A Tranquilly Temperate if not downright Tolerant July Roundup

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42 DECIBEL - Overloaded, AFM records, ALESTORM - No Grave But The Sea, Atavism records, Atavisma - On the Ruins of a Fallen Empire, ATMF, Avantgarde Music, Barbaric Horde - Tainted Impurity, Blood Harvest, Blooming Carrions - Sparkling Rotten Dreams, BONEHUNTER - Sexual Panic Human Machine, Boonsdale Records, Broke & American, Casus Belli Musica, Cessation Engine Records, Comatose Music, DEPHOSPHORUS - Impossible Orbits (Astrogrind), DESCEND INTO DESPAIR - SYNAPTIC VEIL, DESESCRESY - The Mortal Horizon, DGM - Passing Stages: Live in Milan and Atlanta, Dying Fetus - Wrong One To Fuck With, EL CAMINO - Cursed Congregation, Evil Nerfal, Ewigkeit - Cosmic Man, Final Coil - Persistence Of Memory, Frontiers music, GRAVESITE - Neverending Trail of Skulls, Harem Scarem- United, hell's headbangers, Inverse, INVOCATION SPELLS - The Flame of Hate, iron bonehead, JORN - Life on Death Road, Loud Rage Music, Lvx Hæresis - Descensus Spiritus, M.O.D. - Busted, Megaforce Records, Michael Monroe - The Best, Morbid Skull Records, Morbid Visions Music, Moribundo - Raíz Amarga, MUTANK - W.H.A.T.S.T.H.A.T, Napalm Records, NEXUL - Paradigm of Chaos, Night Tripper Records, NUCLEUS /MACABRA - Fragmented Self, OPRICH - All Sails To The Wind, Orden Ogan - Gunmen, PERISHED - Kark, PRIMAL FEAR - Angels of Mercy - Live in Germany, Progenie Terrestre Pura - oltreLuna, RADIATION ROMEOS, Ray Suhy - Fulmination, Relapse Records, Requiem For Oblivion - Burning Nation, Rhapsody Of Fire - Legendary Years, Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae, Sapata - Satanibator, Satanath Records, Satanath Records / More Hate Productions, SECRET SPHERE - The Nature of Time, Selfmadegod, Shadow Kingdom, Sierpes - Visiones Caoticas, Spinefarm Records, Stahlmann - Bastard, Steamhammer / SPV, svart records, TEMPLE OF VOID - Lords of Death, THE FERRYMEN, third eye cinema podcast, To The Death / Night Tripper Records, TOTENGOTT - Doppelganger, Urn - The Burning, Vehementer - Replenishment Circle (The Black Spectumfest), VERTHEBRAL - Regeneration, War Arts Productions, Wolvenguard - Elemental Reclamation, WORM HOLE DEATH, Xtreem Music, Xtreem Music / Burning World, ZARAZA - Spasms of Rebirth

You know, it’s been a really unusual month.

Jumpin’ Jehosaphat! Stop Jerking around with those unjustifiably Jejune Review sources…it’s time for another Judiciously perspicacious June Roundup!

