Busy times, y’all. Busy times. Yep, we’re all knee deep in whatever fresh hell we’ve gotten into and still trying to do more. Be more. Create more results. Give more time. On and on…you get the point. As Jocko says “GOOD.” And with that, we move into this week’s new releases and you know this. So, let’s roll… Hög offer up some grimy ass, riff heavy metal. Full stop. I mean, this is the stuff that Saturday nights at the biker bar are made of right here. Ok, ok I got a little ahead of myself there so we’ll move on to some excellent Appalachian / americana / metal / rock / western / psychedelic glory courtesy of the multi genre and ultra talented Bask (seriously, no one out there sounds like this, no one…and it’s divine), vicious death metal is next up from Grave Hex, and the mighty DEFTONES ARE BACK! I repeat, Deftones are back. ‘Nuff said. Alright then, get some and maybe we’ll see you here throughout the week. Jury’s out…

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Hög – Blackhole (RidingEasy Records) – grimy metal

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Bask – The Turning (Season of Mist) – psychedelic / Appalachian metal

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Grave Hex – Vermian Death (Night Terrors Records / Cavernous Records) – death metal

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Deftones – Private Music (Reprise) – deftones

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Also on tap:

Amenspear – All My Gods Are Dying (Self) – black metal

Ashen – Leave the Flesh Behind (Redefining Darkness Records) – death metal

Benefactor Decease – Abnormal Attachments (Xtreem Music) – thrash

Burning Sun – Retribution (Matalizer Records) – power metal

Corridoré – Abandon (Hypaethral Records) – post-black metal

Crop – S.S.R.I. (Third House Communications) – doom

Defacement – Doomed (Avantgarde Music) – death metal

Desaster – Kill All Idols (Metal Blade Records) – black / death / thrash

Donella Drive – Axon (Self) – punk-prog

Endlings + VNM – Parallel03 (Whited Sepulchre Records) – post-industrial

Fates Messenger – Eternal War, EP (Greyline Records) – metal

Hebephrenique – Decathexis (Gutter Prince Cabal / Brilliant Emperor Records) – death metal

Hellir – Hollow Moon: Precursor (Self) – synth / vaporwave black metal

Innumerable Forms – Pain Effulgence (Profound Lore Records) – death / doom

Iron Savior – Reforged – Machine World (Perception) – metal

Kratornas – God Of The Tribes (Grathila Records) – death metal

Medieval Demon – All Powers of Darkness (Hells Headbangers) – black metal

Meridian – S/T (From The Vaults) – heavy metal

Monoliyth – He Who Kills (WormHoleDeath) – death metal

Myrath – Reflections (earMUSIC) – progressive metal

Old Machines – The Cycles of Extinction (Self) – extreme

Panzerchrist – Maleficium Part 2 (Emanzipation Productions) – black / death metal

Reinforcer – Ice and Death (Scarlet Records) – power metal

Retching – Charming The Decomposed (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal

Rose Of The Wood – Discharge (Self) – groove metal

Sadistic Force – Morbid Odyssey (Self) – blackened speed metal

Signs Of The Swarm – To Rid Myself Of The Truth (Century Media Records) – deathcore

Solace – Further, Remaster (Magnetic Eye Records) – stoner metal

Supernaughty – Apocalypso (Ripple Music) – stoner metal

The Ashen Codex – The Curse, The Choice, The Healer (Fiadh Productions) – dungeon synth

This I Owe – Alchemists (WormHoleDeath) – doom

Torpedo – What the fucked do we all do now? | – Lights (Broken Clover / Cheap Satanism) – noise / punk

Unholy Altar – A Sullen Dark Sky, EP (Fiadh Productions) – black metal

Vindicator – Whispers of Death (Self) – thrash metal

Visitant – Rubidium (Exitus Strategem Records) – black / death

Wreck and Reference – Stay Calm (The Flenser) – experimental

— Josh