CDs

01. Verminous
02. Godlessly
03. Removal of the Oaken Stake
04. Child of Night
05. Sunless Empire
06. The Leather Apron's Scorn
07. How Very Dead
08. The Wereworm's Feast
09. A Womb in Dark Chrysalis (Interlude)
10. Dawn of Rats

Digipak Features:
+ 6-Panel Digipak
+ Glow-in-the-Dark Spot Gloss
+ 12-Page Booklet

Any band that has earned an army of devout followers through dropping eight killer full-lengths - and touring their collective ass off for eighteen years - could perhaps be forgiven for thinking they could take it easy as they wade into their ninth release. But that's just not The Black Dahlia Murder's style - the Michigan quintet continue to push themselves to new heights, creating searing melodic death metal that is aggressive, emotionally diverse that unquestionably provides a riveting listening experience.

01. Procurement of the Victuals
02. Cubensis
03. The Cull
04. Contrapasso
05. Speaking of Orbs
06. Tripolar
07. Check Your Misfortune
08. Pangloss
09. Sour Everythings

Features:
+ 6-Panel Digipak
+ 8-Page Roll Folded Booklet

As progenitors of some of the most inventive, uninhibited, dynamic music ever recorded, LA's Intronaut are a force to be reckoned with. These traits are expanded ever further on sixth full-length 'Fluid Existential Inversions', which features the most dramatic and epic sounds of their career.

Once again recorded with Josh Newell (Intronaut, Night Demon), the band also integrated keyboards for the first time, taking their love of mellotron and analog synths and making them a part of the Intronaut sound. When it came to mixing the record, the band called on Kurt Ballou (Converge, High on Fire), which resulted in a unique finished product that stands apart from their catalogue. The album is rife with striking contrasts, songs that veer from the punishingly violent to the achingly beautiful, often in seemingly jarring fashion, but there is very much a method to their madness, and dig a little deeper and everything makes sense.

Metal Blade Records Item #156952

European import Sleevepac CD.

1. Rotted Futures
2. Excelsior
3. City Swine
4. Atomic Age
5. Transmission to Mercury
6. Alphaville
7. The Greater Good

Bonus tracks
8. Experiment (Voivod)
9. Happy Home (The Residents)

Being one of the fastest rising stars in avant garde metal music, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, proudly presents their fourth studio album Alphaville. With their upcoming record, the metal trio from New York once again proves their matchless technical excellence and breathtaking musical craftsmanship. Small wonder that no other that the ingenious artist and illustrator Zbigniew M. Bielak contributes one of his best creations so far to this magnificent masterpiece.

Singer and guitarist Zachary states on Imperial Trumphants fourth studio album: " Alphaville - this new album is the pinnacle of our combined efforts as a band. It is the most refined version of our current state of creation. (…) Alphaville is our most proud achievement to date. Welcome to the dawn of the new Roaring 20s."

CD
1. Black Valor
2. Necropolis
3. A Selection Unnatural
4. Denounced, Disgraced
5. Christ Deformed
6. Death Panorama
7. Throne Of Lunacy
8. Eyes Of Thousand
9. That Which Erodes The Most Tender
10. I Will Return

DVD
"We're Going Places"
Includes 40 minutes of documentary tour footage & studio footage

Still riding high on waves of acclaim for their rabidly-received DVD spectacle Majesty, Michigans unstoppable sons of molten melodic death metal The Black Dahlia Murder triumphantly bring you their fourth thrashing opus Deflorate. Deflorate boasts Black Dahlias brand of seamlessly-mixed Swedish influenced blackened thrash and pounding American death metal muscle, and sees one of metals most outstanding underground outfits at the peak of its unmitigated musical brutality. Were more confident than ever, declares vocalist Trevor Strnad of Deflorate.

The new album sees the songwriting expertise of band leader and rhythm guitarist Brian Eschbach at its most polished and punishing, exponentially complimented by collaboration with both bass savant Ryan Bart Williams and newcomer guitarist Ryan Knight (ex-Arsis), whose blistering leads will dazzle and decimate the ears of both loyal Black Dahlia diehards and burgeoning fans alike. Brian is the backbone of the band, professes Trevor. To have the other band members bring such amazing music to the table has only brought the band up even higher with Deflorate. Add the dynamic demon-shrieks and corpse-growls of Strnad, and the warlike percussion of rising extreme drumming star Shannon Lucas, and you have a brilliant and bloodthirsty band of brothers ready to cut a swath through the metal scene with a fearsome new offering.

01. Widowmaker
02. Of God and Serpent, Of Spectre and Snake
03. Matriarch
04. Nightbringers
05. Jars
06. Kings of the Nightworld
07. Catacomb Hecatomb
08. As Good as Dead
09. The Lonely Deceased

Digipak Features:
+ 10-Panel "Cross" Digipak

01. In Hell Is Where She Waits for Me
02. Goat of Departure
03. Into the Everblack
04. Raped in Hatred by Vines of Thorn
05. Phantom Limb Masturbation
06. Control
07. Blood Mine
08. Every Rope a Noose
09. Their Beloved Absentee
10. Map of Scars

The Black Dahlia Murder's sixth full-length album, Everblack, will be released worldwide in June 2013. The album art for Everblack was painted by renowned artist Nick Keller and recording was completed at Audiohammer Studios (lead guitars and vocals), Rustbelt Studios (drums), and Regal Fecal (guitar and bass). Mixing was handled by Jason Suecof and Ryan Williams, mastering was completed by Alan Douches at West Westside. Trevor Strnad's horror-inspired lyrics persist on Everblack, beginning with In Hell is Where She Waits for Me, a reference to the murder from which the band took for their moniker.

01. Receipt
02. Vlad, Son of the Dragon
03. Abysmal
04. Re-Faced
05. Threat Level No. 3
06. The Fog
07. Stygiophobic
08. Asylum
09. The Advent
10. That Cannot Die Which Eternally Is Dead

The problem of dropping a record as career-defining as 2013's Everblack is that the bar is set so high following it up is a galling task. That The Black Dahlia Murder's response to such a challenge comes in the form of the devastating Abysmal serves to once again demonstrate why they are considered one of the most vital bands in contemporary death metal. "Once the record started to come together we knew it was going to be something special," states vocalist Trevor Strnad. "It's more urgent, it has more dynamics, it's a more emotive record, and it has a more raw, angry sound to it. It's still million mile-per-hour death metal, but when you invest so much thought and emotion into what you're creating you end up with a record that does stand out, and we can hold our heads up high and say yeah, this is our best work."

