Blackest of the Black, Darker than Night

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Ateiggar - Us d’r Holl chunnt nume Zyt, AVSLUT - Tyranni, Bindrune Recordings, BLOOD AND SUN - Love & Ashes, Blooddawn Productions, BUTCHER - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot, Canis Dirus - Independence to the Beast, DEATH WOLF - IV: Come The Dark, Drittmaskin - Sosial Prolaps, Edged Circle Productions, Eisenwald, Helter Skelter Productions, HORROCIOUS - Depleted Light And The Death Of Uniqueness, IMPRECATION / BLACK BLOOD INVOCATION - Diabolical Flames of the Ascended Plague split, INFIDEL REICH - Reichenstein, Katoptron IX Records, Krater - Venenare, Magick Touch - To the Limit, Mosaic - Secret Ambrosian Fire, NATTVERD - Styggdom, Nordvis, Osi and the Jupiter - Nordlige Runaskog, Osmose Productions, Regain Records), Seeing Red Records, SUUM - Cryptomass, third eye cinema podcast, Tragediens Trone, Witchcrawl - World Without End

And here’s yet another batch of reviews this week.  Can’t say we’re not giving you anything!

This time around, we’re talking more doom, neofolk and black metal, from labels like Nordvis, Osmose, Regain, Eisenwald, Bindrune, Edged Circle, Seeing Red and more…so why waste time talking about it?  Allons-y!

At Last – An Up to Date, State of the Art, All Purpose, Entirely Au Courant Sizzlin’ Summer Roundup

