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ZAO - A Well-Intentioned Virus

Morbid Angel - Covenant

Saw ASG last night. Probably one of my favorite live bands ever. Killer show. So this morning on the way to the grocery store: ASG - Feeling Good is Good Enough ASG - Win Us Over Now, eating chips and queso listening to my RSD haul: Motorhead - Remorse? No! The Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini Sisters of Mercy - first 2 EPs Sepultura - Morbid Visions Sepultura - Bestial Devastation

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland

If my booty moved like Sarsippius then I'd show you. NP: Infectious Grooves - Sarasippius' Ark

I didn't mind Elegant Weapons. Not sure how often I'd actually listen to it if I owned it but initial impressions were good. NP: Infectious Grooves - The Plague That Makes You Booty Move

More goodness from my local wax retailer: Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley Bad Religion - Suffer Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth

SKALLAR - Skallar ADIXION - Disfruta Tupa & Lang

NP: Chainsword - Born Triumphant ▶︎ Born Triumphant | Chainsword (bandcamp.com) Polish dm. The expected Bolt Thrower and Vader are in here along with a few tricks to vary things up. Otherwise the album knows what it is and fully embraces the idea that doing something unoriginal extremely well will always beat doing something original poorly. Fans on the subgenre, myself included, will enjoy.

Hekseblad - Kaer Morhen Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki, Finland

ZAO - The Funeral Of God

Flammae - Hellfire, Polish black metal Korgonthurus - Jumalhaaska, Finland 2023 Gonna need to see some video of your booty moving.

Can't go wrong with the Speed Ball! Great choice. Elegant Weapons - "Horns for a Halo" What a fantastic album! A side project with which Richie Faulkner of Judas Priest fame is involved. Perhaps leaning a bit more toward hard rock than traditional metal, but it's a fine line, because there's definitely some heavy stuff here. Saxon - "Solid Ball of Rock"

BIG|BRAVE - A Chaos Of Flowers. There are some beautiful passages here. They are further from metal than ever but that's OK. ENGULFED - Unearthly Litanies of Despair. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Noice, but. MÆRE - ...And The Universe Keeps Silent. Spare, thoughtful music.

Black Flag - Slip It In

Belushi Speed Ball - BSB 3 Another EP

NP: Vircolac - Veneration ▶︎ Veneration | Vircolac | Dark Descent Records (bandcamp.com) I'm not 100% sold on this one. It's holding my interest though. The (basically) a capella opening track actually won me over after my initial misgivings. The album is definitely kind of an in-between for black metal. Sometimes they sound like they want to dive head first into murky uncomfortable atonality and sometimes they sound like they want nothing more than to put their foot on the gas and make the sort of howling desolate black metal that their stronger chord progressions lend themselves to. Beneath it all though is a solid metal center holding the thing together, so I'll definitely be returning to this one, perhaps with a clearer head.

Kryptograf - The Eldorado Spell