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Agonia records, Amentia - Scourge, Amputated Vein Records, Art of Propaganda, ASHCLOUD - Kingdom of the Damned, Avantgarde Music, ÆRA - Of Forsworn Vows, BAD KARMA - Death Has No Calling Card, BARBARIAN, Beastmaker - Inside The Skull, Black Bow Records, Black Lodge Records, Black Plague Records, Blaze of Sorrow – Astri, Caverna Abismal Records, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, COFFEINNE - Circle of Time, Comatose Music, Comity - A Long Eternal Fall, Convulsive Oaths, Cryptic Wanderings - You Shall Be There..., CULT OF ERINYES - Tiberivs, De Tenebrarum Principio, Death Portal Studio, Deity, Delirious, Direwolves - The Great Year, Disharmony - The Abyss Noir, Disorder - Fuego Negro, Divinity - The Immortalist, Eisenwald, Ektro, Eleine, Fellwarden – Oathbearer, Fighter Records, Fila Sophiae, Forever Plagued, Freiheit - Безумие. Ненависть. Смерть, Frontiers music, Funeral Tears - Beyond The Horizon, Future Faces - Revolt, Ghost Toast - Out of This World, GrimmDistribution, HATE - Tremendum, hell's headbangers, Humangod - Real Me, INGLORIOUS - II, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Iron Bonehead / Parasitic / Vault of Dried Bones, Kafirun - Eschaton, Karkaos - Chidlren of The Void, Khatano / Kundorez - Czech Madness, KING SATAN - King Fucking Satan, KOBRA AND THE LOTUS - Prevail I, KVLT, Lava Invocator - Mork, Lød - Folder, Lucifer's Dungeon - The Dark Army Raises, Macabre Demise - Dead Eyes Stench of Death, Morbid Skull Records, More Hate Productions, MRTVI - Negative Atonal Dissonance, NADIMAC - Besnilo, Nagaarum - Homo Maleficus, Napalm Records, Narthraal - Screaming From The Grave, NGC Productions, Nicumo - Storms Arise, NITROGODS - Roadkill BBQ, Nordland - European Paganism, Nordvis Produktion / Bindrune Recordings, Obscure Abhorrence Productions, Opus Diaboli - Black Light Of Destruction, ORDEM SATANICA - Monte da Lua, PAGANIZER - Land of Weeping Souls, Panopticon - Kentucky, PATHOLOGY, Perpetual Rage - Empress Of The Cold Stars, Pimeydentuoja - Hellcrowned, Post Pulse - Halls Of The Damned, PRISON OF MIRRORS - Unstinted, Psychosomatic Cowboys - From Here To Hell, Pure - J'Aurais Du, Qrixkuor - Incantations From the Abyss, RED MOON ARCHITECT - Return Of The Black Butterflies, Rienaus - Saatanalle, Rise Above Records, Roctum - Nothing To Do With Hell, ROYAL HUNT - 2016, Satanath Records, Sator Malus - Dark Matters, Saturnal Records, Seance records, Seer (Canada) - Vol. III & IV: Cult of the Void, Shadow Kingdom, SHADOWFLAG – THE DELUSION MACHINE, Signal Rex, Signal Rex / De Essentia Diaboli, SKELETHAL - Of the Depths..., SNAKECHARMER - Second Skin, Social Arsonist - Duality of Perception, SPEEDCLAW - Iron Speed, Sphera Noctis Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Summon - Aesthetics of Demise, SVARTSYN - In Death, Symbol of Domination, TARLUNG - Beyond The Black Pyramid, Televisio, The Ritual Productions, The Sarcophagus - Beyond This World's Illusion, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records, Throatruiner Records / Gps Prod, Throatruiner Records / Translation Loss Records, Thus Defiled - A Return To The Shadows, Tough Love Records, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), Ungraved Apparition - PULSE_0, URSINNE - Swim With The Leviathan, VANDEN PLAS - The Seraphic Live Works, Vesicant - Shadows of Cleansing Iron, WARRANT - Louder Harder Faster, Weregoat - Pestilential Rites of Infernal Fornication, While They Sleep - Les Fleurs Du Mal, Wild Kingdom, Wode - Servants of the Countercosmos, Xtreem Music

Well, this has been an interesting month.

