A Manifestly Magnanimous if not Munificent Mid-May Roundup

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82 Records, A Sad Sadness Song, Ackeron - Polarity, AFM records, Age of Taurus - The Colony Slain, Agonia records, ALMS - Act One, Ancient Lights, Bad Cake Records, Beyond The Katakomb, Black Bow Records, Black Lodge Records, BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE - Yugen, Blood Harvest, BLOOD RITES - Demo 1, Brass Owl, BULLET - Dust To Gold, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Casket Feeder - Scalps, Caveman Cult - Supremacia Primordial, Caverna Abismal Records, Cavurn - Rehearsal, Circenses - Tightrope Walk on the Ground, Cobraside Records, Comatose Music, Concreto Records, Crurifragium - Black Seed of Bestiality, Deathwards - Towards Death, Despotz Records, DOKKEN - Return to The East Live 2016, DOOMSDAY OUTLAW - Hard Times, Drug Cult, Dying Awkward Angel - Absence of Light, Eisenwald, Euphoreon - Ends of the Earth, Eye of the Destroyer - Violent By Design, FARGO - Constellation, Fighter Records, Frontiers Music s.r.l., GHOSTBOUND - All is Phantom, Gus G. - Fearless, H42 Records, Hibernacula Records, High Council - Held In Contempt, Human Cull - Revenant, Ihsahn - Amr, Immortal Synn - Machine Men, In Vain - IV, Infrared - Saviours, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, IRON VOID - Excalibur, Jack 13's Panzercrow - Nightmare Returns, JIZZY PEARL of LOVE / HATE - All You Need Is Soul, Jyotisavedanga - Thermogravimetry Warp Continuum, KLAUS SCHULZE - Silhouettes, Larval Productions, Leviathan - Can't be Seen by Looking: Blurring the Lines Clouding the Truth, Long Branch Records, Lords Of Acid - Pretty In Kink, LORDS OF BLACK - Icons Of The New Days, Majesty of Silence - Zu Dunkel Fur Das Licht, MALEKHAMOVES, Matalobos - Until Time Has Lost All Meaning, Melancholia Records, metropolis records, Monument - Hellhound, Morbid Skull Records, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oblivion / SPV, Orgullo Nativo - Entre el campo de batalla, Ossuary Insane - Decimation of the Flesh, Ostura - The Room, OVERDRIVERS - Rockin'Hell, Pelagos - Revolve, POSTHUMAN ABOMINATION – TRANSCENDING EMBODIMENT, POUNDER - Faster Than Fire, PRAYING MANTIS - Gravity, Purodium Rekords, QOHELETH - Black Kites Broadcasts, QUANTUM LEAP - NO REASON, Rat The Magnificent - The Body As Pleasure, RavenSkul - "In the Air Tonight", RavenSkul - At the Gates of the Gods, Raw Skull Records, Redefining Darkness Records, RIBSPREADER - The Van Murders - Part 2, Rise Above Records, Ritual Productions, Rock Of Angels Records, Rockshots Records, Rockshots Records / Extreme Metal Music, Ruach Raah - Under the Insignia of Baphomet, Saturnal, SENDWOOD - Fist Leaf, Serene Dark (formerly Endemise) - "Dualitatem", Shadow Kingdom, Shitty Person - Judgement, Slomatics/Conan - Split, Sons of Alpha Centauri - Continuum, SPACE ELEVATOR - II, Steamhammer / SPV, Stonefellowship Recordings, Supreme Carnage - Morbid Ways to Die, Svart, Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness, Test Your Metal Records, The Apostles Of Ignominy, THE KONSORTIUM - Rogaland, third eye cinema podcast, Thundermother, Transcending Obscurity Asia, Transcending Obscurity Records, TTWD Records, Uada - Cult Of A Dying Sun, Universal Music MENA, Urarv - Argentum, Various Artists - Dance for Your Life - Rare Finnish Disco & Funk 1976-1986, VEGA - Only Human, VHALDEMAR - Shadows of Combat, Via Nocturna Records, Viskningar och vral, Voices - Frightened, War Arts Productions, Wømb - Taciturn, Witch Mountain, WOOAAARGH, Woorms / A Hanging, Xael - The Last Arbiter, Xtreem Music

This one may surprise you.

