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Concrete Caveman - Feral (Strange Mono, USA)
Burner - It All Returns to Nothing (Church Road Records, UK)
Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm (Argento/Not Kvlt Records, USA)
Wallowing - Earth Reaper (Church Road Records, UK)
Sunrot - The Unfailing Rope (Prosthetic Records, USA)
Mutoid Man - Mutants (Sargent House, USA)
Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere (Independent, USA)
Jesus Piece - …So Unknown (Century Media Records, USA)
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin, Canada)
End - The Sin of Human Frailty (Closed Casket Activities, USA)
EYES – Congratulations (Indisciplinarian, Denmark)
Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (Peaceville Records, Scotland)
Outer Heaven – Infinite Psychic Depths (Relapse, USA)
Rotten Sound – Apocalypse (Season of Mist, Finland)
HEALTH – RAT WARS (Loma Vista Recordings, USA)
Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean – Obsession Destruction (Redscroll Records, USA)
Somnuri – Desiderium (MNRK Heavy, USA)
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Land of Sleeper (Rocket Recordings, UK)
Pupil Slicer – Blossom (Prosthetic, UK)
Incendiary – Change The Way You Think About Pain (Closed Casket Activities, USA)
Aara – Triade III: Nyx (Debemur Morti, Switzerland)
Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin, Canada)
ASET – Astral Rape (Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions, Finland/France/Unknown)
Ulthar – Anthronomicon/Helionomicon (20 Buck Spin, USA)
Woe – Legacies of Frailty (Vendetta Records, USA)
Imperial Crystalline Entombment – Ancient Glacial Resurgence (Debemur Morti, USA)
Miserere Luminis – Ordalie (Sepulchral Productions, Canada)
Heretoir – Nightsphere (Northern Silence Productions, Germany)
HEALTH – RAT WARS (Loma Vista Recordings, USA)
Mizmor – Prosaic (Profound Lore Records, USA)
Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current (Peaceville Records, Norway)
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium - Nahab (Debemur Morti, France)
Harp – Albion (Bella Union, USA)
Austere – Corrosion of Hearts (Prophecy, Australia)
Katatonia – Sky Void of Stars (Napalm Records, Sweden)
Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle (Avantgarde Music, Finland)
Mephorash – Krystl-Ah (Shadow Records, Sweden)
Lamp Of Murmuur – Saturnian Bloodstorm (Wolves of Hades/Argento Records, USA)
Panopticon – The Rime of Memory (Bindrune Records, USA)
VNV Nation – Electric Sun (Anachron Sounds, Germany)
Organ Dealer – The Weight of Being (Everlasting Spew, USA)
Cruel Force – At the Dawn of the Axe (Shadow Kingdom, Germany)
Smoulder – Violent Creed of Vengeance (Cruz Del Sur, Canada/Finland)
Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (Peaceville, Scotland)
Royal Thunder – Rebuilding the Mountain (Spinefarm, USA)
Filth is Eternal – Find Out (MNRK Heavy, USA)
Helms Deep – Treacherous Ways (Nameless Grave, USA)
Blood Ceremony – The Old Ways Remain (Rise Above Records, Canada)
Godthrymm – Distortions (Profound Lore, United Kingdom)
Church of Misery – Born Under a Mad Sign (Rise Above, Japan)
Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions, Slovakia)
Colony Drop – Brace For Impact (Nameless Grave, USA)
Katatonia – Sky Void of Stars (Napalm, Sweden)
Century – The Conquest of Time (Electric Assault, Sweden)
Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination (Century Media, USA)
Mortuary Drape – Black Mirror (Peaceville, Italy)
Baroness – Stone (Abraxan Hymns, USA)
Majesties – Vast Reaches Unclaimed (20 Buck Spin, USA)
Gel – Only Constant (Convulse, USA)
Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin, Canada)
Left Cross – Upon Desecrated Altars (Profound Lore, USA)
