A New and Hopefully Better Year Awaits…

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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.

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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.

The Awe Inspiringly Honest As Always Hell of a Halloween Roundup

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A CANOROUS QUINTET - THE ONLY PURE HATE -MMXVIII, Abyssous - Mesa, Adult Fantasy / K Records, Aesthetics of a loss - l'Egoisme, AFM records, Agonia records, Ambassador - Belly of the Whale, Anomalie - Integra, Antiverse - Under the Regolith, AOP Records, ARCHGOAT - The Luciferian Crown, ARSIS - Visitant, ASYLUM - 3-3-88, ATLAS - Primitive, Avantgarde Music, AVR Records, Bald Anders - Spiel, Barren Canyon - World Of Wounds, Barus - Drowned, Begravningsentreprenorerna - Jamna Plagor, Black Doomba Records, Black Lion Records, Black Lotus - Sons of Saturn, Black Mold - Atavism, Black Paisley - Perennials, Blasphemy - Blood Upon the Altar, Blasphemy - Blood Upon the Soundspace, Blood Harvest, BLUTRINA - DISCOBALLZ, Buried By Sky Records, C Average - III, Carpe Noctem - Vitrun, Cemetery Lights - Lemuralia, CHUGGABOOM - TRINITY, code666, Comatose Music, Cortez - No More Conqueror, Crosby Morgan - Rain Games for the Natural Born Pariah, Crown and Throne Ltd., CULTES DES GHOULES - Sinister, Daagh, Dark Buddha Rising - The Black Trilogy, Dark Martha Records, Dayglo Mourning/Bludy Gyres - Rope Enough For Two, De Tenebrarum Principio, Dead Register - Captive, Deadlight Entertainment / Terrain Vague, Death On Fire/Corpse Paint and Dayglo - Hope, Death Worship - Extermination Mass - Demo, Debemur Morti Productions, Decca Records / Universal Music Publishing France, Deep Memories - Rebuilding the Future, DEFECAL OF GERBE - Discolocauste: 2005-2018 - The Full Sh*t So Far, Deschain - Grit Pt. 2: Drift, Despotz Records, Domnitor - Duhul Belicos, Doom Stew Records, DREAM CHILD - Until Death Do We Meet Again, Druglord - New Day Dying, DungeonHammer - Infernal Moon, Dynazty - Firesign, Eadem - Luguber, EAL Productions, Ektro, El Puerto Records Gbr, ELEGIAC - Pagan Storm, Erasy - Under The Moonlight, Eternal Sound Records, Exxxekutioner - Death Sentence, Flowing Downward, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Gama Bomb - Speed Between The Lines, Ghost World - Spin, GMR Music, Gnaw Their Tongues & Crowhurst - Burning Ad Infinitum: A Collaboration, Gods of the Fallen - Fallen, Graveborne - 1918, GROUNDBREAKER, Guerrilla Ghost - Perpetually Sad Motion Machine, Heavy Metal Rock / Misanthropic Record /  Invasion of Solitude Records / GS Productions, hell's headbangers, Helldprod Records, Hermoor - Rovdjur & Northern Might, High Roller Records, Hostblod - Morkrets Intag, Howling Invocations, Hummus Records, I am the Law - Hymn of the Vulture, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, Junecrow Media, Khandra - There is No Division Outside Existence, Kraanium - Slamchosis, Krucyator Productions, KYPRIAN'S CIRCLE - Noitatulen vartija, LIFELOST - Dialogues From Beyond, Long Branch Records, Loud Rage Music, LUCIFER'S CHILD - The Order, Malphas - The 39th Spirit, Martyr Art - FearFaith Machines, MASTER - Vindictive Miscreant, Me Saco Un Ojo, Meadows End - Sojourn, Medusa Crush Recordings, Memento Mori, metal reviews, metropolis records, Morbid Messiah - Demoniac Paroxysm, Morbid Skull Records, Mourning by Morning, music reviews, Necroholocaust - Laudem Antichristus, Necronomicon - Unleashed Bastards, New Light Choir - Torchlight, Noekk - Carol Stones and Elder Rock, Nonpoint - X, Nuclear War Now! Productions, NUISIBLE - Slaves and Snakes, Olten - Ambiance, ONKEL TOM - Bier Ernst, ORDINUL NEGRU - FAUSTIAN NIGHTS, Outre-Tombe - Nécrovortex, Over - Facing Transcendence, Pest Records, Piah Mater - The Wandering Daughter, Pig Destroyer - Head Cage, Pillars - Onward to Nothingness, Professor Black - I Am The Rock, Professor Black - LVPVS, Professor Black - Sunrise, Prophecy productions, Prophets Of The Apocalypse - War Metal, Psyclon Nine - Icon of the Adversary, Pulverized - Monuments of Misanthropy, Putrisect - Cascading Inferno, Radux - Disaster Imminent, Rapheumets Well - The Elder's Anthology, Redefining Darkness Records, Redefining Darkness Records / Possession Productions, Relapse Records, Rithiya Henry Khiev - Eviscerated Realm, Ross Bay Cult, Runeshard - Dreaming Spire, S.K.o.R. - Rubus Tellus, Sacrificium Carmen - Hermetica, Sad Theory - Entropia Humana Final, SADDAYAH - APOPHENY OF LIFE, Sadness - Leave, Saturnal, Seeing Red Records, Sektarism - Fils de Dieu, Selbst - Secular Compendium, Sex Messiah - Eastern Cult of Sodomy, Shadow Kingdom, Silver Grime - Healed by the Dark, SIR REG - The Underdogs, SKALD - Vikings Chant, Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet, Sludgelord Records, SNAKES IN PARADISE - Step into the light, SOBAKI TABAKA - XX​-​XXIV, Spinefarm Records, Static Tension - Ashes to Animation, Steamhammer / SPV, Steve 'n' Seagulls - Grainsville, Stupid Dream Records, Sumeru - Summon Destroyer, Sun & Moon, Svart, svart records, Synodic - Omnibus, Temple Nightside - Recondemnation, Temple of Mystery, TERMINAL FUNCTION - The Great Liberator, Test Your Metal Records, Tezcatlipoca - Tlayohualtlapelani, The Alive - We are Rock and Roll, The Exploding Eyes - II, the full shit so far, The Moor - Jupiter’s Immigrants, THE ORDER OF APOLLYON - Moriah, THE UNITY - Rise, third eye cinema podcast, Tommy Concrete - Unrelaxed, TRAGACANTH - THE JOURNEY OF A MAN, Transcending Obscurity Records, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), Trash Deity - Cross & Divide, TREAT - Tunguska, Triple Eye Industries, Trollmusic, Ulthar, Undertow - Reap The Storm, URIAH HEEP - Living The Dream, VANIK - II Dark Season, Via Nocturna, Vuohi - Witchcraft Warfare, Walking Dead On Broadway - Dead Era, Werewolf Records, Where's My Bible - M 'N' R, Wills Dissolve - The Heavens Are Not On Fire, Windfaerer - Alma, Witchthroat Serpent - Swallow The Venom, Wolfspell Records, WOOAAARGH, Xalpen - Wowk Otrr, XENOKORP, Xibalba Itzaes - Ah Tza Xibalba Itzaes, Ygfan - Hamvakbol..., Zealot Cult - Spiritual Sickness, ZineScene Records

