Sometimes you’re the hammer and sometimes you’re the…chainsaw. All depends on perspective but try not to be the nail in that scenario, that just sucks. Anway, glad you’re back with us here on Initial Descent so we can take a look into this week’s crystal ball of new stuff. We’ll kick things off with the insane blackened death metal of Venomous Echoes, next up is some truly appetizing and straight-forward death metal from Demonic Manifestation, and last but not least we’ve got some really good deathcore from A Night In Texas. However, these are just the opening three picks. There’s a ton more in the list that follows. Check them out and we’ll be seeing you throughout the week.

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Venomous Echoes – Violator of Mater (I, Voidhanger) – black / death

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Demonic Manifestation – Grimshine (Personal) – death metal

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A Night In Texas – The Darkest Side of Humanity (Unique Leader Records) – deathcore

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Also on tap:

Acausal Intrusion – Vomit Meditations (I, Voidhanger) – tech death / charred

Audrey Horne – Achilles (Napalm) – rock

Behemoth – I, Scvlptor (Massacre) – black metal

Bitter – Slamosuarus Rex (CDN) – extreme

Charnel Spirit – Blood Prophecy (Amor Fati) – black metal

Chat Pile – Who Loves The Sun (Self) – noise

Devil Master – Bloody Dreams (Relapse Records) – black metal

Encasement – S/T (I, Voidhanger / Hypaethral) – black metal

Epitimia – Тяготение (Hypnotic Dirge) – metal

EXP – S/T (Reptilian) – punk

Februus – Construction of Conflict (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal

Fog Wall – Gloomweaver (Self) – death metal

Godslut – The Art of Deconstruction (Selfmadegod) – death metal

Gradiance – Anomaly (Metal Blade) – black / death / trap

Green Carnation – A Dark Poem Part III: The Messiah Complex (Season of Mist) – progressive metal

Grey Shores – Dark Waters of Night (Self) – black metal

Hadopelagyal – Zalmathic Necroichorion (Amor Fati) – death metal

Kingcrown – Moonfall (Rockshots) – power metal

Lifeswallower – S/T, EP (Self) – metal

Mad Max – Stories of Destiny (ROAR) – metal

Moon Destroys – Omni (Blues Funeral Recordings) – heavy rock

mr. phylzzz – Fear the Lord (Amphetamine Reptile) – noise

Omnimorph – Axiom Manifest (Self) – experimental extreme metal

Pelegrin – The Curse of Nephtar (Ripple Music) – heavy psych rock

Peste Negra – Finitude (Self) – extreme metal

Pyroclast – Fractured State (Furious Music) – heavy metal

Scald – Relics (Cruz Del Sur Music) – epic doom

Season of Melancholy – In Sleep (Self) – gothic rock/metal

Severoth – Waves (Avantgarde Music) – black metal

Showing Teeth – A Fate Worse Than Loneliness, EP (Spinefarm) – deathcore

Sigh – Goh-ka (Peaceville) – experimental metal

Sight of Theia – The Great Dreamer (Self) – progressive metal

Skuggor – The Expanse (Nordvis Produktion) – atmospheric

Sleep – Hempispheres (Third Man Records) – stoner doom

Slovenians – Birds of Disgrace (Mottow Soundz) – punk

Sworn – Null Crowned The Infinite (The Circle) – black metal

The Unknown – Graveyard of Empires (Mission 84 Productions) – heavy metal

Theory of a Deadman – Part 1: Funeral Songs (OneRPM) – hard rock

Vaelthunder – Expose / Exist (Self) – metalcore

Vanaheim – Roede voor de Borst (Fireflash Records) – epic folk metal

Wyrdstæf – Primordial Bloodlines (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – tribal metal

Zvindiyar – Six Rites (Self) – death metal

— Josh