The album I was going to write up got bumped to November, so no top picks this week. There’s plenty of new Blog-friendly fodder out there for you to enjoy, a lot of which is very good, but nothing that is scratching my particular itches.
Release Roundup
Abhorration – Demonolatry (black metal)
Adorior – Bleed On My Teeth (death metal)
Amethyst – Throw Down The Gauntlet (heavy/retro metal)
The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me (Redux) (Ahren’s version)
Antioch – Antioch VII: Gates of Obliteration (speed metal, black thrash)
Arawn – Kapitola III (sludgy melodeath)
Are We Lost? – Heredity (progressive metal?)
Arkona – Stella Pandora (black metal)
Ars Veneficium – The Lurking Shadow of Death (black metal)
Autumn Bride – Bedtime Stories (gothy power metal)
Awake The Dreamer – Holocene (posty/progressive metalcore)
BalashToth – =Equation= (death metal, melodeath)
Battlesword – (XX)V: Of Tales And Tragedies (melodeath)
Between Sunset And Sunrise – In The Middle Of Chaos (post/depressive black metal)
Bewitcher – Spell Shock (black thrash)
The Black Dahlia Murder – Servitude (shreddy melodeath)
Blue Heron – Everything Fades (stoner/sludge doom)
Boogeyman – Rotten Leaves (horror punk, rock)
Bottomless/Witching Hour – Graveyard Thunder (doom metal)
BreaKdowN – Divide and Konquer (death thrash)
Cantervice – Zero Hour (nuish modern metal)
Children of Nothing – Død og Oppblåst (death doom)
Crypt Of Reason – Stargazer (blackened doom)
Cyborg Octopus – Bottom Feeder (progressive/tech-metal, melodeath)
D.R.U.G.S. – Until God Shows (post-hardcore, screamo)
Dead Sacraments – The Pale Temple and Others (trad doom)
Deceitome – Deceitome (death metal)
Distant Dominion – Ripping Through Time (death metal)
Emasculator – The Disfigured And The Divine (brutalish death metal)
Emrei’s – Beatrice Reborn (symphonic/power metal)
En Esch – Dance Hall Putsch (industrial doom)
Endonomos – Enlightenment (death doom)
Epic Down – Days Of Oblivion (doom metal)
Fache – Violent Au Volant (grindcore)
The Flight of Sleipnir – Nature’s Cadence (blackened folk-doom)
Flourish – Deepest Wellsprings Of Being (sad post-rock)
The Forest Forgets – Of Wind & Willows (doom prog)
Forsaken Rite – The Forgotten West (folk/power metal)
Galneryus – The Stars Will Light the Way (power metal)
Glorious Bankrobbers – Rock’n’roll Church (hard rock)
Grava – The Great White Nothing (blackened sludge)
Grimgotts – The Time of the Wolfrider (symphonic power metal)
Grimmoon – Despairing View of Life (weird/blackned death-doom)
Hagalas – Mentes Reae (melodeath)
The Healing Process – Theme And Variations (thrash metal)
Hellish God – The Advent Of Deathless Chaos Beast (brutal death metal)
Heriot – Devoured By The Mouth Of Hell (brutal/industrial hardcore)
High Parasite – Forever We Burn (goth metal)
Infirmum – From The Depths I Cried (blackened/symphonic doom)
Ingurgitating Oblivion – Ontology of Naught (weird/progressive dissodeath)
Invernoir – Aimin’ For Oblivion (mellowdoom)
Iron Echo – Forged in Fire (heavy metal)
Item 9 – 2 (brutal death metal, noisegrind)
Jaded Heart – Intuition (melodic rock/metal)
K.Y.M.I. – Liha (blackened death metal)
Keitzer – Pandemonium Humanitas (blackish death metal)
Kotiteollisuus – Susirajalla (folk metal)
Lady Gaga – Harlequin (harlequin swing, joker pop)
Lan/cet – Psilocybe Semilanceata (prog doom)
Leviathan – Stories of Imperceptible Light (progressive power metal)
Liljevars Brann – Helja Kor (post-black metal)
Lizzard – Mesh (progressive/alt rock)
Magnetar – There Will Be No Peace In My Valley (black metal)
Marche Funebre – After The Storm (blackened doom)
Midnight Force – Severan (heavy/trad metal)
Munarheim – Heimkehr (symphonic folk metal)
Naisian – Melting Man (post-sludge)
Objet – Objet (progressive doom metal)
Obsidian Mantra – As We All Will (progressive/blackened deathcore)
Oceans – Happy (nu metal, deathcore)
Odium Humani Generis – Miedzyczas (black metal)
Ophidian Memory – Carrion Lord (death metal)
Our Hollow, Our Home – Hope & Hell (metalcore)
Pissdeads – Грязь (shitty deathgrind)
Plague Mind – Always On The Outside (alt/groove metal)
Psychlona – Warped Vision (psychedelic/stoner rock)
Release the River – Virtues of the Vile (groove black)
Ripped To Shreds – Sanshi (shreedy dethgrind)
Ruff Majik – Moth Eater (weird altrock)
Saber Tiger – Eliminated (thrash/power metal)
Sathanas – Into The Nocturne (black metal)
Savage Existence – Bright Lights (nu/groove metal)
Serj Tankian – Foundations (please stop?)
Sif – Aegis Of The Hollowed King (blackened doom)
Sinner’s Blood – Dark Horizons (melodic/prog metal)
Siren Oath – Loveless (blackened alt metal)
Socks And Ballerinas – A Bit Jumpy! (math rock)
Sophie – Sophie (hyper/electro-pop, experimental dance)
Soulride – Murder Act (death thrash)
Spite – The Third Temple (black metal)
Splattervision – SplatterVision (death metal)
Swamp Coffin – Drowning Glory (sludge)
Torrefy – Necronomisongs (death thrash)
Triskelyon – Shattered Elysium (heavy metal, thrash)
Turbokill – Champion (thrashy power metal)
Ultra Vomit – Ultra Vomit et le pouvoir de la puissance (nu pop-pnk, Gojira-core)
Vicious Blade – Relentless Force (black thrash)
Vomitvsanctvs – Secretion Of Contempt (death metal)
Warlock – Book II: The Valley Of Vagene (power metal)
Warlust – Sol Invictus In Umbrae Satanae (black metal)
Whisky Of Blood – Diablesse Of Revolution (hard rock)
The Wring – Nemesis (heavy/prog metal)
Хрен – Сказка о потерянном времени (melodeath, folk metal)