People will be kicking a sphere around for the next month, to much fanfare. Do we have fans loyal to any specific teams here? I usually just root for the extreme underdogs. Unrelated, if you happen to be somewhere along the path of the current Dischordia tour and you don’t go, you are a poser of the highest degree.

Usnea announced a North American tour.

---

Protest the Hero’s drummer has a new solo hardcore project that sounds pretty great.

---

New track from Skeletonwitch, still excited for this one.

---

New Deafheaven track, if you missed it last week.

---

• Leprous dropped a single last week that I totally missed.
• Here’s a recording of the Caleb Scofield tribute show.
• Here’s that new Obscura track again.
• Archspire announced a Canadian tour.
• Sumac announced an album with a teaser.
• Abigail Williams is touring with Ghost Bath and Wolvhammer.
• The Black Queen shared a teaser video.
• Myrkur announced a UK tour.
• All Pigs Must Die East Coast dates.
• Madball released a new track.
• Baroness is almost done recording and I am unreasonably excited.
• Members of Napalm Death and Anaal Nathrakh made a new band called Born to Murder the World. Here’s a track.
• As I Lay Dying did a video discussion of why they reunited. Someone else watch it for me and tell me what mental backflips they do.
• New black metal from The Spirit.
• Too much eye contact in this Baest video.
• New from Bury Tomorrow.
• Get proggy with new Erra.
• Psychdoomish stuff from Black Mirrors.
• Dragonlord (members of Testament) has a new track up.
• Wolf King / Aethere have some west coast dates.