More! More! More! Another Marvelously Magnanimous May Roundup

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A Ghost Orchestra - Blood, ADRENALINE RUSH - Soul Survivor, AFM records, Akerbeltz - Satanic, AKRAL NECROSIS - Underlight, Ancient Ascendant - Raise The Torch, APOSENTO - Bleed to Death, ARGUS MEGERE - VEII, AXEL RUDI PELL The Ballads V, Black Dreams - "My Hell", BlackSeed Productions, Blood Harvest, BLUTRINA - Looney Fuckin' Grind, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Caverna Abismal Records, CEMETERY URN - Cemetery Urn, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, Coltsblood - Ascending, Concorde Music, Contaminated - Final Man, CRAZY LIXX - Ruff Justice, CRYOSTASIUM - Project:00, Dead By April - Worlds Collide, Desekryptor - Chasm of Rot, DIARCHY - Here Lost We Lie, DRAP - Rotten Till Allt Ont, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Ektro, Emptybrook - EP, Enragement - Burned Barren Bloodstained, FALSE REALITY - End of Eternity, Fighter Records, Final Void - Sounds of Absence, Firestarter Distribution, Frontiers music, Funeral Baptism - Gate, FUNERALIUM - Of Throes and Blight, Galley Beggar - Heathen Hymns, GOLDENPYRE - In Eminent Disgrace, GOTHIC - Demons, Gravetemple - Impassable Fears, Hatework, Haze of Summer - Znoi, He Is Legend - few, HEATHEN BEAST - $cam, Helker - Firesoul, Hell or Highwater - Vista, hell's headbangers, Heptown Records, Horrid - Beyond the Dark Border, HOUR OF 13 - Salt The Dead: The Rare And Unreleased, Hteththemeth - Best Worst Case Scenario, Ides Of Gemini - Women, IMINDAIN - The Enemy of Fetters and the Dweller in the Woods, Inner Wound Recordings, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions / Vrasubatlat, iron bonehead, J.T. Lehtonen - Land of Dust, KATHAROS XIII - Negativity, KOBRA AND THE LOTUS - "You Don't Know", LABYRINTH - Architecture of a God, LIFE OF AGONY - "World Gone Mad", LIFE OF AGONY - A Place Where There's No More Pain, Long Branch Records, Loud Rage Music, MAMMOTH MAMMOTH - Mount the Mountain, Maria ja Marsialaiset - Pysy hereilla, Marthyrium - Beyond the Thresholds, Medusa1975 - Rising From The Ashes, Metropolitan State Productions / Satanath Records, Mikko Joensuu - Amen 3, Napalm Records, Nordvis Produktion, Noumena - Myrrys, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Panphage & Thul - Ginnheilagr, Panphage - Storm, Pyroxene - EP, Rapheumets Well - Enders Door, Rise Above Records, Shadow Kingdom, Shores of Null - Black Drapes For Tomorrow, Signal Rex, Sincarnate - In Nomine Homini, Siriun - In Chaos We Trust, Sludgehammer - The Fallen Sun, SOULSKINNER - Descent to Abaddon, Sound Age Productions, Spinefarm Records, StarGazer - A Merging to the Boundless: Void of Voyce, Steamhammer / SPV, STREAMS - "Streams", SunSpell / Saudade - From the Mist...We are but Dust, svart records, Test Your Metal Records, The Guilt, The Leather Nun - Vive La Fete! Vive La Revolution, THE PIGGYBACK RIDERS - MIDNIGHT AT THE TENTH OF ALWAYS, THE UNITY, third eye cinema podcast, TOD HUETET UEBEL - N.A.D.A., Transcending Obscurity India, TREAT - The Road More or Less Traveled, Tribulance - The Aftermath of Lies, Triumvir Foul - Spiritual Bloodshed, Tusmörke - Hinsides, Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X), UNEVEN STRUCTURE - La Partition, VHALDEMAR - Old King's Visions, Weird Truth Productions (Japan), Wild Kingdom, Wind Rose - Stonehymn, Wolfpakk - Wolves Reign, X.KERNEL – FACE THE TRUTH, Xtreem Music, YSENGRIN / SARTEGOS (FRA/SPA) - Resvrrezionespiritval

You know, sometimes getting burned out on crap leads to better things.

