PopMatters' metal albums of the month

PM chose 14 new metal albums for this month's edition of MetalMatters, they vary from emo to grind-core. It's: Baroness with their most ambitious project; Cave In and Pelican who released works that were conceived and recorded under struggling times; The Austerity Program returned with one of its strongest works to date; Darkthrone unleashed record containing a condensed dose of the best that '80s extreme music could offer; Fetid produced a truly horrifying death-metal ride; Nucleus traveled to the technical, bizarro sci-fi edge; Panzerfaust returned with another occult offering; Yellow Eyes channeled the spirits of the dissonant cohorts that overwhelmed the '90s black metal; Enablers dropped a new dose of jazz-dappled post-hardcore; Friendship offer a vicious dose of lean, muscular metallic hardcore; Keiji Haino & SUMAC - vibrant bastardization of free jazz; Pinkish Black - brings together sorrow, malaise and spiritual decay and raises them to the point of pure, unadulterated art; Slough Feg - doom metal by philosophy professor.