I’m just like Freddy or Jason and just keep coming back. That’s sort of a reminder to get your ass in gear with the horror movies for those of you that NEED a season to do that. It’s an all year thing here but no judging. Ok, maybe a little judging. Anyway, thanks to brother Voss for holding the fort down while I was away. Dude has a full plate with the Hooptober festivities so extra thanks are due. Now then, new releases this week sees post-and-psych metal heavyweights Psychonaut return with another beauty of an album, then Torture Hammer lays down some nasty death metal while Mastiff stirs the brutal sludge metal pot and Devastrosity stretch brutal death metal to its rupturing point. Tasty. So, that’s your top four and yep, you bet there’s more and glad you already knew that. You’ve been paying attention. I’d clap but, nah. Dig in here AND get your horror on folks. Time’s a wastin’…

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Psychonaut – World Maker (Pelagic Records) – post-metal

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Torture Hammer – S/T, EP (Creator-Destructor Records) – death metal

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Mastiff – For All The Dead Dreams, EP (Church Road Records) – sludge

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Devastrosity – Eviscerating Desolation (Comatose Music) – brutal death

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Also on tap:

Adept – Blood Covenant (Napalm Records) – metalcore

Aduanten – Apocryphal Verse (Nameless Grave Records) – melodic death metal

Alkemia – S/T, EP (Inverse Records) – stoner rock

Arcane Tales – Ancestral War (Broken Bones) – symphonic power metal

Ars Onirica – 2.5 Nighttime, EP (Ardua Music) – melodic doom / death

Behölder – Tower Of The Broken God (Black Lion Records) – epic doom

Blaze – Out Through The Door (No Remorse Records) – metal

Bone Church – Deliverance (Ripple Music) – rock

Bonginator – Retrodeath (Testimony Records) – death metal

Born Divided – Chronicle of a Shipwreck (Self) – blackened death metal

Brainwave – Ill Intent (Self) – hardcore

Breath – Brahman (Argonauta Records) – doom

Cattlemass – Alpha 1128 (Seeing Red Records) – doom

Cemetery Moon – Dominion Of Ashes (Self) – black metal

Centinex – With Guts and Glory (Black Lion Records) – death metal

Dave Tinelt – Power of Discretion (Self) – metal

Dawnwalker – The Between (Room312) – post-metal / doom

Dayseeker – Creature In The Black Night (Spinefarm) – rock

Daytripper – The Alchemist (Self) – doom / sludge

Deteriorot – Awakening (Xtreem Music) – death metal

Devoid Of Thought – Necrotic Surface Discarded (Avantgarde Music) – death metal

Disarray – The Darkening, EP (Jawbreaker Records) – thrash metal

Distaste – Agoniepositur (FDA Records) – grindcore

Doro – Warriors of The Sea (Rare Diamonds) – metal

Downswing – And Everything Was Dark (MNRK Heavy) – metal

Drofnosura – Ritual of Split Tongues (Transcending Obscurity Records) – blackened sludge

Elepharmers – Western Wilderness (Electric Valley Records) – stoner / doom

Elettra Storm – Evertale (Scarlet Records) – power metal

Fatal Portrait – An Elusive Instinct for Lascivia Redvx (Black Lion Records) – black metal

Flamecore – S/T (WormHoleDeath) – melodic death metal

Fäust – Crypts of Eternity (Black Lion Records) – black metal

Glasya – Fear (Scarlet Records) – symphonic metal

Goatfather – House of the Rising Smoke (Argonauta Records) – rock

Helix Noire – Becoming The Cure (Self) – modern metal

In Lieu – Hooligan (Learning Curve Records) – noise

IRR – Remains Remain (Monastyr / Berggeflvster) – black / death

Jet Jaguar – Severance (Steamhammer) – metal

Karate Steve – Time Under Tension (Self) – metal

Lacertilia – Transcend (Majestic Mountain Records) – rock

Lars Fredrik Frøislie – Quattro Racconti (Karisma Records) – rock

Mos Generator – Live at Roadburn 2008 (Savant Guarde Records) – metal

Nine Treasures – Seeking The Absolute (Metal Blade Records) – alt-metal

Octotanker – Voidhopper (Self) – stoner doom

Old Year – No Dissent (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – drone doom / death

Our Oceans – Right Here, Right Now (Long Branch Records) – prog rock

Outburst – Witchcraft (Self) – metal

Phaeton – Neurogenesis (INB Music) – instrumental prog

Ping – Songs from the Nebula (Apollon Records Prog) – rock

Remina – The Silver Sea (Avantgarde Music) – goth doom

Reverya – Affliction In Bloom (Self) – rock

Ronnie Romero – Backbone (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – metal

Scorching Tomb – Ossuary (Time To Kill Records) – death metal

Sinister Days – Disconnect Society (Self) – hardcore

Solar Suns – Altitude (Argonauta Records) – rock

Something Is Waiting – Livelick (Learning Curve Records) – noise

Soulfly – Chama (Nuclear Blast) – metal

Spøgelse – Spøgelse II (Welfare Sounds & Records) – punk

StarAce – Real (Self) – rock

Sunken – Lykke, EP (Eisenwald) – black metal

Thaumaturgy – Pestilential Hymns (Memento Mori) – death metal

The Acacia Strain – You Are Safe From God Here (Rise Records) – metal

The Lunar Effect – Fortune’s Always Hiding (Svart Records) – psych rock

Them – Psychedelic Enigma (Steamhammer) – power metal

THL – Art Déco II (Self) – prog rock / metal

Tuesday The Sky – Indoor Enthusiast (Metal Blade Records) – prog metal

Valletta – Bitter Lucid Truth (Lifeforce Records) – black ‘n’ roll

Wino – Create Or Die (Ripple Music) – rock

— Josh