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

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:AJNA:, A Sad Sadness Song, AFM records, ALL 4 1 - World’s Best Hope, ARALLU - Six, Ars Magna Umbrae - Through Lunar Gateways, Avantgarde Music, BATTLE RAIDER, Battlesk’rs, BEREFT OF LIGHT - HOINAR, Black Lodge Records, 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 YELL - Descent Into Hell, Discouraged Records, Dissonances Records, Dr. Shrinker - Archive I & II, Dzo-nga - The Sachem's Tales, Eisenwald, Ektro, Evil (Japan)- Rites of Evil, Expander - Endless Computer, FALAISE - My Endless Immensity, Fighter Records, FORMICARIUS - BLACK MASS RITUAL, Frontiers music, Funeralglade - May The Funeral Begin, Gentle Art of Music, Godhead Machinery- Ouroboros, GRAHAM BONNET BAND - Live... Here Comes the Night, Granada - Sincronizado, HANDS OF THIEVES – FEASTING ON DARK INTENTIONS, 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, MINDKULT - Lucifer's Dream, MINOTAURO RECORDS, Misanthropy Elite Productions / Iron Goat Commando, Morbid Evils - Deceases, Morbid Skull Records, 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, Proscrito - El Calvario, Protosequence - Biophagous, 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, 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, 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.

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.

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

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

Well, this has been an interesting month.

More! More! More! Another Marvelously Magnanimous May Roundup

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

You know, sometimes getting burned out on crap leads to better things.

Ah! At Last, Another Aggregation of Artisanal and Antiphonal Arrangements, also known as the April Roundup

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A Lie Nation - Begin Hate, A Mournful Path - From The Wreckage Of Humiliation, Accept (Platinum Edition), Accept - Breaker (Platinum Edition), Accept - I'm a Rebel (Platinum Edition), Accept - Restless and Wild (Platinum Edition), AFM records, Agonia records, Ajattara - Lupaus, Alchimia - Musa, Alunah - Solennial, AncarA - Garden of Chains, ASHEN HORDE - The Alchemist, ASSAULT (Singapore) - The Fallen Reich, Avantgarde Music, Aversio Humanitatis - Longing for the Untold, AVULSED - Night of the Living Deathgenerations, Barathrum - Fanatiko, Basement Torture Killings – There’s Something About Beryl, Black Bow Records, Black Magic Six - Choose Death, BlackSeed Productions, Blood Harvest, Booze & Glory - Chapter IV, Brother Firetribe - Sunbound, Burning Heart Records, CHAOS - All Against All, Concorde Music Company, Crucify the Faith - New Breed, Crunch Industry, Cult of Eibon - Lycan Twilight Sorcery, DANTE'S THEORY - Amut, Dark Descent, Doomentia, DRUG HONKEY, ECLIPSE - Monumentum, Enisum - Seasons of Desolation, Ensnared - Dysangelium, Entrapment - Through Realms Unseen, ERUPTION - Cloaks of Oblivion (, EXCALIBUR (Spain) - Humo Negro, Fighter Records, Frontiers music, Ghost World, Goresoerd - Antikeha, Grindscene Records, Hello Black Hole - In No Good Hand, Heptown Records, High Roller Records, Highland - Loyal to the Nightsky, Hisko Detria - Mal Du Siecle, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Horte, HOUSE OF LORDS - Saint of the Lost Souls, Infernal Majesty - No God, Inner Wound Recordings, Inter Arma Productions, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, John Richardson - The Fold, Jordablod - Upon My Cremation Pyre, KAIHON - Terraform, Khashm - Asmodeus Rising, Larval Productions, Long Branch Records, LONGHOUSE II: Vanishing, LUCIDREAMS - Ballox, Lunatic Hooker – Embracing The Filth, MARTYRDOOM (Poland) - Grievous Psychosis, MAXDMYZ – ALCHEMICAL METAL, Memento Mori, MindMaze - Resolve, Morbid Shine Productions, Mountains Crave - As We Were When We Were Not, My Silent Wake - Invitation To Imperfection, Nadir Music, Nargaroth - Era of Threnody, NIGHT RANGER - Don’t Let Up, NoiseArt Records, NORSE - The Divine Light of a New Sun, ONE DESIRE, Opa Loka, OPPOSER - Darkest Path, Pekko Kappi & K:H:H:L - Matilda, PLAGUE THROAT - The Human Paradox, Pyramaze - Contingent, RENEGADE RECORDS, Return To Void, Rise Above Records, Royal Thunder - WICK, Sabbath Assembly - Rites of Passage, Satanize - Death Mass Execution, Saturn - Beyond Spectra, Saturnal, Saule, Sektarism - La Mort de l’Infidele, SHIBALBA - Psychostasis - Death Of Khat, Sigil - Kingdom of The Grave, Sinner -Tequila Suicide, Slagduster - Deadweight, SOMNIUM NOX - Terra Inanis, Soulrot (Chile) - Nameless Hideous Manifestations, Spectrum Mortis - Bestiae Dominatu Exanimis, Spinefarm Records, Static Tension Recordings, Suffering Hour - In Passing Ascension, svart records, THE MOTH GATHERER - The Comfortable Low, THE ROYAL - Seven, THE WIZARDS - Full Moon in Scorpio, third eye cinema podcast, TIME WALK - Beyond Eternity's Grasp, Topplock - Overlord, Transcending Obscurity Asia, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records, Trollfest - Helluva, Troubled Horse - Revolution on Repeat, Vandroya - Beyond The Human Mind, Waterlow Audio Records, Without Mercy - Mouichido, Xtreem Music, Zanjeer Zani Productions

