blut aus nord

Excuse our brief interruption – here’s some releases from the last two weeks that urgently demand your ears, including Misery Index, Blut aus Nord, Primitive Man, and more. Expect this week’s releases in a few days.

Blut aus Nord returns with yet another masterclass in the strange and unsettling. Read our review of “Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses.”

We crunched the numbers across our individual year-end lists and arrived at #1; then we said “fuck it” and “all these albums rule,” so here those are in one handy spot.

Chris Butler lists out his top picks for the year, including Herod, Tool, Wormwitch, and more.

Associate Editor Jon Rosenthal’s unexpected picks for the year at large.

The “I’m Listening to Death Metal” mastermind likes more than just death metal… but still loves death metal.

An Invisible Oranges newcomer reflects on his return to writing in his first year-end list.

Five of our favorite heavy releases from last month — September 2019 brought a veritable hell-maw’s worth of new tunes, so picking our top albums was no easy task.

The surprising new face of the long-standing French weirdo black metal group will turn heads.

Apparently, someone leaked it, so the label responded by just putting it out.