Summertime here we come, finally. I know some of you will detest that statement and that’s fine but, do keep your cold weather to yourself. Alright then, new releases this week include Tonguecutter who have really turned my head with a grungy take on punk and noise rock (total surprise in a very good way), local boys Your Spirit Dies offer up an incredible metalcore album, Leper Colony swoops in with some killer death metal, and Palantyr rounds out the top slots with some mighty fine speed metal. But, as always, we’ve got many more in the list that follows so head below for all those and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Tonguecutter – Minnow (Learning Curve Records) – grunge / noise / punk

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Your Spirit Dies – My Gnawing Pains Will Never Rest (MNRK Heavy) – metalcore

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Leper Colony – Those Of The Morbid (Testimony Records) – death metal

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Palantyr – The Ascent & The Hunger (Jawbreaker Records) – speed metal

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Also on tap:

A Flock Named Murder – Incendiary Sanctum (Hypaethral Records) – atmospheric post-black metal

Aawks – On Through The Sky Maze (Black Throne Productions) – psych metal

Abyssal Vacuum – S/T (Signal Rex) – metal

Acceptance – Crucifixion of Orchids (Road To Masochist) – black metal

Acherontas – Nekyia – The Necromantic Patterns (Zazen Sounds / Ill Damnation) – black metal

Agusa – Högtid, Remaster (Karisma Records) – progressive rock

Alukta – Merok (Transcendence) – doom / black metal

Amalekim – Shir Hashirim (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

Black Honey Cult – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – rock

Brzask – Der Wanderer im Riesengebirge (Vendetta Records) – black metal

Burndy – S/T (Self) – noise / post-punk

Coffin Mulch & Mick Harris – In Dub, EP (At War With False Noise) – deathgrind

Convulsing – perdurance (Avantgarde Music) – death metal

Demonic Death Judge – Absolutely Launched (Suicide Records) – sludge / stoner

Domadora – Indian (Self) – heavy psych

Eisenkult – Die Hölle ist hier (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Encelado – Pillars of Creation (Regenerate Records) – death metal

Falling From Grace – At The Edge (Inverse Records) – melodic death metal

Firienholt – Night Eternal (Naturmacht Productions) – black metal

Goats of Doom – Inri (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Growing Horns – The Essence of Suffering (Self) – doom metal

Hangfire – Burn (Rottweiler Records) – heavy metal

Hate – Bellum Regiis (Metal Blade Records) – black / death

Helheim – Blod & Ild (Nomad Snakepit Productions) – pagan

Labyrinthus Stellarum – Rift In Reality (Archivist Records) – atmospheric black metal 

Lightless – A Foreseen Loss (Self) – blackened doom / sludge

Lux Interna – New Wilderness Gospel (Auerbach Tonträger) – dark folk

Master Charger – Posthumous Resurrection (Octopus Rising) – doom / sludge

Matraque – Nature Morte (Ashen Tree Records) – sludge / doom / death

Misfire – Product Of The Environment (MNRK Heavy) – thrash metal

Moonsoon – East of Asteroid (Apollon Records Prog) – prog

Müntrails – The Cenobite Tapes (WormHoleDeath) – dark post-rock

Namebearer – Industries of the Fading Sun (Self) – atmospheric black metal

Neuroblade – Desert Claw (Self) – thrash

Nightfall – Children of Eve (Season of Mist) – death metal

No Heroes – Brood Eternal (Sound of the Northwoods) – deathgrind

Power Surge – Shadows Warning (FHM Records) – melodic metal

Propagandhi – At Peace (Epitaph) – post-punk

Psykosis – Mind Games (Self) – thrash

Raw Moor – En Route (WormHoleDeath) – symphonic black metal

Sjöhäxan – Black Squall (Fiadh Productions) – ambient

Skyjoggers – 12021: Post-Electric Apocalypse (Supernatural Cat) – space rock

Slung – In Ways (Art As Catharsis & Fat Dracula) – sludge / rock

Soft Ffog – Focus (Is It Jazz? Records) – progressive rock

Solfatare – Asservis par l’espoir (Signal Rex) – black metal

Strega – Stryx Strega Strygae (Masked Dead Records) – black / heavy

Taurwen – Palingenesia (Fiadh Productions) – neo-folk

Tumble – Lost In Light (Echodelick Records / Stickman Records) – psych rock / proto-metal

Unbegotten / Velo Misere – Silencio y Demencia (Nomad Snakepit Productions / Altare Productions) – black metal

Under Ruins – Age Of The Void (FHM Records) – metal

Xiphoid Dementia – Spiral Rapture Holy War (Fusty) – industrial

— Josh