As a whole, we’d all be better off to read, reread, and deeply study the poem by Rudyard Kipling called If. I revisit that regularly and it’s served me well over the years. Motivation Monday, there you go. Now then, we come to this week’s blast of new, shiny, extreme things and we’re kicking it off with the off kilter blackgaze of Bosse-de-Nage, then we serve up a duo of heavy doom from Temple of Void and The Mountain King, and last but not least are the rest of the list that lie in wait for you to find. Get to the goods and we’ll be seeing you here throughout the week.

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Bosse-de-Nage – Hidden Fires Burn Hottest (The Flenser) – metal / blackgaze

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Temple of Void – The Crawl (Relapse Records) – doom / heavy

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The Mountain King – Pike Dreams (Void Key Recordings) – doom

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Also on tap:

Absent Ritual – The Cryptic Dissent: A Compilation of Madness (Eternal Death) – metalcore

Axe Dragger – S/T (Ripple Music) – heavy metal

Azken Auzi – Infernua (Argonauta Records) – occult doom / sludge

Black Lung – Forever Beyond (Magnetic Eye Records) – stoner / psych metal

Clouds Taste Satanic – Berlin 2023 (Kinda Like Music) – instru-metal

Cogadh – Kingmaker (Self) – black metal

Desert Collider – Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity (Small Stone Recordings) – desert rock

Desert Storm – Buried Under The Weight of Reason (Heavy Psych Sounds) – sludge / heavy metal

Erbeet Azhak – Only the Vile Will Remain (Amor Fati) – black / death metal

Fire Magic – Memories of Fire (Stygian Black Hand) – black metal

Funeral Pile – Summoning (Self) – black / death / doom

Gjenferd – Black Smoke Rising (Apollon Records) – rock

Gravemass – This Is The Way (End Game Records Inc.) – black / death

Insect Inside – Reborn In Blight (Gore House Productions) – death metal

Kaleidobolt – Karakuchi (Svart Records) – avant

Leave’s Eyes – Song of Darkness (Reigning Phoenix Music) – symphonic viking metal

Legionary – Never-Ending Quest for Purpose (Self) – melodic death / thrash

Lightlorn – The Ebb and Flow of Galactic Tides (Rogue Planet Records) – cosmic black metal

Mega Colossus – Watch Out! (Cruz Del Sur Music) – trad metal

Miserere Luminis – Sidera (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal

Mother Crone – Inner Keep (Self) – prog / post-metal

Nefastis – Shadows At The Light Of Dawn (Rockshots Records) – symphonic death metal

Novomundo – The Cursed Cult (Self) – heavy groove

Oathbound – Colors In Grey (Eclipse Records) – metalcore

One Leg One Eye – …And Take The Black Worm With Me (Cold Spring) – drone / black metal

Qwälen – Veri Virtaa Edelleen (Time To Kill Records) – black metal

Raibard – Postscript (Self) – progressive rock

Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir (Fysisk Format Records) – black metal

Savage Beat – Bright Lights, Tall Shadows (Wap Shoo Wap / Longshot / Mendeku Diskak) – punk

Sermon To The Lambs – S/T (Comatose Music) – brutal death

Serpent Icon – Tombstone Stories, EP (Self) – melodic death metal

Tardigrade Inferno – Hush (Self) – rock

The Leaving – S/T (Personal Records) – black doom

The Mon – Songs of Embrace (Supernatural Cat) – psych doom

Triumpher – Piercing the Heart of the World (No Remorse) – epic metal

Turpentine Valley – Veuel (Self) – post-metal

Virodh – Harvest of Desolation (Erymanthian Records) – tech death

Void – Live 1982 (Outer Battery Records) – hardcore

Vreid – The Skies Turn Black (Indie Recordings) – metal

— Josh