Pickings are getting slim around here but no surprise there. It happens every year around this time so don’t be alarmed. But, just because the pickings are slimmer than usual doesn’t mean the quality went in the shitter. Case(s) in point: Becerus’ brand of death metal or Pandemic’s furious and speedy thrash or even the blackened sludge lullabies from Lacolpa. As usual though, we still have a few more worthy contenders in the list that follows so go check those out and hopefully we will be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Becerus – Troglodyte (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal

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Pandemic – Phantoms (Dying Victims Productions) – thrash / speed

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Lacolpa – In Absentia Lucis (Self) – blackened sludge

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Also on tap:

Ardeat – Apotheosis (WormHoleDeath) – metal

Beneath Moonlight – S/T, EP (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal

Charles East – Dislocated (Brucia Records) – doom / experimental

Coffinwood – Acolytes of Eternal Flame (Self) – black / death metal

Deadly Magic – …As Nightmares Gorged The Earth (Dying Victims Productions) – thrash / speed

Dekay – Start The Rot (Sliptrick Records) – industrial metal 

Despised Cruelty – Niech zdycha (Self) – black metal

Epitaph – Path To Oblivion (My Kingdom Music) – doom

Exiled Hope / Steel Forge – Realm Of The Exiled (Self) – blackened power metal

Hexenbrett – Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter (Dying Victims Productions) – metal

Horsebutcher – S/T (Sentient Ruin) – death / goregrind

Moondark – The Abysmal Womb (Pulverised Records) – death doom

Myrholt – Blandede meninger og aforismer (Archivist Records) – black metal

Revolting – Night of the Horrid (Xtreem Music) – death metal

Sorceress Of Sin – Ennea (WormHoleDeath) – melodic power metal

Sublimatio Mortis – Transubstantiatio (Cyclic Law) – ambient

Subway To Sally – Post Mortem (Napalm Records) – folk metal

Wędrowcy-Tułacze-Zbiege – Droga do domu (Devoted Art Propaganda) – art / metal / synth

Yatsu // Wanderer – Split (The Ghost Is Clear / Mummified Gasp) – metal

Youth Pastor – Heavens (Syrup Moose Records) – metal

— Josh