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And odd album to mean so much to me this time of year as it does, but Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties (CBS/Columbia 1974) does. Here is an attempt to explain over fifty years after its release, the album still is a masterpiece and perfect for the time.
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I take up the invitation of some Yule comfort and find myself in the warm and fine company of Mithril Blade -Breeglander’s Carol A god Jul to all of you, and yours, wherever you may be,
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Although I have no intention of doing a top ten list of albums of the year, as I have treasured every album I have reviewed in 2025, this album from nowhere, late in the year is my album of 2025. The utter souls shattering journey that is Blut Aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons
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Today the first in a short series of music that I tend to listen to during Yule. The hard to find but beautiful work of the dark and the decaying and the not so festive The Valley Of Desolation EP (Lupus Lounge 2015) from A Forest Of Stars –
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The tale of the time when I chanced upon a dwarf on a hill and ended up completely enchanted Hill Dwarf – Hill Dwarf
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It’s Bandcamp Friday and the end of the year approaches so I have the pleasure of catching up with two releases from projects I have loved following the progressions of. Firstly the absolutely superb dark, emotional atmospherics and fire of Harifa – As The Pale Sun Fades and then the feral savagery spliced to dungeon
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Back to 2022 and the third chapter from Akercocke related blastbeat worshipping, nun obsessed darknes creators The Antichrist Imperium – Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory (Apocalyptic Witchcraft 2022)
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A day to remember. The return of a legend and perhaps their final battle. But gather round dungeon dwellers of all creeds as this is a pure celebration of old school worlds and a call to travel your own path with head high. Just never forgot the worn, swamp damp boots that found this gateway
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Prepare yourself if you can. Today we travel into a hallucinatory, psyched out stoner nightmare through Lovecraftian voids and perhaps the hand of Hodgson cold on our shoulder, courtesy of Chainsaw x Shoggoth – Dreams Of The Cosmic Tower
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I had a bad day yesterday so I’m passing on the misery today. This is what happens when a brilliant and infamous band without warning reforms briefly and drops not just a new album but proof that they are still the apex predator in their sewer… Khanate – To Be Cruel (Sacred Bones 2023)