At Last – An Up to Date, State of the Art, All Purpose, Entirely Au Courant Sizzlin’ Summer Roundup

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ABRAHMA - In Time for the Last Rays of Light, Abysmal Grief - Mors Eleison, Acoite, AFM records, Agonia records, ALAN PARSONS - The Secret, Alase - Vastaus, Am I Dead Yet?, AnnapurnA, Aphrodite - Lust and War, Arch / Matheos - Winter Ethereal, Archaic Sound, Archaic Tomb / Cryptworm split, Ares Kingdom - By the Light of Their Destruction, Ars Moriendi - La solitude du pieux scelerat, Asping - The Lion of Piraeus, ATMF, Autopilot - Afterglow, Avantgarde Music, AXEL RUDI PELL - XXX Anniversary Live, BEHEADED - Only Death Can Save You, Bethlehem - Lebe dich leer, Bhleg & Nechochwen - Sorlande sky / Majestic Translucence, Bindrune Recordings, Black Dreams - "under my skin", Black Mold - Tales of Degradation, Black Passage - The Veil, Blackwater Commotion - Strike One, Blood Harvest, BLOOD OF KINGU - De Occulta Philosophia, Borders - Purify, BURIAL REMAINS - Trinity of Death, Caligari Records, Chronoform - From the Void, Cold Kingdom - Into the Black Sky, Concilivm - The Veiled Engima, Concorde Music Company, CONCRETE WINDS - Primitive Force, Confused Records, CRAZY LIXX - Forever Wild, Crush the Altar - Abhorrent Oblation, D-A-D - A Prayer For The Loud, Daemoni - Black Tyrant, Dark Heresy - Abstract Principles Taken To Their Logical Extremes, Dawning Septic Productions, Deadlight Records, DEATH’S-HEAD AND THE SPACE ALLUSION - The Counterbalance, Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia, DEFIXION - Tabella Defixionis, Dekathlon - "Taskuni kutsu", Deletere - Theovorator : Babelis Testamentum, Deorc Absis - The Nothingness Transfiguration, Despotz Records, DEVOID OF THOUGHT - Cosmic Apoptosis, DISOWNING - Human Cattle, Diviner - Realms of Time, DOG BLESS YOU - BANKSTERS, Dool - Love Like Blood, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Dust Prophet - "Shadow Army", Egonaut - ''Omens'', Eihwaz / Bindrune Recordings, Ektro, Electric Hydra - The Last Of Us, Emil Bulls - Mix Tape, Employed to Serve - Eternal Forward Motion, Enchantya - On Light And Wrath, Evil Ink Records, EXCUSE - Prophets From the Occultic Cosmos, EXTREMA - Headbanging Forever, Fighter Records, Filtheater - Blight of Sempiternal Putrefaction, FireWalkWithMe - The Eternal Black Rainbow, First of All, FIRST SIGNAL - Line Of Fire, Flowing Downward, FORTUNE - II, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Funere / Solitude Productions, Ghost:Hello - Sound of Color in Space, Goathorned Productions, Gravefields - Embrace the Void, Handful of Hate, HARDLINE - Life, Haze of Summer - Stuzha, Hell and Hollar - 442, Helldprod, HEX - God Has No Name, HEXENEBRETT - Erste Beschworung, Hogar Dulce Hogar, Holocausto - Diario de Guerra, In Silence - ''The Worst Liar'', INFINITY - AWAKENING, Intothecrypt - Vakor, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, J.B.O. - Wer lasst die Sau raus?!, Jess By The Lake - Under The Red Light Shine, JIM PETERIK WORLD STAGE - Winds of Change, K.F.R - Demonologue, K.F.R - L'enfer a sa source, Kapala - Termination Apex, Kingart, Kroda - The Prodigy Tribute - Fvkk 'em and THEIR LAW, Krucyator Productions / Atavism Records, Kryptos - Afterburner, LEVERAGE - DeterminUs, Long Branch Records, Loud Rage Music, Lupus Lounge / Prophecy, MACHINE MAN RECORDS, Maharaja - Kali Yuga, Malum - Legion, Maniac Abductor - Casualties Of Causality, Memento Mori, MERCY'S DIRGE - LIVE, Metal Blade Records, Metal Devastation Records, Mettadone - Rotten Flattery, Meuchelmord - Waffentrager, MICHAEL THOMPSON BAND - Love And Beyond, Midnight