You know, over the past month or two, I’ve been reassessing a lot of stuff.

A Markedly Massive and Only Occasionally Meretricious March Roundup

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Abatuar - Perversiones De Muerte Putrefacta, Achiote - Loneliness of Endless Days, Aegri Somnia - Ad Augusta Per Angusta, AFM records, Aima / Supremative - Blood Chalices From the Impure, Aksaya - Kepler, Amor Fati, AnnapurnA, ANVIL STRYKEZ, Apokrifna Realnost - Na Rekah Vavilonskih, Archaic Sound, Ascended Dead - Abhorrent Manifestation, ASIA - Symfonia - Live in Bulgaria 2013, ATMF, AZARATH - In Extremis, BESTIAL WARLUST - Storming Bestial Legions LIVE '96, Bindrune Recordings/Eihwaz Recordings, BLACK MIRRORS - Funky Queen, BLOOD FEAST - The Future State of Wicked, Blood Harvest, Blood Moon - Through the Scarlet Veil, Bloodbound - War Of Dragons, Bonecracker - Пороки, Cadaveris - The Ceremony Of Worshiping, CATALEPTIC - Forward, Celestial Grave - Pvtrefactio, CEMETERY WINDS - Unholy Ascensions, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, Coldfells, Consummation - Ritual Severance, CORPUS DIAVOLIS - Atra Lumen, CRIME - First Crime, CRIPTA OCULTA - Lost Memories, Crystal Viper - Queen Of The Witches, DAEMONIAC - Spawn of the Fallen, Damnation Plan - Reality Illusion, Danko Jones - Wild Cat, Dark Descent, Dark Phantom - Nation Of Dogs, Darknagar Records, Darzamadicus Records, Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam, Deathgasm Records, DEMONIC RESURRECTION - Dashavatar, Demonstealer Records, Disembodied Records, Distressful Project - Fucked-Up Songs, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Стальные нервы - Открой глаза, Eclectic Productions, EDENBRIDGE - The Great Momentum, Ektro, El Puerto Records Gbr, Engulfed - Engulfed In Obscurity, ENTITY OF HATE - Cursed for Eternity, EVER CIRCLING WOLVES (Finland) - Of Woe or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gloom, Evilforces - Pest Plagues & Storms, EX DEO - The Immortal Wars, FAMISHGOD - Roots of Darkness, FANGE - Pourrissoir, Fighter Records, Frontiers music, Gjendod - Nedstigning, GOAT WORSHIP - Blood and Steel, GrimmDistribution, Grinder Cirujano Records, Gurthang - Shattered Echoes, GUTTED - Martyr Creation, Heavy Tiger - Glitter, Helén, Helion Prime, hell's headbangers, Hellcraft - Apotheosis Of War, Hellthrasher Productions, Heretic Records, HOLYCIDE - Annihilate...Then Ask!, Hopeajarvi - Mahdotonta, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Iron Bonehead / Altare, Iron Magazine - Queen of Hell, Jesters of Destiny - The Sorrows That Refuse To Drown, Kansakunnan ylpeys, Kaos Krew - "Panama", Katakomb - Chained to a Wolf, Khrophus - Presages / Eyes Of Madness, LIONVILLE - A World of Fools, Lubricant - Swallow This, LUCIFERA (Colombia) - Preludio Del Mar, Memento Mori, MENTORS / NEKRO DRUNKZ, Metal Race, Morbid Flesh - Rites of the Mangled, Morbid Skull Records, More Hate Productions, Morte Incandescente / Illum Adora - Remnants of a Flaming Past, Murdher Records, MURO - El Cuarto Jinete, My Own Ghost - Life On Standby, MY SLEEPING KARMA - Mela Ananda - Live, Napalm Records, Narcoleptica Productions, NASTY SURGEONS - Exhumation Requiem, Naudiz - Wulfasa Kunja, Necroblood - Collapse of the Human Race, Nighon - The Somme, Nominon - Chaos In The Flesh... Live!, Nordvis Produktion / Bindrune Recordings, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Obituary, Ominous Eclipse - "The Horde", Onirik / Grimfaug - MMXIV-MMXVI, Osmose Productions, PANIKK - Discarded Existence, Perverted Ceremony - Sabbat of Behezael, PLACE VENDOME - "Welcome to the Edge", PLACE VENDOME - Close to the Sun, Porta Daemonium - Serpent of Chaos, Possession - Exorkizein, Pyogenesis - A Kingdom To Disappear, Pyriphlegethon - The Murky Black of Eternal Night, Record Breaking Records, Relapse Records, Ruin - Drown in Blood, Sainted Sinners, Sammy Berell - Passion Dreams, Sangue, Satanath Records, SCUMRIPPER, Secret Entertainment, sepulchral productions, Serpico - "Ain't Better To Leave", Shadow Kingdom, Signal Rex, SLAGMAUR - Thill Smitts Terror, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Striker, svart records, Symbol of Domination, Tehom (Sweden) - The Merciless Light, Temple of Darkness, Temple Of Nihil - Soul Extremist, The Ritual Productions, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records, TIGER JUNKIES - Green Tea or Die, TOKYO MOTOR FIST, Transcending Obscurity Records, Unholy Prophecies, United By Chaos, UNRULY CHILD - Can't Go Home, Vaiya - Remnant Light, Valfreya - Promised Land, Vangough - Warpaint, Various Artists - Russian Death Metal vol. 4, VENEREAL BAPTISM - Deviant Castigation Liturgy, War Arts Productions, WARBRINGER - "Silhouettes", WARCRAB - Scars of Aeons, Wild Kingdom, Wings Of Destruction, Wolf Force Corporation, Wolfheart - Tyhjyys, Xtreem Music (Spain), YMIR'S BLOOD, ZOMBIE ASSAULT, ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD - Supersonic Rock n Roll

Well, I can’t speak for anyone else, but current events have driven me somewhere I haven’t been in years.

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.

