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"Doc" Savage, cult film, cult music, Cult television, Euro horror, Louis Paul, Weird Scenes, Weird Scenes inside the goldmine
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16 Tuesday Apr 2019
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:AJNA:, Absinthropy and Salix Babylonica - split, Accursed Spawn - The Virulent Host, AFM records, Agonia records, Ahl Sina - Troops of Pain, Alternative Control, AnnapurnA, Anomalism - Parasitic Spawn, Apneic Void Sounds, Appalling - Inverted Realm, Armagedda - Echoes In Eternity (reissue), Armagedda - Ond Spiritism, Ashen Horde - Fallen Cathedrals, ASYLUM PYRE - N°4, Atomic Kavemen, Avantgarde Music, Azaghal - Of Beasts And Vultures, Backstabber - Conspiracy Theorist, Basilysk - Emergence, Becoming the Lion - Ghosts of A Fallen Soldier, BEWITCHER - Under the Witching Cross, Black Bow Records, Black Lodge Records, Blackguard - "By My Hand", Blood Harvest, Blood Harvest / Caligari, Bloodsoaked Necrovoid - The Apocryphal Paths Of The Ancient, BROCARDE - "Last Supper", BURIAL - Relinquished Souls, BURNING RAIN - Face The Music, Caligari Records, Calyx - Vientos Arcaicos, Clobber Records, Confused Records, Critical Extravasation - Morbid Existence, Crowhurst - III, Crypteria, Cursed Monk Records, De Lirium's Order - Singularity, Dead Girls Corp - Bloody Noses and Hand Grenades, DEIPHAGO - I, Dekathlon - "Two Worlds", DEVOID OF THOUGHT - Cosmic Apoptosis, Drontheim - Down Below, Dying Victims Productions, Ektro, Electrocution - Psychonolatry, EMBALMER - Embalmed Alive, Entombed - Clandestine - Live, Erancnoir, Extrem Metal Music / Rockshots Records, EXTREMA - "For The Loved And The Lost", FINAL COIL - THE WORLD WE LEFT BEHIND FOR OTHERS, Folian - Ache Pillars, FORGJORD - Ilmestykset, Frontiers Music s.r.l., FUNERAL STORM - Arcane Mysteries, Gentle Art of Music, GoreGorecords, Grass - Fresh Grass, Grey Beton Records, Grimm Distribution, H.C. Slim - Sings, Handful of Hate, Harvest Of Death, HAUNT - If Icarus Could Fly, HAUNT - Mosaic Vision, Heavy Feather - Debris & Rubble, Helevorn - Aamamata, hell's headbangers, Helldprod, Hellish Grave - Hell No Longer Waits, Hellripper - Black Arts & Alchemy EP, HiVolMusic, Hosemen - Saturday Nite Conformity, Huelga, Huszar - Providencia, Hypnotic Dirge, Infernal Conjuration - Infernale Metallum Mortis, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, JARS - II Schattenfall - Melancholie des Seins, K-X-P - IV, Kingart Productions, L.A. GUNS - The Devil You Know, Laster - Het Wassen Oog, Leathürbitch - Into The Night, Lightning Records, Lightsabres - A Shortcut to Insanity, Lykantropi - Spirituosa, Medusa Crush Recordings, Misshapen - Transcendence, Moribund records, Morrowless Music, Mosterman Records / EMP Label Group, Mutilate - Contagium, NALE "Ghost Road Blues" (rerelease), NIGHNACHT - Christophila, Nordvis Produktion, Norilsk - Weepers of The Land, OCTOBER TIDE - In Splendor Below, Oculum Dei - Dreams of Desire and Torment, Ogmios Underground, Order 1968 - Tears in the Snow, OREIDA, ORIGIN - Abiogenesis - A Coming Into Existence, Osmose Productions, Ossuaire - Premiers Chants, Our Dying World - Expedition, Overt Enemy - Inception, P.U.T. - WE ARE (BR)OTHERS, Pa Vesh En - Cryptic Rites of Necromancy, Pestilent Death - Chapters of Depravity, PRC Music, Pretty Wild - Interstate 13, Prophecy, PROPHETS OF ADDICTION - Nothing but the Truth, Purity Through Fire, PYTHON - Astrological Warfare, Raw Skull Recordz, Reaper Metal Productions, Red Moon