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.

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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.

Hark! Hence Cometh Another August/September Descent into Fall Roundup

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3.2 - The Rules Have Changed, 7 Degrees Records, A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes, Abandon Tapes, Adverso - Ex Inanis, Aetranok - Kingdoms Of The Black Sepulcher, AFM records, Agonia records, AIRRACE - Untold Stories, Akhenaten - Golden Serpent God, All My Sins - Pra Sila - Vukov Totem, Anisoptera - Spawn of Odonata, Aornos - The Great Scorn, Appalachian Noise Records, ATMF, Auerbach Tontrager / Prophecy Productions, Autumnwind - Endless Fear, Bast - Nanoangstrom, Bighate - "Hybrid", BINAH - Phobiate, Bindrune Recordings, Black Bow Records, Black Funeral - The Dust and Darkness, Blood Harvest, Blood Harvest Records, Blood of Serpents - Sulphur Sovereign, BONEHUNTER - Children of the Atom, Brainstorm - Midnight Ghost, Burial Shrine - Labyrinth of Bridges, Candlelight / Spinefarm, CAST THE STONE - Empyrean Atrophy, CDN Records, Chuggernaut - Kodiak, Cinzas - Demo I, CLIF MAGNESS - Lucky Dog, Cosmic Void Ritual - Grotesque Infections Of Interplanetary Divide, Cronaxia - Collapsing The Outer Structure, Crosson - Invincible, Crucible of Hate - Dark Metamorphis, Dakhma - Hamkar Atonement, Dark Archive - Morningstar, Dark Sarah - The Golden Moth, DEATHHAMMER - Chained to Hell, Decca Records / Universal Music Publishing France, Degrave, Demonic Obedience - Fatalistic Uprisal of Abhorrent Creation, DEPHOSPHORUS - Impossible Orbits, Descent - Towers of Grandiosity, DESTINIA - Metal Souls, Destroyer Attack - Solve Et Coagula, DIABOLIC FORCE - Praise of Satan, DIRTY RAVEN - Rust For Blue, DOC RECORDS, Don't Disturb My Circles - Lower Canopy, DROP DEAD - Mayhem Inc., Duncan Evans - Prayers For An Absentee, Edged Circle Productions, Electric Valley Records, EMPTY - Vacio, ENEMY OF THE ENEMY - Vultures, Ennui - End of the Circle, ENUFF Z’NUFF - Diamond Boy, Eosphoros, Ethernity - The Human Race Extinction, Event Relentless, Excommunicated - Death Devout, Extreme Metal Music / Rockshots Records, FACTION SENESTRE - Civilization, Farsot/ColdWorld - Toteninsel, Fastball Music, Fervent Hate - Tales Of Hate, Fighter Records, FLESH HUNTER AND THE ANALASSAULTERS - The Plague, Flummox - Intellectual Hooliganism, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Frust - Elements, GIOELI-CASTRONOVO - Set the World on Fire, GMR Music, Goat Sperm - Voice in the Womb, Goathorned Productions, Godless Enthropia - Tetracyclic Dominion, GRAHAM BONNET BAND - Meanwhile Back In The Garage, GRAND DESIGN - Viva La Paradise, GrimmDistribution, Grimorium Verum - Revenant, GRISLY - The Spectral Wars, Hacavitz - NEX NIHIL, Hammer Of Damnation, HANZEL UND GRETYL - SATANIK GERMANIK, Harvest Of Death, HEADS FOR THE DEAD - Serpent's Curse, Helion Prime - Terror Of The Cybernetic Space Monster, hell's headbangers, Helrunar - Vanitas Vanitatvm, Hessian - Mercenary Retrograde, Hexenklad - Spirit of the Stone, HOLOCAUSTO EM CHAMAS - לָשׁוֹן הַקֹּדֶשׁ, Horrorgraphy - Season Of Grief, House of Atreus - From the Madness of Ixion, Hypnos - Set Fire to the Sky, IMPERIALIST - Cipher, In Tenebriz - Winternight Poetry, Inferna Profundus Records, Inner Axis - We Live By The Steel, Inner Wound Recordings, Integrity/Krieg, Internal Suffering - Chaotic Matrix, Internal Suffering - Choronzonic Force Domination, Inverse Records, Inverse Records / Grotesque Sounds, Invictus, Invictus Productions / Dark Descent, Invocation - The Mastery of the Unseen, Ipos Music, iron bonehead, Kapil Seshasayee - A Sacred Bore, Karisma Records, Khôrada - Salt, KING COMPANY - Queen of Hearts, KOMMANDANT - Blood Eel, Krakow - minus, Kvlt Of Eblis - Templo de la Serpiente Negra, Leah - The Quest, Lelahell - ALIF, Loner