The Freezing Moon, Here to Obsess You

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Fen - "The Dead Light", Harmaa Getto - Ovenvartija, Inverse Records, Isenordal - "Shores Of Mourning", King Satan - I want You To Worship Satan, PH - Osiris Hayden, Sun Of The Sleepless / Cavernous Gate, svart records, Svart Records / Profound Lore, The Deathtrip - Demon Solar Totem, third eye cinema podcast, Vinsta - Drei Deita

And here’s another round of Roundup Reviews for ya.  Those interested in Prophecy’s material we haven’t gotten around to covering yet…that’s next on tap.

Meantime, here’s some more up to date material, and some more from our man “Frater Zetekh” and his dark dance/industrial project King Satan, whose latest video we covered earlier…

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!

A Criminally Captivating Catch-All of a Midsummer Roundup (Week 1)

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Atomic Kavemen - Everyone Loves A Dead Man, CAZADOR - Failure to Thrive, Children of the Sun - Flowers, CRUEL - MECANICA ORGANICA, DECENT NEWS - "BLACK BOX / KROKODIL", Dialith - Extinction Six, Evil Ink, FACE WITHOUT FEAR - Deliverance, Helldprod, Infrared - Back To The Warehouse, MACHINE MAN RECORDS, Pacifist - Greyscale Dreams, Pathetic - Rat King, Prophecy, Ragdoll Sunday - Puritan, Seraph In Travail - Lest They Feed Upon Your Soul, Signal Rex, Silence In The Snow - Levitation Chamber, SULGOGAR - CANNIBAL-TOON, svart records, Thank You Scientist - Terraformer, The Electric Mud - Burn the Ships, The Sign Records, Thief - Map Of Lost Keys, third eye cinema podcast, TLG / INgrooves, Vokonis - Grasping Time, Wizard Rifle

Another busy week in the neighborhood, we’ve prepped up for yet another Weird Scenes episode to be recorded this weekend and spent a few days on reviews here besides…and that’s on top of everything else life brings and demands along the way.

So here’s another one where we’re cutting it off at about 2/3 of the original intended coverage, to get another batch of reviews out for everyone’s delectation.

Not as many strong offerings in this group, but you’ll find the gems scattered willy nilly among the weeds, as it were.

Happy Friday, everyone!

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.

May I talk you into June? Another munificent mid month Roundup

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Acheronte - Son Of No God, AFM records, Ancient Altar - Cosmic Purge/Foie Gras, Annihilation, Avandra - Descender, Avgrund - "...And Triumph For the Short-Lived", Black Anvil - Miles, Black Bow Records, Black Doomba Records, Black Lion Records, Black Sites - Exile, Black Therapy - Echoes Of Dying Memories, Black Voodoo Records. Blind Scryer, Bleeding Music Records, Bleeding Utopia - Where the Light Comes to Die, Blind Monarch - What Is Imposed Must Be Endured, Blood Music, Bloodphemy - In Cold Blood, Burial Party - Please, Calamity - Kairos, Chemical City Rebels - A New Plague, Cold Black River - Tales of Death and the Devil, Concorde Music Company, Concrete Funeral - Ultimum Judicium, Countless Goodbyes - Cycles, Crownaside - From Mud To Ashes, Cultic - High Command, De Lirium's Order - Singularity, Death Hawks - Psychic Harmony, Disparager - Existential Dread, Doombanomicon, Duirvir - Endless Graves, DunkelNacht - Empires of Mediocracy, Eggs of Gomorrh - Outpregnate, Electric Move Slow, Eleventh Key, Embrional - EVIL DEAD, Eternal Candle - The Carved Karma, Extreme Metal Music / Rockshots Records, False Gods - The Serpent and the Ladder, Forever Autumn - Howls In the Forest at Dusk, From Sorrow To Serenity - Reclaim, Gates To The Morning - Return To Earth, Gentle Art of Music, Gloson - Mara, Godhead Machinery - Aligned to the Grid, Heathen Beast - Fuck All Religions Equally / Bloody Sabarimala, hell bent - Apocalyptic Lamentations, Heresiarch - Incursion, High Roller Records, Hootenanny Freaks - Freakshow, Hoove Child, Horror Pain Gore Death/Armageddon Label/Atomic Action!/Metal Swarm, I Am The Law - Dance of the Southern Witch, Ian Blurton - Signals Through The Flame, Inverse Records, Kaleidobolt - Bitter, Krucyator Productions, Kull - Exile, Leviaphonic Records & Growls From The Underground, Long Branch Records, Meadows End - The Grand Antiquation, Mist of Misery - Unalterable, Morbid Skull Records / Hell Productions, Murdryck - Fodelsen, Negative Wall - Gammagelu, Nihility - Thus Spoke The Antichrist, Non Serviam Records, Onslaught - A Perfect Day To Die (New Song), Otzi - Part Time Punks Sessions, Out-O-Tune Records, Pajama Party, Plained - Epidemic of Mass Hysteria, Plastic - Drink Sensibly, PRC Music, Prison - Come, Progeny of Sun, Protector - Summon The Hordes, PROTOSEQUENCE - “A Blunt Description of Something Obscene”, Psychic Eye / Near Dark, Psychic Eye Records, Rock Of Angels Records, RPWL - Tales From Outer Space, Satanath Records / Weird Truth Productions, Scabby Ghouls, Secret Entertainment, Slomatics - Canyons, Sludgelord Records, Sludgelord Records/APF Records /Astral Noize Records, Slush - Lizard Skin, Snogg - Chhinnamasta, Spiritual Beast, Split/Cross - Rise of Discontent, STB Records, Steel Prophet - The God Machine, Stellar Master Elite - "Hologram Temple", svart records, Tasteful Turmoil - The Phantom Fear, TEL - Lowlife, Telumehtar - The Well, Tempestarii - Temple of Skies, Terrific Verdict - Wheel Of Fortune, The Black Sorcery - Wolven Degrade, The Flaying - Angry, The Glorious Rebellion - Scholars of War, The Necrosexual - Gory Hole, The Phantom Of Phobos - From a Dead Channel / The Uninvited (2CD reissue), The Wolf Howls When I Scream Your Name - To Be Where There Is Pale Light, third eye cinema podcast, Three Dead Fingers - Breed Of The Devil, Tides of Sulfur - Paralysis of Reason, Tryglav - Night of Whispering Souls, Undead, Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork, Various Artists - Sacred Spells, War Curse - Eradication, Witchfinder - Hazy Rites, Witchgoat - Egregors of the Black Faith

