Relapse Reco

PRIMITIVE MAN return with their most crushing album to date, Observance. After twelve years at the forefront of underground music, PRIMITIVE MAN takes merciless aim at the plentiful ills that besiege the world around them, and in the process of doing so do not spare themselves from their flagellating tongue-lashings. Despite leaning into their more experimental side, PRIMITIVE MAN maintain a tight grip on the heavy sound that has defined them for years. Observance is still a challenging record, demanding the listener’s attention at every turn. The sound of Observance is imbued with a new element for the band - sadness. Yet McCarthy describes this as the most positive PRIMITIVE MAN record to date; even as they pick over the carcass of disillusionment they still seek a way out, a path towards the light.

Onward To Golgotha Live, now newly remastered by Dan Swäno & available for the first time on physical and streaming formats, is taken from the Onward To Golgotha DVD, originally released in 2006. The live audio features sets from the Onward To Golgotha 1992 Tour at Cell Block in Bensalem, PA on March 29, 1992; from Studio 1 Show in Newark, NJ in 1992 & Flashes Show, recorded in Cleveland, OH on March 28, 1992.

Myrkur: Mausoleum [CD]

Death: Fate - The Best Of Death (reissue) [CD]

The UK's IRON MONKEY return with their highly anticipated new album, Spleen and Goad!On the new album, the legendary band are as uncompromising ever, churning out some of the most gritty sounding sludge doom in their 25 + year history. Dubbed a "doom sludge vanguard" by The Sludgelord, IRON MONKEY live up to their legacy, absolutely pummelling through each of the 8 tracks on their new album. From the two-ton, heavier-than-anything-else riff opening "Concrete Shock", IRON MONKEY show no signs of easing up; fuzzed out guitars crash against pulse-pound drums, set against vicious, misanthropic snarls and barks. Elsewhere, tracks like the aptly titled "Rat Flag" kicks the band into high gear with palpable fury and malaise.Recorded in their native Nottingham, Spleen and Goad was mastered stateside by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

Obscura: Retribution [CD]

Dying Fetus: Grotesque Impalement Reissue [CD]