My “Best of 2022” list is finally ready to be unfurled. Here are the 16 albums with which I formed the strongest bond or felt the deepest connection: ☠️ 1. Decapitated - Cancer Culture 2. Nite - Voices of the Kronian Moon 3. Kvaen - The Great Below 4. Venator - Echoes From the Gutter 5. Night Cobra - Dawn of the Serpent 6. Sumerlands - Dreamkiller 7. Svar - Under a Sky Full of Thunder 8. Véhémence - Ordalies 9. Undeath - It’s Time to Rise From the Grave 10. Blackbraid - I 11. High Command - Eclipse of the Dual Moons 12. Ashes - Gloom, Ash and Emptiness to the Horizon 13. Sylvaine - Nova 14. Traitor - Exiled to the Surface 15. Darkthrone - Astral Fortress 16. Slaegt - Goddess ☠️

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2022 New Album Leaderboard! Here are the new releases that are hitting hard in my listening chamber (alphabetical): ☠️ 🇫🇮Aethyrick - Pilgrimage (black metal, Finland) 🇺🇸Astral Tomb - Soulgazer (cosmic death metal, Colorado) 🇺🇸Beastmaker - Left for Dead (doom, California) 🇨🇦Beholder - Arcane Subreptice (black/thrash, Canada) 🇸🇪Dark Funeral - We Are The Apocalypse (black metal, Sweden) 🇸🇪In Aphelion - Moribund (black metal, Sweden) 🇸🇪Kvaen - The Great Beyond (black metal, Sweden) 🇫🇮Moonlight Sorcery - Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity (black metal, Finland) 🇺🇸Night Cobra - Dawn of the Serpent (heavy metal, Texas) 🇺🇸Nite - Voices of the Kronian Moon (blackened heavy metal, California) 🇩🇰Slægt - Goddess (blackened heavy metal, Denmark) 🇫🇷Véhémence - Ordalies (medieval black metal, France) ☠️ What am I missing?

ALBUMS OF THE WEEK! The winner this time was “Ram” by Paul and Linda McCartney. I’m still pretty new to the world of The Beatles, and this post-breakup album is a force of creativity. In the world of metal, Night Cobra dropped their excellent debut album, Dawn of the Serpent, and it is a really fun listen (I played it four times on release day). There was much live Ozzy (including a few that didn’t make it on the list), and plenty of black metal to keep me frosty. ☠️ 1. Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram 2. The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers 3. Night Cobra - Dawn of the Serpent (2022) 4. Thulcandra - Ascension Lost 5. Demonaz - March of the Norse 6. Enforced - Kill Grid 7. Ozzy Osbourne - Live & Loud 8. Whoredom Rife - Winds of Wrath 9. Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads - Tribute ☠️ What was on your turntable this week?

Our sisters and daughters are under attack by the religiously militant politicians in Texas. Ladies, I’m sorry you have to live like this. But you’re not under his eye completely here because Texas still affords us the freedom to choose what bands’ music we put into our bodies. And Texas has a ton of great bands to help us through the misery of evangelical fundamentalism.
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What is your favorite Texas band right now?

TEXAS METAL! I wasn't born in Texas, but there are plenty of good bands here that justify staying. Here's a small sampling:⁠ ☠️⁠ Necrofier⁠ Night Cobra⁠ Frozen Soul⁠ Malignant Altar⁠ Sleeping Ancient⁠ Power Trip⁠ Oath of Cruelty⁠ Paingiver⁠ ☠️⁠ What's your favorite Texas metal bands?⁠

2020 TOP 10 EPs. I published my 2020 Top 25 Albums list a couple of weeks ago. Now it’s time to give some love to the EPs that came out this year. Criteria: the release must have 3-5 songs and be between 10 and 25 minutes long. These are all great, so I’ll present them in alphabetical order: ☠️ •Beastmaker - Body & Soul •Deus Mortem - The Fiery Blood •Ettinskjalf - Intrametal •Gruesome/Exhumed - Twisted Horror •Inferi - Of Sunless Realms •Mutilated Tyrant - Ho'dichiih Dóó’ Sáji’ •Night Cobra - In Praise of the Shadow •Paingiver - Deorum Mortis •Spirit Adrift - Angel & Abyss •Wraith/Bastardizer - Speed Armageddon ☠️

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