Cheech and Chong’s Next Roundup

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ALKYMIST - Sanctuary, Argonauta Records, BEESUS - 3eesus, BILLY CLUBS - Strange Driving, Go Down Records, GOMORRA - Divine Judgement, HAYVANLAR ALEMI - Psychedelia In Times Of Turbolence, Indisciplinarian, KAYLETH - 2020 Back To Earth, LAST CALL AT NIGHTOWLS - Ask The Dusk, LILI REFRAIN - Ulu, MAYA MOUNTAINS - Era, NO RAZA - Transcending Material Sins, Noble Demon, Rise Above Records, RUINAS - Ikonoklasta, SINISTRAL KING - Serpent Uncoiling, Spikerot Records, Subsound Records, SUPERNAUGHTY - Temple, third eye cinema podcast, Vendetta Records, Witchskull - A Driftwood Cross, ZOLLE - Macello

Like, wow, man…so, like, stoner doom and stuff, right?

Okay, so, let’s all dress the same, but different, you know?  Yeah…you know how it is.  Alright!

so, like…unless you’re going to siphon some gas or jump in the car to park (poorly) on the opposite side of the street, man…like…read on, y’know?

just don’t stare at his face, man, he gets weird!

Doooooom!

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Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell - Very Uncertain Times, Freaks And Clowns, HAUNT - Mind Freeze, Metalville, Pagan Altar - Mythical & Magical Pagan Altar - The Time Lord, Planchettes - The Truth, Rise Above Records, Shadow Kingdom, Temple of Mystery, The Hydden - Vagabond Songs, third eye cinema podcast

Aah, hope everyone’s had an appropriately hellish holiday, with a heaping helping of family fights, bloating and indigestion, not to mention being subjected to bad sporting events and plenty of gossip, opening of old wounds and a resolution never to see these people again (which you’ll inevitably cave in and fail on somewhere between the end of December and next year’s Turkey Day)…

Another Devastating Descent into Fall Roundup (week 2)

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Art Is War Records, Cinder - The Machine, Lee Aaron - Power Soul and Rock N' Roll – Live in Germany, Metalville, O Samuli A - Condition Yellow, Rise Above Records, Santa Lucia - Perse Palaa - Complete Recorded Works, SAVAGE MASTER - Myth Magic & Steel, Shadow Kingdom, Shubhangi Joshi Collective - Babelfish, svart records, third eye cinema podcast, Thobbe Englund - Hail to the Priest, VA Rocks - I Love VA Rocks, Various Artists - Brutal Africa - The Heavy Metal Cowboys of Botswana, Various Artists - Cold War on The Rocks - Disco and Electronic Music from Finland 1980-1991, Vesperith, Warsenal - Feast Your Eyes, Workshed

And here’s another brief bit of business to hold y’all over till things return to more of a standard state.  Stuff keeps coming in, and there’s a lot of these all ready and waiting…it’s time and life that intervene.

Another Devastating Descent into Fall Roundup (week 1)

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Frontiers Music s.r.l., Gatecreeper - Deserted, Michael Monroe - One Man Gang, Relapse Records, Rise Above Records, SASCHA PAETH'S MASTER OF CEREMONY - Signs Of Wings, Seven Kingdoms - Empty Eyes, silver lining music, Tales of The Tomb - Volume Two: Mendicium, THE DEFIANTS - Zokusho, third eye cinema podcast, Yurei - Saudade

Hey, ho, let’s go, we’re back again with yet another brief but potent missive of all the reviews fit to print (and then some) in the manner you’ve all come to know and love.

Still sick as a dog (after catching my wife’s convention-sourced industrial strength deathfest of a germ warfare lab a good week back), but figured rather than just suffer and let this build, I’d tackle a few…and found a few real gems in the process.

Yeah, there’s always a balance.  But hey, take the positives where you can find ’em, n’est pas?

Shall we dance?

Avast! Yonder Lies Yet Another Awe Inspiring April Roundup!