Architect - Kuura, Redefining Darkness Records, Robustfellow Prods, Rockshots Records, Rockshots Records / Extreme Metal Music, Rockshots Records/ Universal, S.R.L. - Hic Sunt Leones, Sacrilegia - The Triclavian Advent, Saeva - “Sanguine Rite”, SCHWARZDORN PRODUCTION, Secret Entertainment, sepulchral productions, Shadow Kingdom, She Made Me Do It - Drenched, Siberian - Live At Studio Underjord, Sinnrs - Profound, SINS OF THE DAMNED - Striking the Bell of Death, Sludgehammer - Antechamber, Snake Tongue - No Escape No Excuse, Solitude / BadMoodMan, Soulseller Records, Steam - Osiris, Straytones - Beware Dark Lord! Here comes Bell-Man, Suffering Hour - Dwell, svart records, Tasteful Turmoil - The Phantom Fear, TEMPLE KOLUDRA - Seven! Sirens! To A Lost Archetype, The Devil, THE END MACHINE, The Flaying - Angry Undead, The Riven, The Sign Records, The Slurs - Shatter Sessions, THE TREATMENT - Power Crazy, The Vinyl Division, third eye cinema podcast, Threeman Productions, TNT - Encore Live in Milano, Topillo Records / Vertebrae, TOTENGOTT - The Abyss, Transcending Obscurity Records, Ungraven - Language of Longing, Usurper - Lords of the Permafrost, Vananidr, VARGRAV - Reign in Supreme Darkness, Various Artists - Volume Doom, Verwustung - Gospel ov Fury, Vigilance - Enter the Endless Abyss, Violet Cold - kOsmik, Vitriolic Transcendence, VOEMMR - O ovnh intot adr mordrb, VORTEX OF END - Ardens Fvror, Wardehns - Now Cometh the Foul, Werewolf, WORMHOLEDEATH, Wraith Productions, Wyrd - Vargtimmen Pt. 1, Xtreem Music, Year Of The Locust, Zephyra - "Fange I Frihet", Zero Fire - Second Sun
Ah, at last the icy hand of Winter begins to loose its grim grip! Spring has sprung and you almost feel like departing the cavern, squinting at an unfamiliar light…
02 Tuesday Apr 2019
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A Sad Sadness Song, AERA - The Craving Within, AnnapurnA, Argonauta Records, ATMF, Barshasketh, BAT - Axestasy, Blot & Bod - Ligæder, Blue Hummingbird On The Left - Atl Tlachinolli, Carrion Mother - Nothing Remains, Cenotaphe - Empyree, CHAINBREAKER - Lethal Desire, CREMATORY STENCH - Grotesque Deformities, CROC NOIR - Mort, De Tenebrarum Principio, Death Worship - End Times, Deathwomb -Moonless Night Sacraments, Departure Chandelier - Antichrist Rise to Power, Dim Aura - The Triumphant Age of Death, Djevelkult / Kyy / Nihil Kaos - Kult of Kaos Serpent, Doombringer - Walpurgis Fires, Dying Victims Productions, FALAISE - A Place I Don’t Belong To, Genuflexion - Apoteosis Fallida, Goatkraft - Sulphurous Northern Bestiality, Grave Infestation - Infesticide, Graves - Ascensao do Impiedoso, Graves - Liturgia da Blasfemia, GREAT FALLS - A SENSE OF REST, Handful of Hate, Harvest Of Death, hell's headbangers, Hexecutor - Hangmen of Roazhon, Hollow Leg - Civilizations, Horrisonous - A Culinary Cacophony, Ice War - Manifest Destiny, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, JOYLESS - Unlimited Hate, JOYLESS - Wisdom & Arrogance, Katechon - Sanger Fra Auschwitz, Malakhim - II, Malokarpatan - Cesta podzemnymi salami Kovovlada. Sun & Moon, Memento Mori, Musmahhu - Reign of the Odious, NACHTEULE - Bergdorf, NAZRAK - Cantiques Funebres, Necrogosto, Nefastu - Obscura Transcendencia, NEKROFILTH - Worm Ritual, Nomenclature Diablerie - 888, Nuclear War Now! Productions, NYCTOPHILIA - Ad Mortem Et Tenebrae, ODIOUS DEVOTION, Ordo MCM, Perverticon - Wounds of Divinity, POUNDER - Uncivilized, Purodium Rekords, Ravenous Death - Chapters of an Evil Transition, Ringare - Under Pale Moon, Ross (Pocc) - Sing, Sacrilegia - The Triclavian Advent, Sangue Culs, Saturnal, Saturnal Records, Siculicidium - A Halal es az iranytu, Sorgelig - Devoted to Nothingness, TEMPLAR - KNIGHTS OF NUCLEAR HELL DECIBELFUCKING THE CHARRED REMAINS OF THE CHRIST, Terror Oath, The Naked and the Dead, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records / Corpse Flower Records / Init Records, Ulvdalir - ...of Death Eternal, VETALA - Retarded Necro Demential Hole, Vile Apparition - Depravity Ordained, Vitriol - Chrysalis, W.T.C. Productions, War Arts Productions, Wolfspell Records
Well, we’re finally getting into the home stretch, catching up on all that mountain of backlog cluttering up our review shelves.
At this point, a few indie-based folks aside (who we’ll continue to normalize into the regular reviews), this standalone should catch everyone up on a large number of releases, mostly in the black metal spectrum, but also including some goth, death metal, speed/thrash and stoner/sludge acts along the way.
12 Tuesday Mar 2019
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0N0 - Cloaked Climax Concealed, 2 Wolves - ...Our Fault, :AJNA:, Abduction - All Pain As Penance, ABYSSIC - High The Memory, Acheronte - Son Of No God, AD PATRES - "Symbiosick", AFM records, AFTERMATH - There Is Something Wrong, Agonia records, AIHOS - Havityksen Maa, AKROTHEISM - The Law Of Seven Deaths, ALTAR OF OBLIVION - The Seven Spirits, Angel Morgue Angel Morgue, Another Day Dawns - A Different Life, Another Place (Chapter One), Another Place (Chapter Two, Anthem - Nucleus, AOP Records, Armagedda - The Final War Approaching, Artoffact, As Within So Without - Into Oblivion, Aseptic - Senses Decay, ATARAXIE - Resignes, Athanasia - The Order of the Silver Compass, Automb - Esoterica Automb - Esoterica, Avantggarde Music, Barren Void / Lavadome, Battlesk'rs Productions, Bergraven - Det framlidna minnet, Big Scary Monsters / Polyvinyl Records, Black Lodge Records Black Lodge Records, Black Sunset Black Sunset, BlackStorm Productions, Bloodbound - Rise Of The Dragon Empire, Body Void - You Will Know The Fear You Forced Upon Us, BRAINSQUEEZED - Scarred, Caligari Records, Caustic Vomit - Festering Odes to Deformity, CHALICE OF SUFFERING - Lost Eternally, Cleaning Women - Intersubjectivity, Clobber Records, Concorde Music Company, Crown & Throne Ltd, Darkwater - Human, DEADLIGHT, Deadlight Entertainment, DEATH AGONY - Desiderata a Devastating Revelation, Death Is Death - Death Wears Suit, DEFECAL OF GERBE - Mothershit, Dekathlon - The Thin Road, Demon Head - Hellfire Ocean Void, Despotz Records, Destroyers Of All - The Vile Manifesto, Drastus - La Croix de Sang, Drawn Into Descent - The Endless Endeavour, Drottnar - Monolith, Dry Cough Records, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Dwarrowdelf - Of Dying Lights, Dying Victims Productions, ECTOVOID - Inner Death, Edged Circle Productions, Ektro, Ektro / Full Contact, Ektro Ektro, El Puerto Records Gbr, Ellende - Lebensnehmer, Endless Memories, Endtime Productions, EREMIT - Carrier of Weight, EXTREME METAL ATTACK - ANNO XVI 2019, FARULN - The Black Hole Of The Soul, FATAL CURSE - Breaking the Trance, Fearrage - Songs From The Sorrow, Fedrespor - Fra en Vugge i Fjellet, Feed Them Death - No Solution / Dissolution, FENRIR - Legends of the Grail, Fighter Records, Filtheater - Blight of Sempiternal Putrefaction, FIND ME - Angels in Blue, Flowing Downward, FM - The Italian Job, Freedom Fuel - DANCE!, Frontiers Music s.r.l., FUNEREAL PRESENCE - Achatius, Genuflexion - Apoteosis Fallida, Gjendod - Krigsdoger, GOLD - Why Aren't You Laughing?, Golden Robot Records, GOREGANG - Neon Graves, Gorgonchrist - The Blood of Endangered Species, Gothenburg Noise Works, Grave Violator - Back To The Cult, Handful of Hate, HAUMEA - Unborn, Hebosagil - Fortuna/Kevat, Hedonihil - I, hell's headbangers hell's headbangers, Helldprod Records, Hellthrasher Productions, Helter Skelter, Heretical Sect, Hexvessel - All Tree, High Roller Records, ILLIMITABLE DOLOR - Leaden Light, Inculter - Fatal Visions, Indestructible Noise Command - Terrible Things, Inferna Profundus Records, INHEPSIE - Onirique, Inverse Records, Iron Bonehead / Nuclear War Now! / Crepusculo Negro, Jussi Lehtisalo - Dead, Katu Kaiku - Luna, Kehro - Urdiala, Kings Destroy - Fantasma Nera, LAST IN LINE II, Long Branch Records, Long Branch Records Long Branch Records, Lucidity - Oceanum, Lucifera - La Caceria De Brujas, Lumnos - The Heliosphere Singularity, Lustre - Another Time, Marianas Rest - Ruins, Mark Morton - Anesthetic, Martelo Negro - Parthenogenesis, Mastord - Trail Of Consequence, Meka - Ending My Life to Destroy Yours, Memento Mori, MEPHORASH - Shem Ha Mephorash, MONARCH! - Sabbat Noir, Moribund records, Moribund Rockers! Moribund Rockers!, Morrowless Music, MORTAL SCEPTER - Where Light Suffocates, Mortal Scepter / Deathroned, MURG - Stravan, Mustan Kuun Lapset - Valo, Niezgal - Stogn z Niebyccia, NIGHTRAGE - Wolf to Man, NOCTAMBULIST - Atmospheres Of Desolation, Nocturnal Hollow - A Whisper of a Horrendous Soul, NoEvDia, NORDJEVEL - Necrogenesis, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oltretomba - THE HORROR - Figure del Terrore, ONIROPHAGUS - Endarkenment, Ordo MCM, ORMAGNA, Osmose Productions, Pagan Altar - Judgement of the Dead, Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy, Pendulum Of Fortune - Return To Eden, PERNICION - Seek What They Sought, Phobonoid - La Caduta Di Phobos, PROJET KO, Prophecy Productions / Century Media / Secret Trees, Pterodactyl Problems - Esoteric Hobbies, Purity Through Fire, PUTREFIED CORPSE - Left to Rot, Raw Skull Recordz, Reaper Metal Productions, Record Heaven, Redefining Darkness Records, Rifftera - Across The Acheron, Rise Above Records, Rock Of Angels Records, Ruton Music / Ektro, Sadness - Rain, Sandor Valy / Julia Heeger - Sacred Songs - Hildegard Von Bingen Variations, Search and Destroy, Season of Mist Season of Mist, Secret Entertainment, Seeing Red Records, Shadow Kingdom, Shadow Records, SINS OF THE DAMNED - Striking the Bell of Death, Six of Swords - Regime Decay / Polar Vortex, Sleep Brothers, Snake Tongue - No Escape No Excuse, SOFY MAJOR - Total Dump, Solveig Matthildur - Constantly In Love, Spinefarm Records, Spiral Skies - Cult, Spirits of Fire, Steamhammer / SPV, Steel Mammoth - "Poison Abyss", STUDIO CONNECT STUDIO CONNECT, Sul Ad Astral - Oasis, Sunset Forsaken - Chameleon Waters, SUZI QUATRO - No Control, svart records, Teleport - The Expansion, Temple of Mystery, Temple of the Fuzz Witch, The Aviators - Flowers and Moonshine, The Foreign Resort - Outnumbered, THE LUMBERJACK FEEDBACK - Mere Mortals, The Mammuthus - Forever Tree, THE MOTH GATHERER - Esoteric Oppression, The Royal - Deathwatch, THE WANDERING ASCETIC - Crimson, Them Guns - From the Shadows, third eye cinema podcast, TLK & InGrooves, Toby Knapp - Blizzard Archer, TORA TORA - Bastards of Beale, Totalitarian - Bloodlands, Transcending Obscurity Asia, Transcending Obscurity Records, Triumvir Foul - Urine of Abomination, Troglodyte Records, Twin Temple - Bring