Hello MetalSucks reader! Welcome to Sh*t That Comes Out Today, your Satanic bible of this week’s heavy new releases. We list ‘em, we spotlight ‘em, we link you to their preview jams and full streams — and we usually stick ‘em in a fancy Spotify playlist too (below) — all for your jammage! Now crank this shit up.

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Uada

Devoid Of Light (Eisenwald)

On a playlist with: False, Akhlys, Abyssal

Listen “Black Autumn, White Spring” (here)

Suffice it to say: Devoid Of Light strongly competes for this year’s best black metal album. Yes, we’ve many months (and many releases) to go, but holy shit. The ghastly album art, the disquieting and unsettling tunes, and the moments of pure sublimation when blastbeats and howling become Total Atmosphere. Uada have placed a complicated and angry piece of artwork at your feet, and it seeks complete mind control: do you jam?

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Poly-Math

Melencolia EP (Superstar Destroyer)

On a playlist with: Thomas Giles sans vocals, Animals As Leaders sans metal, The Ocean sans aquatic undertones

Listen Melencolia EP full stream (here) listen

A band named Poly-Math is bound only to be hokey-pokey as hell, right? Wrong, baby. For all the hip pretense and whathaveyou drawn out of our collective subconscious revulsion for instrumental math-prog, the Melencolia EP makes quite the show. There’s a childish innocence (like a kid playing with blocks in the sand) which overrides said aforementioned pretense, plus overall it kind of sounds, you know, simultaneously relaxing and stimulating?

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Zakk Wylde

Book Of Shadows II (eOne)

On a playlist with: Marshall Amplification + Gibson Les Paul + EMG Pickups

Listen “Sleeping Dogs” (here)

Love or hate: Mr. Wylde and his various musical pursuits. In one fist, there’s the sauciness his early work with Ozzy, e.g. No More Tears. In the other, those godawful last few BLS albums. Does this guy just willy-nilly all his shit? Who knows, though two facts remain: The original Book Of Shadows, already 20 years old, proved the efficacy of Mr. Wylde’s tough-guy-gone-soft sentiment and his killer songwriting. The new Book Of Shadows II demonstrates that he’s not lost it (thankfully).

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Bog Of The Infidel

Asleep In The Arms Of Suicide (Eternal Death)

On a playlist with: One Master, Skáphe, Geryon

Listen “Coils Of The Noose” (here)

Making sense of Asleep In The Arms Of Suicide means stomaching its exacting discordance and the purposeful lo-fi, which can be boner-kills if not properly executed. Blackened-death/black metal fans will necessary decoding skills under belt, and probably an appetite to boot. Though if Bog’s 2013 release (very NSFW) is any indication, Asleep will attract the people-who-didn’t-know-they-were-fans-until-they-discovered-how-awesome-it-is kind of people, and that’s always a plus!

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Cult Of Luna & Julie Christmas

Mariner (Indie)

On a playlist with: Neurosis, Isis, Pelican

Read the MetalSucks review (here)

Listen Mariner full stream (here)

True talent can be faked, believe it or not. There are all manners of cover-up available: over-distortion, chaos structure, post-production, etc. Cult Of Luna and Julie Christmas (ex-Made Out Of Babies) reject that whole fuckin’ lot. Whatever authenticity is, Mariner has it. It is it, a vast expanse of reflection and emotion in the folds and curvatures of post-metal. And Christmas has some serious pipes.

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Ihsahn

Arktis (Candlelight)

On a playlist with: Emperor, Leprous, Devin Townsend + Cynic

Listen “Under Pressure” (here) “Crooked Red Line” (here) “Mass Darkness” (here)

Prior Ihsahn albums have all been mysterious, powerful, and i-d-i-o-s-y-n-c-r-a-t-i-c. Fans can “pick and choose” as they please, depending on whether they seek rawness (After), prog (Das Seelenbrechen), etc. And now here comes Arktis, a more “traditional” output, with tidbits of extra showmanship and noodlage, but decisively and incomparably Ihsahn. You know what to expect, but you will elated and surprised.

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OTHER SHIT THAT COMES OUT TODAY

All Hail The Yeti Screams From A Black Wilderness (Minus Head) listen listen

Bloodthirst Glorious Sinners EP (Pagan) listen

Boss Keloid Herb Your Enthusiasm (BlackBow) listen

Cannibal Accident Ritual Paprika (Nailjar) listen

Conquest Under The Influence covers (Dark Star) listen

CreTura Fall Of The Seventh Golden Star (Wormholedeath) listen

Deftones Gore (Warner Bros) listen listen listen

Depicting Abysm Passage (Naturmacht) listen

Desaster The Oath Of An Iron Ritual (Metal Blade) listen

Doogie White & La Paz Shut Up And Rawk! (Metal Mind) listen

Double Experience Unsaved Progress (Colfax) listen

Erra Drift (Sumerian) listen

Geryon The Wound And The Bow (Profound Lore) listen

The Glorious Rebellion Euphoric (Magnetic Eye) listen

Inherit Disease Ephemeral (Unique Leader) listen listen

Left Behind Seeing Hell (Unbeaten) listen

Lock & Key Peaceless (Crooked Noise) listen

Mad Hatter’s Den Excelsior (Inverse) listen

Misteyes Creeping Time (Maple Metal) listen

Ommadon VI (Burning World) listen

Palace Of Worms The Ladder (Broken Limbs) listen listen

Ragehammer The Hammer Doctrine (Pagan) listen

Red Wizard Cosmosis (Ripple) listen

Sarvas The Throne EP (Inverse) listen

Sinistro Semente (Season Of Mist) listen

Sourvein Aquatic Occult (Metal Blade) listen listen

Throw The Fight Transmissions (Bullet Tooth) listen

Unnatural The Path To Ruin EP (HPGD) listen

Various Artists Metal Massacre 14 (Metal Blade) listen

Wode Wode (Broken Limbs) listen

Zhrine Unortheta (Season Of Mist) listen listen