My favorite haunted house opens in two weeks and that is FANTASTIC. They always do an early bird discounted ticket sale and of course I’m stocked. On the other hand, I can’t even begin to believe we are at that point in the year already but here we are and I am 100% here for it. Some of you stay there all year and that is quite alright…trust me, no judgement here. I mean, we are a metal site and we all love horror so, carry on. Alright then, we’ve got this week’s list of new metal (aka Initial Descent) for you to peruse and it kicks off with the old school death metal vets DECEASED. Beyond that we’ve got more death metal from Gutvoid, black metal from Ellende, which has been a 9C fave as of late, then some more death metal of the dissonant type from Teeth. Oh, and as usual, we’ve got tons more below these opening picks so get to exploring and we’ll see you here throughout the week.  

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Deceased – Children of the Morgue (Hells Headbangers) – death metal

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Gutvoid – Breathing Obelisk (Blood Harvest) – death metal

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Ellende – Todbringerin (AOP Records) – black metal

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Teeth – The Will of Hate (Translation Loss Records) – dissonant death metal

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Also on tap:

Amiensus – Reclamation Pt. II (M-Theory Audio) – prog black metal

Anciients – Beyond The Reach of The Sun (Season of Mist) – metal

Avmakt – Satanic Inversion Of…. (Peaceville Records) – black metal

Chelsea Wolfe – Undone, EP (Loma Vista) – gothic

Cold Gawd – I’ll Drown On This Earth (Dais Records) – shoegaze

Concrete Winds – S/T (Sepulchral Voice) – death metal

Cult of Orpist – Attack of the Zombies Cans (Brutal Records) – death / thrash

Demonical – Victorious Death – Live in Latin America (Agonia Records) – death metal

Dionize – Lighthouse (Argonauta Records) – stoner/sludge

Elder – Live at BBC Maida Vale Studios (Stickman) – psych

Erronaut – The Space Inbetween (London Doom Collective) – cosmic rock

Executioner’s Mask – Almost There (Seeing Red Records) – dark post-punk

Grimaze – The Heart of a Collapsing Star (Self) – death metal

Ishtar Terra – Isolator (Self) – progressive metal

Kungens Män – För samtida djur 2 (Majestic Mountain Records) – psych

Leprous – Melodies of Atonement (InsideOutMusic) – prog

Modern Rites – Endless (Debemur Morti Productions) – industrial metal

Nails – Every Bridge Burning (Nuclear Blast Records) – they are one of many

Norna – S/T (Pelagic Records) – heavy post-metal

Other World – Tenebrous (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal

Phenocryst – Cremation Pyre (Blood Harvest) – death metal

Pneuma Hagion – From Beyond (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal

Rat Lord – Blazed In The Northern Sky (Loyal Blood Records) – power violence

Satan’s Satyrs – After Dark (Tee Pee) – biker metal

Sur Austra – Datura Străhiarelor (Avantgarde Music) – progressive folk black metal

Tantrum – No Place For The Damned (Self) – heavy metal

Temple Witch – Ocean Thousand, Mountain Thousand (Wormholedeath) – doom

Thunderbird Divine – Little Wars (Black Doomba Records) – stoner rock

Vast Pyre – S/T (Octopus Rising) – stoner doom

Wall – Brick By Brick (APF Records) – instrumental doom

Wolfhorde – Bloodmoon Symphonies (Inverse Records) – folk / death / black metal

Worn Out – Low (Death Farm Records / Ripcord Records) – metallica hardcore

Wrach – Quae Infra Volo Videre (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – black metal

— Josh