While your pumpkins rot on the porch, consider this week’s fresh batch of new releases to bid farewell to them. It’s only fair, you must admit. Or not, whatever, I don’t care what you do other than pick up the incoming Prong or how about the new Hatebreed or even the slick new stuff from Extol? Yea man, all those legends are back and all are in ridiculously great form. (Sidenote, my gym mainstays Frozen Soul are about to get challenged by Fatal Paradox, so there’s that.) Let’s close out the top slots with a brutishly strong melodic death metal debut from Falsimonian, yea? YEA! Seriously, this one hits hard as H E double hockey sticks so go support them. Alright, you know what to do from here…hit the rest of this list and we’ll see you throughout the week. Until we meet again!

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Prong – S/T (Napalm) – metal

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Hatebreed – Fatal Paradox (BLKIIBLK) – hatecore

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Extol – Aura of Decay (Solid State) – experimental death metal

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Falsimonian – For Survival (Self) – melodic death metal

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Asls on tap:

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

Acres – The Host Deluxe (Solid State) – rock

Adversor – This Mortal Coil (Selvajaria) – metal

Annihilus Mundi – The Dead Sea Scrolls (Self) – prog metal

Architect of Seth – Solitude Solitaire (I, Voidhanger) – death / thrash

Arctos – A Path Apart (Northern Silence Productions) – black metal

Besotten – Eye of the Monolithicrypt (Transcending Obscurity) – death / doom

Bosco Sacro – Inhabit (Supernatural Cat) – rock

Carnifex – More Than Misery (Sumerian) – metal

Coilguns – Everything We Love, We Destroy (Humus) – rock

Comeback Kid – Chosen Hell (SharpTone) – metal

Crush The Core – Ghosts From The Beat Hotel (Self) – rock / metal

Deathbarrel – Life Resignation Notice (Soulseller) – death metal

Distant – Into Despair (Century Media) – deathcore

Echoid – The Silent Era (Pitch Black) – power metal

E-L-R – Atropa (Prophecy) – doomgaze

Electric Valley – Echo (Small Stone) – rock

Eternity’s End – Titanblood (Scarlet) – power metal

Felt – Soil & Sky (Self) – gazey

Forgotten Shrine – Nox Aeterna (Self) – metal

Fraught – Pillar I: Ashes of Verdant Collapse (Apocalyptic Witchcraft) – extreme

Gates of Kiev – S/T (Laser’s Edge) – prog rock

Hagel – The Veil of Shadows (Personal) – black / doom

Häxmästaren – Skuggor Del 1 (Majestic Mountain) – psych doom

Hyperion – Elysia (Willowtip) – melodic black / death

Hypno5e – Trame Noire (Pelagic) – progressive

i Helvete – Halla (Self) – melodic black / death

Klaïton – A Celebration of Pain (Self) – death metal

Konvent – Firesky (Napalm) – metal

KOSMOBERKH – Troglobiten in Absonderlicht (Zeichenlos Records) – experimental doom

Les Chants De Nihil – Graines (LADLO) – metal

Liminal Spirit – Forfeiture Hymns (Self) – cinematic doom

Lockslip – The Conversation (Bleakhouse) – math / metalcore

Malignant Spirit – A Serpent to Devour, A Serpent to Abhor (I, Voidhanger) – metal

Mawiza – Iñ Mongeletew (Season of Mist) – groove metal

Midnight – Satanic Attack Live! (Metal Blade) – metal

Mother Augusta – Labyrinths of Pain (Talheim) – doom

Mystical Death – Across (Rottweiler) – prog / tech death

Night Cobra – Beware The Dark Future (Nameless Graves) – metal

Night Gaunt – Rupture (Aural Music) – doom

Nihilo – Abyss (Xtreem Music) – death metal

Nocturnis – Drangsal (Fetzner Death) – black metal

Obbrobrius – Usurped (Over The Border) – death / groove

Olympus – L’appel Du Vide (Self) – melodic death metal

Penny Coffin – Transitory Fragmentation (Self / Wasted Existence) – death metal

Perpetua – Saviour To None (Bleeding Art Collective) – modern metal

Polderhaat – Klaagliederen (I, Voidhanger) – black metal

Saor – Caledonia (Season of Mist) – atmospheric black metal

Sentries – Disciples of Void & Fire (Amor Fati) – black metal

Solitary Sanity – Genesis of Despotism (Self) – technical death metal

Sonic Moon – In Lack of Clarity (Ripple Music) – rock

Stricken – From Dark Dimensions An Unspeakable Presence Awakens (HPGD) – black / sludge

Underdark – O Come Forth Annihilation (Church Road) – black metal / post stuff

Valley – Sky Burial (Self) – rock

Veil Piercer – This Will Not Be Painless (Self) – death / groove

Violence Only – S/T (Comatose Music) – brutal death

Wingless – Vision Beyond Form (Selfmadegod) – death metal

Wolvennest – In The Ruins, EP (Consouling Sounds) – occult

— Josh