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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
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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…