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.

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.

O, October Roundup, Here Art Thou…

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

I don’t get it.

Yet Another Jocose July Roundup

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(EchO) (Italy) - Head First into Shadows, Aesthetic Death, AFM records, Agonia records, Arkadia - Aspirations & Reality, ARPHAXAT - Ex Inferis, Art of Propaganda, Artery Recordings, Ashcloud - Children of the Chainsaw, Atomikyla - Keraily, BadMoodMan Productions, Billy Momo - "Swim", Bindrune Recordings, Black Fucking Cancer, Blood Chalice - Demo 2016, Blood Harvest, Blood Red Throne - Union of Flesh and Machine, Candlelight Records, CANDLEMASS - Death Thy Lover, Celestial Grave - Burial Ground Trance, CENTINEX - Doomsday Rituals, Chalice of Suffering - For You I Die, Circle of Unexisted - Dissolving Into a Black Light, Circle of Unexisted - Kettery (Wr, DAN REED NETWORK - Fight Another Day, Deadlight Entertainment (France), Death Courier - Demise, Death Courier - EP and Demo, Death Elite, Denominate - Those Who Beheld The End, DENOUNCEMENT PYRE - Black Sun Unbound, Diabolical - Umbra, Die Krupps - Live Im Schatten Der Ringe, Disclarity - What Will Be Left, Dominhate - Emissaries of Morning, Dragonforce - Killer Elite, Eihwaz Recordings, Falsifier - Life in Death, FIRST SIGNAL - One Step Over The Line, Fractured Insanity (Belgium) - Man.Made.Hell, Frontiers music, GJENDØD, Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma, hell's headbangers, Hellsworn - Repulsive Existence, Hellthrasher Productions, Heretique (Poland) - De Non Exisentia Dei, Illdisposed - Grey Sky Over Black Town, Infernal Diatribe (Kolkata India) - Videha Mukti EP, Infinitum Obscure (Mexico) - Infernal Dark Force, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, Iron Imperium - Dead Ahead, Jinjer - “Words Of Wisdom”, JORN - Heavy Rock Radio, Korgonthurus - Vuohen Siunaus, Kuolemanlaakso - M. Laakso – Vol. 1: The Gothic Tapes, Lavadome Productions, Lonewolf - The Heathen Dawn, Macabra (International) - To the Bone, Massacre records, Mo Better Music, Morbid Visions Music/Vonfrost Records, MORTILLERY - Shapeshifter, Mustan Kuun Lapset - Kuolemanvirta, Napalm Records, Narnia - "Reaching For The Top", Narnia Songs, NERVOSA - Agony, Nogrod (Guwahati India) - Abstruce Dismal EP, Nordvis Produktion / Bindrune Recordings, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Nuisible (France) - Inter Feces et Urinam Nascimur, Nuke, Osmose Productions, Ossuary Insane - Possession of the Flesh, Paganizer (Sweden) - On the Outskirts of Hades, Panopticon - Revisions Of The Past, Paradox - Pangea, Pestifere - Hope Misery Death, PROFANATICA - The Curling Flame of Blasphemy, Segregación Primordial - I, Set On End - The Dark Beyond, Shataan - Weigh of the Wolf, Signal Rex, Sintax - Sway For A Better Day, Snorri - Putrid Black Fucking Metal, Solitude Productions, Somnambulist Red - Drowned in phosphorescence, Somnium Nox (Australia) - Apocrypha, Spinefarm Records, Strafk - Entomophobia, SUNS OF THYME - Cascades, svart records, Temple Nightside - The Hecatomb, THE ORDER OF ISRAFEL - Red Robes, The Von Deer Skulls - Bitches Of The Wood, Third Eye Cinema, ThrOes - This Viper Womb, Times End Records, Transcending Obscurity Distribution, uncertain - The Fox's Blood Moon (for Ian Johnstone), uncertain - The Price of Existence is Eternal Warfare (Live Invocations), Underdark - Ynomrah, Underground Movement, Via Nocturna (Poland), Vicisolum Productions, Violent Scum - Festering in Endless Decay, Vukari - Divination, Wired Anxiety (India) - The Delirium of Negation, WITHEM - The Unforgiving Road, woodcut records, Wraith Productions, Xtreem Music (Spain)

Sigh.

Electoral fraud, corporate money influence and longstanding “buddy system” promises have saddled our nation with two of the sorriest damn candidates ever put forth as ostensible “alternatives”, both of whom are bought and paid for by the same people and who’ll take us to pretty much the same place, continuing ever further down this downhill spiral of offshoring, negative tax amortizations and ever increasing profits for the rich and corporate, while the rest of us get saddled with poverty, police brutality and the prospect of a multiple front global war.

Thanks ever so much.  And all the general populace can do is growl and snap at each other on social media.  No third party movement, no uprising against the malfeasance of the powers that be, no demands for equity, oversight and worker protections…just a batch of “unfriendings” and gasp-inducing soundbytes that accomplish nothing whatsoever.