Outstanding week of training last week. How about you? No, no I’m not calling you out but if the shoe fits is all I’m sayin’. Anyway, we’re back already with another list of the new metalijams that Amon Amarth so efficiently kick off. Dudes just do not miss and I love them for it. Plus, I’ve been all into the Norse stuff lately so this fits like Gleipnir around Fenrir. Moving on we’ve got some techish death thrash from Dissimulator which you might hear more about later this week (stay tuned), Spider Kitten hits me right in the sludgy, noisy feels, and Firtan are back with their very unique and enormous sounding black metal. I fell deep for this band on their last one and this just cements it for me, HUGE is an understatement. Top notch opening four but we have so much more…in the list below so get to it and we’ll see you back here throughout the week.

Amon Amarth – The Allfather Awakens (Metal Blade) – VIKINGS!

Dissimulator – Artifice Dissolves (20 Buck Spin) – death / thrash

Spider Kitten – God Don’t Sleep (APF) – sludge / fuzz / dirtrock

Firtan – Helios (AOP) – black metal
Also on tap:
Atomic Aggressor – The Occult Forces (Hells Headbangers) – death metal
Bobbie Dazzle – Star Power (Rise Above) – rock
Bombstrap – Big Enemy (Tartarus) – hardcore
Brymir – What We Leave Behind (Napalm Records) – metal
Calus – The Evolution of Social Exclusion (Self) – stoner / sludge / doom metal
Crimson Steel – Show No Fear (Heaven And Hell Records) – heavy metal
Datura Lodge – S/T (ARQUEN Records) – progressive rock
Dead Neanderthals – Flesh Is Fragile (Self) – grind / doom / sludge
Dead Poet Society – Monarch (Spinefarm) – rock
Deathcult – Cult of the Dog (Soulseller) – black metal
Deconsekrated – The Inexorable Transcendence of Death (Nuclear Winter) – death metal
Division:Dark – The Eternal Baptism (Metalville) – modern industrial
Doctor Nez – Nothing Short of Silver (Self) – stoner rock
Endspace – First Contact (Transcending Obscurity Records) – sci-fi black metal
Enterré Vivant – Kurogoku (Transcendance) – atmospheric black metal
Eshtadur – In Darkness All Shadows Gone (Rockshots) – melodic death / black
Eternal – Conspiracy of Warheads (Floga) – thrash
From First To Last – We Were Bleeding Anyway (Fearless Records) – post-hardcore
Frozen Crown – The Legend of the Six Kings (Napalm Records) – power metal
GHØSTKID – Follow The White Rabbit (Century Media Records) – metalcore
Hardiesse – Tristesse Vespérale (Antiq) – black metal
Hekatoxen – Utter Darkness, EP (Nuclear Winter) – death metal
It’s All About Mary – Exploring The Brane (Self) – instru-rock
Lustmord Lombardo – The Pulse of Atoms (Ipecac) – avant
Marvin Heemeyer – A New Low (Self) – hardcore / punk
Materializer – As The Body Flies (Self) – stoner doom
Methane – Demolate (Fireflash Records/Edel) – thrash
Miss May I – No Place For Me (Solid State Records) – metalcore
Morbid Stench – Doom Metástasis (Nuclear Winter / Putrid Cult) – death / doom
MØRKGRIM – Sǫgur frá Norðfirði (Soulseller Records) – folk black metal
Our Ceasing Voice – The Origin of Everything (Argonauta) – post-rock
POHL / Ogives Big Band – Split (Ripcord) – sludge / noise
Rană – Freamăt (Self) – black / doom
Razorvoid – Into the Void (Jawbreaker) – death / thrash
Ruled By Raptors – A Shadow That Never Moves (Self) – post-hardcore
Servant – Lux Ex Inferis (AOP) – black metal
Sorcery – The Immaculate Sin (Xtreem Music) – death metal
Swans – Newly Sentient Being (Young God / Mute) – rock
Tårfödd – En Känsla Av Hopplöshet (Purity Through Fire) – black metal
Temic – Ceiba (Season of Mist) – prog metal
The Crawling – What We Leave Behind, EP (Grindscene) – death / doom
The Crystal Teardrop – Love You More (Rise Above / Popclaw) – rock
The Green Goblins – S/T (Metalville) – rock
The Light Superior – Dayspring (Rottweiler Records) – metalcore
The Machine – Another Sun (Blues Funeral) – stoner
To The Grave – Liberation Front (BLKIIBLK) – deathcore
Travo – Wasteland (Fuzz Club) – psych rock
Urisk – Call (Vendetta) – atmospheric black metal
Valley of the Sun – The Blacklight Sessions (Heavy Psych Sounds) – rock
Venus Sleeps – Origins (Self) – psych doom
Wizard Tattoo – When Gods Had Hands (Garage Fire Recordings) – progressive black / doom
Xasthur – Open to Misinterpetation (Prophecy) – neofolk
— Josh





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