A Tranquilly Temperate if not downright Tolerant July Roundup

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42 DECIBEL - Overloaded, AFM records, ALESTORM - No Grave But The Sea, Atavism records, Atavisma - On the Ruins of a Fallen Empire, ATMF, Avantgarde Music, Barbaric Horde - Tainted Impurity, Blood Harvest, Blooming Carrions - Sparkling Rotten Dreams, BONEHUNTER - Sexual Panic Human Machine, Boonsdale Records, Broke & American, Casus Belli Musica, Cessation Engine Records, Comatose Music, DEPHOSPHORUS - Impossible Orbits (Astrogrind), DESCEND INTO DESPAIR - SYNAPTIC VEIL, DESESCRESY - The Mortal Horizon, DGM - Passing Stages: Live in Milan and Atlanta, Dying Fetus - Wrong One To Fuck With, EL CAMINO - Cursed Congregation, Evil Nerfal, Ewigkeit - Cosmic Man, Final Coil - Persistence Of Memory, Frontiers music, GRAVESITE - Neverending Trail of Skulls, Harem Scarem- United, hell's headbangers, Inverse, INVOCATION SPELLS - The Flame of Hate, iron bonehead, JORN - Life on Death Road, Loud Rage Music, Lvx Hæresis - Descensus Spiritus, M.O.D. - Busted, Megaforce Records, Michael Monroe - The Best, Morbid Skull Records, Morbid Visions Music, Moribundo - Raíz Amarga, MUTANK - W.H.A.T.S.T.H.A.T, Napalm Records, NEXUL - Paradigm of Chaos, Night Tripper Records, NUCLEUS /MACABRA - Fragmented Self, OPRICH - All Sails To The Wind, Orden Ogan - Gunmen, PERISHED - Kark, PRIMAL FEAR - Angels of Mercy - Live in Germany, Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna, RADIATION ROMEOS, Ray Suhy - Fulmination, Relapse Records, Requiem For Oblivion - Burning Nation, Rhapsody Of Fire - Legendary Years, Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae, Sapata - Satanibator, Satanath Records, Satanath Records / More Hate Productions, SECRET SPHERE - The Nature of Time, Selfmadegod, Shadow Kingdom, Sierpes - Visiones Caoticas, Spinefarm Records, Stahlmann - Bastard, Steamhammer / SPV, svart records, TEMPLE OF VOID - Lords of Death, THE FERRYMEN, third eye cinema podcast, To The Death / Night Tripper Records, TOTENGOTT - Doppelganger, Urn - The Burning, Vehementer - Replenishment Circle (The Black Spectumfest), VERTHEBRAL - Regeneration, War Arts Productions, Wolvenguard - Elemental Reclamation, WORM HOLE DEATH, Xtreem Music, Xtreem Music / Burning World, ZARAZA - Spasms of Rebirth

You know, it’s been a really unusual month.

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A Quite Considerable and Carefully Crafted Candlemas Roundup

