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.

A Cornucopian Conclave of Concuspiscent Delights (Week 1)

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AFM records, Agonia records, Agonize the Serpent - "Legacy", Aureole - Alunar, BEASTMAKER - Eye of the Storm, Bhleg - Aril, Drown - Unsleep, Dying Victims Productions, Edged Circle, Effigy - MCMXCII - Darkest Day, Ektro / Ruton Music, Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes – Divination, EXCUSE - Prophets From the Occultic Cosmos, Fog Light - New Element, Galaxy - Lost From the Start, Goatess - Blood and Wine, Inverse Records, Kansakunnan ylpeys, Kingart, Lupus Lounge, Nordvis Produktion, Northern Genocide - Genesis Vol. 666, Ruotomieli - Born In The O.Y.S., Secret Entertainment, Shadow Kingdom, svart records, Tchornobog, Televisio - TV2, third eye cinema podcast, Unknown Decoy - Seeking The Sun, VISCERAL DISGORGE - Slithering Evisceration, VNTER - "Black Roses", VNTER - "Daylight", VNTER -  ''The Way You Make Me Feel'', Zephyra - Fall.Rise.Conquer

And another batch of goodies for you all!

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.

Rally Round the Maypole, Make Merry, Make Mad!

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:AJNA:, Absinthropy and Salix Babylonica - split, Accursed Spawn - The Virulent Host, AFM records, Agonia records, Ahl Sina - Troops of Pain, Alternative Control, AnnapurnA, Anomalism - Parasitic Spawn, Apneic Void Sounds, Appalling - Inverted Realm, Armagedda - Echoes In Eternity (reissue), Armagedda - Ond Spiritism, Ashen Horde - Fallen Cathedrals, ASYLUM PYRE - N°4, Atomic Kavemen, Avantgarde Music, Azaghal - Of Beasts And Vultures, Backstabber - Conspiracy Theorist, Basilysk - Emergence, Becoming the Lion - Ghosts of A Fallen Soldier, BEWITCHER - Under the Witching Cross, Black Bow Records, Black Lodge Records, Blackguard - "By My Hand", Blood Harvest, Blood Harvest / Caligari, Bloodsoaked Necrovoid - The Apocryphal Paths Of The Ancient, BROCARDE - "Last Supper", BURIAL - Relinquished Souls, BURNING RAIN - Face The Music, Caligari Records, Calyx - Vientos Arcaicos, Clobber Records, Confused Records, Critical Extravasation - Morbid Existence, Crowhurst - III, Crypteria, Cursed Monk Records, De Lirium's Order - Singularity, Dead Girls Corp - Bloody Noses and Hand Grenades, DEIPHAGO - I, Dekathlon - "Two Worlds", DEVOID OF THOUGHT - Cosmic Apoptosis, Drontheim - Down Below, Dying Victims Productions, Ektro, Electrocution - Psychonolatry, EMBALMER - Embalmed Alive, Entombed - Clandestine - Live, Erancnoir, Extrem Metal Music / Rockshots Records, EXTREMA - "For The Loved And The Lost", Eye of the Destroyer - Baptized in Pain, FINAL COIL - THE WORLD WE LEFT BEHIND FOR OTHERS, Folian - Ache Pillars, FORGJORD - Ilmestykset, Frontiers Music s.r.l., FUNERAL STORM - Arcane Mysteries, Gentle Art of Music, GoreGorecords, Grass - Fresh Grass, Grey Beton Records, Grimm Distribution, H.C. Slim - Sings, Handful of Hate, Harvest Of Death, HAUNT - If Icarus Could Fly, HAUNT - Mosaic Vision, Heavy Feather - Debris & Rubble, Helevorn - Aamamata, hell's headbangers, Helldprod, Hellish Grave - Hell