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.

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

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

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

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Firtan – Helios (AOP) – black metal

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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