Another week closer to the end of the year. Unreal. Anywho, we’ve been chatting every Monday about new releases and while we do indeed have another list of them to speak on this week, what has grabbed you the most this year? List season brings out those types of questions but I’m not after the 14,000 things you liked, I’m after what REALLY grabbed you and wouldn’t let go. THAT list should only be…maybe three to five tops. I truly want to hear back from you guys on this so leave them in the comments here or on our socials tied to this post. Alrighty then, new stuff kicks off with some grueling black metal from Mörk Gryning and Luring then the black metal goes cosmic with Mesarthim and than we’ve got some heavy metal from one of my classic favorite bands Helloween. And yes, I am aware it’s a live album and yes, they do indeed still kick ass just like they did way back when. Don’t stop at these four though, there’s a ton more to get to so go do that and we’ll see you here throughout the week. 

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Mörk Gryning –  Fasornas Tid (Season of Mist) – black metal

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Luring – Malevolent Lycanthropic Heresy (Iron Bonehead) – black metal

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Mesarthim – Anthropic Bias / Departure (Avantgarde Music) – cosmic black metal

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Helloween – Live At Budokan (Reigning Phoenix Music) – heavy metal

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Also on tap:

An Axis of Perdition – Apertures (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – extreme

Asenheim – Wolkenbrecher (Dominance of Darkness) – metal

At The Altar of the Horned God – Elements, EP (I, Voidhanger Records) – black metal

August Moon – Something Eldritch and Macabre (Personal Records) – metal

Bazooka Troopaz – Scandinavian Head Splitter (Self) – thrash

Birkental – Peccatum Mortiferum (Void Wanderer Productions) – black metal

Caressing Misery – Lost and Serene (The Circle Music) – goth metal

Electric Wizard – Black Magic Rituals and Perversions, Vol. 1 (Spinefarm) – doom

Harkane – Argo (Dusktone) – extreme

Hellgo – Etiquette (Octopus Rising ) – post hardcore

Jarl – Trümmerfestung (Trollzorn Records) – metal

JJ Pinestone – Break The Chain (Pinestone Music Records) – hair

Katharein – Lucky Shots (Self) – metal

Kildonan – Embers (Caligari Records) – black metal

Liquid Flesh – Vestiges Abrutissants, EP (Self) – death metal

Lord Sin – Confessions (Larvae Records) – black metal

Mirrorshield – Visions From a Crystal Light (Self) – symphonic folk metal

Misanthropy – The Ever-Crushing Weight of Stagnance (Transcending Obscurity Records) – tech death

Nogothula – Telluric Sepsis, Vinyl (Blood Harvest) – death metal

Orbiter – Distorted Folklore (Salvaged Records) – post-rock

Perdition’s Mire – Into a Dark Heartland, EP (Headkick Music) – death metal

Ponte Del Diavolo – Tre – The EP Collection (Time To Kill Records) – doom / black

Residual Self – Reseed (Sliptrick Records) – shock rock

Shrine of Skulls – Megalith of Madness (Self) – death metal

Sullest – S/T (Armageddon Label) – stoner punk

Sumo – III (Self) – instru-space-metal

Todestrieb – Corona Tenebra (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

Tony Tears – La Soceità degli Eterni (I, Voidhanger Records) – dark experimental

Weapon of Pride – Beneath The Surface (WormHoleDeath) – stoner / thrash

Whispers – Yom-Ma-Lok, EP (Flatspot Records) – metallic hardcore

Wings Of Steel – Live In France (RFL Music Entertainment) – power metal

Wuldorgast – Cold Light (Iron Bonehead) – black metal

— Josh