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The month of frights and good Death metal is upon us all! And so, I decided (a long time ago, to be honest) to give you a selection of the best Death I've heard this month.

.1: The Suffocation Chapter
Suffocation... one of the first TechDeath bands, if you know them you know what you're going to get. I'm not doing separate intros for each album because, to be honest, they albums aren't that diferent. Big bits of genius hidden amongst their riffs and vocals. My favourite would be Pierced From Within and Pinnacle Of Bedlam, but Breeding The Spawn is also very, very good. It sounds like it was recorded in a school bathroom, but whatever. I'll look into it, see if I can get it at a better quality. Anyway, I feel like a warning is in order. Suffosaction may not be the best Death to start with. It's pretty (very) brutal and newcomers might get spooked.

1. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

2. Suffocation - Breeding The Spawn

3. Suffocation - Pierced From Within

4. Suffocation - Suffocation

5. Suffocation - Pinnacle Of Bedlam

.2: The Bolt Thrower Chapter
Bolt Thrower is a band I've ignored for a while and I figured it was time I started listening. Sadly, it was around the same time they disbanded, so I'll never get to see them live. At least we have their albums. They play an old school brand of Death, but you couldn't ever tell by their album covers. Some of the covers are taken off video games, and the logo doesn't scream Death metal at all. Anyway, they are were very good in what they do did, maybe not among my favourites though.

6(66). Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness

7. Bolt Thrower - War Master

8. Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade

9. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

.3: The Autopsy Chapter
Autopsy is a name most of you should know. If you don't, let me fill you in: they also play old-school Death, but sometimes moments of Doom (very reminiscent of Asphyx) pop in. From their '89 debut, Severed Survival, to now, they have implemented more and more of these doomy parts, which I really love. Also, the vocalist is changing his vocal style just like I switch personalities (but don't listen to him).

10. Autopsy - Severed Survival

11. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal

12. Autopsy - The Headless Ritual

.4: The Random Chapter

13. Sepultura - Schizophrenia
Before you scream "THRASH!", let me say I consider Schizophrenia more Death than any form of Thrash. But I have to adress the riffs. Oh my holy Hell, the riffs in this fucking album. Some of the sweetest things I have ever heard. Trust me and go ahead with this one.

Sepultura - Schizophrenia
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14. Corrosive Carcass - Forbidden Lands
Man, this album got me hooked from the first... thing (inhaling? That's what it is) the vocalist did. It sounded so unearthly, and it set me in the mood for the album. The thing that stands out the most here is most likely some very melodic and well done solos.

Corrosive - Forbidden Lands
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15. Putrevore - Tentacles of Horror
Another typical Xtreem Music Death outing, this one is very reminiscent of russian Grond's Worship The Kraken through it's sound and obvious obsession with tentacles.

Putrevore - Tentacles of Horror
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16. Spawn Of Possession - Incurso
One of the modern masterpieces of TechDeath, in my honest opinion, up there with Necrophagist and Obscura. The classical music influences are flooding this album (in a good sense). I've spent around 2 years looking for this album, only having the artwork in mind, and when I found it, there was a joyous celebration of my pirating skills.

Spawn Of Possession - Incurso
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17. Sophicide - Perdition Of The Sublime
On almost the same level of skill as Incurso, this TechDeath piece is unique in it's own way: the band was a one-man piece at the time PotS was released. This only makes this record better in my head.

Sophicide - Perdition Of The Sublime
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18. Carcass - Surgical Steel
I'm not a big Carcass fan, since their name reminds me constantly of "casserole" (joke, the band name will never be a relevant way of judging their music). Anyway, my introduction to them was 2013's Surgical Steel, and what a stellar album this is. I really hope they were always as insanely fun and good as here. This album has a certain charm that makes me rediscover it every time I hit play.

Carcass - Surgical Steel
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19. Akral Necrosis - Underlight
Akral Necrosis, fellow countrymen, keep reinforcing their title as one of my favourite Black bands. This is their latest opus and is really a masterpiece. Even if Underlight may be a fish out of water among all these Death records, it deserves it's spot on the best of October without a doubt.

