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Today we’re in the plague years and one of my first encounters with the maelstrom that is Black Cilice – Transfixion Of Spirits (Iron Bonehead 2019) Public Service Announcement: It is more than likely that the normal Friday New Music reviews will not be able to go up this week. My internet is being messed
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A sojourn through caverns and caves today with the graceful sounds of Glaive Wielder – Cave Routes
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A beautiful, harsh but inevitable world awaits us with Athshe – The Body Will Die Before we go though, we also take a moment to appreciate the pure love of heavy metal with Sätaniak – Demo
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There’s not much else I suspect a lot of us will want to do today except listen to possibly the most important of the foundations upon which we all clambered to where we are now, proud fans of heavy metal.Go listen to some Sabbath and raise a toast. Rest In Power John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne (3 December 1948
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Although today we swap furtive creeping through corpses and dust for the free expanse of wildspace and sailing on a spelljammer with Amn – The Known Spheres
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Singular artistic visions are the order of this Friday. Firstly we have the the black metal/heavy metal blendings of Kaikkivaltias – Routaa ja rautaa Ans secondly the descent into chaos and blood of Rougarou – Rougarou
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A little late, but not quite as late as the album itself, the spectacular comeback from the one of the greatest metal warrios still out there kicking ass Leather – II (High Roller 2018)
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Today we witness the fading grandeur and apocalyptic end of a world Ka’Bael – Mourning In A Twilight Age
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Today we smile, shed a tear and think long on many things in the exquisite folk, fantasy company of Olivia Graham – Faerie Songbook And then dive headfirst into the abyss with UKBM from the fine Nefarious Dusk – Death Beneath A Starless Sky
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We’re all at C today (yeah yeah, I’ll get my coat). Firstly the finest melodeath band in the UK and possibly Europe in Countless Skies – Glow (Willowtip 2020) Then Taiwan’s finest, the incredible Chthonic – Battlefields Of Asura (s/r 2018) , the last international full release seen from them