The Awe Inspiringly Honest As Always Hell of a Halloween Roundup

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

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

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Hark! Hence Cometh Another August/September Descent into Fall Roundup

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3.2 - The Rules Have Changed, 7 Degrees Records, A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes, Abandon Tapes, Adverso - Ex Inanis, Aetranok - Kingdoms Of The Black Sepulcher, AFM records, Agonia records, AIRRACE - Untold Stories, Akhenaten - Golden Serpent God, All My Sins - Pra Sila - Vukov Totem, Anisoptera - Spawn of Odonata, Aornos - The Great Scorn, Appalachian Noise Records, ATMF, Auerbach Tontrager / Prophecy Productions, Autumnwind - Endless Fear, Bast - Nanoangstrom, Bighate - "Hybrid", BINAH - Phobiate, Bindrune Recordings, Black Bow Records, Black Funeral - The Dust and Darkness, Blood Harvest, Blood Harvest Records, Blood of Serpents - Sulphur Sovereign, BONEHUNTER - Children of the Atom, Brainstorm - Midnight Ghost, Burial Shrine - Labyrinth of Bridges, Candlelight / Spinefarm, CAST THE STONE - Empyrean Atrophy, CDN Records, Chuggernaut - Kodiak, Cinzas - Demo I, CLIF MAGNESS - Lucky Dog, Cosmic Void Ritual - Grotesque Infections Of Interplanetary Divide, Cronaxia - Collapsing The Outer Structure, Crosson - Invincible, Crucible of Hate - Dark Metamorphis, Dakhma - Hamkar Atonement, Dark Archive - Morningstar, Dark Sarah - The Golden Moth, DEATHHAMMER - Chained to Hell, Decca Records / Universal Music Publishing France, Degrave, Demonic Obedience - Fatalistic Uprisal of Abhorrent Creation, DEPHOSPHORUS - Impossible Orbits, Descent - Towers of Grandiosity, DESTINIA - Metal Souls, Destroyer Attack - Solve Et Coagula, DIABOLIC FORCE - Praise of Satan, DIRTY RAVEN - Rust For Blue, DOC RECORDS, Don't Disturb My Circles - Lower Canopy, DROP DEAD - Mayhem Inc., Duncan Evans - Prayers For An Absentee, Edged Circle Productions, Electric Valley Records, EMPTY - Vacio, ENEMY OF THE ENEMY - Vultures, Ennui - End of the Circle, ENUFF Z’NUFF - Diamond Boy, Eosphoros, Ethernity - The Human Race Extinction, Event Relentless, Excommunicated - Death Devout, Extreme Metal Music / Rockshots Records, FACTION SENESTRE - Civilization, Farsot/ColdWorld - Toteninsel, Fastball Music, Fervent Hate - Tales Of Hate, Fighter Records, FLESH HUNTER AND THE ANALASSAULTERS - The Plague, Flummox - Intellectual Hooliganism, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Frust - Elements, GIOELI-CASTRONOVO - Set the World on Fire, GMR Music, Goat Sperm - Voice in the Womb, Goathorned Productions, Godless Enthropia - Tetracyclic Dominion, GRAHAM BONNET BAND - Meanwhile Back In The Garage, GRAND DESIGN - Viva La Paradise, GrimmDistribution, Grimorium Verum - Revenant, GRISLY - The Spectral Wars, Hacavitz - NEX NIHIL, Hammer Of Damnation, HANZEL UND GRETYL - SATANIK GERMANIK, Harvest Of Death, HEADS FOR THE DEAD - Serpent's Curse, Helion Prime - Terror Of The Cybernetic Space Monster, hell's headbangers, Helrunar - Vanitas Vanitatvm, Hessian - Mercenary Retrograde, Hexenklad - Spirit of the Stone, HOLOCAUSTO EM CHAMAS - לָשׁוֹן הַקֹּדֶשׁ, Horrorgraphy - Season Of Grief, House of Atreus - From the Madness of Ixion, Hypnos - Set Fire to the Sky, IMPERIALIST - Cipher, In Tenebriz - Winternight Poetry, Inferna Profundus Records, Inner Axis - We Live By The Steel, Inner Wound Recordings, Integrity/Krieg, Internal Suffering - Chaotic Matrix, Internal Suffering - Choronzonic Force Domination, Inverse Records, Inverse Records / Grotesque Sounds, Invictus, Invictus Productions / Dark Descent, Invocation - The Mastery of the Unseen, Ipos Music, iron bonehead, Kapil Seshasayee - A Sacred Bore, Karisma Records, Khôrada - Salt, KING COMPANY - Queen of Hearts, KOMMANDANT - Blood Eel, Krakow - minus, Kvlt Of Eblis - Templo de la Serpiente Negra, Leah - The