At this stage in the game, with typically modest aspirations, Strnad is more interested in maintaining their longevity than shifting records, and if the band never gets any bigger than they are right now he will "die happy a hundred times over". However, this does not mean there is anything even vaguely resembling an end in sight. "We're still young at heart and I feel like the evolution of the band still has a long way to go. I don't see a ceiling on what we can do, and there will be no end. It's just going to be a constant ongoing fight to make better music and be a better band, and it's always going to be time to kick ass."

01. Built for Sin
02. I'm Charning
03. Flies
04. Statutory Ape
05. A Vulgar Picture
06. Novlety Crosses
07. Dave Goes To Hollywood
08. Miscarriage
09. Spite Suicide
10. Miasma

Miasma is another chapter in the ever-twisted saga of The Black Dahlia Murder. Like the long-unsolved murder of a young Hollywood starlet that the band took its name from, The Black Dahlia Murder's appeal is visceral and dark, a terror-filled exploration of extreme sounds and vicious brutality. And it is a step closer to the apex the band is still aiming its sights for.

01. A Shrine to Madness
02. Moonlight Equilibrium
03. On Stirring Seas of Salted Blood
04. Conspiring With the Damned
05. The Window
06. Carbonized in Cruciform
07. Den of the Picquerist
08. Malenchanments of the Necrosphere
09. The Grave Robber's Work
10. The Raven
11. Great Burning Nullifier
12. Blood in the Ink

The often imitated yet never duplicated Detroit deathsters The Black Dahlia Murder (TBDM) are back with their 5th full-length album, the death metal opus Ritual; a collection of 12 searing tracks that see the band staying true to their sound and style while progressing in both writing and musicianship. Guitarist Ryan Knight has delivered truly searing leads that will without a doubt daze and lay waste the ears of both loyal Black Dahlia diehards and burgeoning fans alike.

1. Pain Will Define Their Death
2. Victim
3. Violence, a Worthy Truth
4. The Parting of a Neck (bonus)

One of the most pissed off and corrosive expressions of Death Metal you will ever hear! Finally on physical format the critically acclaimed debut EP by Portland-based band Vitriol, MCD comes with an exclusive brand new track recorded during past sessions!

Racking up serious pre-release praise from within the metal media, "Pain Will Define Their Death" sets forth Vitriol's sound in no uncertain terms. Through the EP's four tracks, the Portland, Oregon band lashes out with a style rooted in the turn-of-the-millennium works of Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal, and Nile. Vitriol's three members – guitarist/vocalist Kyle Rasmussen, bassist/vocalist Adam Roethlisberger, and drummer Scott Walker – attack the hallowed genre with a fresh aggression that cannot be faked.
Dense, visceral, overwhelming, Vitriol's tornado of sound is familiar but new.

“Violence is the element that will always be found in any Vitriol song. Trivializing the human experience and shining a light on its frailty and natural cowardice… I truly believe that what we want to communicate and represent with our band is a universal truth to everyone. We’re trying to tap into something that everyone has inside of them.” (Kyle Rasmussen)

For fans of Hate Eternal, Anaal Nathrakh, Internecine and Myrkskog

01. Of Unworldly Origin
02. That Which Consumes All Things
03. Blood Atonement
04. Fathomless Catacombs
05. The Outer Ones
06. Vanitas
07. Ex Nihilo
08. Luciferous
09. A Starless Darkness

1. Ape 03:16
2. Dreadful Moments 04:45
3. Teacher, Teacher! 05:51
4. Perennial 04:37
5. Micro 01:43

How many bands manage to create something truly unique? Something that defies categories and boundaries and defy all expectation? Jinjer are the answer to all these questions and have been working frantically on a mind blowing soundscape only they can do justice for and one that shatters all comparisons. Their third album King of Everything catapulted this Ukrainian juggernaut in to the collective consciousness of the Metal universe and their upcoming EP Micro undoubtedly cements itself as another milestone in the history of Jinjer. The first single ‘Ape‘ is nothing short of a groove-laden kick in the guts wake up call, full of flickering sonic fury and melodic flashes, while the Micro EP in itself is an emotionally charged trip ranging from caressing to traumatizing and loaded with world class grooves that can only leave you wanting more.

1. We Were The Keepers 
2. Frozen Gaze 
3. Directive 
4. Deadlands 
5. As The Kingdom Drowns 
6. Beyond The Black 
7. Upon These Stones 
8. Momentum of The Void 
9. You Belong Here, Below 

1. A Debt Owed to the Grave
2. Deathless
3. Labyrinth of Eyes
4. Madness Opus
5. Scorched Earth Policy
6. The Blackest Reaches
7. The Fix
8. United in Helotry
9. Apex
10. Witch Trials

01. Unattained
02. Tail from the Crypt
03. Exhumed Identity
04. Fields of Predation
05. Alliance and Tyranny
06. Suffer These Wounds
07. Summon the Spawn
08. None Shall Be Spared (All Shall Be Speared)
09. Stillness
10. Age of Iniquity
11. Empire of the Obscene
12. Summon the Spawn (Demo 2006)
13. Unattained (Demo 2006)
14. Suffer These Wounds (Demo 2006)

1. Establish Dominance 
2. Know Your Place 
3. Dogknotted 
4. Fountains of Bile 
5. No More Heroes 
6. Beating Those We Despise 
7. Gnaw Their Bones 
8. Irate 
9. Showering Teeth

1. Putrefying Swamp Mists at Dusk (Intro) 
2. Rotting Spheres of Sentient Blackness
3. Apparitions of Gloom 
4. Melting in the Necrosphere 
5. Abysmal Dimensions

Over 40 minutes of crushing blackened funeral doom from the Florida swamps. Available as US jewel case or European import digipack. For fans of Disembowelment. 

1. Reckoning Force
2. Skinned Alive
3. Born Lost
4. The Heat
5. Retaliation
6. Brahman
7. At The Walls of Antioch
8. World of Pain
9. Civilized Mind

Formed in 2016, ENFORCED picks up where Sepultura and Cro-Mags left off and infuses their own volatile, hardcore fury into the hardcore/thrash crossover sound of the late '80s. Fronted by a voice that could only belong to that of a madman and unloading nonstop blazing riffs and pummeling breakdowns in every track, the band demolishes everything in their path, leaving a trail of smoldering wreckage and pure decimation anywhere they perform.

