Holy snow and ice Batman! Saw both on the east coast beaches which was truly weird, it’s a first for me is what I’m saying. Not sure what this might be a sign of but I do know that all y’all can have your cold, snow, and ice back STAT. Moving along…new albums from the metal world is why we’re here so let’s see what we’ve got in store. Jumping out to a scalding start are Rats of Gomorrah with a 100% venomous death metal delectable, next up is some black metal from Skaldr that you may be hearing more about later in the week, then we crash head first into some supremely destructive grindcore from Mephitic Corpse, and we close up the top slots with more death metal from Cosmophage. Freakin’ stellar openers here BUT there’s a ton more that follows so jump in and peruse them all. Enjoy and we’ll be seeing you throughout the week.

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Rats of Gomorrah – Infectious Vermin (Testimony Records) – death metal

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Skaldr – Samsr (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

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Mephitic Corpse – Sickness Attracts Sickness (Extremely Rotten / Headsplit / 625 Thrashcore) – grind

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Cosmophage – Sidereal Malignancy (Blood Harvest / Me Saco Un Ojo) – death metal

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Also on tap:

A Tyrant’s Lament – Offerings of the Inhumane (CDN Records) – death metal

Admire The Grim – Resist (Inverse Records) – melodic death metal

Aedes – Odious Imprecation (Blood Harvest) – death metal

Ande – De Schemering van Werelden (Naturmacht) – black metal

Balefire – S/T (Iron Bonehead) – death metal

Chainfight – S/T, EP (Inhuman Assault Productions) – hardcore

Confess – Destination Addiction (EVIN Productions) – heavy metal

Consumption – Catharsis (Dusktone) – death metal

Demon Sacrifice – Under the Blacklight of Divine (Morbid And Miserable Records) – black metal / punk

Fós – Níl mo chroi in aon rud (Fiadh Productions) – post-metal

Furies Dirge – Eye For Eye, EP (Self) – death metal

Great American Ghost – Tragedy Of The Commons (SharpTone Records) – industrial metalcore

Hexjakt – S/T (Self) – atmospheric doom

Jaye Jayle – After Alter (Pelagic Records) – rock

Jonathan Hultén – Eyes of the Living Light (Kscope) – alt-folk

Kardroz – Severe Dysfunction, EP (Self) – deathgrind

Kosmosis – S/T (Self) – melodic death metal

Lonely Empire – Dawn Of The Empire (Golden Robot Records) – metal / punk

Lunar – Tempora Mutantur (Self) – prog

Mad Parish – The Dust of Forever (Self) – heavy metal

Molosser Crude – Slave to the Voices (Evil Ear) – stoner blues

Mountain Throne – The Silver Light (Cold Knife Records) – doom / heavy

Nachash – Eschaton Magicks (Signal Rex) – black metal

Naked Whipper – Chapel Defilement (Iron Bonehead) – black metal

Nest – Woodsmoke, Rekindled (Avantgarde Music) – neofolk

Our Chronicle – If These Walls Could Speak, EP (Self) – progressive metal

Peacebone – Blame The Bird, EP (Sixteentimes Music) – psych rock

Pentagram – Lightning In A Bottle (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom metal

Plasticdrop – Life, Death and Miracles (Octopus Rising) – rock

Praetorian – Pylon Cult (APF Records) – black / sludge

Pyre – Where Obscurity Sways (Osmose Productions) – black metal

Relics of Humanity – Absolute Dismal Domain (Willowtip Records) – death metal

Selvans – Saturnalia (Avantgarde Music) – black metal / prog

Shrieking Demons – The Festering Dwellers (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal

Tayne – Love (Inside Job / MNRK) – industrial / noise

TheCityIsOurs – Will You Still Love Me? (Arising Empire) – pop metal

The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us The Moon (Napalm Records) – rock

The Wave and the Particle  – Electric Sheep (WormHoleDeath) – symphonic / industrial 

Veiled Metamorphosis – Tentacled Void of Infinity (Fantoom / Dying Sun Records) – funeral doom

Vestigial Crow – Dark Seasons (Self) – metalcore

Void of Hope – Proof of Existence (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

Weed Demon – The Doom Scroll (Electric Valley Records) – stoner doom

Worlds Beyond – Rhapsody of Life (Self) – symphonic metal

Zangoma – Faka Mulilo (Svart Records) – psych / funk / rock

Zéro Absolu – La saignée (AOP Records) – black metal

— Josh