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0N0 - Cloaked Climax Concealed, 2 Wolves - ...Our Fault, :AJNA:, Abduction - All Pain As Penance, ABYSSIC - High The Memory, Acheronte - Son Of No God, AD PATRES - "Symbiosick", AFM records, AFTERMATH - There Is Something Wrong, Agonia records, AIHOS - Havityksen Maa, AKROTHEISM - The Law Of Seven Deaths, ALTAR OF OBLIVION - The Seven Spirits, Angel Morgue Angel Morgue, Another Day Dawns - A Different Life, Another Place (Chapter One), Another Place (Chapter Two, Anthem - Nucleus, AOP Records, Armagedda - The Final War Approaching, Artoffact, As Within So Without - Into Oblivion, Aseptic - Senses Decay, ATARAXIE - Resignes, Athanasia - The Order of the Silver Compass, Automb - Esoterica Automb - Esoterica, Avantggarde Music, Barren Void / Lavadome, Battlesk'rs Productions, Bergraven - Det framlidna minnet, Big Scary Monsters / Polyvinyl Records, Black Lodge Records Black Lodge Records, Black Sunset Black Sunset, BlackStorm Productions, Bloodbound - Rise Of The Dragon Empire, Body Void - You Will Know The Fear You Forced Upon Us, BRAINSQUEEZED - Scarred, Caligari Records, Caustic Vomit - Festering Odes to Deformity, CHALICE OF SUFFERING - Lost Eternally, Cleaning Women - Intersubjectivity, Clobber Records, Concorde Music Company, Crown & Throne Ltd, Darkwater - Human, DEADLIGHT, Deadlight Entertainment, DEATH AGONY - Desiderata a Devastating Revelation, Death Is Death - Death Wears Suit, DEFECAL OF GERBE - Mothershit, Dekathlon - The Thin Road, Demon Head - Hellfire Ocean Void, Despotz Records, Destroyers Of All - The Vile Manifesto, Drastus - La Croix de Sang, Drawn Into Descent - The Endless Endeavour, Drottnar - Monolith, Dry Cough Records, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Dwarrowdelf - Of Dying Lights, Dying Victims Productions, ECTOVOID - Inner Death, Edged Circle Productions, Ektro, Ektro / Full Contact, Ektro Ektro, El Puerto Records Gbr, Ellende - Lebensnehmer, Endless Memories, Endtime Productions, EREMIT - Carrier of Weight, EXTREME METAL ATTACK - ANNO XVI 2019, FARULN - The Black Hole Of The Soul, FATAL CURSE - Breaking the Trance, Fearrage - Songs From The Sorrow, Fedrespor - Fra en Vugge i Fjellet, Feed Them Death - No Solution / Dissolution, FENRIR - Legends of the Grail, Fighter Records, Filtheater - Blight of Sempiternal Putrefaction, FIND ME - Angels in Blue, Flowing Downward, FM - The Italian Job, Freedom Fuel - DANCE!, Frontiers Music s.r.l., FUNEREAL PRESENCE - Achatius, Genuflexion - Apoteosis Fallida, Gjendod - Krigsdoger, GOLD - Why Aren't You Laughing?, Golden Robot Records, GOREGANG - Neon Graves, Gorgonchrist - The Blood of Endangered Species, Gothenburg Noise Works, Grave Violator - Back To The Cult, Handful of Hate, HAUMEA - Unborn, Hebosagil - Fortuna/Kevat, Hedonihil - I, hell's headbangers hell's headbangers, Helldprod Records, Hellthrasher Productions, Helter Skelter, Heretical Sect, Hexvessel - All Tree, High Roller Records, ILLIMITABLE DOLOR - Leaden Light, Inculter - Fatal Visions, Indestructible Noise Command - Terrible Things, Inferna Profundus Records, INHEPSIE - Onirique, Inverse Records, Iron Bonehead / Nuclear War Now! / Crepusculo Negro, Jussi Lehtisalo - Dead, Katu Kaiku - Luna, Kehro - Urdiala, Kings Destroy - Fantasma Nera, LAST IN LINE II, Long Branch Records, Long Branch Records Long Branch Records, Lucidity - Oceanum, Lucifera - La Caceria De Brujas, Lumnos - The Heliosphere Singularity, Lustre - Another Time, Marianas