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

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

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

Book Review: The Devil’s Cradle – The Story of Finnish Black Metal (Tero Ikaheimonen)

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album reviews, AOR, Archgoat, Azazel, …And Oceans, Barathrum, Beherit, Behexen, black metal, Clandestine Blaze, Darkwoods My Betrothed, death metal, Diaboli, doom metal, emo, Extreme Metal Music, Finnish black metal, gothic metal, grindcore, heavy metal, Horna, IC Rex, Impaled Nazarene, metal reviews, metalcore, music reviews, power metal, progressive metal, punk, Sargeist, Satanic Warmaster, Saturnian Mist, Svart Publishing, svart records, symphonic metal, third eye cinema podcast, Thy Serpent, True Black Dawn, Urn, war metal

“More down to earth, and in a way more Finnish: straight talk from no-bullshit men.”

One of the more interesting and appreciated items I’ve been asked to review is a recent release from Svart Records’ publishing arm, namely a book focused specifically on the history of Finnish black metal.

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.

An Incipient End of Summer Roundup

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A Sad Sadness Song, AFM records, Against PR, Agonia Black Vomit - Cosmosatanic Wisdom, album reviews, Alpha Tiger, An Assfull Of Love - Monkey Madness, Antiversum - Cosmos Comedenti, AOR, Asagraum - Potestas Magicum Diaboli, Astarium - Drum-Ghoul, Atlases - "Medusa", Bewitcher, Black Lion Records, black metal, Blood Harvest, Blood Tyrant / Departure Chandelier - split, Bloody Times - Destructive Singles, Bludy Gyres - Echoes of a Distant Scream, Boersma Records, Bombarder - Bez Milosti, Bombarder - Speed Kill, Bool - Fly With Me, Candlelight / Spinefarm, CANKER - Earthquake, CARDINALS FOLLY - Deranged Pagan Sons], Caverna Abismal Records, Centuries of Decay, CIRCUS MAXIMUS - Havoc in Oslo, Cognizance - "The Foreboding Impasse", Cognizance - Illusory, Cosmic Void Ritual - The Excreted Remains of the Sabatier System, Coven - The Advent, Crafteon - Cosmic Reawakening, CREMATORY - Live Insurrection, Cult Of The Horns - Chapter I. Domination, Darkenhold - Memoria Sylvarum, Darkflight - The Hereafter, DAWN OF DISEASE - Ascension Gate, death metal, Devil Creations - Hell's Exit, Dig Me No Grave - Immemorial Curse, Dimman - Guide My Fury, Dirkschneider - LIVE – Back To The Roots – Accepted!, doom metal, Draghkar - World Unraveled, Eden's Curse - Revisited, Eihwaz Recordings, Ektro, emo, END OF GREEN - Void Estate, Ensepulcher - No Sanctity in Death, EXIT EDEN - Rhapsodies in Black, Extreme Metal Music, Fighter Records, Fleshpress - Hulluuden Muuri, FORGED IN BLACK – SINNER SANCTORUM, From North, From the Hellmouth / Mutilatred, Frontiers music, Frontiers records, Gloomy Grim - Fuck The World, Goathorned Productions, gothic metal, Grift - Arvet, GrimmDistribution, grindcore, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hidden Marly