Noise, Long Branch Records, Lucifericon - Al-Khem-Me, Lusitanian Music, Lydia Laska - Ego Death, MAD MAX - 35, Malepeste / Dysylumn - Ce qui fut ce qui est ce qui sera, Maligner - Attraction to Annihilation, Malthusian - Across Deaths, Manimal - Purgatorio, Memento Mori, MERRYWEATHER STARK - Carved in Rock, Metal Age Productions, metal reviews, Metalapolis Records, metropolis records, MOB RULES - Beast Reborn, Morbid Skull Records, Moribund records, MORKETIDA - Panphage Mysticism, Morte Incandescente - Somos o Fogo do teu Inferno, MR. BIG - Live From Milan, music reviews, Mutilated by Zombies - Scripts of Anguish, Night Club - Scary World, No Gods - Paradise, No Remorse Records, Non Serviam Records, Ominous Eclipse - "Sinister", Osmose Productions, OSSUARY ANEX - Holy Blasphemition, Pa Vesh En - Church of Bones, Panchrysia - Dogma, Parasite INC. - Dead and Alive, Paths - In Lands Thought Lost, Pánico Al Miedo - Formador, PRC Music, PRIMAL FEAR - Apocalypse, Profezia - Dodekaprofeton, Prophecy productions, Purodium Rekords, Pyre - Human Hecatomb, Quintessente - Songs From Celestial Spheres, Reaper Entertainment, Reaper Metal Productions, Redefining Darkness Records, Relapse Records, Revolutio - Vagrant, Ring Leader / Regulator Records, Rodent Epoch - Rodentlord, Rough Grind - Trouble or Nothing, Ruin - Human Annihilation, Samuli Federley - Lifestream, Satanath Records / Black Metal Propaganda Deutschland, Satanath Records / Cimmerian Shade Recordings / Murdher Records, Satanath Records / Death Portal Studio, Satanath Records / Final Gate Records, Satanath Records / Hecatombe Records, Satanath Records / Metallic Media, Satanath Records / More Hate Productions, Satanath Records / Rotten Roll Rex, Satanath Records / Sevared Records, Satanath Records / United By Chaos, Saturnal, Seeing Red Records, Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror, SJUKDOM - Stridshymner Og Dodssalmer, SKALD, Skjult - Progenies Ov Light, Skraeckoedlan - Appeltradet, Skyglow - Thousand Years Of Terror, Sludgelord Records, Solitary - Nothing Changes 20th Anniversary Edition, Somali Yacht Club - The Sun +1, Spacetrucker - Smooth Orbit, Steamhammer / SPV, Stone Leaders, Stormland - Songs of Future Wars, Striborg - Mysterious Semblance, Striborg - Spiritual Catharsis, Subtype Zero - The Astral Awakening, SUMMER STORM - First, svart records, Symbol Of Domination / Cimmerian Shade Recordings / The True Plague / Black Metal Records, Symbol Of Domination / Death Portal Studio, Symbol Of Domination / Hecatombe Records, Symbol Of Domination / More Hate Productions, Symbol Of Domination / United By Chaos, Tangled Thoughts of Leaving - No Tether, Tatanhammer - The Art Of Human Sacrifice, Teksti-TV 666 - Aidattu tulevaisuus, The Eternal - Waiting for the Endless Dawn, The Five Hundred - Bleed Red, The Projectionist - Visits from the NightHag Part 1, The Sign Records, The Temperance Movement - A Deeper Cut, THE TRUE WEREWOLF / DRUADAN FOREST, third eye cinema podcast, Thunder Horse, Tongue Eating Louse - Voidwalker, Tornado - Commitment To Excellence, Traitors Gate - Fallen, Transcending Obscurity Records, TWO OF A KIND - Rise, TYMO - Purge & Reset, Tyranno - Skulls Horns & Lust, Tyrant Disciple - Weight Of Oblivion, U.D.O. - Steelfactory, Ultra-Violence - Operation Misdirection, Urtod Void, Utburd - The Horrors Untold, Valdrin - Two Carrion Talismans, VALKYRIA - Tierra Hostil, Vanity Music, Vardan - Unholy Lightness Summer, Void Ritual - Death Is Peace, Vomitile - Pure Eternal Hate, War Arts Productions, Waxen - Terror Decree, Weed Demon - Astrological Passages, Werewolf Records, WILD - Sin Piedad, Witch King - Voice of the Ossuary, Witches Hammer - Canadian Speed Metal\, Witches Hammer - Stretching Into Infinity, Witchgoat - Umbra Regit, Wolfblood - Nightriders, Wood and Stone Productions, Wrathrone - Reflections Of Torment, Wrestling - Ride On Freaks, Xtreem Music

