Quick jaunt down to the coast and my soul feels better. Amazing how that works. Buuuut, back to the now and our new releases for this week beginning with some truly incredible death metal from Ancient Death that reminds me of yet another 1,000 reasons why good death metal rules. Following that is some scorching black metal from Serpentes, neck snappin’ blackened death from Ashenheart, and some good ol’ melvinsmetal from none other than Melvins 1983. Yes, I did just use a band name to define their genre of music but that’s the impact they’ve had on metal as a whole and have earned it. As always though, there’s tons more to sift through in the rest of the list so go check all that out and we’ll see you back here throughout the week.

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Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution (Profound Lore Records) – death metal

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Serpentes – Desert Psalms (NoEvDia) – black metal

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Ashenheart – Tales From Eternal Dusk (black / death) – Fiadh Productions

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Melvins 1983 – Thunderball (Ipecac Recordings) – melvins

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Also on tap:

Akantophis – Erneuerung (Self) – black metal

Ancestor of Kaos – Animal Ritual (Horror Pain Gore Death) – black metal

Anoxia – Revel In Sin (Brilliant Emperor / Gutter Prince Cabal) – death metal

Beasts – The Shearing (Rockerill / La Base ASBL) – noise

Black Rabbit – Chronolysis (Self) – thrash / death

Brain Stem – Nullified (CDN Records) – death metal

Collapsed Vein – Pain Communion (Self) – death / doom

Crypts of Despair – We Belong In The Grave (death metal) – Transcending Obscurity Records

Dead Hazards – Saline (Self) – alt-metal

Dormant Ordeal – Tooth and Nail (Willowtip Records) – death metal

Empyrean Sanctum – Detachment From Reality (Self) – progressive

Eyes of Argus – Honey’d Dreams (Fiadh Productions) – doom

Folwork – All Shadows Stretched (Octopus Rising) – psych rock

Fractured Fairytales – Parasomnia (Secular) – metal

Gama Bomb – Necronomicon Automaton (Prosthetic Records) – thrash metal

High Anxiety – Your Dreams Are Caught In War (Fiadh Productions) – crust / d-beat

Horrid Human Condition – Perpetual Imbalance (Time To Kill Records) – crust / grindcore

Inherited – No Regrets (Self) – groove metal

Iron Lung – Adapting // Crawling (Self) – hardcore

Karg – Marodeur (AOP Records) – black metal / post-punk

Kati Rán – LYS (Svart Records) – pagan folk

King Garcia – Hamellin (ViciSolum Productions) – rock

Klamp – TOTAAL TECHNIEK (Human Worth) – proggy doom

Lhaäd – Beyond (Amor Fati / Extraconscious) – black metal

Lik – Necro (Metal Blade Records) – death metal

Martoriator – Bloodpainted Visions of Perpetual Conflict (Edged Circle Productions) – death metal

Mo’ynoq X Urocyon – Split (Self) – black metal

Operation Suffocate – Fuedal Age (The Doorway To Label) – industrial / noise

övervåld – Vigarv (Self) – death metal

Panpsychism – Imperfect Mortality (Self) – thrash metal

Pásmo – S/T, Vinyl Issue (Sentient Ruin) – post-punk / metal

Sick N’ Beautiful – Horror Vacui (BLKIIBLK) – metal

Silver Knife – S/T (Amor Fati / Extraconscious) – black metal

SVNTH – Pink Noise Youth (These Hands Melt) – blackgaze

Tetramorphe Impure – The Sunset of Being (Aesthetic Death) – funeral death / doom

The Concrete Boys – Everything’s Better Than You (Crunchy Frog) – punk rock

The Great Lie – Sings For A Monday Morning (Self) – hardcore

The Quill – In Triumph, Re-Release (Metalville) – hard rock

Thisquietarmy – Langue Hybride (A Thousand Arms / Consouling Sounds) – drone

Tigerleech – Bicephalous (Octopus Rising) – sludgecore

Tribunal – In Penitence And Ruin (20 Buck Spin) – doom metal

Vetus Sanguis – Capítulo I – Dimensão Horrenda (Helldprod Records) – black metal

Wulkanaz – Luftuz (Helter Skelter) – black metal

— Josh