Rest - Ruins, Mark Morton  - Anesthetic, Martelo Negro - Parthenogenesis, Mastord - Trail Of Consequence, Meka - Ending My Life to Destroy Yours, Memento Mori, MEPHORASH - Shem Ha Mephorash, MONARCH! - Sabbat Noir, Moribund records, Moribund Rockers! Moribund Rockers!, Morrowless Music, MORTAL SCEPTER - Where Light Suffocates, Mortal Scepter / Deathroned, MURG - Stravan, Mustan Kuun Lapset - Valo, Niezgal - Stogn z Niebyccia, NIGHTRAGE - Wolf to Man, NOCTAMBULIST - Atmospheres Of Desolation, Nocturnal Hollow - A Whisper of a Horrendous Soul, NoEvDia, NORDJEVEL - Necrogenesis, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oltretomba - THE HORROR - Figure del Terrore, ONIROPHAGUS - Endarkenment, Ordo MCM, ORMAGNA, Osmose Productions, Pagan Altar - Judgement of the Dead, Pagan Altar - Lords of Hypocrisy, Pendulum Of Fortune - Return To Eden, PERNICION - Seek What They Sought, Phobonoid - La Caduta Di Phobos, PROJET KO, Prophecy Productions / Century Media / Secret Trees, Pterodactyl Problems - Esoteric Hobbies, Purity Through Fire, PUTREFIED CORPSE - Left to Rot, Raw Skull Recordz, Reaper Metal Productions, Record Heaven, Redefining Darkness Records, Rifftera - Across The Acheron, Rise Above Records, Rock Of Angels Records, Ruton Music / Ektro, Sadness - Rain, Sandor Valy / Julia Heeger - Sacred Songs - Hildegard Von Bingen Variations, Search and Destroy, Season of Mist Season of Mist, Secret Entertainment, Seeing Red Records, Shadow Kingdom, Shadow Records, SINS OF THE DAMNED - Striking the Bell of Death, Six of Swords - Regime Decay / Polar Vortex, Sleep Brothers, Snake Tongue - No Escape No Excuse, SOFY MAJOR - Total Dump, Solveig Matthildur - Constantly In Love, Spinefarm Records, Spiral Skies - Cult, Spirits of Fire, Steamhammer / SPV, Steel Mammoth - "Poison Abyss", STUDIO CONNECT STUDIO CONNECT, Sul Ad Astral - Oasis, Sunset Forsaken - Chameleon Waters, SUZI QUATRO - No Control, svart records, Teleport - The Expansion, Temple of Mystery, Temple of the Fuzz Witch, The Aviators - Flowers and Moonshine, The Foreign Resort - Outnumbered, THE LUMBERJACK FEEDBACK - Mere Mortals, The Mammuthus - Forever Tree, THE MOTH GATHERER - Esoteric Oppression, The Royal - Deathwatch, THE WANDERING ASCETIC - Crimson, Them Guns - From the Shadows, third eye cinema podcast, TLK & InGrooves, Toby Knapp - Blizzard Archer, TORA TORA - Bastards of Beale, Totalitarian - Bloodlands, Transcending Obscurity Asia, Transcending Obscurity Records, Triumvir Foul - Urine of Abomination, Troglodyte Records, Twin Temple - Bring You Their Signature Sound...Satanic Doo-Wop, Uhtceare - El Genocidio Primordial Llevara El Nombre Infinito De La Empatía, Ulterium Records Ulterium Records, ULTRA SILVAM - The Spearwound Salvation, ulv, UNDEATH - Demo '19, Vanquisher - "Priests of Set", Vendetta Records, Vicisolum Productions Vicisolum Productions, Vistery - Death Is Dead Vistery - Death Is Dead, VIUDA NEGRA - Al Final / In the End, Vrasubatlat / Invictus Productions / 20 Buck Spin, Vuono - White Dots, Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis, We Are The Catalyst - EPHEMERAL, WEIRD TRUTH, Wembleway Music Wembleway Music, WEST BOUND Volume I, While She Sleeps - So What?, Within Temptation - Resist, WOLFSBLOOD - Vomit & Lice, WPP Records / Spinefarm Records, Wretched Fate - Demoed In Flesh, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, Ysbryd - Kraft, Zanjeer Zani Productions, Zohamah Spreading My Ashes, ZOID Entertainment, \Mosher Records

