A Quite Considerable and Carefully Crafted Candlemas Roundup

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Abhorrence - Totally Vulgar - Live at Tuska Open Air 2013, Acrania - Fearless, AFM records, After All, AGGRESSION - Fragmented Spirit Devils, Agonia records, Allochiria - Throes, ALTAR OF BETELGEUZE - Among the Ruins, Anomalie - Visions, Apostate Viaticum - Before the Gates of Gomorrah, Art of Propaganda, Ash and Coal - Legacy, Asofy - Nessun Luogo, At The Hollow - We Are The Night - Live, ATMF, Avantgarde Music, Bathsheba - Servus, Baxter Stockman - Haul, Black Cilice - Banished From Time, Blood Harvest, Blood Region - For All the Fallen Heroes, Borealis - World Of Silence MMXVII, Botanist / Oskoreien - EP3: Green Metal / Deterministic Chaos, CANDLE - Demo 2016, Caverna Abismal Records, Cimmerian Shade Recordings, CODE - Lost Signal, Consummation - Ritual Severance, Crimson Slaughter - Cycle Of Decay, Crurifragium - Beasts of the Temple of Satan, CRYPTIC BROOD - Brain Eater, Damage Limit - Crank, Dark Messiah, Death Worship - Extermination Mass, Deathinition - Online, Demoncy - Within the Sylvan Realms of Frost, DIGIR GIDIM - I Thought There Was the Sun Awaiting My Awakening, Disharmony - Goddamn the Sun, DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE - Triumphus Haeretici, Draugurinn - Myrkraverk, Ecferus - Shamaniacal Essence, Eisenwald, Ekpyrosis - Asphyxiating Devotion, Ektro, Ember Falls - Welcome to Ember Falls, EUPHORIA - Operation Genesis, EX DEO - "The Rise Of Hannibal", Fabulous Desaster - Hang 'Em High, Fighter Records, Forca Macabra - 25 Anos, FORGJORD - Uhripuu, Front Beast - Third Scourge From Darkness, Frontiers records, Funeral Storm / Celestial Rite - Funeral Rite split, FUSION BOMB - Pravda, GOATMOON - Stella Polaris, Greywind - Afterthoughts, GRIMMD - Demo I - II, Harvest Gulgaltha - Altars of Devotion, Hate Unbound - Plague, HAXXAN - Loch Ness Rising, HEATHER WASTELAND (Greece) - Under the Red Wolfish Moon, hell's headbangers, Hellthrasher Productions, Holocausto - War Metal Massacre, Hymn - Perish, ILLIMITABLE DOLOR, IN THOUSAND LAKES - Age of Decay, Infrared - No Peace, Inverse, Invictus, iron bonehead, JACK RUSSELL’S GREAT WHITE - He Saw it Comin', Janne Westerlund - There's a Passage, JOHN GARCIA - The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues, Jupiter Hollow - Odyssey, Lacerated Enemy Records, Light of the Morning Star - Nocta, MALOIC - Death, Manetheren - The End, Memento Mori, MIDNIGHT - Shox of Violence, MORDANT - Demonic Satanic, MORS PRINCIPIUM EST - Embers Of A Dying World, MORTAL STRIKE - For The Loud And The Aggressive, Mosaic - Old Man's Wyntar, Mustan Kuun Lapset - Saatto, Naddred - Sluagh, Napalm Records, Necronomicon - Advent of The Human God, NEGLIGENCE - Coordinates of Confusion, NORD - Alpha, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, NUKEM - The Unholy Trinity, Onefnt - Demo, Oreioa - Demo 1, Osmose Productions, Ottone Pesante - Brassphemy (Set in Stone), Persefone - Aathma, PH - Eternal Hayden, Pillorian - Obsidian Arc, Pintandwefall - Red and Blue Baby, PLASMODIUM (Australia) - Entheognosis (Cimmerian Shade Recordings) (December 29)PLASMODIUM - Entheognosis, Poison Rites, POKERFACE - Divide and Rule, Praecognitvm - Inalienable Catharsis, PRIDE OF LIONS - Fearless, Rajalla - Diktaattori, Rites of Thy Degringolade - The Universe in Three Parts, Ruckwater - Bonehead, SATAN - Un Deuil Indien, Scarecrow - Exterminators of the Year 4000, Season of Mist, Secret Entertainment, Selvans / Downfall of Nur - Downfall of Nur \ Selvans, Seven Kingdoms - Decennium, Signal Rex / Óreiða / Harvest Of Death, Skeletal - Dreadful Life, Skogen - Eld, Skurk - Final Gift, SOLITARY - THE DISEASED HEART OF SOCIETY, Soul Collector / Re-Animator - In Union We Thrash (split), Spinefarm Records, STEPHEN PEARCY - Smash, Suomen Musiikki, Svart, Terrifier - Weapons of Thrash Destruction, Tervahaat - Kalmonssie, Test Your Metal Records, The Ajna Offensive, The Flight Of Sleipnir - Skadi, The Furor - Cavalries of the Occult, THE MURDER OF MY SWEET - Echoes of the Aftermath, THE RITUAL AURA - Taether, THE UNGUIDED - Brotherhood, third eye cinema podcast, Throatruiner Records, To The Death Records, Tomb Mold - Primordial Malignity, Torrefy - The Infinity Complex, TOXIC RUIN - Subterranean Terror, TOXIK WALTZ - Declassified, Transcending Obscurity Distribution, UKEM, Van Halst - World of Make Believe, Vanishing Point - Tangled In Dream, Venenum - Trance of Death, Vicisolum Productions, VILES VITAE - IV, Vitriol - Vitriol, Vomit Angel - Sadomatic Evil, VORBID, wars - We Are Islands, Werewolf Records, White Death, Witherfall - Nocturnes and Requiems, Witherfall Music LLC, WORMHOLE - Genesis, XANDRIA - "Call Of Destiny", XANDRIA - "We Are Murderers (We All)", XANDRIA - Theater Of Dimensions, Xtreem Music (Spain), Yith - Dread

