This week’s edition of Initial Descent can barely make out which way is up or what day it even is…jet lag, tired, stretched to the limits, all pretty good descriptors at this point. Things are HECTIC, to say the least. But you know what’s great? The fact that Sanguisugabogg are back with a killer new joint!….We could full stop there and it’d be enough… Oh and just say speed metal and I’m all sweaty palms thanks to Ültra Raptör, Morke drills down on the medieval black metal (might hear more on that later in the week), and Heads For The Dead continue to be as reliable at death metal as my 350,000 mile SUV is to me. And, as always, we’ve got a ton more so jump in below and enjoy.
Sanguisugabogg – Hideous Aftermath (Century Media Records) – death metal
Ültra Raptör – Fossilized (Fighter Records) – speed metal
Morke – To Carry On (True Cult Records) – medieval black metal
Heads For The Dead – Never Ending Night Of Terror (Pulverised Records) – death metal
Also on tap:
Akolyth – Ecstatic Kingdom (Amor Fati) – black metal
All Hell – Sunsetter (Terminus Hate City) – deathrock
Blindfolded and Led To The Woods – The Hardest Thing About Being God Is The No One Believes Me (Prosthetic Records) – progressive death metal
Blue Heron – S/T (Blues Funeral Recordings) – desert metal
Blutgott – Legions of Metal (Blutgott Metal Universe) – metal
Coastlands – S/T (Translation Loss Records) – cinematic metal
Dead Heat – Process of Elimination (Metal Blade Records) – metal
Deathfuckingwound – Void MMXXV (Self) – black metal / grind
Enemy Awake – My Hell Is Yours (Self) – death metal
Extortionist – Stare Into The Seething Wounds (Unique Leader Records) – deathcore
Frayle – Heretics & Lullabies (Napalm Records) – doom
Friendship Commanders – Bear (Magnetic Eye Records) – stoner
Goad – Dusketha (My Kingdom Music) – prog rock
God Alone – The Beep Test (Prosthetic Records) – math rock / metal
Gonemage – Coldest Keep In Bitter Heavens (Fiadh Productions) – chiptune metal
Hell Ever After – Act I (Self) – thrash / rock opera
Humanity Zero – Cursed Be The Gift Of Life (Self) – death / doom
Hviress – Bitchhouse (Self) – metal
Illusive Key – Consume Us (Amor Fati) – black metal
Intraether – Vestiges (Fiadh Productions) – black metal
Junkbreed – Sick of the Scene (Raging Planet Records) – post-hardcore
Katakomba – The Second Death (Majestic Mountain Records) – death metal
Litania – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds / Subsound) – doom / drone
Living Dead Girl – Con$piracy (Self) – modern metal
Mortuary Sickness – Terminal Sickness, Live, EP (Self) – death metal
Narrat – Levana (Cultkill Music) – black metal
Nyos – Growl (Pelagic Records) – instru-metal
Occult Kenji – Of Gods and Ancestors (Self) – metal
Omnivide – Arise, EP (Seek & Strike) – tech death
Plague Curse – Verminous Contempt (Adirondack Black Mass) – black / death
Seoi Nage – No Retreat No Surrender (Self) – psych noir
Serpent God – Denial (Inverse Records) – death / doom
Slyther – Chronicles of Despair (Time To Kill Records) – thrash
Soul Blind – Red Sky Mourning (Self) – modern metal
Starer – Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness (Fiadh Productions) – black metal
Stonebirds – Perpetual Wasteland (Ripple Music) – post-metal
Sweet – Live at the Marquee (Metalville) – heavy metal
Tanvald – Nemofilista (Naturmacht) – black metal
Terzij de Horde – Our Breath Is Not Ours Alone (Fiadh Productions) – black metal
Testament – Para Bellum (Nuclear Blast) – thrash
Thorondir – Wätcher des Waldes (Trollzorn Records) – metal
TV Cult – Industry (Flight13 Records) – post-punk
Undersave – Merged In Abstract Perdition (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal
Ungoliath – Shadows Of The Eclipse (Self) – melodic black metal
Victimarum – Seitsemäm soidhun valossa (Signal Rex) – black metal
Vile Apparition – Malignity (Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent) – death metal
Vulnificus – Inclination (Comatose Music) – tech / brutal death
Warrant – The Speed Of Metal (Massacre Records) – speed metal
Wolfbrigade – Kill To Live / Hostile Wasteland (Metal Blade Records) – d-beat / death
— Josh
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