Well, some of the more astute Third Eye regulars may have predicted it…but it’s always a surprise when you’re the protagonist of the story, living out the script day after day, until the next eye opening revelation hits.

Beware the Ides of March Madness! Make Provision for Yet Another Masterfully Machinated Mid Month Roundup!

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A Sad Sadness Song, Abolishment of Flesh - The Inhuman Condition, ABORTED FETUS – THE ANCIENT SPIRITS OF DECAY, Abramis Brama - "Vem är du?", Abramis Brama - Tusen Ar, Abythic - Beneath Ancient Portals, AD HOMINEM - Napalm For All, Adversvm - Aion Sitra Ahra, Adzalaan - Into Vermilion Mirrors, AFM records, Against Evil - All Hail The King, Agonia records, album reviews, Altar of Perversion - Intra Naos, AOR, APF Records, At War With False Noise, Autokrator, Avantgarde Music, AXEL RUDI PELL - Knights Call, Begat The Nephilim - Begat the Nephilim I: The Surreptitious Prophecy / Mother of the Blasphemy, Beneath Oblivion - The Wayward and the Lost, Bison - Earthbound, Black Bow Records, Black Dreams - "Kiss The Gun", Black Foxxes - Reioi, Black Lion Records, Black Lodge Records, Black Mass Pervertor - Life Beyond the Walls of Flesh, black metal, Black Moth - Anatomical Venus, Blood Harvest, Blutvial - Mysteries of Earth, Bonfire - Temple Of Lies, Bong - THOUGHT AND EXISTENCE, BORN FROM LIE - The New World Order Part 1, BULLETBOYS - From Out of the Skies, By The Time It Gets Dark, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Cardiac Arrest- A Parallel Dimension of Despair, Carnal Records, CODERED - DOMINIONS OF OUR DECEITFUL BELIEFS, Cold Spring, Comatose Music, Cramada, Dagger Lust - Siege Bondage Adverse to the Godhead, De Profundis - The Blinding Light Of Faith, Dead City Ruins - Never Say Die, Dead End Finland - "Lifelong Tragedy", DEADLY CARNAGE - Through the Void Above The Suns, death metal, Death. Void. Terror. - To the Great Monolith I, Deconstructing Sequence - Cosmic Progression: An Agonizing Journey Through Oddities of Space, Defiatory - Hades Rising, Demon Head - Rivers of Mars, Depravity - Evil Upheaval, DGRecords, Divine Era - Scripture Codes Summon Suicidal Thoughts, DocRock Music Records, doom metal, Down Among The Dead Men - ...And You Will Obey Me, DRAWN AND QUARTERED - Hail Infernal Darkness, Dreamfire - Atlantean Symphony, Dry Cough Records, Eisenwald, Ektro, Ektro / Hydra Head, EL CAMINO - Cursed Congregation, emo, Eternal Sound Records, EVIL HUNTER, Ewig.Endlich. - Auf Grund, Extreme Metal Attack Festival - ANNO XV 2018, Extreme Metal Music, Fighter Records, FLESH HOARDER – HOMICIDAL NECROPHILE, Flowing Downward, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Fuzz Lord, Fuzzdoom Records, Golden Robot Records, gothic metal, Gra - Vasen, Grave Upheaval, grindcore, Hammerstroke - Satan’s Claw, heavy metal, Heidens Hart Records, hell's headbangers, Helldprod Records, Hellthrasher Productions, Hiidenhauta - 1695, ILDRA - Eoelland, ILLUSION OF CONTROL - GRIM NEW WORLD EP, Inferna Profundus Records, Inisans - Transition, Into the Storm/Smooth Sailing, Inverse Records, Invictus / Vrasubatlat, iron bonehead, Isgalder - To The Hall Of The Stars, IST - The Frozen Casket, Jangle Town - "A Love so True", Karkaos - Children of The Void, Kolossor - Crown of Horns, Kosmogyr - Eviternity, Krucyator Productions, L'Homme Absurde - Sleepless, L.A. GUNS - Made in Milan Deluxe edition, Living Altar - Scythes Towards Psyche, LJÁIN - Endasalmar og klofnar tungur, Loud Rage Music, MaidaVale - Madness Is Too Pure, Malditos - II, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard/Slomatics - Totems, Medusa Crush Recordings, Memento Mori, Metal Nation Records, metal reviews, metalcore, MINOTAURO RECORDS, Mondo Macabre, Mork Gryning - Live at Kraken, MORMANT DE SNAGOV - Depths Below Space and Existence, Mors Subita - Into the Pitch Black, Mosher / Firecum Records, music reviews, Mustan Kuun Lapset - "Ikaros", MY SECRET SAFE - Storytelling, Nest - Metempsychosis, Night Tripper Records, Nigredo - Flesh Torn - Spirit Pierced, Nitish Pires - Am I Evil, NO HOT ASHES, No List Records, Nomad - Feral, Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Nytt Land - Odal, Oceans - Far From Composure, Octopus - Supernatural Alliance, Old Man Wizard - Blame It All On Sorcery, Ommadon - End Times, Osmose Productions, Owl Maker - Paths Of The Slain, Palace Of The King - Get Right With Your Maker, PARAGON COLLAPSE - THE DAWNING, Pharaoh Overlord - Zero, POMPEII - The Secret Sessions, power metal, Professor Black - You Bastard!, progressive metal, punk, Raising Legends, Reaper Metal Productions, Redefining Darkness Records, Rise Above Records, Ritual Productions, Rivette - In Harmony, ROBESPIERRE - Garden Of Hell, Robustfellow Productions / Addicted Label / Voron NEST / KVLT OV I, Rogue Records, Sadistik Forest - Morbid Majesties, Saltas - Currents, Satanic Surfers - Back From Hell, Scarificare - Tilasm, Screaming Beast - Our New Narrative of Hate, Secret Entertainment, Serpico - Rock Tattoo, Serum Dreg - Lustful Vengeance, Shadow Kingdom, Shrine of the Serpent - Entropic Disillusion, Signal Rex, SKINNED - Shadow Syndicate, Sludgelord Records, Sojourner - The Shadowed Road, Soom - Djebars, Soundage Productions, SPECTRAL - NEURAL CORRELATES OF HATE, SPEEDCLAW - Beast in the Mist, Spielbergs - Distant Star, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Stone Broken - Ain't Always Easy, Stormzone - Lucifer's Factory, Summon - Parazv Il Zilittv, Sundust Records, svart records, Svartanatt - Starry Eagle Eye, symphonic metal, Taphos - Demo MMXVI, Taphos - EP MMXVII, Tarasque - Innen Aussen, The Ajna Offensive, THE AMORETTES - Born To Break, The Fallen Prodigy - Relive//Regret//Repeat, THE GROTESQUERY - The Lupine Anathema, The Insane Slave, The Sign Records, The Sloths - Dwarves Meet The Sloths, third eye cinema podcast, Throneless - Cycles, TOTALSELFHATRED - Solitude, Toxikull - The Nightraiser, Transcendence - Hour of the Summoning, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records, Twingiant - Mass Driver, Ungfell - Mythen Maren Pestilenz, Unholy Anarchy, Vahrzaw - Husk, Valhalla Lights - My Gracious Highway, VARATHRON - Patriarchs Of Evil, VARSOVIE - Coups et Blessures, Via Nocturna, VOMITOR - Pestilent Death, W.E.T. - Earthrage, war metal, Weathered Statues - Borderlands, Weird Truth Productions, When Reasons Collapse - Omen of the Banshee, WOOAAARGH/Dedication Records, Wormlight - Wrath of the Wilds, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music