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Another Awe-Inspiring Aggregation of Anomalies and Anomie, otherwise Accepted and Acknowledged as the April Roundup

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20 Watt Tombstone - Death Blues vs. The Dirty Spliff, Abhor - Occulta religiO, Accursed Spawn - "Bhopal '84", Acephale Winter, ACHERONTAS - Faustian Ethos, AFM records, Agonia records, AIRBORN - Lizard Secrets, ANGEL OF MERCY - The Avatar, AnnapurnA, APF Records, Apocrophex - AEternalis, Apparition - The Ravenous Dusk, Archaic Sound, Archelon - Tribe of Suns, ATLAS - "Birthright", Avantgarde Music, Axia - Pulverizer, Bestial Invasion - Contra Omnes, Beyond Deth - The Age Of Darkness, Blood Harvest Records, Bloody Falls - Thanatos, Body Void - I Live Inside A Burning House, Borgne - [8], Burnout Records, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Carnal Records, CARNIFEX - Pathological Rites, Cold Northern Vengeance - Desolate Ways to Ultima Thule, Corpsehammer - Perversion, Cramada, CREMATORY - Oblivion, Crone -Godspeed, Crown And Throne Ltd / Dry Cough Records / Seeing Red Records), Dark Adversary Productions, DEATH ENGINE - PLACE NOIRE, Deathwards - Towards Death, Dedication Records, Demonic Obedience - Fatalistic Uprisal of Abhorrent Creation, Deny - Parasite Paradise, Despotz Records, Devil’s Hound - Left in Dissociation, Die Sonne Satans - Metaphora, Divebomb Records, Djevelkult - Nar Avgrunnen Apnes, DOKUGA / SYSTEMIK VIØLENCE - MAKE PUNK RAW AGAIN // SPLIT 7” EP 2017, Domedag - Nu Nalkas Domedagen, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Dunnock - Little Stories Told by Ghosts, Earth's Yellow Sun - "Entertain Me", Enhailer - Dumb Enough To Care, Equilibrium Music, Eternal Sound Records, Fighter Records, FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM - Fellatrix, FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM - Hostia, FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM - Pornokrates: Deo Gratias, Flame Acausal - Contra Mundum in Aeternum, FM - Atomic Generation, Frequency Drift - Letters to Maro, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Gain Eleven - "Freaking You Out", Gentle Art of Music, Giuda - Rock 'n' Roll Music, GOAT WORSHIP (Brazil) - Shore of the Dead, Goddess of Fate - Spiral Orchard Part 1, H E X, Hallux, Hekate - Totentanz, hell's headbangers, HERON - A Low Winter's Sun, Hostia, Hummus Records, Inferna Profundus Records, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, ISSA - Run With The Pack, JAMES CHRISTIAN - Craving, Kalmah - Palo, Kebu - Kring havet - Meren ymparilla, Knelt Rote - Alterity, Krolok - When the Moon Sang Our Songs, Krucyator Productions, Leather - II, Long Branch Records, Lordi - Sexorcism, Maailmanloppu - Tuhon koodi, Masada - When the Lights