Quest, Lelahell - ALIF, Loner Noise, Long Branch Records, Lucifericon - Al-Khem-Me, Lusitanian Music, Lydia Laska - Ego Death, MAD MAX - 35, Malepeste / Dysylumn - Ce qui fut ce qui est ce qui sera, Maligner - Attraction to Annihilation, Malthusian - Across Deaths, Manimal - Purgatorio, Memento Mori, MERRYWEATHER STARK - Carved in Rock, Metal Age Productions, metal reviews, Metalapolis Records, metropolis records, MOB RULES - Beast Reborn, Morbid Skull Records, Moribund records, MORKETIDA - Panphage Mysticism, Morte Incandescente - Somos o Fogo do teu Inferno, MR. BIG - Live From Milan, music reviews, Mutilated by Zombies - Scripts of Anguish, Night Club - Scary World, No Gods - Paradise, No Remorse Records, Non Serviam Records, Ominous Eclipse - "Sinister", Osmose Productions, OSSUARY ANEX - Holy Blasphemition, Pa Vesh En - Church of Bones, Panchrysia - Dogma, Parasite INC. - Dead and Alive, Paths - In Lands Thought Lost, Pánico Al Miedo - Formador, PRC Music, PRIMAL FEAR - Apocalypse, Profezia - Dodekaprofeton, Prophecy productions, Purodium Rekords, Pyre - Human Hecatomb, Quintessente - Songs From Celestial Spheres, Reaper Entertainment, Reaper Metal Productions, Redefining Darkness Records, Relapse Records, Revolutio - Vagrant, Ring Leader / Regulator Records, Rodent Epoch - Rodentlord, Rough Grind - Trouble or Nothing, Ruin - Human Annihilation, Samuli Federley - Lifestream, Satanath Records / Black Metal Propaganda Deutschland, Satanath Records / Cimmerian Shade Recordings / Murdher Records, Satanath Records / Death Portal Studio, Satanath Records / Final Gate Records, Satanath Records / Hecatombe Records, Satanath Records / Metallic Media, Satanath Records / More Hate Productions, Satanath Records / Rotten Roll Rex, Satanath Records / Sevared Records, Satanath Records / United By Chaos, Saturnal, Seeing Red Records, Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror, SJUKDOM - Stridshymner Og Dodssalmer, SKALD, Skjult - Progenies Ov Light, Skraeckoedlan - Appeltradet, Skyglow - Thousand Years Of Terror, Sludgelord Records, Solitary - Nothing Changes 20th Anniversary Edition, Somali Yacht Club - The Sun +1, Spacetrucker - Smooth Orbit, Steamhammer / SPV, Stone Leaders, Stormland - Songs of Future Wars, Striborg - Mysterious Semblance, Striborg - Spiritual Catharsis, Subtype Zero - The Astral Awakening, SUMMER STORM - First, svart records, Symbol Of Domination / Cimmerian Shade Recordings / The True Plague / Black Metal Records, Symbol Of Domination / Death Portal Studio, Symbol Of Domination / Hecatombe Records, Symbol Of Domination / More Hate Productions, Symbol Of Domination / United By Chaos, Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - No Tether, Tatanhammer - The Art Of Human Sacrifice, Teksti-TV 666 - Aidattu tulevaisuus, The Eternal - Waiting for the Endless Dawn, The Five Hundred - Bleed Red, The Projectionist - Visits from the NightHag Part 1, The Sign Records, The Temperance Movement - A Deeper Cut, THE TRUE WEREWOLF / DRUADAN FOREST, third eye cinema podcast, Thunder Horse, Tongue Eating Louse - Voidwalker, Tornado - Commitment To Excellence, Traitors Gate - Fallen, Transcending Obscurity Records, TWO OF A KIND - Rise, TYMO - Purge & Reset, Tyranno - Skulls Horns & Lust, Tyrant Disciple - Weight Of Oblivion, U.D.O. - Steelfactory, Ultra-Violence - Operation Misdirection, Urtod Void, Utburd - The Horrors Untold, Valdrin - Two Carrion Talismans, VALKYRIA - Tierra Hostil, Vanity Music, Vardan - Unholy Lightness Summer, Void Ritual - Death Is Peace, Vomitile - Pure Eternal Hate, War Arts Productions, Waxen - Terror Decree, Weed Demon - Astrological Passages, Werewolf Records, WILD - Sin Piedad, Witch King - Voice of the Ossuary, Witches Hammer - Canadian Speed Metal\, Witches Hammer - Stretching Into Infinity, Witchgoat - Umbra Regit, Wolfblood - Nightriders, Wood and Stone Productions, Wrathrone - Reflections Of Torment, Wrestling - Ride On Freaks, Xtreem Music

