Morning y'all. This week's edition features Bloodbath and some other stuff. To the metals…
Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral 
Genre: Death metal
Origin: Stockholm, Sweden
Label: Peaceville
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Now with Nick Holmes of Paradise Lost on the mic, Bloodbath are back in full force. His performance is better than I expected. Not that he's bad or anything, it's just this is very different than Paradise Lost. Get stoked for the next chapter of the band sans Akerfeldt (second, actually).
Cadaveria – Silence 
Genre: Gothic metal
Origin: Biella, Italy
Label: Scarlet
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Like if The Agonist decided to take a page out of Cradle of Filth's book. Blackened-ish, but more into the theatrics than corpse paint. Still not quite Opera IX, but whatever.
In This Moment – Black Widow 
Genre: Metalcore
Origin: Los Angeles, California
Label: Atlantic
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I would have never guessed that this band would be so huge after they played Ozzfest. There's a section of you that will be pissy because I included them at all, but they are a good gateway band into metal. If you know someone into them, there's hope for better things. Anyway, they have some djenty moments on the lead single for the album, so they're expanding their sound a bit too. Stream it all here.
Monster Magnet – Milking The Stars: A Re-Imagining of Lost Patrol
Genre: Stoner
Origin: Red Bank, New Jersey
Label: Napalm
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Some new songs and some remixes. There was a goal to create a 60's vibe of this version of their last album. Seems like normal pretty good Monster Magnet to me, I don't follow them closely though.
Scott Ian – Swearing Words in Glasgow DVD 
Genre: Spoken word
Origin: Queens, New York
Label: Megaforce
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Scott Ian is pulling a Henry Rollins and going out bandless and telling stories, and is doing it well. The few clips of his stories that I've seen are compelling and funny. It's not metal, hell it isn't music, but it's a metal guy telling metal stories.
Also dropping today…
Adaliah – Shedding Skin (Mediskare)
Albert Bell's Sacro Sanctus – Deus Volt (Metal on Metal)
Anguish – Mountain (Dark Descent)
Aphotic Threnody – When Death Comes (Doomentia)
Axx of Hate – Risen (Mulligore)
Born of Fire – Dead Winter Sun (Pure Steel)
Brant Bjork and the Low Desert Punk Band – Black Power Flower (Napalm)
Carnal Agony – Preludes & Nocturnes (Sliptrick)
Crimson Blue – The Angelic Performance (My Kingdom)
Cuff – Transient Suffering Through the Ergosphere (Gore House)
Dantalion – Where Fear Is Born (Sleaszy Rider)
The Dead – Deathsteps To Oblivion (Transcending Obscurity)
The Deathtrip – Deep Drone Master (Svart)
Dimension – Revolution (Nightmare)
Dire Omen – Wrestling the Revelation of Futility (Dark Descent)
Dominanz – Noxius (Industrial Silence)
Evil Spirit – Cauldron Messiah (Horror)
The Ghost Inside – Dear Youth (Epitaph)
Hands of Orlac – Figli Del Crepuscolo (Horror)
Hi-gh – Til Death and After (Metal on Metal)
Hombre Malo – Persistent Murmur of Words of Wrath (Disiplin)
In Tormentata Quiete – Cromagia (My Kingdom)
Kaledon – Antillius: The King Of the Light (Scarlet)
Korzus – Legion (AFM)
Kult Ofenzivy – Nauky Ruznic (Iron Bonehead)
Metal Cross – Metal Cross (Horror)
Manimalism – Manimalism (Adversum)
Mortuary Drape – Spiritual Independence (Iron Tyrant)
Nesseria – Fractures (Throatruiner)
Paul Di'Anno – The Beast Arises DVD (Metal Mind)
P.O.D. – SoCal Sessions (Universal)
Satan – Trail of Fire: Live in North America (Listenable)
Senser – Stacked Up XX (Strike Back)
Sonata Arctica – Ecliptica Revisited: 15th Anniversary Edition (Nuclear Blast / Metalville)
Soulburn – The Suffocating Darkness (Century Media)
Stormvold – Third Bestial Mutilation (Xtreem)
Stubb – Cry Of The Ocean (Ripple)
Thanatos – Global Purification (Century Media)
These Are They – At The Feast of Seven Funerals (Unruly Sounds / The End)
Threshold – For The Journey (Nuclear Blast / Metalville)
Timeworm – Luminescent Wake (Disiplin)
Ulver – Trolsk Sortmetall 1993-1997 Box Set (Century Media)
V-Anger – In Shovel We Trust (Sliptrick)
While Heaven Wept – Suspended At Aphelion (Nuclear Blast)
Xtrmst – Xtrmst (Dim Mak)