ENFORCED's impending At The Walls LP features a remixed and remastered version of the 2017 demo and their "Retaliation" promo, and introduces two brand new songs to the mix. All tracks were recorded by Bob Quirk and mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Candy). In addition, Dwid Hellion (Integrity, Psywarfare) provides guest vocals to the track "Skinned Alive" who also created the apocalyptic album artwork for the LP.

Expect nothing but total war on stage from ENFORCED as they explode into 2019; a must-hear for fans of classic crossover/thrash from Nuclear Assault, Demolition Hammer, and Devastation, as well as modern shredders Skeletal Remains, Foreseen, and War Hungry.

1. Orthal 03:27
2. Exh-Enî Söph (1st Passage: Exiled From Sanity) 08:21
3. Thritônh (2nd Passage: The Colour Of Death) 09:09
4. Aylowenn Aela (3rd Passage: The Undying Citadel) 05:33
5. Shtg (4th Passage: Frozen Soul) 04:05
6. Amenthlys (5th Passage: Through The Yth-Whtu Seal) 06:52
7. Shayr-Thàs (6th Passage: Walk The Oracular Way) 07:10
8. Namhera (7th Passage: Blasphemy Of Ephereàs) 04:00
9. Eternity Of Shaog (∞th Passage: Grave of Agony) 06:54
10. Monotony Of A Putrid Life In The Eternal Nothingness 06:54

One year after the release of “The Telluric Ashes of the Ö Vrth Immemorial Gods”, France's ESOCTRILIHUM return with a new and majestic work, “Eternity Of Shaog”, where the band's unique black/death metal style reaches new peaks of dark visionariness and overwhelming intensity. Sole member Asthâghul has injected new lifeblood in his creature by emphasizing the symphonic and mystical aura of the compositions, once again dense, complex and meticulously crafted. Infectious violins, piano and synths are skilfully blended with scorching guitars and mesmerizing melodies of cosmic proportions, often overflowing into raging melancholy or a delirium of omnipotence.

The concept behind “Eternity Of Shaog” is one of psychic transmutation and demonic possession, and further explores the ill worlds of the immemorial gods to form a diptych with the previous album. Through a series of songs/gateways, the listeners are conducted in front of Shaog Og Magthoth, the most unfathomable among the Sovereigns of Nothingness, introduced by ESOCTRILIHUM on the "Pandemorthium" album and reminiscent of Lovecraft's Ancient Ones. In the context of this fantastic, elusive lore imagined by Asthâghul, Shaog is an omnipotent god living an endless and solitary existence outside of time and space; a hungry wild beast from a nightmarish dimension watching us with gnashing teeth, like the space vampire on Alan Brown's mind-blowing cover painting. Shaog resides at the centre of an empty, dead universe, imprisoned in a cage of monotonous desperation from which he tries to escape by possessing the unsuspecting voyager who ventures into his world of ruins through dreams...

On closer inspection, Shaog is nothing but our evil self from the other side of the mirror, a metaphor for both the insanity hiding in man and the solitude of the artist. And of Asthâghul in particular: like an involuntary medium, he “receives” the blackened death metal music of ESOCTRILIHUM from unspeakable forces lurking in the dark corners of his mind, negative energies that leak out from its cracks and drip onto our reality. 

1. Infernal Death 02:52
2. Zombie Ritual 04:32
3. Denial Of Life 03:35
4. Sacrificial 03:41
5. Mutilation 03:27
6. Regurgitated Guts 03:44
7. Baptized In Blood 04:29
8. Torn To Pieces 03:35
9. Evil Dead 02:59
10. Scream Bloody Gore 04:32
11. Beyond The Unholy Grave 03:05
12. Land Of No Return 03:00

DEATH's legendary 1987 debut 'Scream Bloody Gore' is more than just an untouchable album - upon its release, it was positively genre-creating. 'Scream Bloody Gore' founded the quintessential death metal sound, with more tormented riffs, screams, and leads than the world had ever imagined, and established Chuck Schuldiner's inimitable phrasing and songwriting style as the most singular voice in the burgeoning genre. Today, the album is viewed unanimously as one of the all-time most important cornerstones of death metal. As the final chapter in Relapse's comprehensive DEATH reissue series, ''Scream Bloody Gore' will now receive the deluxe reissue treatment on a wide variety of formats including 2CD, Limited Edition 3CD, LP, Deluxe 2xLP Boxset, and cassette versions.

Like the preceding DEATH reissues, the deluxe reissue of 'Scream Bloody Gore' has been meticulously remastered from the original tapes by Alan Douches (Death, Mastodon, Nile) and includes a plethora of bonus content, including previously unreleased recordings and rehearsal demos, super-expanded packaging, and brand-new extensive liner notes from former DEATH drummer / Autopsy founder Chris Reifert, Sepultura's Max Cavalera, and original 'Scream Bloody Gore' producer Randy Burns.

1. Living Monstrosity 05:08
2. Altering the Future 05:34
3. Defensive Personalities 04:46
4. Within the Mind 05:34
5. Spiritual Healing 07:44
6. Low Life 05:23
7. Genetic Reconstruction 04:52
8. Killing Spree 04:16

Death's landmark 'Spiritual Healing' record is nothing short of genre-defining. Originally released in 1990, Spiritual Healing marked a new turn in the Death discography, one which ushered in cleaner production, a new level of boundary pushing musicianship and songwriting skills that were previously unimaginable from a metal band. Spiritual Healing sets the standard for riffs, insane time changes and of course mainman Chuck Schuldiner's masterful guitar solos.

1. Flattening Of Emotions 04:28
2. Suicide Machine 04:23
3. Together As One 04:10
4. Secret Face 04:39
5. Lack Of Comprehension 03:43
6. See Through Dreams 04:39
7. Cosmic Sea 04:27
8. Vacant Planets 03:52
9. God Of Thunder (Bonus Track) 04:00

DEATH, the heavy metal institution founded, realized, and helmed by legendary guitarist Chuck Schuldiner, released its legendary fourth studio album Human ('91) to massive worldwide critical acclaim. The album's complex and progressive music and introspective lyrics marked a massive stylistic change away from the more primitive early material for the group, and Human went on to become one of the most influential metal records in the history of the genre. Remixed under the watchful eye of longtime DEATH producer Jim Morris, Human represents the fully-realized version of this epic album. Available on vinyl for the first time in over 7 years.