Well, another couple of months, and another absolutely enormous bag of goodies for your delectation has landed on your virtual doorstep.  Invite us in, we’ll chat over tea, shall we?

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, metal reviews, metropolis records, Monument - Hellhound, Morbid Skull Records, music reviews, 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.

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, metal reviews, MHONOS - LXXXVII, Millennial Reign - The Great Divide, Moloch - The Other Side, Morbid Skull Records, Moribund records, music reviews, 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.

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

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

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

A Terrifyingly Tryptophan-Touched Turkey Day Roundup

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ACID WITCH - Evil Sound Screamers, AFM records, Agonia records, album reviews, ALCEST - Souvenir d'un Autre Monde (10 years collector), Anatomia - Carnal Obsession, Anguis Dei - Ad Portas Serpentium, AnnapurnA / Old Europe Cafe, Anti-Flag - American Fall, ANTIGONE PROJECT - FROM ITS ROOM #1, AOR, Asylum 8 - Repressed, ATLASES - PENUMBRA, BABYLON A.D. - Revelation Highway, BEASTCRAFT - Occult Ceremonial Rites / BLACK ALTAR – Winds ov Decay, Beastiality - Worshippers of Unearthly Perversions, Beyond Visions - Catch 22, Billy Momo - Umbrellas wings and magic things, black metal, Bleeding Music Records, BLINDING SPARKS - Brutal Awakening, Blood Harvest, Cardiant - Mirrors, Catapult the Dead - A Universal Emptiness, Caverna Abismal Records, CENTRIPETAL FORCE - Eidetic, CHABIFONK - Mission, Cтахановцы - Ништяк, Cobra - Sin dominio del tiempo, Communic - Where Echoes Gather, Cortex Impulse - Once In A Lifetime, Craneo Negro Records, Cryostasium - Starbound, Cryptic Fog - Staring Through the Veil, Crystal Gates - "Shadowborn", Curse The Fall - Symbiosis, CyHra - Letters To Myself, Deadlight Entertainment, death metal, Dehydrated - Resurrection, Dirty Grave - Evil Desire, DISCO-NECTED - VISION / DIVISION, doom metal, Doom Stew Records, Dreadful Fate - The Sin of Sodom, DROPZONE - Rape Killing Murder, Руины вечности - Шёпот забытых холмов, Темнолесье - Сказания, ECCENTRIC PENDULUM - Tellurian Concepts, Edged Circle Productions, Eero Koivistoinen Quartet - Illusion, Eisenwald, El Puerto Records Gbr, Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard, Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire, emo, Entheos - Dark Future, Evergrey - Solitude Dominance Tragedy, Evergrey - The Dark Discovery, Evilfeast - Elegies of the Stellar Wind, EXALTER - Persecution Automated, Exarsis - New War Order, Extreme Metal Music, FABULAE DRAMATIS - Solar Time's Fable, Fighter Records, FINAL LEGION RECORDS, Frontiers records, FUNERAL BAPTISM - THE VENOM OF GOD, Funeral Chant, Goathorned Productions, God's Eye Production, GORGEOUS, gothic metal, Grate - You Should Be, GrimmDistribution, grindcore, H2SO4 - British Bangla Testament, HAMKA - Multiversal, Hard Action - Hot