Go Out, Matterhorn - Crass Cleansing, Melan Selas - Reon, MHONOS - LXXXVII, Millennial Reign - The Great Divide, Moloch - The Other Side, Morbid Skull Records, Moribund records, Neige Et Noirceur - Vent Fantôme, Nekrokraft - Servants, Non Serviam Records, NortherN - Desolate Ways to Ultima Thule, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oksennus - Kolme Toista, Ominous Eclipse - "Sinister", Ordeals / Daethorn, Osmose Productions, Pact - Enigmata, PERFECT PLAN - All Rise, Pneuma Hagion - Trinity, Pohjonen Alanko - Northern Lowland, PRC Music, PROFANE ORDER - Marked By Malice, PROFANE ORDER - Tightened Noose of Sanctimony, Prophecy productions, Pseudogod - Sepulchral Chants, Pure Steel Records, Purodium Rekords, QFT - Live In Space, Raven Throne - I Miortvym Snicca Zolak, Raw 'N' Roll Rex, Red Eleven - Fueled By Fire, Reverorum ib Malacht - Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas innoble, Richthammer - Ascheland, Rise Above Records, Rockshots Records, Ross The Boss - By Blood Sworn, Satanath Records / Sevared Records, Saturnal, Secret Entertainment, Secret Entertainment / ZYX music, Sect Pig - Crooked Backs, Selfmadegod Records, Sense of Fear - As The Ages Passing By…, Septic Tank - Rotting Civilisation, Shadow Kingdom, Shadowkeep, Shellfire Attack, Shields - Life In Exile, SHOW ANIKI - The Deep Blue Sessions, Sludgelord Records, SpellBlast - Of Gold and Guns, Spiders - Killer Machine, Spinefarm Records, Steal The City - The Time We Needed, Steamhammer / SPV, Stortregn - Emptiness Fills The Void, Studio Hundert Records, Subduer - Death Monolith, svart records, Svederna - Svedjeland, Tengil - Shouldhavebeens, The Armed - Only Love, The Black Sorcery - And The Beast Spake Death From Above, The Dark Red Seed - Becomes Awake, The Human Race Is Filth - Liberate, The Outsider, The Outsider - Ancient Beast of the Apocalypse, The Sign Records, The Sloths - BACK FROM THE GRAVE, The Sperm - 50th Erection, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records, Throatruiner Records / Apocaplexy Records, Throatruiner Records / Deaf Death Husky Records, Traced By Enemies - Where The Sun Turns Gray, Trevor's Head - Soma Holiday, Triumphant Transgressions, Ulterium Records, Unprocessed - Covenant, Unreqvited - Stars Wept to the Sea, Urze de Lume - As Arvores Estao Secas E Nao Tem Folhas, Valis Ablaze - Boundless, Various Artists - Satan in Love, Various Artists - Veritahroja / Bloodstains - Rare Finnish Punk 1979-1983, Via Nocturna, Vile Caliber - Willpower, Wail - Wisdom Through Agony into Illumination and Lunacy vol. II, Wendess - MMXXIII, WHORESNATION - MEPHITISM, Widow's Peak - Graceless, Winterfylleth - The Hallowing Of Heirdom, Witch Casket - Hatred Index, Wulverine Records, Xtreem Music, Zanjeer Zani Productions, Zarraza - Necroshiva