Well, another couple of months, and another absolutely enormous bag of goodies for your delectation has landed on your virtual doorstep.  Invite us in, we’ll chat over tea, shall we?

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

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

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

Another Awe-Inspiring Aggregation of Anomalies and Anomie, otherwise Accepted and Acknowledged as the April Roundup

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20 Watt Tombstone - Death Blues vs. The Dirty Spliff, Abhor - Occulta religiO, Accursed Spawn - "Bhopal '84", Acephale Winter, ACHERONTAS - Faustian Ethos, AFM records, Agonia records, AIRBORN - Lizard Secrets, ANGEL OF MERCY - The Avatar, AnnapurnA, APF Records, Apocrophex - AEternalis, Apparition - The Ravenous Dusk, Archaic Sound, Archelon - Tribe of Suns, ATLAS - "Birthright", Avantgarde Music, Axia - Pulverizer, Bestial Invasion - Contra Omnes, Beyond Deth - The Age Of Darkness, Blood Harvest Records, Bloody Falls - Thanatos, Body Void - I Live Inside A Burning House, Borgne - [8], Burnout Records, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Carnal Records, CARNIFEX - Pathological Rites, Cold Northern Vengeance - Desolate Ways to Ultima Thule, Corpsehammer - Perversion, Cramada, CREMATORY - Oblivion, Crone -Godspeed, Crown And Throne Ltd / Dry Cough Records / Seeing Red Records), Dark Adversary Productions, DEATH ENGINE - PLACE NOIRE, Deathwards - Towards Death, Dedication Records, Demonic Obedience - Fatalistic Uprisal of Abhorrent Creation, Deny - Parasite Paradise, Despotz Records, Devil’s Hound - Left in Dissociation, Die Sonne Satans - Metaphora, Divebomb Records, Djevelkult - Nar Avgrunnen Apnes, DOKUGA / SYSTEMIK VIØLENCE - MAKE PUNK RAW AGAIN // SPLIT 7” EP 2017, Domedag - Nu Nalkas Domedagen, Dunkelheit Produktionen, Dunnock - Little Stories Told by Ghosts, Earth's Yellow Sun - "Entertain Me", Enhailer - Dumb Enough To Care, Equilibrium Music, Eternal Sound Records, Fighter Records, FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM - Fellatrix, FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM - Hostia, FILII NIGRANTIUM INFERNALIUM - Pornokrates: Deo Gratias, Flame Acausal - Contra Mundum in Aeternum, FM - Atomic Generation, Frequency Drift - Letters to Maro, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Gain Eleven - "Freaking You Out", Gentle Art of Music, Giuda - Rock 'n' Roll Music, GOAT WORSHIP (Brazil) - Shore of the Dead, Goddess of Fate - Spiral Orchard Part 1, H E X, Hallux, Hekate - Totentanz, hell's headbangers, HERON - A Low Winter's Sun, Hostia, Hummus Records, Inferna Profundus Records, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, ISSA - Run With The Pack, JAMES CHRISTIAN - Craving, Kalmah - Palo, Kebu - Kring havet - Meren ymparilla, Knelt Rote - Alterity, Krolok - When the Moon Sang Our Songs, Krucyator Productions, Leather - II, Long Branch Records, Lordi - Sexorcism, Maailmanloppu - Tuhon koodi, Masada - When the Lights Go Out, Matterhorn - Crass Cleansing, Melan Selas - Reon, metal reviews, MHONOS - LXXXVII, Millennial Reign - The Great Divide, Moloch - The Other Side, Morbid Skull Records, Moribund records, music reviews, Neige Et Noirceur - Vent Fantôme, Nekrokraft - Servants, Non Serviam Records, NortherN - Desolate Ways to Ultima Thule, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oksennus - Kolme Toista, Ominous Eclipse - "Sinister", Ordeals / Daethorn, Osmose Productions, Pact - Enigmata, PERFECT PLAN - All Rise, Pneuma Hagion - Trinity, Pohjonen Alanko - Northern Lowland, PRC Music, PROFANE ORDER - Marked By Malice, PROFANE ORDER - Tightened Noose of Sanctimony, Prophecy productions, Pseudogod - Sepulchral Chants, Pure Steel Records, Purodium Rekords, QFT - Live In Space, Raven Throne - I Miortvym Snicca Zolak, Raw 'N' Roll Rex, Red Eleven - Fueled By Fire, Reverorum ib Malacht - Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas innoble, Richthammer - Ascheland, Rise Above Records, Rockshots Records, Ross The Boss - By Blood Sworn, Satanath Records / Sevared Records, Saturnal, Secret Entertainment, Secret Entertainment / ZYX music, Sect Pig - Crooked Backs, Selfmadegod Records, Sense of Fear - As The Ages Passing By…, Septic Tank - Rotting Civilisation, Shadow Kingdom, Shadowkeep, Shellfire Attack, Shields - Life In Exile, SHOW ANIKI - The Deep Blue Sessions, Sludgelord Records, SpellBlast - Of Gold and Guns, Spiders - Killer Machine, Spinefarm Records, Steal The City - The Time We Needed, Steamhammer / SPV, Stortregn - Emptiness Fills The Void, Studio Hundert Records, Subduer - Death Monolith, svart records, Svederna - Svedjeland, Tengil - Shouldhavebeens, The Armed - Only Love, The Black Sorcery - And The Beast Spake Death From Above, The Dark Red Seed - Becomes Awake, The Human Race Is Filth - Liberate, The Outsider, The Outsider - Ancient Beast of the Apocalypse, The Sign Records, The Sloths - BACK FROM THE GRAVE, The Sperm - 50th Erection, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records, Throatruiner Records / Apocaplexy Records, Throatruiner Records / Deaf Death Husky Records, Traced By Enemies - Where The Sun Turns Gray, Trevor's Head - Soma Holiday, Triumphant Transgressions, Ulterium Records, Unprocessed - Covenant, Unreqvited - Stars Wept to the Sea, Urze de Lume - As Arvores Estao Secas E Nao Tem Folhas, Valis Ablaze - Boundless, Various Artists - Satan in Love, Various Artists - Veritahroja / Bloodstains - Rare Finnish Punk 1979-1983, Via Nocturna, Vile Caliber - Willpower, Wail - Wisdom Through Agony into Illumination and Lunacy vol. II, Wendess - MMXXIII, WHORESNATION - MEPHITISM, Widow's Peak - Graceless, Winterfylleth - The Hallowing Of Heirdom, Witch Casket - Hatred Index, Wulverine Records, Xtreem Music, Zanjeer Zani Productions, Zarraza - Necroshiva

