Our cooped up correspondent pecks on prog metal, thrash metal and sad bastard metal this week.

La Sirêne Brewing’s Wild Tripelle took a little while to make it across the Pacific Ocean. By the time this hit shelves last year, it was already aging.

This week’s new releases include albums from Katatonia, Ulcerate and other luminaries of trad-metal, death metal, and raw black metal.

Get a heavy dose of violence and rage from this video off the debut album Sounds of a Disease, from Swedish killers Skam.

One-time Mercyful Fate and King Diamond drummer Snowy Shaw contributes guest vocals to a new track from U.S. death dealers Angerot.

Revisiting South Africa’s Suck and their only release, 1970’s Time to Suck.

Hear and acquire this ultra-rare Graf Orlock X-ray picture flexi disc single, featuring two exclusive new tracks written and recorded for the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Listen to Retox put a stitch in the Cramps!

Get a full D-beatdown from righteous Californian hardcore crushers Destroyed in Seconds (D.I.S.) via Divide and Devour right now.

Let Osaka, Japan “dark witch doom duo” BlackLab lead you down a strange, wild “Forked Road” to the abyss.