Yea so, how ‘bout that new Darkest Hour?! I’m not Australian but CRIKEY! That thing pretty much carried me since release so if you haven’t dabbled I do suggest it post-haste. Speaking of dabbling, this week’s batch of the new-new has a similar shine as well starting with the outlandishly extravagant death metal of Artificial Brain, Cuttered Flesh give us some hits from the brutal side of death metal, and Assumption offer up some of the best death/doom I’ve heard, possibly, all year. Now that you’ve got several to check out, peruse the rest of this list and gain even more. We’ll see you here throughout the week. Maybe.

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Artificial Brain – Antillia (Profound Lore Records) – death metal

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Cuttered Flesh – The Shapes of Hidden Malice (Transcending Obscurity) – death metal

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Assumption – Paradox of the Arrow (20 Buck Spin) – death / doom

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Also on tap:

Asgrauw – Solips (Void Wanderer Productions) – black metal

Bjørn Riis – Divergence (Karisma) – rock

Black Space Riders – Die 8 (BlackSpaceRecords / Cargo) – rock / metal

Bug Chaser – My First Crippled Love (Vicious) – post-punk

Carbellion – This Is Our Style (Eclipse) – sludge / rock

C E L A V I – Praelia (Self) – nu-metal

Cerebral Curse – Abominant Incarnations of Sepulchral Depths (Rotted Life / Night Terrors) – death doom

Citizend – DoomsVille (Majestic Mountain Records) – post-rock

Concrete Ghosts – Echoes of the Dead World (Fetzner Death) – death / doom

Crescendium – DRAC (Self) – metal

Cro-Mags – Age of Quarrel, 40 Years of Quarrel (BLKIIBLK) – hardcore

Crucivore – Desecration (Testimony) – brutal death

Det eviga leendet – Vehemence (Debemur Morti Productions) – black metal

Die Sünde – Effemeridi (Time To Kill) – post black metal

Dirty Dwarfs – S/T (Self) – stoner rock

Dozer – Reflect to Rewind: A Rarities Collection (Blues Funeral Recordings) – heavy rock

Elfor / Hyver / Erroiak – Roi des Forêts – Basoen Jauna (Antiq) – folk / black

Empath – S/T (Indisciplinarian) – rock

Forsaken Age – Blackened Steel (Self) – heavy metal

Fucked Up – Year of the Rooster (Tankcrimes) – metal

Graviton – S/T (Skepsis) – thrash

GWAR & Joe Bob Briggs – GWAR and The Last Drive-In-Stein (Pit) – metalween

Iron Savior – Deathbringer (Frontiers Music s.r.l.) – power metal

Kalandra – The Other Side (By Norse Mvsic) – folk metal

Love Sex Machine – Thriving (Pelagic) – sludge

Maledictus – Lazarvs (Fireflash / Edel) – metal

Malhavoc – The Masquerade’s Death (Cursed Blessings) – industrial / thrash

Necropanther – The Book Of Change (Self) – death/thrash/black metal

NervoChaos – Chaosmongers (Black Lion) – death metal

Obits – Cake Shop (Outer Battery) – rock

Osserp – Les Homilies Del Desengany (Second Choice) – brutal death

Parius – Alchestronomy (Willowtip) – progressive metal

Point Mort – Live at Hellfest (Almost Famous) – core

Radiant Knife – Sankalpa (Self) – metal

Satanic Warmaster – Drachenkreuz (Werewolf) – black metal

Survivalist – Four Nails (Seek and Strike) – deathcore/groove

Temple of Bones – Walk The Winds (Relapse) – death metal

The Mosaic Window – Answered Prayers (Vesperian / Metal Blade) – black metal

Theodor Bastard – —— (Season of Mist) – world

Utmarken – I gudarnas tjänst (Obygd Produktion) – metal

Vinteraske – Nocturne (Naturmacht) – post black metal

Viral Tyrant – Live At Hallowed Halls (Ripple Music) – stoner doom sludge

Virologist – Subjugation of Anthropoid Forms (New Standard Elite) – brutal death

Walls of Jericho – System Error: Humanity (Napalm) – metalcore

Wraith – Descent Into Darkness (Prosthetic) – thrash

Xeropolis – Promo 2026 (Self) – black metal

— Josh