A Markedly Massive and Only Occasionally Meretricious March Roundup

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Abatuar - Perversiones De Muerte Putrefacta, Achiote - Loneliness of Endless Days, Aegri Somnia - Ad Augusta Per Angusta, AFM records, Aima / Supremative - Blood Chalices From the Impure, Aksaya - Kepler, Amor Fati, AnnapurnA, ANVIL STRYKEZ, Apokrifna Realnost - Na Rekah Vavilonskih, Archaic Sound, Ascended Dead - Abhorrent Manifestation, ASIA - Symfonia - Live in Bulgaria 2013, ATMF, AZARATH - In Extremis, BESTIAL WARLUST - Storming Bestial Legions LIVE '96, Bindrune Recordings/Eihwaz Recordings, BLACK MIRRORS - Funky Queen, BLOOD FEAST - The Future State of Wicked, Blood Harvest, Blood Moon - Through the Scarlet Veil, Bloodbound - War Of Dragons, Bonecracker - Пороки, Cadaveris - The Ceremony Of Worshiping, CATALEPTIC - Forward, Celestial Grave - Pvtrefactio, CEMETERY WINDS - Unholy Ascensions, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, Coldfells, Consummation - Ritual Severance, CORPUS DIAVOLIS - Atra Lumen, CRIME - First Crime, CRIPTA OCULTA - Lost Memories, Crystal Viper - Queen Of The Witches, DAEMONIAC - Spawn of the Fallen, Damnation Plan - Reality Illusion, Danko Jones - Wild Cat, Dark Descent, Dark Phantom - Nation Of Dogs, Darknagar Records, Darzamadicus Records, Délétère - Per Aspera Ad Pestilentiam, Deathgasm Records, DEMONIC RESURRECTION - Dashavatar, Demonstealer Records, Disembodied Records, Distressful Project - Fucked-Up Songs, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Стальные нервы - Открой глаза, Eclectic Productions, EDENBRIDGE - The Great Momentum, Ektro, El Puerto Records Gbr, Engulfed - Engulfed In Obscurity, ENTITY OF HATE - Cursed for Eternity, EVER CIRCLING WOLVES (Finland) - Of Woe or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Gloom, Evilforces - Pest Plagues & Storms, EX DEO - The Immortal Wars, FAMISHGOD - Roots of Darkness, FANGE - Pourrissoir, Fighter Records, Frontiers music, Gjendod - Nedstigning, GOAT WORSHIP - Blood and Steel, GrimmDistribution, Grinder Cirujano Records, Gurthang - Shattered Echoes, GUTTED - Martyr Creation, Heavy Tiger - Glitter, Helén, Helion Prime, hell's headbangers, Hellcraft - Apotheosis Of War, Hellthrasher Productions, Heretic Records, HOLYCIDE - Annihilate...Then Ask!, Hopeajarvi - Mahdotonta, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Iron Bonehead / Altare, Iron Magazine - Queen of Hell, Jesters of Destiny - The Sorrows That Refuse To Drown, Kansakunnan ylpeys, Kaos Krew - "Panama", Katakomb - Chained to a Wolf, Khrophus - Presages / Eyes Of Madness, LIONVILLE - A World of Fools, Lubricant - Swallow This, LUCIFERA (Colombia) - Preludio Del Mar, Memento Mori, MENTORS / NEKRO DRUNKZ, Metal Race, Morbid Flesh - Rites of the Mangled, Morbid Skull Records, More Hate Productions, Morte Incandescente / Illum Adora - Remnants of a Flaming Past, Murdher Records, MURO - El Cuarto Jinete, My Own Ghost - Life On Standby, MY SLEEPING KARMA - Mela Ananda - Live, Napalm Records, Narcoleptica Productions, NASTY SURGEONS - Exhumation Requiem, Naudiz - Wulfasa Kunja, Necroblood - Collapse of the Human Race, Nighon - The Somme, Nominon - Chaos In The Flesh... Live!, Nordvis Produktion / Bindrune Recordings, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Obituary, Ominous Eclipse - "The Horde", Onirik / Grimfaug - MMXIV-MMXVI, Osmose Productions, PANIKK - Discarded Existence, Perverted Ceremony - Sabbat of Behezael, PLACE VENDOME - "Welcome to the Edge", PLACE VENDOME - Close to the Sun, Porta Daemonium - Serpent of Chaos, Possession - Exorkizein, Pyogenesis - A Kingdom To Disappear, Pyriphlegethon - The Murky Black of Eternal Night, Record Breaking Records, Relapse Records, Ruin - Drown in Blood, Sainted Sinners, Sammy Berell - Passion Dreams, Sangue, Satanath Records, SCUMRIPPER, Secret Entertainment, sepulchral productions, Serpico - "Ain't Better To Leave", Shadow Kingdom, Signal Rex, SLAGMAUR - Thill Smitts Terror, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Striker, svart records, Symbol of Domination, Tehom (Sweden) - The Merciless Light, Temple of Darkness, Temple Of Nihil - Soul Extremist, The Ritual Productions, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records, TIGER JUNKIES - Green Tea or Die, TOKYO MOTOR FIST, Transcending Obscurity Records, Unholy Prophecies, United By Chaos, UNRULY CHILD - Can't Go Home, Vaiya - Remnant Light, Valfreya - Promised Land, Vangough - Warpaint, Various Artists - Russian Death Metal vol. 4, VENEREAL BAPTISM - Deviant Castigation Liturgy, War Arts Productions, WARBRINGER - "Silhouettes", WARCRAB - Scars of Aeons, Wild Kingdom, Wings Of Destruction, Wolf Force Corporation, Wolfheart - Tyhjyys, Xtreem Music (Spain), YMIR'S BLOOD, ZOMBIE ASSAULT, ZOMBIE MOTORS WRECKING YARD - Supersonic Rock n Roll

Well, I can’t speak for anyone else, but current events have driven me somewhere I haven’t been in years.