You Their Signature Sound...Satanic Doo-Wop, Uhtceare - El Genocidio Primordial Llevara El Nombre Infinito De La Empatía, Ulterium Records Ulterium Records, ULTRA SILVAM - The Spearwound Salvation, ulv, UNDEATH - Demo '19, Vanquisher - "Priests of Set", Vendetta Records, Vicisolum Productions Vicisolum Productions, Vistery - Death Is Dead Vistery - Death Is Dead, VIUDA NEGRA - Al Final / In the End, Vrasubatlat / Invictus Productions / 20 Buck Spin, Vuono - White Dots, Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis, We Are The Catalyst - EPHEMERAL, WEIRD TRUTH, Wembleway Music Wembleway Music, WEST BOUND Volume I, While She Sleeps - So What?, Within Temptation - Resist, WOLFSBLOOD - Vomit & Lice, WPP Records / Spinefarm Records, Wretched Fate - Demoed In Flesh, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, Ysbryd - Kraft, Zanjeer Zani Productions, Zohamah Spreading My Ashes, ZOID Entertainment, \Mosher Records
Whew!
Trying to catch up with this voluminous backlog of releases isn’t an easy task, I tell ya. And all this while still researching, recording and editing Weird Scenes podcasts and having an actual life? Somebody, put me on salary already, this is getting to be a full time job in itself, no BS…
15 Friday Feb 2019
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A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH - When The World Becomes Undone, AFM records, Bergraven - Det framlidna minnet, BEWITCHER -Too Fast for the Flames, Big Scary Monsters / Polyvinyl Records, Black Lodge Records, By The Time It Gets Dark, CORRODED - Bitter, CREA - DWARVES & PENGUINS, Despotz Records, Devils Gun - Sing For The Chaos, FANGE - PUNIR, Fedrespor - Fra en Vugge i Fjellet, Fighter Records, FORGED IN BLACK - Descent of the Serpent, Fredrik Klingwall & Julia Black - Sentience, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Ghost Iris - Apple Of Discord, Herman Frank - Fight The Fear, High Roller Records, INGLORIOUS - Ride To Nowhere, Iron Age Mystics - Pride Before the Fall 4 Peace Digital Release Part 1, Iron Savior - Kill Or Get Killed, JETBOY - Born To Fly, JOHN DIVA & THE ROCKETS OF LOVE - Mama Said Rock Is Dead, KANE ROBERTS - The New Normal, KEITH REID PROJECT - In My Head, La Harelle, Long Branch Records, Lonndom - Hagkomster Fran Nordliga Nejder & Norrskensritual, Lumnos - The Heliosphere Singularity, Malakhim - II, Matt Pless - Tumbleweed, Mother of Millions - Artifacts, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - In The House of Strange Affairs, NoiseArt, Nordvis Produktion, OPPROBRIUM -The Fallen Entities, Ornatorpet - Hymner fran snokulla, PAVLOV'S DOG - Prodigal Dreamer, Pedro The Lion - Phoenix, Puppy - The Goat, QUIET RIOT - One Night In Milan, RAVEN - Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg, Rhapsody Of Fire - The Eighth Mountain, ROSY VISTA - Unbelievable, Rotting Christ - The Heretics, ROULETTE - NOW!, Saiva - Finnmarkens folk (Re-issue 2019), Season of Mist, Shadow Kingdom, Sleazebox Records, SORDIDE - HIER DEJA MORT, Spielbergs - This Is Not The End, Spinefarm Records, Stahlmann - Kinder Der Sehnsucht, STARBREAKER - Dysphoria, Steamhammer / SPV, third eye cinema podcast, THREEMAN RECORDING, Throatruiner Records, TOBY HITCHCOCK - Reckoning, Trollfest - Norwegian Fairytales, Vicisolum Productions, WACHENFELDT - THE INTERPRETER, WALDGEFLUSTER - Mondscheinsonaten, Within Temptation - Resist, WV Sorcerer Productions
Another month almost to the day, and we’re still digging our way out from under a truckload or two of reviewables.