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ABRAHMA - In Time for the Last Rays of Light, Abysmal Grief - Mors Eleison, Acoite, AFM records, Agonia records, ALAN PARSONS - The Secret, Alase - Vastaus, Am I Dead Yet?, AnnapurnA, Aphrodite - Lust and War, Arch / Matheos - Winter Ethereal, Archaic Sound, Archaic Tomb / Cryptworm split, Ares Kingdom - By the Light of Their Destruction, Ars Moriendi - La solitude du pieux scelerat, Asping - The Lion of Piraeus, ATMF, Autopilot - Afterglow, Avantgarde Music, AXEL RUDI PELL - XXX Anniversary Live, BEHEADED - Only Death Can Save You, Bethlehem - Lebe dich leer, Bhleg & Nechochwen - Sorlande sky / Majestic Translucence, Bindrune Recordings, Black Dreams - "under my skin", Black Mold - Tales of Degradation, Black Passage - The Veil, Blackwater Commotion - Strike One, Blood Harvest, BLOOD OF KINGU - De Occulta Philosophia, Borders - Purify, BURIAL REMAINS - Trinity of Death, Caligari Records, Chronoform - From the Void, Cold Kingdom - Into the Black Sky, Concilivm - The Veiled Engima, Concorde Music Company, CONCRETE WINDS - Primitive Force, Confused Records, CRAZY LIXX - Forever Wild, Crush the Altar - Abhorrent Oblation, D-A-D - A Prayer For The Loud, Daemoni - Black Tyrant, Dark Heresy - Abstract Principles Taken To Their Logical Extremes, Dawning Septic Productions, Deadlight Records, DEATH’S-HEAD AND THE SPACE ALLUSION - The Counterbalance, Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia, DEFIXION - Tabella Defixionis, Dekathlon - "Taskuni kutsu", Deletere - Theovorator : Babelis Testamentum, Deorc Absis - The Nothingness Transfiguration, Despotz Records, DEVOID OF THOUGHT - Cosmic Apoptosis, DISOWNING - Human Cattle, Diviner - Realms of Time, DOG BLESS YOU - BANKSTERS, Dool - Love Like Blood, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Dust Prophet - "Shadow Army", Egonaut - ''Omens'', Eihwaz / Bindrune Recordings, Ektro, Electric Hydra - The Last Of Us, Emil Bulls - Mix Tape, Employed to Serve - Eternal Forward Motion, Enchantya - On Light And Wrath, Evil Ink Records, EXCUSE - Prophets From the Occultic Cosmos, EXTREMA - Headbanging Forever, Fighter Records, Filtheater - Blight of Sempiternal Putrefaction, FireWalkWithMe - The Eternal Black Rainbow, First of All, FIRST SIGNAL - Line Of Fire, Flowing Downward, FORTUNE - II, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Funere / Solitude Productions, Ghost:Hello - Sound of Color in Space, Goathorned Productions, Gravefields - Embrace the Void, Handful of Hate, HARDLINE - Life, Haze of Summer - Stuzha, Hell and Hollar - 442, Helldprod, HEX - God Has No Name, HEXENEBRETT - Erste Beschworung, Hogar Dulce Hogar, Holocausto - Diario de Guerra, In Silence - ''The Worst Liar'', INFINITY - AWAKENING, Intothecrypt - Vakor, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, J.B.O. - Wer lasst die Sau raus?!, Jess By The Lake - Under The Red Light Shine, JIM PETERIK WORLD STAGE - Winds of Change, K.F.R - Demonologue, K.F.R - L'enfer a sa source, Kapala - Termination Apex, Kingart, Kroda - The Prodigy Tribute - Fvkk 'em and THEIR LAW, Krucyator Productions / Atavism Records, Kryptos - Afterburner, LEVERAGE - DeterminUs, Long Branch Records, Loud Rage Music, Lupus Lounge / Prophecy, MACHINE MAN RECORDS, Maharaja - Kali Yuga, Malum - Legion, Maniac Abductor - Casualties Of Causality, Memento Mori, MERCY'S DIRGE - LIVE, Metal Blade Records, Metal Devastation Records, Mettadone - Rotten Flattery, Meuchelmord - Waffentrager, MICHAEL THOMPSON BAND - Love And Beyond, Midnight Bullet - Into the Fire, Misþyrming - Algleymi, MOLLO RILLA, Moon Far Away - Athanor Eurasia, Moondawn Records, MORDOR - ¿Evolución?..., Motive - Fight The World, Nattfog - Pohjan Porteilta, NECRONOMIDOL - Voidhymn, NoEvDia, Nordvis, Nordvis Produktion, Nyss - Depayser, Obscura Qalma - From The Sheol To The Apeiron, Obsidian Tongue - Volume III, ORDINUL NEGRU - LIFELESS, ORDINUL NEGRU - NOSTALGIA OF THE FULLMOON NIGHTS (reissue), Ordo MCM, Ornamentos del Miedo - Este no es tu hogar, Osmose Productions, Osmose Productions / Hells Headbangers, Overt Enemy - Possession, PER WIBERG - Head Without Eyes, Prag 83 - Enouement, Prophecy, Purity Through Fire, RAW AND RELENTLESS, Redefining Darkness Records, Relapse Records, RENDEZVOUS POINT - Universal Chaos, RESTLESS SPIRITS (Tony Hernando), Ringworm - Death Becomes My Voice, Rockshots Records/ Universal, ROGGA JOHANSSON - Entrance to the Otherwhere, Sadness - Circle Of Veins, Sanity Control - Demo 2019, Sarinvomit / Eggs of Gomorrh - Encomium of Depraved Instincts, SATAN TAKES A HOLIDAY - A New Sensation, Schattenmann - Epidemie, Scythe For Sore Eyes - Nothing, Seeing Red Records, sepulchral productions, Sepulchral Voice, Shades of Deep Water - Death's Threshold, Shadow Kingdom, Shock Records / Vanity Music Group, Silver Snakes - Death and the Moon, Snakefarm Records, Specific Recordings, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Steel Mammoth - "Amplituhedron Baby", Steel Mammoth - "Friendly Aliens", Stille Volk - Milharis, Stone Leaders, Sun & Moon, svart records, Talking Music, Tanzwut - Seemannsgarn, Tar Pit - Tomb of Doom, Temple of the Stars - Nightspirit, THE BRINK - Nowhere To Run, The Glorious Dead - Imperator of the Desiccated, THE MORGANATICS - Love Riot Squad vs The F-World, THE NEGATIVE BIAS - Narcissus Rising (A Metamorphosis In three acts), THE RODS - Brotherhood Of Metal, third eye cinema podcast, Transcending Obscurity Records, TRENCH WARFARE - Hatred Prayer, TRISTENGRAV - II - Nychavge, Turkey Vulture - Boxer, Ulterium Records, Undoer - Survival is a Myth, Valborg - Zentrum, Vananidr - Road North, Vanity Music, Various Artists - Polya - Experimental New Wave and Art Punk from Finland 1979-1984, Vectis - The Executioner, Verwustung - Gospel ov Fury, VORTEX OF END - Ardens Fvror, WARCRAB - Damned In Endless Night, WHITESNAKE - Flesh & Blood, WICKED GARDEN - Post Dystopian Leisure Music, Wild Planes - Singin 'N' Slingin, Winterwolf - Lycanthropic Metal of Death, Wire-Sound, XENOKORP, XT - Revived - Standing for Jesus Christ, Xtreem Music, Zachary Lucky - The Ballad of Losing You

