November 3, 2023:
The Struts, Pretty Vicious (Interscope): The over-the-top glam rockers return with their fourth studio effort.
Bad Wolves, Die About It (Better Noise): According to drummer John Boecklin, the band looks for a “fresh start” and “push the possibilities of what you can do with heavy music” with their fourth studio album.
Suffocation, Hymns From The Apocrypha (Nuclear Blast): Marking the recorded debut of new singer Ricky Myers, the veteran metal band releases their first album since 2017.
Yawning Balch, Volume Two (Heavy Psych Sounds Records): The second of two albums that came from Yawning Man and Bob Balch’s (Fu Manchu) improvised jam session.
Spiritbox, The Fear of Fear EP (Rise/Pale Chord Music): The band looks to build on the momentum from their 2021 debut.
Silent Planet, Superbloom (Solid State): Silent Planet show their resilience with a new album inspired by a van accident that nearly took the band members’ lives. Its release marks one year to-the-day from the accident’s occurrence.
Carnation, Cursed Mortality (Season of Mist)
Green Lung, This Heathen Land (Nuclear Blast)
Satan’s Fall, Destination Destruction (Steamhammer/SPV)
Angra, Cycles Of Pain (Atomic Fire)
Briqueville, IIII (Pelagic)
Carnal Tomb, Embalmed In Decay (Testimony)
Crystal Coffin, The Curse Of Immortality (A Beast In The Field)
Degrave, Volume (HPGD)
Dirty Honey, Can’t Find The Brakes (Dirt)
Drop Nineteens, Hard Light (Wharf Cat)
Dying Wish, Symptoms Of Survival (SharpTone)
Fuming Mouth, Last Day Of Sun (Nuclear Blast)
Gong, Unending Ascending (Kscope)
Gypsy Pistoleros, Duende A Go Go Loco! (Earache)
Kontrust, madworld (Napalm)
Kraanium, Scriptures Of Vicennial Defilement (Unique Leader)
Light Beams, Wild Life (Dischord)
Melancholia, Book Of Ruination (Brutal Panda)
Morne, Engraved With Pain (Metal Blade)
Mortuary Drape, Black Mirror (Peaceville)
Paint It Black, Famine (Revelation)
Tiffy, So Serious (Independent)
Xoth, Exogalactic (Dawnbreed)
Krypta, Outo laakso (Svart Records)
Acid Force, World Targets in Megadeaths (Jawbreaker Records)
Warcrab, The Howling Silence (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Serenity, Nemesis AD (Napalm Records)
Amalekim, Avodah Zarah (Avantgarde Music)
Nahasheol, Serpens Abyssi (Wolves of Hades)
NecroticGoreBeast, Repugnant (Comatose Music)
The Convalescence, Harvesters of Flesh and Bone (Cleopatra Records)
Kill the King, Kill the King (Independent)
Witches Hollow, Grimoire (Iron, Blood and Death Corporation)
Manipulator, Drawing Secret Circles (Independent)
Detoxen, Dead Man’s Weapon (Independent)
Katholik, Entropic Evolution (Amputated Vein Records)
Ch’ahom, Knots of Abhorrence (Sentient Ruin Laboratories)
Pénitence Onirique, Nature Morte (Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions)
Below a Silent Sky, Walls of Light (Independent)
Sea Mosquito, Igitur (Independent)
Cosmitorium, Broken Archetypes (Independent)
Veruta, Forked Tongue of Fire (Transylvanian Recordings)
Totenmesse, Fiktionlust (Pagan Records)
Cemetery of Scream, Oceans (Sleaszy Rider Records)