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Abhorrence - Totally Vulgar - Live at Tuska Open Air 2013, Acrania - Fearless, AFM records, After All, AGGRESSION - Fragmented Spirit Devils, Agonia records, Allochiria - Throes, ALTAR OF BETELGEUZE - Among the Ruins, Anomalie - Visions, Apostate Viaticum - Before the Gates of Gomorrah, Art of Propaganda, Ash and Coal - Legacy, Asofy - Nessun Luogo, At The Hollow - We Are The Night - Live, ATMF, Avantgarde Music, Bathsheba - Servus, Baxter Stockman - Haul, Black Cilice - Banished From Time, Blood Harvest, Blood Region - For All the Fallen Heroes, Borealis - World Of Silence MMXVII, Botanist / Oskoreien - EP3: Green Metal / Deterministic Chaos, CANDLE - Demo 2016, Caverna Abismal Records, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, CODE - Lost Signal, Consummation - Ritual Severance, Crimson Slaughter - Cycle Of Decay, Crurifragium - Beasts of the Temple of Satan, CRYPTIC BROOD - Brain Eater, Damage Limit - Crank, Dark Messiah, Death Worship - Extermination Mass, Deathinition - Online, Demoncy - Within the Sylvan Realms of Frost, DIGIR GIDIM - I Thought There Was the Sun Awaiting My Awakening, Disharmony - Goddamn the Sun, DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE - Triumphus Haeretici, Draugurinn - Myrkraverk, Ecferus - Shamaniacal Essence, Eisenwald, Ekpyrosis - Asphyxiating Devotion, Ektro, Ember Falls - Welcome to Ember Falls, EUPHORIA - Operation Genesis, EX DEO - "The Rise Of Hannibal", Fabulous Desaster - Hang 'Em High, Fighter Records, Forca Macabra - 25 Anos, FORGJORD - Uhripuu, Front Beast - Third Scourge From Darkness, Frontiers records, Funeral Storm / Celestial Rite - Funeral Rite split, FUSION BOMB - Pravda, GOATMOON - Stella Polaris, Greywind - Afterthoughts, GRIMMD - Demo I - II, Harvest Gulgaltha - Altars of Devotion, Hate Unbound - Plague, HAXXAN - Loch Ness Rising, HEATHER WASTELAND (Greece) - Under the Red Wolfish Moon, hell's headbangers, Hellthrasher Productions, Holocausto - War Metal Massacre, Hymn - Perish, ILLIMITABLE DOLOR, IN THOUSAND LAKES - Age of Decay, Infrared - No Peace, Inverse, Invictus, iron bonehead, JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE - He Saw it Comin', Janne Westerlund - There's a Passage, JOHN GARCIA - The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues, Jupiter Hollow - Odyssey, Lacerated Enemy Records, Light of the Morning Star - Nocta, MALOIC - Death, Manetheren - The End, Memento Mori, MIDNIGHT - Shox of Violence, MORDANT - Demonic Satanic, MORS PRINCIPIUM EST - Embers Of A Dying World, MORTAL STRIKE - For The Loud And The Aggressive, Mosaic - Old Man's Wyntar, Mustan Kuun Lapset - Saatto, Naddred - Sluagh, Napalm Records, Necronomicon - Advent of The Human God, NEGLIGENCE - Coordinates of Confusion, NORD - Alpha, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, NUKEM - The Unholy Trinity, Onefnt - Demo, Oreioa - Demo 1, Osmose Productions, Ottone Pesante - Brassphemy (Set in Stone), Persefone - Aathma, PH - Eternal Hayden, Pillorian - Obsidian Arc, Pintandwefall - Red and Blue Baby, PLASMODIUM (Australia) - Entheognosis (Cimmerian Shade Recordings) (December 29)PLASMODIUM - Entheognosis, Poison Rites, POKERFACE - Divide and Rule, Praecognitvm - Inalienable Catharsis, PRIDE OF LIONS - Fearless, Rajalla - Diktaattori, Rites of Thy Degringolade - The Universe in Three Parts, Ruckwater - Bonehead, SATAN - Un Deuil Indien, Scarecrow - Exterminators of the Year 4000, Season of Mist, Secret Entertainment, Selvans / Downfall of Nur - Downfall of Nur \ Selvans, Seven Kingdoms - Decennium, Signal Rex / Óreiða / Harvest Of Death, Skeletal - Dreadful Life, Skogen - Eld, Skurk - Final Gift, SOLITARY - THE DISEASED HEART OF SOCIETY, Soul Collector / Re-Animator - In Union We Thrash (split), Spinefarm Records, STEPHEN PEARCY - Smash, Suomen Musiikki, Svart, Terrifier - Weapons of Thrash Destruction, Tervahaat - Kalmonssie, Test Your Metal Records, The Ajna Offensive, The Flight Of Sleipnir - Skadi, The Furor - Cavalries of the Occult, THE MURDER OF MY SWEET - Echoes of the Aftermath, THE RITUAL AURA - Taether, THE UNGUIDED - Brotherhood, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records, To The Death Records, Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity, Torrefy - The Infinity Complex, TOXIC RUIN - Subterranean Terror, TOXIK WALTZ - Declassified, Transcending Obscurity Distribution, UKEM, Van Halst - World of Make Believe, Vanishing Point - Tangled In Dream, Venenum - Trance of Death, Vicisolum Productions, VILES VITAE - IV, Vitriol - Vitriol, Vomit Angel - Sadomatic Evil, VORBID, wars - We Are Islands, Werewolf Records, White Death, Witherfall - Nocturnes and Requiems, Witherfall Music LLC, WORMHOLE - Genesis, XANDRIA - "Call Of Destiny", XANDRIA - "We Are Murderers (We All)", XANDRIA - Theater Of Dimensions, Xtreem Music (Spain), Yith - Dread

