Death metal, man. It is having one HELL of a year thus far. I just snagged a death metal promo that probably will end high on my year end list along with several others that are already there, I just snagged more current tapes from Big Daddy Gore (nothing but death metal there), and we kick this Initial Descent off with a new one from Insineratehymn, who just happen to be one of my personal death metal faves (and yes, cassette bought from Rotted Life) so…yea, a hell of a year! OK then, following that we’ve got MOAR death metal from Morbific, some death gaze from Kardashev, some blackened death metal from Samiarus, and a ton more follows these opening four. Get after it and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week…should be a busy one so stay tuned.

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Insineratehymn – Irreverence of the Divine (Memento Mori / Rotted Life) – death metal

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Morbific – Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh (Memento Mori / Me Saco Un Ojo) – death metal

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Kardashev – Alunea (Metal Blade Records) – progressive deathgaze

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Samiarus – Reign Destroyer (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) – black / death

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Also on tap:

Ahamkara – The Harrow of the Lost (Bindrune Recordings) – atmospheric black metal

André Drage Group – Wolves (Drage Records) – prog

Aortes – Carrion (Self) – post-metal / sludge

Avenger of Blood – Revenge Is My Name, EP (M-Theory Audio) – death / thrash

Bank Myna – Eimuria (Medication Times/Araki/Stellar Frequencies/Modulor) – post-metal

Behölder – In The Temple of Tyrant (Black Lion Records) – metal

Black Sword Thunder Attack – S/T (No Remorse Records) – epic metal

Blister Brigade – A Rioting New Breed (Inverse Records) – metal / rock

Cancer – Inverted World (Peaceville Records) – death metal

Caliban – Back From Hell (Century Media Records) – metalcore

Changeling – S/T (Season of Mist) – progressive death metal

Cirith Ungol – Live At The Roxy (Metal Blade Records) – heavy metal

Cogas – Among The Dead: How To Become A Ghost (Self) – black / death

Conan – Violence Dimension (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom

Crypt Mage / Secunda – Frigid Hymns (Fiadh Productions) – dungeon synth

Datadyr – This We Know (Is It Jazz? Records) – jazz / blues

Dead Shrine – Cydonia Mensa (Kozmik Artifactz) – stoner metal

Deserted Fear – Veins of Fire (Testimony Records) – death metal

Disfuneral – In Horror, Reborn (Redefining Darkness Records) – death metal

Dudsekop – Godvergeten, EP (Self) – metal

Earl Of Hell – S/T (Copper Feast Records) – rock

Elan – Elan Vs Elan (APF Records) – sludge / noise

Eluveitie – Aěnv (Nuclear Blast Records) – melodic death metal

Employed to Serve – Fallen Star (Spinefarm) – heavy metal

Epic Death – The Seer (Self) – death metal

Eyes – Spinner (Prosthetic Records) – metalcore

Fat Bastard – Barely Dressed (Self) – rock

Felgrave – Otherlike Darknesses (Transcending Obscurity Records) – doom / black / death

Game Over – Face The End (Scarlet Records) – thrash

Greengoat – Aloft (Argonauta Records) – fuzz

Haemorrhage – Opera Medica (Hells Headbangers) – death metal

Hans & Valter – The Legend of the Oakensource (Self) – power metal

H.E.A.T. – Welcome To The Future (earMUSIC) – rock

Hyena – About Rock and Roll (Dying Victims Productions) – rock

Inexistence – The Legend of Ialantha (Fiadh Productions) – ambient

Jason Dea West and The Siskiyou Crest – 8 Miles From Rusk (Anti-Corp Music) – folk/western

Landmvrks – The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been (Arising Empire) – metalcore

Listless – S/T (Hypnotic Dirge Records) – dsbm

Liv Kristine – Amor Vincit Omnia (Metalville) – dark rock

Lord Vampyr – The Greatest Bloodbath (Moribund Records) – black metal

Machine Head – Unatoned (Nuclear Blast) – metal

Malforce – Force du Mal (Witches Brew) – death / thrash

Malum Mortem – Volume I (Black Mass Prayers) – black metal

Oak – The Third Sleep (Karisma Records) – progressive rock

Of The Muses – Underheavens – Of Blood, Ghosts and Saltwater (My Kingdom Music) – rock

Oria – The Future Wants Us Dead (Theogonia Records) – progressive groove metal

Our Frankenstein – Magnum Spire Hotel (Reclamation Records) – gothic industrial

Overvåld – Vigarv (Self) – death metal

Pagan Altar – Never Quite Dead (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal

PLQ MRX – Cumgitsum (Reptilian Records) – metal / rock

Profanatica – Wreathed in Dead Angels (Hells Headbangers) – black metal

Sijjin – Helljjin Combat (Sepulchral Voice) – death metal

Snakemother – S/T (Ripple Music) – doom

Spiritus Mortis – The Great Live (Svart Records) – heavy metal

Structure – Heritage (Ardua Music) – atmospheric doom / death

Sumac & Moor Mother – The Film (Self) – lots 

Sunken Basilica – xalxal (Fiadh Productions) – dungeon synth

Supreme Void – Towards Oblivion (Dolorem Records) – death metal

The Atrocity Circus – Malpractice (Cursed Monk Records / Eggy Tapes) – noise / death-industrial

The Great Sea – Noble Art of Desolation (AOP Records) – metal

The Riven – Visions of Tomorrow (Dying Victims Productions) – metal / rock

The Storyteller – The Final Stand (The Circle Music) – power metal

Trick or Treat – Ghosted (Scarlet Records) – power metal

Vampyriia – The Melancholic Charm of the Moon (Void Wanderer Productions) – drone / black metal

Vape Warlök – …And His Skull Shall Make My Bong (Pillars of Creation) – stoner, duh

Various – Brown Acid – The Twentieth Trip (RidingEasy Records) – heavy rock

Venator – Psychodrome (Dying Victims Productions) – metal

Void King – The Hidden Hymnal – Chapter II (Argonauta Records) – stoner / doom

Voland – The Grieving Fields (Dusktone) – symphonic folk / black metal

Wednesday 13 – Mid Death Crisis (Napalm Records) – horror metal

Wolnera – Building Reality (Self) – metal

— Josh