News. Now that’s something that should be easy to get but alas. Somewhere along the line we let agendas worm their way into our most basic form of communication and that is beyond idiotic, to say the least. As a breath of fresh air we bring you the metal news here on Initial Descent and specifically this week’s batch of the new new, completely agenda free other than what I’ve latched onto for the opening slots. Want to see your faves? Come write for us and take over this column. Anywho, lycanthro punks Wolfbrigade are back and go full on scorched earth this time out (oh, it’s lovely), HateSphere fuel up on piss and venom thrash with an outing that has sat near and dear to my black heart since we got it, just in time for spooky season Witchthroat Serpent are back with a trick or treat pumpkin full of freaky doom, and Dawn of Demise hack and slash their way through another album of barbaric death metal. Excellent stuff all around, and we’ve yet to uncover all the others hanging out below. Go do that and we’ll see you here throughout the week.

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Wolfbrigade – Howl From Underground (Metal Blade) – lycanthro punk

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HateSphere – Guillotine (Scarlet) – death / thrash

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Witchthroat Serpent – Demons Left To Roam (Heavy Psych Sounds) – stoner doom

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Dawn of Demise – Feed My Absurdity (Unique Leader) – death metal

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Also on tap:

Amthrya – Onnen (Ad Noctem Records) – black metal

Avrap – S/T (Peaceville) – heavy metal

AWAP – Clown Carousel, EP (Self) – thrash punk

Carceral – Descending Reprisal (I, Voidhanger) – thrash / death / grind

Cardinals Folly – Let The Posers Fall! (Cruz Del Sur Music) – doom

Cordyceps Corpse – Perverse Craving for Rotting Corpses (Gore House Productions) – death metal

Crimson Coven – -I- The Forge (Cruz Del Sur Music) – heavy metal

Cultus Sanguine – Tears Painted Sky (My Kingdom Music) – gothic doom

Desolat – People As Idiots & Idiots As People (Reptilian) – punk

Esoctrilihum – Annochiül Xar Sorthïlazur (I, Voidhanger) – black / death

Existential Dread – Stalking The Liminal Threshold (Moonlight Cypress Archetypes) – drone / ambient

Fail The Enemy – Sandcastles (Self) – metalcore

Goatburner – Time of Danger (Time To Kill Records) – death grind

Gore. – …Then You Cannot Love Me (Spinefarm) – rock

Graveyard – Fever (Nuclear Blast) – rock

Heavy Temple – Live from the Inner Sanctum (Magnetic Eye) – rock

Hell-Born – VII (Deformeathing Production) – death/black metal

Hellucination – Penumbral (Self) – death metal

Hexabrot – Self-Similarity (Aenima) – prog / melodic death metal

Hills Like White Lions – Canary (Self) – metal

Hollow Bone – Onar (Octopus Rising) – post-metal

Humulus – Smuggler’s Cave (Ripple Music) – fuzz

Hyver – La Fête de la Forêt Enchantée (Antiq) – black metal

In Obscurity Revealed – Caustic Maelstrom (Personal) – death metal

In This Hell – Bliss (Trollzorn) – death / thrash

Leper Colony – Back To Primal Sludge (Testimony) – death metal

Marea – A Caress of Autuimn for All the Lost (Hypnotic Dirge / Masked Dead) – black metal

Margarita – Abysses of Melancholia (Electric Valley) – doomgaze

Mutation – Esoteric Order of Debauchery (Hells Headbangers) – death metal

Netherwilds – Peasant Rising (King Volume) – medieval avant metal

Odious Spirit – The Sourceless Scourge (I, Voidhanger) – experimental thrash / death

Old Man’s Will – At Last (Small Stone) – rock

Orbita – Farewell To All We’ve Lost (Aural Music) – stoner doom

Pegzilla – Disobedience (Ripple Music) – doom

Ram – Against (Metal Blade) – heavy metal

Semuta – Thoughtless/Dreamless (Accident Prone) – melodic sludge

Signum Regis – Beyond Spacetime (Fireflash / Edel) – power metal

Smoulder – Witch Wife in an Alien World (Cruz Del Sur Music) – doom

Steak – S/T (Ripple Music) – rock

Taufpatin – Les Malfaisances de la Taufpatin (Antiq) – witch metal…

Thronehammer – Slay | Kill | Erase (Supreme Chaos) – doom

Tungsten – Ashes (Perception – Powered by Reigning Phoenix Music) – power metal

unpeople – we are unpeople (SharpTone) – rock

Werewolves – You’re Weak and You Know You’re Weak (Back On Black) – extreme

— Josh