Top Pick
Nervosa – Slave Machine (death/groove thrash)
Riffs good. AI bad.
Release Roundup
Ain Sof Aur – Theos-Vel-Samael (blackened death-doom)
Akem Manah – Threnodies (post-black, mellowdoom)
Anasarca – Achlys (death metal)
Angel’s Sperm/Famine/Self Inflicted Gunshot Wounds/Temair – The Blackest Ways of Darkness II (blackened death-doom)
Angr – The Darkness of Primordial Nonexistence (deathened black metal)
Apolaustic – No Plenitude Without Suffering (progish melodeath)
Bird Without A Song – Written Memories (post rock/metal)
Black Vomit 666 – Satanic Speed Metal (crusty black/death-metal)
Bloody Valkyria – Requiem: Reveries of the Dying (post/folk-y meloblack)
Bragging Rights – A Comedy Divine (groove/sludge death)
Bronco Forte – Lightning Scars (stoner rock)
Cenotafio – La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación (blackened death-doom)
Chariots Overdrive – The End Of Antiquity (punk metal)
Corrosion Of Conformity – Good God/Baad Man (stoner/sludge metal)
Creme Flesh – For Your Ass Only (slamming brutal death)
Cult of Occult – I Have No Name (sludgey funeral-doom)
Death Dies – Maledicti In Aeternvm (death metal)
Deathbird Earth – Objective Consciousness (post sludge, doom?)
Dog Smoke – The Darkest Part of Your Room (doom metal)
Dust – Thoughts Of A Falling Man (blackened death/groove-thrash)
Evilean – Exhumation Evilean (death punk)
Exhumation/Funeral Chant – Sacred Oath: Temple of Death (blackened/doom death)
Fathomless – II: Thy Desolation (weird/posty black-metal)
Gentilesky – Dream (mathish post-punk)
Gorgon Vomit – Kill Pagans (grindcore)
Grade 2 – Talk About It (punk)
Graveborn – Memtempsychosis (death metal)
Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis (prog rock/metal)
Gus Drax – Theories Of Imperfection (prog shred)
HeKz – Qisma (symphonish prog-metal)
Hubris – Acts of Sedition (black metal)
Jarboe – Sightings (Neurotic folk)
Knumears – Directions (noisy/postish black metal)
Lantlos – Nowhere In Between Forever (prog metal)
Machine Cult Ritual – Occult Mechanics (industrial death metal)
Malauriu – The Third Nail (black metal)
Michael Sweet – The Master Plan (who even listens to this?)
Nature Morte – Still Life (post-black metal)
No Terror In The Bang – Existence (modern/prog metal)
Non Est Deus – Blessings and Curses (black metal)
Obey The Sun – Desert Ritual (shitty groove metal)
Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy – Fugue Gnawed from the Scabbed God Cerebrum (slamming brutal death)
Orathania – Echo Of Freedom (meloblack, folk metal)
Poison Ruin – Hymns From The Hills (black/punk metal)
Rats Will Feast – An Evocation (post metal/sludge)
Relic – Crown Of Flies (death metal)
Schattenvald – Alle hernach (black metal)
Sisyphean – Divergence (black metal)
Slaamaskin – Endevendt (crust rock/core)
SoftSun/Ten East – Turned To Stone Chapter 10 (stoner doom)
SolNegre – Anthems For The Grand Collapse (progressive black-metal/melodeath)
Splendidula – Absentia (post black-metal)
Sun Don’t Shine – From Birth To Death (doom/groove metal)
Sunn O))) – Sunn O))) (drone)
Towering – The Oblation of Man (blackened death metal)
Toxic Shock – Future Is Calling (crossover thrash)
Ultha – A Light So Dim (black metal)
Ultrabomb – The Bridges That We Burn (alt rock, punk)
Unearthly Rites – Tortural Symphony Of The Flesh (sludge death)