I had planned on coming in hot with more Monday Motivation but, nah. I’ve got mine, how about you? Either way, no matter what you’re doing or going to be doing or not doing, this week’s new releases pack some serious nitro to do or not do that thing you may or may not be doing. Cases in point: the incendiary, no-holds-barred grind from No/Mas, straight outta Tampa death metal from Monstrosity (this one hit me all in the classic Floridian feels), more death metal from the extreme side of that field from Messticator, they don’t ‘mess’ around (see what I did there?), and last but certainly not least are Lamb of God who, after all these years, still rip it up consistently. Alrighty then, that does it for the top four but as always, way more in the list that follows. So, enjoy.

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No/Más – No Peace (Redefining Darkness Records) – grind

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Monstrosity – Screams from Beneath the Surface (Metal Blade Records) – death metal

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Messticator – Total Mastery (Testimony Records) – death metal

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Lamb of God – Into Oblivion (Epic) – metal

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Also on tap:

Against I – Anti Life (Twisted Flesh Recordings) – black / death metal

Alkhemia – Häxen (Non Serviam Records) – black metal

Angus McSix – Angus McSix and the All-Seeing Astral Eye (Napalm Records) – power metal

Aschen – The Never Ending Search (WormHoleDeath) – black metal

Bara – Mary Cry (Club Inferno Ent.) – dark rock

Belith – Hounds of Hell (Godz ov War Productions) – black / death metal

Bound in Fear – A Mind Too Sick To Heal (Unique Leader Records) – extreme metal

Bras D’Honneur – Hate Speech (Primitive Reaction) – black / death metal

Deadvoid Inc. – Chapters (Inverse Records) – melodic death metal

Dødmoon – Demo MMXXV (Signal Rex) – black metal

Eihwar – Hugrheim (Season of Mist) – vikings

Fabienne Erni – Starveil (Self) – folk metal

Fallath – Nälkäiset aaveet (Naturmacht Productions) – black metal

Fangus – Emerald Dream (From The Urn Records) – proto psych metal

Fotocrime – Security (Self) – dark punk

Harvey Rushmore & The Octopus – Mindsuckers (Taxi Gauche Records) – psych rock

Hellfuck – 9 Nails Hammered Into The Flesh of God (Godz ov War Productions) – thrash / speed metal

Irreversible – Vessel (Dipterid Records) – noise

Kallohonka – Lazer Blood (Memory Terminal Records) – sludge metal

Lamb of God – Into Oblivion (Epic Records) – metal

Lesotho – A Flashing On Plain Glass (Self) – post-metal

Lord Centipede – Centipede II: Electric Boogaloo (Morbid And Miserable Records / Wyrd Byrd) – sludge thrash

Ljungblut – Sauda / Vietnam (Karisma Records) – rock

Major Parkinson – Valesa – Chapter II: Viva the Apocalypse! (Apollon Records / Degaton Records) – hard rock

Mascara – Going Postal (Fever Ltd.) – gazey / post-hardcore

Mauled – When Your Eyes Are Shut, EP (Silverback Gorilla Records) – deathcore

Mißträu – Gegendemonstration & Leidensgenossen (Bleeding Heart Nihilist & Cultkill Music) – industrial / black metal / punk

Monosphere – Amnesia (Self) – post / prog metal

Moon Far Away – Acou (Prophecy Productions) – gothic folk

Morbid Death – Veil of Ashes (Firecum / Museu do Heavy Metal Açoriano) – death / thrash

Mors.Void.Discipline – Txketh)ëké (Sentient Ruin) – goregrind

Nest – Trail of the Unwary (Avantgarde Music) – neofolk

Nuctemeron – Demonic Sceptre (I Hate Records) – black / speed metal

Ondt Blod – Bauta (Playground Music) – hardcore

Osmium Gate – Cannibal Galaxy (Self) – instrumental black cosmic metal

Ravenspell – Obsidian King (Fighter Records) – heavy metal

Red Sun Atacama – Summerchild (Mrs Red Sound) – psych punk rock

Salos – A Slaughter for the Empire (Self) – instrumental post metal

Schattenmann – Endgegner (Perception) – metalcore

Temora – Demo 2025 (Blood Harvest) – death metal

The Gems – Year Of The Snake (Napalm Records) – heavy rock

This Lonesome Paradise – Death Motels (Bad Vibes Good Friends) – doom / ambient

Throat – Beyond The Devil’s Shroud (Primitive Reaction) – black metal

Tragos – Bellicum (Fetzner Death Records) – death metal

Vanta – Perpetual Selection (Self) – melodic death metal

Vicious Rain – The Anatomy of Surviving (Arising Empire) – metalcore

Vitamin X – Ride The Apocalypse (Svart Records) – hardcore thrash punk

Voidstar Nocturnal – Nexus Teleport Fracture (Godz ov War Productions) – black / death metal

Von Mises – Coda (Self) – post-rock

What The Fire Left – S/T, EP (Self) – crust / d-beat

Wielded Steel – Sins Of Your Domain (1126 Records) – death metal / hardcore

Witchcraft – A Sinner’s Child, EP (Heavy Psych Sounds) – folk doom

Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – blackened crust

— Josh