Well, well, WELL! It is that time again, ladies and gents, for the one and only COC (Corrosion of Conformity for those of you who have been under a bunch of rocks for too long) to reemerge and blow the speakers wide open. Too much…? Nah, NEVER TOO MUCH when it comes to those guys. As if you couldn’t tell, I’ve been anxious to get my ears wrapped around this thing for a while now so color me stoked. Elsewhere we’ve got some crushing jams from Unearthly Rites who leave no extreme stone unturned, a very worthy follow up from progsters Green Carnation, and a ton more in the rest of the list. Again, plenty here to satisfy any appetite under the umbrella of metal so dig in and if you need me I’ll be buried under Good God Baad Man. See ya. Oh, wait a minute! The new Paul Cauthen is out this week so don’t sleep on that if you dig some real twang.

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Corrosion Of Conformity – Good God / Baad Man (Nuclear Blast Records) – heavy metal

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Unearthly Rites – Tortural Symphony of the Flesh (Svart Records) – death / grind / crust

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Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis (Season of Mist) – progressive metal

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Also on tap:

A Place To Bury Strangers – Rare and Deadly (Dedstrange) – noise / gaze

Altared States – Borrowed Time (Self) – metal

Anasarca – Achlys (Selfmadegod Records) – death metal

Apolaustic – No Plenitude Without Suffering (Transcending Obscurity Records) – melodic black / death metal

Cenotafio – La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación (Demoniac Productions) – black / death metal

Chariots Overdrive – The End of Antiquity (Gates of Hell Records) – heavy metal

Crème Flesh – For Your Ass Only (Comatose Music) – brutal slam

Death Dies – Maledicti In Aeternvm (My Kingdom Music) – black metal

Dogtablet – These Days (Give/Take) – industrial / electronic

Dust – Thoughts of a Falling Man (Rockshots Records) – metal

Evilean – Exhumation Evilean, EP (Self) – death metal

Exhumation + Funeral Chant – Sacred Oath: Temple Of Death (Carbonized Records) – blackened death metal

ForeignWolf – Merely Mortal (Self) – heavy metal

Graveborn – Metempsychosis (Self) – progressive death metal

Jarboe – Sightings (Consouling Sounds) – experimental rock

Lantlos – Nowhere In Between Forever (Prophecy Productions) – alternative metal

Malauriu – The Third Nail (Adirondack Black Mass) – black metal

Nature Morte – Still Life (Frozen Records) – gazey / black metal

Nervosa – Slave Machine (Napalm Records) – metal

No Terror In The Bang – Existence (Klonosphere Records) – progressive metal

Obey The Sun – Desert Ritual (Eclipse Records) – grunge metal

Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy – Fugue Gnawed from the Scabbed God Cerebrum (Gore House Productions) – death metal

Orathania – Echo of Freedom (Archivist Records) – folk metal

Rats Will Feast – An Evocation, EP (Time To Kill Records) – hardcore

Relic – Crown of Flies (Self) – blackened death metal

Sisyphean – Divergence (Edged Circle Productions) – black metal

Slaamaskin – Endevendt (Self) – crossover / hardcore

SolNegre – Anthems For The Grand Collapse (Meuse Music Records) – epic death / doom

Splendidula – Absentia (Argonauta Records) – black / doom

Thunderor – Bleed For It (Boonsdale Records) – rock

Towering – The Oblation of Man (Dolorem Records) – blackened death metal

Vanir – Wyrd (Mighty Music) – melodic death metal

Void of Light – Asymmetries (Ripcord Records) – post metal

Witch Ripper – Through The Hourglass (Magnetic Eye Records) – metal

Zanjeer – Seher-e-Maqhoor (Neon Nile Records) – hardcore punk

— Josh