Productions, High Roller Records, HORRIFIED - Allure of the Fallen, HOSTILIAN - Monolith, Humanity Zero - Withered In Isolation, Hypochristmutreefuzz - Hypopotomonstrosesquipedaiophobia, ICE WAR, Ignominious - The Throne and the Altar, Inspirus Records, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, Iris Divine - The Static And The Noise, iron bonehead, Jack Starr's Burning Star - Stand Your Ground, Kashgar, KHAZAD-DUM - Garmadh, Krucyator Productions, KRYPTONITE, KULTIKA - Pursuance, Kuudes Silma - Pelko, KVLT, LASCAR - Saudade, LEIDER - Alloys, Long Branch Records / SPV, LUCIFER'S CHALICE - The Pact, LYZZARD - Savage, Madlife - Precision in the Face of Chaos, Mascharat, Metal Carnival Records, metal reviews, metalcore, Mist Of Misery - Shackles of Life, Mitochondrion - Antinumerology, Mordenial - The Plague, Mouldered - Chronology Of A Rotten Mind, music reviews, Napalm Records, Necroheresy - Asylum, Necromante - The Magickal Presence of Occult Forces, Necrophile - Awakening Those Oppressed, Nemecic - The Deathcantation, Nine Records / Topillo Records, Nocturnes Mist - Diabolical Baptism, Non Serviam Records, Nordvis Produktion, Northern Plague - Scorn the Idle, NOVAE MILITIAE - Gash’khalah, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oculus - The Apostate of Light, OMINOUS SHRINE - Ο Δρόμος Της Αποθεώσεως, Oracle - Beyond Omega, Oraculum - Always Higher, Ovakner - Ar/Lume, Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows, Paratra - Genesis, Paroxsihzem - Abyss of Excruciating Vexes, Pest Records, Planet Eater - Blackness From The Stars, Plastic Head, Plastic Tones - Wash Me With Love, power metal, PRAISE THE FLAME - Manifest Rebellion, progressive metal, punk, PURTENANCE - Paradox of Existence, PUTRID OFFAL - Anatomy, QUIET RIOT - Road Rage, Ram-Page - The Grave Of Seven Billion, Raptore - Rage n' Fever, Redefining Darkness / Seeing Red Records, Runespell - Unhallowed Blood Oath, Sable Beldam - Cryptic Void, Sandor Valy - Young Dionysos, Satanath Records, Seance records, Serious Black - Magic, Shade Empire - Poetry Of The Ill-Minded, Shadow Kingdom, Shepherd / Death By Fungi, Skein - Deadweight, SLAUGHTBBATH - Contempt, Slice of Sorrow - Execution, Soman Records, Stallion - From The Dead, Steamhammer / SPV, SUMMON (U.S.) - Dark Descent of Fallen Souls, Suns Of Sorath - Flowers of the Lily, svart records, Symbol of Domination, symphonic metal, Taphos Nomos / Uroun - R.I.P., Temple of Mystery, THE HIRSCH EFFEKT - Eskapist, THE NEW ROSES - One More For The Road, THE NIGHTS, third eye cinema podcast, TRAVELIN JACK - Commencing Countdown, Unholy Prophecies, Urarv - Aurum, Various Artists - Death, Vulture - The Guillotine, War and Damnation, War Is War!, war metal, Werewolf Records, Witches Brew, WORLD TRADE - Unify, Worm - Evocation of the Black Marsh, Wrath of the Tyrant, Wrath of the Tyrant Records, Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act I, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, Zornheym - Where Hatred Dwells And Darkness Reigns

