What's New In Metal Releases Today, August 18th

Everybody ready for New Release Friday? A horde of killer albums and EPs across the genre spectrum officially land today, August 18th.

Below we're rounding up everything of note that is now available digitally or physically. We're leaving out the DVD releases and anything live, though. If you're an uber fan who actually likes live albums, you'll already know about all those anyway.

Here's whats on tap in the metal world today:

Cold Black - "Circles" (electronica infused metalcore)
Inferum - "Modern Massacre" (death metal)
Thy Art Is Murder - "Dear Desolation" (death metal / deathcore)
Beneath - "Ephemeris" (death metal)
Rabid Bitch Of The North - "Nothing But a Bitter Taste" (traditional metal)
The Hirsch Effekt - "Escapist" (Indie / electro postpunk mathcore)
Eluveitie - "Evocation II" (folk)
Void Ritual - "Heretical Wisdom (black metal)
Casket Robbery - "The Ascension" (groove / death metal)
Necrolytic Goat Converter - "Isolated Evolution" (depressive black metal)
Old Iron - "Lupus Metallorum" (doom/sludge)
Funeralglade - "May The Funeral Begin" (melodic death metal)
Becomes Astral - "Paleblood Sky" (tech death)
False Gods - "Reports From Oblivion" (doom/sludge)
Slamophiliac - "Slam Rehab" (brutal death metal)
Sons of Crom - "The Black Tower" (epic heavy metal)
Ulvedharr - "Total War" (death / thrash)
End Of Green - "Void Estate" (dark rock)

Did we miss anything worth hearing that came out today? Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to tell us what you are picking up this week!