Well, it’s only been a week or two, and things are already looking far worse than most of us imagined.

Holy Holidaze Roundup, Batman!

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AFM records, Agencia Suburbana, Art of Propaganda, ATILA - Body, AVULSED - Deathgeneration, Beating Dead Meat - With Full Force, Bestial Raids - Master Satan's Witchery, Burning Point - The Blaze, Caverna Abismal Records, Circle of Dust - Machines of Our Disgrace, Cryptic Realms - Enraptured By Horror, DARIO MOLLO'S CROSSBONES - Rock The Cradle, Decadawn - Solitary Confinement, DEMIMONDE - CYGNUS ODDYSSEY, Diablerie - The Catalyst vol. 1: Control, Dissociated / Hið Myrka Man, Dusk - Eko, Dutch Futurismo - Festival of Misfits, Ektro, ENDALOK - Ur Draumheimi Viourstyggoar, Endemise - Anathema, ENUFF Z'NUFF - Clowns Lounge, ETERNAL IDOL - The Unrevealed Secret, EVIL PRIEST (PER), Firewind - Immortals, FiXT, Frontiers music, Gloson - Grimen, Grathila Records, Guruzsmas - Ust A Gríz Felett, Heikki Sarmanto Serious Music Ensemble - The Helsinki Tapes Vol 1-3, hell's headbangers, Henry Kane (Sweden) - Den Forstorda Manniskans Rike, Herem - III, HEVIDENCE - Nobody’s Fault, Hordes of the Apocalypse - complete discography, Horn - Turm am Hang, IC Rex - Tulen Jumalat, Ilemauzar (Singapore) - The Ascension, Infamovs - Under the Seals of Death, Inverse, Invictus, Iron Blood and Death Corporation/Death In Pieces, iron bonehead, Kaos Krew - "End My Pride", Kratornas - Devoured By Damnation, Memento Mori, Nachtzeit - Sagor I Natten, NIGHT RANGER - 35 Years and a Night in Chicago, Nightmare - Dead Sun, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now!, Ordo MCM, Primitive Reaction, Rainbowlicker - I Saw The Light But Turned It Off, RIDE FOR REVENGE - Thy Horrendous Yearning, Ritualization - Sacraments to the Sons of the Abyss, Saturnal, Secret Entertainment, Sepsis Records (Indonesia), Signal Rex, Solitude - Beneath The Sky, Solitude Productions (Russia), Sorrowful Land - Of Ruins..., svart records, Tenebrae in Perpetuum - La Genesi: 2001-2002, Test Your Metal Records, The Replicate - A Selfish Dream, third eye cinema podcast, THYRANE - BLACK HARMONY, Transcending Obscurity Distribution, Trollwar - "Omens of Victory", Ululatum Tollunt - Quantum Noose of Usurpation, woodcut records, Words Of Farewell - A Quiet World, Xtreem Music (Spain)

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m ready for the holidays.

