Both high school AND college football are back! In addition to that, we haven’t hit second summer yet so my long run this weekend felt amazing and I didn’t sweat buckets, for once. So, scores all the way around. Here’s hoping you’ve got today off—you know, Labor Day and all—so you can do some heavy investigating into this week’s batch of new releases. But if not, here’s to a week. HA. Moving on… death thrash vets Dark Angel are back, BY GOD!!! I’m stoked to hear this one and you should be too. Elsewhere we’ve got melodic death / doom from Falling Leaves, excellent heavy metal from Ambush, and even more excellent death metal from Hades Descent. So there, now you’ve got the start of the story so head below to get the rest. Happy huntin’ and see you here this week in some form or other.

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Dark Angel – Extinction Level Event (Reversed) – death / thrash

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Falling Leaves – The Silence That Binds Us (Self) – melodic death / doom

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Ambush – Evil In All Dimensions (Napalm Records) – heavy metal

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Hades Descent – The Monolith (ATLAS Creative) – death metal

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Also on tap:

Alligator Rodeo – Optimists Club (Self) – sludge 

Anti Ritual – 80 Years (Indisciplinarian) – hardcore/crust

Apocalyptic Society – Instinctual Self-Slaughter (Self) – thrash / death

Autrest – Burning Embers, Forgotten Wolves (Northern Silence Productions) – atmospheric black metal

Before The Dawn – Cold Flare Eternal (Reaper Entertainment) – melodic death metal

Biolence – Violent Obliteration (Raging Planet / Doomed / Selvajaria) – death / thrash

Castle Waters – Ethereal Elegance (Fiadh Productions) – ambient

Condition Critical – Degeneration Chamber (Self) – thrash

Connor Kaminski – Tapestry (Self) – prog metal

Cult Burial – Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust (Self) – black / death

Crypt Monarch – Codex Pestilentia (many) – stoner doom

Death Meta – Malware (Self) – grind

Distorta – Deadman (WormHoleDeath) – groove death

Dominant Chain – Wasteland Requiem (Inverse Records) – progressive metal

Dreams of Gray – A Beginning (Self) – metal

Electric Jaguar Baby – Clair-Obscur (Majestic Mountain Records) – fuzz

Eliene – We Stand United, EP (Reigning Phoenix Music) – symphonic metal

Esoctrilihum – Ghostigmatah – Spiritual Rites of the Psychopomp Abxulöm (I, Voidhanger Records) – black / death

Eternal Returns – Let There Be Sin (Brutal Records) – death / thrash

Faun – Hex (Believe / Pagan Folk Records) – metal

Fury – Interceptor (Mighty Music) – rock / metal

Gjallarhorn’s Wrath – The Silver Key (Non Serviam Records) – black metal

Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part I: The Shores of Melancholia (Season of Mist) – progressive metal

Hasard – Abgnose (I, Voidhanger Records) – metal

Hold Me Down – Devour (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) – industrial

Hunger – Ruler Of The Wolves (Jawbreaker Records) – heavy / speed metal

Imperialist – Prime (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death / black

Insomniac – Om Moksha Ritam (Blues Funeral Recordings) – post-doom

Korp – And Darker It Shall Become (Grind To Death Records) – black / death

LVTHN – The Devil’s Bridge (Amor Fati) – black metal

Nailed To Obscurity – Generation of the Void (Nuclear Blast Records) – death metal

Night Demon – Curse of the Damned, 10th Anniversary Remix (Self) – metal

Nuclear Dudes – Truth Paste (Self) – industrial grind

Ofermod – Drakosphia (Shadow / Regain) – black metal

Pestilential Shadows – Wretch (Northern Silence / Brillient Emperor) – black metal

Primal Fear – Domination (Reigning Phoenix Music) – power metal

Progeny of Sun – Prophets of the Void (Inverse Records) – black / death

Ritual Mass – Cascading Misery (20 Buck Spin) – death metal

Seilies – Between Truth & Lies (Self) – metalcore

Shardana – The Monarch (Awakening Records) – black / death

Still In Love – Recovery Language (Church Road Records) – metalcore

Sublime Eyes – IV: The Serpent’s Coil (WormHoleDeath) – melodic death metal

Svartsot – Peregrinus (Mighty Music) – melodic death metal

The Great White Nothing – Passage I Melancholia (Self) – post-black metal 

Tine – A Winter Horrorscape (Self) – symphonic black/death

Trypanon – Through The Portal of Flesh to Achieve Divinity (Time To Kill Records) – black / sludge

Unpunished – Echoes of History (Self) – metalcore

Violator – Unholy Retribution (Kill Again Records) – thrash

Wolves – S/T (Ripcord Records) – mathcore

— Josh