One more day in what has been another grueling week.

• U.S. heavy psych crew Book of Wyrms have signed on with Argonauta Records for the release of their next album, Megacelestial. Read up on that a little more here.
• Swedish doom metal trio Hexjakt released their debut album late last year through Majestic Mountain Records, titled Blessing of the Damned, and then recently shared a video for “Void Throne” from that collection.
• Next up, some metallic hardcore out of the Bronx. Xtinguish The Code are releasing their second album, The Conflict, on March 27th through Grey Matter Records. Check out the lyric video for “Despair” here.
• Another lyric video. Tech death veterans Allegaeon are releasing The Ossuary Lens, their seventh full-length, on April 4th through Metal Blade. That’s also the first album with vocalist Ezra Haynes back in the fold, who last appeared on 2015’s Elements of the Infinite. Anyway, here’s “Imperial”.
• Finally, an AOP Records release. Always one of my favorites. The video for “Into The Temple Of Light” from blackened death metallers Archaic Oath can be found below. Determined to Death and Beyond, their debut, arrives on April 24th.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb