A slow week is upon us here on Initial Descent but they can’t all be stacked, I guess. Weird stuff happening all around though; meteor pieces going through houses, insane storms, power going off randomly and with too much frequency, crazy temps…I don’t know but weird is an understatement. Oh yea, slow week. Right. But, we got a holiday smack at the ‘work end’ so yea man, dy-no-mite (bonus if you can name the show). Annnnd for what we came for: in with the new fist pumping heavy metal from Wytch Hazel, power metal from Warkings, and castle metal from Weald + Woe among a select few others in the list that follows. Good time to catch up a bit I’d say or just marvel at the surrounding weirdness. Either way, we’ll see you here throughout the week but probably not on Friday or maybe. We’ll see.

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Wytch Hazel – V: Lamentations (Bad Omen) – heavy metal

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Warkings – Armageddon (Napalm Records) – power metal

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Weald + Woe – Far from the Light of Heaven (Fiadh Productions) – castle metal

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Also on tap:

Akouphenom – Connections to the Erebus (Avantgarde Music) – black / death

Anger Machine – Human Error (Self) – thrash

Beleth’s Trumpet – Chapel of Bones (Korpituli) – black metal

Do Or Die – Resurrection, EP (Self) – metalcore

Eminentia Tenebris – Whispers of the Undying (Antiq) – atmospheric black metal

Gaupa – FYR, EP (Nuclear Blast / Magnetic Eye) – psych rock

Jenn Taiga – Sanguine Descent (Fiadh Productions) – dark ambient

Joe Stump’s Tower of Power – Days of Thunder (Silver Lining Music) – heavy metal

Mortual – Altar of Brutality, EP (Nuclear Winter Records) – death metal

Mutant Sex Demon – Cutting Through (Dominance of Darkness) – black ‘n’ roll

Oceanica – Try Not To Dwell On It (Self) – post / prog metal

Path Of Redemption – Echoes From The Depths, EP (Self) – metal

Phantom Heir – Fragile Immortals (Self) – technical post metal

Proudhon – 2023 – 2025, Live (Self) – grind

Respect For Zero – Overtime, EP (Time To Kill Records) – hardcore

Sarastus – Agony Eternal (Dominance of Darkness) – black metal

Stygian – Dreadlands (Time To Kill Records) – black / punk

Sunken Monolith – Demo (Prehistoric Sounds) – black / death / doom

The Lucidia Project – The Twilight Affliction (Self) – alternative symphonic metal

Thumos – The Trial of Socrates (Fiadh Productions) – post-rock

Vaarcloc – Contururi (Self) – instrumental post metal

Whispers of Granite – Liquid Stone (Apollon Records) – folk / rock

— Josh