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Here is the Cutting Edge Metal team’s roundup of this week’s essential new metal releases…
Blackbraid – Blackbraid III
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
About: Native American solo project Blackbraid delivers Blackbraid III, a deeply atmospheric and haunting full-length infused with cultural resonance and nature-inspired despair. Pristine acoustic passages clash with raw black metal intensity in a deeply personal musical journey.
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Thorn – Nebulous Womb of Eternity
Genre: Death/Doom Metal
About: Phoenix’s Thorn return with Nebulous Womb of Eternity, a slow-burning beast of emotive doom riffage and desolate heaviness. It’s suffocating, grim, and richly textured—doom that demands emotional surrender.
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Sinsaenum – In Devastation
Genre: Blackened Death / Groove Metal
About: Supergroup Sinsaenum explode back with In Devastation, merging raging groove-laden riffs, flickering blackened atmospheres, and ferocious brutality. A devastatingly tight record from the death metal elite.
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Cytolysis – Surge of Cruelty
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
About: Drummer Darren Cesca of Deeds of Flesh returns with his solo project Cytolysis for Surge of Cruelty, a savage assault of punishing technicality, guttural fury, and visceral songwriting. This is brutal death metal carved from bone.
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Paralysis – Spiral of Suffering
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
About: New Jersey crossover team Paralysis unleash Spiral of Suffering, a relentless mix of punk-fueled thrash speed, mosh-ready riffs, and chaotic energy. A brash, energetic return to metal’s street-level roots.
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Cemetery – Thoughts on Life… and Death
Genre: Blackened Death Metal
About: Cemetery’s Thoughts on Life… and Death is a concept album of unwavering bleakness, tackling themes of societal decay and personal erasure via haunting melodies and relentless blackened death pummeling.
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Mehrwertsteuer – Krone der Schöpfung
Genre: Melodic Black/Death Metal
About: Germany's enigmatic one-man project Mehrwertsteuer delivers Krone der Schöpfung, combining icy black metal tremolos with melodic death cadence in a tightly crafted, fiercely atmospheric debut.
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And the unearthed, on-rotation metal acts featured this week are:
Ocean of Illusions
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