• New Music Friday

    For the second Friday in a row we visit the folklore of Scotland, this time with the huge black/folk metal passion of the returning Cnoc An Tursa – A Cry For The Slain

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    I’m in the mood for some rough, epic skullcrushing, enemy slaying heavy metal. You could pick absolutely nothing better than Portugal’s true metal veterans Ironsword – Servants Of Steel (Alma Mater 2020)

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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Today a retrospective to some but a whole new world to me. I give you the quiet beauty in darkness via Melankolia – Compendium: 2007 – 2017

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  • New Music Friday

    The end to a busy week of metal closes with a twin load of incredible talent. Firstly we have the Scottish speed demon Hellripper – Coronach and secondly the imperious return of English atmospheric black metal kings Winterfylleth – The Unyielding Season

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  • Something I could not ignore: A band who mean so much to me returned and not simply that; they dropped just… just something extraordinary. Neurosis – An Undying Love For A Burning World

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  • Malevolent Monday

    After a week of Dungeon synth we take a wrong turn and end up in some void we never should have looked into. I offer you the disorienting horror of Wretched Fixation – Forced Projection

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  • New Music Friday

    Today we catch up with one of the most beautiful, warm albums I have heard in a long time. The light shone by the sun and by Flickers From The Fen – Stoned In Gielinor III

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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Late as a late king long buried, but here. We observe the strangest of rituals and the sound provoked by it by the strange and often delightful Bwganod – Trwy ddrysau dychmygol

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  • New Music Friday

    It’s a year since this little blog was started and to celebrate I decided to have a week of dungeon synth related music starting this Friday. So today two starkly different but equally compelling albums: the perilous adventure of Murk Sage – Dernhold: Secret Of The Mist and the grim persistence of Gravfrost – My…

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    To 2018, the pre-plague years, and the doomed folk of The Devil’s Trade – What Happened To the Little Blind Crow (Golden Antenna 2018)

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