Ushangvagush – Pestmo'qon (Realm & Ritual/Vigor Deconstruct, USA)
Mycorrhizae – The Great Filtration (Big Bovine Industries/Livor Mortis, USA)
Zorn – Zorn (Sorry State Records, USA)
Arnaut Pavle – Transilvanian Glare (Mystískaos , Finland)
Kostnatění – Úpal (Willowtip, USA)
Haxprocess – The Caverns of Duat (Witches Brew, USA)
Afterbirth – In But Not Of (Willowtip, USA)
Häxanu – Totenpass (Amor Fati, USA)
Colin Stetson – When we were that what wept for the sea (52Hz, Canada)
Zhmach – Karyta Dzieda Platona (Grime Stone, Belarus)
Parannoul – After the Magic (Topshelf Records, South Korea)
Vastum – Inward to Gethsemane (20 Buck Spin, USA)
Chepang – Swatta (Nerve Altar, USA)
Fabricant – Drudge to the Thicket (Profound Lore, USA)
Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions, Slovakia)
Nothingness – Supraliminal (Everlasting Spew, USA)
Krallice – Porous Resonance Abyss (Hathenter, USA)
Odz Manouk – Bosoragazan (Blood Coloured Beast, Armenia)
Behemoth – Unreleased Demo Album 1994 (Zombi Danz Records, Brazil)
Bogside Sniper Squadron – Demo 2023 (Independent, USA)
Boreas – Gnostic Chants from Sempiternal Void (Death Prayer Records, USA)
Fuinäehot – Secrets Of The Godhead (Forbidden Sonority, USA)
Hekseblad – Promo MMXXIII (Independent, USA)
Mroczna Wieża – Mroczna Wieża (Forbidden Sonority, USA)
Nocturnal Effigy – Bloody Dusk (Independent, USA)
Oerheks – Landschapsanachronismen and Valkengebed (Babylon Doom Cult Records, Belgium)
Orlok's Mourning – Embraced by the Light of a Vampyric Moon (Hammer and Flail Recordings, USA/Canada)
Púca – Demo (Moonworshipper Records, USA)
Corrupted – Mushikeras (Independent, Japan/USA)
Laster – Andermans mijne (Prophecy Productions, Netherlands)
Krieg – Ruiner (Profound Lore Records, USA)
Mycorrhizae – The Great Filtration (Big Bovine Industries, USA)
Thantifaxath – Hive Mind Narcosis (Dark Descent Records, Canada)
Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle (Avantgarde Music, Finland)
Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions/The Ajna Offensive, Slovakia)
Majesties – Vast Reaches Unclaimed (20 Buck Spin, USA)
Woe – Legacies of Frailty (Independent/Vendetta Records, USA)
Lightbreaker– Annihilation of the Annealids (Independent, USA)
Gates of Dawn – II (Death Hymns, USA)
Austere – Corrosion of Hearts (Prophecy Productions, Australia)
Bergfried – Romantik II (Fiadh Productions, Austria)
Lamp of Murmuur – Saturnian Bloodstorm (Wolves of Hades/Not Kvlt Records, USA)
Harp – Albion (Bella Union, USA)
Urfaust – Untergang (Ván Records, Netherlands)
Katatonia – Sky Void of Stars (Napalm Records, Sweden)
Miserere Luminis – Ordalie (Sepulchral Productions, Canada)
Tenhi – Valkama (Prophecy Productions, Finland)
Dødheimsgard – Black Medium Current (Peaceville Records, Norway)
Galactic Empire – Special Edition (Pure Noise, USA)
Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy\ (Century Media, USA)
JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown – SCARING THE HOES (Independent, USA)
Creeping Death – Boundless Domain (MNRK Heavy, USA)
Restless Spirit – Afterimage (Magnetic Eye, USA)
The Zenith Passage – Datalysium (Metal Blade, USA)
Foo Fighters – But Here We Are (Roswell, USA)
Spirit Adrift – Ghost At The Gallows (Century Media USA)
Killer Mike – MICHAEL (VLNS/Loma Vista, USA)
Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You (Sony Music/The Orchard/Perpetual Novice, USA)
Obituary – Dying of Everything (Relapse, USA)
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – Rejecting Obliteration (Prosthetic, New Zealand)
Man Must Die – The Pain Behind It All (Distortion Music, Scotland)
Raider – Trial By Chaos (Self-released, Canada)
Unearth – The Wretched; The Ruinous (Century Media, USA)
Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags (Scotland, Peaceville)
Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (Metal Blade, USA)
The Chemical Brothers – For That Beautiful Feeling (Virgin/EMI, England)
Nuclear Power Trio – Wet Ass Plutonium (Metal Blade, USA)
Witch Ripper – The Flight After the Fall (Magnetic Eye, USA)
Anti-God Hand – Blight Year (American Dreams, Canada, interview)
Begravement – Horrific Illusions Beckon (Independent, USA)
Excarnated Entity – Mass Grave Horizon (Nuclear Winter, USA)
Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin, Canada)
Lamp of Murmuur – Saturnian Bloodstorm (Argento, USA)
Svalbard – The Weight of the Mask (Nuclear Blast, UK)
Fossilization – Leprous Daylight (Everlasting Spew, Brazil)
healthyliving – Songs of Abundance, Psalms of Grief (La Rubia, international)
Krallice – Mass Cathexis 2 - The Kinetic Infinite (Independent, USA)
Spirit Possession – Of the Sign… (Profound Lore, USA)
Torpor – Abscission (Human Worth, UK)
Ushangvagush – Pestmo'qon (Vigor Deconstruct, USA)
Afterbirth – In But Not Of (Willowtip, USA)
Yellow Eyes – Master's Murmur (Sibir, USA)
Agriculture – Agriculture (The Flenser, USA)
Vastum – Inward to Gethsemane (20 Buck Spin, USA)
Full of Hell and Nothing – When No Birds Sang (Closed Casket Activities, USA)
Miserere Luminis – Ordalie (Sepulchral Productions, Canada)
Sprain – The Lamb As Effigy (The Flenser, USA)
Bandit – Siege of Self (Independent, USA)
Dawn Ray’d – To Know the Light (Prosthetic Records, United Kingdom)
Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle (Avantgarde Music, Finland)
Agriculture – Agriculture (The Flenser, United States)
Dymna Lotva – Зямля Пад Чорнымі Крыламі: Кроў (The Land Under The Black Wings: Blood) (Prophecy Productions, Belarus)
Nox Eternus– Eternal Night (Reaping Scythe Records, United States)
Ὁπλίτης – Τρωθησομένη (Independent, China)
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium - Nahab (Debemur Morti Productions, France)
Panopticon – The Rime of Memory (Bindrune Recordings, United States)
Dodheimsgard – Black Medium Current (Peaceville, Norway)
Kostnatění – Úpal (Willowtip, United States)
Bonginator – The Intergalactic Gorebong of Deathpot (Barbaric Brutality, United States)
Vanwa – Vanwa (Independent, Germany)
Trespasser – ἈΠΟΚΆΛΥΨΙΣ (Pest Productions, Sweden)
Auriferous Flame – Ardor for Black Mastery (True Cult Records, Italy)
Lamp of Murmuur – Saturnian Bloodstorm (Argento Records, United States)
Wayfarer – American Gothic (Profound Lore, United States)
Kvelgeyst – Blut, Milch und Thränen (Eisenwald, Switzerland)
HEALTH – RAT WARS (Loma Vista, United States)
Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin, Canada)
Thantifaxath – Hive Mind Narcosis (Dark Descent, Canada)
Quest Master – Sword and Circuitry (Urge Records, Australia)
Orkblut – Ghost Paths to Septentrion (Medieval Prophecy, Belgium)
Dead Times – Dead Times (Thrill Jockey, USA)
Anonymous Skull – Oh, To Be Forgotten (Deathful Lust, Canada)
Крюкокрест – Ауфидерзейн (Horrible Room, Russia)
Crymych – Songs of Sistrum (Deathprayer, UK)
Forest Thrall – Amidst Pines (Deathprayer, USA)
dai-ichi – dai-ichi (Crown and Throne, USA)
Häxanu – Totenpass (Amor Fati, USA)
Woe – Legacies of Frailty (Vendetta, USA)
Circle of Ouroborus – Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset (His Wounds, Finland)
Gates of dawn – II (Death Hymns, USA)
Morne – Engraved with Pain (Metal Blade Records, USA)
Gabestok – Med Freden Kommer Hadet (Strange Aeons Records, Denmark)
Cavalera Conspiracy – Morbid Visions (Nuclear Blast, USA)
Wreathe – The Land is Not an Idle God (Persistent Visions, England)
Urfaust – Untergang (Ván Records, Netherlands)
Revenant Marquis – All The Pleasures of Heaven (Deathprayer Records, England)
Demoncy – Black Star Gnosis (Dark Descent Records, USA)
Kommodus – Wreath of Bleeding Snowfall (Goatowarex Records, Australia)
