Holy shit, look at all this new music. We’ve rounded it all up, good or bad, and it’s yours to peruse at your leisure. HessianHunter and I have picked out a couple bangers that you won’t want to miss, but there’s more to be had in the big list this week. All around solid stuff.

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Cloud Rat – Pollinator (Artoffact Records) [Weird Grind]
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Cloud Rat have been demolishing crusty DIY venues for 10 dang years at this point and if Pollinator is any indication, they will continue to be a potent and vital force for the foreseeable future. Rather than a mere collection of chaotic songs, Pollinator is a true album – Cloud Rat have presented a curated journey that’s ambitious in scope and textured in such detail to put them more in spiritual league with artful black metal than the nihilist brutalism of your average grindcore band. Traces of triumphant crust punk and mournful metalcore add satisfying emotional depth and grant a heartening significance to every crushing blastbeat. To be clear, this IS still grind and will absolutely tear your face off and feed it to its oogle dog. Sleep on this record at your peril, and don’t you dare miss seeing Cloud Rat live when they come through your area. 9/13/19 (HessianHunter)

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Serpent Column – Mirror in Darkness (Mystiskaos) [Black Metal]
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Total chaos in black metal form. I listen to a lot of disso shit, and not much of it leaves me reeling in the way that Mirror in Darkness has; it’s a psychotic and dizzying wall of sound that has rendered my brain to paste. Just give “Promise of the Polis” a listen and tell me if you can get through without getting seasick. This album is a monster, and the fact that it’s NYP makes it all the sweeter. 9/9/13 (Spear)

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Abythic – Conjuring the Obscure (Xtreem Music) [Death Metal]
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Ange de la Mort – Unscrupulous Misattributions (Vargheist Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Ascertained Overabundance”

Anifernyen – Augur (Ethereal Sound Works) [Blackened Melodeath]
Listen to “Tyrant”

Baest – Venenum (Century Media) [Death Metal]
Listen to “As Above So Below,” “Gula”

Bitru – Demons Walk Alone (Blasphemous Attack Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Demons Walk Alone”

Black Fucking Cancer/Gloam – Boundless Arcane Invokations (Sentient Ruin) [Black Metal]
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Black Rain – Dying Breed (Steamhammer) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Dying Breed”

Blood Red Throne – Fit to Kill (Mighty Music) [Death Metal]
Listen to “Skyggemannen,” “Requiem Mass”

Blunt Splitter – Cannabyss (Independent) [Drone/Sludge]
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Capilla Ardiente – The Siege (High Roller Records) [Doom]

Circadia – Sucesos (Independent) [Heavy/Power Metal]
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Come Back from the Dead – The Rise of the Blind Ones (Transcending Obscurity) [Death Metal]
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Crypt Sermon – The Ruins of Fading Light (Dark Descent) [Doom]
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Cthulhuss – Cthulhu Cult (Old Temple) [Stoner Doom]
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Corpsehammer – Metal de la muerte (Morbid Skull Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Revelaciones”

Darkend – Spiritual Resonance (Dark Essence Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “With Everburning Sulphur Unconsumed”

Devilish Impressions – Postmortem Whispering Crows (Non Serviam Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Interregnvm”

Disciple – Love Letter Kill Shot (Tooth & Nail Records) [lolbuttz]
Listen to “Play to Win”

Downcross – What Light Covers Not (Independent) [Black Metal]
Listen to “To Cross the Path of Fire”

(Echo) – Below the Cover of Clouds (Solitude Productions) [Death Doom]
Listen to “The Ferryman”

Endseeker – The Harvest (Metal Blade) [Death Metal]
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Eschaton – Death Obsession (Unique Leader) [Not Humanity’s Last Breath]
Listen to “Death Obsession”

Esgaroth – At the Behest of the Vampyric Lord (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Eternity – To Become the Great Beast (Soulseller Records) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Sun of Hate”

Formicarius – Rending the Veil of Flesh (Schwarzdorn Production) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Early Will I Seek Thee”

Haunter – Sacramental Death Qualia (I, Voidhanger) [Black/Death Metal]
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Kokophrolic – Akata (Independent) [Brutal Death Metal]
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Mefistofeles – Mefistofeles (Independent) [Death Metal]
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Mithridatic – Tetanos mystique (Xenokorp) [Black/Death Metal]
Listen to “The Night Torn from Herself”

Nightfell – A Sanity Deranged (20 Buck Spin) [Black Metal]
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Pena de Muerte – Brown Pride (Independent) [Thrash]
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Ram – The Throne Within (Metal Blade) [Heavy Metal]
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Raventale – Morphine Dead Gardens (Ashen Domain) [Funeral Doom]
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Sangre Maldita – Pandemonium (Roel Music) [Melodeath]
Listen to “Excesivas Sombras”

Scür – Mesanòth (Ordo Ab Chao) (Independent) [Black Metal]
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Sedna – The Man Behind the Sun (Spikerot Records) [Black Metal]
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Sinner – Santa Muerte (AFM Records) [Heavy Metal]
Listen to “Death Letter”

Smash Potater – Suburban Legends (Horror Pain Gore Death) [Death Thrash]
Listen to “GMO”

Sur Austru – Meteahnă timpurilor (Avantgarde Music) [Folk Metal]
Listen to “De Dincolo de munte”

Terravore – II (Independent) [Thrash]

Total Despair – Perfect Life Form Creation (Ungodly Ruins Productions) [Brutal Death Metal]
Listen to “Mass Decapitation”

V – Led into Exile (Suicide Records) [Sludge/Doom]
Listen to “Phantasmagoria”

Void King – Barren Dominion (Off The Record Label) [Stoner Doom]
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Weeping Sores – False Confession (I, Voidhanger) [Death Doom]
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Wigrid – Entfremdungsmoment (Bleeding Heart Nihilist Productions) [Black Metal]
Listen to “Entzirkulation”

Wings of Dahak – Death at Your Side (Via Nocturna) [Black/Death Metal]
Listen to “Inhaling the Spirit of Destruction”

Wintercrown – Northern Lights (Cult of Osiris) [Black Metal]
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Woundvac – The Road Ahead (Corpse Flower Records) [Grindcore]
Listen to “The Last Nail”

Did we forget a new release? Is there a way we could improve this list? Let us know in the comments!