Ran a 10 miler around a beautiful mountain lake this weekend and came away with my fastest 10 mile time since I started this running thing. BOOM. Also, fall is definitely falling. Alright then, moving on to new releases and this week sees an absolute BANGER from Wolfbrigade, a deep yet catchy black metal outing from Firtan, noise rock royalty from The Jesus Lizard (YAY!!), and heavy metal kings Satan return with a trusty chunk of the, yep you guessed it, heavy. All that and tons more to explore below so get to reading and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Wolfbrigade – Life Knife Death (Metal Blade) – punk

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Firtan – Ethos (AOP Records) – black metal

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The Jesus Lizard – Rack (Ipecac Recordings) – noise rock

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Satan – Songs In Crimson (Metal Blade Records) – heavy metal

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Also on tap:

156/Silence – People Watching (SharpTone Records) – alt-metal

A Killer’s Confession – Victim 1 (MNRK Heavy) – alt-metal

Abusements – Grievance Beerwater Revival (Leather Records) – punk

Aethyrick – Death is Absent (EAL Productions) – black metal

Agrypnie – Erg (AOP Records) – black metal

Apep – Before Whom Evil Trembles (War Anthem Records) – death metal

Burial Oath – Beyond the Vale of Shadowlands (Morbid And Miserable Records) – black metal

Caffeine – The Threshold (The Lasting Dose Records) – sludge

Catharia – Unimaginable Dreams Of Fate (Self) – black metal

Cokus – An Hour of Lies (Qumran Recrods) – heavy metal

Dark Brown – American Instrument (Memory Bulldozer) – psych rock

DAUFØDT – Glitter (Fysisk Format Records) – rock

Dead Flesh Stigma – Necrocosmic Death Ritual (Werewolf) – industrial black metal

Denomination – The Last Companion (FDA Records) – death metal

Father Befouled – Immaculate Pain, EP (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal

Flotsam and Jetsam – I Am The Weapon (AFM Records) – thrash

FÖRGJORD – Perkeleen Weri (Werewolf) – black metal

Hammerfilosofi – SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra) (ATMF) – black metal

Helevorn –  Espectres (Meuse Music Records) – gothic doom

Herakleion – Necroverse, EP (Self) – death / thrash

Horna – Hymnejä Yölle (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal

Horse of Troja – Harder & Heavier (Sliptrick) – hard rock

Immortal Death – S/T (Werewolf) – death metal

Insurrection – Obsolescence (Bam Co. & Heavy) – death metal

Isolert – Wounds Of Desolation (Non Serviam Records) – black metal

Jade / Sanctuarium – The Sempiternal Wound (Pulverised Records) – death/doom

Kalandra – A Frame of Mind (By Norse Mvsic) – folk

Killing Spree – Camouflage (Klonosphere Records) – avant-garde

Legions of Doom – The Skull 3 (Tee Pee Records) – doom

Mass Disorder – Hupokrisis (Self) – thrash

Mynskh – Chapter II – The Last Messiah (Self) – black/death

Neon Hater Oss – Kunsten Aa Gjoere Jorden Ubeboelig (Dusktone) – black metal

Nightwraith – Divergence (Self) – prog melodeath

Now After Nothing – Artificial Ambivalence, EP (Self) – electronic

Opium Warlords – Strength! (Svart Records) – industrial pop

Sbarco – S/T (Argonauta Records) – heavy rock

Schwein – War (Apollon Records / Gymnocal Industries) – drone / folk

Siderean – Spilling the Astral Chalice (Edged Circle Productions) – progressive death metal

Silly Goose – Bad Behavior, EP (Blue Grape Music) – rock

Slomosa – Tundra Rock (MNRK Heavy) – heavy rock

Solus Rex – The Duellist’s Monologue (Obelisk Polaris Productions) – death doom metal

Spirit Mother – Trails (Heavy Psych Sounds) – heavy rock

Stryper – When We Were Kings (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – heavy metal

Timeless Fairytale – A Story to Tell (Vicisolum Productions) – melodic heavy metal

Tommy Stewart’s Dyerwulf – Fyrewulf One (Self) – doom

Tonic Breed – Outsold, 10th Anni (Self) – thrash/groove

Torso – Brain Cells (APF Records) – horror metal

Trelldom – …by the shadows… (Prophecy Productions) – black metal

Trip To The Morgue – Toe Tagged and Body Bagged (WormHoleDeath) – grindcore

Vafurlogi – Í vökulli áþján (NoEvDia / Oration) – black  metal

Various Artists – In the Loving Memory of You (Suicide Records) – various

Winterfylleth – The Imperious Horizon (Candlelight / Spinefarm) – black metal

— Josh