And another crazy month has passed.  With all the loose ends caught up on, we’ve made a concerted effort to get everything up to date, and essentially succeeded…if you don’t count the deluge of incoming materials by the day (generally with release dates for next month’s coverage, but not always…) and how long it takes to cover so much material every month.

An Unexpectedly Enervating New Year’s Roundup

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AFM records, Agonia records, Akatechism - Dripping Flames, ANGEL DUST - Into The Dark Past, ANGEL DUST - To Dust You Will Decay, ARMOURED ANGEL - Communion, ATMF, AXEL RUDI PELL - Game Of Sins, Blood Harvest, Brainstorm - Scary Creatures, Centipede, Charm Designer - Everlasting, Dead Procession - Rituais e Mantras do Medo, Dissona - Paleopneumatic, ECFERUS - Pangaea, Eisenwald, Eucharist (Australia) - Endarkenment, Factory Brains - "Modern Day", Forndom - Dauðra Dura, Forndom - Dauora Dura, Frontiers music, hell's headbangers, High Priest of Saturn - Son of Earth and Sky, I Voidhanger Records, Imperial State Electric - "Anywhere Loud", Inverse, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Labyrinth Productions, Löbo - Alma, Listenable Records, Manimal - Trapped In The Shadows, Mörk Gryning - Tusen år har gått, No Remorse, NORDIC UNION, Nordvis, OCERCO - A Desolação, PRIMAL FEAR - Rulebreaker, PRONG - X - No Absolutes, Psychout Records, Resurrection Kings, Rhapsody Of Fire - Into The Legend, SATANIC WARMASTER / ARCHGOAT - Lux Satanae (Thirteen Hymns of Finnish Devil Worship), Serpents Athrist - Heralding Ceremonial Mass Obliteration, Shakra - High Noon, Signal Rex, SPEKTR - The Art to Disappear, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, svart records, TERROR (Cleveland) - Legion of Gore, THE WAKEDEAD GATHERING - Fuscus: Strings of the Black Lyre, Titaan - Kadingir, Toothgrinder - Nocturnal Masquerade, Villainy - Villainy II: Dim, VOIDCRAEFT - Ἕβελ, Wild Kingdom Records, Xantam - LifeDeathBeyond

Whew!

If you’re like…well, just about everyone I know, 2016 is not kicking off on a very good foot.

New Year, Old Faces: A Jaunty January Roundup

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A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See, Acherontas - Ma IoN (Formulas Of Reptilian Unification), AFM records, Ahamkara - The Embers Of The Stars, Air Raid - Point Of Impact, Aktor - Paranoia, Armageddon (Sweden) - Captivity & Devourment, At War With False Noise, ATOMIC AGGRESSOR - Sights of Suffering, Atomicide - Chaos Abomination, Bindrune, Black Cilice - Mysteries, Callisto - Secret Youth, Death Karma - The History of Death & Burial Rituals part I, DEMOLITION TRAIN - Unleash The Hordes, Demoncy - Joined in Darkness, Devathorn - Vritra, DWELL (Denmark) - Vermin and Ashes, Dysangelium - Thánatos Áskesis, ECLIPSE - Armageddonize, Edged Circle Productions, Eisenwald, Forever Plagued Records, Frontiers records, Garotting Deep / For - Void Asceticism, GOAT SEMEN - Ego Svm Satana, GOUGE - Beyond Death, Grimoire - L'aorasie des spectres rêveur, hell's headbangers, Hellish Outcast - Stay of Execution, Helrunar - Niederkunfft, Hic Iacet - The Cosmic Trance Into the Void, High Roller Records, Infernal Manes, iron bonehead, Iron Lamb - Fool's Gold, Isabrut, Ithaqua - Initiation To Obscure Mysteries, Izah - Sistere, Jorn Lande & Trond Holter present DRACULA - Swing of Death, Kruger - Adam and Steve, Legion of Andromeda - Iron Scorn, LEVEL 10 - Chapter 1, Listenable Records, Lonewolf - Cult Of Steel, Lupus Lounge, LYNX - Caught In The Trap, Malsanctum - Metamorbid Fetishization, Massacre records, Messiah's Kiss - Get Your Bulls Out!, Morbid Evils - In Hate With The Burning World, Moribund records, Mourning Mist, Negura Bunget - Tau, No Remorse Records, Nordvis, NUNSLAUGHTER - Burn the Cross, Orden Ogan - Ravenhead, PAT TRAVERS BAND - Live at the Iridium NYC, Pavitra Kunta productions, PERDITION TEMPLE - Sovereign of the Desolate, Prophecy productions, Raunchy - Vices.Virtues.Visions, Satan's Host - Pre-dating god Parts 1 & 2, Scorpio Doctrine - Via Liminalis, Serious Black - As Daylight Breaks, Skogen - Vittra, svart records, Swarþ - Veneficivm, Tervahäät, third eye cinema podcast, Trial - Vessel, U.D.O. - Decadent, Unholy Anarchy, Vardan - Verses From Ancient Times, Vivus Humare - Einkehr, Voices Of Destiny - Crisis Cult, W.T.C. Productions