Whew!

Trying to catch up with this voluminous backlog of releases isn’t an easy task, I tell ya.  And all this while still researching, recording and editing Weird Scenes podcasts and having an actual life?  Somebody, put me on salary already, this is getting to be a full time job in itself, no BS…

That’s Right, it’s Time for the Terrifyingly Tryptophanic Turkey Day Roundup

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1914 - The Blind Leading the Blind, A Sad Sadness Song, ABYSMAL LORD / CRURIFRAGIUM, Acolytes of Moros - The Wellspring, AFM records, Agonia records, AIHOS - Ikuisuuden Suojaan, Anachronist - Self-Titled Album, Angertea - sidetrack (an acoustic act to eradicate torture), AnnapurnA, AOP Records, Arion - Life Is Not Beautiful, ATMF, Atreyu  - In Our Wake, Awaiting Sacrifice - Uprise, Baneful Storm - Invocations, Black Doomba Records, BLACK INK RIVER - Headstrong, Black Lion Records, BLACKRAT - Dread Reverence, Blood Chalice, Blood Harvest, Bonfire - Legends, Calamity - "The Truth", Carry The Weight - Low Points, Casus Belli Musica / Beverina, CITY OF THIEVES - Beast Reality, code666, Corpse Flower Records, Crawling for Carrion - Rake and Roads, CRAZY LIXX - Loud Minority, CRAZY LIXX - New Religion, CRAZY LIXX - Riot Avenue, CREYE, CRYSTALMOORS / HORDAK - Arguma / Ophiusa, Deathkings - Ex Nihilo, DEGREDO - A Noite dos Tempos, Diamond Head - "Bones", Dirge - Ah Puch, Disciples of the Void, Disrule - Sleep In Your Honour, Dissentience - Mask of Pretense, Divine Ascension: The Uncovering, DODSFERD - Diseased Remnants Of A Dying World, DXVXDXD SXLF (Divided Self) - OF WOLVES & MEN EP, Ernia, Estrons - You Say I'm Too Much, Evil - The Gate of Hell, External - The Blurry Horizon, Eye of Nix - Black Somnia, FALGAR - La Dama Del Alba, Fauna Timbre - Altering Echoes, Fighter Records, Flagelador - Predilecao Pelo Macabro, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Gathering Darkness - The Inexorable End, Giganto Records, GMR Music, GOATHAMMER - Ceremony of Morbid Destruction, Goats of Doom - Rukous, Goddess - Raped Into Being, Gramma Vedetta - Proof of Concept, Grog - Macabre Requiems, Groza - Unified in Void, Hangman's Chair - Banlieue Triste, Harvest Of Death, hell's headbangers, Helldprod Records, Helter Skelter, Helter Skelter / Regain Records, Henry Derek Elis - The Devil is My Friend, Henry Metal - The Essential Henry Metal Vol. 1, Holocausto - Guerra Total, Howling Invocations, Hrizg - Soterion, Human Agony -Goring Christ, I Say You're Not Enough, IMPELLITTERI - The Nature of the Beast, INFERNARIUM - Pimean Hotho, INHUME - Exhume: 25 Years of Decomposition, Inner Wound Recordings, InnerWish - Inner Strength, InnerWish - Silent Faces, InnerWish - Waiting for the Dawn, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, ITERU - Ars Moriendi, JOSE RUBIO - Forbidden Dreams, Kalidia - The Frozen Throne, KRYPTAMOK - Profaani, Kurokuma - Dope Rider, LASCAR - Wildlife, Letheria - Death - Principle, LION'S SHARE - EP, MALPERMESITA, MALUM / LATHSPELL - Luciferian Nightfall, Martyr Lucifer - Gazing at the Flocks, Medusa Crush Recordings, metal reviews, MINOTAURO RECORDS, Moonfrost - III, MORGAL, Moribund records, music reviews, Mz.412 - In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi, NATTRAVNEN - Kult of the Raven, NAZARETH - Tattooed On My Brain, NECROBLOOD / PSYCHOMORPHIS - The Lurking Horror / Amorphous Chaos, Necrosleezer - Pope Kill, Negative Wall - Gammagelu, Night Crowned - Humanity Will Echo Out, Night Machine - Themes of the Dead, Night Vapor - 1000 Miles of Mud, NIRNAETH - From Shadow to Flesh, Nochnoy Dozor, NoiseArt Records, NORD - And Now There's Only A River Left Behind, Northern Silence, Noterious Music, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oberon - Aeon Chaser, Omnipotence - Praecipitium, Ophidian Forest - votlVe, Order of the Nameless Ones - Utter to Me the Word of Wrath, Ordo MCM, Ottone Pesante - APOCALIPS, Outer Heaven - Realms of Eternal Decay, OVERDRIVERS - She's on her Period, Owl Maker - Sky Road, Pain City - WHEN LIFE GETS YOU, Pain City Records, Pale Divine, Primitive Reaction, PROFANATICA - Altar of the Virgin Whore, Prophecy productions, Record Breaking Records, Red Orchard Records, Redefining Darkness Records, Relapse Records, Rise Above Records, Rise to Fall - Into Zero, Riven - Hail to the King, Roadkiller, ROZE - Q&A (QUESTIONS & ANSWERS), Runescarred - "Moonchild", Ruton Music / Ektro, Sargeist - Unbound, Satan's Host - Metal From Hell, Saturnal Records, Scald - Will of the Gods is a Great Power, Seahorse Recordings, Seeing Red Records, Seventh Dimension - The Corrupted Lullaby, SEVENTH WONDER - Tiara, Shadow, Shadow Kingdom, Shallow Grave - Threshold Between Two Worlds, SHIBALBA - Stars Al-Med Hum, Sinnrs - Profound, Skull Fist - Way of the Road, Sludgelord Records / Black Voodoo Records / Cursed Monk Records / minoRobscuR, Solemn Ceremony, SONAMBULA - Bicefalo, Spearhead - Pacifism is Cowardice, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Stop the Building / The Phantom of Phobos, Striker - Play to Win, Sunrunner - Ancient Art of Survival, Supremate - UNITING FLAW, svart records, Svarta Stugen - Islands / Oar, Swilson, The Art of Conjuring - Hibernation, The Orchard / Sony, The Phantom of Phobos - From a Dead Channel, THEM - Manor Of The Se7en Gables, third eye cinema podcast, Thulsa Doom - Realms of Hatred, Thundercrow - Heavy Metal Space Cowboy, Transcending Obscurity Records, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), Trees, Trollheims Grott - Aligned with the True Death, Ulterium Records, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland, Unreqvited - Mosaic I: l'amour et l'ardeur, Vanishing Kids, Vanishing Point Records, Vicisolum Productions, Voodus - Into the Wild, Vulturic Eye - Crucifixion of Hope, W.T.C. Productions, Weltschmerz - Illustra Nos, Werewolf Records, Witch Casket - Punishment, Witching - "False Martyr", WOOAAARGH, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music

You know, nothing in life ever runs smoothly.

A Jauntily Jumbo-sized Jacquard of a Janissary Jamboree, colloquially referred to as the June/July Roundup