Hey, it’s just about month end, and here we are again, our monthly gathering of the sacred and profane in celebration of the plethora of releases passed down to we the listening audience from…er…other parts of the same audience, given just how many of us are musicians ourselves.

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.”

Enough Nominally Normative Nostalgic Nonsense, it’s time for the Nascent Nonchalance of the New Year’s Roundup!

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(D)juret - Sok din sekt, Abigor - Hollenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition), AFM records, Akslen Black Art Records, album reviews, AMMUNITION, Ancient Temple Recordings, ANIALATOR - Rise to Supremacy, Antichrist - Pax Moriendi, ANTIGAMA - Depressant, ANVIL - Pounding The Pavement, AOR, Apollyon Entertainment, Asenblut - Legenden, ATMF, Avantgarde Music, Bhleg - Solarmegin, Black Lodge Records, Black Market Metal, black metal, Blaspherion - Restus Corpus, Bleeding Music Records, BLIGHT - The Teachings/Death Reborn, Blood Harvest, Buck Tow Truck - Death Wields A Six String, Byyrth - Echoes from the Seven Caves of Blood, Chaos Echoes - Mouvement, Chaos Invocation - Reaping Season Bloodshed Beyond, CONVICTION - "Outworn", Corbian - Supremacy of Fire, Cramada, Crimson Devils - A Taste For Blood, Crossbones - WWIII, Cryptivore - Unseen Divinity, Cursed Records, D7i Records, Dakota Westbrook - Worthless, Days of Confusion - Yin & Out, death metal, DEFENESTRATION - Gutter Perdition, Demonomancy - Poisoned Atonement, Disembowel - Plagues and Ancient Rites, DOMINANT - The Summoning, doom metal, Drakkar Entertainment GmbH, El Puerto Records Gbr, Eleine - Until The End, emo, ET MORIEMUR - Epigrammata, Extreme Metal Music, Fallen Utopia - Disequilibrium, Fameless - Dreams Without A Past, FORGOTTEN WOODS - The Curse of Mankind, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Funeral Winds - Sinister Creed, FUNERARY BELL - Undead Revelations, Goatkraft - Angel Slaughter, GONE BY SUNDOWN - “Will you Remember”, gothic metal, GREBER - Cemetery Preston, grindcore, HAMMR - Unholy Destruction, HAR - Visitation, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hellfire Records, Heyoka's Mirror - Loss of Contact With Reality, Hibernation Release, High Roller Records, Horn - Retrograd, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Khiral - Chained, LABYRINTH - Return to Live, Lacerated Enemy Records, Lechery - We Are All Born Evil, LIONE - CONTI, Lurker of Chalice, MAGNUM - Lost On The Road To Eternity, Malady - Toinen toista, Man Daitorgul - Gulkenha, Marked Man Records, metal reviews, metalcore, MIKE LEPOND’S SILENT ASSASSINS - Pawn and Prophecy, Minneriket - Anima Sola, MINOTAURO RECORDS, Moribund records, Mortiferum - Altar of Decay, music reviews, My Silent Wake - There Was Death, Nadir Music, Nevicate - "Shattered", NIGHTSHADE - 1426, No Why Records, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Obscene - Sermon to the Snake, ORION DUST -Duality, Ossuarium - Calcified Trophies of Violence, Panphage - Jord, Pink Lemonade Records, power metal, progressive metal, punk, Rasgo - ECOS DA SELVA URBANA, Rastilho Records, Red Raven Down - Phantoms, RoadkillSoda - Mephobia, ROOM ME - Anaon, Sainted Sinners - Back With A Vengeance, Saturnal Records, SEEP AWAY – "Shimmy Shimmy Ya", SEEP AWAY – The Blackened Carnival Of Societal Ineptitude, Selfmadegod Records, SEX DUMPSTER – LORD ALCOHOL, Shambles - Primitive Death Trance, Shields - Use Protection, SHOW ANIKI - "Deep Blue"/ "COWBOYS FROM BREIZH", Snogg - Abeloth, Steamhammer / SPV, svart records, symphonic metal, Templeton Pek - Watching The World Come Undone, Test Your Metal Records, The Cursed Order, The Last Arbiter, THE PARASITE PARADISE - His Only Begotten Son (A.D. MMXVII), third eye cinema podcast, TOWARDS ATLANTIS LIGHTS - Dust of Aeons, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records, Trigger - Cryogenesis, Universal Music Romania, Vantablack Warship - Abrasive Pulmonic Speak, Vardan - Nostalgia - Archive Of Failures - Part 4, Vardan - Nostalgia - Archive Of Failures - Part 5, Vardan - Nostalgia - Archive Of Failures - Part 6, Verikalpa - Taistelutahto, Vinide - Reveal, VoidCeremony - Foul Origins of Humanity, VOJD - The Outer Ocean, Voodoo Circle - Raised On Rock, W.T.C. Productions, war metal, Watchers of Xan, WHIPSTRIKER - Merciless Artillery, Xael - Singles - Apathy of The Immortal, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, Ziggurat - Ritual Miasma, \Dooweet Agency

Whew!

