Hard to believe we’re on the doorstep of spooky season and pumpkin spice everything yet, here we are. So, start making your scary movie watchlists and warming up the ol’ Type O Negative playlists. And now for your weekly blast of new releases of which we kick off with the ever amazing, trusty, and seasoned heavy metal vets Helloween, then we move into some thrash from Void and a blackened variety of the same from Deathhammer, and last up top is some vile industrial from Hateful Abandon…SCORE! As always though, there are plenty more picks below that span the many metal genres we have these days. Meaning: you absolutely will find something to take home. Now, go find all your fall decorations and skulls and whatnot and get to it. See you here throughout the week. Also and again we say, RIP Brent Hinds.

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Helloween – Giants and Monsters (Reigning Phoenix Records) – metal

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Void – Forbidden Morals (Shadow Kingdom) – thrash

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Deathhammer – Crimson Dawn (Hells Headbangers) – blackthrash

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Hateful Abandon – Threat (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) – post-punk / industrial

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Also on tap:

Årabrot – Rite of Dionysus (Pelagic Records) – art-rock

Ash Magick – Rituals of Anathematic East (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – black metal

Blutsauger – Nocturnal Blood Tyrants (De Tenebrarum Principio / ATMF) – black metal

Cardinal Sin – Spiteful Intents, EP Reissue (Regain) – black metal

Death Goals – Survival Is An Act Of Defiance (Self) – metalcore

Deceased – March of the Cadavers – 40 Years of Death Metal From the Grave (Hells Headbangers) – death metal

Dusk – Repoka, EP (Self) – industrial black metal

Evocatus – Inevitable Death (WormHoleDeath) – thrash / death

Exoneration – Monuments To Nothing (Rottweiler Records) – metalcore

Finnr’s Cane – S/T (Nordvis Produktion) – black metal

Headless – Transitional Objects (M-Theory Audio) – progressive hard rock

Hexrot – Formless Ruin of Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity Records) – black / death

IHLO – Legacy (Kscope) – progressive metal

Imperishable – Revelation In Purity (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal

Ivy Gardens – Death of Don Valley (Self) – post-metal

KHNVM – Cosmocrator (Testimony Records) – black / death

Kingdom of Giants – Burning Chrome, EP (SharpTone Records) – modern metalcore

lowheaven – Ritual Decay (MNRK Heavy) – post-metal

Midjungards – Ravens and Eagles (Dark Rails Records) – thrash / death

Mjolne – Through Veils Of Time (ATMF) – black metal

Necrokinesis – Death Is The Hammer (Self) – death / thrash

No Apologies – Life (Last Ride Records) – hardcore

Palladists – Tenebrous Ways (Fiadh Productions) – goth punk

Porenut – Výstup k svätej Kunde (Nomad Sky Diaries) – black metal

Prayer Group – Strawberry (Reptilian Records) – noise

Proscription – Desolate Divine (Dark Descent Records) – black / death

Rauhnåcht – Zwischenwelten (Antiq) – folk / black metal

Rising Steel – Legion of the Grave (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – metal

Shadows – Miseria (Self) – black / death

Sisters – Wings Of Deliverance (Spartan Records) – alt-metal

Slow Crush – Thirst (Pure Noise Records) – shoegaze

Sowulo – NIHT (Season of Mist) – dark folk

Stereophobia – Choke On This (Eclipse Records) – alt-metal

The Browning – Omni (FiXT) – deathcore

!T.O.O.H.! – Po ovoci poznáte je (Lavadome Productions) – grind

Torso – Annihilation Day (APF Records) – all the metal

Trudger – Void Quest (Floodlight Records) – death / sludge

Ursawrath – Emergence (Self) – progressive thrash

Whitehorse / Uboa – The Dissolution of Eternity (Tartarus Records / Sweatlung) – doom

Zatokrev – Bring Mirrors To The Surface (Pelagic Records) – post-metal

— Josh