Bullet - Into the Fire, Misþyrming - Algleymi, MOLLO RILLA, Moon Far Away - Athanor Eurasia, Moondawn Records, MORDOR - ¿Evolución?..., Motive - Fight The World, Nattfog - Pohjan Porteilta, NECRONOMIDOL - Voidhymn, NoEvDia, Nordvis, Nordvis Produktion, Nyss - Depayser, Obscura Qalma - From The Sheol To The Apeiron, Obsidian Tongue - Volume III, ORDINUL NEGRU - LIFELESS, ORDINUL NEGRU - NOSTALGIA OF THE FULLMOON NIGHTS (reissue), Ordo MCM, Ornamentos del Miedo - Este no es tu hogar, Osmose Productions, Osmose Productions / Hells Headbangers, Overt Enemy - Possession, PER WIBERG - Head Without Eyes, Prag 83 - Enouement, Prophecy, Purity Through Fire, RAW AND RELENTLESS, Redefining Darkness Records, Relapse Records, RENDEZVOUS POINT - Universal Chaos, RESTLESS SPIRITS (Tony Hernando), Ringworm - Death Becomes My Voice, Rockshots Records/ Universal, ROGGA JOHANSSON - Entrance to the Otherwhere, Sadness - Circle Of Veins, Sanity Control - Demo 2019, Sarinvomit / Eggs of Gomorrh - Encomium of Depraved Instincts, SATAN TAKES A HOLIDAY - A New Sensation, Schattenmann - Epidemie, Scythe For Sore Eyes - Nothing, Seeing Red Records, sepulchral productions, Sepulchral Voice, Shades of Deep Water - Death's Threshold, Shadow Kingdom, Shock Records / Vanity Music Group, Silver Snakes - Death and the Moon, Snakefarm Records, Specific Recordings, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Steel Mammoth - "Amplituhedron Baby", Steel Mammoth - "Friendly Aliens", Stille Volk - Milharis, Stone Leaders, Sun & Moon, svart records, Talking Music, Tanzwut - Seemannsgarn, Tar Pit - Tomb of Doom, Temple of the Stars - Nightspirit, THE BRINK - Nowhere To Run, The Glorious Dead - Imperator of the Desiccated, THE MORGANATICS - Love Riot Squad vs The F-World, THE NEGATIVE BIAS - Narcissus Rising (A Metamorphosis In three acts), THE RODS - Brotherhood Of Metal, third eye cinema podcast, Transcending Obscurity Records, TRENCH WARFARE - Hatred Prayer, TRISTENGRAV - II - Nychavge, Turkey Vulture - Boxer, Ulterium Records, Undoer - Survival is a Myth, Valborg - Zentrum, Vananidr - Road North, Vanity Music, Various Artists - Polya - Experimental New Wave and Art Punk from Finland 1979-1984, Vectis - The Executioner, Verwustung - Gospel ov Fury, VORTEX OF END - Ardens Fvror, WARCRAB - Damned In Endless Night, WHITESNAKE - Flesh & Blood, WICKED GARDEN - Post Dystopian Leisure Music, Wild Planes - Singin 'N' Slingin, Winterwolf - Lycanthropic Metal of Death, Wire-Sound, XENOKORP, XT - Revived - Standing for Jesus Christ, Xtreem Music, Zachary Lucky - The Ballad of Losing You

And another crazy month has passed.  With all the loose ends caught up on, we’ve made a concerted effort to get everything up to date, and essentially succeeded…if you don’t count the deluge of incoming materials by the day (generally with release dates for next month’s coverage, but not always…) and how long it takes to cover so much material every month.

Rally Round the Maypole, Make Merry, Make Mad!

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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", Eye of the Destroyer - Baptized in Pain, 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, High Potency, 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…

Avast! Yonder Lies Yet Another Awe Inspiring April Roundup!

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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…

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.

On Yoolis Night…Yuletide Solstice greetings

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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.