No Longer Waits, Hellripper - Black Arts & Alchemy EP, High Potency, HiVolMusic, Hosemen - Saturday Nite Conformity, Huelga, Huszar - Providencia, Hypnotic Dirge, Infernal Conjuration - Infernale Metallum Mortis, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, JARS - II Schattenfall - Melancholie des Seins, K-X-P - IV, Kingart Productions, L.A. GUNS - The Devil You Know, Laster - Het Wassen Oog, Leathürbitch - Into The Night, Lightning Records, Lightsabres - A Shortcut to Insanity, Lykantropi - Spirituosa, Medusa Crush Recordings, Misshapen - Transcendence, Moribund records, Morrowless Music, Mosterman Records / EMP Label Group, Mutilate - Contagium, NALE "Ghost Road Blues" (rerelease), NIGHNACHT - Christophila, Nordvis Produktion, Norilsk - Weepers of The Land, OCTOBER TIDE - In Splendor Below, Oculum Dei - Dreams of Desire and Torment, Ogmios Underground, Order 1968 - Tears in the Snow, OREIDA, ORIGIN - Abiogenesis - A Coming Into Existence, Osmose Productions, Ossuaire - Premiers Chants, Our Dying World - Expedition, Overt Enemy - Inception, P.U.T. - WE ARE (BR)OTHERS, Pa Vesh En - Cryptic Rites of Necromancy, Pestilent Death - Chapters of Depravity, PRC Music, Pretty Wild - Interstate 13, Prophecy, PROPHETS OF ADDICTION - Nothing but the Truth, Purity Through Fire, PYTHON - Astrological Warfare, Raw Skull Recordz, Reaper Metal Productions, Red Moon Architect - Kuura, Redefining Darkness Records, Robustfellow Prods, Rockshots Records, Rockshots Records / Extreme Metal Music, Rockshots Records/ Universal, S.R.L. - Hic Sunt Leones, Sacrilegia - The Triclavian Advent, Saeva - “Sanguine Rite”, SCHWARZDORN PRODUCTION, Secret Entertainment, sepulchral productions, Shadow Kingdom, She Made Me Do It - Drenched, Siberian - Live At Studio Underjord, Sinnrs - Profound, SINS OF THE DAMNED - Striking the Bell of Death, Sludgehammer - Antechamber, Snake Tongue - No Escape No Excuse, Solitude / BadMoodMan, Soulseller Records, Steam - Osiris, Straytones - Beware Dark Lord! Here comes Bell-Man, Suffering Hour - Dwell, svart records, Tasteful Turmoil - The Phantom Fear, TEMPLE KOLUDRA  - Seven! Sirens! To A Lost Archetype, The Devil, THE END MACHINE, The Flaying - Angry Undead, The Riven, The Sign Records, The Slurs - Shatter Sessions, THE TREATMENT - Power Crazy, The Vinyl Division, third eye cinema podcast, Threeman Productions, TNT - Encore Live in Milano, Topillo Records / Vertebrae, TOTENGOTT - The Abyss, Transcending Obscurity Records, Ungraven - Language of Longing, Usurper - Lords of the Permafrost, Vananidr, VARGRAV - Reign in Supreme Darkness, Various Artists - Volume Doom, Verwustung - Gospel ov Fury, Vigilance  - Enter the Endless Abyss, Violet Cold - kOsmik, Vitriolic Transcendence, VOEMMR - O ovnh intot adr mordrb, VORTEX OF END - Ardens Fvror, Wardehns - Now Cometh the Foul, Werewolf, WORMHOLEDEATH, Wraith Productions, Wyrd - Vargtimmen Pt. 1, Xtreem Music, Year Of The Locust, Zephyra - "Fange I Frihet", Zero Fire - Second Sun

Ah, at last the icy hand of Winter begins to loose its grim grip!  Spring has sprung and you almost feel like departing the cavern, squinting at an unfamiliar light…

