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Mystras - Empires Vanquished and Dismantled Hulder - Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry

Downcross - Hexapoda Triumph (2022) I'm enamored with this album at the moment. Best thing I've heard yet this year.

Downcross - Hexapoda Triumph (Black Metal, Belarus) Fourth album in three years from these guys. Pretty consistent band in terms of quality, but I've always put them in the "pretty good, but not great" category. That might change with this new full length though, this is very impressive and certainly the best thing they've done thus far.

Bilwis - Pan (2022)

Véhémence - Ordalies (2022) Yeah, this is a good one!

Hate Forest - Hour of The Centaur

Funny, I'm already seeing people freaking the fuck out over bandcamp being bought by Epic Games. People already cancelling their bandcamp accounts and whatnot. Apparently Epic are some big scummy corporation (no shit buddy, they're a corporation) and will for sure ruin the platform. I'll wait and see if bandcamp actually gets ruined before throwing in the towel. It's not like there's any better alternatives at the moment.

Véhémence - Par le Sang Versé

Huh, I actually quite liked that Golgothan Remains track. Sounds like what I was hoping last year's Suffering Hour album would be. Non Est Deus - Impious (Melodic BM, Germany) Project from the guy behind Kanonenfieber, an album that everyone and their dog went crazy over last year. This one's more straight forward melodic bm. Fairly polished and modern sounding but still pretty good.

Tardigrada - Vom Bruch bis zur Freiheit Eldritch - I Shall Raise My Burning Sword Haxanu - Snare of All Salvation

Bilwis - Pan (BM, Germany) These guys put out a fantastic EP in 2020 and their debut full length sounds equally as good so far. A definite purchase for me.

I got Windows 11. Seems to do the trick. Never had any issues.

I use Musicbee for my digital collection and I honestly couldn't be happier with the program. Their user interface is excellent. Very user friendly and has seemingly endless customization options. Adding album artwork is super easy, the program can literally find an album cover from the internet on the program itself so copy/saving images from google is never necessary. And I've never once had music just disappear on me. In terms of organizing my library, I go crazy overboard with playlists. Unlike Itunes, when you add songs to a playlist in Musicbee it groups songs together by album, or at least you have the option to group them that way if you want. I have every song by every artist in my collection labeled by subgenre (black, death, thrash, heavy, etc.) so I've got separate playlists for each subgenre from each country. "Finnish black metal", "Norwegian Black", "Swedish Death", or just playlists by subgenre, "Atmo-black", "War metal", "New OSDM", "Blackened Speed", etc. And within each playlist I have each album grouped together by year, then alphabetically. I also have playlists for my favorite albums from each year going back to 2000, and I always have a separate playlist for new releases from the current year and a general "new music" playlist. It is definitely tedious subdividing my entire collection into a myriad of different playlists (I probably have over 100 of them) but it ultimately makes navigating my collection and choosing what to listen to SO much easier. I also feel it keeps me from having to make some kind of spreadsheet.

Perdition Temple - Merciless Upheaval (Death metal, Florida) New Perdition Temple full length in June. These guys are as solid as they come. New track sounds killer!

Evilfeast - Elegies of The Stellar Wind Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulee

Nuclear Assault - Game Over Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel

This reminds me of a story from a couple years back about some dude getting thrown out of MDF for having NSBM patches on his vest... https://www.brooklynvegan.com/goatmoon-patch-gets-guy-kicked-out-of-maryland-deathfest-show-he-says/

Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor

Just lasted about 5 minutes with the new Blood Incantation ambient album. That's gonna be a gigantic FUCK NO from me. Whatever that thing is, it is not my cup of tea... NP: svrm - Червів майбутня здобич

Ultra Silvam - The Sanctity of Death (BM, Sweden) They're last album kicked a ton of ass and this new one sounds equally as impressive.

Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II and III

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath Mercyful Fate - Time

Immolation - Acts of God (2022) Yeah this is the only thing I'm gonna be listening to for the next few days. The Death Metal kings have done it again!

Undeath - It's Time.... To Rise From the Grave (Death metal, NY) New Undeath album out on April 18. These guys have gotten a fuck ton of hype the past couple years and I'd say it's mostly deserved. They definitely worship Cannibal Corpse pretty hard but they sure do know how to throw down an infectious riff.

Enjoying a few from my latest bandcamp haul... Seid - Svartr Sól Hilning - råtijinn Odious Devotion - S/T