A Terrifyingly Turkey-filled Thanksgiving Roundup

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A Sad Sadness Song, Angela Martyr - The November Harvest, ANNISOKAY - Devil May Care, Avantgarde Music, Azooma - The Act of Eye, Blood Harvest, Callidice - Scarlet, Cerebral Fix - Disaster of Reality, Church of Disgust - Veneration of Filth, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, Clavis Secretorvm, CONDENADOS - The Tree of Death, CULTES DES GHOULES - Coven, Dawnbringer - XX, DIABULUS IN MUSICA - Dirge For The Archons, Doomed - Anna, Draugsol - Volaoa Land, DRESCHER - Erntezeit, DRESCHER - Steinfeld, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Earth and Pillars - Pillars I, Eggs of Gomorrh - Rot Prophet, Ektro, Enemy Of Reality - Arakhne, FM - Indiscreet 30, FREEDOM CALL - Master Of Light, Frontiers music, FYB Records, Ghoulgotha / Ruin - Churning in Vertebraes / Becoming Disease, GLENN HUGHES - Resonate, GRAHAM BONNET BAND - The Book, HAMMERFALL - Built To Last, hell's headbangers, HMS Keelhaul - Anchord, Hugh Myrone - Drift Stage Vol. 1, Ignis Gehenna - Baleful Scarlet Star, Insulters - Metal Still Means Danger, Inverse Records, Invictus, KAIRON Irse! - Ruination, LASCAR - Absence, Laster - Ons vrije fatum, Long Branch Records, Luciferian Light Orchestra - Black, Maligner - Demon, Memento Mori (Spain), MORDSKOG - XIII, Motelli Skronkle - Juna, Murg - Gudatall, Napalm Records, Nero One Records, Nordvis Produktion, or Evil Ways Instead of Love, Panzerfaust - The Lucifer Principle, Paria - Knochenkamp, PRETTY MAIDS - Kingmaker, Ranger - Speed & Violence, Revelations of Rain - Akrasia, Rivette - In Vertigo, ROTH BROCK PROJECT, Sadokist - Thy Saviour's Halo Held by Horns, Sakset - Lahja, Seance records, Shadow Kingdom, Shambles (Thailand) - Realm of Darkness Shrine, Signal Rex, SIRENIA - Dim Days of Dolor, Sokea Piste - Valmiiseen maailmaan, Solitude Productions, Solitude Productions (Russia), Sorguinazia, Spectral Apparition - Manifestation, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Suffer Yourself - Ectoplasm, Svart, svart records, third eye cinema podcast, Thron, Transcending Obscurity Classics, Uncoffined (UK) - Ceremonies of Morbidity, Unholy Prophecies / Equinox Discos, Vault of Dried Bones, Vault of Dried Bones / Iron Bonehead, Versifist - Cipher, VIRTA -HURMOS, VOID MEDITATION CULT - Utter the Tongue of the Dead, W.T.C. Productions, Warlord UK - Maximum Carnage, Werewolf Records, WITCHTRAP - Sorceress Bitch, Xtreem Music (Spain)

I don’t think I need to say a word, after what went down last Tuesday.

O, October Roundup, Here Art Thou…

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

I don’t get it.

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.