01 Friday Feb 2019
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13th Doctor, Charlie Cox, Chris Chibnall, Chris Claremont, Daredevil, Doctor Who, Elektra, Elodie Yung, Finn Jones, Iron Fist, Jessica Henwick, Jodie Whitaker, Marvel Comics, Marvel Netflix, Punisher, Rosario Dawson, superhero cinema, superhero televison, third eye cinema podcast
Below find more musings from recent weeks that were originally intended as casual Facebook shares, herein together gathered for your delectation.
With the usual caveat about their rough and ready nature, allons-y, n’est pas?
17 Thursday Jan 2019
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100 Watt Vipers - Holy Water, 20th Century Music, Aavikko - Monopoly, AFM records, ALCATRAZZ - Parole Denied - Tokyo 2017, Archangel A.D. - Warband, ASMODEE - Aequilanx, Battlesk'rs Productions, Beyond Creation - Algorythm, Black Lion Records, Blood Region - Tales Of The Backwoods, Boonsdale Records, BROWSING COLLECTION - Don't Want to Dance, Carnal Records, CEREBRUM - Iridium, code666, COLD SWEAT - Break Out, Create A Kill - Summoned to Rise, Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape, Dark Star Records, DØDSFALL - Doden Skal Ikke Vente, DECAY - BRAND NEW NAILS, Der Rote Milan - Moritat, Despotz Records, DEVIL'S HAND ft. SLAMER – FREEMAN, Devils Gun - "Light Out", DIAMORTE - The Red Opera, Dying Victims Productions, ECTOVOID - Inner Death, Ektro, Ektro / Full Contact, Emigrate - A Million Miles, Evergrey - The Atlantic, EXCALIBUR - Generacion Maldita, FERAL - Flesh For Funerals Eternal, Ferrett - In Though the Out Door, Ferrett - Snow on Ferrett Mountain, Fighter Records, Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Goblinsmoker - Toad King, GoreGorecords, GORGON - The Veil of Darkness, Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands, hell's headbangers, Hellnite - "Midnight Terrors", Helter Skelter, Horror Pain Gore Death, Icons Creating Evil Art, In Shadows and Dust - Enlightened by Darkness, INFERNARIUM - Kadotuksen Harmonia, Inner Wound Recordings, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, Iterum Nata - The Course of Empire, Janne Westerlund - Bell, JOHNNY GIOELI - One Voice, Laid Back Townies - II, Lazer Angel - Soul Exchange, Leach - Hymns For the Hollow, Long Branch Records, LORD DIVINE - Facing Chaos, Loud Rage Music, Maestus - Deliquesce, MAGIC DANCE - New Eyes, MAGNUM - Live At The Symphony Hall, Malamorte - Hell For All, Memento Mori, Men in Metal - Let the Soul Spread Its Wings, Mo'ynoq - Dreaming in a Dead Language, Moribund records, Moribund Rockers!, MUTIILATION - The Lost Tapes, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Of Hatred Spawn, OGRE & Dallas Campbell - All Hallows' II, Ordo MCM, Osmose Productions, PALACE - Binary Music, PATHOGENIC RECORDS, Plague Years - Unholy Infestation, Pyramaze - Legend of the Bone Carver (re-issue), RANCORUM - THE VERMIN SHRINE, Redefining Darkness Records / Raw Skull Records, Rockshots Records, Ruton Music / Ektro, Satan's Host - Midnight Wind, Secret Entertainment, Seeing Red Records, Sliptrick Records, Slow - IV - Mythologiae, Sludgelord Records, Spektator - 1, Spinefarm Records, STATE OF SALAZAR - Superhero, Steamhammer / SPV, Steel Mammoth - "Armageddon Time All the Time", Steel Mammoth - "Machine of Constant Sorrow", STEELHEART - Rock'n Milan, svart records, Temple of Mystery, THE HEARD - The Island, THE INTERSPHERE - The Grand Delusion, The Sabbathian - Latum Alterum, third eye cinema podcast, Tourniquet - GAZING AT MEDUSA, Transcending Obscurity Records, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), Trapped Under Ice Vol. 1: The New Face of Canadian Heavy Metal, TYTUS - Rain After Drought, Unendlich - Misanthropic Sedition, Unendlich - Thanatophobia, Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork, Vanha - Melancholia, VEILBURNER - A Sire To The Ghouls Of Lunacy, Venom - Storm the Gates, VVORSE - Ajatus vapaudesta, WAN - Gammal ar aldst, Wolfhorde - Hounds of Perdition, XENOKORP
And so another year comes to an end, and by the time your eyes peruse these lines, things will probably have changed more than once again on the personal listening front.