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1968 - Ballads of the Godless, A Scar For The Wicked - The Unholy, A.H.P. - Forakt Hat Og Dod, Abhorrence - Megalohydrothalassophobic, Abhorrent Deformity - Slaughter Monolith, Abigail - Far East Black Metal Onslaught, Agathos - Nihil Est, Agonia records, Agregator - Semmibol a semmin at, Al Ard, ALBIONIC HERMETICISM - Ancient Hermetic Purity, Allfather - And All Will Be Desolation, Amanda Somerville‘s TRILLIUM - Tectonic, Ancient Moon / Prosternatur - Secretum Secretorum, Antena Krzyku Records, Antisoph, AOP Records, Aparthiva Raktadhara - Agyat Ishvar, ARCHAIC TOMB Congregations for Ancient Rituals, Argonauta Records, Aseethe/Snow Burial, Atavisma - The Chthonic Rituals, ATLAS - The Catalyst, Atomicide - Furious and Untamed, Atrocity - Okkult II, Avantgarde Music, Avantgarde Music / Flowing Downward, Axegrinder - Satori, Axeslaughter / Cadaveric Incubator, Backwoods Payback - Future Slum, BARKASTH - Decaying, Big Balls Productions, BLACK HOWLING - Return of Primordial Stillness, Blasphamagoatachrist - Black Metal Warfare, Blasphemy - Live Ritual: Friday the 13th, Blasphemy - Victory (Son of the Damned), Blood Harvest, Bloody Mountain Records, Boersma Records, Brass Owl, Bullet For My Valentine - Gravity, Callidice - Anthem For Resistance, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Catalina Shortwave - Reel To Real, Cavern - Eater, Caverna Abismal Records, CEMETERY LUST - Rotting in Piss, Centauro - Dano Colateral, code666, Cokegoat/Barren Heir, COLDBOUND - THE GALE, Comatose Music, Consecration - Remembrance, Cosmic Church - Tayttymys, CRAWL - Rituals, Cryostasium - The Possessor, Curse Upon a Prayer - The Three Woes, Dallian - Automata, Dead Shape Figure - Cacoethes, Deathcall - Eternal Darkness, Debemur Morti Productions, DECAYED - Of Fire And Evil, DECLINE OF THE I - Escape, Deletere - De Horae Leprae, Despotz Records, Deviant Records, Devil's Teeth - Suki Yaki Hot!, Dis Orcus - Somnambulistic Visions, DISOWNING - Battle of Neverness, Divine Ecstasy - Strange Passions, Doomentia, Drawn and Quartered - The One Who Lurks, DROID - Terrestrial Mutations, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Dyecrest - Are You Not Entertained?, Dygora - Chambers of Reflections, Embrace of Thorns - Scorn Aesthetics, Encapsulated Records, Endless Winter, Epicurus Records, Espionage - Digital Dystopia, Exlibris - Innertia, FADING BLISS - Journeys in Solitude, FAITHXTRACTOR - Proverbial Lambs to the Ultimate Slaughter, Faustcoven - In the Shadow of Doom, Fighter Records, Finis - Visions of Doom, Finnr's Cane - Elegy, Firtan - Okeanos, Fish Prints, Flood Peak - Plagued by Sufferers, Fog Light - 2nd Impression, Foredoomed - Ordeal, Forever Plagued, Frayle - The White Witch, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Funeral Mist - Hekatomb, GarageLive Records, Garden of Hesperides - Forest Journey Pt.III -Final Moments, Geisterasche Organisation, Gentle Art of Music, Glass Lungs - Impermanence, Gloam / Obscure Evil, GMR Music, Goat Disciple - Wolfcult Domination, Gore House Productions, Gramma Vedetta - Address Unknown, Graven Maul - Crushed Skull Moon, GRIMNER - Vanadrottning, Grimoire Records, GWYDION - Thirteen, HALCYON WAY - Bloody But Unbowed, Hallig - A Distant Reflection of the Void, Hand of Death Records, Hate Diplomacy - Rant, Hatred Reigns - Realm: I - Affliction, HAUNT - Burst Into Flame, Heavy Hound Records, Hell Night / Sweat Shoppe, hell's headbangers, Helldprod Records, Her Despair - Mournography, HeviSike, Homerik - The Room, Hornwood Fell - Inferus, Hoth - Astral Necromancy, Ididit Records, Ill Omen - The Grande Usurper, Imperial Domain - The Deluge, Inverse Records, INVOCATION SPELLS - Spread Cruelty In The Abyss, iron bonehead, IRON HUNTER - Mankind Resistance, Iron Lamb - Blue Haze, Iron Tyrant records, Isdal - Demo, Kalaallit Nunaat / Au Revoir - Memories From