October 2014 update

Shit I've been listening to lately, some of it new (and to be kept on the downlow), some of it not. Enjoy.

al-Kafir - Prozac EP (grind, powerviolence)
AN - D (death metal, grindcore, black metal)
Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle (epic black metal, doom)
Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity (metalcore, hardcore, technical)
Enabler - La Fin Absolue Du Monde (hardcore, crust)
Every Time I Die - Hot Damn! (metalcore, hardcore)
G - AWLOBF (industrial)
Panopticon - Roads To The North (atmospheric black metal)
TR - EN (grind, hardcore, crust, powerviolence)

Abaddon Incarnate - Pessimist

Raging death metal inflected grindcore.

B - TS

Haven't paid any attention to or cared about this band in a long time, but hey this is one of the cooler death metal records I've heard in a while.

Sokushinbutsu - Holy Ground EP

Grinding death metal.

Ilsa - Intoxicantations

Crust/sludge/death/doom.

Abyssal - Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius

Grim as fuck doom/death metal.

Hivesmasher - Gutter Choir

Technical, mathy death metal and grindcore.

Owen Hart - Earth Control

Is it metallic hardcore? Or hardcorelic metal? Now known as Earth Control since the Owen Hart Foundation made them change their name.

Animosity - Animal

Holy shit, this album is five years old? I must be getting old. Anyway, it's good fun. Technical death metal with a smidgen of 'core influence.

Encoffination - Elegant Funerals For The Unknown Dead

New EP from the grimmest death metal band in the entire world.

AN - V

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Mother Brain

Savage deathgrind.

Black September - Into The Darkness Into The Void

Criminally underrated epic crusty blackened death.

Ectovoid - Fractured In The Timeless Abyss

Grim, old school blackened death. It sounds like how you would expect it to, but not as boring. Muddy and evil, somewhere between Inquisition and Incantation.

Abnormality - Contaminating the Hive Mind

Once in a while a death metal album comes along that rustles my jimmies in just the right way. Contaminating the Hive Mind is one of those albums. Brutal and technical and all that, with (and this is key) fairly memorable songs and riffs to boot. If you give a shit about one death metal album this year, well, it should probably be Denoument, but this come in a close second or third.

Nuclear Death Terror

I'm even starting things off legally! NDT is a heavy, crust-as-fuck exercise in primitive punk and death metal barbarism. Amebix, Bolt Thrower, and Extreme Noise Terror all come to mind. They have a new album on Southern Lord that I haven't found yet, but their first demo, LP, and a 7" are available on their website for free.