I had this whole other thing I was going to open with and then Neurosis dropped a new album out of nowhere. And I’ll leave it at that for those of you that haven’t dabbled yet. And now for this week where we’ve been smothered, yet again, under stacks of good stuff starting with speedy heavy metal from Aggressive Perfector, melodic death metal meets hardcore from Threat Signal, and death metal from both Cryptworm and Multiwomb, the latter of which is on the brutal spectrum so score there. Beyond those fantastic entries we’ve got a ton more in the list that follows so no one should leave this list empty handed. I’ll say it again: New Neurosis.

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Aggressive Perfector – Come Creeping Fiends (Dying Victims Productions) – heavy / speed metal

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Threat Signal – Revelations (Agonia Records) – melodic death / metalcore

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Cryptworm – Infectious Pathological Waste (Me Saco Un Ojo / Extremely Rotten) – death metal

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Multiwomb – Anatomy of Gorelust (Grave Island Records) – brutal death

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Also on tap:

Acidosis – Arrival (Self) – heavy metal

Adult. – Kissing Luck Goodbye (Dais Records) – synth punk

Adversam – Daimon (Masked Dead Records / Sulphur Music) – black metal

Ain Sof Aur – Theos‑Vel‑Samael (I, Voidhanger Records) – black metal

Antrisch – Expedition III: Renitenzpfad (AOP Records) – black metal

Ashen Sun – Velarium (Desert Plain Records) – gothic metal

Bahratal / Otras / Chevallier Skrog / Pakosteň – Tschechen Schweine, Split (Silent Future) – metal

Barbaric Oath – Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance (Caligari Records) – death metal

Bekor Qilish – Consecrated Abysses of Dread (I, Voidhanger Records) – avant‑garde metal

Black Label Society – Engines of Demolition (MNRK Heavy) – riff metal

Blasart – Depravatus Christianis Sacris (Lavadome Productions) – death / black metal

Chalk Hands – The Line That Shapes the Coast of Us (Dog Knights Productions) – post‑hardcore

Chamber – this is goodbye… (Pure Noise Records) – metalcore

Chaosaddiction – Kintsugi (Mosher Records) – groove metal

Cruel Force – Haneda (Shadow Kingdom Records) – metal

Dark Ride – Blade Manor (Massacre Records) – melodic punk

Devil’s Cigarette – Meet Me On The Floor Tonight (Wild Kingdom / Sound Pollution) – rock

Dionysiaque – La Tourbe Des Rêves (I, Voidhanger Records) – black / thrash

Divine Chaos – Hate Reactor (Self) – thrash metal

Enisum – Autumn Embrace (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

Final Coil – 1994, EP (Nyctophobic Records) – grunge

Foetorem – Incongruous Forms Of Evergrowing Rot (Everlasting Spew Records) – death / doom

Foghazer – He Left The Temple (Hypnotic Dirge Records) – black metal / trip hop

Funelore – The Diossolution of Consciousness (Me Saco Un Ojo) – death metal

Fuzzing Nation – Mothertruck (Octopus Rising) – stoner rock

Godsticks – VOiD (Kscope) – progressive metal

Growth – Under The Under (Wild Thing Records) – progressive death metal

Helgafell – Chronicles (Naturmacht) – black metal

Hemloch – Finality (Self) – symphonic metal

Highgate – Prophecies of Eternal Doom (HPGD) – doom

Horion – Doom (Void Wanderer Productions) – black metal

Iron Savior – Awesome Anthems of the Galaxy (Perception) – power metal

Iron Slug – Deceit And Misery (Road To Masochist) – doom / sludge

Kal‑El – Astral Voyager Vol. 2 (Majestic Mountain Records) – stoner doom

Këkht Aräkh – Morning Star (Sacred Bones) – black metal

Life Cycles – No One Escapes Death (1126 Records) – crossover

Lion’s Share – Inferno (Metalville) – metal

Mad God – An Age Of Ash (Self) – stoner doom metal

Mallavora – What If Better Never Comes? (Church Road Records) – alt‑metal

Malum – From the Voids (Dark Essence Records) – black metal

Melting Rot – Infatuation With Premeditation (Hells Headbangers) – grindcore

Midnatt – Skräckfylld Förtjusning (Jawbreaker Records) – heavy metal

Midryasi’s Kult – Italian Dark Sound (Dying Victims Productions) – black / doom

Miserate – Weaver of Witchery (Rekviem Records) – doom

Monsternaut – Approaching Doom (Heavy Psych Sounds) – doom

Mordeo – S/T (Hypaethral / Forever Never Ends / Shove Records) – sludge / crust

Myrath – Wilderness of Mirrors (earMUSIC) – prog / power

Only Human – Planned Obsolescence (Season of Mist) – prog metal

Party Cannon – Subjected To A Partying (Unique Leader Records) – brutal party slam

Power Paladin – Beyond The Reach of Enchantment (ROAR) – heavy metal

Ram‑Zet – Sapien (Vicisolum Productions) – progressive metal

Rivers Ablaze – Inexternal Dread (Inertial Dread) – blackened death metal

Samurai Pizza Cats – Press Start (Century Media Records) – electronic deathcore

Siege Perilous – Becoming The Dragon (Crunchtronic Records) – power metal

Sons of Butcher – Skids (Infamous Butcher Records) – rock

Sons of Eternity – Human Beast (Massacre Records) – heavy metal

Sparagmos – Error (Selfmadegod Records) – death / thrash

Stormo – Sogni Che Invadono il Cielo (ANFESIBENA) – hardcore

Teratoma – Longing Veracity (Me Saco Un Ojo) – death metal

The Casualties – Detonate (Hellcat) – punk

The Oldest House – The Aert of Abysswalking (I, Voidhanger Records) – black / psych metal

Tomorrow’s Outlook – Black Waves (Sörvik Rock Music) – heavy metal

Total Maniac – Love Overdrive (Self) – metal

Tulus – Morbid Desires (Darkness Shall Rise) – metal

Valdrin – Beyond The Forest (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

Valyear – An Invitation To Chaos (SelfMadeRecords LLC) – alt‑metal

Varmia – lauks (M‑Theory Audio) – black metal

VIRŪPI – Sura’sura (Self) – war metal

Wildernesses – Growth (Floodlit Recordings) – gazey

Winterfylleth – The Unyielding Season (Napalm Records) – black metal

Witching Hour – Rise of the Desecrated, Vinyl Reissue (Dying Victims Productions) – metal

Zerre – Rotting On A Golden Throne (Dying Victims Productions) – thrash

— Josh