Well, believe it or not, we’re still playing catchup with a number of labels and releases, all these months on…there’s just too much stuff coming in for one man to handle, much less one with an active podcast to research, record and run, other interests and a life to lead.  The good news?  We’re getting closer and closer every time.

This one was intended as the monthly Roundup cycle, but after getting through a few of the majors and usuals, there was a concerted effort to put a few patiently waiting sources’ materials to rest.  And with any artist, there’s a point where you know that’s enough – you’ve worked this material out sufficiently to put a pin in it.

So yeah, a few labels won’t see their most current and/or soon upcoming materials represented herein.  Next time around, no worries.

A few other folks, you’re welcome, and apologies for all the backlog the dawning of 2019 managed to cause…

Avaunt!

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 New and Hopefully Better Year Awaits…

Tags

100 Watt Vipers - Holy Water, 20th Century Music, Aavikko - Monopoly, AFM records, ALCATRAZZ - Parole Denied - Tokyo 2017, Archangel A.D. - Warband, ASMODEE - Aequilanx, Battlesk'rs Productions, Beyond Creation - Algorythm, Black Lion Records, Blood Region - Tales Of The Backwoods, Boonsdale Records, BROWSING COLLECTION - Don't Want to Dance, Carnal Records, CEREBRUM - Iridium, code666, COLD SWEAT - Break Out, Create A Kill - Summoned to Rise, Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape, Dark Star Records, DØDSFALL - Doden Skal Ikke Vente, DECAY - BRAND NEW NAILS, Der Rote Milan - Moritat, Despotz Records, DEVIL'S HAND ft. SLAMER – FREEMAN, Devils Gun - "Light Out", DIAMORTE - The Red Opera, Dying Victims Productions, ECTOVOID - Inner Death, Ektro, Ektro / Full Contact, Emigrate - A Million Miles, Evergrey - The Atlantic, EXCALIBUR - Generacion Maldita, FERAL - Flesh For Funerals Eternal, Ferrett - In Though the Out Door, Ferrett - Snow on Ferrett Mountain, Fighter Records, Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Goblinsmoker - Toad King, GoreGorecords, GORGON - The Veil of Darkness, Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands, hell's headbangers, Hellnite - "Midnight Terrors", Helter Skelter, Horror Pain Gore Death, Icons Creating Evil Art, In Shadows and Dust - Enlightened by Darkness, INFERNARIUM - Kadotuksen Harmonia, Inner Wound Recordings, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, Iterum Nata - The Course of Empire, Janne Westerlund - Bell, JOHNNY GIOELI - One Voice, Laid Back Townies - II, Lazer Angel - Soul Exchange, Leach - Hymns For the Hollow, Long Branch Records, LORD DIVINE - Facing Chaos, Loud Rage Music, Maestus - Deliquesce, MAGIC DANCE - New Eyes, MAGNUM - Live At The Symphony Hall, Malamorte - Hell For All, Memento Mori, Men in Metal - Let the Soul Spread Its Wings, Mo'ynoq - Dreaming in a Dead Language, Moribund records, Moribund Rockers!, MUTIILATION - The Lost Tapes, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Of Hatred Spawn, OGRE & Dallas Campbell - All Hallows' II, Ordo MCM, Osmose Productions, PALACE - Binary Music, PATHOGENIC RECORDS, Plague Years - Unholy Infestation, Pyramaze - Legend of the Bone Carver (re-issue), RANCORUM - THE VERMIN SHRINE, Redefining Darkness Records / Raw Skull Records, Rockshots Records, Ruton Music / Ektro, Satan's Host - Midnight Wind, Secret Entertainment, Seeing Red Records, Sliptrick Records, Slow - IV - Mythologiae, Sludgelord Records, Spektator - 1, Spinefarm Records, STATE OF SALAZAR - Superhero, Steamhammer / SPV, Steel Mammoth - "Armageddon Time All the Time", Steel Mammoth - "Machine of Constant Sorrow", STEELHEART - Rock'n Milan, svart records, Temple of Mystery, THE HEARD - The Island, THE INTERSPHERE - The Grand Delusion, The Sabbathian - Latum Alterum, third eye cinema podcast, Tourniquet - GAZING AT MEDUSA, Transcending Obscurity Records, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), Trapped Under Ice Vol. 1: The New Face of Canadian Heavy Metal, TYTUS - Rain After Drought, Unendlich - Misanthropic Sedition, Unendlich - Thanatophobia, Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork, Vanha - Melancholia, VEILBURNER - A Sire To The Ghouls Of Lunacy, Venom - Storm the Gates, VVORSE - Ajatus vapaudesta, WAN - Gammal ar aldst, Wolfhorde - Hounds of Perdition, XENOKORP

And so another year comes to an end, and by the time your eyes peruse these lines, things will probably have changed more than once again on the personal listening front.

On Yoolis Night…Yuletide Solstice greetings

Tags

(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.