Longest run of the week is done. Said longest run was fueled by several of this week’s new releases but most notably the new ripper from Diabolizer. I had a fit over their last album and this one puts that one to shame so death heads take note. Next in the rotation was more stellar death metal from new faves Celestial Sanctuary, then heavy metallers Tower kicked off my mid point..ish, and Malphas brought home the last few miles with their twisted black metal. I sprinkled in a few more here and there but you can find all those, and more, in the list that follows. Open your minds and wallets to these artists and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Diabolizer – Murderous Revelations (Dark Descent Records / Me Saco Un Ojo) – death metal

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Celestial Sanctuary – Visions of Stagnant Blood, EP (Metal Blade Records) – death metal

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Tower – Let There Be Dark (Cruz Del Sur Music) – metal

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Malphas – Extinct (Soulseller Records) – black metal

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Also on tap:

Aittala – Machines, EP (Exitus Strategem Records) – doom metal

Bjørn Riis – Fimbulvinter (Karisma Records) – progressive rock

Blood Abscission – I I (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal

Cabal – Everything Rots (Nuclear Blast Records) – death metal

Church of the Sea – Eva (These Hands Melt) – doom / darkwave

Defiance – Blossom (BDHW Records) – hardcore

Destinity – Ascension (Crimson Productions) – melodic death metal

Disjecta Membrae / Guillaume Tiger – Antiphona, Split (Bitume) – funeral doom / dark ambient 

Elvenking – Reader Of The Runes – Luna (Reaper Entertainment) – heavy metal

Epica – Aspiral (Nuclear Blast Records) – symphonic metal

Exiled Hope – Apocrypha (Self) – power metal

Final Dose – Under the Eternal Shadow (Wolves of Hades) – punk

Fomies – Liminality (Taxi Gauche Records) – psych metal

Fryktelig Støy – Incandescent (I, Voidhanger Records) – black / doom

Ghörnt – Bluetgraf (Soulseller Records) – black metal

Grey Czar – Euarthropodia (Octopus Rising) – rock

Grotesque Bliss – S/T (Iron Bonehead) – death / doom

Håndgemeng – Satanic Panic Attack (Ripple Music) – rock

Headphone Jacks – Discipline (Inverse Records) – stoner

Herman Rarebell & Friends – What About Love? (Metalville) – hard rock

High Council – Cruel and Unusual (Self) – doom / prog

Idle Heirs – Life Is Violence (Relapse Records) – metal

Impious Throne – Suffering (ATMF – De Tenebrarum Principio) – black metal

In The Woods… – Otra (Prophecy Productions) – avant-garde metal

Kaschalot – Anemoia (Self) – math prog

Komatsu – A Breakfast For Champions (Heavy Psych Sounds) – stoner / sludge

Korsakov – Anosognosia (Source Atone Records) – black metal

Messa – The Spin (Metal Blade Records) – doom

Metempsychosis – S/T (Black Lodge Records) – metal

Mika Häkki – Mørker (Majestic Mountain Records) – metal

Miss Vain – Sempiternal Drive (Inverse Records) – metal

Moonfall – Odes to the Ritual Hills (Iron Bonehead) – black metal

Neptunian Maximalism – Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu (I, Voidhanger Records) – experimental metal

Nordheim – S/T (ATMF) – black metal

Overcast Rain – Black Death (Brutal Records) – death metal

Putrid Offal – Obliterated Life (Time To Kill Records) – deathgrind

Rickert G – Endless Thoughts (Wormholedeath Records) – melodic death metal

Rulamon – Death Whistle (Tonzonen Records) – psych/stoner rock

Ryoji Shinomoto – Children Of Bushido (Napalm Records) – metal

Samtar – The Bog of Cosmic Delusions (Self) – rock

Soliloquium – Famine (Meuse Music Records) – death / doom

Sons Of Ra – Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound / The Lasers Edge) – avant

Sonum – The Obscure Light Awaits (Dusktone) – death metal

Taär – Catharsis Till Dawn (Soulseller Records) – black metal

Taraban – Oath, EP (Self) – rock / metal

Tears’ Heaven – Godfall (Self) – avantgarde

The Infernal Deceit – The True Harmful Black (Personal Records) – black / death

The Lord Weird Slough Feg – Traveller Supplement I: The Ephemeral Glades (Cruz Del Sur Music) – metal

Thermality – Before I Get To Rest, Reissue (Sound Pollution / Black Lodge Records) – metal

Vortex – Alien Realms, EP (Self) – black / death

Vulvectomy – Aberrant Vaginal Gestation (Comatose Music) – brutal death metal

Wurmian – Immemorial Shrine (Self) – melodic death / doom

Ye Banished Privateers – Til’ The Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead (Napalm Records) – pirates

— Josh