O illustrious water closet, hold us fast in thy lidded embrace, that we may release the toxins of the day. May the kiss of thy waters cleanse us with the fervor of storms. This week we’ve got power metal disguised with a slam-ass name, Bethesda-core dungeon synth, and a psy/ambient/electronica album that somehow got onto M-A despite the fact that BtBaM still hasn’t. Strap on (heh) those flippers, we’re going overboard and we’ve got leagues to cover!

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Somniate – We Have Proved Death (Lavadome Productions) [Blackened Death]

When the vocalist starts reciting dark poetry in a dispassionate monotone, you know you’re about to die in that pit. Somniate fits somewhere in the uncomfortable (but ultimately captivating) space between A Forest of Stars theatrics and Suffering Hour‘s hook-laden dissonance. With pristine production from V. Santura, you’ll hear staccato blasting and mouth harp with the same level of clarity—no easy feat when blackened death metal moves at this velocity. -Roldy

Aetherian – At Storm’s Edge (Lifeforce Records) [Melodeath]

AmongRuins – Land of the Black Sun (Theogonia Records) [Melodeath]

Awicha – Drag Them Down from the Sky (Masters of Kaos) [Blackened Death]

Blessed Curse – Pray for Armageddon (M-Theory Audio) [Deathrash]

Borgarting – Beist (Dusktone) [Black ‘n Roll]

Bray Road – Focused, Fierce, Relentless… (Independent) [Thrash / Groove]

Calligram – POSITION | MOMENTUM (Prosthetic Records) [Blackened Crust]

Cathalepsy – Blood and Steel (Rock of Angels Records) [Power / Heavy Metal]

Cerulean – Carrion Angel (Independent) [Blackened Death]

Daedric Chamber – Rite of the Old Ones (Grime Stone Records) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black / Dungeon Synth]

Deitus – Irreversible (Candlelight Records) [Blackened Death]

Desekryptor – Vortex Oblivion (Blood Harvest) [Death]

Edenfall – To Gaze Longer at the Earth (Independent) [Blackened Death / Folk Metal]

Eilene – We Shall Remain (Atomic Fire Records) [Power / Melodeath]

End Reign – The Way Of All Flesh Is Decay (Relapse Records) [Metallic Hardcore]

Evile – The Unknown (Napalm Records) [Thrash]

Exsanguination – Burial Rites (HPGD Productions) [HM-2 Death]

Genophobic Perversion – Vomit Inducing Sonic Torment (Independent) [Goregrind]

Human Harvest – Death Storms (Iron Blood and Death Corporation) [Blackened Death]

Inhumed – Feasted Upon Like Carrion (Independent) [Death]

LanzerRath – Metagalactic Domination (Independent) [Blackened Death]

Lesath – A Beautiful Dream (Independent) [Blackgaze / Post-Metal]

Lunacy – Ritual of Gore (Independent) [Death]

Malacara – Vuelvo a tu camino (Independent) [Heavy Metal]

Mordran – Anemone (Independent) [Raw/Lo-Fi Black]

Mythos – Battle of Megiddo (Independent) [Deathcore / Groove Metal]

Nuclear Remains – Dawn Of Eternal Suffering (Maggot Stomp) [Brutal Death]

Purtenance – The Rot Within Us (Xtreem Music) [Death]

Scream Maker – Land of Fire (Frontiers Records) [Heavy Metal]

Tailgunner – Guns for Hire (Fireflash Records) [NWoBHM]

Tales of a Liquid Dawn – See Beyond (Independent) [Psychedelic / Downtempo / Doom]

Tetsuya Mitani – Anamorphosis (MSR Music) [Power / Shred]

The Night Eternal – Fatale (Ván Records) [Heavy Metal]

The Pit – Of Madness And Evil Whispers (Personal Records) [Death]

Thomas Carlsen’s Transmission – A Brave Horizon (Independent) [Heavy Metal]

Tormentor – Principles of Oppression (Independent) [Thrash]

Tortuary – Bone Fortress (Independent) [Death / Hardcore]

Type A Secretor – Night of the Semen (Independent) [Brutal Death / Slam]

Vendetta – Black As Coal (Massacre Records) [Thrash]

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

Vølus – Oathsworn Vengeance (Vargheist Records) [Blackened Death]

Winterstorm – Everfrost (AFM Records) [Power / Heavy Metal]

Yass-Waddah – Lust for Domination (Independent) [Blackened Death]