I promise I’m not dead, just very busy with both work stuff and life stuff. Thanks to other posters for contributing content to the community! I definitely don’t intend to be the primary poster long-term lol

Pretty hyped for their show

Light on proper tech this week, here's a mix of tangentially related stuff that might be worthwhile

• Diminish the Gods - Exopaedian (AUS-NSW) (I've been waiting for this for over a year, haven't listened yet but should be good for tech/core enthusiasts)
• A Karmic Gray - Ghosts of Times Obscure (USA-OH)
• Shitkluster - Shitocracy (USA-KY)
• Xenocide - S/T [EP] (USA-IL)

Weird prog-death goodness out soon

Whitechapel - The Saw Is the Law (USA-TN, 2014)

Obviously, any metal with "death" in the genre name never ends up literally on the radio. But some singles are catchy in a way that feels like a radio jam. This is one of my best examples of that, alongside Aversions Crown - Hollow Earth and Carnifex - Pray For Peace

Oops late one this week

• Blasteroid - Crypts of Mind (Greece) (ffo Mastodon, but deathier than that)
• Cutterred Flesh - Love at First Bite (Czechia) (again, NYP right now)
• Esodic - De Facto De Jure [EP] (Jordan) (death/thrash, and the first Jordanian band that's come to my attention)
• Vale of Pnath - Between the Worlds of Life and Death (USA-CO)

Who's stoked for more Vale? I see what people are saying about the stylistic shift, but this is still sick

Who else is ready for more Cutterred Flesh? Official release date seems to be tomorrow, but Bandcamp is showing it's currently NYP? Anyway, this opener has me sold

From clicking around, it seems to be that all existing releases are name-your-price, and preorders are $1. Definitely give this a look - here is a sample of albums that appear for me as NYP:

• The Last of Lucy - Godform (yes, the new one, super sick)
• Replicant - Infinite Mortality (also quite new)
• Dyssebeia - Garden of Stillborn Idols
• Arborescence of Wrath - Inferno (underrated af)
• Orphalis - As the Ashes Settle

And some head-turning $1 preorders:

• Carnophage - Matter of a Darker Nature
• Cutterred Flesh - Love at First Bite
• Februus - Surveillance Orgy