I’ll start with a PSA just in case you missed it a couple weeks ago: Ectovoid’s latest is this year’s first great death metal album, get it if you haven’t. Next up is this week’s platter of all the new and shiny things that starts with Megadeth‘s final album. Yea, final album. Makes me sad too but we’ve got a stunning discography to look back on and this new self-titled album puts an exclamation mark on an incredible journey. Do not miss this one, folks. Otherwise we’ve got black metal from Archvile King and Handful of Hate (both bangers), and a killer heavy metal album from Barbarian. Excellent week so far and you still have a ton in the list below to navigate. Check them out and we’ll be seeing you…

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Megadeth – S/T (Tradecraft) – thrash metal

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Archvile King – Aux Heures Désespérées (LADLO) – black metal

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Handful of Hate – Soulless Abominations (Self) – black metal

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Barbarian – Reek of God (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal

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Also on tap:

Alkaloid – Bach Out Of Bounds (Season of Mist) – bachmetalcovers

Asaru – V.O.I.D. (Schwarzdorn Production) – black metal

Backengrillen – S/T (Svart Records) – death / doom

Casket – In The Long Run We Are All Dead (Neckbreaker Records) – metal

Coronatus – Dreadful Waters (Massacre Records) – symphonic metal

Crystal Lake – The Weight of Sound (Century Media) – hardcore

Deathraiser – Forged In Hatred (Xtreem Music) – thrash

European Drought – Lullabies For An Elven King (Fiadh Productions) – drone

Gavial – Thanks, I Hate It (Exile On Mainstream Records) – psych

HamaSaari – Pictures (Klonosphere Records) – prog

Institution D.O.L. – Agape :93: (Edged Circle Productions) – industrial

Karloff – Revered By Death (Dying Victims Productions) – punk / sludge

Ligation – After Gods (Personal Records) – death / doom

Meteora – Dissonance, EP (H‑Music) – symphonic metal

New Mexican Doom Cult – Zaggurat (Majestic Mountain Records) – riffy doom

New Miserable Experience – Gild The Lily (Pelagic Records) – synth‑rock

Pagan Altar – Lords of Hypocrisy (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy / doom

Ritual Arcana – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – occult doom rock

Sacral – Vile Consumption (Fiadh Productions) – black / thrash

Sacri Suoni – Time to Harvest (Electric Valley Records) – cosmic doom

Sad Whisperings – The Hermit (Vidar Records) – death / doom

Shadowmass – Wastelands (Floga Records) – heavy / thrash

Spiral Fracture – Grace In Decay (WormHoleDeath) – metal

Stalwart – Tempvs Edax Rervm (WormHoleDeath) – metal

Temptress – hear (Blues Funeral Recordings) – metal

Textures – Genotype (Kscope) – prog metal

The Crawling – Live In Belfast MMXXIV (Grindscene Records) – metal

Toy Weather – Feathers in a strange wind (Apollon Records) – experimental rock

Turbo’s Tribunal – Mills of Tribunal (Jawbreaker Records) – heavy metal

Vanishment – And Now We Die (M‑Theory Audio) – thrash metal

Virtue In Vain – Nothing Is All I Am (Self) – metalcore

Willow Tea – A Time of Renewal (Fiadh Productions) – synth

— Josh