Running in the dark? Kinda fun! Running in the dark after your headlamp dies? Significantly less fun! See also: fucking terrifying.

• Obscura happenings! The German technical death metal outfit are releasing A Sonication, the second of their trilogy concept, on February 7th through Nuclear Blast. Give the video for “Silver Linings” a watch here.
• You know who I haven’t seen live in way too many years? Devin Townsend. That should be fixed. He’ll be touring North American with TesseracT next May, with the run kicking off on the 2nd in Nashville. Tickets go on sale Friday.
• Crippled Black Phoenix are celebrating their 20 years with a new double album. Horrific Honorifics Number Two (2) will include a bunch of covers, including this take on Fugazi’s “Blueprint”. While The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature is all about revisiting some of their bedtime ballads. It’s going to be a lot, and it’s all out November 29th through Season of Mist.
• Yatsu and Wanderer are releasing a split 7-inch EP on December 20th through The Ghost Is Clear Records and Mummified Gasp Records, and we’ve got some samples to share. Here’s Yatsu’s “October Seventh” and Wanderer’s “Glass Chewer”.
• I’ve been listening to it all day, so you’re going to listen to it now. We’re wrapping up with the new Killswitch Engage track, “Forever Aligned”. Their first album in forever (five years) is out on February 21st through Metal Blade, titled This Consequence. I’m so happy.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb