Run done. Monday conquered. Wins stacked. Alright then, we’re back for more new stuff since that’s how we roll here on Initial Descent. Death metallers Lago are up first, Gadget (oh how I’ve missed you) return with a blazin’ little EP of grindcore goodness, tech death destroyers Ingested are back on the scene and are still insane in the brain, then we’ve got some blackened death metal from Teloch Vovin. All excellent choices AND more are hiding out in the list below. Dig in. Oh, and call your mom, it’s Mother’s Day on Sunday. You don’t call enough. As Mr. Blythe would say… GO!

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Lago – Vigil (Everlasting Spew Records) – death metal

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Gadget – Coerced, EP (De:Nihil Records) – grindcore

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Ingested – Denigration (Metal Blade) – technical death metal

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Teloch Vovin – Towards The Inevitable (An Eastern Temple / Thus Spake Qayin) – black / death

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Also on tap:

A Forest of Stars – Stack Overflow in Corpse Pile Interface (Prophecy Productions) – black metal

A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers – Towers of Silence (Lay Bare Recordings) – sludge / post‑metal / doom

Abuser – Blood Marks (Xtreem Music) – death thrash

Acolythus – Unearthly Kingdoms ‘Neath Lifeless Stars (Inverse) – black metal

Baratro – No Comply (Supernatural Cat Records) – avant / noise rock

Beyond The Styx – DIVID (Innerstrength Records) – metalcore

Black Sea Of Trees – Cult of the Sun (Self) – progressive metal

Bong Voyage – Hedonistic Hard Rock (Ripple Music) – rock

Conjuring – Memento Mori (Hypnotic Dirge Records) – atmospheric black metal

Draconian – In Somnolent Ruin (Napalm) – doom

Electric Sun Defence – Estuary (Road To Masochist) – post‑metal

Endless Floods – Passages (Permafrost / Araki / Yoyodyne) – rock

Galibot – Catabase (LADLO) – black metal

Goholor – Locus Damnatorum (Personal Records) – blackened death metal

Grievance – Lúgubres Devaneios De Abismos E Sombras (Larvae) – black metal

Halizth – S/T (Fiadh) – black metal

Harms – Rebirth of the Cold (Time To Kill Records) – atmospheric metal

Iatt – Etheric Realms of the Night (Black Lion Records) – metal

idle threat – you’ll forget the sun (Tooth & Nail) – rock

Ivoire – Uragano (Self) – dark atmospheric metal

Karcius – Black Soul Sickness (Self) – prog rock

Lloth – Archees Legeones (Theogonia Records) – black metal

Lonely Crowd – By The Time You Read This (Apollon) – rock

Möhrkvlth – Gwenojennoù An Ankounac’h (Antiq) – black metal

Mörkekraft – Fragments (Octopus Rising) – rock

Motus Tenebrae – In Sorrow’s Requiem (My Kingdom Music) – gothic doom

Nocturnal Departure – Spiritual Cessation (Hells Headbangers) – black metal

Old Moon – Home To Nowhere (M‑Theory Audio) – black metal

Otay: Onii – Love Is In The Shit (Pelagic Records) – rock

Restless Spirit – S/T (Magnetic Eye Records) – doom

Rexoria – Fallen Dimension (Black Lodge Records) – power / heavy

Sabotør – Første Aksjon (Dark Essence Records) – metal

Sacriversum – Before The Birth Of Light (Fireflash Records) – death metal

Sins of Shadows – The Last Frontier (Self) – heavy metal

Solar Mantra – State of Joyful Lightness (Self) – stoner

Telomyras – Duskfall (Self) – heavy metal

The Quill – Master of the Skies (Metalville) – hard rock

Thrownness – Marrow Part II: A Fire Through The Ether (Raging Planet) – sludge / post‑metal

Torchia – They Are Born Under Rules of the Darkness (Rockshots) – thrash / death

Torian – The Lost Legion Rising (Massacre) – power metal

Trip Villain – Dose (Seeing Red) – electro‑metal

Vile Desolation – Annihilating The Consciousness (Comatose Music) – death metal

Voidthrone – Dreaming Rat (Self) – blackened death metal

War On Women – Time Under Tension (Smartpunk) – punk

Who on Earth – It Takes The Village (Self) – rock

Without Mercy – Infinite Loss, EP (Self) – math / progressive

Yoth Iria – Gone With The Devil (Metal Blade) – black metal

Zaraza – …And You Will Remember This Winter (Self) – black metal

— Josh