The blanchéd bench doth call to us all. This week we’ve got top-hat prog, dummy death/doom, and a band giving Nile a lesson in run-on sentences (and psychedelic surf rock). Are you ready to plunge beneath the surface?

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The Mosaic Window – Plight of Acceptance (Independent) [Blackened Death]

The Mosaic Window’s blackened death eschews the bloated run-times and monochrome riffing that plague the genre—an impressive feat for a first LP, and especially for a solo act. (Maybe the sole member is an editor with a modicum of self-control?) From the tech death-adjacent riffs in “The Haunting That Follows” to the dissonant, infernal blare of trumpets in “Furnace”, surprises abound throughout this multifaceted glass. -Roldy

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Altar of Oblivion – Burning Memories (Target Group) [Heavy]

Аркона – Kob’ (Napalm Records) [Folk / Black]

Ascendancy – A Manifest of Imperious Destiny (Me Saco Un Ojo Records) [Blackened Death]

Black Denim Rage – Estado de Emergencia (Witches Brew) [Thrash / Speed]

Bovem – Ominous Dawn (Independent) [Blackened Death]

Careus/Trhä – abcu (V.C.H. Music) [Black / Ambient]

Christian Cosentino/Winterquilt – Portals to Perdition (Phantom Lure) [Black / Dungeon Synth]

Creeping Death – Boundless Domain (MNRK Heavy) [Death]

Crossed Hearts – Forced Perspective (Mythic Ironworks) [Heavy]

Decimate Our Kind – In the Name of Our Republic (Independent) [Deathrash]

Denevér – A vérivók krónikái (Metal Ör Die Records) [Blackened Death]

Duivel – Heiligschennis (Nomad Snakepit Productions) [Black]

Dvoeverie – Accipimus Dolorem (Independent) [Gothic]

Eve Desire – Nuestra Sangre Sobrevive (Independent) [Symphonic Power]

Fifth Angel – When Angels Kill (Nuclear Blast) [Power / Heavy]

Fleshbound – Wounded (Independent) [Deathcore/ Tech Death]

Frozen Land – Out of the Dark (Massacre Records) [Symphonic Power]

Graved​ä​ncer – The First Rite (Hellprod Records) [Black ‘n Roll]

Holy Death – Neck Wound Session (Independent) [Death/Doom]

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation (KGLW) [Psychedelic Doom / Surf / ??]

Kituma – EP 2023 (Independent) [Symphonic Melodeath]

Lost Human – Sisyphean (Independent) [Black]

Nadir – Contagion (Independent) [Prog Death]

Plaguewielder – Burning Death (Dullest Records) [Black]

Pyöveli – Mega-Thrash Revolution (Witches Brew) [Thrash / Speed]

Rană – Richtfeuer (Breath:Sun:Bone:Blood) [Black / Crust]

Reaping Flesh – Abyss of Existence (Redefining Darkness Records) [Death]

Rise to the Sky – Two Years of Grief (Tragedy Productions) [Funeral Doom]

Ritual Awakening – Yokai (Independent) [Melodeath]

Sammath – Grebbeberg (Hammerheart Records) [Blackened Death]

Saturnus – The Storm Within (Prophecy Productions) [Death/Doom]

Savage Ravage – S/T (Prophecy Productions) [Death]

Speed Limit – Cut A Long Story Short (NRT-Records) [Heavy / NWoBHM]

The Fals – Beyond the Grave of the Moon (TeufelsZeug Records) [Black]

Thymata – Embraced by Death (Adirondack Black Mass) [Black]

Todsünde – Herzjagd (Independent) [Groove]

Torn From the Womb – Apocryphtic Preludes & Lugubrious Epoch (Narcoleptica Productions) [Brutal Death]

Todsünde – Herzjagd (Independent) [Groove]

Varmia – Nie nas widzę (M-Theory Audio) [Post-Black]

Vesthangarth – Ominous Path of Spectral Knowledge (Consumed by the Flames Productions) [Black]

Vile Ritual – Caverns of Occultic Hatred (Sentient Ruin Laboratories) [Death]

Vulture Industries – Ghosts from the Past (Karisma Records) [Prog / Hard Rock]

Vypera – Race of Time (Frontiers Records) [Heavy / Hard Rock]

Witchskull – The Serpent Tide (Rise Above Records) [Doom]

Wonders – Beyond the Mirage (Limb Music) [Symphonic Power]

World Eater – An Insidious Remedy (HPGD Productions) [Death]