Desolate Battlefields, Kielkropf - Ignorance Is Bliss, Kill Everything - Scorched Earth, Kissin' Dynamite - Ecstasy, Kite - The All Penetrating Silence, Krucyator Productions, Kuilu - Monumentti, Kuunpalvelus, Liholesie - Fables, Living Temple Records, Lizzies - On Thin Ice, Lord - Desperation Finds Hunger In All Men, Lost Division - Wish You Were Dead, LURK - Fringe, Lusitanian Music, Lust And Chaos, Malsanctum, MANES - Slow Motion Death Sequence, Manticora - To Kill to Live to Kill, Massacre records, Matterhorn - Crass Cleansing, MEDIEVAL DEMON - Medieval Necromancy, Memento Mori, Mesarthim - The Density Parameter, Metal Blade Records, metal reviews, MINOTAURO RECORDS, Moenen of Xezbeth - Ancient Spells of Darkness..., MONGREL'S CROSS - Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court, MORTUARY DRAPE - NECROMANTIC DOOM RETURNS, music reviews, Musmahhu - Formulas of Rotten Death, Mutilate - Tormentium, NACHASH - Phantasmal Trinunity, Nancybreathing - Awake, NASTY SURGEONS - Infectious Stench, NoEvDia, Not My Master - Disobey, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Obscura- Diluvium, Orange Goblin - The Wolf Bites Back, Osmose Productions, OUTLINE - Fire Whiplash, Oxygen Destroyer - Bestial Manifestations of Malevolence and Death, P.H.O.B.O.S. - Phlogiston Catharsis, Pa Vesh En - A Ghost, Pa Vesh En / Temple Moon, Paragnosis - Clarity In Three (Redux), Parius - The Eldritch Realm, Pentarium - Zwischenwelt, Pitch Black Records, Possession Productions, Progenie Terrestre Pura - starCross, Prophecy productions, PYREFICATIVM - संसार का पथ, QUANTUM LEAP - NO REASON, Quarter Hour of Power, Radiant Knife - Science Fiction, Ratbreed - Evoke The Blaze, Raven Throne - Biaskoncy snieh Casu / Niazhasnaje, RAVENS CREED - Get Killed or Try Dying, Redefining Darkness Records, REFUGE - Solitary Men, Relapse Records, RIOT GRRRLS - The Riot Grrrl Sessions, Rise Above Records, Rockshots Records / Extreme Metal Music, Rotting Throne Records, Runescarred - We Are, Runespell - Order of Vengeance, Saint Karloff - All Heed The Black God, Sanctrum - Walk With Vermin, Satan My Master - The King Of Hell Arrives, Satori Junk - The Golden Dwarf, Saturnal, Seeing Red Records / Lay Bare Recordings, SEKTARISM - Hosanna Sathana, sepulchral productions, Shadow Kingdom, SHED THE SKIN - We of Scorn, Siege Column - Inferno Deathpassion, Signal Rex, SINSID - Mission From Hell, Sissy Spacek - Ways of Confusion, Sludgelord Records, Sorrow Plagues / De La Nostalgie / Elderwind / Dreams Of Nature - Mater Natura Excelsa, SPACE ELEVATOR - I, Subsignal - La Muerta, SUNSTORM - Road To Hell, Superfjord - All Will Be Golden, Svarga Music, svart records, TAD MOROSE - Chapter X, Talheim Records, Temple Desecration - Whirlwinds of Fathomless Chaos, The Chapter - Angels and Demons, THE EVIL - Evil, The Hirvi - Old School Killspree, The Hypothesis - "Welcome the Darkness", The Sign Records, third eye cinema podcast, This Winter Will Last Forever, Throat - Bareback, THRONEUM - The Tight Deathrope Act Over Rubicon, TNT - XIII, TORN THE FUCK APART - A Genetic Predisposition to Violence, toRyse - Erased EP, Transcending Obscurity Asia, Transcending Obscurity Records, Triple Eye Industries, Tujarot - Existencialista, Tunjum - Deidades del inframundo, Tuscoma - Arkhitecturenominus, Twin Earth Records, Tyrant - The Existential Reversal, Ultraje, Unborn Generation - Void, Urskog - Evig vinter, VELVET VIPER - Respice Finem, Vicisolum Productions, Viskningar och vral, Void Of Silence - The Sky Over, VRSA - Cvlt of Machina, Wheel In The Sky - Beyond The Pale, WITCHFYRE - Grimorium Verum, Witchkiss - The Austere Curtains Of Our Eyes, Witchskull - Coven's Will, Witchsorrow - Hexenhammer, Wombripper - From the Depths of Flesh, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, Zanjeer Zani Productions / Necrocosm Productions, Zero Down - Larger Than Death, Zombiefication - Below the Grief