Holy crap, this one’s the motherload.

A few weeks back, I gave a heads up to our Facebook followers that releases were dropping across the virtual desk by the metric tonne, and warned with a twinkle of bemusement that if they kept coming in at the rate they had been, this month’s Roundup was going to be a monster.

And sure enough.

At the time of writing these lines, there are over 110 albums, EPs and a handful of singles under review this month, with the potential if not likelihood that we’ll see a few more arrive before we close out and finalize (hell, there are already a handful of October-range releases on schedule for next month’s post…)

In short…yeah, this is the big one, Weezie.

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

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:AJNA:, A Sad Sadness Song, AFM records, album reviews, ALL 4 1 - World’s Best Hope, AOR, ARALLU - Six, Ars Magna Umbrae - Through Lunar Gateways, Avantgarde Music, BATTLE RAIDER, Battlesk’rs, BEREFT OF LIGHT - HOINAR, Black Lodge Records, black metal, Blood Harvest, BLOODLUST - At the Devil's Left Hand, Burning Hatred - Carnage, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Caverna Abismal Records, Dark Sanctuary - Metal, Dayseeker - Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising, De Profundis - Decayed: 2007 - 2017, DEAD SEASON - Prophecies, death metal, DEATH YELL - Descent Into Hell, Discouraged Records, Dissonances Records, doom metal, Dr. Shrinker - Archive I & II, Dzo-nga - The Sachem's Tales, Eisenwald, Ektro, emo, Evil (Japan)- Rites of Evil, Expander - Endless Computer, Extreme Metal Music, FALAISE - My Endless Immensity, Fighter Records, FORMICARIUS - BLACK MASS RITUAL, Frontiers music, Funeralglade - May The Funeral Begin, Gentle Art of Music, Godhead Machinery- Ouroboros, gothic metal, GRAHAM BONNET BAND - Live... Here Comes the Night, Granada - Sincronizado, grindcore, HANDS OF THIEVES – FEASTING ON DARK INTENTIONS, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hellthrasher Productions, Holy Roar Records, HORRIFIC - Your Worst Nightmare, Integrity - Howling For The Nightmare Shall Consume, Inverse Records, INVIDIA - As The Sun Sleeps, iron bonehead, Kimi Karki - Eye for an Eye, Kissin' Dynamite - Dynamite Nights, Korea - Abiogenesis, KROSSFYRE - Burning Torches, KRYPTONITE - "Chasing Fire", Limbonic Art - Spectre Abysm, Lisa Cuthbert - Hextapes, LJOSAZABOJSTWA – SYCHODZANNIE, Long Branch Records, Loud Rage Music, Masterplan - PumpKings, metal reviews, metalcore, MINDKULT - Lucifer's Dream, MINOTAURO RECORDS, Misanthropy Elite Productions / Iron Goat Commando, Morbid Evils - Deceases, Morbid Skull Records, music reviews, Napalm Records, Nordvis Produktion / Bindrune Recordings, Nuclear War Now! Productions, OHRENFEINDT - Zwei Fauste fur Rock'n'Roll, OSCULUM INFAME - The Axis Of Blood, Ossuary Insane - Demonize the Flesh, power metal, progressive metal, Proscrito - El Calvario, Protosequence - Biophagous, punk, Purgatorium - Still In Search, Relapse Records, Reverorum ib Malacht - Ter Agios Numini, RIVERDOGS - California, RPWLA - New Dawn, Rue Stendhal, RUSSKAJA - Kosmopoliturbo, SAOL, Satanath Records, Satanath Records / United By Chaos, SCHWARZDORN PRODUCTION, Seven Spires - Solveig, Siniestra - La inmortalidad de la muerte, SINLUST - Sea Black, Soman Records, Sons of Crom - The Black Tower, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / Oblivion / SPV, Steel Mammoth - Atomic Oblivion, Stillborn - Lorelei, svart records, Symbol of Domination, symphonic metal, TALES OF GAIA - Hypernova, Tele.S.Therion - Luzifers Abschied, TEN - Gothica, The Father of Serpents - Age of Damnation, THE INTERBEING - Among The Amorphous, THE MIDNIGHT GHOST TRAIN - Cypress Ave., THE MINERVA CONDUCT, third eye cinema podcast, Tommy Stewart's Dyerwulf, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records, Uerberos - Tormented by Faith, VANUM - Burning Arrow, VARG - Gotterdammerung, Vicisolum Productions, Vindkast - Archaic Collapse, VINTERSORG - Till Fjalls del II, war metal, Wren - Auburn Rule, YE BANISHED PRIVATEERS - First Night Back In Port, ZURVAN - Gorge of Blood

Well, here we are, smack dab in the ides of Summer (or thereabouts), and true to form, it’s been something of a mixed bag.

Quick video review – King Satan’s “dance with the devil”

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album reviews, AOR, black metal, death metal, doom metal, emo, Extreme Metal Music, gothic metal, grindcore, heavy metal, KING SATAN - King Fucking Satan, metal reviews, metalcore, music reviews, power metal, progressive metal, punk, Saturnal Records, Saturnian Mist - Chaos Magick, symphonic metal, third eye cinema podcast, war metal

Our old pal “Frater Zetekh” (currently going by “King Aleister Satan”) is back with the fourth (and fifth…) video from his new dance/industrial side project King Satan (previously reviewed here:)