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, 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, 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?

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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).

An Incipient End of Summer Roundup

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A Sad Sadness Song, AFM records, Against PR, Agonia Black Vomit - Cosmosatanic Wisdom, album reviews, Alpha Tiger, An Assfull Of Love - Monkey Madness, Antiversum - Cosmos Comedenti, AOR, Asagraum - Potestas Magicum Diaboli, Astarium - Drum-Ghoul, Atlases - "Medusa", Bewitcher, Black Lion Records, black metal, Blood Harvest, Blood Tyrant / Departure Chandelier - split, Bloody Times - Destructive Singles, Bludy Gyres - Echoes of a Distant Scream, Boersma Records, Bombarder - Bez Milosti, Bombarder - Speed Kill, Bool - Fly With Me, Candlelight / Spinefarm, CANKER - Earthquake, CARDINALS FOLLY - Deranged Pagan Sons], Caverna Abismal Records, Centuries of Decay, CIRCUS MAXIMUS - Havoc in Oslo, Cognizance - "The Foreboding Impasse", Cognizance - Illusory, Cosmic Void Ritual - The Excreted Remains of the Sabatier System, Coven - The Advent, Crafteon - Cosmic Reawakening, CREMATORY - Live Insurrection, Cult Of The Horns - Chapter I. Domination, Darkenhold - Memoria Sylvarum, Darkflight - The Hereafter, DAWN OF DISEASE - Ascension Gate, death metal, Devil Creations - Hell's Exit, Dig Me No Grave - Immemorial Curse, Dimman - Guide My Fury, Dirkschneider - LIVE – Back To The Roots – Accepted!, doom metal, Draghkar - World Unraveled, Eden's Curse - Revisited, Eihwaz Recordings, Ektro, emo, END OF GREEN - Void Estate, Ensepulcher - No Sanctity in Death, EXIT EDEN - Rhapsodies in Black, Extreme Metal Music, Fighter Records, Fleshpress - Hulluuden Muuri, FORGED IN BLACK – SINNER SANCTORUM, From North, From the Hellmouth / Mutilatred, Frontiers music, Frontiers records, Gloomy Grim - Fuck The World, Goathorned Productions, gothic metal, Grift - Arvet, GrimmDistribution, grindcore, heavy metal, hell's headbangers, Hidden Marly Productions, High Roller Records, HORRIFIED - Allure of the Fallen, HOSTILIAN - Monolith, Humanity Zero - Withered In Isolation, Hypochristmutreefuzz - Hypopotomonstrosesquipedaiophobia, ICE WAR, Ignominious - The Throne and the Altar, Inspirus Records, Inverse Records, Invictus Productions, Iris Divine - The Static And The Noise, iron bonehead, Jack Starr's Burning Star - Stand Your Ground, Kashgar, KHAZAD-DUM - Garmadh, Krucyator Productions, KRYPTONITE, KULTIKA - Pursuance, Kuudes Silma - Pelko, KVLT, LASCAR - Saudade, LEIDER - Alloys, Long Branch Records / SPV, LUCIFER'S CHALICE - The Pact, LYZZARD - Savage, Madlife - Precision in the Face of Chaos, Mascharat, Metal Carnival Records, metal reviews, metalcore, Mist Of Misery - Shackles of Life, Mitochondrion - Antinumerology, Mordenial - The Plague, Mouldered - Chronology Of A Rotten Mind, music reviews, Napalm Records, Necroheresy - Asylum, Necromante - The Magickal Presence of Occult Forces, Necrophile - Awakening Those Oppressed, Nemecic - The Deathcantation, Nine Records / Topillo Records, Nocturnes Mist - Diabolical Baptism, Non Serviam Records, Nordvis Produktion, Northern Plague - Scorn the Idle, NOVAE MILITIAE - Gash’khalah, Nuclear War Now! Productions, Oculus - The Apostate of Light, OMINOUS SHRINE - Ο Δρόμος Της Αποθεώσεως, Oracle - Beyond Omega, Oraculum - Always Higher, Ovakner - Ar/Lume, Pagan Altar - The Room of Shadows, Paratra - Genesis, Paroxsihzem - Abyss of Excruciating Vexes, Pest Records, Planet Eater - Blackness From The Stars, Plastic Head, Plastic Tones - Wash Me With Love, power metal, PRAISE THE FLAME - Manifest Rebellion, progressive metal, punk, PURTENANCE - Paradox of Existence, PUTRID OFFAL - Anatomy, QUIET RIOT - Road Rage, Ram-Page - The Grave Of Seven Billion, Raptore - Rage n' Fever, Redefining Darkness / Seeing Red Records, Runespell - Unhallowed Blood Oath, Sable Beldam - Cryptic Void, Sandor Valy - Young Dionysos, Satanath Records, Seance records, Serious Black - Magic, Shade Empire - Poetry Of The Ill-Minded, Shadow Kingdom, Shepherd / Death By Fungi, Skein - Deadweight, SLAUGHTBBATH - Contempt, Slice of Sorrow - Execution, Soman Records, Stallion - From The Dead, Steamhammer / SPV, SUMMON (U.S.) - Dark Descent of Fallen Souls, Suns Of Sorath - Flowers of the Lily, svart records, Symbol of Domination, symphonic metal, Taphos Nomos / Uroun - R.I.P., Temple of Mystery, THE HIRSCH EFFEKT - Eskapist, THE NEW ROSES - One More For The Road, THE NIGHTS, third eye cinema podcast, TRAVELIN JACK - Commencing Countdown, Unholy Prophecies, Urarv - Aurum, Various Artists - Death, Vulture - The Guillotine, War and Damnation, War Is War!, war metal, Werewolf Records, Witches Brew, WORLD TRADE - Unify, Worm - Evocation of the Black Marsh, Wrath of the Tyrant, Wrath of the Tyrant Records, Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act I, XENOKORP, Xtreem Music, Zornheym - Where Hatred Dwells And Darkness Reigns

Holy crap, this one’s the motherload.

A few weeks back, I gave a heads up to our Facebook followers that releases were dropping across the virtual desk by the metric tonne, and warned with a twinkle of bemusement that if they kept coming in at the rate they had been, this month’s Roundup was going to be a monster.

And sure enough.

At the time of writing these lines, there are over 110 albums, EPs and a handful of singles under review this month, with the potential if not likelihood that we’ll see a few more arrive before we close out and finalize (hell, there are already a handful of October-range releases on schedule for next month’s post…)

In short…yeah, this is the big one, Weezie.

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…