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And straight after the new Circle album Sseennsseess, or rather, at the same day, we get a re-issue of the band's Hollywood album, originally released on CD in 2008, now put out on double LP with bonus tracks.

Well, well...a new album by Finland's Circle, but one with the original outfit...nót the members from various Finish Metal acts which last year recorded and released the Incarnation album, a review for which was posted by yours truly.

Line up:

Nick Blake – bass

Fraser Edwards – guitar

Ricki Carnie – Vocals

Stuart Docherty – guitar

Dick Gilchrist – drums

Well, there you have it...I mean, when you start a review talking about the diversity of a certain record label (in casu : Victory Records), you'll find they provide you with the handy proof to make your point! Because as mentioned in my review of the most recent Close Your Eyes album, this label deals with out-of-the-ordinary type of bands, and the same sure counts for this “MetalCore” act from sunny South Florida (home base Hialeah).

Heikki Hautala is a visual artist (with apparently quite a few exhibitions to his name – check some of his work at (www.) heikkihautala.wordpress.com) whom is also the frontman of the Finish blind-rage noisy Punk band Sokea Piste, who thus far released one 7-inch single (July 2011's Oire), and two 12-inch albums (July 2011's Ajatus Karkaa, released a day prior to the single; and Jan. 2013's Vätikäsi), the latter of which was also released on CD by Ektro.

Norway’s Glittertind are a project by Torbjørn Sandvik, who started this outfit at the age of sixteen, more than twelve years ago. In the past, Glittertind released two albums via Karmageddon (the full length Evige Asatro in 2004, and the mini Til Dovre Faller in 2005), both as solo-project for Torbjørn.

One of my favourite albums from 2012, and probably my favourite Death Metal album that very same year (and in many years), must be Ævangelist’s De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis. I did refer to it in the review I recently did for Ævangelist’s newest album, Omen Ex Simulacra (see update February 8^th 2014).

Supercharger is a Danish band founded in 2009 at Copenhaegen. They playing swinging-Rock-n-‘roll’ with a touch of metal that’s how the band describes themselves.

Members are: Mikkel Neperus (lead vocal), Thomas Buchwald (guitar), Benjamin Funk (drums), Lars Rygaard (keyboard, percussion),Karsten Dines Johansen (bass) and

It wasn’t quite the case during the early years of this band, but since about a decade, I find it quite an exciting experience to listen to new material by German act Eisregen. I couldn’t really enjoy the first albums they did, but as from half of the 2000’s, they do draw my attention, for the material became much more interesting. The band comes close, in mean time, to its twentieth anniversary, and with Todestage, they deliver their tenth album.

Everything I, Voidhanger Records (an independent division of Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation aka ATMF Records) do is of a superior quality. This wonderful label releases nothing but excellent stuff, and this time it is not different. With Converge, Rivers Of Hell, this Italian label compiles material from three solo-projects by an Australian guy who calls himself Dis Pater (I have no idea who the person behind those projects is, but actually it does not matter, does it).