Ah, a new year dawns.  A pleasantly cool start to what promises to be a better year (fingers crossed, particularly given what I’ve both heard from others and lived myself as being a few surprisingly horrific months last Fall), with barely a whisper of snowfall and crisp but seldom bonechilling temperatures in the air.

I don’t know about any of you, but I’m sure as hell ready for some changes for the better…so let’s see if several returning champions and could’a been contenders can jump on that bandwagon and provide some good omens for a brand new start, shall we?

New Year, Old Faces: A Jaunty January Roundup

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A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See, Acherontas - Ma IoN (Formulas Of Reptilian Unification), AFM records, Ahamkara - The Embers Of The Stars, Air Raid - Point Of Impact, Aktor - Paranoia, Armageddon (Sweden) - Captivity & Devourment, At War With False Noise, ATOMIC AGGRESSOR - Sights of Suffering, Atomicide - Chaos Abomination, Bindrune, Black Cilice - Mysteries, Callisto - Secret Youth, Death Karma - The History of Death & Burial Rituals part I, DEMOLITION TRAIN - Unleash The Hordes, Demoncy - Joined in Darkness, Devathorn - Vritra, DWELL (Denmark) - Vermin and Ashes, Dysangelium - Thánatos Áskesis, ECLIPSE - Armageddonize, Edged Circle Productions, Eisenwald, Forever Plagued Records, Frontiers records, Garotting Deep / For - Void Asceticism, GOAT SEMEN - Ego Svm Satana, GOUGE - Beyond Death, Grimoire - L'aorasie des spectres rêveur, hell's headbangers, Hellish Outcast - Stay of Execution, Helrunar - Niederkunfft, Hic Iacet - The Cosmic Trance Into the Void, High Roller Records, Infernal Manes, iron bonehead, Iron Lamb - Fool's Gold, Isabrut, Ithaqua - Initiation To Obscure Mysteries, Izah - Sistere, Jorn Lande & Trond Holter present DRACULA - Swing of Death, Kruger - Adam and Steve, Legion of Andromeda - Iron Scorn, LEVEL 10 - Chapter 1, Listenable Records, Lonewolf - Cult Of Steel, Lupus Lounge, LYNX - Caught In The Trap, Malsanctum - Metamorbid Fetishization, Massacre records, Messiah's Kiss - Get Your Bulls Out!, Morbid Evils - In Hate With The Burning World, Moribund records, Mourning Mist, Negura Bunget - Tau, No Remorse Records, Nordvis, NUNSLAUGHTER - Burn the Cross, Orden Ogan - Ravenhead, PAT TRAVERS BAND - Live at the Iridium NYC, Pavitra Kunta productions, PERDITION TEMPLE - Sovereign of the Desolate, Prophecy productions, Raunchy - Vices.Virtues.Visions, Satan's Host - Pre-dating god Parts 1 & 2, Scorpio Doctrine - Via Liminalis, Serious Black - As Daylight Breaks, Skogen - Vittra, svart records, Swarþ - Veneficivm, Tervahäät, third eye cinema podcast, Trial - Vessel, U.D.O. - Decadent, Unholy Anarchy, Vardan - Verses From Ancient Times, Vivus Humare - Einkehr, Voices Of Destiny - Crisis Cult, W.T.C. Productions

Ah, a new year dawns.  A pleasantly cool start to what promises to be a better year (fingers crossed, particularly given what I’ve both heard from others and lived myself as being a few surprisingly horrific months last Fall), with barely a whisper of snowfall and crisp but seldom bonechilling temperatures in the air.

