It’s finally feeling like fall around here. Pumpkins are out, the 31 days of Halloween marathon list is methodically being checked off, leaves are piling up. So yea, love this time of year. Even though we haven’t had our “surprise sneak attack southern secondary summer” yet. We will. But hopefully after Halloween. Oh, and hurricanes are still a thing this deep in the year. Anyway, fully in the scary spirit we venture into this week’s new offerings which kick off with nasty slow death from Worm Altar, and again Gurgling Gore is attached so IYKYK, next up is some raucous death metal from Carnation, more death metal, but ghastly this time, from Lugubrius Garment, and we close the top spots with some “hit the bullseye” gloomy metal from Insomnium. As per usual, we still have the entire list that follows so go check all that out below and we’ll be seeing you throughout the week.

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Worm Altar – Pillars of Eternal Dusk (Dawnbreed / Gurgling Gore) – death metal

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Carnation – Symphony In Flesh (Redefining Darkness) – death metal

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Lugubrius Garment – In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night (20 Buck Spin) – death metal

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Insomnium – Netherworlds (Century Media) – metal

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Also on tap:

Antania – The Unholy 33 (Argonauta) – avant-garde black metal

Birdstone – IV (Harpyes Records) – heavy blues rock

Blood and Sun – Aion’s Light (Nordvis Produktion) – neofolk

Body Stuff – Body Stuff 5 (The Chain) – hard rock

Buzzard – Hush Now (Self) – doom folk

Carnal Desecration – Ancient Malediction (Thrash) – death metal

Caspian – S/T (Wax Bodega) – post-rock

Cløudy Skies – Bury Me Beneath The Stars (Argonauta) – post-metal

Defects – Artificial Icons (Mascot) – metal

Dominion – Mortification of Thy Flesh (Sinistrari) – death metal

Double Space – Not In A Million Years (Self) – sludge / noise

Eivor – Tungl (Nuclear Blast) – nordic folk

Elysion – Identity (Self) – metal

Fate Unburied – Neraspeme (Time To Kill) – progressive death metal

Feathers of Jatinga – Zothor, EP (Self) – goth metal

Fervence – Constructs (Metal Blade Records) – progressive metalcore

Firebreather – Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire (Heavy Psych Sounds) – sludge

Fracturus – The Synthetic Path (Self) – death metal

Generation Steel – Steelmachine (Fireflash / Edel) – heavy metal

Gorgonaut – Ayame (Self) – prog

Grant The Sun – Biomes (Mas-Kina Recordings) – progressive metal

Great Falls – The Bite That Grows Up (Neurot) – sludgecore

Iapetus – The Mother Void (Willowtip) – progressive melodic death metal

Kinetic – Liminal (Eclipse Records) – progressive metal

Leadbelcher – Heaven’s Bloated Corpse (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – dissident death metal

Les Bâtards Du Roi – Ici Meurt ma Joie (LADLO) – black metal

Mannveira – Vesöld (Dark Descent) – black metal

Misery Spell – Wormhole (Naturmacht) – atmospheric black metal

Mother of Graves – The Light That Keeps Us (Profound Lore) – death / doom

Nekus / Bloodsoaked Necrovoid – Funerary Rites of Ancient Doom (Caligari / Seed of Doom) – doom

Night Hag – Great Dismal Darkness (Rotted Life) – death metal

Otras – Na Krídlach Morovida (Into Endless Chaos) – black metal

Robot God – Curse of the Driven (Kozmik Artifactz / Black Throne) – stoner

Salvation – The Haunted (Reptilian Records) – noise rock

Save Us – Death To Something (Solid State) – rock

Shores of Null – Homesick (Dusktone) – melodic death doom

Shy, Low – Purity Spiral (Pelagic) – post-rock

Sidus – Lotus (dunk! / A Thousand Arms / Black Box) – post-metal

Stoned Jesus – Songs To Moon (Season of Mist) – heavy rock

Sundowner – Cesspool (Disdain Records) – sludge

The Keening – Devotion (Relapse) – post-rock / goth

Throes – The Colorless Light of Emptiness (Church Road) – sludgecore

Umus – Voidlit (Ksenza / Aesthetic Death) – funeral doom

Unteachers – Under Bright Sadness (Rottweiler) – progressive metal / punk

Urarv – Nychta Psychis (Darkness Shall Rise) – black metal

Urna – The Great Jihad (ATMF) – extreme

Veilburner – All That Glimmers is Gloam (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal

Weapönizer – The Steel Beast (Ale Wülf Tapes) – black thrash

Zero Hour – No Man’s Land, EP (CyNormal Lab) – prog metal

— Josh