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A little change in pace this week as we look back to 2023 and the first, and for tragic reasons final time that I persuaded Thee Ed at Ave Noctum, Pete Woods (RIP) to let me do an end of year round up including a section on Dungeon Synth. Gizmo’s 2023 EPs, Demos and Dungeons
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Today we have the wonderful pleasure of being in the enchanted world of the one and only Hermit Knight – Pseudanthium
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I step into something deeply unpleasant but impossible to look away from with the twisted DevilsHarvest – est.IV:XX but find myself redeemed and uplifted by the atmospheric, fierce but beautiful Hiraeth – Tales Of Resistance
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As the new year begins, time to look back at a journey through the seasons of a different year, 2019, and the deeply underrated, superb Waylander – Eriu’s Wheel (Listenable Records 2019)
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For the first visit to the Mausoleum of 2026, I offer one of my main musical companions over the Yule period, Blades Of Folmär – Eternal Dungeon II
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First of the year and last release of 2025, dropped on 31st December I give you the most glorious way to mess up your end of year lists at the last moment Déhà – Ashes As Rain II
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To end the year, if not the world, I travel to the cold and the ountainous for an audience with the unknowable follwowinf the steps of the Cryo Chamber Collaboration – Ithaqua
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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