20 Tuesday Nov 2018
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(The True) Veiled - In Blinding Presence, 20th Century Music, 22 - You Are Creating, ABSTRACT RAPTURE - Hollow Motion, Abstract Void - Back To Reality, Adaestuo - Krew Za Krew, Aempyrean - Fireborn, AFM records, album reviews, Alexandra Zerner - Opus 1880, Amaranthe - HELIX, ANGEL OF DAMNATION - Heathen Witchcraft, AOP Records, Architects Of Melody, Ashes Of Ares - Well Of Souls, ASHES REBORN - Contamination, Avantgarde Music, Bane Esoteric Formulae, Bedlem - Back to Bedlem, Beneath the Hollow - Nihilist, BillyBio - Feed The Fire, Black Lion Records, Black Market Metal Label, Blood Harvest, Brothers Of Metal - Prophecy Of Ragnarok, BVR Records, By The Time It Gets Dark, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Carnal Forge - Gun to Mouth Salvation, Century Media, Circuitry - Untouched By Human Hands, City Of Tyrants - Revelations, Cloudburst, Cold Night For Alligators - Fervor, Comatose Vigil A.K. - Evangelium Nihil, Cyclopean Eye Productions, De-Arrow, Deadlight Entertainment, DECEASED - Ghostly White, Demetrio “Dimitry” Scopelliti - The Silent Watcher, Dethgod - Disease Called Humans, Devathorn / Inferno - Zos Vel Thagirion, Dusk - Epoka, Dust Prophet - "The Big Lie", Echozone, Echozone / Les disques Rubicon, Ecthirion - Psalms of the Risen Dead, Eihwaz Recordings, Ektro, El Puerto Records Gbr, Ellende - Ruckzug in die Innerlichkeit, FACELESS BURIAL - Multiversal Abattoir, Failure Records and Tapes, Fastball Music / Escudero Records, Fatum Aeternum - Mass Suicide of Human Race, FIEND - SEERESS, Firecum Records, Flight - A Leap Through Matter, FlowerLeaf - Stronger, Flowing Downward, Forbidden Rites - Pantheon Arcanum, Forest of Shadows - Among the Dormant Watchers, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Ginger Red - Donuts And Coffee, Goat Explosion - Rumors of Man, Golden Robot Records, Gravkväde - Grav|aska, GrimmDistribution, hell's headbangers, Helter Skelter, Heretic Legion - The Purge, High Roller Records, HOLTER - Vlad the Impaler, Ichor - Hadal Ascending, Infernal Cult - All The Lights Faded, INHUME - Exhume: 25 Years of Decomposition, Inoculated Life - Exist to Decay, Into Endless Chaos, Inverse Records, Jonestown - Dyatlov, Katie Knipp - Take It With You, Long Branch Records, Lucifer's Fall - Tales From The Crypt, Lupus Lounge / Prophecy Productions, Lutharo - Unleash the Beast, Madog - Raven, Marsh Dweller - Wanderer, metal reviews, MORBOSIDAD / KILL - Santuario del Diablo, Music review, Musta Risti, Mystery School Records, Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Nachtmystium - Resilient, Neonderthal Death - Neonderthal (Nightmare Begins), Noizr Productions, Non Serviam Records, NORDIC UNION - Second Coming, Nuclear War Now! Productions, OMEGAVORTEX - Promo 2018, One Last Legacy - II, ONSET - Unstructured Dissemination, Open Surgery - After Birth Abortion, ORION DUST - Legacy, Osmose Productions, Part I (10th Anniversary Edition), Piledriver - Rockwall, Pogo Records, PORN - The Ogre Inside (Remixed), Pterodactyl Problems - Esoteric Hobbies, Pure Steel Records, RED DRAGON CARTEL - Patina, Redefining Darkness Records, RIFFLORD 7 Cremation Ground / Meditation, Rock Of Angels Records, ROCKWALL Records, Royal Arch Production, Runescarred - "Being God", Samstrong Records, Season Of Tears - Dark Card, Sectorial - VYR, Seeing Red Records / Metal Swarm, Selvans - Faunalia, Shadow Kingdom, SHELTON/CHASTAIN - The Edge Of Sanity 88 Demo Session, Shining - Animal, Shock Records / Vanity Music Group, SHVPES - Greater Than, Sigh - Heir to Despair, Silver Dust - House 21, Siniestro - Arctic Blood, SKELETHAL / CADAVERIC FUMES - Heirs of Hideous Secrecies, Skulk the Hulking - Afterbirth Of A Nation, Slovenians - Al dente, Soundmass, Space Coke - L'appel Du Vide, Spielbergs - "4AM", Spinefarm Records, Splendidula – Post Mortem, STB Records, Steamhammer / SPV, STEPHEN PEARCY - View to a Thrill, Steve Kilbey - Sydney Rococo, Stew - HOT, SUIDAKRA - Cimbric Yarns, Sun & Moon, svart records, Svoid - Spiral Dance, TEN - Illuminati, The Browning - Geist, The Cascades - Phoenix, The Mound Builders, The Psycho Season - Grunge River, The Wizards - Rise Of The Serpent, third eye cinema podcast, Tombtoker - Coffin Texts, Twilight - Monument to Time End (Re-issue), Twilight - S/T (Re-issue), Twilight Fauna - Where Birds Sing My Name, Unearth - Extinction(s), Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork / WOOAAARGH, Valkyrja - Throne Ablaze, Velvet Dream - Darkened Mysteria, Vicisolum Productions, VIRGIN STEELE - Seven Devils Moonshine, VIZA - The Unorthodox Revival: Volume I & II, W.T.C. Productions, WE ARE THE CATALYST - "The Code", Weird Truth Productions, WICKED GARDEN - "Already Gone", WITCHING HOUR - ...And Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon, Witherfall - A Prelude to Sorrow, WULKANAZ, XENOKORP, Ysengrin / Stargazer - D.A.V.V.N.
So, yeah, it’s been another month, and my foray into the (for yours truly) previously neglected corners of European power metal continues, with the new heavyweights of airplay shifting from long beloved acts like Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica, Alestorm and early Hammerfall to settle in on the unholy triumvirate of Edguy, Elvenking…and Powerwolf.*
* well, since this intro was written, the powerfully vocalled Brainstorm, who also did all their good work after moving to AFM, by the way (hell, I’d venture that not only is Midnight Ghost worthy of being noted as album of the year, but as a career pinnacle) has moved up to make this very much of a foursome…but even so.
17 Saturday Nov 2018
Posted in Film Review
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30's horror, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, David Manners, Decadence, Edgar G. Ulmer, Irene Ware, Lew Landers, pre-Code cinema, The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), third eye cinema podcast, Universal horror
Revisited two perennial favorites last night.
26 Friday Oct 2018
Posted in Music Review
Through the vagaries of social media and the multifarious, oft convoluted pathways of modern day relations, actually had a chat with the frontman of Runescarred, whose cover of an Iron Maiden track I didn’t even know existed we…really had no comment on, given the complete lack of reference point.
16 Tuesday Oct 2018
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