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

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A Savage Yet Sublime September Roundup

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Abigail (Japan) - The Final Damnation, Abomination (Chicago) - S/T, Abomination (Chicago) - Tragedy Strikes, Ade (Italy) - Carthago Delenda Est, AFM records, AGATUS - The Eternalist, ALTAR OF OBLIVION - Barren Grounds, ALTER BRIDGE - "Show Me A Leader", AN AUTUMN FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN - Eternal, Archaic Sound, Ars Moriendi - Sepelitur Alleluia, Atanor, Bestial Invasion - Triligy: Prisoners of Miserable Fate, Black Lodge Records, Blood Harvest, BLOODY HAMMERS - Lovely Sort of Death, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Carnal Tomb - Rotten Remains, Caverna Abismal Records, Concorde Music, Conqueror (Canada) - War.Cult.Supremacy, CRUCIFIED MORTALS - Psalms of the Dead Choir, CRUZH, CRYFEMAL - D6s6nti6rro, Crystal Ball - DeJa-VOODOO, Darkrypt - Delirious Excursion, Darkwell - Moloch, Dead Earth Politics - The Mobius Hammersmith, Death Design - Drown With Me, Deathcult (Switzerland) - Beasts of Faith, Debauchery & Blood God - Thunderbeast, DELAIN - Moonbathers, DEMENTIA 13 (POR) - Ways of Enclosure, Demoncy - Faustian Dawn, Demonomancy / Witchcraft - Archaic Remnants of the Numinous / At the Diabolus Hour, Demonstealer - This Burden is Mine, Deprive - Temple of the Lost Wisdom, DGM - The Passage, Dissociated Records, Dissociated Records / Signal Rex), Doomentia, DULVITUND - Huldar Slodir, Eisenwald, ENDALOK - Englaryk, Evergrey - The Storm Within, EXCUSE - Goddess Injustice, Frontiers music, Frozen Ocean - A Faded Missive Therefrom, Guitar Force - Different Universe, Harri Kauppinen - Helvetin laulut, hell's headbangers, Hexenslaught - Demo I, High Roller Records, High Spirits - Motivator, HOBBS' ANGEL OF DEATH - Heaven Bled, Hyponic - 前行者, Imminent Sonic Destruction - Triumphia, Imperial State Electric - All Through The Night, In Obscurity Revealed - Grim Fumes of Revelation, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Iron Bonehead / Dark Descent, Iron Tyrant, JINJER - King of Everything, KING COMPANY - One for the Road, Kryptos - Burn Up The Night, Lacerated Enemy Records, LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE - Hope Is Here, Lordi - Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy), Luxor Records, Massacre records, Memento Mori (Spain), Minenwerfer / 1914 - Ich hatt einen Kameraden, MOASE - Vertigo, Morbo / Bunker 66 - Into the Morbid Bunker, Morbosatan - The Last Sacrifice, Napalm Records, Narnia, Narnia Songs, Netherbird - The Grander Voyage, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, NUNSLAUGHTER / GRAVEWURM, Oblivion / SPV, Operator Produkzion, ORDO OBSIDIUM - A crooked path to desolation, Osmose Productions, PALACE - Master of the Universe, POWERWOLF - The Metal Mass - Live, PRC Music, Predatory Light, PRINCIPALITY OF HELL - Sulfur & Bane, Profanal - Supreme Fire, Psychout Records, Quake The Earth - Declaration Of War, Rattleplague - Bourbon Scenes, Rekoma - Circle Of Hate, RICARDO REMÉDIO - Natureza Morta, Rotor - Musta kasi, RUNNING WILD - Rapid Foray, Seputus - Man Does Not Give, Seremonia - Pahuuden aanet, Serious Black - Mirrorworld, Shadow Kingdom, Shellfire Attack, Signal Rex, Skogen - Svitjod, SODOM - Decision Day, Solar Mass - Pseudomorphosis, Solitude Productions, Spectral Voice / Phrenelith, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Steve 'N' Seagulls - Brothers in Farms, svart records, Swampcult (Netherlands) - The Festival, third eye cinema podcast, THRONEUM - Morbid Death Tales, Tortorum - Rotten. Dead. Forgotten., Transcending Obscurity Distribution, Transcending Obscurity India, VALIENT THORR - Old Salt, Verberis - Vexamen, Visions of Bone - The Wounded Kings, Vornth - Black Pyres, Vulvodynia (South Africa) - Psychosadistic Design, W.T.C. Productions, Weird Truth Productions, Wickerman Recordings, Xtreem Music (Spain), Zealot Cult - Karmenian Crypt, ZODIAC - Grain Of Soul

With all the electionate nonsense quieting to a dull roar (and in the case of one end of the equation, emphasize the “dull”, as in mentally and socially challenged…) and summer coming to its inevitably impending end, there’s a feeling of wistfulness in the air.  You can feel something’s lost.

Sure, it’s a season of change, a move into the darker half of the year where the putative Oak King passes and his dark brother the Holly King holds sway, but it’s more than that. Something’s missing, and it’s something vital to the human spirit.