O, October Roundup, Here Art Thou…

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Adaestuo - Tacent Semitae, AFM records, Agonia records, Airbourne - Breakin' Outta Hell, Algoma / Chronobot, Art of Propaganda, ATMF, Billy Momo - Seven Rivers Wild, Black Dreams - Soul Stealer, Black Witchery - Evil Shall Prevail, Blind Ego - Liquid, Blood Harvest, Bloodride - Planet Alcatraz, Bolzer - Hero, Brainstorm - Memorial Roots (Re-Rooted), Brutally Deceased - Satanic Corpse, Candlelight, Charred Walls of the Damned - Creatures Watching Over the Dead, Chhinnamasta - Vajra-Sarpa, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, Concorde Music Company, Cross Vault - Miles to Take, CRY OF DAWN Feat. Goran Edman, Dark Sarah - The Puzzle, DARKHAUS - When Sparks Ignite, Dead Beat Media, Dead End Finland - Slaves To The Greed, Death Is Liberty : A Statement Darkness, DERANGED - Struck By A Murderous Siege, Dirkschneider - Live- Back To The Roots, Doomentia, Eden's Curse - Cardinal, Eisenwald, El Puerto Records Gbr, Enbound - The Blackened Heart, EVIL INVADERS - In For The Kill, Eyes Wide Shut Recordings / SPV, Fetid Zombie - Epicedia, FINSTERFORST - #YOLO, FlaktiiN - Souls For The Legions, Frontiers records, GARGOYLE (Italy) - Reborn in Blasphemy, Gentle Art of Music, Grimoire - A la lumiere des cendres, Grossty - Crocopter, Heavy Tiger - Devil May Care, Heavydeath - In Circles We Die, Hoath - Codex III: Crown of the Mind, Horse - For Twisted Minds Only, Initiated - World On Fire, Inner Wound Recordings, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, Iron Mask - Diabolica, Karg - Weltenasche, Katla - Embryo, Kremlin, Kyy - Beyond Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death, Master of Cruelty - Archaic Visions of the Underworld, Memento Mori (Spain), Metal Blade Records, Mikko Joensuu - Amen 2, Mo Better Music, Monte Pittman - Inverted Grasp of Balance, Mother Harlot, Mouth of Madness, Napalm Records, Narthraal - Chainsaw Killing Spree, Necroven (Spain) - Primordial Subjugation, Nordvis Produktion / Bindrune Recordings, Nuclear War Now!, Oblivion / SPV, OPERATION: MINDCRIME - Resurrection, Polyptych - Defying the Metastasis, PRC Music (Canada), Queen Elephantine - Kala, RECITATIONS - The First of the Listeners, Rise Above Records, ROTTEN UK - That Is Not Dead, Rudra - Enemy of Duality, SATANIC WARMASTER - Black Metal Kommando / Gas Chamber, Satans Kadaver - Det Allseende Brunogat, Saturnal, Scratch - El Monstro, Self-Hatred (Czech Republic) - Theia, Seputus - Man Does Not Give, Seven Kingdoms - In The Walls, Shadecrown - Agonia, Shadow Kingdom, SIASKEL - Haruwen Airen, Signal Rex, Signal Rex / Avantgarde Music, SKALMOLD - Vogguvísur Yggdrasils, Solitude Productions, Somehow Jo! - "Go with the Jo", Soulwound - No Peace, Spinefarm, Spinefarm Records, Spiritus Mortis - The Year Is One, Stench Price, Stepfather Fred - Dummies Dolls Masters, Stiffy Jones - Narrow Road of Memories, svart records, Tardigrada - Emotionale Odnis, Teksti-TV 666 - 1 2 3, THE MISSION - Another Fall From Grace, The Phans, THE TRUE WERWOLF - Death Music, The Von Deer Skulls - The Rest Is Silence, Theocracy - Ghost Ship, third eye cinema podcast, Totten Korps - Supreme Commanders of Darkness, Transcending Obscurity Asia, Transcending Obscurity Distribution, Transcending Obscurity India, Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale, Trev Records, Ulterium Records, Underwater Sleeping Society - Instrumental Healthcare, Ur Draugr/Haar - Haar/Ur Draugr, W.T.C. Productions, Waldgefluster - Ruinen, War Arts Productions, Werewolf Records, Wild Kingdom, Winterfylleth - The Dark Hereafter, WITCHTRAP - Trap the Witch, Wraith Productions, Zombie Rodeo - Cult Leader

I don’t get it.