Well, you wait and er…try to move things along in realms unseen one way or another, and sh*t happens, alright.

Holy Hoarfrost, it’s Here! The Historically Habitual Hilarity of the Holidaze Roundup!

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AFM records, album reviews, ALEX DAWSON - Always Rock, Anarchos - Invocation of Moribund Spirits, Antiquus Scriptum - Antologia, AOR, ARKHETH - 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew, Asphodelos - The Five Rivers Of Erebos, ATMF, ATMF Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fondamentum, Avantgarde Music, AZZIARD - Metempsychose, BEBLY - Deconne, Bestialord - Law of the Burning, Beyond Forgiveness - The Great Wall, Black Lion Records, BLACK MAMBA - Heritage, black metal, Black Sunset / MDD, Blood Harvest, Bunkur / Mordor, BURIAL CHAMBER - Ripping the Dead, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Caverna Abismal Records, CHRONIC XORN (India) - For These Sins Who Must Die, Circle Of Salt - Suffer The Cold, COMMUNION - At the Announcement, COMMUNION - The Communion, Corrosive - Lucifer Gave The Faith, CRUENTATOR - Ain't War Hell?, Czar Of Crickets Productions / Plastic Head Distribution, De Tenebrarum Principio, Deadheads - This One Goes To 11, DEATH KEEPERS - Rock This World, death metal, Deathmarch - Dismember, Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pacifisticuffs, DJINN AND MISKATONIC - Even Gods Must Die, doom metal, DOWN 'N' OUTZ - My Re-Generation, DRUID LORD - Grotesque Offerings, Ectoplasma - Cavern of Foul Unbeings, EISELY / GOLDY - Blood Guts and Games, Ektro / Future Lunch, ELEGIAC - Black Clouds of War, emo, Eternal Torment - Blind to Reality, Extreme Metal Music, Faceless Burial - Grotesque Miscreation, False Flag, Fighter Records, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Gloria Story - DOES YOUR HEART FEEL AT HOME, gothic metal, Grave Spirit - The Beast Unburdened By Flesh, Grimtone - Memento Mori, grindcore, Guillotine, heavy metal, Heikki Hautala & Hyvat veljet - Rauha ja harmonia, hell's headbangers, Hellthrasher Productions, Henry Metal - Henry Metal V, High Roller Records, I Voidhanger Records, IAMSIN - Kings & Queens, imper, Imperial State Electric - "Anywhere Loud", Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, JONO - Life, KAMERA OBSCURA - The Final Cut, Kuoleman Galleria - Pimeys Saapuu Pohjoiseen, Leaves' Eyes - Sign Of The Dragonhead, Lucifer's Dungeon - Music of Lost Spirits, Malakhim - Demo I, MALPERMESITA, Memento Mori, metal reviews, metalcore, Mist of Misery - Fields of Isolation, MORTIS MUTILATI - The Stench Of Death, music reviews, Nortt - Endeligt, NOVA - Soli Contro Il Mondo, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Ofdrykkja - Irrfard, Olavi Louhivuori - Immediate Music, OPERATION: MINDCRIME - The New Reality, Oracle - Into the Unknown, Osmose Productions, OUTLINE - Demo 1: Fire Whiplash, PERDITION WINDS – TRANSCENDENT EMPTINESS, PERPETRATOR - Altered Beast, Pile of Priests - Tenebrous Labyrinth, power metal, PRETTY BOY FLOYD - Public Enemies, progressive metal, Psychout Records, punk, RAINTIMES, RAPTURE - Paroxysm of Hatred, Robustfellow Productions, Rotheads - Sewer Fiends, SATANIC WARMASTER - We Are The Worms That Crawl On The Broken Wings Of An Angel, Scars Of Solitude - Deformation, Somali Yacht Club - The Sea, Spite - Antimoshiach, svart records, Symbol of Domination / Cimmerian Shade Recordings, symphonic metal, Tankard - Hymns For The Drunk, Teemu and the Deathblows - Keep It In The Dark, THE CLEARING PATH Watershed Between Firmament And The Realm Of Hyperborea, The Howling Void - The Darkness at the Edge of Dawn, The Human Race Is Filth - Human Exposed, The Sinister Flame / Hells Headbangers, third eye cinema podcast, This Winter Will Last Forever, Throaat - Reflections in Darkness, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), UNTERVOID, VARGRAV - Netherstorm, Vhorthax - Nether Darkness, Visions Of The Night – Supreme Act of War, war metal, Werewolf Records, Wild Kingdom, Wolf Counsel - Age Of Madness/Reign Of Chaos, Xtreem Music

