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Release Day Roundup: 10/4/24

Happy death day! Featuring new releases from Blood Incantation, Undeath, Cosmic Putrefaction, Abramelin, Maul and other, non-death metal bands like Lowen, Sugar Horse, Drug Church, Nick Llerandi, Valletta, Fever333, Sylosis, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and more.

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Top Pick

Undeath – More Insane (death metal)

This is the best Cannibal Corpse album since Evisceration Plague (2009).*

*I know there are a lot of Torture fans out there; I am not one of them. A Skeletal Domain (2014) and Red Before Black (2017) were pretty good though.

Release Roundup

Abramelin – Sins of the Father (death metal)

Aera – Phantast (black metal)

Aether Void – Of Rage and Grief (thrashy power metal)

Allt – From The New World (progressive metalcore, djent)

Ana Argan List – Irrbloss (black metal)

Ancient Malignity – Dehumanization Dawn (death metal)

Anomy – Shifting Colors (alt metal, goth doom)

Arottenbit – You Don’t Know What Chiptune Is (chiptune)

Asarhaddon – Era (post black-metal)

Ashtar – The Return Of The Frozen Souls (black metal, melodoom)

Askeesi – The Roots of a Sacred Tree (black metal)

Balance and Composure – With You in Spirit (alt rock)

The Barbarians Of California – And Now I’m Just Gnashing My Teeth (sludge)

Bile Caster – Writing Between Birth And Death (deathy sludge-doom)

Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere (progressive death metal)

Bobbie Dazzle – Fandabidozi (glam/indie-rock)

Bye Bye Tsunami – Eating (noise)

Catharsis – M-VIII B.C. (death metal)

Chain Code – Synthetic Outcomes (weird prog-rock)

Colin Stetson – Hold Your Breath (soundtrack)

Cosmic Putrefaction – Emerald Fires atop the Farewell Mountains (brutal prog-death)

Could Seed – The Drop Crisis (post rock)

Corpsefucking Art – Tomatized (death metal)

Cryogenical Excision – Cryogenic Crowd Control (slamming burtal death)

Cult Of Scarecrow – In Nomine Filiorum (doom metal)

D-A-D – Speed Of Darkness (hard rock)

Dehumanize – Superbia Falsum Deum Creat (brutal death metal)

Devenial Verdict – Blessing Of Despair (progressive death metal, doom)

Dolchstoß/Prehistoric War Cult – Black Winds of Fire and Steel (shitty black/death metal)

Doomraiser – Cold Grave Marble (doom metal)

Dreadmask – Thy Prime Dread (melodeath)

Drug Church – Prude (post-hardcore, punk)

Earthburner – Permanent Dawn (death metal)

Edén – Alma de libertad (melodic/heavy metal)

The Electric Mud – Ashes And Bone (stoner rock)

Endpyre – Elemental (progressive alt-groove)

Eraser – Harmony Dies (grindcore)

Everything Dies – Survivalist (post-black metal, DSBM)

Eye Of The Golem – Nigredo (sludgy post metal)

Feldspar – Old City, New Ruins (punk, hardcore)

Fervents – Plastic Snake Factory (indie-punk)

Fever333 – Darker White (please stop/reform letlive.)

The Gates – …of The River Styx (occult metal)

Gates Open – Black Clouds Over The World (blackened death metal)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD (ambient post-rock)

Greenwitch – Forced Out of Existence (brutal death metal)

Häxenzijrkell – Portal (black metal)

Hermano – When The Moon Was High… (stoner metal)

High Reeper – Renewed By Death (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Hild – Thrash på svenska (blackened death metal/thrash)

Human Impact – Gone Dark (alt/noise rock)

I Ya Toyah – Drama (metalish electro-pop)

Ignominous – Dawn With No Light (black metal)

Inconvenience - S I L E N C E (modern/melodic metalcore)

Infern – Turn of the Tide (death metal)

Invictus – Despair (blackened death metal)

Kevin Hufnagel – Dusting For My Fingerprints (chill acoustic)

Life Abuse – Systemization (hardcore punk)

Light Of The Morning Star – Wings In The Night Sky (black metal)

Lightning Strikes Across the Sky – Death Reissue (depressive prog rock)

Livlos – The Crescent King (blackened death metal, melodeath)

Lords of the Trident – V.G.E.P. (heavy/power metal)

Lowen – Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran (doomy prog-metal)

Mammoth Caravan – Frostbitten Galaxy (progressive sludge-metal)

Maranatha – Songs of Condemnation and Sorrow (deathy sludge metal)

Mardom – Dead Soul Age (black metal)

Maul – In The Jaws Of Bereavement (Six Feet Under-core)

Mexican Standoff – Raiders Of The Dutch Rudder (shitty rock)

Mood Hoover – Love and Loss (funeral doom)

Mother Of Millions – Magna Mater (prog metal, djent)

The Mountain King – Stoma (weird post metal)

The New Roses – Attracted To Danger (hard rock)

Nick Llerandi – They Swam With Shooting Stars (instrumental prog metal, jazz shred)

Nicola Lori – Urban Vision (chill prog)

Nubivagant – The Blame Dagger (blackened doom)

Oneiros – Ruminations (black/ened death metal)

Phyllomedusa – Zoogamete Symphony (noise slam)

Qoya – Karma (post-goth)

The Reveal – Hieroglyphics (progressive alt-rock)

Rivendell – Fangorn: Poems of Mountains and Forests (black metal, hobbit bullshit)

Ruckwater – Bored Machine (stoner doom)

Ruff Majik – Moth Eater (alt rock)

Scattered Guts – Human Entropy (thrash metal)

Siege – Alpha & Omega (brutal death metal)

Sinistro – Vertice (prog/post-doom)

Slowhole – Slowhole (noise-sludge, Posession-core)

Snakebite Sermon – The Coffin and the Cross (stoner rock, sludge)

Somberspawn – Invocate (blackened death metal)

Sonolith – III (doom metal)

Sørgelig – Φθορά (black metal)

Soror Dolorosa – Mond (post-punk, goth rock/pop)

Stepfather Fred – Rubicon (hard rock/metal)

Sugar Horse – Grand Scheme of Things (post-rock/metal, goth-gaze)

Sylosis – The Path (groove thrash)

Synlakross – Mental Parasites (alt/death metal)

Synphobia – Shades (prog metal)

Temple Of Dread – God Of The Godless (death metal)

Texas Hippie Coalition – Gunsmoke (southern/stoner metal)

Thrasherwolf – Inside The Sickened Mind (thrash)

Torena – No Control (hardcore)

Torn From Existence – Hearken The Darkened Skies (black metal)

Town Of Lake – Lilac (experimental/post something)

Transport League – We Are Satan’s People (groove metal)

Trash Boat - Heaven Can Wait (post-hardcore, metalcore)

Tripper – Faceless (hardcore)

Utflod – Efterdonn (crusty black-metal/grind)

Valletta – Summer (progressive/blackish melodeath, “buttgaze”)

Wind Rose – Trollslayer (folky power metal)

Wolves’ Winter – The Medivm (black metal)

Worm Hero – Prewormer (weird/blackened grindcore)

Yrden – The Frigid Beauty (post-back, doom)

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