Blind Idiot God

Wormed - The Nonlocality Trilemma

Odious Mortem - The Endless Regression of Mind

Origin - Wrath of Vishnu

Vale of Pnath - Legacy of Loss

Sam Adams Old Fezziwig Ale. Just an all-around holiday classic, and the first one of the season for me.

Arsis - Carve My Cross

Om - Gethsemane

KEN mode - Your Heartwarming Story Makes Me Sick

Abnormality - A Chaos Reserved

Long Trail Blackbeary Wheat. It's meh; the convenience store I bought it from had mad sales going, but only for disgusting swill aside from this, and so I bought it because it was the only cheap thing they had that wasn't goat piss.

Hour of Penance - Decimate the Ancestry of the Only God

Fallujah - The Dead Sea

Deeds of Flesh - Entranced in Decades of Psychedelic Sleep

Vektor - Dying World

Arkaik - Reflections Within Dissonance

Pyrexia - Cryptic Summoning

Hey, to the stupid soccer mom in the Navigator: I didn't honk to be a dick. I honked to get you to stop fiddling with whatever the hell it was you were fiddling with near the center console so that you would merge into the spot I had freed up for you because you were, y'know, HOLDING UP AN ENTIRE GODDAMN LINE OF TRAFFIC. When you angrily zipped into that spot, I assumed that that would be the last I would see of you. Unfortunately, that was not to be the case. You instead broke off to the side and decided to fall behind me to better allow you to follow me for AT LEAST four or five miles across a good deal of Manchester so you could pull up beside me at a red light, roll down the window, and proceed to flip me off while screaming at me before throwing a partially-full cup of coffee at my car for having the nerve to try and keep you from holding up traffic. Have fun with your petty little victories while your husband is nailing his assistant behind your back and your kids turn into rotten little monsters who have no idea what consequences are. I hope you choke.

Hour of Penance - Absence of Truth

Decrepit Birth - Through Alchemy Bound Eternal

Fallujah - Ritual of Godflesh

Barker's good for his genre and has compelled many kids to pick up a kit and a pair of sticks and start bashing away, I'll give him that. I guess that kinda applies to Joey Jordison as well, though Jordison is sloppy as hell and has a serious lack of creativity in spite of his overly large setup. Still, he's at least gotten plenty of kids to try drums, though he never did anything for me (I always was into people like George Kollias, John Longstreth, Pete Sandoval, and David McGraw and wasn't overly impressed by him even when I cared about Slipknot, which was back around when I was thirteen or so).

Rivers of Nihil, Abiotic, Exhumed, and Dying Fetus at the Palladium on Halloween. Sound was as retarded as usual (gotta love all-kick mixes, which is 99% of what you find at the Palladium), but everyone did amazing, even Abiotic, whose music is awful (they do have a very good bassist, I'll give 'em that). Other than that, Rivers killed, Exhumed was a rowdy, barely-controlled good time complete with Philthy emptying a zombie mask full of red-dyed booze into the crowd and a final third that consisted of the band getting into mock-glam getups and cracking jokes about "this song is about what covers the groupies at the end of the night", and Fetus delivered a fantastic set full of classics and always seemed to have the right song for the moment. Speaking of Fetus, Trey was particularly excellent, locking right in with his trademark combo of ridiculous speed and monster grooves. Kid's one of the reasons why I decided to start playing drums in the first place, and he never disappoints.

New Warbringer is weird, completely different from their previous material, and just very interesting overall. I'd almost describe it as their Once was Not: a very experimental album with tons of ideas, many of which are wonderful, but also with some that just plain don't work. It's got a lot of prog-thrash, sure, but it also has some melodic death, some power-thrash, a crazy death metal/crossover song, and even something that's basically straight early-mid eighties German speed metal worship ala Living Death and Iron Angel. While it's not their best album, it sure is one that demands repeated listens just to take everything in.

Ade - Divinitus Victor

Gorod - Elements and Spirit