A Marvellously Mellifluent March Roundup

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ADEPT - Sleepless, Aesthetic Death Records, AFM records, Agonia records, Altare Productions, Among The Prey - Only For The Blinded Eyes, ANVIL - Anvil is Anvil, APOKALYPTIC RAIDS - The Third Storm, BARBARIAN (Italy) - Cult of the Empty Grave, Bloodbound - One Night Of Blood, Cantique Lépreux - Cendres Célestes, Chestburster - Slime and Guilt, Decrepit Soul - The Command of War!!, Dream Demon Recordings, Droids Attack - Sci-Fi or Die, Eisenwald, EMBALMER - Emanations From the Crypt, Frontiers music, GOATPSALM - DOWNSTREAM, hell's headbangers, Ill Omen - Æ.Thy.Rift, Inglorious, Inverse, iron bonehead, Iron Mask - Shadow Of The Red Baron, K-X-P - III Part 2, KARMA TO BURN - Mountain Czar, KITTY IN A CASKET - Kiss & Hell, MAGNUM - Sacred Blood "Divine" Lies, Magrudergrind - II, MILLENNIUM - Caught In A Warzone, Napalm Records, Neverworld - Dreamsnatcher, No Remorse, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Panopticon & Waldgeflüster, RAGNAROK - Psychopathology, Relapse Records, Riff Reaper Records, Rodeostar / SPV, Sinbreed - Master Creator, Steamhammer / SPV, svart records, Talmud Beach - Chief, The Last Vegas - Eat Me, The New Black - A Monster's Life, third eye cinema podcast, Turia - Dor, Veneficium (New Zealand) - Veneficium, Voidnaga - Demo MMXVI, Wishing Well - Chasing Rainbows

It’s the shortest month of the year, so not only are we bumping the monthly reviews up by a week, but we’ll try to keep things brief.

A Frigid and Fairly Frostbound February Roundup

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Admiral Sir Cloudesly Shovell - Isobelle, AFM records, Alastor - Waldmark, Altarage - NIHL, Amoth - Revenge, Asphodelus - Dying Beauty & the Silent Sky, ATMF, Barbaric Horde - Gasmask Perpetrators, Beastmaker - You Must Sin, Convulse - Cycle of Revenge, De Tenebrarum Principio, DEATHRAID - Submit to the Will of Chaos, DISSVARTH - Between The Light And The Moon, Eisenwald, Elvenking - Night Of Nights, Emil Bulls - XX, Factory Brains - Hard Labor, Folteraar - Vertellingen van een donkere eeuw, Goatcraft (Slovakia) - Olethros, Hatesphere - New Hell, hell's headbangers, I Voidhanger Records, Imperia - Tears Of Silence, Infernal Curse - Apocalipsis, Inverse, iron bonehead, Iron Tyrant, Justice Theory - Necessary Evil, Krater - Urere, Massacre records, Morte Incandescente - ...o mundo morreu!, MY SILENT WAKE – AN UNBROKEN THRENODY (2005 – 2015), Napalm Records, Nuclear War Now!, Obscura - Akroasis, One Morning Left - Metalcore Superstars, Onslaught - Live At The Slaughterhouse, POWER FROM HELL - Devil's Whorehouse, PRODUCT OF HATE - Buried In Violence, Record Breaking Records, Relapse Records, Rise Above Records, SKAPHE - Skaphe², Stone Groove Records, Striker - Stand In The Fire, SUSPIRAL - Delve Into The Mysteries Of Transcendence, svart records, Taarkus - Stones, Temple of Gnosis - De Secretis Naturae Alchymica, The Burning (Lustre) - Summoning the Lost Energy, Total Hate - Lifecrusher, Tusmorke - Fort Bak Lyset, War Arts Productions, Wild Kingdom, Wishing Well featuring Graham Bonnet - "Hippie Heart Gypsy Soul", Wrath of the Tyrant, Xibalba (Xibalba Itzaes) - Ah Tza!

What a year so far.