Akral Necrosis - Underlight
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20. Benediction - Transcend The Rubicon
This is probably Benediction's best known album, and certainly the only one I have listened to. Even with that, it doesn't have even half of the recognition it deserves. I'm not very familiar with Benediction, but you should expect them more often.

Benediction - Transcend The Rubicon
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Alright, another month passes by, my playlist enlarges. I'm already thinking about a "Death For November" post. Be sure it will contain a lot of Master and some Nile. In the meantime, expect Brotherhood Of The Snake when it's out.
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The 30th Of September 2016: Gateway To New Metal

As I've said before, the 30th of September was a special day, since it's not everyday that not 1, not 2, but 3 great bands release new albums.
Without further redo (just apologies for the delay), we can get right into this metal storm.

1. Asphyx - Incoming Death
You know me, we can only start with the Death portion. Asphyx are one of the best around, and I actually think that Incoming Death is my favourite among the modern Asphyx records. Division Brandenburg might be the best song in here. If you still want other Asphyx stuff, go HERE.

Asphyx - Incoming Death

2. Negura Bunget - ZI
A mixed bag in my eyes. When I think of Negura Bunget, I think of some of the greatest Black metal my country has had to offer. Maiastru Sfetnic and 'N Crugu Bradului are statements that inspiration and talent can come from any misty forest, be it in Romania or Finland (OM is overrated). Fuck, even TAU was a great record and that was received poorly by many. ZI has some amazing moments, like the godly transition between acoustic and Black on Gradina Stelelor, or the build-up on Tul-ni-ca-rand, but the album is littered with filler, and mostly boring filler. That means that ZI is only a background listen, and it passes very fastly, since there isn't much Black on these 6 songs. One of them is a folk song, damn it! A good one, but not a Negura Bunget one.

Negura Bunget - ZI

3. Opeth - Sorceress
I've bragged about listening to Sorceress in advance, but is it any good? Yes and no.
Imagine this: you had a tiring day but a good sleep, and you wake up 1 hour early. You go out on the balcony, light a cig and sip a warm coffee. You'd want a very... calm, relaxing album to go with that, wouldn't you? Sorceress is exactly that. It IS for the faint of heart. It's moments of metal are few and far between, with a lot of ProgRock along the way. You might have noticed Opeth are now one of the regulars here o Metal Hut, since we've had Orchid (HERE) and Blackwater Park (HERE), but Sorceress is not those Deathers' album. I'm happy they took a direction they are comfortable with, and I can admit there are moments of genius on Sorceress, like the powerful but soft ballad Will O The Wisp, the end passage on Strange Brew or the entirety of The Wilde Flowers. For laid back, chill people.

Opeth - Sorceress

4*. Insomnium - Winter's Gate
Call it civil duty, an apology for my 5 day-absence or just my never-ending good will to you, guys, but I felt like sharing 2 bonus albums with you. However, these 2 bonus records have 1 thing in common. Can't put your finger on it? It rhimes with "it's less work for me to upload". Both Winter's Gate and the faimous Crimson are 1 song-records, both subgenres of Death and... obviously... both very good.
Winter's Gate is my second album from MeloDeath geniuses Insomnium, talking about some Vikings on a journey of discovering friendship and death by freezing (I was sarcastic). Like Crimson and Pleiades' Dust, it manages effortlessly to make me pay attention through the entire 40 minutes.

Insomnium - Winter's Gate

5*. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
Everything I said about Winter's Gate can be said about Crimson, even though the subject is very good. A post-apocalyptic society? Count me the fuck in! Also, you might know Edge Of Sanity from Unorthodox (HERE), which is in the same vein as Crimson. Both are as good, but if you know just how great Unorthodox was, you'd listen to Crimson right away.

Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

Done with these 3 albums and these 2 one song-records, our journey through the metal world goes on. Try to guess which band I'll give you next. It rhymes with murder and suicide, but it ain't Mayhem.
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