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Hail,

More black metal this week.  Although black metal has clearly gone above
ground and been trendified, there's some great stuff out there.  More new
goodies to come!

1.  Wicked Innocence - Omnipotence (Napalm Records)
2.  Bethlehem - Dictius Te Negare (Red Stream)
3.  Setherial - Nord (Napalm Records)
4.  Kataklysm - Sorcery (Nuclear Blast)
5.  Impaled Nazarene - Latex Cult (Osmose)
6.  Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast (Cacophonous)
7.  Immolation - Here In After (Metal Blade)
8.  Hades - Alone Walkyng (Wounded Love)
9.  Demonic - Lead Us Into Darkness (Necropolis)
10.  Rise - Shadow of Ruins (Nigma)
11.  Asgard - To a Golden Age (Morbid Metal)
12.  Molested - Blod-Draum (Effigy)
13.  Deeds of Flesh - Gradually Melted (Wild Rags)
14.  Pan-Thy-Monium - III (Khaoohs & Kon-fus-ion) (Relapse)
15.  Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (Century Media)

This stuff rocks!  WICKED INNOCENCE do the gutteral, chugmotor style of
American death metal with technicality and flair, while SETHERIAL ape the
fragile and epic structures of black metal bands such as EMPEROR.
IMMOLATION's "Here In After" holds place on this last after many weeks of
presence.  Hail to all true metal emperors!