An Unexpectedly Enervating New Year’s Roundup

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AFM records, Agonia records, Akatechism - Dripping Flames, ANGEL DUST - Into The Dark Past, ANGEL DUST - To Dust You Will Decay, ARMOURED ANGEL - Communion, ATMF, AXEL RUDI PELL - Game Of Sins, Blood Harvest, Brainstorm - Scary Creatures, Centipede, Charm Designer - Everlasting, Dead Procession - Rituais e Mantras do Medo, Dissona - Paleopneumatic, ECFERUS - Pangaea, Eisenwald, Eucharist (Australia) - Endarkenment, Factory Brains - "Modern Day", Forndom - Dauðra Dura, Forndom - Dauora Dura, Frontiers music, hell's headbangers, High Priest of Saturn - Son of Earth and Sky, I Voidhanger Records, Imperial State Electric - "Anywhere Loud", Inverse, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Labyrinth Productions, Löbo - Alma, Listenable Records, Manimal - Trapped In The Shadows, Mörk Gryning - Tusen år har gått, No Remorse, NORDIC UNION, Nordvis, OCERCO - A Desolação, PRIMAL FEAR - Rulebreaker, PRONG - X - No Absolutes, Psychout Records, Resurrection Kings, Rhapsody Of Fire - Into The Legend, SATANIC WARMASTER / ARCHGOAT - Lux Satanae (Thirteen Hymns of Finnish Devil Worship), Serpents Athrist - Heralding Ceremonial Mass Obliteration, Shakra - High Noon, Signal Rex, SPEKTR - The Art to Disappear, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, svart records, TERROR (Cleveland) - Legion of Gore, THE WAKEDEAD GATHERING - Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre, Titaan - Kadingir, Toothgrinder - Nocturnal Masquerade, Villainy - Villainy II: Dim, VOIDCRAEFT - Ἕβελ, Wild Kingdom Records, Xantam - LifeDeathBeyond

Whew!

If you’re like…well, just about everyone I know, 2016 is not kicking off on a very good foot.

A Slightly Succinct yet Celebratory Solstice Roundup

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Altare Productions, Aluk Todolo - Voix, Amber Asylum - Sin Eater, Anti-Flag - Live Acoustic at 11th Street Records, APOCALYPTIC WITCHCRAFT, Art of Propaganda, ATMF, Baphomet's Blood - In Satan We Trust, Black Blood, Bloodlash - Rain, Chaos Echoes - A Voiceless Ritual, Chaos Echoes - Duo Experience / Spectral Affinities, Chaos Echoes - Parisian Sessions / Rehearsal I, Darker Than Black, Escalane - The Days of Decay, Eternal Of Sweden - Heaven's Gate, Frost and Fire, FROZEN OCEAN – THE PROWESS OF DORMITION, GRAVEWURM - Doomed to Eternity, hell's headbangers, Hostium - The Bloodwine of Satan, Inverse, iron bonehead, Mons Veneris - Sibilando com o Mestre Negro, Nachtzeit - Dar Foddes En Langtan, Naora - Allir Vegir Til Glotunar, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Ostots - Hil Argi, Peace Killers, Prophecy productions, Reencarnacion - 888 Metal, Sacrocurse - Destroying Chapels, Scarecell - New Horizons, Secrets Of The Moon - Sun, Seer - Vol. 1 & 2, Signal Rex, Spinefarm Records, svart records, Temple Below - The Dark Goddess, The Ajna Offensive, third eye cinema podcast, Titaan - Kadingir, Wolfhorde - Towards The Gates of North, Wrathrone - Born Beneath

Much like last month’s Holidaze Roundup, we’re bringing our year end review roundup to you a few weeks early, so all of us can get on with the business of attending to whatever religious, pagan or occultic endeavors one’s personal experience of the season may entail.

Admittedly, there’s not a whole hell of a lot to dig into this time around, which is somewhat to be expected given both the temporary shift in review cycle to more of a mid-month appearance (don’t worry, we’ll snap back to normal once we make our way into the new year) and, once again, the fact that everybody’s out there celebrating in some manner or other (or doing their damnedest to pretend everything’s status quo despite all the buzzing activity around them – ridiculous I know, but some choose that option).