A Particularly Precipitate May Roundup

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A Sad Sadness Song, AFM records, Agonia records, Altare Productions, Atavism records, ATTALLA, BAT - Wings of Chains, Blood Harvest, Brutus - Wandering Blind, Candelabrum - Necrotelepathy, CARDINALS FOLLY - Holocaust of Ecstasy & Freedom, CAUCHEMAR - Chapelle Ardente, CREMATORY - Monument, DRIVE SHE SAID - Pedal to the Metal, ECLIPSE - Armageddonize Deluxe Edition, Enligthen - Illvmantithesis, Flotsam And Jetsam, FORGED IN BLACK – FEAR REFLECTING FEAR, Frontiers music, GLORIOR BELLI - Sundown (The Flock That Welcomes), Head of the Demon- Sathanas Transmigestos, hell's headbangers, Ill Omen (Australia) / Slaughtbbath - Pestilential Hierophanies, IN MOURNING - Afterglow, Invehertex - Hacia el Vortice, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Iron Mountain - Unum, Iron Savior - Titancraft, Kebu - Perplexagon, Kratos - Arlechino, Legion Blotan, Long Branch Records, LUCIFER'S HAMMER (Chile) - Beyond the Omens, Maleficence - Realms of Mortification, Necromantic Worship - The Calling, New Era Productions, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Orden Ogan - The Book Of Ogan, Osmose Productions, Peekaboo Primate - Misanthropical, POWER FROM HELL - Sadismo, Prag 83 - Metamorphoses, Prophecy productions, Purson - Desire's Magic Theatre, Qrixkuor - Three Devils Dance, Secret Entertainment, SEKTEMTUM - Panacea, Seventh Xul - Qliphothic Rites of Death, Shadow Kingdom, SHIRAZ LANE - For Crying Out Loud, Signal Rex, Signal Rex / Atavism Records, Sleep of Monsters - II: Poison Garden, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Subliminal Fear - Escape From Leviathan, Suidakra - Realms Of Odoric, svart records, The Ajna Offensive, The Ajna Offensive / Invictus Productions, THE DEFIANTS, The Hypothesis - Origin, third eye cinema podcast, TREAT - Ghost of Graceland, Vainaja - Verenvalaja, Vetten Aparat- Syntyi Talven Kyynelista, WEIRD LIGHT - Doomicvs Vobiscvm, WHITE MILES - The Duel, Woddrea Mylenstede - Creda Beaducwealm, Ygfan - Kod

Well, with some unexpected baggage shed of late (the lead quote of the final review on that end should spell it all out for ya), we’ve had a bit more time to dig in on the music and film end of the equation.

As such, despite a fairly full roster of releases on the monthly roundup review cycle, we’ve been able to get this month’s batch of worthies covered and up and running a week earlier than usual.

So let’s turn life’s lemons into lemonade, and all that feel good/keep on truckin’ positivity in the face of bullsh*t business everyone tells you, and jump right into it, shall we?

Prepare yourself for some surprisingly well crafted AOR and melodic metal, power, symphonic, gothic, thrash, Viking, doom, stoner, postpunk, EDM and even a few admittedly questionable black metal efforts (a genre that’s seen better months and in fact better days).

So without any further ado, we present the May Roundup for your perusal and delectation…

