Crap, it’s another Crummy, Celebrity-free Candlemas…er…Chinese New Year? Roundup

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AFM records, Agonia records, album reviews, Alghazanth - Eight Coffin Nails, ANIMAL DRIVE - Bite!, AOR, Armored Dawn - Barbarians In Black, Ascension - Under Ether, AVSLUT - Deceptis, Aynsophar - Abysmal Secrets of Unknown, Bastardos, Big Balls Productions, Black Lion Records, Black Lodge Records, black metal, Black Plague Records, Blood and Brutality - Decor Macabre, Blood and Brutality Records, Blood Harvest, Bloody Mountain Records, Blut & Eisen Productions, Borealis - The Offering, By’ce Project - Abyss Of the Mind, Cabal - Mark Of Rot, CANDLE - The Keeper's Curse, Candlelight / Spinefarm, CHRIS BAY - Chasing The Sun, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, Coilguns - Millennials, Coldawn - ...In The Dawn, CORELEONI - The Greatest Hits Part 1, Dark Archive - Cultivate Our Blood in Aeon, Darknagar Records, Dawn Of 7th Sky - Cut You Out, Dawn Of 7th Sky - Island in the Sky, Dawn Of 7th Sky - New Horizon, DEAD RIVER RUNS DRY - Hierophants of the Storm, death metal, Death on Arrival - Death is Coming, Death Portal Studio, Defecto - Nemesis, DEMONICAL - Chaos Manifesto, DESOLATION ANGELS - King, Despotz Records, Devourer - "Throne of Agony", Dine Alone Records, Dissonance Productions, doom metal, DUKES OF THE ORIENT, Ektomorf - Fury, Ektro, Ektro / Hydra Head, emo, Enoid - Livssyklus & Dodssyklus, Enoquian - Llamas De Gloria Primera, Escaping Amenti - Awakening, Evil Nerfal - Bellum Est Pater Omnium, Evil Spirit - The Imageless Mirror, Extreme Metal Music, F.K.U. - 1981, Fighter Records, Final Gate Records, Flowing Downward, Foul Body Autopsy - This Machine Kills Zombies, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Garhelenth - About Pessimistic Elements & Rebirth Of Tragedy, GMR Music, Golden Robot Records, gothic metal, GRANDIOSE MALICE - The Eternal Infernal, GrimmDistribution, grindcore, Grindscene Records, Hak-Ed Damm - Holocaust Over Dresden, HAMPERED - Asylum, HARFANG - Slice of Life, Hautajaisyo - Matkalla Kohti Hautaa, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hell's Inc. Records, Helldprod Records, High Priests - Spinning, Hummus Records, ICE AGE - Breaking the Ice, Infernal Legion - Under The Cloven Hoof, Inhibitions - La Danse Macabre, Inverse Records, Invictus / Vrasubatlat, Ira Aeterna, iron bonehead, J.B.O. - Deutsche Vita, Jumalhamara - La Strada, Jumalhamara - The Black Coming, Kaak - Litanies Of Pain, KILLIBRIUM - Purge, KILLING ADDICTION - Omega Factor, Krepuskul - Hybrid, Legend of The Seagullmen, Legion of Death, Little Caesar - "Time Enough For That", Little Caesar - Eight, Long Branch Records, LORD OF PAGATHORN - Daimono Philia, Lumnos - Ancient Shadows Of Saturn, MALPERMESITA, Manipulation - The Future Of Immortality, metal reviews, metalcore, MIND ENEMIES - REVENGE, MISSILES OF OCTOBER - BETTER DAYS, MITHRIDATIC - He Who Lies Underneath, Mondo Macabre, Morbid Skull Records, Morbosidad - Corona de Epidemia, Moribund records, MORNING STAR HEATHENS MUSIC GROUP, MOURNFUL CONGREGATION - The Incubus of Karma, Murdher Records, music reviews, Myrkraverk - Naer Doden, Nadir - The Sixth Extinction, NALE - DEATH. SKULLS. SATAN, Neter - Inferus, Neverheard Distro, NGC Productions, Nordvis Produktion, North Hammer - Stormcaller, Northwind Wolves - Dark... Cold... Grim..., Nuclear War Now! Productions, NYDVIND - Seas of Oblivion, Obscure - Zero Dawn, Ode In Black - Seeds of Chaos, Osmose Productions, P-Dog Records, Painted Black - Raging Light, PAVILLON ROUGE - Dynasteia Klub, Peosphoros - Pink Metal, PERFECT LINE - Seeds, Plastic - Here There Is No Gravity, power metal, PRELUDIO ANCESTRAL - Oblivion, progressive metal, Provocator - Satan Chaos Blood and Terror, punk, Raw 'N' Roll Rex, REVERTIGO, Rites of Thy Degringolade - The Blade Philosophical, Rites to Sedition - Ancestral Blood, Roxx Records, Sambata Mortilor II, Sammal - Suuliekki, Satanath Records, Sepulchral Silence, SGW Productions, Shadow Kingdom, SHIRAZ LANE - Carnival Days, SHIRAZ LANE - Harder to Breathe, SHIRAZ LANE - People Like Us, Silent Kingdom - Where Secrets Meet, SKARLETT RIOT - Regenerate, Soul Dissolution - Stardust, Spawned From Hatred - Promo 2018, Spice Breather - Crawling Planetary Being, Spider Rockets - Along Came A Spider, Spinefarm Records, STARK DENIAL - Covenant of Black, Static Tension Recordings, Steamhammer / SPV, STOMB - Duality, Strangle Wire - The Dark Triad, SUSPERIA - The Lyricist, svart records, Sweet Low Records, Symbol of Domination, symphonic metal, Systemik Violence - Anarquia-Violencia, Taiga - Cosmos, Taphos - EP MMXVII, The Black Swamp - Witches, THE DAWN RAZOR - Renaissances, The Eastern Front, The Lead - Again, third eye cinema podcast, THY FEEBLE SAVIOUR - And Darkness Fell, Tommy Stewart's Dyerwulf - "Shadow In The Well", Transcending Obscurity India, Triple Eye Industries, TROLL, Ulvesang - The Hunt, UNRULY CHILD - Unhinged Live from Milan, USURPRESS - Interregnum, Veiled - Black Celestial Orbs, VersOver - Hell's Inc., VOIDHANGER - Dark Days Of The Soul, W.T.C. Productions, war metal, WILD MIGHTY FREAKS - Guns'N Cookies, WOOAAARGH, woodcut records, WormHole Death, Wyrmwoods - Earth Made Flesh, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, [B.ABUSE] - Memories Of Better Days Are Gone

