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  • Way Back For Yule

    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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  • Mausoleum Monday

    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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  • Way Back For Yule

    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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  • Mausoleum Monday

    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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  • New Music Friday

    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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  • Way Back Wednesday

    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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  • New Music Friday

    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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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Released back in April 2025, I finally take a long overdue walk with the debut album from Emeth – Heroic Epics Cycle and discover a wonderful, emotional world within.

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  • New Music Friday

    Today we dash from one end of the musical spectrum to the other. We have the deeply eloquent and gentle flowing music of Asira – As Ink In Water before hurtling headlong into the savage maelstrom of the incredible debut from grindcore project Chairmaker – Leviathan Carcass

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    Back in the saddle after a little break, we first look back to 2019 and the second release by the bizare and dark binding of black metal, EBM and ambient courtesy of GosT – Valediction (Century Media 2019)

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