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Today we enter the emotionally raw, heartbreaking world of Spanish melodic doom band Hela – A Reign To Conquer and then pass through the portals of madness and witness the debut full length from Dusk Lurker – Celestial Fantasies In The Mind Of A Lunatic
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One of my forays into the unfamiliar seas of prog today with Lonely Robot – The Big Dream (Inside Out Music 2017)
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Today a journey from a distant land, setting foot upon ancient soil, we follow the soul searching Elyvilon – The Shrouded Isle
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Today we celebrate the impending return of the UK’s finest purveyors of filthy, raging booze addled black metal punk with Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks and explore the excellent debut from Brazil of Castrivenian – Reborn From The Ashes
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A strange and disturbing encounter with a Reverend who encourages you to “Tap the conduit…”. I give you the strange, dark humour (?) of By Fire & Sword – Glory (No Remorse 2023)
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This day we delve into ancient tomes of heroic fantasy, the bloodied foundations of sword and sorcery with Barak Tor – Regal Hymns Of Blood and then a short but deeply cutting tale of the heroic and stoic from Shattered Sword – Battle On The Ice
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Contrasts in genre but not in quality today. First up we have the emotional debut EP from excellent Irish post-metal/blackgaze duo Tryste – To Rise You Seek The End and then we enter the dark and unforgiving woods with intense and deeply atmospheric raw sounds of Jzovce – Lesy
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Today it’s eleven or so years back in time to what I still think of as a quite remarkable coming together of black metal/pagan metal artists visiting and sharing their folk roots with Various Artists – One And All, Together, For Home (Season Of Mist 2014)
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A little later in the day, but please DO NOT miss out on this quite exquisite exploration of the nightwinds from Aura Merlin – Moon Gates
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Today an excellent split of unique approaches to black metal indeed Priestcraft, Fleshdirt, Shadow And Claw – Offerings From Serpentine Currents