So without holding up anyone’s tree trimming, shopping runs, gatherings, get togethers or conjurations, here’s the last few new reviews for the year 2015.  See ya ’round the bend…

Yet Another Holidaze Roundup

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Acrolith - Uncharted, AFM records, An Ocean Of Void, Black Twilight Circle - Desert Dances and Serpent Sermons, Blood Harvest, BLOOD RED SAINTS - Speedway, BODE PRETO - Mystic Massacre, Brian Day, Concorde Music Company, Dakhma (Switzerland) - Astiwihad-Zohr, Dark The Suns - Life Eternal, FIND ME - Dark Angel, Frontiers music, HAREM SCAREM - Live at the Phoenix, High Roller Records, HONEYMOON DISEASE - The Transcendence, I Voidhanger Records, Ice War - Battle Zone, Inverse, iron bonehead, Iron Tyrant records, Khtoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia), KHYMERA - The Grand Design, Lethal Steel - Legion Of The Night, Machinae - Clockwork, MAMMOTH STORM - Fornjot, Manegarm, NACHTLIEDER - The Female Of The Species, Napalm Records, NAR MATTARU - Ancient Atomic Warfare, Necrosemen - Vglns, Nhor - Momenta Quintae Essentiae, Nucleus Torn - Neon Light Eternal, Owler - Waves, PHANTASMA - The Deviant Hearts, Prophecy productions, Ripping Death - Tales of the Ripper, Sono Morti, SPECTRAL LORE - Gnosis, Spiders - Why Don't You?, Spinefarm Records, Standing Ovation - Gravity Beats Nuclear, The Ajna Offensive, The Vladimirs, third eye cinema podcast, Triumvir Foul, VoidCeremony - Cyclical Descent of Causality, Voodoo Circle - Whisky Fingers, Vorna - Ei valo minua seuraa

OK, I admit it: it’s a week early.

But with Thanksgiving coming up here in the States next week, and as we already have a heaping helping of releases on hand, reviewed and all ready to roll, consider this an early holidaze gift.   Something to chew on and digest before you start falling asleep on all that tryptophan next Thursday…

An Occasionally Ochletic October Roundup

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21 Octayne - 2.0, A Sound Of Thunder - Tales From The Deadside, AFM records, Agonia records, Alda - Passage, Altare Productions, AMBERIAN DAWN - Innuendo, Ambush - Desecrator, Antimatter - The Judas Table, Aosoth / Order of Orias, AUDIOTOPSY - Natural Causes, Baron - Torpor, Black Lodge Records, Blood Harvest, Cold Northern Vengeance - Maelstrom, De Tenebrarum Principio, Deadheads - Loaded, Debauchery - F*ck Humanity, DECEASED - Cadaver Traditions, Denial (Mexico) - 11°22?.?4'N 142°35?.?5'E, Eïs - Bannstein, Edged Circle Productions, Eisenwald, ELECTRIC DEATHBEAT - DEAD ECHO PARANOIA, Frontiers records, Gama Bomb - Untouchable Glory, Gloria Story - "Beast Of A Northern Light", GLORYHAMMER - Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards, Gnosis (Florida) - The Third-Eye Gate, hell's headbangers, High Roller Records, HUNTRESS - Static, Inverse, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, JACKSON FIREBIRD - Shake The Breakdown, JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13 - Dying To Live, Killer Cobra Records, Lunar Mantra - Genesis, Lupus Lounge, LYNCH MOB - Rebel, Mad Neptune, MAGNUS KARLSSON’S FREE FALL - Kingdom of Rock, Massacre records, Märvel - "Love Machine", Månegarm - Urminnes Hävd - The Forest Sessions (Re-Mastered), MONSTER MAGNET - Cobras and Fire (The Mastermind Redux), Moribund, Napalm Records, Nuclear War Now! Productions, NYX - Home, O.S.I.R.I.S. - The Conquest of Planet Death - Vol 2, Onirik (Portugal) - Casket Dream Veneration, Pneuma Hagion - Trinity I, Prophecy productions, RATTUS - FINNISH PUNK VETERAN RATTUS MEXICO TOUR 2015, Ruach Raah - Hate Fanaticism, Sepulcher - Mausoleum Tapestry, SKINDRED - "Under Attack", Slægt - Beautiful and Damned, svart records, Tantrum - Devirginized, The Physicists - My Love Is Dead, third eye cinema podcast, Twisted Entertainment, Tyrannus, VARATHRON - The Confessional of the Black Penitents, Vehemence - Assiege, VHOD - Dreamcleaver, VOODOO HILL - Waterfall, W.A.S.P. - Golgotha, W.T.C. Productions, War Arts Productions, Wild Kingdom

