Today’s question: who is your favorite, down and dirty riff merchants? And why will the answer always be GOZU? If you failed today’s question, be sure to brush up on your GOZU history prior to Friday and stand ready for their next molten slab of tunes to drop. Seriously, just look at that album cover… OK, next up we’ve got everyone’s favorite death metal war mongers Jungle Rot who spice it up just a tad but still manage to rule, then we move on to a band I literally had no idea was even still around BUT are so glad to know they still exist and can still stomp a mudhole in your favorite hardcore band, Pro-Pain. Yea man, PRO-PAIN are back at it so you know what to do. Oh, and, be sure to check out the rest of the list below. Enjoy.

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Gozu – Gozu VI (Blacklight Media / Metal Blade) – stoner / riff merchants / fuzz

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Jungle Rot – Cruel Face of War (Unique Leader) – death metal

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Pro-Pain – Stone Cold Anger (Napalm) – hardcore

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Also on tap:

alt. – Nevermore (SharpTone) – rock

Angellore – Nocturnes (Ardua Music) – gothic doom

Antimozdebeast – The Vagrant Unkempt Grave (Self) – electronic / industrial

Arroganz – Death Doom Punks (Testimony) – death metal

Artillery – Made In Hell, EP (Mighty Music) – thrash / heavy

Atavistia – Old Gods Awaken (Self) – melodic death / black metal

Beleth – The Grinding Void (Self) – death metal

Crematory – Greatest Hits: English Hymns & Deutsch Hymnen (ROAR) – gothic metal

Crown The Beast – Judgement, EP (Emanzipation Productions) – death metal

Defect Designer – Depressants (Transcending Obscurity Records) – progressive death metal

Desication – Legatum Mortuorum (Carbonized) – black / doom

Desolus – Dwellers of the Twilight Void (Hells Headbangers) – metal

DOPPLeR – Pourquoi Ce Disque? (The Orchard) – mathy

Exhumed / Iron Reagan – Split, Repress (Tankcrimes) – deathgrind

Faded Remembrance – The Blessing Of Downfall (Bitume Productions) – atmospheric death / doom

Frontline – Rebirth (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock / metal

Goldfish Kaseem – For A Bryter Future (Morbid and Miserable) – stoner

Gravery – Purified In Blood (Upstate) – deathcore

Heavenfall – Thorn (Rockshots Records) – heavy metal

Held. – Grey (MNRK) – post-hardcore

Junon – The Golden Citadel of The Astral Sphere (I, Voidhanger) – psych black metal

Lorn – Searing Blood (I, Voidhanger) – black metal

Louder – Devil’s Night (Fighter) – speed metal

Makkmat – Syke Fantasier (Self) – grindcore

Mangled Recrement – Demo (Caligari) – death metal

Melancholost – Tales From The Poisoned Apple (Self) – rock / metal

Midnight Odyssey – A Mass of Fallen Stars – Live In

Toulon (I, Voidhanger) – black metal

Molosser – S/T (Gutter Prince Cabal) – death metal

My Heart, An Inverted Flame – My Death Is More Beautiful Than Your Life (Crucial Blast) – atmospheric synth-doom

Nocturnal Reveries – Song of the Forest (Naturmacht) – black metal

Noosed – Misery (Road To Masochist) – crust / sludge

Orphan Donor – Ailments (Tomb Tree Tapes) – thrash / extreme

Phoschydeux – 4 Days of Bliss In Hell (I, Voidhanger) – black / death

Savage Mania – Demonic Assault, Physical Release (Fireflash Records) – metal

Self Deception – One Of Us (Napalm) – rock

Solemnity – Opus Barbaricum (Self) – horror metal

Sum of Seven – Echoes of the Hypermind (Inverse) – prog metal

The Ghoulstars – The Dark Overlords of the Universe (Season of Mist) – horror punk

Thievery – Spiritual Theft (Self) – crust / d‑beat

Tyrannus – Mournhold (True Cult Records) – thrash / death / black metal

Verba Serpentis – Torchbearers, EP (Self) – black metal

Void Sinker – Cycle (Self) – metal

— Josh