This edition includes lots of darkness. Some you can dance to, some you can slay too. And more! To the metals…
All Them Witches – ATW 
Genre: Stoner rock
Origin: Nashville, Tennessese
Label: New West
The little I've heard of this has all the fuzz, extended jams, and throwback vibes the band is known for. The track "Fishbelly 86 Onions" features a section that teaches the listener how to count to twenty, so it's also educational. Overall, a well timed album release for the spookiness the year is already entering.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh1Jd8xU42U][/youtube]
Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind Of Horror 
Genre: Industrial/black metal
Origin: Birmingham, England
Label: Metal Blade
Where All Them Witches brought the spookiness, Anaal Nathrakh is bringing the straight up chaotic horror. A New Kind Of Horror is not a new kind of Anaal Nathrakh, but it's on par with their best moments of their discography. It reminds me a lot of In the Constellation of the Black Widow, and I'm not upset by that.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyHHUImw-VM][/youtube]
The Black Queen – Infinite Games 
Genre: Electronic
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Federal Prisoner
Now of their second album, Greg Puciato and the gang are proving that the success of Fever Daydream was no fluke. This is another album of great electronic music that brings early Nine Inch Nails and 80's vibes to mind. This album is more chill than their first, which isn't a bad thing. Instead, it's almost poetic, because it feels like Greg is trying to get as far from the Dillinger Escape Plan sound as he can for this.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYwk7EuF7iQ][/youtube]
Mirrors For Psychic Warfare – I See What I Became 
Genre: Experimental
Origin: Oakland, California
Label: Neurot
Scott Kelly (Neurosis) and producer Sanford Parker are back with another album of weird, ambient, vaguely sludgy jams. The duo seem set on cementing this as more than a one-off project and they wind up one-uping themselves. Their self-titled debut had cool moments, but this one is intriguing start-to-finish. How many more hyphens could one fit into this micro-review?
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLCbKszn1WA][/youtube]
Revocation – The Outer Ones 
Genre: Technical death metal/thrash
Origin: Boston, Massachusetts
Label: Metal Blade
Can there be too much Revocation? They are on a pretty regular schedule of a new album every two years (with a couple instances of back to back years), and the quality has yet to dip. So it seems like we're not to the point of too much good stuff yet, and as a fan it's the most ideal place to be.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbEBKH_XDrU][/youtube]
Stratovarius – Enigma: Intermission II 
Genre: power metal
Origin: Helsinki, Finland
Label: earMusic
This week has felt very dark tonally, so lets fix that with some power metal! This is mostly a compilation of rarities, but there are also some orchestra versions of older songs, and few new jams on here. It winds up being an epic buffet for fans, and a fun places to check out a variety of material from the band.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYph9C5lTqQ][/youtube]
Un – Sentiment Translation 
Genre: Funeral doom/sludge
Origin: Seattle, Washington
Label: Loss Records
Ending this week in an unbelievably slow and heavy place. This is the four song follow-up to their lauded debut, and it feels like this band is on an upward trajectory in the doom game. I won't be surprised to see this on some of our writers' end of the year lists come December.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJWWfr1cH_M][/youtube]
Also dropping today…
Absolution – Confessions Of The Iniquitous (CDN Records) – Death metal
Ambassador – Belly of the Whale (Self-Released) – Post-punk
Armed For Apocalypse – Palm Reader (N/A) – Sludge
Beartooth – Diseaseout (Red Bull) – Hardcore
Bloodtruth – Martyrium (Unique Leader) – Brutal death metal
Bonehunter – Children Of The Atom (Hells Headbangers) – Black metal/thrash
Candy – Good To Feel (Triple B Records) – Hardcore
Dodsrit – Spirit Crusher (Prosthetic) – Black metal/crust
Electric Citizen – Helltown Riding (Easy Records) – Psychedelic/doom
Farsot/ColdWorld – Toteninsel (Prophecy) – Black metal
A Forest Of Stars – Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Prophecy)
Four Seconds Ago – The Vacancy (3DOT Recordings) – Electronic/ambient
Gouge Away – Burnt Sugar (Deathwish Inc.) – Rock
Hacavitz – Nex Nihil (Moribund) – Black metal
Hangman's Chair – Banileue Triste (Spinefarm) – Stoner/doom
Helrunar – Vanitas Vanitatvm (Prophecy) – Black metal
Horrendous – Idol (Season Of Mist) – Progressive death metal
Hypnos – Set Fire to the Sky (The Sign Records) – Heavy metal
Immortal Guardian – Age Of Revolution (M-Theory Audio) – Power metal/Progressive
Leader Of Down – Cascade Into Chaos (Cleopatra Records) – Hard rock
Livekill – Turned To Grey (SWOL Records) – Metal
The O`Reillys and the Paddyhats – Green Blood (Metalville Records) – Folk punk
Once Human – Stage Of Evolution (earMusic) – Groove metal
Onkel Tom Angelripper – Bier Ernst (SPV/Steamhammer) – Thrash
Paths – In Lands Thought Lost (Bindrune) – Black metal
Scorched – Ecliptic Butchery (20 Buck Spin) – Death metal
Starset – Vessels 2.0 (Fearless) – Rock
Terror – Total Retaliation (Pure Noise) – Hardcore
Tragedy Of Mine – Tenebris (Rough Trade/Out Of Line) – Metalcore
Vreid – Lifehunger (Season Of Mist) – Melodic black metal
Vulcain – Vinyle (Season Of Mist) – Heavy metal
Walking Dead On Broadway – Dead Era (Long Branch Records) – Deathcore
Waxen – Terror Decree (Moribund) – Black metal
Wolfheart – Constellation Of The Black Light (Napalm) – Melodic death metal
