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.

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.