Since I don’t have anything quippy at the tip of my tongue let’s get after it, shall we? New week. New Tunes. Indeed. A 9C fave, The Silver, are back in all their post-black metal glory and no disappoints to be found whatsoever, for your more serrated edge type of black metal, Decipher return with a fistful of broken glass, for our death metal fiends we’ve got the old school type from Gutvoid and the slit your guts brOOtal type from Engorgement, both hit sweet spots (hi, death metal fan here) to be quite sure. And, beyond these excellent four we’ve got more of the good stuff from the likes of Gaerea, Exodus, and a ton more so dig in.

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The Silver – Looking Glass Hymnal Blue (Gilead Media) – post‑black metal

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Decipher – Oeahma (Transcending Obscurity Records) – black metal

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Gutvoid – Liminal Shrines (Profound Lore Records) – death metal

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Engorgement – They Rot Beneath Our Floor (Comatose Music) – brutal death / slam

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Also on tap:

A.H.P. – Alltid Imot Deg (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Abyssius – Vermin (Self) – metal

Aerdryk – Onzuiver (Amor Fati) – black metal

Ainzamkeit – Fluch des Nachzehrers (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Askemåne – Kollisjon (Self) – neofolk

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

Aurora Disease – Epitaph (Purity Through Fire) – black metal

Axel Rudi Pell – Ghost Town (Steamhammer) – hard rock

Bong‑Ra – Esoterik (Debemur Morti Productions) – industrial

Calvana – Sub Janus (Adirondack Black Mass) – black metal

Chalice of Suffering – The Raven Cries One Last Time (My Kingdom Music) – atmospheric doom metal

Cultist – Spiritual Atrophy (Awakening Records) – death metal

Deimler – Darkness Falls (Awakening Records) – death metal

Diatribes – Degenerate (Brutal Records) – extreme

Dragsholm – The Bloodlines of Bram (Faithless Entertainment) – black / death metal

Egregore – It Echoes In The Wild (20 Buck Spin) – black metal

Empire of Disease – While Everything Collapses (Xtreem Music) – melodic death metal

Evermore – Mournbraid (Scarlet Records) – power metal

Exodus – Goliath (Napalm Records) – thrash metal

Flatwounds – Chain of Command, EP (Blue Grape Music) – rock

Following The Signs – Evolve (Self) – nu‑metalcore

Gaerea – Loss (Century Media Records) – melodic black metal

Graufar – Via Necropolis (Self) – black / death metal

Grave Generator – There Is No Peace Amongst The Stars (Give/Take) – industrial metal

Hell Trepanner – The Consecration of Eternal Impurity (Awakening Records) – death metal

Ignescent – Eternal (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – modern metal

Karmian – Horror Vacui (Rockshots Records) – melodic death metal

Lord of Confusion – The Weight of Life (Morbid And Miserable Records / Larvae Records) – psych doom

Lost In Hollywood – S/T (Arising Empire) – metalcore

Mizery – Mizery, EP (Flatspot Record) – crossover hardcore

Mystfall – Embers of a Dying World (Scarlet Records) – symphonic metal

Nachtgnawer – Medieval Devourer (Purity Through Fire) – medieval metal

Necrogore – Ectoplasmic Rape Phenomena (Awakening Records) – death metal

Night Thieves – Metaxis (Self) – alternative metal

Nihilanth – Detritus Of Ruin (Self) – heavy metal

Papa Necrose – Anthropomorphy Execution (Awakening Records) – death metal

Persecutor – Casualties of Violence (Self) – thrash metal

Poison The Well – Peace In Place (SharpTone Records) – metallic hardcore

Prophets of Thwaites – Vulnerant Omnes Ultima Necat, EP (Self) – doom / heavy

Prophetical Productions – Ciclo Infernal (Prophetical Productions) – death metal

Putred – Blestemul Din Adânc (Awakening Records) – death metal

Radian – Subterfuge (El Burno Records) – groove sludge

Rötual – For the Dead (Self) – death doom

S8nt Elektric – Off The Edge (Long Branch Records) – rock

Skull Altar – Diabolical (Self) – death / thrash

Soundscapism Inc. – A Sea of Floating Mirrors (Self) – post rock

Stonus – Space To Dive (Ripple Music) – rock

Truth Grip – Twist of Fate (Thrash Out Records) – metalcore

Türböwitch – Under Haunted Skies (Time To Kill Records) – speed metal

Tusmørke – Balderdom (Karisma Records) – progressive rock

Via Doloris – Guerre et Paix (Season of Mist) – black metal

— Josh