1. A Vessel Forlorn 05:33
2. Internal Incineration (Live) 04:34
3. Majesty (Live) 04:20
4. Stapled Down 03:45
5. Internal Incineration 04:17
6. Malicious Concept 03:57

Five track EP containing two live tracks, three tracks from the “Abhorrence Veil” EP and a the new title track.

Track 1 “A Vessel Forlorn” was recorded by the band at various locations during late 2018 and early 2019. Mixed and mastered by Lasse at Ballade Studio.

Track 2-3 was recorded live in Istanbul on December 1st 2018. Live engineered and recorded by Rammy and re-worked by Tuna. Mixed and mastered by Lasse in Ballade Studio.

Track 4-6 was originally released as the “Abhorrence Veil” single in 2017 and was recorded by the band at various locations. Mixed and mastered by Tuna in Djævlesound Studio.

1. Wrecking Crew 2:01
2. Job Hunt 1:28
3. Arrested At Lunch 2:09
4. South Central 2:05
5. 1993; A Week B4 Graduation 2:15
6. New Years Eve 1999 1:58
Previously Released Bonus Material.
7. Chapter III
8. Run Over By A Truck
9. Franky; Buying Dogfood
10. An Interest In Prosthetics
11. Not Our Problem
12. The Days Of High Adventure
13. Deluxe Mental Hospital Tour
14. Jamming In Traffic
15. Pre-Retirement Nerves, "Cop Killers"
16. Talking Terrorism
17. Murder In The MTA
18. A Bad Day In Africa
19. Voice Of America's Sons
20. Game Time
21. A Shocking Interrogation
22. A Misappropriation Of Sector Resources
23. Corpserate Greed
24. A Waste Of Ammo
25. "I Think I'm Going To Love The Future"
26. Todd And Janelle
27. The Dream Left Behind
28. Tactical Destruction
29. 50 Year Storm
30. Not Economically Viable
31. Dutch & The Demon
32. Prove It
33. Massacre! / Main Title
34. Captives Of The Thuggee
35. Rotten Kid
36. Hauser
37. Personal Stuff
38. Panic At The Galleria
39. Border Crossing
40. Marmot
41. A Chat With The Pentagon
42. Worthless Bonus Track

Doombox is the most ridiculously packaged product yet from cinema-grinders Graf Orlock. Not only does the release feature a 10" as well as a 42-track CD which includes the 10" plus their previous three releases, but the entire package folds out into a full-size boombox complete with instruction manual.

1. Feel The Pressure
2. Hyper Vigilance
3. Sick One
4. Army Of One
5. Character Fraud
6. Hollister Daydreamer
7. White Coat Syndrome
8. The Process Of Weeding Out
9. Bad Faith
10. California Cursed

The city of Santa Cruz, CA, is known for its boardwalk, hippie university, and The Lost Boys movie, drawing tourists and students from all over the globe, driving up the cost of living and pushing out long-lived independent businesses. As the new blood of Santa Cruz hardcore punk, Drain has a fiery, metal-tinged, thrashing hardcore sound. For fans of Power Trip, Take Offense, Turnstile, Cro-Mags, Judge, and Terror.

1. A Face in the Glare 04:59
2. Ravening Iron 05:01
3. Skullseeker 04:13
4. War at the Edge of the End 04:45
5. Coward's Keep 05:54
6. Worms of the Earth 04:29
7. The Godblade 02:17
8. Banners of Arhai 05:41

The highly anticipated second studio album! Produced, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk, "Ravening Iron" has the massive sound that epic heavy metal needs nowadays; faithful to the past, yet fresh and exciting with Eternal Champion’s unique identity and aesthetic in full presence. The 8 tracks are glorious and uplifting, with heavy riffs, synths, a hard and pounding rhythm section, narrating stories and legends from the depths of time and fantasy.

Discs

1. Satanic Black Devotion 41:35
2. In Ruin & Despair / To the Lord Our Lives 35:04
3. Tyranny Returns 41:55
4. Disciples of the Heinous Path 38:36
5. Let the Devil In 46:45

Tracklist

Satanic Black Devotion
1-1 Preludium
1-2 Satanic Black Devotion
1-3 Obire Pestis
1-4 Frowning, Existing
1-5 Glorification
1-6 Panzergod
1-7 Black Fucking Murder
1-8 Sargeist
1-9 Returning To Misery & Comfort

Split
2-1 In Ruin & Despair
2-2 Questing The Blessing Of Evil
2-3 Profane Bleeding Call
2-4 At The Altar Of The Beast
2-5 Skullsplitting Manifest
2-6 Degradation Song
2-7 n Torture We Trust
2-8 To The Lord Our Lives

Tyranny Returns
3-1 Preludium: Golden Seed Of Father-Sun
3-2 Anti-Human Black Metal Wrath
3-3 Night Of Sacred Wisdom
3-4 Dark Fortress
3-5 Scion Of Glory & Pride
3-6 Interludium
3-7 The Impaler Prince
3-8 Sinister Glow Of Funeral Torches
3-9 Sworn By The White Wolves Blood
3-10 Iron, Blood & Blasphemy
3-11 Postludium: Silver Womb Of Mother-Moon

Disciple Of The Heinous Path
4-1 Black Treasure Of Melancholy
4-2 Remains Of An Unholy Past
4-3 Cursed Blaze Of Rituals
4-4 Disciple Of The Heinous Path
4-5 Heretic Iron Will
4-6 Echoes From A Morbid Night

Let The Devil In
5-1 Empire Of Suffering
5-2 A Spell To Awaken The Temple
5-3 From The Black Coffin Lair
5-4 Burning Voice Of Adoration
5-5 Nocturnal Revelation
5-6 Discovering The Enshrouded Eye
5-7 Let The Devil In
5-8 Sanguine Rituals
5-9 Twilight Breath Of Satan
5-10 As Darkness Tears The World Apart

Fantastic 5CD box set featuring Satanic Black Devotion, Split, Tyranny Returns, Disciples of The Heinous Path and Let The Devil In. Not to be missed out on, this is one for the die hard black metal fans!

