Not gonna lie, it’s been a tough week since we last shared words here. Life can be glorious in one moment and the next…not so much. But, we carry on. And, the music that constantly hits new release bins helps so let’s discuss that very thing for this week, shall we? Unburier get the death metal lead out on their latest EP of old meets new school on this headturner, Cryptic Shift also drop a headturner of death metal but more on the progressive side, and we’ll stick with death metal to finish as Hating Life drop a HEATER of HM2 inspired insanity. Those three are keeping me sane at the moment but there’s a ton more for you to dig into from the bloated list that follows. Hop to it and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Unburier – As Time Awaits (Self) – death metal

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Cryptic Shift – Overspace & Supertime (Metal Blade Records) – progressive death metal

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Hating Life – Revenge From Beyond (Pulverised Records) – death metal

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Also on tap:

A Wilhelm Scream – Cheap Heat (Creator-Destructor Records) – melodic hardcore

Aufhebung – Luchtbegrafenis (Dunk! Records) – post-metal

Black Reuss – Death (Golden Robot Records) – melodic goth metal

Black Swan – Paralyzed (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock

Blackwater Drowning – Obscure Sorrows (Bleeding Art Collective / Blood Blast) – melodic death / metalcore

Blunt Knife Castration – Blood & Oil (Remorseless Records) – sludge / doom / crust

Bruecken – Years That Answer (Moment of Collapse Records) – post rock

Burning Path – S/T (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal

Carpenter Brut – Leather Temple (No Quarter Prod.) – dark synth / industrial electro

Cemetery Reign – Confined To Time (Carbonized Records) – death metal

Chalice – Divine Spear (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy metal

Deeper Graves – Pull Me Toward The Dark (Disorder Recordings) – atmospheric post punk

Die Like Gentlemen – S/T (Self) – metal

Ennui – Qroba (Meuse Music Records) – doom

Exhausted – The End Of The Sun Season (Caverna Abismal Records) – death / doom

Fayenne – The Calling from the Depth (Void Wanderer Productions) – black metal

From Sheep To Wolves – Ephemeris (Wormholedeath) – alternative rock metal

Galasphere 347 – the syntax of things (Self) – prog rock

German Garcia – Kintsugi (Self) – symphonic prog metal

GLADIUM REGIS – Quest (Dusktone) – pagan epic black metal

Grave Generator – Excavating Marrow (Give/Take) – industrial metal

Harrowed – The Eternal Hunger (Dying Victims Productions) – death metal

Hela – A Reign To Conquer (Ardua Music) – melodic doom metal

IMBOLC – Sette Cornici di Purificazione (Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music) – melodic black metal

Izzy And The Black Trees – Kisses to Chaos (Antena Krzyku) – alt-rock

JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13 – From The Fade (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – melodic hard rock

Kalandra – Live From Lafayette (By Norse Music) – atmospheric

Laughing Stock – Life In Seven Dreams (Apollon Records Prog) – prog rock

Lysbaerer – Trolddom (Self) – post-black metal

Magnify The Sound – Searching For A Quiet Place (Crispin Glover Records) – post / folk metal

Manuel – Parasite (Wormholedeath Records) – progressive metal

MARLUGUBRE – Per Amor Nymphae (Dusktone) – post black metal

Matador – Above, Below and So (Church Road Records) – post-metal

Mek Na Ver – Noctivaga (Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music) – black metal

Mývalyir – The Past Tales (Self) – melodic death metal

Necrofier – Transcend Into Oblivion (Metal Blade Records) – black metal

Necrosexual – Road To Rubble (Black Metal Archives) – horror thrash punk

Nerve Star – White Hot (Self) – metal

NIBIRU – H Y P Ó S T A S I S (Argonauta Records) – black ambient industrial

Night Punch – Godisnowhere (It’s Eleven Records) – synth punk

No Murder No Moustache – As Everything Else Decays (Self) – folk punk

Olhava – Memorial (Avantgarde Music) – blackgaze

OVI – Hedera Helix (Self) – progressive death metal

Our Wits – Let Me Join You (Self) – post-hardcore

OWLS OVER OAKS – O.O.O. (Argonauta Records) – extreme drone doom

Philip Shouse – Side 1 (Wild Kingdom / Sound Pollution) – hard rock

Prison of Mirrors – De Sepluchris Occultis et Igne Profanationis (ATMF) – black metal

Rob Zombie – The Great Satan (Nuclear Blast) – rock / metal

Scratch One Grub – One (Self) – alt-metal

SLAGMAUR – Hulders Ritual (Prophecy Productions) – black metal

Templar – Conquering Swords (Jawbreaker Records) – heavy metal

UNVERKALT – Héréditaire (Season of Mist) – post black metal

Varials – Where The Light Leaves (Fearless Records) – metalcore

Venthiax – Rites of Ra (Dying Victims Productions) – speed / thrash

Vide – Aux enfantes des ruines (Antiq) – black metal

Weedpecker – V (Heavy Psych Sounds) – psych rock

— Josh