Has your department been outsourced yet?

An Enervating End of Summer Roundup

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ABIGAIL / SHITFUCKER - Bloody Your Lovely Pussy, Abominor (Iceland) - Opus: Decay, AFM records, Agonia records, AHAB - The Boats of The Glen Carrig, Altare Productions, AmoK (Norway) - Necrospiritual Deathcore, Antagonist Zero - No Tears, Ares Kingdom - The Unburiable Dead, AXIS - No Man's Land, Black .44 - No Blanks, Black Grail - Misticismo Regrisivo, BLOODWAY - Mapping The Moment With The Logic Of Dreams, Carma, De Profundis - Kingdom Of The Blind, De Tenebrarum Principio, Designs Of Chaos - The Darkest Storm, DIEMONDS - Never Wanna Die, Disfago, Edged Circle Productions, El Diablo y El Permiso de Dios, Embassy Of Silence - Verisimilitude, EVIL ARMY - Violence and War, hell's headbangers, HIGH POWER - Les Violons De Satan, High Roller Records, Horna - Hengen Tulet, House of Ashes, I Voidhanger Records, Inverse, Invictus, iron bonehead, Kaiserreich - Cuore Nero, Labyrinth Productions, Last Red Ransom, Lux Ferre - Excaecatio Lux Veritatis, MARE COGNITUM - An Extraconscious Lucidity, Massacre records, MIDNIGHT / SHITFUCKER, My Silent Wake - Damnatio Memoriae, Napalm Records, New Light Choir - Volume II, No Remorse, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Pentagram (Chile) / Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Ritual Human Slaughter / La Mujer, Procreation - Incantations of Demonic Lust for Corpses of the Fallen, Pyogenesis - A Century In The Curse Of Time, Sacrificium Carmen - Ikuisen Tulen Kammiossa, Sadistik Exekution - 30 Years of Agonizing the Dead, Saturnal, Scythe For Sore Eyes - Dawn Of a Darker Horizon, Shrine of Insanabilis - Disciples of the Void, Simulacrum - Sky Divided, Sinister - Dark Memorials, Stahlmann - CO2, TEMPLE OF BAAL - Mysterium, Tetragrammacide - Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Anti-Structural Formulæ, third eye cinema podcast, To Die For - Cult, TODESSTOSS - Hirngemeer, Tyrannus, U.D.O. - Navy Metal Night, V FOR VIOLENCE - The Book Of V, Veiled - Omniscient Veil, Venefixion - Defixio, VI - De Praestigiis Angelorum, W.T.C. Productions, WASP - "Last Runaway", Wickerman Recordings, Witch Ghetto Productions

Well, that’s it, kids – that’s all she wrote.

Summer’s over, and all too many adults of personal acquaintance are struggling with job layoffs and benefit cuts (thanks so much, right wingers and corporate types, for devaluing the individual in favor of maximizing profits for the already bloated tenth of a percenter multinational moguls – you’ve given so much to the world).  Did I mention the farmer’s almanac, of all things, is predicting another bad winter?

As Laaz Rockit once sagely penned, “shit’s ugly”.