Hey, it’s just about month end, and here we are again, our monthly gathering of the sacred and profane in celebration of the plethora of releases passed down to we the listening audience from…er…other parts of the same audience, given just how many of us are musicians ourselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

Enough Nominally Normative Nostalgic Nonsense, it’s time for the Nascent Nonchalance of the New Year’s Roundup!

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(D)juret - Sok din sekt, Abigor - Hollenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition), AFM records, Akslen Black Art Records, album reviews, AMMUNITION, Ancient Temple Recordings, ANIALATOR - Rise to Supremacy, Antichrist - Pax Moriendi, ANTIGAMA - Depressant, ANVIL - Pounding The Pavement, AOR, Apollyon Entertainment, Asenblut - Legenden, ATMF, Avantgarde Music, Bhleg - Solarmegin, Black Lodge Records, Black Market Metal, black metal, Blaspherion - Restus Corpus, Bleeding Music Records, BLIGHT - The Teachings/Death Reborn, Blood Harvest, Buck Tow Truck - Death Wields A Six String, Byyrth - Echoes from the Seven Caves of Blood, Chaos Echoes - Mouvement, Chaos Invocation - Reaping Season Bloodshed Beyond, CONVICTION - "Outworn", Corbian - Supremacy of Fire, Cramada, Crimson Devils - A Taste For Blood, Crossbones - WWIII, Cryptivore - Unseen Divinity, Cursed Records, D7i Records, Dakota Westbrook - Worthless, Days of Confusion - Yin & Out, death metal, DEFENESTRATION - Gutter Perdition, Demonomancy - Poisoned Atonement, Disembowel - Plagues and Ancient Rites, DOMINANT - The Summoning, doom metal, Drakkar Entertainment GmbH, El Puerto Records Gbr, Eleine - Until The End, emo, ET MORIEMUR - Epigrammata, Extreme Metal Music, Fallen Utopia - Disequilibrium, Fameless - Dreams Without A Past, FORGOTTEN WOODS - The Curse of Mankind, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Funeral Winds - Sinister Creed, FUNERARY BELL - Undead Revelations, Goatkraft - Angel Slaughter, GONE BY SUNDOWN - “Will you Remember”, gothic metal, GREBER - Cemetery Preston, grindcore, HAMMR - Unholy Destruction, HAR - Visitation, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hellfire Records, Heyoka's Mirror - Loss of Contact With Reality, Hibernation Release, High Roller Records, Horn - Retrograd, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, Khiral - Chained, LABYRINTH - Return to Live, Lacerated Enemy Records, Lechery - We Are All Born Evil, LIONE - CONTI, Lurker of Chalice, MAGNUM - Lost On The Road To Eternity, Malady - Toinen toista, Man Daitorgul - Gulkenha, Marked Man Records, metal reviews, metalcore, MIKE LEPOND’S SILENT ASSASSINS - Pawn and Prophecy, Minneriket - Anima Sola, MINOTAURO RECORDS, Moribund records, Mortiferum - Altar of Decay, music reviews, My Silent Wake - There Was Death, Nadir Music, Nevicate - "Shattered", NIGHTSHADE - 1426, No Why Records, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Obscene - Sermon to the Snake, ORION DUST -Duality, Ossuarium - Calcified Trophies of Violence, Panphage - Jord, Pink Lemonade Records, power metal, progressive metal, punk, Rasgo - ECOS DA SELVA URBANA, Rastilho Records, Red Raven Down - Phantoms, RoadkillSoda - Mephobia, ROOM ME - Anaon, Sainted Sinners - Back With A Vengeance, Saturnal Records, SEEP AWAY – "Shimmy Shimmy Ya", SEEP AWAY – The Blackened Carnival Of Societal Ineptitude, Selfmadegod Records, SEX DUMPSTER – LORD ALCOHOL, Shambles - Primitive Death Trance, Shields - Use Protection, SHOW ANIKI - "Deep Blue"/ "COWBOYS FROM BREIZH", Snogg - Abeloth, Steamhammer / SPV, svart records, symphonic metal, Templeton Pek - Watching The World Come Undone, Test Your Metal Records, The Cursed Order, The Last Arbiter, THE PARASITE PARADISE - His Only Begotten Son (A.D. MMXVII), third eye cinema podcast, TOWARDS ATLANTIS LIGHTS - Dust of Aeons, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records, Trigger - Cryogenesis, Universal Music Romania, Vantablack Warship - Abrasive Pulmonic Speak, Vardan - Nostalgia - Archive Of Failures - Part 4, Vardan - Nostalgia - Archive Of Failures - Part 5, Vardan - Nostalgia - Archive Of Failures - Part 6, Verikalpa - Taistelutahto, Vinide - Reveal, VoidCeremony - Foul Origins of Humanity, VOJD - The Outer Ocean, Voodoo Circle - Raised On Rock, W.T.C. Productions, war metal, Watchers of Xan, WHIPSTRIKER - Merciless Artillery, Xael - Singles - Apathy of The Immortal, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, Ziggurat - Ritual Miasma, \Dooweet Agency

Whew!

Well, you wait and er…try to move things along in realms unseen one way or another, and sh*t happens, alright.

Holy Hoarfrost, it’s Here! The Historically Habitual Hilarity of the Holidaze Roundup!