1. (Open The Gate Of Unknown Path To) The Metamorphosis Descent 02:53
2. Rotting Way Of Damnation 09:52
3. Abyssus Caliginum 07:03
4. Lord Of The Closed Eyes 06:49
5. Breath Of The Silent Shape 03:06
6. Prison Of Flesh 08:10
7. Nocturle Ars Fh'a 08:13
8. Sepulcrum Miseriae 06:23
9. The Holocaust Of Fire In The Temple Of The Red Oracle 03:47
10. Shaôg Ög Magthôth 06:20
11. The Last Judgment 06:01

     Completely enshrouded in mystery, France's ESOCTRILIHUM debuted in 2017 with the promising “Mystic Echo From A Funeral Dimension”, the first stone of a titanic altar erected in the name of dark and majestic black/death metal. One year later, sole member Asthâghul returns from the shadows of his voluntary isolation to complete his unholy monument, and a new, more powerful ritual of cosmic death worship can commence.

“Pandaemorthium (Forbidden Formulas To Awaken The Blind Sovereigns Of Nothingness)” is the kind of mature and imaginative work that everybody was expecting from the band, a monstrous gate opened on nihilistic universes of unfathomable void. Instead of rehashing over-abused occult concepts, ESOCTRILIHUM create their own frightful pantheon and fictional dimension by mixing a biblical tone with evident influences from H.P. Lovecraft's evil cosmogony. Each song is a wound bleeding out mysticism, horror and madness; each riff, an invocation to ancient races and forgotten blind deities of chaos from higher planes of nonexistence, a plea for them to penetrate our dimension and devour us all.

“Pandaemorthium” is as ambitious in its conceptual scope as it is apocalyptic in atmospheres and sonic approach. Often bordering on savage death metal and dark psychedelia, Asthâghul's cyclopean guitar riffs and mystical melodies constantly entwine and concur to the album's grandeur, while deep growls and brutal rhythm patterns assault the senses and ruthlessly crumble the walls of reality around us, revealing immeasurable depths of utter blackness. And with it, the true purpose of our lives: to serve and feed the Blind Sovereigns of Nothingness.
To accompany ESOCTRILIHUM's arcane visions, Alex Shadrin at Nether Temple Design has provided some of his most inspired and diabolical paintings to date, a perfect match to the unspeakable horrors of “Pandaemorthium”.

1. Jennifer 01:21
2. Cheerleader Corpses 00:35
3. Scatology Homework 00:49
4. Trojan Whore 01:35
5. Ghost Of A Bullet 00:20
6. Heart And Crossbones 00:48
7. Strangled With A Halo 01:25
8. Intimate Slavery 01:05
9. Mapplethorpe Grey 01:21
10. Evacuating Heaven 00:16
11. Tickets To The Car Crash 00:39
12. Naked Trees 01:46
13. Sheet Metal Girl 01:09
14. Preacher Crawling 01:29
15. Pornographic Memory 00:57
16. Murder Blossom 00:18
17. Body Scout 01:01
18. Snuff Film At Eleven 01:10
19. Hyperviolet 03:28
20. Starbelly 05:03
21. Junkyard God 01:59
22. Piss Angel 07:57

Pig Destroyer will take you on a rampaging journey through an unsettling, psychotic world. Melding an insane musical attack with similarly jarring lyrical prose and an unmatched propensity to incite.

1. Tunnel Under The Tracks 01:21
2. Dark Train 01:11
3. Army of Cops 03:18 
4. Circle River 02:45
5. The Torture Fields 02:55 
6. Terminal Itch 01:13
7. Concrete Beast 03:21
8. The Adventures of Jason and JR 02:12
9. Mt. Skull 01:37 
10. Trap Door Man 01:15
11. The Last Song 02:40
12. House of Snakes 07:07

After six long, harsh years of absence, the mighty PIG DESTROYER have reassembled to eradicate eardrums and split skulls with their highly anticipated sixth full-length opus, entitled Head Cage (named after a grisly medieval torture device). A visceral vortex of animalistic rage and extreme sonic brilliance, Head Cage is a true work of extreme metal art, that with the addition of a bass player, is hands down their most dynamic and heaviest recording to date. Across twelve tracks, PIG DESTROYER weave together harrowing tales of philosophical dualities, touching on mortality and depression, fear and violence, and the darkest complexities of the human condition, all told through the distorted lens of delightfully transgressive vocalist/lyricist JR Hayes. Musically, the band continues to push the boundaries of metal, grindcore, noise and punk, ramping up the intensity and leaving you bludgeoned in a state of utter shock, all in less than 33 minutes.

Head Cage was recorded by guitarist Scott Hull at Visceral Sound Studios, mixed and mastered by Will Putney (Exhumed, Every Time I Die, Body Count) and features striking artwork by Mark McCoy (Full of Hell, Nothing) along with guest vocal appearances by Agoraphobic Nosebleed's Richard Johnson and Kat Katz plus Full Of Hell's Dylan Walker. PLAY AT MAXIMUM VOLUME!

1. Deflower 00:28
2. Tentacle 00:52
3. Yellow Line Transfer 01:03
4. Under the Fingernails 00:43
5. Elfin 00:32
6. Unwitting Valentine 00:29
7. Oven 01:20
8. Three Second Apocalypse 00:40
9. Treblinka 00:50
10. Fingers In the Throat 00:37
11. My Fellow Vermin 00:41
12. Endgame 00:41
13. One Funeral Too Many 00:52
14. Higher Forms of Pornography 00:55
15. Honeymoon 00:37
16. Alcatraz Metaphors 00:27
17. Flesh Upon Gear 01:05
18. Pixie 06:06
19. Genital Grinder / Regurgitation of Giblets 02:38
20. Exhume To Consume 03:35
21. Burning of Sodom 02:39
22. Delusional Supremacy 00:24
23. Alcatraz Metaphors 00:30
24. Treblinka 00:23
25. Seven and Thirteen 00:21
26. Scouring the Wreckage 00:45
27. Torquemada 00:34
28. Frailty In Numbers 00:47
29. Suicide Through Decay (Demo) 01:01
30. Dark Satellites (Demo) 00:35
31. Seven and Thirteen (Demo) 00:22
32. Flag Burner (Demo) 02:28
33. Delusional Supremacy (Demo) 00:26
34. Martyr To the Plague (Demo) 00:27
35. Ruination (Demo) 00:25
36. Synthetic Utopia (Demo) 00:40
37. Monolith (Demo) 00:34
38. Frailty In Numbers (Demo) 01:11

Extreme sound nihilists PIG DESTROYER deliver savage grindcore that is both intentionally confrontational, and thoroughly pummeling. Celebrating 20 years in 2020, 38 Counts of Battery is still an intense register of the band's work as ever. Fully remastered and available on LP for the very first time, 38 Counts of Battery features the remastered Explosions in Ward 6 album, tracks from the highly sought-after (and sold out) split with Isis, their scalding demo, and much more.

