Due to the internet, it’s like I’m really here. Am I? You’ll never know for sure… Anyway, good got-o-mighty this week’s new releases brings the mighty LIPOMA back for a melodic-goregrind-death-metal-EPIC. This thing is so unique and so good, I’m expecting huge rumblings once this thing hits the ears of the masses—I digress, trust me on this one and get that preorder in. Next up we’ve got the one of a kind black metal that Sigh drops on us, Fallujah rock the house with their brand of wickedly techy catchy death metal, and Outergods brings many manners of extreme for an exceptional effort. Yep, TIGHT week here on Initial Descent but wait, there’s tons more on the list that follows so get to it folks and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Lipoma – No Cure For The Sick (Gurgling Gore / Scumlord) – goregrind / melodic death metal

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Sigh – I Saw The World’s End – Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV (Peaceville Records) – black metal

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Fallujah – Xenotaph (Nuclear Blast) – progressive death metal

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Outergods – Dethroned & Devoured (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – black / death / grind / horror

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Also on tap:

Afargang – Andvake (By Norse Music) – folk

Bryan Eckermann – The Fall of Heaven (Bonespill Recordings) – melodic black / death

Byonoisegenerator – Subnormal Dives (Transcending Obscurity Records) – jazzgrind

Byzantine – Harbingers (Metal Blade Records) – metal

Chris Caffery – 20 Years of the Music Man (Metalville) – hard rock/metal

Deathgoat – Dragged Into Realms Below (Xtreem Music) – death metal

Dolven – In My Grave…Silence (Winding Stair / Fiadh Productions) – doom

Edicule – Finitude (Self) – black metal 

Fairyland – The Story Remains (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – power metal

Fernando’s Eyes – Center of Your World (Aenaos Records / Icy Cold Records) – post-punk

Goblyns – Three Sisters (Crazysane Records) – psych rock

Goya – In The Dawn Of November (Blues Funeral Recordings) – doom

Grog – Sphere of Atrocities (Helldprod Records) – deathgrind

Hexvessel – Nocturne (Prophecy Productions) – black metal

Hiccup Heart – Gravity Racer (Apollon Records) – gazey

Hollow Leg – Dust and Echoes (Self) – rock

King’s Hammer – To Speak In Tongues, EP (Rottweiler Records / Broken Curfew) – death metal

Lights of Vimana – Neopolis (Dusktone) – progressive doom

Lunar Cult – The Blade Was Forged To Fit Your Hand (Fiadh Productions) – dungeon synth

Malvada – S/T (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock

Massetti – Odds And Ends (Self) – progressive metal

Memories of a Lost Soul – Songs From the Restless Oblivion (My Kingdom Music) – melodic death / black metal

Mike Dedrick  – Separation From Soul (Self) – melodic prog metal

Nightbearer – Defiance (Testimony Records) – death metal

Once I died – Will I Die? No. (Solium Records) – industrial doomgaze

Prophets Tomb – Through Pain (WormHoleDeath) – black / death

Returning – Numenous (Bindrune Recordings) – black metal

Row of Ashes – Tide Into Ruin (Road To Masochist) – sludge

Saltmarsh – These Wounds That Shan’t Heal… (Fiadh Productions) – blackgaze

Shrinkwrap Killers – Feed The Clones Pt. 2 (Carbonized Records) – synth punk

Signeri – S/T (Vicisolum Productions) – dark metal

Skeleton Mage – Ruinscapes I (Fiadh Productions) – fantasy ambient

Skyborne Reveries – S/T (Naturmacht) – atmospheric black metal

Sleeping Mountain – S/T (Self) – psych / desert rock

Standover – …When A Clenched Fist is No Longer an Option (Gutter Prince Cabal) – metalcore

The Foundation – Relations (Self) – prog rock

The Risen Dread – Death From Above (Time To Kill Records) – metal

Wrath of Belial – Embers of Dead Empires (CDN Records) – death metal

— Josh