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Howdy all,

Not much changed since last week.  Eagerly anticipated next week: ANCIENT.
Their first, Svartlvheim, has been a favorite for the year and a half I've
had it; hopefully they won't have placed their musical mutation in a
cheesier/more commercial direction.  New this week is Rise, a Los Angeles
death metal band whose miniCD has been on this list before.  Their new
album, Shadows of Ruins, is a divergent mix of styles fused into a death
metal powerdrive.  

1.  Kvist - For Kunsten Maa Vi Evig Vike (Avantgarde)
2.  Burzum - Filosofem (Misanthropy)
3.  Deeds of Flesh - Gradually Melted (Wild Rags)
4.  Necrophobic - Spawned by Evil (Black Mark)
5.  Immolation - Here In After (Metal Blade)
6.  Zyklon-B - Blood Must Be Shed (Malicious)
7.  Cenotaph - 9 epic tales and death rites (OZ)
8.  Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane (Relapse)
9.  Suffocation - Pierced from Within (Roadrunner)
10. Inquisition - Incense of Rest (Defiled)
11. Vader - De Profundis (Conquest Music) 
12.  Rise - Shadows of Ruins (NIGMA) 
13.  At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul (Earache)  
14.  Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (Century Media)
15.  Deicide - Once Upon A Cross (Roadrunner)

S.R. PROZAK