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AFM records, album reviews, ALEX DAWSON - Always Rock, Anarchos - Invocation of Moribund Spirits, Antiquus Scriptum - Antologia, AOR, ARKHETH - 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew, Asphodelos - The Five Rivers Of Erebos, ATMF, ATMF Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fondamentum, Avantgarde Music, AZZIARD - Metempsychose, BEBLY - Deconne, Bestialord - Law of the Burning, Beyond Forgiveness - The Great Wall, Black Lion Records, BLACK MAMBA - Heritage, black metal, Black Sunset / MDD, Blood Harvest, Bunkur / Mordor, BURIAL CHAMBER - Ripping the Dead, Candlelight / Spinefarm, Caverna Abismal Records, CHRONIC XORN (India) - For These Sins Who Must Die, Circle Of Salt - Suffer The Cold, COMMUNION - At the Announcement, COMMUNION - The Communion, Corrosive - Lucifer Gave The Faith, CRUENTATOR - Ain't War Hell?, Czar Of Crickets Productions / Plastic Head Distribution, De Tenebrarum Principio, Deadheads - This One Goes To 11, DEATH KEEPERS - Rock This World, death metal, Deathmarch - Dismember, Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pacifisticuffs, DJINN AND MISKATONIC - Even Gods Must Die, doom metal, DOWN 'N' OUTZ - My Re-Generation, DRUID LORD - Grotesque Offerings, Ectoplasma - Cavern of Foul Unbeings, EISELY / GOLDY - Blood Guts and Games, Ektro / Future Lunch, ELEGIAC - Black Clouds of War, emo, Eternal Torment - Blind to Reality, Extreme Metal Music, Faceless Burial - Grotesque Miscreation, False Flag, Fighter Records, Frontiers Music s.r.l., Gloria Story - DOES YOUR HEART FEEL AT HOME, gothic metal, Grave Spirit - The Beast Unburdened By Flesh, Grimtone - Memento Mori, grindcore, Guillotine, heavy metal, Heikki Hautala & Hyvat veljet - Rauha ja harmonia, hell's headbangers, Hellthrasher Productions, Henry Metal - Henry Metal V, High Roller Records, I Voidhanger Records, IAMSIN - Kings & Queens, imper, Imperial State Electric - "Anywhere Loud", Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, iron bonehead, JONO - Life, KAMERA OBSCURA - The Final Cut, Kuoleman Galleria - Pimeys Saapuu Pohjoiseen, Leaves' Eyes - Sign Of The Dragonhead, Lucifer's Dungeon - Music of Lost Spirits, Malakhim - Demo I, MALPERMESITA, Memento Mori, metal reviews, metalcore, Mist of Misery - Fields of Isolation, MORTIS MUTILATI - The Stench Of Death, music reviews, Nortt - Endeligt, NOVA - Soli Contro Il Mondo, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Ofdrykkja - Irrfard, Olavi Louhivuori - Immediate Music, OPERATION: MINDCRIME - The New Reality, Oracle - Into the Unknown, Osmose Productions, OUTLINE - Demo 1: Fire Whiplash, PERDITION WINDS – TRANSCENDENT EMPTINESS, PERPETRATOR - Altered Beast, Pile of Priests - Tenebrous Labyrinth, power metal, PRETTY BOY FLOYD - Public Enemies, progressive metal, Psychout Records, punk, RAINTIMES, RAPTURE - Paroxysm of Hatred, Robustfellow Productions, Rotheads - Sewer Fiends, SATANIC WARMASTER - We Are The Worms That Crawl On The Broken Wings Of An Angel, Scars Of Solitude - Deformation, Somali Yacht Club - The Sea, Spite - Antimoshiach, svart records, Symbol of Domination / Cimmerian Shade Recordings, symphonic metal, Tankard - Hymns For The Drunk, Teemu and the Deathblows - Keep It In The Dark, THE CLEARING PATH Watershed Between Firmament And The Realm Of Hyperborea, The Howling Void - The Darkness at the Edge of Dawn, The Human Race Is Filth - Human Exposed, The Sinister Flame / Hells Headbangers, third eye cinema podcast, This Winter Will Last Forever, Throaat - Reflections in Darkness, Transcending Obscurity India, Transcending Obscurity Records (India), UNTERVOID, VARGRAV - Netherstorm, Vhorthax - Nether Darkness, Visions Of The Night – Supreme Act of War, war metal, Werewolf Records, Wild Kingdom, Wolf Counsel - Age Of Madness/Reign Of Chaos, Xtreem Music

Well, one year on and the tide would seem to finally be turning.  The wheels of progress move too damn slowly, sometimes, but at least they’re back trying to move after far too many months in utter stasis (if not a horrifying, Lovecraftian regress).