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…

A Maddeningly Maestoso Masterstroke of a March Roundup

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A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH - When The World Becomes Undone, AFM records, Bergraven - Det framlidna minnet, BEWITCHER -Too Fast for the Flames, Big Scary Monsters / Polyvinyl Records, Black Lodge Records, By The Time It Gets Dark, CORRODED - Bitter, CREA - DWARVES & PENGUINS, Despotz Records, Devils Gun - Sing For The Chaos, FANGE - PUNIR, Fedrespor - Fra en Vugge i Fjellet, Fighter Records, FORGED IN BLACK - Descent of the Serpent, Fredrik Klingwall & Julia Black - Sentience, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Ghost Iris - Apple Of Discord, Herman Frank - Fight The Fear, High Roller Records, INGLORIOUS - Ride To Nowhere, Iron Age Mystics - Pride Before the Fall 4 Peace Digital Release Part 1, Iron Savior - Kill Or Get Killed, JETBOY - Born To Fly, JOHN DIVA & THE ROCKETS OF LOVE - Mama Said Rock Is Dead, KANE ROBERTS - The New Normal, KEITH REID PROJECT - In My Head, La Harelle, Long Branch Records, Lonndom - Hagkomster Fran Nordliga Nejder & Norrskensritual, Lumnos - The Heliosphere Singularity, Malakhim - II, Matt Pless - Tumbleweed, Mother of Millions - Artifacts, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - In The House of Strange Affairs, NoiseArt, Nordvis Produktion, OPPROBRIUM -The Fallen Entities, Ornatorpet - Hymner fran snokulla, PAVLOV'S DOG - Prodigal Dreamer, Pedro The Lion - Phoenix, Puppy - The Goat, QUIET RIOT - One Night In Milan, RAVEN - Screaming Murder Death From Above: Live In Aalborg, Rhapsody Of Fire - The Eighth Mountain, ROSY VISTA - Unbelievable, Rotting Christ - The Heretics, ROULETTE - NOW!, Saiva - Finnmarkens folk (Re-issue 2019), Season of Mist, Shadow Kingdom, Sleazebox Records, SORDIDE - HIER DEJA MORT, Spielbergs - This Is Not The End, Spinefarm Records, Stahlmann - Kinder Der Sehnsucht, STARBREAKER - Dysphoria, Steamhammer / SPV, third eye cinema podcast, THREEMAN RECORDING, Throatruiner Records, TOBY HITCHCOCK - Reckoning, Trollfest - Norwegian Fairytales, Vicisolum Productions, WACHENFELDT - THE INTERPRETER, WALDGEFLUSTER - Mondscheinsonaten, Within Temptation - Resist, WV Sorcerer Productions

Another month almost to the day, and we’re still digging our way out from under a truckload or two of reviewables.