Lamp of Murmuur – Saturnian Bloodstorm (Argento Records/Not Kvlt Records, USA)
Voyager – Fearless in Love (Season of Mist, Australia)
Jesus Piece – ...So Unknown (Century Media, USA)
Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus Productions, Slovakia)
Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination (Century Media, USA)
Final Gasp – Mourning Moon (Relapse Records, USA)
Mutoid Man – Mutants (Sargent House, USA)
Blood Ceremony – The Old Ways Remain (Rise Above Records, Canada)
Mammatus – Expanding Majesty (Silver Current, USA)
Outer Heaven – Infinite Psychic Depths (Relapse Records, USA)
Gacharic Spin – W (Nippon Crown, Japan)
Clowns – Endless (Fat Wreck Chords, Australia)
Colony Drop – Brace for Impact (Nameless Grave Records, USA)
Baroness – Stone (Abraxan Hymns, USA)
Gunship – Unicorn (Independent, England)
Wayfarer – American Gothic (Profound Lore Records/Century Media, USA)
Tanith – Voyage (Metal Blade Records, USA/England)
Spirit Adrift – Ghost at the Gallows (Nuclear Blast, USA)
Enslaved – Heimdal (Nuclear Blast, Norway)
Horrendous – Ontological Mysterium (Season of Mist, USA)
Autopsy – Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts (Peaceville Records, USA)
Cirith Ungol – Dark Parade (Metal Blade, USA)
Cruciamentum – Obsidian Refractions (Profound Lore, International)
Excarnated Entity – Mass Grave Horizon (Nuclear Winter Records, USA)
Hellwitch – Annihilational Intercention (Listenable Records, USA)
Malleus – The Fires of Heaven (Armageddon Label, USA)
Malokarpatan – Vertumnus Caesar (Invictus, Slovakia)
Mortuary Drape – Black Mirror (Peaceville Records, Italy)
Raven – All Hell’s Breaking Loose (Silver Lining Music, USA)
Rope – Rope (Independent, USA)
Century – The Conquest of Time (No Remorse Records / Electric Assault, Sweden)
Majesties – Vast Reaches Unclaimed (20 Buck Spin, USA)
Tanith – Voyage (Metal Blade Records, USA)
Spirit Possession – Of the Sign… (Profound Lore, USA)
Blood Python – Thunder City (Independent, Norway)
Vision Master – Sceptre (Gates of Hell Records, USA)
Ascended Dead – Evenfall of the Apocalypse (20 Buck Spin, USA)
By Fire and Sword – Glory (No Remorse Records, USA)
Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold (No Remorse Records, Greece)
Smoulder – Violent Creed of Vengeance (Cruz del Sur Music, International)
Xibalba – Aztlan (Closed Casket Activities, USA)
Commitment in Pain – Commitment in Pain (Independent, USA)
Gaijin – Third Impact (Barbaric Brutality, USA)
Sunami – Sunami (Triple B Records, USA)
Never Ending Game – Outcry (Triple B Records, USA)
Outta Pocket – Waste of a Man (Streets of Hate, USA)
Pain of Truth – Not Through Blood (Daze, USA)
Manos de Fierro – Eat Lead (Barbaric Brutality, USA)
Chain Gang – Florida Fight Music (Self-Released, USA)
Conservative Military Image – Casual Violence (Lionheart Records, USA)
Xibalba – Aztlan (Closed Casket Activities, USA)
Commitment in Pain – Commitment in Pain (Independent, USA)
Gaijin – Third Impact (Barbaric Brutality, USA)
Sunami – Sunami (Triple B Records, USA)
Never Ending Game – Outcry (Triple B Records, USA)
Outta Pocket – Waste of a Man (Streets of Hate, USA)
Pain of Truth – Not Through Blood (Daze, USA)
Manos de Fierro – Eat Lead (Barbaric Brutality, USA)
Chain Gang – Florida Fight Music (Self-Released, USA)
Conservative Military Image – Casual Violence (Lionheart Records, USA)
Retained Surgical Instrument – Penis Trauma (Self-Released, USA)
Lepra – Devil’s Blood In Her Tongue (Fiadh Productions, USA)
Gorenette Coleman – Tomorrow I’ll Be Festerin’! (Putrefactive Recordings, USA)
Panopticon – The Rime of Memory (Bindrune Recordings, USA)
Nuclear Remains – Dawn of Eternal Suffering (Maggot Stomp, USA)
Field Dressed – Field Dressed (Self-Released, USA)
Disfiguring the Goddess – Sooth 2 (Self-Released, USA)