By now, you’ve probably noticed these are coming through a week or two later than usual, as headlines themselves may suggest.

So it happens that all of a sudden, you’re seeing February reviews at the start of March, March ones at the start of April…hey.  Life gets in the way, and for someone who’s ostensibly out of the corporate workforce of late, it’s been at least twice as busy – working on the reboot of a certain podcast only being a small part thereof.

But even more than that, there’s been a welcome increase in folks coming to us, offering up their rosters for our delectation and dissection…or if you prefer, to the vagaries of critical review, in our patented honest, straightforward, incisive and idiosyncratic manner.

Like I always tell my wife, love us or hate us, you sure as hell ain’t gonna find nobody else like us.  Selah.

Crap, it’s another Crummy, Celebrity-free Candlemas…er…Chinese New Year? Roundup

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AFM records, Agonia records, album reviews, Alghazanth - Eight Coffin Nails, ANIMAL DRIVE - Bite!, AOR, Armored Dawn - Barbarians In Black, Ascension - Under Ether, AVSLUT - Deceptis, Aynsophar - Abysmal Secrets of Unknown, Bastardos, Big Balls Productions, Black Lion Records, Black Lodge Records, black metal, Black Plague Records, Blood and Brutality - Decor Macabre, Blood and Brutality Records, Blood Harvest, Bloody Mountain Records, Blut & Eisen Productions, Borealis - The Offering, By’ce Project - Abyss Of the Mind, Cabal - Mark Of Rot, CANDLE - The Keeper's Curse, Candlelight / Spinefarm, CHRIS BAY - Chasing The Sun, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, Coilguns - Millennials, Coldawn - ...In The Dawn, CORELEONI - The Greatest Hits Part 1, Dark Archive - Cultivate Our Blood in Aeon, Darknagar Records, Dawn Of 7th Sky - Cut You Out, Dawn Of 7th Sky - Island in the Sky, Dawn Of 7th Sky - New Horizon, DEAD RIVER RUNS DRY - Hierophants of the Storm, death metal, Death on Arrival - Death is Coming, Death Portal Studio, Defecto - Nemesis, DEMONICAL - Chaos Manifesto, DESOLATION ANGELS - King, Despotz Records, Devourer - "Throne of Agony", Dine Alone Records, Dissonance Productions, doom metal, DUKES OF THE ORIENT, Ektomorf - Fury, Ektro, Ektro / Hydra Head, emo, Enoid - Livssyklus & Dodssyklus, Enoquian - Llamas De Gloria Primera, Escaping Amenti - Awakening, Evil Nerfal - Bellum Est Pater Omnium, Evil Spirit - The Imageless Mirror, Extreme Metal Music, F.K.U. - 1981, Fighter Records, Final Gate Records, Flowing Downward, Foul Body Autopsy - This Machine Kills Zombies, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Garhelenth - About Pessimistic Elements & Rebirth Of Tragedy, GMR Music, Golden Robot Records, gothic metal, GRANDIOSE MALICE - The Eternal Infernal, GrimmDistribution, grindcore, Grindscene Records, Hak-Ed Damm - Holocaust Over Dresden, HAMPERED - Asylum, HARFANG - Slice of Life, Hautajaisyo - Matkalla Kohti Hautaa, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hell's Inc. Records, Helldprod Records, High Priests - Spinning, Hummus Records, ICE AGE - Breaking the Ice, Infernal Legion - Under The Cloven Hoof, Inhibitions - La Danse Macabre, Inverse Records, Invictus / Vrasubatlat, Ira Aeterna, iron bonehead, J.B.O. - Deutsche Vita, Jumalhamara - La Strada, Jumalhamara - The Black Coming, Kaak - Litanies Of Pain, KILLIBRIUM - Purge, KILLING ADDICTION - Omega Factor, Krepuskul - Hybrid, Legend of The Seagullmen, Legion of Death, Little Caesar - "Time Enough For That", Little Caesar - Eight, Long Branch Records, LORD OF PAGATHORN - Daimono Philia, Lumnos - Ancient Shadows Of Saturn, MALPERMESITA, Manipulation - The Future Of Immortality, metal reviews, metalcore, MIND ENEMIES - REVENGE, MISSILES OF OCTOBER - BETTER DAYS, MITHRIDATIC - He Who Lies Underneath, Mondo Macabre, Morbid Skull Records, Morbosidad - Corona de Epidemia, Moribund records, MORNING STAR HEATHENS MUSIC GROUP, MOURNFUL CONGREGATION - The Incubus of Karma, Murdher Records, music reviews, Myrkraverk - Naer Doden, Nadir - The Sixth Extinction, NALE - DEATH. SKULLS. SATAN, Neter - Inferus, Neverheard Distro, NGC Productions, Nordvis Produktion, North Hammer - Stormcaller, Northwind Wolves - Dark... Cold... Grim..., Nuclear War Now! Productions, NYDVIND - Seas of Oblivion, Obscure - Zero Dawn, Ode In Black - Seeds of Chaos, Osmose Productions, P-Dog Records, Painted Black - Raging Light, PAVILLON ROUGE - Dynasteia Klub, Peosphoros - Pink Metal, PERFECT LINE - Seeds, Plastic - Here There Is No Gravity, power metal, PRELUDIO ANCESTRAL - Oblivion, progressive metal, Provocator - Satan Chaos Blood and Terror, punk, Raw 'N' Roll Rex, REVERTIGO, Rites of Thy Degringolade - The Blade Philosophical, Rites to Sedition - Ancestral Blood, Roxx Records, Sambata Mortilor II, Sammal - Suuliekki, Satanath Records, Sepulchral Silence, SGW Productions, Shadow Kingdom, SHIRAZ LANE - Carnival Days, SHIRAZ LANE - Harder to Breathe, SHIRAZ LANE - People Like Us, Silent Kingdom - Where Secrets Meet, SKARLETT RIOT - Regenerate, Soul Dissolution - Stardust, Spawned From Hatred - Promo 2018, Spice Breather - Crawling Planetary Being, Spider Rockets - Along Came A Spider, Spinefarm Records, STARK DENIAL - Covenant of Black, Static Tension Recordings, Steamhammer / SPV, STOMB - Duality, Strangle Wire - The Dark Triad, SUSPERIA - The Lyricist, svart records, Sweet Low Records, Symbol of Domination, symphonic metal, Systemik Violence - Anarquia-Violencia, Taiga - Cosmos, Taphos - EP MMXVII, The Black Swamp - Witches, THE DAWN RAZOR - Renaissances, The Eastern Front, The Lead - Again, third eye cinema podcast, THY FEEBLE SAVIOUR - And Darkness Fell, Tommy Stewart's Dyerwulf - "Shadow In The Well", Transcending Obscurity India, Triple Eye Industries, TROLL, Ulvesang - The Hunt, UNRULY CHILD - Unhinged Live from Milan, USURPRESS - Interregnum, Veiled - Black Celestial Orbs, VersOver - Hell's Inc., VOIDHANGER - Dark Days Of The Soul, W.T.C. Productions, war metal, WILD MIGHTY FREAKS - Guns'N Cookies, WOOAAARGH, woodcut records, WormHole Death, Wyrmwoods - Earth Made Flesh, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, [B.ABUSE] - Memories Of Better Days Are Gone

If this last few weeks has taught me anything, it’s simply to reaffirm a long held apprehension that the sentiments of Sartre were dead on: “hell is other people.”

