Embrace the adventurous oddity found in these releases by Februus, Green Carnation, Sigh, Sun Guts and Sworn. The major releases aren't free from weirdness either: 156/Silence – From A Distance (metalcore) Chat Pile – Who Loves The Sun (noise rock/sludge metal) Judiciary – Stalagmite Angels (EP) (metallic hardcore) A Night In Texas – The Darkest Side of Humanity (deathcore) PRESIDENT – Blood Of Your Empire (metalcore/alternative rock) Showing Teeth – A Fate Worse Than Lonelin

Watch out for the end-summer avalanche of releases, headed by Black Spikes, Ninth Realm, Static Abyss, Sunscorched and Triosphere. Try not to get too distracted, but there's great stuff up above as well: Beartooth – Pure Ecstasy (hard rock/metalcore) Code: Pandorum – Tales From The Blight (electronica/industrial metal) Exumer – Death Mask Messiah (thrash metal) Flotsam And Jetsam – Rats In The Temple (power/thrash metal) Gorod – The Ember Gone (technical/progressive death me

A combination of hooded cloak, sneakers and brass knuckles will go perfectly with these releases from Cobrafuma, Fen, The Night Eternal, Oddland and Street Tombs. The overground also offers a mix of attitude and gloom: Axty – The Pain Made Me Who I Am (metalcore/deathcore) The Barbarians Of California – Megatons (hardcore) Rising Insane – Deathrace (metalcore) Chelsea Wolfe – The Dark (folk/doom) TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Fen – Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth Genre: Atmospheri

A collection of style-divergence to keep you on your toes, from The Absolution Sequence, Coyote Man, Ironflame, Living Weapon and Raunchy. Big releases? What do you mean? Well okay then, have one, at least: Marilyn Manson - One Assassination Under God - Chapter 2 (alternative metal/rock) TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Coyote Man – Prosthetic Memories Genre: Progressive/sludge metal Subjective rating: 4/5 Objective rating: 4/5 Country of origin: USA This is one of those progressive albu

Give up on your high spirits and give in to the anger and gloom of these releases by Aspen Sanctum, Gravecrawler, Hulder, Saprovore and Temple of Dread. The mood is much elevated among the week's major releases: Cancer Bats – Give Me Dirt (sludge metal/hardcore) John & Cody Carpenter + Daniel Davies – Cathedral (cinematic gothic metal/synthwave) Electric Callboy – Tanzeid (industrial/pop metal) Xandria – Eclipse (symphonic metal) TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Aspen Sanctum – To Withho

Get back into the everyday rhythm with these releases by Complexant, Finsterforst, Fractal Sun, Lipoma and Nothingness. The overground offers both surprises and... well... the opposite: Allt – Ataraxia (progressive metalcore) Disfiguring the Goddess – Bloom (brutal death metal/deathcore) Five Finger Death Punch – Legacy (alternative metal/hard rock) Bear McCreary – The Singularity: Eklepsis (progressive metal) TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Nothingness – Godslaughter Genre: Death metal

We're back after a short vacation break with releases from Faustian, Ripper and Sallow Moth. It's still fairly quiet in the big leagues, with a couple of notable exceptions: The Hu – Hun (folk rock/metal) Rezn – Cycles in the Infinite Dream (psychedelic stoner/doom metal) TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Ripper – Towards Rebirth Genre: Thrash/death metal Subjective rating: 4/5 Objective rating: 3.5/5 Chilean band Ripper are one of those that have no problem convincing you that they do, i

Technicality and speed are the main (but not only) ingredients in these releases by Apogean, Dysgnostic, Iron Slaught and Volubilis. The big releases are more straightforward this week, but not weak: DevilDriver – Strike And Kill (groove/melodic death metal) No Cure – It Is Going To Get Dark (hardcore/death metal) The Plot In You – The Plot In You (metalcore/alternative metal) What Lies Below – I Let It Consume Me (metalcore) TOP PICK OF THE WEEK Iron Slaught – Metallic Torme