Soil of Ignorance – Through the Portal (Self Released, CA)
Trichomoniasis – Makeshift Crematoria (New Standard Elite, USA)
Nithing – Agonal Hymns (New Standard Elite, USA)
Yohualli – Turquoise Stars and Night Skies (Night of the Palemoon, US)
Woe – Legacies of Frailty (Vendetta Records, US)
Wayfarer – American Gothic (Profound Lore, US)
Model/Actriz – Dogsbody (True Panther, US)
JPEG Mafia & Danny Brown – SCARING THE HOES (AWAL Recordings America, US)
Lamp Of Murmuur – Saturnian Bloodstorm (Argento Records, Netherlands)
Body of Light – Bitter Reflection (Dais Records, US)
Thantifaxath– Hive Mind Narcosis (Dark Descent, US)
Vastum – Inward to Gethsemane (20 Buck Spin, US)
Gravesend – Gowanus Death Stomp (20 Buck Spin, US)
Weald & Woe – For The Good Of The Realm (Fiadh Productions, US)
Yellow Eyes – Master’s Murmur (Gilead Media, US)
Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle (Avante Garde Music, Italy)
Agriculture – Agriculture (The Flenser, US)
Mandy, Indiana – I’ve Seen A Way (Fire Talk, US)
Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit (20 Buck Spin, US)
Spirit Possession – Of The Sign… (Profound Lore, US)
Ulthar – Anthronomicon (20 Buck Spin, US)
Venusberg Cardinal – Atlas Of Dungeons (Self Released)
Krallice – Porous Resonance Abyss (Self Released)
Godflesh – Purge (Avalance Recordings, U.S.)
Enslaved – Hemidal (Nuclear Blast Records, Norway)
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium-Nahab (Candleight Records, France)
Crypta – Shades of Sorrow (Napalm Records, Brazil)
Blackbraid – Blackbraid II (Self-Released, U.S.)
In Flames – Foregone (Nuclear Blast, Sweden)
Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite (Metal Blade Records, U.S.)
Osiah– Kairos (Unique Leader Records, U.S.)
Knuckle Puck – Losing What We Love (Pure Noise Records, U.S.)
Drain – Living Proof (Revelation Records, U.S.)
Gel – Only Constant (Convulse Records, United States)
Scowl – Psychic Dance Routine (Flatspot Records, United States)
Wicca Phase Springs Eternal – Wicca Phase Springs Eternal (Run For Cover Records, United States)
KEN Mode – Void (Artoffact Records, United States)
Year Of The Knife – No Love Lost (Pure Noise Records, United States)
Health – Rat Wars (Loma Vista Recordings, United States)
Fuming Mouth – Last Day Of Sun (Nuclear Blast, United States)
Movements – Ruckus! (Fearless Records, United States)
Clowns – Endless (Fat Wreck Chords, Australia)
End – The Sin Of Human Frailty (Closed Casket Activities, United States)
Hex A.D. - Delightful Sharp Edges (Apollon Records, Norway)
Slumbering Sun - The Ever-living Fire (Independent, United States)
Celestial Sanctuary - Insatiable Thirst for Torment (Church Road Records, United Kingdom)
Kostnatění - Úpal (Willowtip Records, United States)
Shadows - Out for Blood (Sentient Ruin Laboratories, Chile)
Century - The Conquest of Time (Electric Assault Records, Sweden)
Bonginator - The Intergalactic Gorebong of Deathpot (Barbaric Brutality, United States)
Rezn - Solace (Independent, United States)
Lunar Chamber - Shambhallic Vibrations (20 Buck Spin, United States)
Bergfried - Romantik II (Fiadh Productions, International)
Hippie Death Cult – Helichrysum (Heavy Psych Sounds, United States)
Danava – Nothing but Nothing (Tee Pee Records, United States)
Kruelty – Untopia (Profound Lore Records, Japan)
Drain – Living Proof (Epitaph, United States)
Khanate – To Be Cruel (Sacred Bones Records, United States)
Flesh of the Stars – The Glass Garden (Independent, United States)
Green Lung – This Heathen Land (Nuclear Blast, United Kingdom)
Colony Drop – Brace for Impact (Nameless Grave Records, United States)
The Night Eternal – Fatale (Ván Records, Germany)
Dozer – Drifting in the Endless Void (Blues Funeral Recordings, Sweden)
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