The Host (Metal Blade Records) – heavy metal

Qaalm – First Light Of The Last Dawn, EP (Hypaethral Records) – atmospheric doom

Release The Titans – Odyssey (Self) – power metal

Rendezvous Point – Dream Chaser (Long Branch Records) – prog metal

Rifflord – 39 Serpent Power (Ripple Music) – thrash

Serrabulho – Piss & Love (Rotten Roll Rex) – party grind

Seven Spires – A Fortress Called Home (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – symphonic metal

Seventh Dimension – Of Hope & Ordeals (Corrupted Records) – progressive metal

Shadow Witch – Eschaton, The End Of All Things (Argonauta Records) – stoner doom

Sons of Arrakis – Volume II (Black Throne Productions) – dune

Sumac – The Healer (Self) – doomish

The Ghost Next Door – Classic Songs of Death and Dismemberment (Ripple Music) – progressive heavy metal

Unholy Craft – Saa Mørkt, Saa Mektig (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Valerian Swing – Liminal (Pax Aeternum) – post rock

Vexing Hex – Solve Et Coagula (Wise Blood Records) – doom rock

Vorath – Vol 1: The Hymn of the Hunters (Exitus Stratagem Records) – extreme metal

Wage War – Stigma (Fearless Records) – industrial

Wharflurch – Shittier/Slimier (Dawnbreed Records / Gurgling Gore) – death doom

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

Wound Collector – Begging For Chicxulub, EP (Self) – death metal

Wrach – Quae Infra Volo Videre (Self) – black metal

Zealed – Divination (Self) – deathcore

— Josh