A Slightly Sinister Samhain Roundup

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36 Crazyfists - Lanterns, 7 Degrees Records, ???? (Sleepwalker) - 5772, A Pale December - The Shrine Of Primal Fire, A Sad Sadness Song, AFM records, Agonia records, album reviews, AnnapurnA / Sentient Ruin, Antisect - The Rising Of The Lights, AOR, AOSOTH - V: The Inside Scriptures, Apologoethia - Pillars, APPICE - Sinister, ARTOFFACT RECORDS / STORMING THE BASE, ATMF, Auroch - From Forgotten Worlds, Autobahn- The Moral Crossing, Avantgarde Music, Ayat - Carry on Carrion, b.o.s.c.h. - Fleischwolf, Begerith - A.D.A.M., bigfoot, BIZARRE LEPROUS PRODUCTIONS, BLACK DEATH, Black Lodge Records, black metal, BLAZE OF PERDITION - Conscious Darkness, Blood Harvest, Blood Region - "The Veteran", BLUT AUS NORD - Deus Salutis Meae, Bulletback - The Quest For New Horizons, Buried And Gone - The Final Hour, Caverna Abismal Records, CHILDREN OF TECHNOLOGY - Apocalyptic Compendium - 10 Years in Chaos, Clavis Secretorvm, Cold, COME BACK FROM THE DEAD - Caro Data Vermibus, Concorde Music Company, Coraxo - Sol, Coscradh - Of Death and Delirium, Dead End Exit Records, Dead Quiet - Grand Rites, death metal, Death Toll 80K - Step Down, Death Trip - Madhouse, Debemur Morti Productions, Dekapited - Sin Misericordia, DEVLSY - Private Suite, doom metal, DSKNT - PhSPHR Entropy, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Eisenwald, Ektro, Ektro / Ruton Music, Eleine - "HELL MOON (We Shall Never Die)", emo, Extreme Metal Music, Fearless Records, Fighter Records, Flames of Genesis - A Bridge to Further Realms, FORGOTTEN TOMB - We Owe You Nothing, Frontiers music, Goatpenis - Anesthetic Vapor, gothic metal, GREYTOMB - Monumental Microcosm, grindcore, GWAR - The Blood Of Gods, Haive - Iaton, Heaven and Hell Records, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hidden Intent - "Addicted to Thrash", Hidden Intent - "Apocalypse Now", Hidden Intent -  Walking Through Hell, High Roller Records, Hornwood Fell - My Body, HYPERION - Dangerous Days, Ieschure - The Shadow, Infaust - Verblichen, Infernal Blast - Wolves Elitism Speech, Inner Wound Recordings, Internal Chaos - Chaotic Sounds Propagation, Invictus Productions, Invictus Productions / The Ajna Offensive, iron bonehead, Jess and the Ancient Ones The Horse and Other Weird Tales, Jussi Lehtisalo - Spectrum, K2 Management, Kapala - Infest Cesspool, Kawir - Exilasmos, Kroh - Pyres, Krucyator Productions, L.A. GUNS - The Missing Peace, Laute Helden / SPV, Lustre - Still Innocence, Malleus - Storm of Witchcraft, Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland, MARGINAL - Total Destruction, Metal Blade Records, metal reviews, metalcore, MEYHNACH - Non Omnis Moriar, MINOTAURO RECORDS, MOEBIUS - Hybris, Morbid Skull Records, Moribund records, Movements - Feel Something, music reviews, My Ticket Home - unReal, My Time, Ne Obliviscaris - Urn, NO AMNESTY - Psychopathy, Noise and Warfare, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Opium Warlords - Droner, Ordo MCM, Osmose Productions, OZ - Transition State, Pakasteet - Pula, Paroxsihzem, Pile of Priests - "Redemptionem Per Cruciatu", power metal, Procession - Doom Decimation, PROFANATICA - The Enemy of Virtue, progressive metal, punk, Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast, Rise Above Records, ROBIN BECK - Love Is Coming, Sacrilegious Rite - Summoned From Beyond, Sanguine Pluit - There is a Goddess in the Forest (Deluxe Edition), Sar Isatum - "Sar Isatum", SARTEGOS / BALMOG - Split, Season of Mist, Serpentrance - The Besieged Sanctum, Shrapnel - Raised On Decay, SMOTHERED BOWELS – DEAD C*NT DANCE, Snakefarm / Spinefarm Records, Snow Wave Records, SOYUZ BEAR - Black Phlegm, Spinefarm Records, Spinefarm/Candlelight, Steamhammer / SPV, svart records, symphonic metal, TALV - Entering a Timeless Winter, Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix, THE FRIGHT - Canto V, THE NEGATIVE BIAS - Lamentation of the Chaos Omega, The Parity Complex, third eye cinema podcast, THREAT SIGNAL - Disconnect, THROANE - Plus Une Main A Mordre, Thy Serpent's Cult - Supremacy of Chaos, Torchia – Of Curses and Grief, Tough Love Records, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), TYKETTO - Live From Milan, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats - Vol 1, Undercroft - The Seventh Hex, Unreqvited - Disquiet, Vardan - Nostalgia - Archive Of Failures - Part I, Vardan - Nostalgia - Archive Of Failures - Part II, Vardan - Nostalgia - Archive Of Failures - Part III, VAULTWRAITH - Death is Proof of Satan's Power, War Arts Productions, war metal, Werian - Lunar Cult Society, WHITE BOY AND THE AVERAGE RAT BAND, Wojczech / Krupskaya split, Wrathprayer / Force of Darkness Wrath of Darkness, Xtreem Music, Zanjeer Zani Productions, Zephyra - "The Darkest Black", ZGARD - Within The Swirl Of Black Vigor

Well, it’s been quite a weird month, hasn’t it?

Even more than the expected season of renewal that marks the feast of Samhain, there have been some major changes – some good, some bad, some as yet undetermined in whether their pending impact will serve for good or ill…and yet, all of them exceedingly wide in scope and far ranging in prospect.