3. Slaves of Nil
4. The Shifting Equilibrium
5. Removing the Common Bond
6. Horde in Devolution
7. Blood Stained Lineage
8. Immortal Army of One
9. Initiate

Pray for Villains is the fourth studio album by DevilDriver, released on July 14, 2009.

1. I Am The Hammer 05:17
2. The Armor of Ire 04:55
3. The Last King Of Pictdom 04:13
4. Blood Ice 02:03
5. The Cold Sword 04:02
6. Invoker 04:28
7. Sing A Last Song Of Valdese 06:04
8. Shade Gate 03:14

One of the best Epic Heavy Metal albums of the last years.

1. Incursus Into Daeth Hausth 06:35
2. Blodh Sacremonh 06:57
3. Exhortathyon Od Saths Scriptum 08:14
4. Dramath Ühr 07:45
5. Ƨinsnhy'lh 05:19
6. Yhtri'lhn (The Last Age Of Ukhn) 05:47
7. Aevendh Sadh 07:39
8. Lörth Volth Lynhnzael (Lost In The Storm Of Itshka Blood) 07:19

A few months after the release of “Pandaemorthium”, ESOCTRILIHUM's celebrated sophomore album, French musician Asthâghul summons his creature back from the abominable realms of chaos it inhabits, to deliver a new chapter in his personal odyssey into fear and madness.
If the previous album opened 2018 in the name of the most majestic Lovecraftian extreme metal, “Inhüma” ends the year with an even more violent trip of hallucinatory music, a mind-bending vertigo of mystical black death metal of the heaviest kind, filtered through visionary and apocalyptic psychedelia. Once again, ESOCTRILIHUM works as a bridge to unparalleled dimensions of horror, terrifying mental planes where monstrous deities dominate over abstruse worlds in ruin, and where humanity is subjugated and enslaved.

Musically, “Inhüma” is a new and bold step forward in ESOCTRILIHUM's fast growth. More conscious of his capabilities, sole member Asthâghul has even successfully integrated a real violin within the band's typical paraphernalia of guitars, bass, drums and synths. The songwriting is compact and mature, equally brutal and reflective, and each track is a hymn to cosmic death, a flux of vivid nightmares from the deranged minds of ancient gods dying, with screams and growls augmenting the insane aura of Asthâghul's compositions.

Arcane and indecipherable, ESOCTRILIHUM's “Inhüma” offers intricate and intoxicating geometries of pain, beauty, mysticism and violence that find a perfect counterpart in Jef Whitehead's amazing cover painting.

1. De Oproeping Van Middeleeuwse Duisternis 00:46
2. Heksensabbat 02:35
3. Bestial Form Of Humanity 04:06
4. Implements Of Hell 05:35
5  Into The Crypts Of Rays 03:47
6. Heksensabbat 05:26
7. Bestial Form Of Humanity 04:50
8. Implements Of Hell 07:44
9. Unholy Divine (CD bonus track)
10. Inferring The Light (CD bonus track)

European digipack import.

Tracks 1-5 originally released as "Rehearsal 8/13/18" (2018).
Tracks 6-8 originally released as "Ascending the Raven Stone" (2018).
Tracks 9 and 10 originally released as "Embraced by Darkness Mysts" (2019)

1. Mass & Volume 19:05
2. Red Tar 06:35

'Mass & Volume' was written and recorded during the final day of the 'Phantom Limb' sessions with unexpected extra studio time and resources. In the following years, with 'Natasha' being released on its own and Brian no longer being in the band, Pig Destroyer's intentions of releasing 'Mass & Volume' basically evaporated. However, looking back now, 'Mass & Volume' serves as a great epilogue to that particular era of the band.

1. Natasha 37:35

Pig Destroyer brings you the story of Natasha over one, 35+ minute track of slow-motion, punishing doom more akin to early Melvins or Godflesh than the muscular grind they are known for.

1. Sis 01:14
2. The American's Head 00:48
3. The Underground Man 00:31
4. Eve 01:14
5. The Diplomat 02:56 
6. All Seeing Eye 00:42
7. Valley of the Geysers 02:19
8. Book Burner 00:40
9. Machiavellian 01:12
10. Baltimore Strangler 03:18
11. White Lady 01:25
12. The Bug 03:05
13. Iron Drunk 01:43
14. Burning Palm 01:52 
15. Dirty Knife 01:13
16. Totaled 00:42
17. Kamikaze Heart 01:35
18. King of Clubs 01:05
19. Permanent Funeral 04:08

The undisputed kings of grind, PIG DESTROYER return with their long awaited fourth proper full length ‘Book Burner’. ‘Book Burner’ is a resounding statement of championship, as every element of PIG DESTROYER towers above their closest peers—a 32 minute, 19 song knockout punch of cerebral viciousness. Scott Hull’s guitar heroics sound like a mutant double speed hybrid of Slayer and the Melvins jacked up on amphetamines, new skinsman Adam Jarvis is the pinnacle of inhuman drumming, Blake Harrison delivers layer upon layer of suffocating atmosphere and JR Hayes remains the poet laureate of extreme metal. ‘Book Burner’ is the finest work of extreme music’s best band.

1. Rotten Yellow 01:40
2. Jupiter's Eye 01:28
3. Deathtripper 01:04
4. Thought Crime Spree 02:17
5. Cemetery Road 00:50
6. Lesser Animal 01:12
7. Phantom Limb 01:37
8. Loathsome 04:04
9. Heathen Temple 03:30
10. 4th Degree Burns 01:28
11. Alexandria 03:03
12. Girl In The Slayer Jacket 03:26
13. Waist Deep In Ash 02:36
14. The Machete Twins 03:02

Almost three years in the making, Pig Destroyer's new album Phantom Limb furthers the enigmatic band's nihilistic, shock and awe attack. PD boil metal down to its muscle, sinew, and bone - razor-sharp guitar, percussive pummeling, and a lone, stark howl - and use them to commit a vicious assault. The lyrics paint loathsome, frightening images of pitch-black self-hatred and the frailty of the human experience. With Phantom Limb, Pig Destroyer provide a musical manifestation of the violent experience of the human animal, and cement their already legendary status.

