Another week in the can, already. If you follow, last week was the week of upsets all over college football. But if you don’t follow, it was a week. As for me, busy still and the foot pain returned so my weekly mileage has decreased. Temporarily mind you but still, it blows. So, we’re back with another set of new releases and the almighty death doom dealers Hooded Menace drop a load of DYN-O-MITE (get that reference and you win the week), Ribspreader keep death metal meat and potatoes gnarly, Wode is always good for excellent black metal and they do not disappoint, and Today Is The Day permeate the air with their signature mix of noise and extreme. Those four are an excellent way to start this week’s list but there’s many, many more in the list that follows so enjoy and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Hooded Menace – Lachrymose Monuments of Obscuration (Season of Mist) – death / doom

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Ribspreader – As Gods Devour (Xtreem Music) – death metal

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Wode – Uncrossing The Keys (20 Buck Spin) – black metal

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Today Is The Day – Never Give In (SuperNova Records) – noise / metal

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Also on tap:

Achathras – A Darkness of the Ancient Past (Cult Never Dies) – black / death

Agartha – The Hidden, EP (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound (Self) – avant

Arson Charge – A Dying Light (Anxious & Angry) – hardcore / thrash

Besta – John Carpenter Redux (Raging Planet Records) – grind

Blood and Brutality – Wrath Upon (Blood and Brutality Records) – death / thrash

Carnage Inc. – S/T (Self) – speed / thrash

Cathedral – Society’s Pact With Satan (Rise Above) – doom

Constrict – Kadavergehorsam, EP (7Degrees / Loner Cult / 783Label) – grind

Cratophane – Exode (I, Voidhanger Records) – noise

Cruentus – End Without End (Kvlt Und Kaos Productions) – death / black / thrash

Cultic – Lore (Eleventh Key Records) – dungeon metal

De Profundis – The Gospel Of Rot (Self) – death metal

Deathwinds – …Towards Doom (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) – black / death

Dirkschneider And The Old Gang – Babylon (Reigning Phoenix Music) – metal

Dispossessed – Dêmocide (Carbonized Records) – death metal

Dissona – Receptor (Self) – progressive metal

Dolman Gate – Echoes of Ancient Tales (No Remorse Records) – heavy metal

Enragement – Extinguish All Existence (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal

Ferrett – Wild Nonstop Night (Moribund Rockers!) – metal

Gridfailure – Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III (Nefarious Industries) – noise

Hangatyr – Sumpf der Fäule (Self) – metal

Horror Within – Soul Awakening (Dolorem Records) – death metal

Long After Midnight – Rage Toward The Light (Self) – rock / metal

Lucynine – Melena (Talheim Records) – post-black metal

Modder – Destroying Ourselves For A Place In The Sun (Consouling Sounds / Lay Bare) – psych sludge

Mriodom – Vlies (Self) – sax-o-doom

Nox Pulso – TWO / Plague Town (Null Void Records) – industrial

Orbit Culture – Death Above Life (Century Media Records) – modern metal

Orbstruct – Ostracism (Paragon Records) – black / death

OvO – Gemma (Artoffact Records) – experimental metal

Plague Pit – A Whispered Curse (Road To Masochist) – death metal

Raphael Weinroth-Browne – Lifeblood (Self) – prog metal

Ring Van Möbius – Firebrand (Apollon Records Prog) – prog metal

Ripping Remains – Necrodestiny, EP (Satanik Royalty Records) – death metal

Rotting Demise – The Unholy Veil of Silence (Self) – black / death

Sceptor – Wrath of the Gods (Metalizer Records) – heavy metal

Smohalla – Ruina Draconis (I, Voidhanger Records) – avant black metal

Sothori – Domus Omnium Mortuorum (Fetzner Death / ADG Records) – black / death

Sum of R – Spectral (Self) – avant garde

Supreme Mystic – Kala Rupa (MahaVishnu Records + Third House Communications) – industrial

The Mansters – Snapshots from a Shitshow (Loyal Blood Records) – punk

Umulamahri – Learning the Secrets of Acid (Ordovician Records) – death metal

Unsouling – Outward Streams of Devotional Woe (I, Voidhanger Records) – black metal

Valdur – Guilded Abyss (Bloody Mountain Records ) – black / death

Warmarshal – The Diseased (Self) – death metal

Wolver – Act II: Scene I – Birth of an Empire, EP (Rexius Records) – rock

Yowie – Taking Umbrage (SKiN GRAFT Records) – avantgarde

— Josh