An Incipient End of Summer Roundup

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A Sad Sadness Song, AFM records, Against PR, Agonia Black Vomit - Cosmosatanic Wisdom, album reviews, Alpha Tiger, An Assfull Of Love - Monkey Madness, Antiversum - Cosmos Comedenti, AOR, Asagraum - Potestas Magicum Diaboli, Astarium - Drum-Ghoul, Atlases - "Medusa", Bewitcher, Black Lion Records, black metal, Blood Harvest, Blood Tyrant / Departure Chandelier - split, Bloody Times - Destructive Singles, Bludy Gyres - Echoes of a Distant Scream, Boersma Records, Bombarder - Bez Milosti, Bombarder - Speed Kill, Bool - Fly With Me, Candlelight / Spinefarm, CANKER - Earthquake, CARDINALS FOLLY - Deranged Pagan Sons], Caverna Abismal Records, Centuries of Decay, CIRCUS MAXIMUS - Havoc in Oslo, Cognizance - "The Foreboding Impasse", Cognizance - Illusory, Cosmic Void Ritual - The Excreted Remains of the Sabatier System, Coven - The Advent, Crafteon - Cosmic Reawakening, CREMATORY - Live Insurrection, Cult Of The Horns - Chapter I. Domination, Darkenhold - Memoria Sylvarum, Darkflight - The Hereafter, DAWN OF DISEASE - Ascension Gate, death metal, Devil Creations - Hell's Exit, Dig Me No Grave - Immemorial Curse, Dimman - Guide My Fury, Dirkschneider - LIVE – Back To The Roots – Accepted!, doom metal, Draghkar - World Unraveled, Eden's Curse - Revisited, Eihwaz Recordings, Ektro, emo, END OF GREEN - Void Estate, Ensepulcher - No Sanctity in Death, EXIT EDEN - Rhapsodies in Black, Extreme Metal Music, Fighter Records, Fleshpress - Hulluuden Muuri, FORGED IN BLACK – SINNER SANCTORUM, From North, From the Hellmouth / Mutilatred, Frontiers music, Frontiers records, Gloomy Grim - Fuck The World, Goathorned Productions, gothic metal, Grift - Arvet, GrimmDistribution, grindcore, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hidden Marly Productions, High Roller Records, HORRIFIED - Allure of the Fallen, HOSTILIAN - Monolith, Humanity Zero - Withered In Isolation, Hypochristmutreefuzz - Hypopotomonstrosesquipedaiophobia, ICE WAR, Ignominious - The Throne and the Altar, Inspirus Records, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, Iris Divine - The Static And The Noise, iron bonehead, Jack Starr's Burning Star - Stand Your Ground, Kashgar, KHAZAD-DUM - Garmadh, Krucyator Productions, KRYPTONITE, KULTIKA - Pursuance, Kuudes Silma - Pelko, KVLT, LASCAR - Saudade, LEIDER - Alloys, Long Branch Records / SPV, LUCIFER'S CHALICE - The Pact, LYZZARD - Savage, Madlife - Precision in the Face of Chaos, Mascharat, Metal Carnival Records, metal reviews, metalcore, Mist Of Misery - Shackles of Life, Mitochondrion - Antinumerology, Mordenial - The Plague, Mouldered - Chronology Of A Rotten Mind, music reviews, Napalm Records, Necroheresy - Asylum, Necromante - The Magickal Presence of Occult Forces, Necrophile - Awakening Those Oppressed, Nemecic - The Deathcantation, Nine Records / Topillo Records, Nocturnes Mist - Diabolical Baptism, Non Serviam Records, Nordvis Produktion, Northern Plague - Scorn the Idle, NOVAE MILITIAE - Gash’khalah, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oculus - The Apostate of Light, OMINOUS SHRINE - Ο Δρόμος Της Αποθεώσεως, Oracle - Beyond Omega, Oraculum - Always Higher, Ovakner - Ar/Lume, Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows, Paratra - Genesis, Paroxsihzem - Abyss of Excruciating Vexes, Pest Records, Planet Eater - Blackness From The Stars, Plastic Head, Plastic Tones - Wash Me With Love, power metal, PRAISE THE FLAME - Manifest Rebellion, progressive metal, punk, PURTENANCE - Paradox of Existence, PUTRID OFFAL - Anatomy, QUIET RIOT - Road Rage, Ram-Page - The Grave Of Seven Billion, Raptore - Rage n' Fever, Redefining Darkness / Seeing Red Records, Runespell - Unhallowed Blood Oath, Sable Beldam - Cryptic Void, Sandor Valy - Young Dionysos, Satanath Records, Seance records, Serious Black - Magic, Shade Empire - Poetry Of The Ill-Minded, Shadow Kingdom, Shepherd / Death By Fungi, Skein - Deadweight, SLAUGHTBBATH - Contempt, Slice of Sorrow - Execution, Soman Records, Stallion - From The Dead, Steamhammer / SPV, SUMMON (U.S.) - Dark Descent of Fallen Souls, Suns Of Sorath - Flowers of the Lily, svart records, Symbol of Domination, symphonic metal, Taphos Nomos / Uroun - R.I.P., Temple of Mystery, THE HIRSCH EFFEKT - Eskapist, THE NEW ROSES - One More For The Road, THE NIGHTS, third eye cinema podcast, TRAVELIN JACK - Commencing Countdown, Unholy Prophecies, Urarv - Aurum, Various Artists - Death, Vulture - The Guillotine, War and Damnation, War Is War!, war metal, Werewolf Records, Witches Brew, WORLD TRADE - Unify, Worm - Evocation of the Black Marsh, Wrath of the Tyrant, Wrath of the Tyrant Records, Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act I, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, Zornheym - Where Hatred Dwells And Darkness Reigns

Holy crap, this one’s the motherload.

A few weeks back, I gave a heads up to our Facebook followers that releases were dropping across the virtual desk by the metric tonne, and warned with a twinkle of bemusement that if they kept coming in at the rate they had been, this month’s Roundup was going to be a monster.

And sure enough.

At the time of writing these lines, there are over 110 albums, EPs and a handful of singles under review this month, with the potential if not likelihood that we’ll see a few more arrive before we close out and finalize (hell, there are already a handful of October-range releases on schedule for next month’s post…)

In short…yeah, this is the big one, Weezie.

