Metallica has still got it. Best show with the best energy…STILL. I cannot say enough good about it. Alright then, let’s do the new releases for this week: One I’ve been looking forward to is the next chapter in the Gruesome legacy and it absolutely does not disappoint, what a ripper. Next up we’ve got an insane post-hardcore-crazy-as-hell-but-I-dig-it outing from For Your Health, Gaahls Wyrd is still bringing the weird to black metal, and Katatonia are upping the goth rock yet again this time out which…we’ll see how this one pans out and that’s all I’ll say for now. There’s a ton more in the list below so get to investigating and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Gruesome – Silent Echoes (Relapse Records) – death metal

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For Your Health – This Bitter Garden (3DOT Recordings) – post-hardcore

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Gaahls Wyrd – Braiding The Stories (Season of Mist) – black metal

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Katatonia – Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State (Napalm Records) – goth rock / metal

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Also on tap:

A-Z – A2Z² (Metal Blade Records) – progressive rock

Affliction Vector – Contra Hominem (Iron Bonehead) – black / death

Aganoor – Doomerism (My Kingdom Music / BloodRock Records) – stoner

Atlantic – Timeworm (Fiadh Productions) – post-black metal

Austere – The Stillness of Dissolution (Prophecy Productions) – black metal

Autumn Lies Buried – Mob Mentality (Mob Mentality) – slam / hardcore

Bacon Wagon – Trauma Cake (Reptilian Records) – noise rock

Battlesnake – Dawn of the Exultants and the Hunt for the Shepherd (Self) – rock / metal

Bear Mace – Slaves of the Wolf (Self) – death metal

Białwilk – Wniebowstąpienie (Fiadh Productions) – black metal

Bludgeoned By Deformity – Epoch of Immortality (Iron Fortress Records) – brutal death metal

Chamber of Mirrors – Tales of Blood (Iron Bonehead) – black metal

Cromlech – Of Owls and Eels (Darkness Shall Rise) – black metal

Deathtropy – The Resurgence of Nostalgia, EP (Self) – slam

Devs Mortvorvm – The Oldest Crypt, EP (Apocalyptic Productions) – death / doom

Dissonant Seepage – Dystopian Putrescence (Comatose Music) – death metal

Drab – S/T (WormHoleDeath) – nola metal

Empeiria – The Ascent: Szenen der Katharsis (Vendetta Records) – black metal

Fuzzriders – I Like It (Electric Valley Records) – stoner / fuzz

Holy Scum – All We Have Is Never (Rocket Recordings) – avant

Holyroller – Rat King (Ripple Music) – stoner

Iätön – Portit Pohjolan (Signal Rex) – black metal

Iku-Turso – Wolfheart (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Inglorious – V (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock

Intrepid – Juxtaposition (Knife Fight Media) – death metal

King Parrot – A Young Persons Guide To King Parrot (Dead Serious Recordings) – grind

Klaustrofonija – Rigged Phantasies (Mrtov Konj) – psych rock

MoldEra – Colonize (Octopus Rising) – stoner / sludge

Moss Knight – Sogg’ed Burlap Boots (Fiadh Productions) – fantasy adventure synth

Nemus Anima – Rivers Flow Red (Self) – melodic black metal

Obsidian Scapes – Death Chants Echo From Aphotic Void (Darkness Shall Rise) – doom

Ophiolatry – S/T (WormHoleDeath Records) – brutal death metal

Orthodox – A Door Left Open (Century Media Records) – metalcore

Phase Transition – In Search of Being (Self) – progressive metal

Refusal – Venomous Human Concept (Time To Kill Records) – death metal

Thræds – Impermanence (Octopus Rising) – post-metal

Turian – Blood Quantum Blues (Wise Blood Records) – metalcore

Various Artists – Marc Uselli’s Ramones Redux (Magnetic Eye Records) – ramonescore

Vile Bees – Joy Coughs (Seismic Wave Entertainment) – post-punk

Waste Cult – Blame (Aesthetic Death) – punk / thrash

Yass – Feel Safe (Crazysane Records) – post-punk

— Josh