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NONE – Damp Chill of Life [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]

By Master of Muppets On December 8, 2019 · 16 Comments · In 2019, American Metal, Black Metal, Hypnotic Dirge Records, Reviews, Things You Might Have Missed 2019
"Let's get one thing straight from the get-go: I trvly don't give a fuck about you, never have and never will. When I share something wonderful here, it's because awesome Muppet is awesome, not because I want to improve your miserable lives; you deserve nothing and I hope you get less, yo. Accordingly, I write these TYMHM pieces not because *you* might have missed any gems I cover, but because *I* missed *my* chance to properly babble about them during the year." Muppets unbound.
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Oath of Cruelty – Summary Execution at Dawn Review

By Mark Z. On December 8, 2019 · 7 Comments · In 2019, American Metal, Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Reviews, Thrash Metal
"Oath of Cruelty are a name I've been familiar with for a while even if their output thus far has been extremely limited. Formed in 2010, this Texas trio play a combination of death and thrash metal that first came to my attention with 2014's lean and mean Hellish Decimation EP. Consisting of just two tracks, Decimation seemed to show Cruelty had a mastery of their style, with the EP's five minute runtime being filled with absolutely fierce riffing and crunchy rhythmic breaks that made it impossible not to bang your head." Obsessed by cruelty.
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Daxma – Ruins upon Ruins [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]

By Carcharodon On December 7, 2019 · 18 Comments · In 2019, American Metal, Blues Funeral Recordings, Doom Metal, Post-metal, Post-Rock, Things You Might Have Missed 2019
"I felt a certain pressure when choosing something, particularly my first thing, to write up as a TYMHM. When I write reviews, ok, I choose them from the promo pit but I’m choosing from the limited pickings left for me by the faster, more nimble AMG scribes. When picking a TYMHM, it’s all on me to pick from the shit ton of music not covered on this most veritable of blogs. So, it may perhaps strike some of you as odd that I have chosen to cover an endearingly small album with only 2 tracks and clocking in at just over 25 minutes." Everything's ruined.
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Reign of Fury – Exorcise Reality [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]

By Dr. A.N. Grier On December 6, 2019 · 15 Comments · In 2019, English Metal, Reviews, Self-released, Things You Might Have Missed 2019, Thrash Metal
"I can't believe it's been four years since I first listened to Reign of Fury. For those of you that don't remember, or weren't alive during that time, Reign of Fury's 2015 release, Death Be Thy Shepherd, was so good it landed atop my year-end list. As I read over the words I wrote long ago, three things are clear. First, I'm still a shitty writer. Second, boy, a lot has changed in what seemed like a perfect life for ole Grier. Third, Exorcise Reality is no Death Be Thy Shepherd, Part Deux." Reality bites.
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Perihelion – Agg Review

On December 6, 2019 By Huck N Roll
"I feel bad for bands who release albums in December. We are so focused on crafting our year-end lists (and panning each other’s) that we really aren’t that interested in listening to even more new music. Still, Perihelion hold a special place in my heart. Not many bands hail from my ancestral breeding ground of Hungary. I’m sure there’s more, but these guys and Thy Catafalque are the only two that come to mind. And two years ago Perihelion released Örvény, which was quite a nice piece of work. Now comes Agg, the band’s third full-length." Hungary for more.
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Luca Sellitto – The Voice Within Review

On December 6, 2019 By Twelve
"As I look back upon the strange and unwieldy mess that we’ve been calling “2019,” I feel like something has been missing. Something uplifting; something powerful. And I’m already short on word count, so, long story short, it’s power metal. In fact, I’m in such a slump for the stuff that seeing The Voice Within, the debut solo album from Luca Sellitto, the guitarist from Italian act Stamina, described as “neoclassical power metal” in the promo bin caused me to grab it so fast I hadn’t even registered the glowing electric guitar on the cover." Power outage.
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Eternity’s End – Unyielding [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]

On December 5, 2019 By Holdeneye
"I discovered Eternity's End with the release of their debut The Fire Within back in 2016, and I was completely blown away by their thrashy brand of neoclassical progressive power metal. That record is certainly in my top 10 of the 2010s, and I was ecstatic when I heard a follow-up was imminent." Eternity is now!
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Human Fortress – Reign of Gold Review

On December 5, 2019 By Steel Druhm
"Human Fortress has had a strange and somewhat tragic career. I bought their 2001 debut Lord of Earth and Heavens Heir on a whim and was blown away by the classy, high-quality power metal the band delivered. Aided by the exceptional vocals of Jioti Parcharidis, the band crafted some excellent songs that have stuck with me over the years, and while the album wasn't perfect, it was a rousing and polished slab o' Euro-power with tons of hooks. In 2003 they took a big step forward, topping their debut with Defenders of the Crown, which has gone on to become one of my favorite power metal albums of all time and one I still play with great regularity. After this, things began to fall apart." All that sparkles....
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Hellsodomy – Morbid Cult Review

On December 5, 2019 By Mark Z.
"I'm willing to bet Voidhanger's Working Class Misanthropy is a legal means of execution in some countries and Goatwhore's live performance remains the only thing that has caused me to piss my pants in my adult life. Hellsodomy don't sound too much like those bands, but the raging energy this Turkish quartet exudes with their whirlwind of blakk, thrash, and death is enough to make me consider shoving their second album Morbid Cult right into the flabby folds of my Year End List." Are you cultish?
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Suldusk – Lunar Falls [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]

On December 4, 2019 By Emya
"Spotify's Discover features serve me well. For without my Discover Weekly playlist or the Artist and Playlist radio station features, I do not know whether I would have stumbled across Suldusk's stunning debut album Lunar Falls in time to join the flurry of this year's Things You Might Have Missed posts. Suldusk is the one woman neo folk blackgaze project of Emily Highfield of Melbourne, Australia." Lunar folk.
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