This is our pain: Splendidula's Absentia blends black metal and doom with fragile atmospheric passages drenched in grief and sorrow, featuring guest contributions by Aaron Stainthorpe (My Dying Bride) and Tim Yatras (Austere) — hear the title track early via the single. Laconist's Where Being Ends, I Begin marks a devastating comeback for the Brazilian brutal death metal force after a ten-year hiatus, delivering three relentless tracks of savage riffs and extreme vocal brutality. Oskoreien's All Too Human meditates on free will and morality through the tragic story of Charles Whitman, while the self-titled debut fuses atmospheric black metal with post-rock and neofolk in swaths of grandiosity.