It’s Thanksgiving week here in the States which is a great time to say thanks to all of you for reading, our PR folk for sharing and trusting, our bands who are awesome, and our team who are MOST awesome. It is also Monday which means new release list time (aka Initial Descent) and we’ve got yet another bloated week of the good stuff with off kilter death metallers Mefitis, progressive and dark metal from Bedsore, straight up rockin’ ass metal from Sahg, and some rippin’ death metal from Soulskinner. And, as if that’s not enough, we’ve got a whole list that follows — you already knew that thought, right?! — so jump in and find a new favorite. As for me, I’m still blasting that Defeated Sanity from last week…

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Mefitis – The Skorian // The Greyleer (Profound Lore Records) – death metal

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Bedsore – Dreaming The Strife For Love (20 Buck Spin) – metal

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Sahg – More of Nothing, EP (Drakkar) – metal

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Soulskinner – Glorified by The Light (Xtreem Music) – death metal

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Against I – Songs for the Dying (Self) – melodic death metal

Altar Ov Asteria – Ena (Dusktone) – black metal

Aoidos Oizys – Nox (Liberatio Records) – blackened death metal

Apostasie – Non est Deus (Trollzorn Records) – melodic black metal

Astral Doors – The End Of It All (Metalville) – heavy metal

Big Muff Brigade – rr (Argonauta Records) – stoner

Borehead – Vita est Morte est Vita (Octopus Rising) – doom

Crippled Black Phoenix – Horrific Honorifics Number Two (Season of Mist) – gothic rock

Cryptorium – Descent Into Lunacy (Personal Records / Iron Fortress) – death metal

Czort – Monumenty (Pagan Records) – black metal

Deep Valley Blues – Sangue e Veleno (Argonauta Records) – blues rock

Demonbitch – Master of the Games (Gates of Hell Records) – heavy metal

Denigrate – To The Goddess Unknown (Inverse Records) – doom

Der Rote Milan – Schlund (Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork) – metal

Detest the Sun – Moonspells and Everlasting Sorrow (Self) – black metal

Dewfall – Landhaskur (Naturmacht) – black metal

Dying Grotesque – Celestial (Archivist Records) – death metal

Eard – Melancholia (Avantgarde Music) – atmospheric black metal

Eradicator – The Paradox (Metalville) – thrash

Feral Forms – Through Demonic Spell (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal

Fessus – Pilgrims of Morbidity (Darkness Shall Rise) – death metal

Festergore – Constellation of Endless Blight (Personal Records / Iron Fortress) – death metal

FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM – Pérfida Contracção do Aço (Osmose Productions) – black metal

Flush – Noise (WormHoleDeath) – rock

Gorgon – For Those Who Stay (Osmose Productions) – black metal

Grave With A View – Raw Illumination (Dusktone Records) – black metal

Hellfire 76 – Rags To Rage (Self) – stoner metal

Ice Exiled – Reset The Sky (Inverse Records) – melodic metal

Infernalivm – Conquering the Most High (Sentient Ruin) – death metal

Inverted Cross – Eternal Flames of Hell (Helldprod Records) – black speed metal

Kill the Lord – Decrowned II: Trinity Ablaze (Darkness Shall Rise) – death metal

Konkhra – Sad Plight of Lucifer (Hammerheart Records) – death metal

Mandroid of Krypton – Cosmic Sarcophagus (MTAF Records) – thrash / punk

Metsän Alttari – S/T (Inverse Records) – folk / black metal

Mutank – Think You Before You Think (Boonsdale Records) – thrash

Necronomicon Ex Mortis – The Mother Of Death (Self) – death metal

No Kings Allowed – A New Era (Self) – symphonic metalcore

Noitasapatti  – Sankarin matka (Inverse Records) – black metal

Old Wainds – Stormheart (Darkness Shall Rise) – metal

Örnatorpet – Fordomdags (Nordvis Produktion) – dungeon synthh

Pestilent Hex – Sorceries of Sanguine & Shadow (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal

Project: Ultimate Satan – The Opus Satanas (Eschatonic Records) – symphonic death metal

Ritual Fog – But Merely Flesh (Transcending Obscurity) – death / thrash

Rotpit – Long Live The Rot (War Anthem Records) – death metal

Scythrow – Blameless Severed Extremities (Awakening Records) – death metal

Shining – Feberdrömmar (Del Ett) (The Sinister Initiative) – black metal

Skam – Beyond The Depths (Earache Digital Distribution) – rock

Sons of Ghidorah – Hallowmas (Argonauta Records) – doom

Starforce – Age of Nano (Darkhan Music) – synthwave

Starmonger – Occultation (Interstellar Smoke Records) – heavy psych

Steel Inferno – Rush Of Power (From The Vaults) – speed metal

Stenched Purulence – Gushing From the Coffin (Me Saco Un Ojo / Extremely Rotten) – death metal

Sur Austru – Datura Străhiarelor (Avantgarde Music) – atmospheric black metal

Sweet – Isolation Boulevard (Metalville) – rock

The Gates of Slumber – S/T (Svart Records) – doom

The Watcher – Out of the Dark (Cruz Del Sur Music) – heavy metal

Thyrmr – Saga of the North (Darkness Shall Rise) – ambient

Total Hate – Forthcoming Age Of The Reaper (War Anthem Records) – black metal

Utility Provider – Challenger (Self) – metal

Völva – Desires Profane (Grind to Death / Fiadh) – black metal

Vrazorth – Emergence (Avantgarde Music) – cosmic black metal

WARPSTORMER – S/T (London Doom Collective) – thrash stoner

Wolvencrown – Celestial Lands (Avantgarde Music) – atmospheric black metal

— Josh