SurgicalBrute

Thy Heart, Thine Kingdom - In the Garden of Somer II ...pretty lo-fi atmospheric black metal by members of Nocturnal Tyrant, Winterspells, and Upir, which are all bands I like https://tillbm.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-garden-of-somer-ii

My home computer I use AdBlocker Ultimate and uBlock Origin. They're both pretty good by themselves, but they seem to get along well with each other, and usually one will catch something if the other doesn't. Plus, while uBlock Origin seems to be more thorough, which I like, it gets pinged more often by sites that don't like ad blockers. AdBlocker Ultimate on the other hand seems to work on at least some of the sites that would otherwise lock up from an ad blocker, so i pretty much never have to deal with ads on anything. For my phone I use Free Adblocker Browser, which was fantastic when it first started, and while It still does the job for the most part, they've made small concessions over the years like "Okay one ad when you first load it and no more after that" or when they had their stupid CHAT AI search bar taking up a huge chunk of the screen. They do seem to take feedback seriously though, and they'll fix things pretty quickly if there's an issue, so I've stuck with them.

Yeah it's an ongoing game...the other issue is that sometimes the blocker company will cut some kind of deal. The ad blocker I've used on my phone for the longest time has slowly, but steadily made some concessions to places like YouTube and Google over the years. Biggest one was when they took away the ability to listen to YouTube while your phone was in sleep mode because YouTube doesn't like that. Not sure if it was a payoff or legal threats that did it, but they shut it down quick

Auriferous Flame - Ardor For Black Mastery New side project from Ayloss of Spectral Lore...straight forward and more in line with his Mystras stuff https://auriferousflame.bandcamp.com/album/ardor-for-black-mastery

That's why I run a couple of different blockers...so if one doesn't catch it another one will. If you're seeing one of those little pop ups your current blocker may need an update or possibly replaced

Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns and Seven Seals https://sulphuraeon-vanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/seven-crowns-and-seven-seals Nope.... "Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide" is one of my favorite death metal albums, and I enjoyed the two follow ups well enough as well, but this new one isn't cutting it. While I can definitely hear their previous efforts in the music, it feels like there's no edge in it anymore. It almost reminds me of what Hooded Menace did on their last one, making an album for people who don't really Sulphur Aeon. That being said, I can see the impending knob slobbing from the overall metal community coming for this new one from a mile away.

Yoth Iria - Flame Of The Whirling Swords https://edgedcircleproductions.bandcamp.com/album/flame-of-the-whirling-swords

Warkrusher - Armistice Canadian Death/Thrash/Crust Not as Bolt Thrower-esque as I expected, but it's good https://desolaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/warkrusher-armistice

Furia - Huta Luna https://paganrecords.bandcamp.com/album/huta-luna

Sorathian Dawn - Radiant Terror https://sorathiandawn.bandcamp.com/album/radiant-terror

Malum - In Nauseam Norwegian black metal https://norwegianmalum.bandcamp.com/album/in-nauseam

Korgonthurus - Jumalhaaska Late November https://woodcutrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jumalhaaska?from=hp

New Torture Chain album out today "The Reign Of Deimos" https://hospitalproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-reign-of-deimos

Nocturnal Mortuary - Tales From The Cemetery

Cosign this whole statement 100%. I'm not looking for anything revolutionary, but if a whole album goes by and you haven't managed to get me to perk my head up from what I'm doing for even a riff or two, then there's just nothing there. Saw a comment once on another board, they were talking about those caveman-core bands, and I think they nailed why they sound so uninspired. It's because they're not even taking their ideas from the better death metal bands from before. Instead the vast majority seem to take their ideas from the first batch of bands to come out of that scene. So you just get these copies of copies of bands that really didn't have much to bring to the table to begin with

Black Grail - Misticismo Regresivo https://virupi.bandcamp.com/album/misticismo-regresivo

Yeah brother, I think we talked about it when Djinn came out and we basically both came to the same opinion. Devoid of Light was pretty solid, but each follow up album seems to be weaker than the last. My comment about them being propped up was more in regards to how most people seem to be thinking just the opposite, to the point I recently saw someone refer to Djinn as a "modern day masterpiece". Considering the direction they're moving in, comments like that make me wonder a bit about the taste of their fan base, and if its the increasing emphasis on the non-black metal elements that's making them seem more and more appealing. Solipnosis - Sintesis Silenciosa Proggy blackened death thrash (if there is such a thing) from Chile. You guys on the weirder end of the music spectrum might enjoy this https://virupi.bandcamp.com/album/sintesis-silenciosa

It's funny because I don't think I even made it to the "grower" stage with Djinn, yet apparently its was considered their best album up to that point. Starting to think this band is mostly getting propped up by people who don't actually like black metal, but still want to be able to tell everyone they listen to black metal. Welkin - 武勇 / Emblems of Valour from Singapore https://welkin.bandcamp.com/album/emblems-of-valour

Chilean Death Metal Day INFAMOVS will release their first new album in roughly 6 years. Look for "Stench" to drop sometime towards the end of 2023. ...and motherfucking Sadism will be dropping their new album, "Obscurans", at the end of November Not Chilean Death metal, but new Desecresy is out "Deserted Realms"

Konfession - Rural Hypostasis https://konfession-iec.bandcamp.com/album/rural-hypostasis

Skuggeheim - Daudssyklusen Mostly overlooked, one man, lo-fi Norwegian black metal. Comp of all his EP releases including the newest one. It's actually not as rough sounding as I was expecting, and there are a surprising number of melodic, interlude tracks on here with no actual vocals https://terraturpossessions.bandcamp.com/album/daudssyklusen

Here...Revealed is on Bandcamp in its entirety https://thorybos666.bandcamp.com/album/monuments-of-doom-revealed Immortal - Pure Holocaust

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-dragons-wyverns-drakes-and-wyrms A drake is dragon with no wings...essentially an overgrown lizard ...and Zack is still kicking. I see him pop up in my Bandcamp feed every once in awhile.

Dungeon - Purifying Fire https://dungeon2.bandcamp.com/album/purifying-fire-2 British speed metal

Strikehammer - Chaotic Spell Italian blackened speed metal https://strikehammer.bandcamp.com/album/chaotic-spell