Annnnnd, we’re back! For another Initial Descent and another chance to find something new and shiny. Hells Headbangers gets the double double lead off with a strong death metal outing from Skelethal and a little something from speed freaks Blood Feast. After that we’ve got more death metal from Vanhelgd, some psych metal from Lord Buffalo, and a bunch more below these top four. The quantity is certainly there but you will have to be the judge on the quality. Happy hunting and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Skelethal – Within Corrosive Continuums (Hells Headbangers) – death metal

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Blood Feast – Infinite Evolution (Hells Headbangers) – thrash

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Vanhelgd – Atropos Doctrina (Dark Descent Records) – death metal

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Lord Buffalo – Holus Bolus (Blues Funeral) – psych

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Also on tap:

Against Evil – Give ‘EM Hell (Doc Gator Records) – heavy metal

Amorphis – Tales From The Thousand Lakes, Live At Tavastia (Reigning Phoenix Music) – melodeath

Ananda Mida – Live at Duna Jam (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych blues

Blasfeme – Black Legion (Wulfhere Productions) – black metal

Boozewa – Bon Vivant (DeepRest Records) – sludge punk

Clactonian – Dea Madre (Self) – black / death

Cleansing of the Temple – The Devil Knows My Name (Rottweiler Records) – slam deathcore

Cranial Disorder – Congenital Depravity (Lethal Scissor) – death metal

Diskord/ATVM – Bipolarities (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal

Disloyal – Divine Miasmata (Black Lion Records) – death metal

Endless Floods – Rites Futurs (Breathe Plastic Records) – doom

Forgotten Tomb – Nightfloating (Agonia Records) – depressive black/doom

Gorgonchrist – And Justice For Balls (Road To Masochist) – crusty sludge

Gurkkhas – A Life Of Suffering, Best of (Great Dane) – brutal death

Hvile I Kaos – Lower Order Manifestations (Self) – black metal

Kommandant – Exhibition of Conquest (ATMF) – black metal

Lammoth – Tales of Treachery (Fiadh Productions) – hobbit black metal

Lodestar – Polaris (Sliptrick Records) – gothic metal

Mages Terror – Damnations Sight (Invictus Productions) – death thrash

Munitions – Remote Death (Self) – blackened death thrash

Obscene – Agony & Wounds (Nameless Grave Records) – death metal

Occult Witches – Sorrow’s Pyre (Black Throne Productions) – hard rock blues

OrangeTone – Portail Opaque (Jolt Music) – ambient

Orb – Tailem Bend (Fuzz Club) – stoner psych

Plutocracy Planet – S/T (Self) – post-hardcore

Quine – S/T (Self) – prog

Sars – Nothing Hurts Quite Like Life (Time To Kill Records) – dark metallic hardcore

Speed – Only One Mode (Flatspot) – hardcore

Spiral Grave – Ill Repute (Argonauta Records) – doom

Tenebrae Annex – Conditioning (Philip K. Discs) – industrial noise

The Last King – Culling From Gods (Self) – tech metal

Thirteen Goats – Capricorn Rising (Exitus Stratagem) – deathrock

Through Mists – Branches (Self) – metal

Totengott – Beyond The Veil (Hammerheart Records) – death/doom

Turbo – Broke & Ugly (Self) – thrash

Turin – The Unforgiving Reality (MNRK Heavy) – modern death metal

Votive – Towards the Pillory (Self) – screamo

Vuur & Zijde – Boezem (Prophecy Productions) – post-black metal

— Josh