Another interesting month…well, pair of months here at the Temple of the Third Eye, to be sure.

A Manifestly Magnanimous if not Munificent Mid-May Roundup

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82 Records, A Sad Sadness Song, Ackeron - Polarity, AFM records, Age of Taurus - The Colony Slain, Agonia records, ALMS - Act One, Ancient Lights, Bad Cake Records, Beyond The Katakomb, Black Bow Records, Black Lodge Records, BLACK ORCHID EMPIRE - Yugen, Blood Harvest, BLOOD RITES - Demo 1, Brass Owl, BULLET - Dust To Gold, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Casket Feeder - Scalps, Caveman Cult - Supremacia Primordial, Caverna Abismal Records, Cavurn - Rehearsal, Circenses - Tightrope Walk on the Ground, Cobraside Records, Comatose Music, Concreto Records, Crurifragium - Black Seed of Bestiality, Deathwards - Towards Death, Despotz Records, DOKKEN - Return to The East Live 2016, DOOMSDAY OUTLAW - Hard Times, Drug Cult, Dying Awkward Angel - Absence of Light, Eisenwald, Euphoreon - Ends of the Earth, Eye of the Destroyer - Violent By Design, FARGO - Constellation, Fighter Records, Frontiers Music s.r.l., GHOSTBOUND - All is Phantom, Gus G. - Fearless, H42 Records, Hibernacula Records, High Council - Held In Contempt, Human Cull - Revenant, Ihsahn - Amr, Immortal Synn - Machine Men, In Vain - IV, Infrared - Saviours, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, IRON VOID - Excalibur, Jack 13's Panzercrow - Nightmare Returns, JIZZY PEARL of LOVE / HATE - All You Need Is Soul, Jyotisavedanga - Thermogravimetry Warp Continuum, KLAUS SCHULZE - Silhouettes, Larval Productions, Leviathan - Can't be Seen by Looking: Blurring the Lines Clouding the Truth, Long Branch Records, Lords Of Acid - Pretty In Kink, LORDS OF BLACK - Icons Of The New Days, Majesty of Silence - Zu Dunkel Fur Das Licht, MALEKHAMOVES, Matalobos - Until Time Has Lost All Meaning, Melancholia Records, metal reviews, metropolis records, Monument - Hellhound, Morbid Skull Records, music reviews, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oblivion / SPV, Orgullo Nativo - Entre el campo de batalla, Ossuary Insane - Decimation of the Flesh, Ostura - The Room, OVERDRIVERS - Rockin'Hell, Pelagos - Revolve, POSTHUMAN ABOMINATION – TRANSCENDING EMBODIMENT, POUNDER - Faster Than Fire, PRAYING MANTIS - Gravity, Purodium Rekords, QOHELETH - Black Kites Broadcasts, QUANTUM LEAP - NO REASON, Rat The Magnificent - The Body As Pleasure, RavenSkul - "In the Air Tonight", RavenSkul - At the Gates of the Gods, Raw Skull Records, Redefining Darkness Records, RIBSPREADER - The Van Murders - Part 2, Rise Above Records, Ritual Productions, Rock Of Angels Records, Rockshots Records, Rockshots Records / Extreme Metal Music, Ruach Raah - Under the Insignia of Baphomet, Saturnal, SENDWOOD - Fist Leaf, Serene Dark (formerly Endemise) - "Dualitatem", Shadow Kingdom, Shitty Person - Judgement, Slomatics/Conan - Split, Sons of Alpha Centauri - Continuum, SPACE ELEVATOR - II, Steamhammer / SPV, Stonefellowship Recordings, Supreme Carnage - Morbid Ways to Die, Svart, Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness, Test Your Metal Records, The Apostles Of Ignominy, THE KONSORTIUM - Rogaland, third eye cinema podcast, Thundermother, Transcending Obscurity Asia, Transcending Obscurity Records, TTWD Records, Uada - Cult Of A Dying Sun, Universal Music MENA, Urarv - Argentum, Various Artists - Dance for Your Life - Rare Finnish Disco & Funk 1976-1986, VEGA - Only Human, VHALDEMAR - Shadows of Combat, Via Nocturna Records, Viskningar och vral, Voices - Frightened, War Arts Productions, Wømb - Taciturn, Witch Mountain, WOOAAARGH, Woorms / A Hanging, Xael - The Last Arbiter, Xtreem Music

This one may surprise you.

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

Beware the Ides of March Madness! Make Provision for Yet Another Masterfully Machinated Mid Month Roundup!