Well, it’s only been a week or two, and things are already looking far worse than most of us imagined.

A Terrifyingly Turkey-filled Thanksgiving Roundup

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

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

O, October Roundup, Here Art Thou…

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

I don’t get it.

And with the dawn, came an early March Roundup…

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Abhor - Rituale Stramonium, ABOMINATOR - Evil Proclaimed, Acid King - Middle of Nowhere Center of Everywhere, Aelter - Aelter IV: Love Eternal, AGES - Malefic Miasma, Agonia records, Akrotheism / Septuagint - Sphinx: The Great Enigma Of Times, ANTAGONISTE - The Myth Of Mankind, Art of Propaganda, Arvas - Black Satanic Mysticism, ATMF, BAT - Cruel Discipline, Black Lodge Records, Blood Harvest Records, Catatonic State, Délétère - De Ritibus Morbiferis – Demo Compendium, Délétère - Les Heures de la Peste, De Tenebrarum Principio, Edged Circle Productions, Ergot - Victims of Our Same Dreams, Ether - Hymns of Failure, Forever Plagued Records, Gloson - Yearwalker, Grá / Gnosis of the Witch, hell's headbangers, I Voidhanger Records, Ill Omen - Compendium Melificarum - Esoterica, Inculter - Persisting Devolution, INFERNAL WAR - A X I O M, Infernus - Grinding Christian Flesh, Infesting Swarm - Desolation Road, Inverse Records, iron bonehead, K-X-P - III Part 1, Kult of Taurus - Adversarial Paths: The Sinister Essence, Lago - Tyranny, Listenable Records, Loch Vostok - From These Waters, Lustre - BLOSSOM, MOONSPELL - Extinct, Moribund records, Murg - Varg & Björn, Napalm Records, Nocternity (Greece) - Harps of the Ancient Temples, Nordvis Produktion, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Nyseius - De Divinatione Daemonium, PERDITION TEMPLE - The Tempter's Victorious, pesanta urfolk, Pombagira - Flesh Throne Press, Predatory Light - MMXIV, Pregierz - Blood Sanctions, Radioactive Vomit - Ratsflesh, SATANIC WARMASTER - Fimbulwinter, Saturnalia Temple - To the Other, sepulchral productions, Sinners Moon - Atlantis, svart records, The Ajna Offensive, THE ANSWER - Raise A Little Hell, The Leather Nun - Whatever, The Order of Apollyon - The Sword and the Dagger, third eye cinema podcast, TOME OF THE UNREPLENISHED - Innerstanding, Vault of Dried Bones, Velvet Six - Demons Los Divas, Vicisolum Productions, Wende - Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft, Werewolf Records, Where Evil Follows - Portable Darkness, Wild Kingdom Records

Ah, in like a lion, out like a…lion?   Who the hell knows, anymore.  With record breaking lows in temperature and nigh-thrice weekly snow events to one degree or another, it seems the Winter never ends.  Perfect time to crack out some black metal, of which we have representatives aplenty, alongside the usual mix of AOR, traditional, death, pagan, neofolk and electronic oddities for your perusal.

So continuing with the motherlode of material (metal and otherwise) whose mixture of melliflous melodies and malignant malcontented mania make up our monthly monograph of musical offerings (pant pant…enough alliteration, already!), we continue on from the recent February Roundup straight in to its companion piece, covering a plethora of releases dropping this month through the middle of April. 

While I’m sure there will be more releases to come over the next few weeks, I’m sure you’ll agree we have plenty of material to cover herein already.  So with a bow of due respect to the many labels involved, we proceed…