A Mostly Meritorious and Only Occasionally if not downright Mildly Meretricious Midsummer Roundup

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:AJNA:, A Sad Sadness Song, AFM records, album reviews, ALL 4 1 - World’s Best Hope, AOR, ARALLU - Six, Ars Magna Umbrae - Through Lunar Gateways, Avantgarde Music, BATTLE RAIDER, Battlesk’rs, BEREFT OF LIGHT - HOINAR, Black Lodge Records, black metal, Blood Harvest, BLOODLUST - At the Devil's Left Hand, Burning Hatred - Carnage, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Caverna Abismal Records, Dark Sanctuary - Metal, Dayseeker - Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising, De Profundis - Decayed: 2007 - 2017, DEAD SEASON - Prophecies, death metal, DEATH YELL - Descent Into Hell, Discouraged Records, Dissonances Records, doom metal, Dr. Shrinker - Archive I & II, Dzo-nga - The Sachem's Tales, Eisenwald, Ektro, emo, Evil (Japan)- Rites of Evil, Expander - Endless Computer, Extreme Metal Music, FALAISE - My Endless Immensity, Fighter Records, FORMICARIUS - BLACK MASS RITUAL, Frontiers music, Funeralglade - May The Funeral Begin, Gentle Art of Music, Godhead Machinery- Ouroboros, gothic metal, GRAHAM BONNET BAND - Live... Here Comes the Night, Granada - Sincronizado, grindcore, HANDS OF THIEVES – FEASTING ON DARK INTENTIONS, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hellthrasher Productions, Holy Roar Records, HORRIFIC - Your Worst Nightmare, Integrity - Howling For The Nightmare Shall Consume, Inverse Records, INVIDIA - As The Sun Sleeps, iron bonehead, Kimi Karki - Eye for an Eye, Kissin' Dynamite - Dynamite Nights, Korea - Abiogenesis, KROSSFYRE - Burning Torches, KRYPTONITE - "Chasing Fire", Limbonic Art - Spectre Abysm, Lisa Cuthbert - Hextapes, LJOSAZABOJSTWA – SYCHODZANNIE, Long Branch Records, Loud Rage Music, Masterplan - PumpKings, metal reviews, metalcore, MINDKULT - Lucifer's Dream, MINOTAURO RECORDS, Misanthropy Elite Productions / Iron Goat Commando, Morbid Evils - Deceases, Morbid Skull Records, music reviews, Napalm Records, Nordvis Produktion / Bindrune Recordings, Nuclear War Now! Productions, OHRENFEINDT - Zwei Fauste fur Rock'n'Roll, OSCULUM INFAME - The Axis Of Blood, Ossuary Insane - Demonize the Flesh, power metal, progressive metal, Proscrito - El Calvario, Protosequence - Biophagous, punk, Purgatorium - Still In Search, Relapse Records, Reverorum ib Malacht - Ter Agios Numini, RIVERDOGS - California, RPWLA - New Dawn, Rue Stendhal, RUSSKAJA - Kosmopoliturbo, SAOL, Satanath Records, Satanath Records / United By Chaos, SCHWARZDORN PRODUCTION, Seven Spires - Solveig, Siniestra - La inmortalidad de la muerte, SINLUST - Sea Black, Soman Records, Sons of Crom - The Black Tower, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / Oblivion / SPV, Steel Mammoth - Atomic Oblivion, Stillborn - Lorelei, svart records, Symbol of Domination, symphonic metal, TALES OF GAIA - Hypernova, Tele.S.Therion - Luzifers Abschied, TEN - Gothica, The Father of Serpents - Age of Damnation, THE INTERBEING - Among The Amorphous, THE MIDNIGHT GHOST TRAIN - Cypress Ave., THE MINERVA CONDUCT, third eye cinema podcast, Tommy Stewart's Dyerwulf, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records, Uerberos - Tormented by Faith, VANUM - Burning Arrow, VARG - Gotterdammerung, Vicisolum Productions, Vindkast - Archaic Collapse, VINTERSORG - Till Fjalls del II, war metal, Wren - Auburn Rule, YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS - First Night Back In Port, ZURVAN - Gorge of Blood

Well, here we are, smack dab in the ides of Summer (or thereabouts), and true to form, it’s been something of a mixed bag.

