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[Anvil]

Nasum - Inhaled / Exhaled / Revived
Virgin Steele - The Book of Burning
Redshark - Sudden Impact
Incantation - The Infernal Storm
1914 - Viribus Unitis
Kampfar - Mellom Skogkledde Aaser

[Naraka]

Alice In Chains - Facelift, Dirt
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

[Bürggermeister]

Checked out a couple of new (to me) albums today based on YT recommendations:

Psychonaut - Unfold the God Man
Gaupa - Myriad

Enjoyed both a lot, will def be checking out more from both.

Love that Gaupa album. I picked up the new one, Fyr, recently. It's not as immediate but still a good listen.

Rainbow - the Dio albums

[Jward]

Wolves In The Throne Room – Two Hunters

An immense album

18 years old!

[OpenSores]

Nasum - Inhaled / Exhaled / Revived
Virgin Steele - The Book of Burning
Redshark - Sudden Impact
Incantation - The Infernal Storm
1914 - Viribus Unitis
Kampfar - Mellom Skogkledde Aaser

Re. Nasum, had to do a double take didn't even know anything about this at all. Must give it a lash. I have the original release which I love so be interesting to hear.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Checked out a couple of new (to me) albums today based on YT recommendations:

Psychonaut - Unfold the God Man
Gaupa - Myriad

Enjoyed both a lot, will def be checking out more from both.

Love that Gaupa album. I picked up the new one, Fyr, recently. It's not as immediate but still a good listen.

Sound. Yeah, I have Myriad on again here now. Will prob give it a few more listens before checking out Fyr, but it's on the list.

[The Great Cull]

Tar Pond - Protocol of Constant Sadness
Coroner - Dissonance Theory
En Minor - When The Cold Truth Has Worn It's Miserable Welcome Out
Die Krupps - Odyssey Of The Mind
Suicidal Tendencies - Join The Army
Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

[Anvil]

Gjendod - Svekkelse
Litania - Litania
Conjurer - Unself
Drudkh - Blood in our Wells
Ghost - Prequelle

[Taranis]

Last six:
 
Kalmankantaja – Waldeinsamkeit (2016. Atmospheric black metal from Finland, great for this time of year. Spent along time tracking down a physical copy of this, as various distros had sent me albums named Waldeinsamkeit by other bands, but I see that it has recently been re-released by a German label on digipack. The only excellent release from this band/project).

Hail Spirit Noir – Fossil Gardens (2024. Poppy Greek BM-adjacent stuff sort of similar to the likes of Solefald, this one was a real return to form after dipping a bit after their top-class 2012 debut. Like Solefald, this sort of thing is not for everyone, but it really hits the spot for me).

Darkside – Nothing (2025. Not metal-related in any way, but this due captured lightning in a bottle with the first album, but the bottle is very much in shards on the kitchen floor now; glad I listened to it it online before buying it).

Dråpsnatt – Hymner till undergången (2010. Swedish atmospheric black/pagan metal with a mixture of harsh and clean vocals; I had completely missed out on this band when they were still active, but this is one of the best ever albums of this sort of style in my opinion).

Aran – Pimeyttä Vasten (2021. Finnish atmospheric and often epic black metal; another fantastic album for this time of the year, and it must have been a year since I listened to it, due to overplaying it a bit when I bought it. The second track has one of the best changes in any song ever [for me at least]. The vinyl sounds and looks great, but it is possibly an album best listened to in a single run).

Nocternity – Onyx (2003. Slow atmospheric Greek black metal a bit too obsessed with A Song of Ice and Fire. Every time I put on a Nocternity album, no matter which one it is, I think to myself "ah no, it must be one of the other albums by them that I really like", but this one is probably the best of the bunch – I think).

Also @Anvil, Blood in Our Wells is one of my top-ten albums, if not top-five. I surely am not alone in that opinion, I'd imagine/hope.

[Maggot Colony]

Worm - Necropalace

There's a new Worm album coming out in 2026. Marty Friedman is listed as a guest musician on one of the tracks. Should be interesting.

The title track is up on Spotify. Great stuff as usual.

[OpenSores]

Qrixkuor – The Womb of the World
Lvcifyre - Svn Eater/The Broken Seal
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
Cobalt - Gin

[Carnage]

Judas Priest: Nostradamus

[Pentagrimes]

The new Converge single which, vocals aside, is what I'd hoped the new Dark Angel album should sound like. Honestly.

[Eoin McLove]

Strikniën DC- Horses for Courses. I'm ready to smash the state after listening to this but it'll have to wait till I finish work.

Severed Head Of State- Anathema Device.  I thought I'd smashed up the state entirely on the way to work but it turns out I missed a bit so I smashed it up good on the way home. You're welcome.

There may be plot holes in my story.

[Putrefaction]

Rottrevore - Disembodied
Big Black - Pigpile