As this pops up on all the feeds I’ll be coming down from a much needed weekend in the mountains where we did all the…nothing things, as it should be. I did however get to peek at this week’s top four new releases and let me just say this Wrath Of Logarius is a friggin’ beast; fast and furious black metal with just enough melody to be dangerous, right up my alley to be quite certain and a good one to experience while sitting by the fire surrounded by trees and wind and…nothing. Next up we’ve got the death metal LEGENDS Benediction with an equally killer album, Florida Man are back with their noxious brand of punk-hardcore-noise and it’s a sweet noise indeed (plus, Florida Man—what’s not to like?!), then we’ve got tech deathsters Allegaeon with a good techy effort that our pal Chuck would be mighty proud of, and then all the rest of what this week has to offer which, I can honestly say, is quite robust. Dig in and explore, we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Wrath Of Logarius – Crown of Mortis (Season of Mist) – black metal

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Benediction – Ravage Of Empires (Nuclear Blast) – death metal

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Florida Man – Plastique (The Ghost Is Clear Records) – punk / hardcore / noise

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Allegaeon – The Ossuary Lens (Metal Blade Records) – tech death

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Also on tap:

Aldaaron – Par-delà les cimes (Ordre du Givre / Paragon Records) – black metal

Ash Twin Project – Tales Of A Dying Sun (Klonospehere Records) – progressive metal

AutoReplicant – Drone Down (Self) – math / grind / thrash

Belnejoum – Dark Tales of Zarathustra (Antiq) – symphonic black metal

Bleeth – Marionette (Seeing Red Records) – post-metal

Bloodguilt – S/T, EP (New Age Records) – hardcore

Bloody Valkyria – In Our Home, Across The Fog (Northern Silence Productions) – black metal

Buried Realm – The Dormant Darkness (Self) – metal

Chestcrush – ΨΥΧΟΒΓΑΛΤΗΣ (Self) – death metal

Chronepsis – Weight of Eternity (Self) – melodic teach death

Eldamar – Astral Journeys Pt. II: Dissolution (Northern Silence Productions) – black metal

Eonian – Born From Ice (Self) – symphonic / melodic death metal

Eyed Jay – Strangeland (Clandestine Label Services) – experimental psych folk

Flagg – Diabolical Bloodlust (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Fractal Universe – The Great Filters (M-Theory Audio) – progressive death metal 

Fugue State – In The Lurch (Strange Mono Records) – garage punk

Godless – Genesis of Decay, EP (Self) – death metal

Granitader – Schlachtenklang, EP (Purity Through Fire) – metal

Habak Mil – Orquiddeas En Medio Del Desierto (Persistent Vision) – metal

Inner Cabala – We Are Solitude (Self) – prog metal 

Kiritsis – S/T (Wise Blood Records) – sludge metal

Luna Kills – Deathmatch (SharpTone Records) – modern metal

Meshuggah – Immutable, The Indelible Edition (Reigning Phoenix Music) – death groove

Messiah Paratroops – Legions of Tomorrow (Inverse Records) – old school death metal

Mizmor & Hell – Alluvion (Gilead Media) – black doom

Moon Destroys – She Walks By Moonlight (Limited Fanfare Records) – dark psych

Mr. Piss – S/T (Self) – noise

Namtaru – Cult of Ancient Deities (Awakening Records) – black / death

Past Glories – Damiano’s Fall (WormHoleDeath) – progressive metal

Ritual King – The Futureworks Sessions (Ripple Music) – heavy psych

Rotting Christ – 35 Years of Evil Existence – Live In Lycabettus (Season of Mist) – black metal

The Summit Fever – S/T (Majestic Mountain Records) – fuzz rock

Tómarúm – Beyond Obsidian Euphoria (Prosthetic Records) – progressive black metal

Tundra – Eternal (Rottweiler Records) – deathcore

Tyrannosatan – Babylons Skräck (Jawbreaker Records) – black / thrash

Unbounded Terror – Something Is Rotten In Humanity (Xtreem Music) – death metal

Uninhibited – Scourge, EP (Self) – death metal

Visceral – Eyes, Teeth and Bones (Raging Planet Records) – death metal

Warfield – With The Old Breed (Napalm Records) – thrash

— Josh