I don’t know about any of you, but I’m sure as hell ready for some changes for the better…so let’s see if several returning champions and could’a been contenders can jump on that bandwagon and provide some good omens for a brand new start, shall we?

Yet Another Hypertrophically Huge Holidaze Roundup

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Adversum, AFM records, Agonia records, ALLEN / LANDE, Athanatos (Chile) - Unholy Union, BAILEY - Long Way Down, Bhleg - Draumr Àst, Blaspherian - Upon the Throne...of Eternal Blasphemous Death, Blood Harvest, Bloodbound - Stormborn, Bog Oak - A Treatise on Resurrection and The Afterlife, Bones (Belgium) - Awaiting Rebirth, BRANT BJORK AND THE LOW DESERT PUNK BAND - Black Power Flower, Cadaveric Fumes / Demonic Oath - Entwined In Sepulchral Darkness, CENTINEX - Redeeming Filth, Crepusculo Negro, Cult of Fire - Ctvrtá Symfonie Ohne, Darkher - The Kingdom Field, Evil Spirit - Cauldron Messiah, EXECRATION (Norway) - Morbid Dimensions, Forever Plagued, Frontiers records, Gnosis (Florida) - The Third-Eye Gate, Grift & Saiva - Skarprättaren & Sjiedvárre, Hands of Orlac - Figli Del Crepuscolo, HAREM SCAREM - Thirteen, hell's headbangers, Henosis (Chile) - Apotheosis Pulsio CLVI, Horror Records, Ill Omen - Remnant Spheres of Spiritual Equilibrium, Impious Desecration, Infra (Portugal) - Initiation on the Ordeals of Lower Vibrations, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, K-X-P - History of Techno, Korzus - Legion, Kult Ofenzivy - Nauky ruznic, Lotus Thief - Rervm, Manimalism, Metal Cross, Metamorph, MIRNA'S FLING : for the love of me, MONSTER MAGNET - Milking The Stars: a re-imagining of Last Patrol, Morbosidad - Tortura, MORS PRINCIPIUM EST - Dawn Of The Fifth Era, Napalm Records, NEKROFILTH - Filling My Blood With Poison..., Night in Terrors, Nordvis, Nuclear War Now! Productions, NUNSLAUGHTER / PERVERSOR, NUNSLAUGHTER / WITCHTRAP, Orcultus - Black Rust, Orcultus - Endless Hate & Misanthropy, PORTAL / BLOOD OF KINGU, Prophecy productions, Scapes - One:Unseen:One, Sepulchral Temple, SHED THE SKIN - Rebirth Through Brimstone, SKÀLMÖLD - Með vættum, Skelethal - Interstellar Knowledge of the Purple Entity, Sleeping Pulse - Under The Same Sky, Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin - Nomadic, Spire (Australia), StarGazer - A Merging to the Boundless, svart records, The Ajna Offensive, THE FLIGHT OF SLEIPNIR - V, The Great Divide, third eye cinema podcast, Triosphere - The Heart Of The Matter, Trollmusic, VARATHRON - Untrodden Corridors of Hades, Vircolac - Codex Perfida, Volahn - Aq'ab'al, W.T.C. Productions, Witchrist - Vritra

In case by some strange quirk of fate you hadn’t noticed by the crisp chill in the air and the profliferation of angry drivers and website crashes, it’s that time of year again.

That’s right, the holida(ze), when people are of good cheer and filled with warm humanist feeling for their fellow man.

Or is that the stink of desperation, rampant consumerism and the ultimate terror of a yearly get together with relatives you wish you could divorce yourself from blood ties to?

In any case, we have a plethora of November and December releases herein, hot and hungering to be held by your eager, sweaty hands this holiday, to put under that pagan Yoolis Night tree. 

So what the hell are we wasting time yammering here for?  Let’s spread some Christmas cheer!

Hey, who snickered?

oh, yeah, that was me.  Anyway…

Forward!