Here’s a list of upcoming releases for 2016 that I’m looking forward to hearing. I’ll be updating this list periodically.
Abhomine – Larvae Offal Swine LP [New Pete Helmkamp project]
Absu – Apsu LP [The conclusion to the band’s latest trilogy of albums]
AHNA – Crimson Dawn LP [They get better with every release.]
Blood Incantation – Starspawn LP [Heard some of this right from the label, this will a monument of technical death metal]
Bloody Master/Sempiternal Dusk – Split LP [Pacific northwest death doom]
The Body – No One Deserves Happiness LP [Portland sludge that’s always pushing forward]
The Body & Full of Hell – One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache [The Body make great collab albums!]
Bone Sickness – Debut LP [Repulsion meets Autopsy from Washington State.]
Deceased – Ghostly White LP [It’s Deceased. Enough said.]
Destroyer 666 – Wildfire LP [New songs sound way better than the last LP already]
Funebrarum – Exhumation of the Ancient mLP [US Death metal with a new line up]
Gadget – The Great Destroyer LP [First LP in 10 years, Nasum style grind]
Gorguts – Pleiades’ Dust EP [A single song from the masters of technical death metal.]
Grave Miasma – Endless Pilgrimage mLP [Dark UK death metal]
Incantation – 10th LP [Favourite death metal band re-signs to Relapse, no question this will be heavy.]
Interment – Scent of the Buried LP [Swedish death metal boasting a huge low end]
Inverloch – Distance | Collapsed LP [diSEMBOWELMENT reborn.]
Knelt Rote – 4th LP [“Trespass” was incredible, high hopes for this black/grind fusion.]
Lantern – 2nd LP [Heard some directly from the label, heavy stuff.]
Massgrave – The Absuridty of Humanity LP [Canada’s crust/grind masters 3rd full length]
Neurosis – 11th Album [Do I need to say anything?]
Paroxsihzem – Abyss of Excruciating Vexes mLP [Preview track sounds like their most vicious work to date]
Putrescence – Voiding Upon the Pulverized LP [Heard a pre-mix, Canada’s goregrind/death metal masters will go out on top.]
Ritual Chamber – Obscurations (To Feast On The Seraphim) LP [Cavernous death metal]
Ritual Necromancy – 2nd LP [Buzzsaw tones, Incantation riffs, gotta hear this.]
Rude – 2nd LP [OSDM worship from the Bay Area.]
Rotten Sound – Abuse to Suffer LP [Finnish grind masters, first album in 5 years.]
Sect Pig – Crooked Backs EP [Abstract black metal]
Sect Pig – Praying Prey EP [Unable to pull away]
Veneficium – Demo [New Zealand band with members of prominent bands out there]
Venomous Concept – Kick Me Silly LP [Hardcore punk supergroup.]
Wake – Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow LP [Deathspell Omega meets Nasum. Sounds amazing.]
Weregoat – 2nd LP [Bestial metal from Portland, always delivers.]