A Savage Yet Sublime September Roundup

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Abigail (Japan) - The Final Damnation, Abomination (Chicago) - S/T, Abomination (Chicago) - Tragedy Strikes, Ade (Italy) - Carthago Delenda Est, AFM records, AGATUS - The Eternalist, ALTAR OF OBLIVION - Barren Grounds, ALTER BRIDGE - "Show Me A Leader", AN AUTUMN FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN - Eternal, Archaic Sound, Ars Moriendi - Sepelitur Alleluia, Atanor, Bestial Invasion - Triligy: Prisoners of Miserable Fate, Black Lodge Records, Blood Harvest, BLOODY HAMMERS - Lovely Sort of Death, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Carnal Tomb - Rotten Remains, Caverna Abismal Records, Concorde Music, Conqueror (Canada) - War.Cult.Supremacy, CRUCIFIED MORTALS - Psalms of the Dead Choir, CRUZH, CRYFEMAL - D6s6nti6rro, Crystal Ball - DeJa-VOODOO, Darkrypt - Delirious Excursion, Darkwell - Moloch, Dead Earth Politics - The Mobius Hammersmith, Death Design - Drown With Me, Deathcult (Switzerland) - Beasts of Faith, Debauchery & Blood God - Thunderbeast, DELAIN - Moonbathers, DEMENTIA 13 (POR) - Ways of Enclosure, Demoncy - Faustian Dawn, Demonomancy / Witchcraft - Archaic Remnants of the Numinous / At the Diabolus Hour, Demonstealer - This Burden is Mine, Deprive - Temple of the Lost Wisdom, DGM - The Passage, Dissociated Records, Dissociated Records / Signal Rex), Doomentia, DULVITUND - Huldar Slodir, Eisenwald, ENDALOK - Englaryk, Evergrey - The Storm Within, EXCUSE - Goddess Injustice, Frontiers music, Frozen Ocean - A Faded Missive Therefrom, Guitar Force - Different Universe, Harri Kauppinen - Helvetin laulut, hell's headbangers, Hexenslaught - Demo I, High Roller Records, High Spirits - Motivator, HOBBS' ANGEL OF DEATH - Heaven Bled, Hyponic - 前行者, Imminent Sonic Destruction - Triumphia, Imperial State Electric - All Through The Night, In Obscurity Revealed - Grim Fumes of Revelation, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Iron Bonehead / Dark Descent, Iron Tyrant, JINJER - King of Everything, KING COMPANY - One for the Road, Kryptos - Burn Up The Night, Lacerated Enemy Records, LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE - Hope Is Here, Lordi - Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy), Luxor Records, Massacre records, Memento Mori (Spain), Minenwerfer / 1914 - Ich hatt einen Kameraden, MOASE - Vertigo, Morbo / Bunker 66 - Into the Morbid Bunker, Morbosatan - The Last Sacrifice, Napalm Records, Narnia, Narnia Songs, Netherbird - The Grander Voyage, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, NUNSLAUGHTER / GRAVEWURM, Oblivion / SPV, Operator Produkzion, ORDO OBSIDIUM - A crooked path to desolation, Osmose Productions, PALACE - Master of the Universe, POWERWOLF - The Metal Mass - Live, PRC Music, Predatory Light, PRINCIPALITY OF HELL - Sulfur & Bane, Profanal - Supreme Fire, Psychout Records, Quake The Earth - Declaration Of War, Rattleplague - Bourbon Scenes, Rekoma - Circle Of Hate, RICARDO REMÉDIO - Natureza Morta, Rotor - Musta kasi, RUNNING WILD - Rapid Foray, Seputus - Man Does Not Give, Seremonia - Pahuuden aanet, Serious Black - Mirrorworld, Shadow Kingdom, Shellfire Attack, Signal Rex, Skogen - Svitjod, SODOM - Decision Day, Solar Mass - Pseudomorphosis, Solitude Productions, Spectral Voice / Phrenelith, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Steve 'N' Seagulls - Brothers in Farms, svart records, Swampcult (Netherlands) - The Festival, third eye cinema podcast, THRONEUM - Morbid Death Tales, Tortorum - Rotten. Dead. Forgotten., Transcending Obscurity Distribution, Transcending Obscurity India, VALIENT THORR - Old Salt, Verberis - Vexamen, Visions of Bone - The Wounded Kings, Vornth - Black Pyres, Vulvodynia (South Africa) - Psychosadistic Design, W.T.C. Productions, Weird Truth Productions, Wickerman Recordings, Xtreem Music (Spain), Zealot Cult - Karmenian Crypt, ZODIAC - Grain Of Soul

With all the electionate nonsense quieting to a dull roar (and in the case of one end of the equation, emphasize the “dull”, as in mentally and socially challenged…) and summer coming to its inevitably impending end, there’s a feeling of wistfulness in the air.  You can feel something’s lost.

Sure, it’s a season of change, a move into the darker half of the year where the putative Oak King passes and his dark brother the Holly King holds sway, but it’s more than that. Something’s missing, and it’s something vital to the human spirit.