Bring your metal in and hold it close as this week is Valentine’s week. Good news for all of you, we’ve got a stacked batch of new releases to do all those things starting with post-metal from Decline Of The I, proto-metal from Möuth (I’m betting some of you have zero idea what that even is, trust me and just hit play), then we roll back the hands of time and get some hairspray on us from Crazy Lixx and it is GLORIOUS, last album up top is from Aspaarn which will excite all raw black metal fans. Plus there’s tons more waiting in the rest of the list. So, there you have it. All your Valentine’s needs in one spot. Enjoy digging through them and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Decline Of The I – Wilhelm (Agonia Records) – post black metal

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Möuth – Global Warning (Bonebag Records) – proto metal

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Crazy Lixx – Thrill of the Bite (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – hair

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Aspaarn – Oblations in Atrocity (Self) – raw black metal

*note: embed is not current album*

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Also on tap:

Amber Asylum – Ruby Red (Prophecy Productions) – dark ambient

Black Narcissus – There Lingers One Who’s Long Forgotten (Self) – post-metal

Bleeding Through – Nine (SharpTone Records) – metalcore

Blood Cult – We’re Gonna Take Your Soul (Self) – southern black metal

Bloodtrust – Silent Masses (People of Punkrock Records) – punk

Cantu Ignis – The Fathomless Dominion (Self) – melodic / symphonic death metal

Carmeria – Trinity: Volume I (Self) – symphonic metal / gothic

Collignon – Bicicleta (Gris Gris Records) – psych rock

Cryptual – Convulsing Above the Ground (Iron Fortress Records) – death metal

Deapscufa – Beyond A Dying Horizon (Fiadh Productions) – black metal

Die Tonight – Fall To Ruin (Self) – death / melodic 

Délirant – Thoughteater (Sentient Ruin) – black metal

Ditch – The Traveler (Dark Skies Coming) – desert rock

Dysangelium – Exxekratus (W.T.C. Productions) – black metal

Ephemera – For Those Afraid To Die (Morning Star Heresy Music Group) – melodic hardcore

Fell Omen – Invaded By A Dark Spirit (True Cult Records) – medieval metal

Izrod – Ulica, trnje i kamenje (Signal Rex) – black metal

Kryptan – Violence, Our Power (Edged Circle Productions) – black metal

Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire (Century Media Records) – metal

Love Is Noise – To live in a different way (Century Media) – shoegaze

Mantar – Post Apocalyptic Depression (Metal Blade Records) – death / punk

Necrodancer – Acts of Chaos Require Halberds and Late Night Sandwiches, EP (Frozen Records) – punk

Novarupta – Astral Sands (Suicide Records) – metal

Obscureviolence – Refuting the Flesh (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death / black metal

Pendragon – Guinevere (Fiadh Productions) – ambient

Pendragon – Morgana (Fiadh Productions) – ambient

Pothamus – Abur (Pelagic Records) – folk

Prehistoria – Cryptic Halo (StormSpell Records) – trad metal

Pyrrhic Salvation – When Society Crumbles, EP (Self) – tech / experimental death metal

Ranzer – Leidkultur (Kein Pardon Records) – thrash

Replicant – Hypochondria of the Machine (Transcending Obscurity Records) – metal

Rescüe Cat – Flesh & Weapon, EP (Time To Kill Records) – hardcore

Savage Lands – Army of Trees (Season of Mist) – metal

Scorpion Child – I Saw the End as it Passed Right Through Me (Noize in the Attic) – dark rock

Serpents Of Pakhangba – Air and Fire (Self) – shamanic art metal

Sublind – Metamorphosis, EP (Self) – thrash

Ventr – Ubique Diaboli Voluntas (Signal Rex) – black metal

Venus Bleue – Infame Nectar (WormHoleDeath) – metal

Warlung – The Poison Touch (Heavy Psych Sounds) – heavy rock

— Josh