News to no one, pumpkin spice is everywhere yet it’s still hotter than Satan’s bunghole. To be fair though, we run around in shorts at Christmas time (most years) so who am I to lament cooler weather not being here yet. Anyway, new releases are at least bringing the heat yet again with a guttural death metal outing from Ch’ahom, a doom leaning heavy metal epic from Early Moods, and an absolute ripper of classic sounding death and thrash from The Bleeding. And if that’s not enough, we’ve got a TON more in the list below so head there and we’ll be seeing you throughout the week. Oh, have you made your 31 Days of Halloween watchlist yet? Better get on it…

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Ch’ahom – Anthropic Rites of Sublimation (20 Buck Spin) – death metal

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Early Moods – Ready For The Grave (RidingEasy Records) – doom / heavy metal

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The Bleeding – Godless Communion (Redefining Darkness) – death metal

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Also on tap:

30,000 Monkies – Super Rebound (FVN KVLT REKORDS) – noise

Abstracted Mind – Break Down Your Fears (Self) – symphonic metal

Aletheya – Change to Reborn (Rockshots) – power metal

Allume – Ex Luto (Octopus Rising) – stoner rock

Asenblut – A New Era (Massacre Records) – pagan metal

Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree – In Between Strides (Magnetic Eye Records) – shoegaze drone

Blodtår – Monark (Nordvis Produktion) – black metal

Burial Site – Deathdrone (Self) – deathdrone

Dead Sea Apes – Psychic Tension (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube Records) – psych-noise

Embers of Dawn – Infernal Culture (Self) – industrial goth / death

Game Over – When Darkness Falls (Scarlet) – thrash

GodFrost – Hanging Doll (Brutal Records) – industrial

Hanging Garden – Dream Death (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal

Hexbane – From Hell (The Circle / Hell’s Fire) – black metal

Hijss – S/T (Heavy Psych Sounds) – rock

Kai Hansen – Born With A Hammer (earMUSIC) – power metal

Kärbholz – Sturm Zieh Auf (Metalville) – metal

King Kraken – Shadows Fall (Self) – metal

Krallice – Scour Order (Profound Lore) – black metal

Mauna – Hjarta (Prophecy) – post-metal

Memories of a Lost Soul – Lost Memories (My Kingdom Music) – melodic black/death

Mittags-Abgrund – S/T (Darkness Shall Rise) – black / death

Mourning Wood – Rise & Shine (Self) – folk metal

Necrocene – Scumocracy (Personal) – death metal

Nytt Land – Ritual of Stone Sun, Live (Season of Mist) – dark folk

Ombra – Night Terror (Hysteria Entertainment) – thrash / sludge

Paranoid Reverb – Red River Black Roots (Octopus Rising) – stoner rock

Phlefonyaar – Encyclopaedia Sociopathica (Self) – violent sludge

Revel In Flesh – Flesh For The Kult of Death (War Anthem) – death metal

Saturna – Light and Shadow (Ripple Music) – hard rock

Sea Sleeper – Burden of Antlers (Self) – death metal

SUBMASQ – Spirit Animal (Willowtip) – progressive metal

Suffering Quota – Sisyphean Life (Tartarus Records/7 Degrees Records) – grindcore

Terra Black – Mirage (Bonebag) – occult rock

The Cartographer – The Collapse Of A Bitter End (Self) – deathcore

The Eternal – Obscured Horizons (Reigning Phoenix Music) – progressive gothic metal

The Noctambulant – Revival (Terminus Hate City) – black metal

Trenchwar – Overlords of Cold (Time To Kill) – metalcore

Valkyrie’s Fire – Out of Darkness (Eclipse) – power metal

Villagers of Ioannina City – Venceremos (Napalm Records) – heavy rock

Violation – The Anthology (Ripple Music) – heavy metal

— Josh