Here I am again, piecing together four pieces of news from the inbox I’m moderately interested in before I return to my mile-high pile of photos to edit. Sounds like a Monday!

• We can open up the account with Slovakian black metal outfit Krolok and their new track “Súľov”. That’s the first to be revealed from Hričov-Súľov-Lietava, their third album set for a September 25th via Osmose Productions.
• Finnish metal band (what kind of metal? that’s for you to find out!) Garden of Stone are releasing their second album, For the World of the Obsolete, on December 11th through Inverse Records. Check out “Obsession” pretty much wherever.
• Another upcoming sophomore release is on the way from Ch’ahom. Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation will be a September 18th drop through 20 Buck Spin and “Priests Of Lik’in” just emerged today.
• And we wrap up with North Sea Echoes, the project featuring Ray Alder and Jim Matheos of Fates Warning. A clip for “Good Enough” is below, a track taken from How to Cast a Shadow, which is out now through Metal Blade.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb