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(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 59: The Mid-Year Metal Report

I’ll be honest: about half of my trip to Italy was spent listening to Italian progressive rock – mainly the Quella Vecchio Locanda debut, the debut from Le Orme I also picked up while at Discoteca Laziale in Rome, and some mid-70s Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. Another quarter was spent listening to David Bowie live albums, and then the last few days was a mad escapade trying to sort my mid-year report for Nine Circles. Usually I do nine records as part of our Nine Circles ov… series, but something happened. Turns out I loved metal this year. I think it gave me a lot of comfort in times of great stress and depression. So not nine, not even a baker’s dozen…but 32 albums, a tasting of which is presented for your perusal, enjoyment, or distress below.

  • Ancient Death – “Breaking the Barriers of Hope”
  • Bronson Arm – “Permitted to be Omitted”
  • Byzantine – “Floating Chrysamthema”
  • The Callous Daoboys – “Two-Headed Trout”
  • Century – “Children of the Past”
  • Changeling – “World? What World?”
  • Cradle of Filth – “Demagoguery”
  • Deafheaven – “Magnolia”
  • Dessiderium – “In the Midst of May”
  • Dormant Ordeal – “Orphans”
  • Dream Theater – “Night Terror”
  • The Great Old Ones – “Me, the Dreamer”
  • Havukruunu – “Tavastland”
  • Imperial Triumphant – “Gomorrah Nouveaux”
  • Inhuman Condition – “Severely Lifeless”
  • King Witch – “Swarming Flies”
  • Leather Hearse – “Antithesis”
  • Malevolence – “If It’s All the Same to You”
  • Mean Mistreater – “Do or Die”
  • Messa -“At Races”
  • Nite – “Crow (Fear the Night)”
  • Onirophagus – “Landsickness”
  • Retromorphosis – “Vanished”
  • Rhûn – “Seeking the Fire”
  • Rwake – “You Swore We’d Always Be Together”
  • Tiktaalika – “Lost Continent”
  • Tómarúm – “Shallow Ecstacy”
  • Tonguecutter – “Urgency”
  • Tower – “Under the Chapel”
  • Turnstile – “Never Enough”
  • Wurmian – “Aeon Afterglows”
  • -(16)- – “Hat on a Bed”

No commentary…yet. My post for Nine Circles goes up Tuesday so when that’s published I’ll link it here.

One other quick note: Leather Hearse isn’t on streaming platforms, just Bandcamp which is an excellent excuse to go there and pick it up for the devilish price of $6.66. And they don’t have anything on YouTube except the full EP, so the YouTube playlist is a little longer and the Spotify playlist is a little shorter.

Be safe, be good to each other. See you next week.

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