Jumpin’ Jehosaphat! Stop Jerking around with those unjustifiably Jejune Review sources…it’s time for another Judiciously perspicacious June Roundup!

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Agonia records, Amentia - Scourge, Amputated Vein Records, Art of Propaganda, ASHCLOUD - Kingdom of the Damned, Avantgarde Music, ÆRA - Of Forsworn Vows, BAD KARMA - Death Has No Calling Card, BARBARIAN, Beastmaker - Inside The Skull, Black Bow Records, Black Lodge Records, Black Plague Records, Blaze of Sorrow – Astri, Caverna Abismal Records, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, COFFEINNE - Circle of Time, Comatose Music, Comity - A Long Eternal Fall, Convulsive Oaths, Cryptic Wanderings - You Shall Be There..., CULT OF ERINYES - Tiberivs, De Tenebrarum Principio, Death Portal Studio, Deity, Delirious, Direwolves - The Great Year, Disharmony - The Abyss Noir, Disorder - Fuego Negro, Divinity - The Immortalist, Eisenwald, Ektro, Eleine, Fellwarden – Oathbearer, Fighter Records, Fila Sophiae, Forever Plagued, Freiheit - Безумие. Ненависть. Смерть, Frontiers music, Funeral Tears - Beyond The Horizon, Future Faces - Revolt, Ghost Toast - Out of This World, GrimmDistribution, HATE - Tremendum, hell's headbangers, Humangod - Real Me, INGLORIOUS - II, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Iron Bonehead / Parasitic / Vault of Dried Bones, Kafirun - Eschaton, Karkaos - Chidlren of The Void, Khatano / Kundorez - Czech Madness, KING SATAN - King Fucking Satan, KOBRA AND THE LOTUS - Prevail I, KVLT, Lava Invocator - Mork, Lød - Folder, Lucifer's Dungeon - The Dark Army Raises, Macabre Demise - Dead Eyes Stench of Death, Morbid Skull Records, More Hate Productions, MRTVI - Negative Atonal Dissonance, NADIMAC - Besnilo, Nagaarum - Homo Maleficus, Napalm Records, Narthraal - Screaming From The Grave, NGC Productions, Nicumo - Storms Arise, NITROGODS - Roadkill BBQ, Nordland - European Paganism, Nordvis Produktion / Bindrune Recordings, Obscure Abhorrence Productions, Opus Diaboli - Black Light Of Destruction, ORDEM SATANICA - Monte da Lua, PAGANIZER - Land of Weeping Souls, Panopticon - Kentucky, PATHOLOGY, Perpetual Rage - Empress Of The Cold Stars, Pimeydentuoja - Hellcrowned, Post Pulse - Halls Of The Damned, PRISON OF MIRRORS - Unstinted, Psychosomatic Cowboys - From Here To Hell, Pure - J'Aurais Du, Qrixkuor - Incantations From the Abyss, RED MOON ARCHITECT - Return Of The Black Butterflies, Rienaus - Saatanalle, Rise Above Records, Roctum - Nothing To Do With Hell, ROYAL HUNT - 2016, Satanath Records, Sator Malus - Dark Matters, Saturnal Records, Seance records, Seer (Canada) - Vol. III & IV: Cult of the Void, Shadow Kingdom, SHADOWFLAG – THE DELUSION MACHINE, Signal Rex, Signal Rex / De Essentia Diaboli, SKELETHAL - Of the Depths..., SNAKECHARMER - Second Skin, Social Arsonist - Duality of Perception, SPEEDCLAW - Iron Speed, Sphera Noctis Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Summon - Aesthetics of Demise, SVARTSYN - In Death, Symbol of Domination, TARLUNG - Beyond The Black Pyramid, Televisio, The Ritual Productions, The Sarcophagus - Beyond This World's Illusion, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records, Throatruiner Records / Gps Prod, Throatruiner Records / Translation Loss Records, Thus Defiled - A Return To The Shadows, Tough Love Records, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), Ungraved Apparition - PULSE_0, URSINNE - Swim With The Leviathan, VANDEN PLAS - The Seraphic Live Works, Vesicant - Shadows of Cleansing Iron, WARRANT - Louder Harder Faster, Weregoat - Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication, While They Sleep - Les Fleurs Du Mal, Wild Kingdom, Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos, Xtreem Music

