Hi. I’m back and I know you missed me so no need to go on and on about it, ha. Anyway, the time away was grand. Got some great miles underfoot, relaxed a ton, and we’re still digging sand out of places I can’t mention here. So yea. Oh, I also immersed myself into the Dungeon Crawler Carl series so I’m set for a while on the audiobook front. Killer series BTW, in case you were wondering. Thanks to the 9C fam for holding the fort down while I was doing my best Jimmy Buffet impression. And NOW, new stuff this week from my favorite Southern Gothic champs Wailin Storms and oh. my. gawd. what a slam dunk it is! However, they did miss quite the “on the nose” joke of a release called The Arsonist popping out on July 4th, oh well. Next up, we beat all of you over the noggin’ with death metal from the likes of Apogean and Ravaged By The Yeti…I mean, COME ON… how could we not include that one?! Right on. The rest of this list is a little more bloated than last week so I’m sure you’ll all find something to sink your teeth into. Now, back to my mix of Wailin Storms and book 4 of DCC.

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Wailin Storms – The Arsonist (Season of Mist) – bluesy gothy deliciousness

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Apogean – Waste Where Life Begins (The Artisan Era) – death metal

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Ravaged By The Yeti – Snowbound Horror (Testimony) – death metal

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Also on tap:

7Keys – Gæa (WormHoleDeath) – instru‑metal

Ad Finem Omnia – Senectus Viae (Purity Through Fire) – melancholic black metal

Arise From Worms – A Bleeding Tree Hanging Self Destruction (Church Road) – death metal

As Oceans Divide – S/T (Self) – metalcore

Beware Of Gods – Upon Whom The Last Descends III: Behead The Oracle (Invoke Records) – sci‑fi doom / post‑metal

Blackstaff – Drowner, EP (Self) – metal

Cranial Osteotomoy – Vortex of the Dark Knowledge (Comatose Music) – brutal death

Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship – 2D Complex (Stillbirth / Gore House Productions) – slam

DevilDriver – Strike and Kill (Napalm Records) – groove something

Dysgnostic – End Whispers (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal

Ealdor Bealu – Graves of the Silent Plain (Ripple Music) – western metal

Eva Under Fire – Villainous (Better Noise Music) – hard rock

Gloorp – Gloorp Life (Jolt Music) – drum and bass

Hammerfilosofi – Secundus Adventus (Self) – metal

Haserot – Advent of Suffering (Redefining Darkness) – death metal

Hrothgar – Tales of Valhöll (Self) – melodic death metal

I Proélefsi – Ypógeio Vasíleio (Depressive Illusions) – instrumental atmospheric black metal

If These Trees Could Talk – The Hidden Hand (Metal Blade) – post‑rock

Irata – Human (Small Stone) – rock

Iron Slaught – Metallic Torments (Gates of Hell) – heavy / speed metal

Master Massive – White Shadows (Fireflash) – heavy metal

Necromonger – Emanation of the Dying Perceptions (Xtreem Music) – death metal

Nine Pound Hammer – Too Outlaw For Outlaw Country (Reptilian Records) – cowpunk

No Cure – It Is Going To Get Dark (SharpTone) – hardcore

Othalan – For Victory! For Speed! (So Below Productions) – black / speed metal

Pride of Lions – Unbridled (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – modern rock

Pylar – Delyrio (Cyclic Law / Cavsas) – experimental chaos

Pythonic – Laws of Karma (Self) – death groove

Savage – Septic Tomb, EP (Self) – death metal

Semantron – Secrets Of A Krummholz Heart (Self) – awesomeness, I’m sure

Shadow of Jupiter – Bones (Ripple Music) – doom blues rock

Sinsid – All That Remains (Pitch Black Records) – Nordic heavy metal

Snorlax – Toxic Current (Avantgarde Music) – deathgrind

Sojourner – Gateways (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

Spread The Disease – The Darkness. The Dread. The Suffering. (Hypaethral) – hardcore

The Xcerts – i think i want to go home now (FLG) – post‑hardcore

Undertakers – Global Dominion (Time To Kill) – death / grind

Volubilis – Theasterion (Self) – tech death

— Josh