Winter is certainly here. Again I’m squared up with another winter storm and am not entirely sure how much snow we’ll have by the time you read this…but, we’ll be sledding and definitely will be running in it. It’s a rare occasion we get snow with no ice but that’s the forecast so…we’ll see. Moving along, this week’s new releases brings us some caustic blackened death metal from Ensanguinate, rip-roaring black metal from Mayhem, meat and ‘taters death metal from Paganizer (and YES I am aware this dropped early so technically is out but it warrants a spot so get on it), and some exquisite progressive rock from Sweden’s Wolverine. SUCH a killer lead off lineup this week but there’s more, as always. Seek and destroy, folks. I’ll stay warm with these four on repeat so all is good. See you here throughout the week.

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Ensanguinate – Death Saturnalia (Soulseller Records) – blackened death metal

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Mayhem – Liturgy of Death (Century Media) – black metal

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Paganizer – As Mankind Rots (Xtreem Music) – death metal

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Wolverine – Anomalies (Mascot Label Group) – progressive rock

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Also on tap:

Ablaze – Slow Death (Self) – post‑hardcore

Abrichten – Aufheben (It’s Eleven Records) – noise

Agenbite Misery – Remorse of Conscience (Self) – sludge / death

Assignment – With The End Comes Silence (Massacre Records) – power metal

Baerdcyn – And The Wind Keeps Time (Fiadh Productions) – ambient

Belonging / Inny – The Dog (Dipterid Records) – post‑hardcore

Bitterness – Hallowed Be The Game (G.U.C.) – thrash

Blossoms Fall – La Alma (Eclipse Records) – metalcore

Capsize – Under A Hollow Sky, EP (Roux + Rain Records) – rock

Cartoons Can’t Die – Rebirth (Self) – rock

Cattle Hammer – Dark Thoughts With Lights Out (Road To Masochist) – blackened doom

Cyclone – Known Unto God, EP (M‑Theory Audio) – thrash

Evoked Eclipse – The Cries of Evil (Club Inferno Ent.) – atmospheric black metal

Frostmorner – Orbital Kaos (Wormholedeath Records) – death metal

Heir Corpse One – Destination: Domination (Emanzipation Productions) – death metal

Hermano – Clisson, France (Ripple Music) – live riffs

In Aeternum – …Of Death and Fire (Soulseller Records) – blackened death metal

Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – Inexorable Opposites (Magnetic Eye Records) – psych rock

Landstrykar – A Walk Amidst The Cairns (Fiadh Productions) – fantasy synth

Lomor – Sabouk Rouge (Rockshots Records) – thrash metal

Monovoth – To Live In The Breath Of Worship (Self) – death / doom

Moon Mother – Meadowlands (Self) – dark folk

Mors Verum – Canvas (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal

Mount Palatine – Wormholy World (Octopus Rising) – psych metal

Phendrana – Cathexis (Self) – atmospheric / progressive post‑black metal

Poor Bambi – Skyscrapers Soaring, Yet We’re Drowning (Apollon Records) – noise rock

Puke Wolf – Descend (Self) – post‑hardcore

Sleeping Giant – The Beauty of Obliteration (Octopus Rising) – stoner doom

Tailgunner – Midnight Blitz (Napalm Records) – heavy metal

Thistle Sifter – Forever The Optimist (FREIA Music) – post rock

Visions of Atlantis – Armada – An Orchestral Voyage (Napalm Records) – power metal

Wicked Smile – When Night Falls (Self) – heavy metal

Withering Surface – Unique (Mighty Music) – melodic death metal

— Josh