On Yoolis Night…Yuletide Solstice greetings

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(The True) Veiled - In Blinding Presence, 20th Century Music, 22 - You Are Creating, ABSTRACT RAPTURE - Hollow Motion, Abstract Void - Back To Reality, Adaestuo - Krew Za Krew, Aempyrean - Fireborn, AFM records, album reviews, Alexandra Zerner - Opus 1880, Amaranthe - HELIX, ANGEL OF DAMNATION - Heathen Witchcraft, AOP Records, Architects Of Melody, Ashes Of Ares - Well Of Souls, ASHES REBORN - Contamination, Avantgarde Music, Bane Esoteric Formulae, Bedlem - Back to Bedlem, Beneath the Hollow - Nihilist, BillyBio - Feed The Fire, Black Lion Records, Black Market Metal Label, Blood Harvest, Brothers Of Metal - Prophecy Of Ragnarok, BVR Records, By The Time It Gets Dark, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Carnal Forge - Gun to Mouth Salvation, Century Media, Circuitry - Untouched By Human Hands, City Of Tyrants - Revelations, Cloudburst, Cold Night For Alligators - Fervor, Comatose Vigil A.K. - Evangelium Nihil, Cyclopean Eye Productions, De-Arrow, Deadlight Entertainment, DECEASED - Ghostly White, Demetrio “Dimitry” Scopelliti - The Silent Watcher, Dethgod - Disease Called Humans, Devathorn / Inferno - Zos Vel Thagirion, Dusk - Epoka, Dust Prophet  - "The Big Lie", Echozone, Echozone / Les disques Rubicon, Ecthirion - Psalms of the Risen Dead, Eihwaz Recordings, Ektro, El Puerto Records Gbr, Ellende - Ruckzug in die Innerlichkeit, FACELESS BURIAL - Multiversal Abattoir, Failure Records and Tapes, Fastball Music / Escudero Records, Fatum Aeternum - Mass Suicide of Human Race, FIEND - SEERESS, Firecum Records, Flight - A Leap Through Matter, FlowerLeaf - Stronger, Flowing Downward, Forbidden Rites - Pantheon Arcanum, Forest of Shadows - Among the Dormant Watchers, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Ginger Red - Donuts And Coffee, Goat Explosion - Rumors of Man, Golden Robot Records, Gravkväde - Grav|aska, GrimmDistribution, hell's headbangers, Helter Skelter, Heretic Legion - The Purge, High Roller Records, HOLTER - Vlad the Impaler, Ichor - Hadal Ascending, Infernal Cult - All The Lights Faded, INHUME - Exhume: 25 Years of Decomposition, Inoculated Life - Exist to Decay, Into Endless Chaos, Inverse Records, Jonestown - Dyatlov, Katie Knipp - Take It With You, Long Branch Records, Lucifer's Fall - Tales From The Crypt, Lupus Lounge / Prophecy Productions, Lutharo - Unleash the Beast, Madog - Raven, Marsh Dweller - Wanderer, metal reviews, MORBOSIDAD / KILL - Santuario del Diablo, Music review, Musta Risti, Mystery School Records, Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Nachtmystium - Resilient, Neonderthal Death - Neonderthal (Nightmare Begins), Noizr Productions, Non Serviam Records, NORDIC UNION - Second Coming, Nuclear War Now! Productions, OMEGAVORTEX - Promo 2018, One Last Legacy - II, ONSET - Unstructured Dissemination, Open Surgery - After Birth Abortion, ORION DUST - Legacy, Osmose Productions, Part I (10th Anniversary Edition), Piledriver - Rockwall, Pogo Records, PORN - The Ogre Inside (Remixed), Pterodactyl Problems - Esoteric Hobbies, Pure Steel Records, RED DRAGON CARTEL - Patina, Redefining Darkness Records, RIFFLORD 7 Cremation Ground / Meditation, Rock Of Angels Records, ROCKWALL Records, Royal Arch Production, Runescarred - "Being God", Samstrong Records, Season Of Tears - Dark Card, Sectorial - VYR, Seeing Red Records / Metal Swarm, Selvans - Faunalia, Shadow Kingdom, SHELTON/CHASTAIN - The Edge Of Sanity 88 Demo Session, Shining - Animal, Shock Records / Vanity Music Group, SHVPES - Greater Than, Sigh - Heir to Despair, Silver Dust - House 21, Siniestro - Arctic Blood, SKELETHAL / CADAVERIC FUMES - Heirs of Hideous Secrecies, Skulk the Hulking - Afterbirth Of A Nation, Slovenians - Al dente, Soundmass, Space Coke - L'appel Du Vide, Spielbergs - "4AM", Spinefarm Records, Splendidula – Post Mortem, STB Records, Steamhammer / SPV, STEPHEN PEARCY - View to a Thrill, Steve Kilbey - Sydney Rococo, Stew - HOT, SUIDAKRA - Cimbric Yarns, Sun & Moon, svart records, Svoid - Spiral Dance, TEN - Illuminati, The Browning - Geist, The Cascades - Phoenix, The Mound Builders, The Psycho Season - Grunge River, The Wizards - Rise Of The Serpent, third eye cinema podcast, Tombtoker - Coffin Texts, Twilight - Monument to Time End (Re-issue), Twilight - S/T (Re-issue), Twilight Fauna - Where Birds Sing My Name, Unearth - Extinction(s), Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork / WOOAAARGH, Valkyrja - Throne Ablaze, Velvet Dream - Darkened Mysteria, Vicisolum Productions, VIRGIN STEELE - Seven Devils Moonshine, VIZA - The Unorthodox Revival: Volume I & II, W.T.C. Productions, WE ARE THE CATALYST - "The Code", Weird Truth Productions, WICKED GARDEN - "Already Gone", WITCHING HOUR - ...And Silent Grief Shadows the Passing Moon, Witherfall - A Prelude to Sorrow, WULKANAZ, XENOKORP, Ysengrin / Stargazer - D.A.V.V.N.

So, yeah, it’s been another month, and my foray into the (for yours truly) previously neglected corners of European power metal continues, with the new heavyweights of airplay shifting from long beloved acts like Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica, Alestorm and early Hammerfall to settle in on the unholy triumvirate of Edguy, Elvenking…and Powerwolf.*

* well, since this intro was written, the powerfully vocalled Brainstorm, who also did all their good work after moving to AFM, by the way (hell, I’d venture that not only is Midnight Ghost worthy of being noted as album of the year, but as a career pinnacle) has moved up to make this very much of a foursome…but even so.