Well, one year on and the tide would seem to finally be turning.  The wheels of progress move too damn slowly, sometimes, but at least they’re back trying to move after far too many months in utter stasis (if not a horrifying, Lovecraftian regress).

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.

A Solemn September Start of Fall Roundup

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A Sad Sadness Song, AEGRUS - Thy Numinous Darkness, AFFLIKTOR, AFM records, Agonia records, Air Raid - Across The Line, album reviews, Angel Nation - Aeon, ANTARKTIS - Ildlaante, Anubi's Servants - Duat, AOR, Apollyon Entertainment, Artoffact Records, Astrarot - We Can't Win, AU-DESSUS - End Of Chapter, Aurora Borealis, Avantgarde Music, Battle Dagorath - II - Frozen Light of Eternal Darkness, Big Scary Monsters, Black Lodge Records, black metal, Black Sunset / MDD, Blood Harvest, BLOODHUNTER - The End of Faith, BOLIDO - Heavy Bombers, Botanist - Collective: The Shape of He to Come, Breaking Samsara - Light Of A New Beginning, Breath of Pestilence, Bullet-Proof - Forsaken One, Buried Realm - The Ichor Carcinoma, CADAVERIC INCUBATOR - Sermons of the Devouring Dead, CAINAN DAWN - F.O.H.A.T, Cassels - Epithet, Caverna Abismal Records, Charming Timur - Focused Rage, CLOUDS OF DEMENTIA - Seventh Seal, Comatose Music, CONTAGION RECORDS, Corpsehammer - Posesion EP, Crejuvent - Time, CURSED MOON - Rite of Darkness, Darkfall - At The End Of Times, Darling!, Dead Express - Bloodsucking Queen, Deadcase - For The Violent, death metal, Decatur - Badder Than Brooklyn, DEFEATED SANITY - Prelude to the Tragedy, DEVANGELIC - Phlegethon, Devourer - Across the Empty Plains, Diabolicurst Productions / Slaughter House Records, DIKTATUR - La Voie Du Sang, DIRTY THRILLS - Heavy Living, doom metal, Doom Stew Records, Eastern High - Garden Of Heathens, Ektomorf - Warpath, Emil Bulls - Kill Your Demons, emo, Eneferens - In The Hours Beneath, Eshtadur - Mother Gray, Extreme Metal Music, Fighter Records, FM2000 - Hubba Bubba Rehab, FRAGARAK - A Spectral Oblivion, Frontiers music, FROZEN OCEAN - TRANSIENCE, Galy Records, Gloam - Death is the Beginning, Go Fuck Yourself Productions, gothic metal, grindcore, GUTSLIT - Amputheatre, HADES ARCHER - Temple of the Impure, Hallatar - No Stars Upon The Bridge, Harvest Of Death / Signal Rex, Heart Out Records, heavy metal, HELL IN THE CLUB - See You On The Dark Side, hell's headbangers, Hello Human Records, Henry Metal - So It Hath Begun, Heterochrome - Melancholia, Hexx - Wrath Of The Reaper, High Roller Records, Hive - Fights the Reds, INK - Loom, Inner Wound Recordings, Insurrection - Extraction, Inverse Records, Iron Blood And Death, iron bonehead, JAG PANZER - The Deviant Chord, JoDöden - Sittandes i sjön med vatten över huvudet, JUPITERIAN - Terraforming, Kaos Krew - Returno, KEE OF HEARTS, Killing Suzy - Everybody dies, Legend - Midnight Champion, Les Acteurs de L'Ombre, Loud Rage Music, Luciferian