Alright then. It’s GO time. Halloween. Love this holiday and you can keep allllllll the rest for yourself. Definitely will be a busy week ‘round these parts due to that but due to this week’s new releases it will be double busy. We’ve got Enslaved up top and for good reason, no explanation needed but I will direct your attention to Colin’s 9C ov favorites Part I and Part II to get yourself prepared for Mið. Elsewhere we’ve got a return of one of my faves, Darkest Hour, who are sure to whip the spirits into a massive circle pit, Queens of The Stone Age also return and, again, a huge favorite for obvious reasons, last up top but certainly not least are Deathfuckingwound who get the deathgrind lead out in a big and loud kind of way. Anywho yea, HUGE week here and all throughout spookyland so release the hounds and ghosts and goats and… you get the idea. Happy Halloween. See you here throughout the week.

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Enslaved – Mið (Nuclear Blast) – black metal / metal

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Darkest Hour – Suffer Divine (MNRK Heavy) – metal

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Queens of The Stone Age – Perfecth (Matador) – epic qotsa

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Deathfuckingwound – Teratoma Haruspex (Ancient Temple) – deathgrind

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Also on tap:

Absolute Power – Needs Must When The Devil Drives (Time To Kill) – metal

Acherontas – For The Blood of Tiamat – Praxis I – XXX Years Anniversary of Magick and Metamorphosis (Osmose) – black metal

Alien Atheist – A Mass Of Candles (Self) – doom folk

Arckanum – Beswærilsin (Darkness Shall Rise) – death metal

Avaland – Chemical Poetry (Storytium SAS) – opera metal

Befouled Malediction – Desperate Necromancy (Self) – black metal

Black Royal – Abyssian (M-Theory Audio) – sludge

Blind Channel – Painstream (Century Media) – metal

Bloedmaan / Crypts of Dusk – Curse of the Emerald Knight (Void Wanderer) – black metal

Blutgott – Die Schlacht Um Knochenheim – Death Of The Bloodking (Blutgott Metal Universe / FDA) – dark fantasy metal

Boarhammer – Boarhammer III: Instruments of Fungal Intent (Self) – black metal

Carmeria – Ex Cathedra (Self) – symphonic metal

Cathedral – The Guessing Game, Rethink (Rise Above) – doom

Cirith Ungol – All The Shadows (No Remorse) – heavy metal

Cryptorium – Through the Bowels of Ceaseless Dissonance (Transcending Obscurity Records) – death metal

Crystal Eyes – Thunder God (Massacre) – metal

Dantalion – S/T (Base Record Production) – extreme

Deathwards – Realms of Sin (Sepulchral Voice) – speed

Dread Witch – CULT (DHU Records and Gateway Music) – doom

Dream Unending – Certain Uncertainties (20 Buck Spin) – avant-metal

Dungeon Serpent – Lamentations of The Shadowkingdoms (Profound Lore) – melodic death metal

EDventurED – Symmetry In Chaos (Self) – prog

Electric Guitars – What Are We Waiting For (Mighty Music) – rock

Embrace of Thorns / Invocation – Invoking the Noumenon / Crushing the Feeble Messianic Embrace (Iron Bonehead) – death metal

Exhumed / Nunslaughter / Molder / Traffic Death – 4 Way Split (Redefining Darkness) – metal

Gabriel Lejeune – Pyramids (Shadow Kingdom) – metal

Gammacide – Toxic Mercenaries (NoLifeTilMetal) – thrash

Goat Rider – Hellkvlt (Crypt of Dr Gore) – metal

Grave Hex – Domain of Foul Rebirths, EP (Night Terrors / Cavernous) – death metal

Grotesqueries – Nightmare Delirium, EP (Caligari / Rotter) – death metal

Herzog – Mugwort (Amor Fati) – metal

Invultation – Inferno Descends (Sentient Ruin) – bestial death metal

Korrupt – The Weight We Carry (Holler) – hardcore

Laser Dracul – Hin Håle Blues (Majestic Mountain) – doom

Lumsk – Einsemda (Karisma) – folk / prog

Master Boot Record – Computer Metal (Metal Blade) – metal

Mastic Scum – Void (MDD) – death / groove

Moonwraith – To The Woods (Apollon) – rock

Necroseminal Spatter – Sick Ways To Sodomy (Extremely Rotten Productions) – brutal death

Nø Man – Between The Sword and The Neck (Iodine) – metal / punk

Noothgrush – Man is His Own Tormentor (Nespithe) – sludge / doom

Noroth/Mortual – Split (Night Terrors Records and Goat Throne Records) – death metal

Ocean of Illusion – Nexus, EP (Bleeding Art Collective) – death metal

Paara – Laulut tulen ja jään (Dusktone) – black metal

Palegazer – White Mourning (Octopus Rising) – atmospheric post-metal / sludge

Pantheist – Uncanny Times (Argonauta) – doom

Powermönger – S/T (Jawbreaker) – speed

PreHistoric Animals – Magic Love (Self) – prog rock

Radbraker – When the mist falls… (Osmose) – black metal

Revenge From Beyond – The Dark Cycle of The Golden Crown, EP (Broken Bones) – extreme

Sarcator – The Ones We Follow (Reigning Phoenix Music) – metal

Satanic Planet – Dead Deities (Relapse) – noise

Scablade – Guardians of Time (WormHoleDeath) – metal

Sea Bastard – Cyclopean (Road To Masochist) – doom

Sek – Wallensteins Garage (Exile On Mainstream Records) – progressive rock

Shogun Mojo – S/T (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – rock

Somnent – Heirloom (Ardua) – melodic death / doom

Temple Nightside – Cenotaph Severance (Iron Bonehead) – black metal

The Astral Prophets – Invasion (Self) – metal

The Berzerker – The Reawakening (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – industrial death

The Duskfall – The Everlasting Shadows (The Circle Music) – melodeath

Thomas Miller’s Lazarus Effect – S/T (Sensory) – metal

Traumatomy – Ascension of the Ineffable (Gore House Productions) – death metal

Trolldom – Tronen (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal

Various Artists – Driller Killer, OST (Cold Spring) – horror synth

Velnias – Substrate Haruspex (Eisenwald) – doom

Vermianaevus – S/T (Amor Fati) – metal

Vigil – Primordial Rites (Shadow Kingdom) – thrash

Vomitorial Corpulence – Martyrdomical Symphonanthem (Rottweiler Records) – grind

Why Should I – Turn It Off (Self) – instru-metal

Within The Realm – … Of Systemic Decay (Self) – thrash

— Josh