Getting right down to business this week… I know there’s tons out there that are so glad to see The Black Dahlia Murder return. What most probably weren’t expecting was for them to return is this kind of way, their new album frickin’ SLAYS and I mean that in every sense of the word. Makes me very, very happy. Following that we’ve got some extreme death metal from Ripped To Shreds, mind wandering psychedelic metal from Psychlona and an excellent black metal effort by way of The Flight of Sleipnir. All that and much more in the list below so get to diggin’ and we’ll see you here throughout the week. Maybe.

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The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude (Metal Blade Records) – death metal

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Ripped to Shreds – Sanshi (Relapse Records) – death metal

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Psychlona – Warped Vision (Magnetic Eye Records) – psych metal

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The Flight of Sleipnir – Nature’s Cadence (Eisenwald) – black metal

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Also on tap:

Adorior – Bleed on my Teeth (Dark Descent Records) – black / death

Amethyst – Throw Down The Gauntlet (No Remorse) – heavy metal

Arkona – Stella Pandora (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal

Awake The Dreamer – Holocene (Arising Empire) – post-hardcore

Battlesword – XXV – Of Tales and Tragedies (MDD) – melodic death metal

Birdmask – The Isolde, EP (Self) – indie

Blue Heron – Everything Fades (Blues Funeral Recordings) – stoner rock

Bottomless / Witching Altar – Graveyard Thunder (Dying Victims Productions) – doom

Cantervice – Zero Hour (FiXT) – rock

CRYPT OF REASON – Stargazer (Self) – progressive death/doom

CWF – III (Sound Pollution / Black Lodge) – rock

Diablation – Irrévérence (Osmose Productions) – black metal 

Distant Dominion – Ripping Through Time (Fetzner Death Records) – sludge

D.R.U.G.S. – Until God Shows (Velocity Records) – post-hardcore

Electric High – Colorful White Lies (Apollon Records) – rock

Emasculator – The Disfigured and the Divine (New Standard Elite) – brutal death metal

Endonomos – Endonomos II – Enlightenment (Argonatua) – death / doom

Epic Down – Days of Oblivion (Argonauta) – doom / sludge

Floscule – ï (Vendetta Records) – black metal

Flourish – Deepest Wellsprings of Being (Lost Future Records) – psychgaze

Forsaken Rite – The Forgotten West, EP (Self) – folk metal

Glorious Bankrobbers – Rock’n’roll Church (Bollmora Rekords) – hard rock

Grava – The Great White Nothing (Aesthetic Death / Vinyltroll / Evil Noise) – metal

Grimgotts – The Time of the Wolfrider (Elevate Records) – power metal

Hellish God – The Advent of Deathless Chaos Beast (Dusktone Records) – death metal

High Parasite – Forever We Burn (Candlelight) – doom

Ingurgitating Oblivion – Ontology of Nought (Willowtip) – avantgarde death metal

Invernoir – Aimin’ For Oblivion (code666) – doom metal

Item 9 – 2 (Lifeless Chasm Records) – grind

Keitzer – Pandemonium Humanitas (FDA Records) – deathgrind

Kibosh – Your Favorite Curse (Frozen Records) – metalcore

Liljevars Brann – Helja Kor (Octopus Rising) – mystical black metal

LizZard – Mesh (Pelagic Records) – prog-rock

Magnetar – There Will Be No Peace In My Valley (Vendetta Records) – black / death

Marche Funèbre – After The Storm (Ardua Music) – death / doom

Mechanic Tyrants – St. Diemen Riots (Jawbreaker Records) – heavy metal

Midnight Force – Severan (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal

Mirror Queen – Dying Days (Tee Pee Records) – psych

Misanthropik Torment – This Is Why God Hates You (Self) – death metal

Nehoda – S/T (Self) – rock

Obsidian Mantra – As We All Will (Via Nocturna) – prog death metal

Odium Humani – Generis Międzyczas (Malignant Voices) – black metal

Our Hollow, Our Home – Hope & Hell (Arising Empire) – metalcore

Pekka Lane – Pekka Lane & The Enchanted in Slumberland (Svart Records) – rock

Penny Rich – On and On (Self) – noise

POSTE 942 – #ChaleurHumaine (Beer-Bear-Boar Prod) – rock

Pythonic – EP 1 (Self) – modern metal

Retched – The Overlord Messiah (Sliptrick) – thrash

Savage Existence – Bright Lights (King2Music Records) – metal

Sif – Aegis of the Hollowed King (Fiadh Productions) – instru-doom

Spite – The Third Temple (Invictus) – black metal

Swamp Coffin – Drowning Glory (APF Records) – sludge

The Wring – Nemesis (Wormholedeath Records) – prog / heavy metal

Torrefy – Necronomisongs (Self) – black thrash

Traum – S/T (Tonzonen Records) – psych rock

Triskelyon – Shattered Elysium (Moribund Records) – thrash

Turbokill – Champion (Steamhammer / SPV) – metal

Vicious Blade – Relentless Force (Redefining Darkness Records) – speed metal

Vision of Verity – Terra Firma (Self) – progressive metal

Vomitvsanctvs – Secretion of Contempt (Self) – death metal

Waingro – Sports (Self) – sludge

Warlust – Sol Invictus In Umbrae Satanae (Dying Victims Productions) – black thrash

Witchtrap – Hungry as the Beast (Hells Headbangers) – speed metal

— Josh