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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
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Today we visit the Woods Of Sequania, led by our guide Eternal Druid – Forest Of Illusions
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Up first we have the uncompromising and brilliant RABM attack of the new EP by Tumultuous Ruin – Never A Night So Dark Then the experimental but still very metal world of Veneficus Sarcina – Being And Morbidity
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To begin not so way back to 2024 and a harrowing piece of dissonance from Iskalde Morket – Deleted Scenes From The Pandemic Ward (Self Released 2024) Then a good few years to the first album I heard from the uncompromising Norwegian black metal band Mork – Eremittens Dal (Peaceville 2017) their third album in