More long runs in the books and more seriously good temps to have done those with. It only gets better than that with good music and THAT we have plenty of this week here on Initial Descent. Der Weg Einer Freiheit kick things off with a ridiculously stellar album full of the kind of forward thinking black metal only they can make. Quite the statement, huh?! Well, get some and find out. Moving on, we’ve got Lorna Shore making a killer case for deathcore kings, then Slomatics kick out the riffs, and last up top is a reissue and remaster of one of the foundational pillars of mathcore from Dazzling Killmen. Y’all, this thing is massive and if you are not in the know, GET THERE stat. Alright then, we’ve still got an entire listing featured below these four so there’s plenty here to keep everyone happy. Enjoy and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Der Weg Einer Freiheit – Innern (Season of Mist) – black metal

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Lorna Shore – I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me (Century Media) – deathcore

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Slomatics – Atomicult (Majestic Mountain Records) – cosmic doom

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Dazzling Killmen – Dig Out The Switch, Reissue / Remaster (SKiN GRAFT Records) – mathcore

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Also on tap:

Abscence – Enigma (WormHoleDeath) – symphonic black metal

Bergsvriden – I Haggans Afton (Dusktone) – folk black metal

Between The Buried And Me – The Blue Nowhere (InsideOut) – metal

Bone Fetish – S/T (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) – goregrind

Burning Winds – Hell and Damnation (Werewolf) – black metal

Cea Serrin – The World Outside (Generation Prog Records) – prog metal

Colosalist – Two Suns (Hoggorm Music) – pagan doom

Crippling Alcoholism – Camgirl (Art of Betrayal) – noise rock

Crucible – Hail To The Force (From The Vaults) – metal

Dreamlord – Artificial Imprisonment (Self) – metal

Dreamslain – I Am Spartacus (Self) – progressive metal

Ectovoid – Dark Abstraction, Vinyl Reissue (Boris Records) – black / death

Electromancy – Visions of Utopia (Self) – black / doom / death

Exelerate – Hell For The Helpless (From The Vaults) – metal

Glutton – Skiva heter Vishnu! (Apollon Records Prog) – instru-jazz-prog

Gnaw Their Tongues – The Genesis of Light (Consouling Sounds) – drone / noise

Heruvim – Mercator (Redefining Darkness Records). death metal

Hyperstrike – High Risk (Self) – melodic death / thrash

I, Cursed – Heretical Onslaught (Inverse Records) – death / grind

Infernal Thorns – Christus Venari (Personal Records) – black metal

Intercourse – How I Fell In Love With The Void (Brutal Panda Records) – noise

Jawtrap – Hellscape (Self) – grind

Lucius Fox – The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Self) – noise

Matt Miller – Fiber Tormentum (Exitus Strategum Records) – tech death

Moribund Oblivion – Intertemporal (Theogonia Records) – black metal

Mortal Scepter – Ethereal Dominance (Xtreem Music) – deaththrash

Motherless – Do You Feel Safe? (Prosthetic Records) – doom

NecroticGoreBeast – Brute (Comatose Music) – death metal

Redenção Peles Chamas – S/T (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Regina – Liminal Space (Self) – metal

Revelator – Light The Devil’s Fire (Nameless Grave Records) – black / death

Schreigarm – Mara Comes and Darkness Shall Reign (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Spectral – 12:12 (Ghost Depot Records) – dark heavy

Stargazer – Stone Cold Creature (Mighty Music) – metal

Syrinx – Time Out Of Place (Ocula Records) – progressive rock / metal

Thorndale – Spiritual Chains (Self) – stoner / doom

Unaligned – A Form Beyond (Transcending Obscurity Records) – tech death

Winternius – Underwater Darkness (Dusktone) – melodic black metal

Year of the Goat – Trivia Goddess (Napalm Records) – psych 

Yotuma – The Final Void (BÖLVERK RECORDS) – death metal

— Josh