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.

The Awe Inspiringly Honest As Always Hell of a Halloween Roundup

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A CANOROUS QUINTET - THE ONLY PURE HATE -MMXVIII, Abyssous - Mesa, Adult Fantasy / K Records, Aesthetics of a loss - l'Egoisme, AFM records, Agonia records, Ambassador - Belly of the Whale, Anomalie - Integra, Antiverse - Under the Regolith, AOP Records, ARCHGOAT - The Luciferian Crown, ARSIS - Visitant, ASYLUM - 3-3-88, ATLAS - Primitive, Avantgarde Music, AVR Records, Bald Anders - Spiel, Barren Canyon - World Of Wounds, Barus - Drowned, Begravningsentreprenorerna - Jamna Plagor, Black Doomba Records, Black Lion Records, Black Lotus - Sons of Saturn, Black Mold - Atavism, Black Paisley - Perennials, Blasphemy - Blood Upon the Altar, Blasphemy - Blood Upon the Soundspace, Blood Harvest, BLUTRINA - DISCOBALLZ, Buried By Sky Records, C Average - III, Carpe Noctem - Vitrun, Cemetery Lights - Lemuralia, CHUGGABOOM - TRINITY, code666, Comatose Music, Cortez - No More Conqueror, Crosby Morgan - Rain Games for the Natural Born Pariah, Crown and Throne Ltd., CULTES DES GHOULES - Sinister, Daagh, Dark Buddha Rising - The Black Trilogy, Dark Martha Records, Dayglo Mourning/Bludy Gyres - Rope Enough For Two, De Tenebrarum Principio, Dead Register - Captive, Deadlight Entertainment / Terrain Vague, Death On Fire/Corpse Paint and Dayglo - Hope, Death Worship - Extermination Mass - Demo, Debemur Morti Productions, Decca Records / Universal Music Publishing France, Deep Memories - Rebuilding the Future, DEFECAL OF GERBE - Discolocauste: 2005-2018 - The Full Sh*t So Far, Deschain - Grit Pt. 2: Drift, Despotz Records, Domnitor - Duhul Belicos, Doom Stew Records, DREAM CHILD - Until Death Do We Meet Again, Druglord - New Day Dying, DungeonHammer - Infernal Moon, Dynazty - Firesign, Eadem - Luguber, EAL Productions, Ektro, El Puerto Records Gbr, ELEGIAC - Pagan Storm, Erasy - Under The Moonlight, Eternal Sound Records, Exxxekutioner - Death Sentence, Flowing Downward, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Gama Bomb - Speed Between The Lines, Ghost World - Spin, GMR Music, Gnaw Their Tongues & Crowhurst - Burning Ad Infinitum: A Collaboration, Gods of the Fallen - Fallen, Graveborne - 1918, GROUNDBREAKER, Guerrilla Ghost - Perpetually Sad Motion Machine, Heavy Metal Rock / Misanthropic Record /  Invasion of Solitude Records / GS Productions, hell's headbangers, Helldprod Records, Hermoor - Rovdjur & Northern Might, High Roller Records, Hostblod - Morkrets Intag, Howling Invocations, Hummus Records, I am the Law - Hymn of the Vulture, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, Junecrow Media, Khandra - There is No Division Outside Existence, Kraanium - Slamchosis, Krucyator Productions, KYPRIAN'S CIRCLE - Noitatulen vartija, LIFELOST - Dialogues From Beyond, Long Branch Records, Loud Rage Music, LUCIFER'S CHILD - The Order, Malphas - The 39th Spirit, Martyr Art - FearFaith Machines, MASTER - Vindictive Miscreant, Me Saco Un Ojo, Meadows End - Sojourn, Medusa Crush Recordings, Memento Mori, metal reviews, metropolis records, Morbid Messiah - Demoniac Paroxysm, Morbid Skull Records, Mourning by Morning, music reviews, Necroholocaust - Laudem Antichristus, Necronomicon - Unleashed Bastards, New Light Choir - Torchlight, Noekk - Carol Stones and Elder Rock, Nonpoint - X, Nuclear War Now! 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Well, some of the more astute Third Eye regulars may have predicted it…but it’s always a surprise when you’re the protagonist of the story, living out the script day after day, until the next eye opening revelation hits.