I just got back from the coldest run of the year so there’s that. Officially into December and we’ve still got the HEAT coming out this late in the year, score! This week’s new stuff kicks off with the forward thinkers The Old Dead Tree then, from a genre we don’t feature enough, is some slammin’ deathcore from Xenotheory. Next up is some wicked black metal from Aara and death metal of a melodic nature from Mindreaper. That’s a strong top four but, as always, there’s much, much more in the list below. Check it out and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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The Old Dead Tree – Second Thoughts (Season of Mist) – progressive metal

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Xenotheory – Blissful Death (Self) – deathcore / slam

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Aara – Eiger (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal

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Mindreaper – Withering Shine …Into Oblivion (Death Age Records) – melodic death metal

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Also on tap:

A Thousand Sufferings / Kludde – Het Pact, Split (Consouling Sounds) – black metal / doom

Among These Ashes – Embers of Elysium (Alone Records) – melodic thrash

Angelic Foe – Amulets and Charms (WormHoleDeath) – metal

Asterise – Tale of a Wondering Soul (Inverse Records) – power metal

Athena XIX – Everflow Part 1: Frames Of Humanity (Reigning Phoenix Music) – tech thrash

Axioma – Live Totality, EP (Stained Glass Torments) – apocalyptic metal

Bleak Magician – How the Disappearance Appeared to Us (Srogi Mroczek) – noise rock

Blessed King of Longing – S/T (Syrup Moose Records) – ambient / black metal

Burn Down Eden – Epiphany, EP (Seek and Strike) – death metal

Citzend – The Spiral, EP (Majestic Mountain Records) – post-rock

Desert Near the End – Tides of Time (Theogonia Records) – power / thrash

Detest – A World Drowning In Detest (Emanzipation Productions) – death metal

Dragunov – VEPR (Self) – rock

Drymarchon – Mori In Igne (Morbid and Miserable Records) – death / thrash

Faded Remembrance – Dying Age (Bitume Prods) – doom / death

Forged In Black – Forged In Black, Remastered MMXXIV (Fighter Records) – heavy metal

Forndom – Mopir (Nordvis) – folk

Kir – L’appel du vide (Self) – black metal

Nanowar of Steel – XX Years of Steel (Napalm Records) – parody power metal

No Cure – I Hope I Die Here, EP (SharpTone) – metalcore

Old Forest – Graveside (Soulseller Records) – black metal

Panzerchrist – Maleficium Part I (Emanzipation Productions) – death metal

Pillar Of Light – Caldera (Transcending Obscurity Records) – doom

Sarcophagum – The Grand Arc of Madness (Nuclear Winter Records) – death metal

Shotgun Sawyer – S/T (Ripple Music) – rock

Spanaway – Songs of Yesteryear (Burial Whisper) – post-metal

Spere – Eight – led to the beam (Northern Silence Productions) – black metal

Summoning Saturn Voids – S/T (Argonauta Records) – black doom

Svarttjern – Draw Blood (Soulseller Records) – black metal

Tarja – Rocking Heels: Live At Hellfest (earMUSIC) – metal

Terror – Hymni Belli Occultum (Sentient Ruin) – black / death metal

Tethra – Withered Heart Standing (Meuse Music Records) – melo death/doom

The Kryss Talmeth Experience – When The Wheels Fall Off (Kozmik Artifactz) – stoner rock

Through Mists – Hellscape (Self) – techmeloblackdeath

Until Death Overtakes Me – Diagenesis (Aesthetic Death) – funeral doom

Until I Wake – Renovate (Fearless Records) – experimental hard rock

Valdaudr – Du Skal Frykte (Soulseller Records) – black metal

Various Artists – Aqualung Redux (Magnetic Eye Records) – jethro tull metal

Various Artists – Best of Jethro Tull Redux (Magnetic Eye Records) – jethro tull metal

Various Artists – Noise Forest (Cold Spring) – noise / ambient

Virtual Symmetry – Veils Of Illumination (Self) – progressive metal

Vosforis – Cosmic Cenotaph (Inner Hell Records ) – black metal

Within Silence – The Eclipse of Worlds (Ulterium Records) – power metal

Wizard Tattoo – Living Just For Knife Fighting (Garage Fire Recordings) – stoner psych doom

— Josh