Wired Beat, Harmdaud - Blinda Dodens Barn, Harvest Of Death / Signal Rex, HAUNT - Luminous Eyes, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, HETMAN - Sewn From The Ashes Book, HighWay - IV, Hoofmark - Stoic Winds, IGNIS HAERETICUM - Autocognition Of Light, In Search Of Sun - Virgin Funk Mother, In-Defilade - Elude, Inner Wound Recordings, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, Iron Savior - Reforged - Riding On Fire, Islaja - Tarrantulla, JEFF SCOTT SOTO - Retribution, Jussi Lehtisalo - Move On, Kabexnuv - Dzyan, Kaukolampi - I, KO:MI - Songs of Them, Lapin Helvetti, LAST AVENUE - Identity, LETHVM - This Fall Shall Cease, Lihhamon - Doctrine, LIMBSPLITTER - Chloroform Cocktail, LION'S SHARE - "The Lion's Trial", Lord Shades - The Uprising of Namwell, Loud Rage Music, LUCIFER'S HAMMER - Victory is Mine, Magick Touch - Blades Chains Whips & Fire, Mask Of Satan - Silent Servants - Chants of Lovecraftian Horror, MASTER and DEHUMAN - Decay into Inferior Conditions, MDD Records, MERCYLESS - Coloured Funeral, metal reviews, metalcore, MIDNIGHT - Sweet Death and Ecstasy, Mo Better Music, MOONSHINE OVERSIGHT - Vanishing Lines, Morbid Skull Records, music reviews, Mz.412 / Trepaneringsritualen - X Post Industriale / Rituals 2015 e.v., NEOCAESAR - 11:11, NESSERIA - CETTE EROSION DE NOUS-MEMES, Non Serviam Records, Nordvis Produktion, NOYDEM - A Time Will Come, Nuclear War Now! Productions, NUPRAPTOR - The Heresiarch, Obscure Burial, Obsession - Marshall Law, Obsession - Methods of Madness, Obsession - Scarred for Life, Odium Records, ONLAP - Running, Osmose Productions, Over the Voids..., PERIHELION - Orveny, Pest Records, PINK CREAM 69 - Headstrong, power metal, PRIMAL FEAR - Best of Fear, progressive metal, punk, Retrace My Fragments - Tidal Lock, RIMFROST - "A Clash Under The Northern Wind", Sar Isatum - Shurpu, Satanath - Your Personal Copy, Satanath Records, Shadow Kingdom, Shadowpath - Rumours of a Coming Dawn, Shakra - Snakes & Ladders, Signal Rex, Snakefarm / Spinefarm Records, Social Blasphemy Records, Solfernus - Neoantichrist, Souldrinker - War Is Coming, Spinefarm Records, STOLEN MEMORIES - Paradox, Svarga Music, svart records, Svarthart - Emptiness Filling the Void, SWEET & LYNCH - Unified, symphonic metal, THAW - Grains, THE DARK ELEMENT, third eye cinema podcast, THROATRUINER / ITAWAK), THY SEPULCHRAL MOON - Indignant Force of Great Malevolence, Toothgrinder - Phantom Amour, TORSO MURDER, Total Inferno - Return of Evil Chaos, Transcending Obscurity Asia, TRONO ALEM MORTE - O Olhar Atento da Escuridao, Tyakrah - Wintergedanken, Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown, Ultraje, Unmatched Brutality Records, Walter Fornication - On A Journey Through Time And Space, war metal, We Hate You Too - Howling Scars, Wolfhorde - The Great Old Ones, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, \Dooweet Agency

Holy crap, are the holidaze upon us already?

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.

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.

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.