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Exmortus - Oathbreaker (2022)

(Thrash/Death)

Pyreficativm - Oneiron

Acker Bilk - Stranger On The Shore, I Want To Know What Love Is (Foreigner cover), Above The Stars, To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before, Longfellow Serenade, Ska Face, Arthur’s Theme, Moonlight Tango and Burgundy Street

From a (Retooled*) 2001 compilation CD of music by the late** English (From Pensford, Somerset) Jazz/Easy Listening clarinetist/bandleader, “The Greatest Of”.

Fun fact: His biggest hit, 1961’s “Stranger On The Shore”, became the first hit to top both the UK and US charts simultaneously, as well as the first number one single in the US by a British artist. During the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction of The Beatles, Mick Jagger namedropped it as one of the few big things that was coming out of the UK at the time before the British Invasion bands such has the Beatles and Stones came along.

*This compilation, which I bought at a thrift store, seemed to be full of mostly 80s recordings by Acker Bilk, and the version of “Stranger On The Shore” on it was marked as a re-recording. To balance this out, I replaced the version of “Stranger” with the 1961 original, and mixed some of the 80s recordings (some of which are named above) with his 60s recordings, as well as one from 1971. I know re-recordings and “more recent” tunes were a common practice on compilation CDs at the time, but c’mon! Gotta have a little authenticity here!

** 1926-2014

Dope - Debonaire

Cradle of Filth - To Live Deliciously (new song 2025)

(Symphonic Black Metal)

2nd single that beats the last one. I’m getting a few thrash vibes most from Kreator.

Electric Callboy - Elevator Operator (new song 2025)

(Electroncore)

Best song of the week

Destruction - A.N.G.S.T (new song 2025)

(Thrash Metal)

Destruction never disappoints with great Thrash of Germany

Aerosmith - Dream On (1973)

(Classic Rock)

DJ Zany - Pure Columbian Cocaine

Paul McCartney - The World Tonight, If You Wanna, Somedays, Calico Skies, Flaming Pie, Heaven On A Sunday and Really Love You.

From the English (From Liverpool) singer/songwriter/musician/ex-Beatle’s tenth solo album, “Flaming Pie” (1997).
Coming off the heels of The Beatles’ Anthology project, this amazing album was released with an exciting cast of characters, both family and friends of Paul. These include his late wife Linda McCartney on backing vocals, his son James on guitar, his Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr on drums, ELO’s Jeff Lynne on guitar and keyboards, George Martin on orchestral arrangements and a collaboration with Steve Miller (of the titular Steve Miller Band) on the song “Used To Be Bad”. This album is also the last to feature the aforementioned Linda, who passed away from breast cancer a year after the album’s release. Elsewhere on the album, Paul
dedicated the song “Little Willow” to Ringo’s ex-wife Maureen, who passed away in 1994.

Fun fact (Taken from Wikipedia): The title Flaming Pie (also given to one of the album’s songs) is a reference to an anecdote that John Lennon told in a humorous story published in magazine Mersey Beat in 1961 about the origin of the Beatles’ name: “It came in a vision – a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, ‘from this day on you are Beatles with an A.’”

Coffee by Miguel (2015)
(R&B)

Spotify Discover Weekley

Kiss - Thou Shalt Not

Crucifixion Bell - Eternal Grip Of The Nocturnal Empire

DragonForce - Fallen World, Cry Thunder, Give Me The Night, Die By The Sword and Last Man Stands

From the fifth album by the British (From London) Power/Speed metal band, “The Power Within” (2012)

Taste and Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter

Putrid Defecation - Airborn Backdoor Evacuation (2025)

(Slam Metal)

Sabhankra - Heathens Hate (2025)

(Black Metal)

Black metal from Turkey thanks James Horsley for the discovery

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Burying Place - In The Light Of Burning Churches

Sting - If You Love Somebody, Love Is The Seventh Wave, Children’s Crusade, Shadows In The Rain and Consider Me Gone

From the debut solo album by the English (From Wallsend, Tyne and Wear) musician (and ex-member of the Police), “Dream Of The Blue Turtles” (1985)

Wolftower - Throne of Nightfall’s Wrath

The Incredible String Band - Bridge Song, Invocation, Robot Blues and Cutting The Strings

From side two of of the seventh album by the British (Formed in Edinburgh, Scotland) Psychedelic folk/Folk rock band, “U” (1970)

See above for the deets.

The Incredible String Band - El Wool Suite, Time, Queen Of Love, Partial Belated Overture, Walking Along With You and Hirem Pawnitof/Fairies’ Hornpipe

From side one of the seventh album by the British (Formed in Edinburgh, Scotland) Psychedelic folk/Folk rock group, “U” (1970).

A double album, the music was part of a multimedia project the band undertook algonside the dance troupe Stone Monkey (including Malcolm le Maistre, who became a member if ISB soon after). (Quoting Wikipedia directly in the next two sentences) The project was described my ISB co-founder Robin Williamson as a “surreal parable in song and dance”, one that was “neither a pageant, a play, dance, theater, nor pantomime, though there were elements of all of those” in the show. For the plot, Williamson explained “the vague notion was, a soul incarnates out of nowhere, lives, and then vanishes again at the other end. Hence the idea ‘U’”. Very hippy-dippy UK Underground-type stuff, but rich in different musical styles and instrumentation.

I’ll follow up with side two later on.

Morte Sumus / Dämonenblut - Abendmahl