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A Sad Sadness Song, Abolishment of Flesh - The Inhuman Condition, ABORTED FETUS – THE ANCIENT SPIRITS OF DECAY, Abramis Brama - "Vem är du?", Abramis Brama - Tusen Ar, Abythic - Beneath Ancient Portals, AD HOMINEM - Napalm For All, Adversvm - Aion Sitra Ahra, Adzalaan - Into Vermilion Mirrors, AFM records, Against Evil - All Hail The King, Agonia records, album reviews, Altar of Perversion - Intra Naos, AOR, APF Records, At War With False Noise, Autokrator, Avantgarde Music, AXEL RUDI PELL - Knights Call, Begat The Nephilim - Begat the Nephilim I: The Surreptitious Prophecy / Mother of the Blasphemy, Beneath Oblivion - The Wayward and the Lost, Bison - Earthbound, Black Bow Records, Black Dreams - "Kiss The Gun", Black Foxxes - Reioi, Black Lion Records, Black Lodge Records, Black Mass Pervertor - Life Beyond the Walls of Flesh, black metal, Black Moth - Anatomical Venus, Blood Harvest, Blutvial - Mysteries of Earth, Bonfire - Temple Of Lies, Bong - THOUGHT AND EXISTENCE, BORN FROM LIE - The New World Order Part 1, BULLETBOYS - From Out of the Skies, By The Time It Gets Dark, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Cardiac Arrest- A Parallel Dimension of Despair, Carnal Records, CODERED - DOMINIONS OF OUR DECEITFUL BELIEFS, Cold Spring, Comatose Music, Cramada, Dagger Lust - Siege Bondage Adverse to the Godhead, De Profundis - The Blinding Light Of Faith, Dead City Ruins - Never Say Die, Dead End Finland - "Lifelong Tragedy", DEADLY CARNAGE - Through the Void Above The Suns, death metal, Death. Void. Terror. - To the Great Monolith I, Deconstructing Sequence - Cosmic Progression: An Agonizing Journey Through Oddities of Space, Defiatory - Hades Rising, Demon Head - Rivers of Mars, Depravity - Evil Upheaval, DGRecords, Divine Era - Scripture Codes Summon Suicidal Thoughts, DocRock Music Records, doom metal, Down Among The Dead Men - ...And You Will Obey Me, DRAWN AND QUARTERED - Hail Infernal Darkness, Dreamfire - Atlantean Symphony, Dry Cough Records, Eisenwald, Ektro, Ektro / Hydra Head, EL CAMINO - Cursed Congregation, emo, Eternal Sound Records, EVIL HUNTER, Ewig.Endlich. - Auf Grund, Extreme Metal Attack Festival - ANNO XV 2018, Extreme Metal Music, Fighter Records, FLESH HOARDER – HOMICIDAL NECROPHILE, Flowing Downward, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Fuzz Lord, Fuzzdoom Records, Golden Robot Records, gothic metal, Gra - Vasen, Grave Upheaval, grindcore, Hammerstroke - Satan’s Claw, heavy metal, Heidens Hart Records, hell's headbangers, Helldprod Records, Hellthrasher Productions, Hiidenhauta - 1695, ILDRA - Eoelland, ILLUSION OF CONTROL - GRIM NEW WORLD EP, Inferna Profundus Records, Inisans - Transition, Into the Storm/Smooth Sailing, Inverse Records, Invictus / Vrasubatlat, iron bonehead, Isgalder - To The Hall Of The Stars, IST - The Frozen Casket, Jangle Town - "A Love so True", Karkaos - Children of The Void, Kolossor - Crown of Horns, Kosmogyr - Eviternity, Krucyator Productions, L'Homme Absurde - Sleepless, L.A. GUNS - Made in Milan Deluxe edition, Living Altar - Scythes Towards Psyche, LJÁIN - Endasalmar og klofnar tungur, Loud Rage Music, MaidaVale - Madness Is Too Pure, Malditos - II, Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard/Slomatics - Totems, Medusa Crush Recordings, Memento Mori, Metal Nation Records, metal reviews, metalcore, MINOTAURO RECORDS, Mondo Macabre, Mork Gryning - Live at Kraken, MORMANT DE SNAGOV - Depths Below Space and Existence, Mors Subita - Into the Pitch Black, Mosher / Firecum Records, music reviews, Mustan Kuun Lapset - "Ikaros", MY SECRET SAFE - Storytelling, Nest - Metempsychosis, Night Tripper Records, Nigredo - Flesh Torn - Spirit Pierced, Nitish Pires - Am I Evil, NO HOT ASHES, No List Records, Nomad - Feral, Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Nytt Land - Odal, Oceans - Far From Composure, Octopus - Supernatural Alliance, Old Man Wizard - Blame It All On Sorcery, Ommadon - End Times, Osmose Productions, Owl Maker - Paths Of The Slain, Palace Of The King - Get Right With Your Maker, PARAGON COLLAPSE - THE DAWNING, Pharaoh Overlord - Zero, POMPEII - The Secret Sessions, power metal, Professor Black - You Bastard!, progressive metal, punk, Raising Legends, Reaper Metal Productions, Redefining Darkness Records, Rise Above Records, Ritual Productions, Rivette - In Harmony, ROBESPIERRE - Garden Of Hell, Robustfellow Productions / Addicted Label / Voron NEST / KVLT OV I, Rogue Records, Sadistik Forest - Morbid Majesties, Saltas - Currents, Satanic Surfers - Back From Hell, Scarificare - Tilasm, Screaming Beast - Our New Narrative of Hate, Secret Entertainment, Serpico - Rock Tattoo, Serum Dreg - Lustful Vengeance, Shadow Kingdom, Shrine of the Serpent - Entropic Disillusion, Signal Rex, SKINNED - Shadow Syndicate, Sludgelord Records, Sojourner - The Shadowed Road, Soom - Djebars, Soundage Productions, SPECTRAL - NEURAL CORRELATES OF HATE, SPEEDCLAW - Beast in the Mist, Spielbergs - Distant Star, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Stone Broken - Ain't Always Easy, Stormzone - Lucifer's Factory, Summon - Parazv Il Zilittv, Sundust Records, svart records, Svartanatt - Starry Eagle Eye, symphonic metal, Taphos - Demo MMXVI, Taphos - EP MMXVII, Tarasque - Innen Aussen, The Ajna Offensive, THE AMORETTES - Born To Break, The Fallen Prodigy - Relive//Regret//Repeat, THE GROTESQUERY - The Lupine Anathema, The Insane Slave, The Sign Records, The Sloths - Dwarves Meet The Sloths, third eye cinema podcast, Throneless - Cycles, TOTALSELFHATRED - Solitude, Toxikull - The Nightraiser, Transcendence - Hour of the Summoning, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records, Twingiant - Mass Driver, Ungfell - Mythen Maren Pestilenz, Unholy Anarchy, Vahrzaw - Husk, Valhalla Lights - My Gracious Highway, VARATHRON - Patriarchs Of Evil, VARSOVIE - Coups et Blessures, Via Nocturna, VOMITOR - Pestilent Death, W.E.T. - Earthrage, war metal, Weathered Statues - Borderlands, Weird Truth Productions, When Reasons Collapse - Omen of the Banshee, WOOAAARGH/Dedication Records, Wormlight - Wrath of the Wilds, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music

By now, you’ve probably noticed these are coming through a week or two later than usual, as headlines themselves may suggest.

So it happens that all of a sudden, you’re seeing February reviews at the start of March, March ones at the start of April…hey.  Life gets in the way, and for someone who’s ostensibly out of the corporate workforce of late, it’s been at least twice as busy – working on the reboot of a certain podcast only being a small part thereof.

But even more than that, there’s been a welcome increase in folks coming to us, offering up their rosters for our delectation and dissection…or if you prefer, to the vagaries of critical review, in our patented honest, straightforward, incisive and idiosyncratic manner.

Like I always tell my wife, love us or hate us, you sure as hell ain’t gonna find nobody else like us.  Selah.