Talk about short things? Christ on toast, the new release list this week is just that. Where’s everybody at? Doesn’t matter. What does matter though are the new joints from barbaric death metallers Invocation Ritual and Death. Void. Terror. who sit right on the precipice of forging their own brand of extreme. The list may be super abbreviated but holy moses the quality hits just right. As if you couldn’t tell I’m stoked on these two so go check them out and don’t forget the rest hanging out below vying for your attention. Be seeing you…

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Invocation Ritual – Altered Reality (Iron Fortress) – death metal

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Death. Void. Terror. – To The Great Monolith 2.5, EP (Sentient Ruin) – black / death metal

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Also on tap:

Abyssal Rift – Relics of Great Ash (Transcending Obscurity) – death / doom

Alligator Rodeo – Optimists Club (Self) – sludge

Cutthroat – The Purge, EP (M-Theory Audio) – hardcore/thrash

Dead Tired – Hornets of Fall (New Damage Records) – hardcore

Death Kommander – The Great Offensive (FDA) – death metal

Destroy My Brains – Wilt (Self) – doom / sludge

Eusapia – Thin Cities / Desert Festival, EP (Self) – Cascadia post-black metal

Holissstik – Chapter 1: The Endless Solitude (Season of Mist) – dark

Megascavanger – Toxic Noxious Death (Xtreem Music) – death metal

Nestor – Live At Gothenburg Film Studios (Napalm) – hard rock

Only Echoes – Born Adrift (Self) – post-metal

Raunchy – Prisoner (Mighty Music) – electrometal

Shadowmare – Transfiguration (Self) – tech thrash

Soulgrind – Ad Pulchram Mortem (Inverse) – metal

The Absolution Sequence – Dread Cycle (Self) – tech death

— Josh