1. Conjurer - Blood and Thunder (Mastodon)
2. Conjurer - Vermillion (Slipknot)
3. Palm Reader - Tire Me (Rage Against The Machine)
4. Palm Reader - Circles (Thrice)

There are numerous examples throughout history of cover songs revamping genre classics, whether it be with a modern and contemporary twist, or just paying tribute to an old favourite. With this in mind, over at Holy Roar HQ, we’re beaming with excitement to announce that Conjurer and Palm Reader have teamed up for a split release.

Boasting four tracks with two covers each, both bands tactfully pay tribute to some of the acts that introduced them to heavier sounds whilst simultaneously imprinting their own distinctive brands of noise to their selected songs. Conjurer tackle Slipknot’s ‘Vermillion’ and Mastodon’s ‘Blood and Thunder’ with blood thirsty metallic zeal, whereas Palm Reader caustically make Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Tire Me’ and Thrice’s ‘Circles’ entirely their own.

It’s sometimes easy to forget that outside of their respective discographies and relentless touring, both sets of musicians are first and foremost ardent heavy music fans. If nothing else, this small but mighty collection of covers is built precisely with the purpose of reimagining and recapturing that first listening experience of a beloved song.

Australian digipak version

1. Carriers of the Plague
2. Forward to Submission
3. Euphorinasia
4. The Throne of Kings
5. Unmasking the Traitors
6. Become the Cult
7. From Scribe to Ashes
8. Deprivation
9. The Sleepers Have Awoken

Beast is the fifth studio album by groove metal band DevilDriver. It was released on February 22, 2011 in the United States.

Paris Kills is the sixth studio album by The 69 Eyes.

1. Eternal Champion - Ride for Revenge
2. Eternal Champion - Retaliator
3. Gatekeeper - Vigilance Part I
4. Gatekeeper - Angelus Noctium
5. Gatekeeper - Vigilance Part II
6. Eternal Champion - The Last King of Pictdom
7. Eternal Champion - War at the Edge of the End
8. Gatekeeper - Tale of Twins (Demo)
9. Gatekeeper - Vigilance (Demo)
10. Gatekeeper - Field of Dreams (Demo)
11. Gatekeeper - The King's Ghost

One of the best Epic Heavy Metal albums of the last yearsThe split CD of the best Epic Metal newcomers available again after 5 years since its original release, including early recordings and exclusive material.

1. Regurginated Communion 05:15
2. Entropic Self Immolation 05:05
3. Noctemnania 05:44
4. Consecrated and Consumed 04:54
5. Sulfuric Sodomy (Disintegration Of Christ) 04:12
6. Baptized In Boiling Phlegm 05:09

The new album from death metal outfit OF FEATHER AND BONE, “Sulfuric Disintegration” (out on CD/LP/Digital Nov 13), sees the Colorado power-trio deliver their most brutal, dynamic, and punishing album to date. Following up 2018’s “Bestial Hymns Of Perversion”, an album which signaled a new paradigm shift for the band and saw the band get the worthwhile recognition deserved through acclaim and notable touring cycles (the band being recognized for their devastating live performance), bringing a new sense of awareness to the band. “Sulfuric Disintegration” takes OF FEATHER AND BONE’s intensity and aura to the next level.

With not only delivering a more dynamic and complex musical vision that balances the genres of pure dark death metal, blistering grind, and unrelenting bestial metal, “Sulfuric Disintegration” sees OF FEATHER AND BONE become the full-on sonic killing machine that one was given a mere glimpse of with their past works. Not only is the sound on “Sulfuric Disintegration” more devastating than anything done previously, but the tighter and warmer production courtesy of a lethal mix and master executed by Arthur Rizk (tracking was done at Juggernaut Audio by Ben Romsdahl) gives the band their deadliest sounding album yet.

1. Heaving Earth 03:54
2. Prayer of Hatred 04:28
3. Bil Ur-Sag 02:29
4. Nothing Is Not 04:44
5. Chambers of Dis 03:29
6. Disturbance in the Great Slumber 02:32
7. Umulamahri 04:33
8. Hellspawn: The Rebirth 02:43
9. Covenant of Death 06:08
10. Hymn to a Gas Giant 01:03
11. Invocation of the Continual One 09:46
12. Ascent Through the Spheres 02:01
13. Hymnos Rituales de Guerra 02:43
14. Trooper 00:55

Summerian overload on this, Morbid's first album with new vocalist/bassist Steve Tucker. Both musically and lyrically complex, this is the band's most adventurous album.

Xasthur ‎– Telepathic With The Deceased
1 Entrance Into Nothingness 3:50
2 Slaughtered Useless Beings In A Nihilistic Dream 4:49
3 Abysmal Depths Are Flooded 6:51
4 May Your Void Become As Deep As My Hate 3:27
5 Telepathic With The Deceased 9:43
6 A Walk Beyond Utter Blackness 7:42
7 Cursed Revelations 5:39
8 Drown Into Eternal Twilight 3:00
9 Murdered Echoes Of The Mind 10:03
10 Exit 2:33

Xasthur ‎– To Violate The Oblivious
1 Intro 2:06
2 Xasthur Within 6:14
3 Dreams Blacker Than Death 5:24
4 Screaming At Forgotten Fears 8:24
5 Consumed By A Dark Paranoia 3:40
6 Marked By Shadows 6:43
7 Apparitional Void Of Failure 4:37
8 A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors 12:06
9 Walker Of Dissonant Worlds 5:40
10 Reflecting Hateful Energy 5:51

Xasthur ‎– Xasthur
1 Instrumental 6:55
2 Bubonic Plague 6:24
3 Doomed By Howling Winds 10:56

Xasthur- The Moribund Cult Years, features three classic black metal releases the band put on during their reign on the the American label Moribund Records. The CD's included are Telepathic With The Deceased (2004), To Violate The Oblivious (2004), and Xasthur (2006).

A perfect boxset for the die hard fans and newcomers alike!

