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[Maggot Colony]

Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Martyrdöd - Elddop

[Anvil]

Coroner - RIP
Leatherhead - Violent Horror Stories
Hazemaze - Blinded By The Wicked
Mountain Throne - The Silver Light
Warlock - Burning the Witches
Gjendod - I Utakt Med Verden

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Inquisitor - Walpurgis: Sabbath of Lust

[Thorn]

Talion - Killing The World 8/10
One and done for this post NWOBHM act back in 1989 but they made it count, it's a gem which never fails to remind me of Hallow's Eve, particularly that Sheepdog Mc Laren vocal style.

Dark Heresy - Abstract Principles Taken To their Logical Extremes 7/10
Certainly one of the most unconventional takes on Death Metal, on my shelves anyway, Benediction meets Sabbat...at twilight ..in an abandoned fairground...soon to be joined by a sinister troupe of travelling minstrals and various ne'er-do-wells. Dennis Wheatley is present. As is David Bowie, Dani Filth and half of Ackercocke.  All a little too adventurous at times for my spartan tastes and waaay to long to hold the attention but often beguiling and ahead of its time no doubt.

Violent Sin- Serpent's Call 7/10
As always I'm a sucker for a cool band name so I jumped on this Dying Victims release back in '23, not entirely unexpected, it's highly derivative stuff in the vein of Exciter, Destruction or Razor . Chaotic, messy and highly interchangeable tracks fly by in the 37 mins playing time, their harem- scarem style an obvious ode to the glorious eighties but it's a crowded scene for bands like this at the minute and they've a bit to go to get up there with the likes of Vulture for song writing chops.

[open face surgery]

The attempt at jazz on that Dark Heresy album was enough for my never to return to it.

[Thorn]

  yeah, that's one of the offending bits alright.

[Anvil]

Desecration - Murder in Mind (
Lynx - Watcher in the Sky
Accept - Metal Heart
Throne of Iron - Adventure 2
Virgin Steel - Hymns to Victory

[Eoin McLove]

This is a message from the future*:

Beherit- Engram.

*I pulled it off the shelf for a revisit in the car tomorrow morning.

[Eoin McLove]

The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud- A New Soldier Follows The Path Of A New King.

[Bürggermeister]

Pestilence - Consuming Impulse, Testimony..., Spheres

Consuming Impulse is hitting the spot in the way it hasn't done for a long time

[HeartWorm]

Cwfen-Sorrows

Really solid album.Looking forward to seeing them play with Paradise Lost.I think they have a fine balance between goth/metal/doom and the female vocals don't overpower the music.

[Thorn]

Faithful Breath - Gold 'n' Glory 7.5/10
70's German prog rockers streamlined their sound in 1984 to cater to the burgeoning Hard Rock/Heavy Metal crowd resulting in an enjoyable if generic fifth record that no doubt snagged plenty of Saxon/Scorpions/Accept fans at the time.

Evil Angel - Unholy Evil Metal 6/10
Fiendish Finns kicking up an ugly,  bestial noise back in 2019. Knuckledragging, primitive odes to Satan.,a whiff of very early Sepultura. Can't accuse them of false advertising anyway.

[Eoin McLove]

This is a message from the future*:

Beherit- Engram.

*I pulled it off the shelf for a revisit in the car tomorrow morning.

A message from the present:

It's been a long time since I've put this on. I think in the past I preferred the immediacy of the first 3 songs to the rest. As I listen now I actually think the meat of the album only really starts to show up from song 4 (Pagan Moon) onwards. That's where it becomes a little more unpredictable and spiced up with (moderate) weirdness.

[Cailleach]

Prygla - Prygla

[Anvil]

Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Entombed - Clandestine
Borknagar - Origin