If this last few weeks has taught me anything, it’s simply to reaffirm a long held apprehension that the sentiments of Sartre were dead on: “hell is other people.”

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Ah! At Last, Another Aggregation of Artisanal and Antiphonal Arrangements, also known as the April Roundup

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A Lie Nation - Begin Hate, A Mournful Path - From The Wreckage Of Humiliation, Accept (Platinum Edition), Accept - Breaker (Platinum Edition), Accept - I'm a Rebel (Platinum Edition), Accept - Restless and Wild (Platinum Edition), AFM records, Agonia records, Ajattara - Lupaus, Alchimia - Musa, Alunah - Solennial, AncarA - Garden of Chains, ASHEN HORDE - The Alchemist, ASSAULT (Singapore) - The Fallen Reich, Avantgarde Music, Aversio Humanitatis - Longing for the Untold, AVULSED - Night of the Living Deathgenerations, Barathrum - Fanatiko, Basement Torture Killings – There’s Something About Beryl, Black Bow Records, Black Magic Six - Choose Death, BlackSeed Productions, Blood Harvest, Booze & Glory - Chapter IV, Brother Firetribe - Sunbound, Burning Heart Records, CHAOS - All Against All, Concorde Music Company, Crucify the Faith - New Breed, Crunch Industry, Cult of Eibon - Lycan Twilight Sorcery, DANTE'S THEORY - Amut, Dark Descent, Doomentia, DRUG HONKEY, ECLIPSE - Monumentum, Enisum - Seasons of Desolation, Ensnared - Dysangelium, Entrapment - Through Realms Unseen, ERUPTION - Cloaks of Oblivion (, EXCALIBUR (Spain) - Humo Negro, Fighter Records, Frontiers music, Ghost World, Goresoerd - Antikeha, Grindscene Records, Hello Black Hole - In No Good Hand, Heptown Records, High Roller Records, Highland - Loyal to the Nightsky, Hisko Detria - Mal Du Siecle, Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, Horte, HOUSE OF LORDS - Saint of the Lost Souls, Infernal Majesty - No God, Inner Wound Recordings, Inter Arma Productions, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, John Richardson - The Fold, Jordablod - Upon My Cremation Pyre, KAIHON - Terraform, Khashm - Asmodeus Rising, Larval Productions, Long Branch Records, LONGHOUSE II: Vanishing, LUCIDREAMS - Ballox, Lunatic Hooker – Embracing The Filth, MARTYRDOOM (Poland) - Grievous Psychosis, MAXDMYZ – ALCHEMICAL METAL, Memento Mori, MindMaze - Resolve, Morbid Shine Productions, Mountains Crave - As We Were When We Were Not, My Silent Wake - Invitation To Imperfection, Nadir Music, Nargaroth - Era of Threnody, NIGHT RANGER - Don’t Let Up, NoiseArt Records, NORSE - The Divine Light of a New Sun, ONE DESIRE, Opa Loka, OPPOSER - Darkest Path, Pekko Kappi & K:H:H:L - Matilda, PLAGUE THROAT - The Human Paradox, Pyramaze - Contingent, RENEGADE RECORDS, Return To Void, Rise Above Records, Royal Thunder - WICK, Sabbath Assembly - Rites of Passage, Satanize - Death Mass Execution, Saturn - Beyond Spectra, Saturnal, Saule, Sektarism - La Mort de l’Infidele, SHIBALBA - Psychostasis - Death Of Khat, Sigil - Kingdom of The Grave, Sinner -Tequila Suicide, Slagduster - Deadweight, SOMNIUM NOX - Terra Inanis, Soulrot (Chile) - Nameless Hideous Manifestations, Spectrum Mortis - Bestiae Dominatu Exanimis, Spinefarm Records, Static Tension Recordings, Suffering Hour - In Passing Ascension, svart records, THE MOTH GATHERER - The Comfortable Low, THE ROYAL - Seven, THE WIZARDS - Full Moon in Scorpio, third eye cinema podcast, TIME WALK - Beyond Eternity's Grasp, Topplock - Overlord, Transcending Obscurity Asia, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records, Trollfest - Helluva, Troubled Horse - Revolution on Repeat, Vandroya - Beyond The Human Mind, Waterlow Audio Records, Without Mercy - Mouichido, Xtreem Music, Zanjeer Zani Productions

You know, over the past month or two, I’ve been reassessing a lot of stuff.