Well, this has been an interesting month.

More! More! More! Another Marvelously Magnanimous May Roundup

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A Ghost Orchestra - Blood, ADRENALINE RUSH - Soul Survivor, AFM records, Akerbeltz - Satanic, AKRAL NECROSIS - Underlight, Ancient Ascendant - Raise The Torch, APOSENTO - Bleed to Death, ARGUS MEGERE - VEII, AXEL RUDI PELL The Ballads V, Black Dreams - "My Hell", BlackSeed Productions, Blood Harvest, BLUTRINA - Looney Fuckin' Grind, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Caverna Abismal Records, CEMETERY URN - Cemetery Urn, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, Coltsblood - Ascending, Concorde Music, Contaminated - Final Man, CRAZY LIXX - Ruff Justice, CRYOSTASIUM - Project:00, Dead By April - Worlds Collide, Desekryptor - Chasm of Rot, DIARCHY - Here Lost We Lie, DRAP - Rotten Till Allt Ont, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Ektro, Emptybrook - EP, Enragement - Burned Barren Bloodstained, FALSE REALITY - End of Eternity, Fighter Records, Final Void - Sounds of Absence, Firestarter Distribution, Frontiers music, Funeral Baptism - Gate, FUNERALIUM - Of Throes and Blight, Galley Beggar - Heathen Hymns, GOLDENPYRE - In Eminent Disgrace, GOTHIC - Demons, Gravetemple - Impassable Fears, Hatework, Haze of Summer - Znoi, He Is Legend - few, HEATHEN BEAST - $cam, Helker - Firesoul, Hell or Highwater - Vista, hell's headbangers, Heptown Records, Horrid - Beyond the Dark Border, HOUR OF 13 - Salt The Dead: The Rare And Unreleased, Hteththemeth - Best Worst Case Scenario, Ides Of Gemini - Women, IMINDAIN - The Enemy of Fetters and the Dweller in the Woods, Inner Wound Recordings, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions / Vrasubatlat, iron bonehead, J.T. Lehtonen - Land of Dust, KATHAROS XIII - Negativity, KOBRA AND THE LOTUS - "You Don't Know", LABYRINTH - Architecture of a God, LIFE OF AGONY - "World Gone Mad", LIFE OF AGONY - A Place Where There's No More Pain, Long Branch Records, Loud Rage Music, MAMMOTH MAMMOTH - Mount the Mountain, Maria ja Marsialaiset - Pysy hereilla, Marthyrium - Beyond the Thresholds, Medusa1975 - Rising From The Ashes, Metropolitan State Productions / Satanath Records, Mikko Joensuu - Amen 3, Napalm Records, Nordvis Produktion, Noumena - Myrrys, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Panphage & Thul - Ginnheilagr, Panphage - Storm, Pyroxene - EP, Rapheumets Well - Enders Door, Rise Above Records, Shadow Kingdom, Shores of Null - Black Drapes For Tomorrow, Signal Rex, Sincarnate - In Nomine Homini, Siriun - In Chaos We Trust, Sludgehammer - The Fallen Sun, SOULSKINNER - Descent to Abaddon, Sound Age Productions, Spinefarm Records, StarGazer - A Merging to the Boundless: Void of Voyce, Steamhammer / SPV, STREAMS - "Streams", SunSpell / Saudade - From the Mist...We are but Dust, svart records, Test Your Metal Records, The Guilt, The Leather Nun - Vive La Fete! Vive La Revolution, THE PIGGYBACK RIDERS - MIDNIGHT AT THE TENTH OF ALWAYS, THE UNITY, third eye cinema podcast, TOD HUETET UEBEL - N.A.D.A., Transcending Obscurity India, TREAT - The Road More or Less Traveled, Tribulance - The Aftermath of Lies, Triumvir Foul - Spiritual Bloodshed, Tusmörke - Hinsides, Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X), UNEVEN STRUCTURE - La Partition, VHALDEMAR - Old King's Visions, Weird Truth Productions (Japan), Wild Kingdom, Wind Rose - Stonehymn, Wolfpakk - Wolves Reign, X.KERNEL – FACE THE TRUTH, Xtreem Music, YSENGRIN / SARTEGOS (FRA/SPA) - Resvrrezionespiritval

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