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A short scoot back to 2024 today and something which arrived unexpectedly at Ave Noctum: A game soundtrack Asciimov – Hands Of Necromancy 2 (The Order Of The Yew 2024)
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Late but here, a difficult, disorientating descent into a place and a novel that will stay in the mind long after the sounds have faded. Hecate / Towers At Ries – This Is Not For You
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For the second Friday in a row we visit the folklore of Scotland, this time with the huge black/folk metal passion of the returning Cnoc An Tursa – A Cry For The Slain
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I’m in the mood for some rough, epic skullcrushing, enemy slaying heavy metal. You could pick absolutely nothing better than Portugal’s true metal veterans Ironsword – Servants Of Steel (Alma Mater 2020)
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Today a retrospective to some but a whole new world to me. I give you the quiet beauty in darkness via Melankolia – Compendium: 2007 – 2017
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The end to a busy week of metal closes with a twin load of incredible talent. Firstly we have the Scottish speed demon Hellripper – Coronach and secondly the imperious return of English atmospheric black metal kings Winterfylleth – The Unyielding Season
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Something I could not ignore: A band who mean so much to me returned and not simply that; they dropped just… just something extraordinary. Neurosis – An Undying Love For A Burning World
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After a week of Dungeon synth we take a wrong turn and end up in some void we never should have looked into. I offer you the disorienting horror of Wretched Fixation – Forced Projection
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Today we catch up with one of the most beautiful, warm albums I have heard in a long time. The light shone by the sun and by Flickers From The Fen – Stoned In Gielinor III
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Late as a late king long buried, but here. We observe the strangest of rituals and the sound provoked by it by the strange and often delightful Bwganod – Trwy ddrysau dychmygol