1. SPECTRAL LORE - Mercury (The Virtuous) 08:36
2. MARE COGNITUM - Mars (The Warrior) 09:25
3. SPECTRAL LORE - Earth (The Mother) 11:55
4. MARE COGNITUM - Venus (The Priestess) 12:27
5. MARE COGNITUM - Jupiter (The Giant) 15:04
6. SPECTRAL LORE - Saturn (The Rebel) 10:14
7. MARE COGNITUM - Neptune (The Mystic) 11:38
8. SPECTRAL LORE - Uranus (The Fallen) 12:23
9. MARE COGNITUM and SPECTRAL LORE - Pluto (The Gatekeeper Part I - Exodus though the Frozen Wastes) 11:29
10. MARE COGNITUM and SPECTRAL LORE - Pluto (The Gatekeeper Part II - The Astral Bridge) 12:00

Veterans from countless successful releases including a seminal split album (“Sol”, 2013) that cemented their friendship and earned them unconditioned esteem and love from the atmospheric black metal aficionados, SPECTRAL LORE's sole member Ayloss and Jacob Buczarski from MARE COGNITUM join forces once again for another mystical trip through the stars. Monumental and daring in its length and scope, "Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine" is a thematic journey through our solar system, illustrating and anthropomorphizing it into mythology which parallels our own humanity with the science of these mysterious formations.
“Inspired by Gustav Holst's Planets suite, we continue the exploration we began many years ago with 'Sol',” explain the artists; “we traverse outwards from the sun to each planet, weaving fables through a synthesis of their distinct physical features and a mythical personhood representing these features.”
Graced with a wondrous cover painting by the inimitable Elijah Tamu,“Wanderers: Astrology Of The Nine” is nothing but a never ending quest for mankind's cosmic origins, a celestial and philosophical observation on the notes of MARE COGNITUM and SPECTRAL LORE's music, perfectly in the balance between progressive yet furious black metal, and moments of ecstatic, melodic beauty.
“While we wish to capture the awe of the raw, natural beauty of our cosmic surroundings, we have also created our own cosmically inspired lore with each planet as our muse,” say Ayloss and Buczarski; ”therefore, each track is a narrative which represents our admiration for each cosmic entity: the psychic manifestations that were conjured through our own wonder of the majestic planetary system we call home.”

1. The Blade 05:57
2. Rather Be Dead 04:42
3. Shadows and Light 03:54
4. Blood Offerings 05:34
5. Empty Hands 04:22
6. Beneath 05:01
7. Breathing Machine 04:57
8. Layers of Darkness 05:28

Blood Offerings is Oakland, CA-based old-school death metal merchants Necrot's debut album. An onslaught of buzz-sawing riffs and spine-rupturing rhythms - an authentic, sonic bludgeoning delivered in the same realm as Bolt Thrower and Autopsy.

1. Manor Of Infinite Forms 04:53
2. Blood Mirror 07:19
3. Abysswalker 04:21
4. Final Struggle Of Selves 05:04
5. Gored Embrace (Confronting Biodegradation) 05:42
6. Chamber Of Sacred Ootheca 05:37
7. Two Worlds Become One 07:59

Bubbling up from the oozing sewers of Toronto like a bizarre insectoid of mutant genotype, Tomb Mold reanimates with their second album, and first for 20 Buck Spin, ‘Manor Of Infinite Forms’. Constructing monumental towers of obscure shape, jarring yet coherent, Tomb Mold compositions evoke a distorted world alongside our own where all manner of oddity and peculiarity are permitted.

Songs on ‘Manor Of Infinite Forms’ move in strange ways, recklessly contorting into cohesion until suddenly they’re proceeding with a force and purpose in perfect synchronicity to the universe that contains them. Disharmoniously melding the pulverizing heaviness of Finnish Death Metal with a never overbearing striking technicality, Tomb Mold careen through world after world of alien landscape with formidable singularity.

Tracked in Toronto ‘Manor Of Infinite Forms’ then landed in the hands of Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Pissgrave, Code Orange) to achieve its organically huge mix. A remarkable puzzle of an album, ‘Manor Of Infinite Forms’ constitutes a creative high point for 2018’s many strong Death Metal releases.

1. Raise The Flails 01:25
2. The Smell Of Ancient Dust 03:52
3. Like Smoke Into Fog 03:36
4. To All, To All, To All! 03:58
5. A Time For Courage At The Borderlands 04:16
6. Songs In The Key Of Compromise 03:32
7. Until The Forge Goes Cold 03:12
8. A Stone's Throw 04:00
9. Soon Will Be The Age Of Lessons Learnt 04:26
10. Salvation Rite 05:01
11. The Curse, The Dappled Light 04:23

It’s time for new tales of resistance...Two years after the release of their debut album, The Unlawful Assembly, British anarchist black metal trio, DAWN RAY’D return with Behold Sedition Plainsong. Serving as a call to arms and a potential catalyst for positive radical change, the album is an anthology of incandescence, manifesting in an unrelenting 45 minutes, aerated only by the comparatively gentle interludes courtesy of poignant violin-led passage.

1. Moral Eclipse 02:05
2. Terminal Deity 03:13
3. Juggernaut 05:35
4. The End of Our Rope Is a Noose 08:09
5. Segue 1 01:17
6. Until Your Heart Stops / Segue 2 08:08
7. Halo of Flies 05:00
8. Bottom Feeder / Segue 3 02:52
9. Ebola 04:21
10. Controlled Mayhem Then Erupts 13:57

Cave In have had many musical identities since their inception in Methuen, MA, in 1995, but the one that first established them as underground heroes was the dizzying, face-ripping metal blowout now known the world over as Until Your Heart Stops.
- J Bennett / Decibel Magazine

Until Your Heart Stops continues and widens Cave-In's assault upon body and mind. The chugga-chugga chunks are still there, this time refined into escalating and edgy walls of sound that owe a large debt to Slayer. Newly present, however, are forays into psychedelia and noise. At times expansive and at other times dark and claustrophobic, these always aggressive ventures open new doors for Cave-In. When fused with the usual jarring assemblage of riffs, a bold and original heavy music is created. Perhaps the only band who has successfully tread similar ground is Neurosis. Until Your Heart Stops' production is a major force as well; the band's undertakings are captured and conveyed in a way that at times sound impossibly dense, balancing gut-stabbing bottom end with piercing highs. This is one key factor among many that burn away the hardcore framework through which Cave-In originally slipped.
- Matt Kantor / All Music

Forget Master of Puppets and the ever-evolving D&D discs of Mastodon for a minute. If there’s one metal record we reach for on a regular basis, it’s Cave In’s first proper full-length, the decade-old Until Your Heart Stops. A dizzying array of chord-climbing riffs, speaker-rattling vocals and traumatic time changes—not to mention the anvil-dropping rhythm section of drummer J.R. Conners and bassist Caleb Scofield—it’s a prime example of masochistic pop music, catchy but chaotic stuff that wouldn’t sound out of place while driving your car off a cliff.
- Self-Titled Magazine