An Astronomically Ample April Roundup

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ABHOMINE - Larvae Offal Swine, ABYSSIC - A Winter's Tale, AFM records, Agonia records, Akem Manah - Demons Of The Sabbat, Alexanred - Zombie Virus, Altare Productions, Angertea - Snakes in Blossom, Artery Recordings, Beastmaker - Lusus Naturae, BIRTH OF JOY - Get Well, Black Lodge Records, Blakk Old Blood - Greed, Blakk Old Blood / Black Devotion, Blood Ceremony - Lord of Misrule, Blood Harvest, Cadaveric Fumes - Dimensions Obscure, Candlelight Records, Chains / Suton - Balkanian Narko Doom, Chaos Moon - Amissum, Church of Misery - And Then There Were None, CIRCUS MAXIMUS - Havoc, Clavis Secretorvm, COFFIN LUST - Manifestation of Inner Darkness, Crisix - From Blue to Black, DARKESTRAH - Turan, Darvulia - Mysticisme Macabre, De Tenebrarum Principio, Deathcult (Switzerland) - Demo '12, DELAIN - Lunar Prelude, Devils Gun - Dirty n Damned, Dissociated Records, Dream Death - Dissemination, DUST BOWL JOKIES, Ectovoid - Dark Abstraction, Edged Circle Productions, Eisenwald, Ensiferum - Two Decades of Greatest Sword Hits, Entheos - The Infinite Nothing, Fake Moss - Under The Great Black Sky, FROM THE DEPTHS - From the Depths, Frontiers music, fubear., GALLOWER - The Witch Hunt Is On, Goatess - Purgatory Under New Management, Goetic Equivalent, GREENLEAF - Rise Above The Meadow, Hatespirit - Blood & Poetry, hell's headbangers, Hells Headbangers / Osmose Productions, Hellsingland Underground - Understanding Gravity, Hellthrasher Productions, High Roller/ Skol Records, HITTEN - State Of Shock, Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows, Human Fortress - Thieves Of The Night, ICE WAR - Dream Spirit, Ifrinn, Ihsahn - Arktis, Impurity (Brazil) / Sex Messiah - Vomiting Blasphemies Over The World, Inverse Records, Invictus, Irkallian Oracle - Apollyon, iron bonehead, Ithaqua (Greece) - The Black Mass Sabbath Pulse, Izegrim - The Ferryman's End, JESUS CHRUSLER SUPERCAR - 35 Supersonic, Kawir - Father Sun Mother Moon, Khroma - Stasis, Kuoleman Galleria - Kärsimys Kunniaan, Listenable Records, LITA FORD - Time Capsule, Long Branch Records / SPV, LORDS OF BLACK - II, Lucifericon - Brimstone Altar, Mad Hatters Den - Excelsior, Magick Touch - Electrick Sorcery, Malokarpatan - Stridžie dni, Massacre records, MOB RULES - Tales From Beyond, Morbus 666 - Ignis Divine Imperium, Moribund records, Mystic Prophecy - War Brigade, Napalm Records, Near - Own Sun, Necrosic - Putrid Decimation, No Remorse Records, Nuclear Blast Records, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Obsidian Sea - Dreams Illusions Obsessions, Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure, OCTOBER TIDE - Winged Waltz, Ordem Satanica - Ventos de Odio, Ordo MCM, Paroxsihzem - Abyss of Excruciating Vexes, PHAZM - Scornful of Icons, PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND - False Highs, Poem - Skein Syndrome, Possession Productions, Prisoner of War - Rot, Putrisect / Scorched - Final State of Existence, Reckless Love - inVader, Relapse Records, Reptilian (Norway) - Perennial Void Traverse, Rise Above Records, Rodeostar / SPV, ROYAL HUNT - Cargo, Ruach Raah / Ordem Satanica - Tradicao Decadente, SACRED FEW - Beyond the Iron Walls, Sarvas, Saturnal, Savage Master - With Whips And Chains, Secret Entertainment, Serpentfyre / Dolentia, Shadow Kingdom, Spinefarm Records, Steamhammer / SPV, Steel Jungle - Soidinmenot, Surgical Meth Machine, svart records, Teloch - Thus Darkness Spake, Tendagruta - Ensalmo Do Sargaco, The Fog (Germany) - Perpetual Blackness, THE TREATMENT - Generation Me, THE UNGUIDED - Lust and Loathing, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records, Thunderstone - Apocalypse Again, Tombs - All Empires Fall, TOMBSTALKER - Black Crusades, Tombstoned - II, True Black Dawn - Come The Colorless Dawn, True Lows, Uada - Devoid Of Light, Unhuman Disease - De Templi Autem Veteris Serpentis, VERDUN - The Eternal Drift's Canticles, Vicisolum Productions, W.T.C. Productions, WALLS OF JERICHO - "Relentless", War Arts Productions, Wicked Maraya - Lifetime In Hell, Wild Kingdom, Winterhorde - Maestro, Wyrd - Death Of The Sun

Ever since our March Roundup arrived a week early, the virtual desk has been awash with one hopefully amenable if not awesome release after another (yes, you can tell the introduction’s being written before diving into all of this stuff…).

In point of fact, there are so many new labels and bands, not to mention a few returning champions here and there, that this may actually be the largest review cycle to date.  And being the glutton for punishment that I am, I say, keep ’em coming, folks.

Postscript: a few weeks later and about 80% of the reviews complete, all I can say is there must be something in the air.  Not only have there been a veritable landslide of releases to cover this month, but – and no, we haven’t gone soft all of a sudden – a surprising number of them are actually good.  And I mean across all genres.  

Say what the f***?!?

Must be something going down, and it ain’t with us…

And when we find ourselves giving the nod to bands previously and deservedly slagged mercilessly…all we can do is shake our heads in pleased disbelief.

So if you’re ready for this one…

Time to kick it into full throttle.  Onward!