Insectus - Godless, M&O Music, MALPHAS - Incantation, MARY BY FORCE - Water Music, Mason - Impervious, MDD Records, MEAT TRAIN – RANDOM ACTS OF CARNAGE, MEGALITH GRAVE - From Effigies Past, Melancholia Records, Memento Mori, Memnon Sa - Lemurian Dawn, Menin - Lord of Pain, metal reviews, metalcore, Metalite - Heroes In Time, Modern Day Outlaw - Day Of Reckoning, MONSTER MAGNET - Spine Of God (Re-Issue), MONSTER MAGNET - Tab (Re-Issue), Morbid Skull Records, Mother of Millions - Sigma, music reviews, Napalm Records Handels GmbH, Neck Deep In Filth, NECROFULGURATE - Putrid Veil, Nekrohowl - Epitome of Morbid, Nemeziz - Gerechter Zorn, NIHIL EYES – BLACK PATH, Nocturnal Rites - Phoenix, Nordvis Produktion, Nordvis Produktion / Bindrune Recordings, Nuclear Warfare - Empowered By Hate, Nyss - Princesse Terre (Three Studies of Silence and Death), Odium - As The World Turns Black, OREIÐA / HOLOCAUSTO EM CHAMAS, ORMYST - Arcane Dreams, Osmose Productions, Paisley West - Energy Exploded, Pando - (in)human(e), Parodos - Catharsis, Pest Records, PHANTOM 5 - "Crossfire", Pile of Excrements - Escatology, Plan B Music, Planepacked - Critical Mass, power metal, Power Quest - Sixth Dimension, PROFETUS - Coronation of the Black Sun, progressive metal, Project Renegade - Cerebra (, punk, RabbitPunch - First Round Knock Out, REC/ALL, Rekoma - Eadem Errata, Repaid In Blood - Terra Mourning, Rise Above Records, RON CORONA - Fun Burst, Rope Sect - Proselytes, Rough Grind - Four For The Road, Sacrocurse - Gnostic Holocaust, Sacroscum - Drugs & Death, Saiva - Markerna bortom, Saturnal Records, SAVAGE ANNIHILATION - Quand s'abaisse la croix du blaspheme, Shahyd Legacy - Gateways, Signal Rex, Siinai - Sykli, Sleaszy Rider Records, Smoke Mountain, Solitary Ritual, SOMBRE CROISADE - BALANCIER DES AMES, Starchitect - Shift, Steamhammer / SPV, STEELHEART - Through Worlds of Stardust, Stillborn - Nocturnals, Straight From the Heart Records, Superbeast - A New Future, svart records, symphonic metal, TarantisT - Not A Crime, Terrible Old Man - Fungi From Yuggoth, Terror Empire - Obscurity Rising, THE WAKE - Earth's Necropolis, third eye cinema podcast, TIME LURKER, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), Triton's Orbit, Turbocharged - Apocalyptic, Ulterium Records, Unholy Prophecies, Vassafor - Malediction, Vice - The First Chapter, Vicisolum Productions, VOEMMR - Nox Maledictvs, Wakboth - Endless Graves, war metal, War Possession- Doomed to Chaos, Warcall - Invaders, WAYWARD SONS - Ghosts of Yet to Come, We Came From Wolves -Haunt Me, Weird Truth Productions, With The Dead - Love From With The Dead, Within Silence - Return From The Shadows, Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act II, XENOKORP, Xenokorp / Season of Mist / MVD, Xtreem Music, ZEIT - Konvergenz, \Mosher Records

You know, the older I get, the wiser bands from my childhood become.

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.