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The Tasting Notes Podcast is a weekly show that sees Bryn & Jaff embark upon a somewhat eventful journey through the world of wine, provide in-depth reviews of some recent releases in the world of extreme and alternative music, and have a damn good laugh along the way.


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Mushroom Beard – Mushroom Beard (Pale Wizard Records)

Paara – Laulut Tulen Ja Jään (Dusktone)

The Lovecraft Sextet – Penance (Debemur Morti Productions)

Sépulcre – Cryptic Temple Of Otherworldly Abhorrations (Invictus Productions)

Urna – The Great Jihad (ATMF Records)

Caspian – Caspian (Wax Bodega Records)

Night Swimming – Melting, Sometimes Bleeding (venn records)

Cursebinder – Psychohazard (Avantgarde Music)

Boss Keloid – Float & Aperture (Church Road Records)

Leadbelcher – Heaven’s Bloated Corpse (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)

Veilburner – all that gimmers is gloam (transcending Obscurity records)

Throes – The Colorless Light of Emptiness (Church Road Records)

Goblin Cock – Traumanaut (Joyful Noise Recordings)

Hekatoxen – Obsidian Majesty (Nuclear Winter Records)

Witchthroat Serpent – Demons Left To Roam (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Slumbag – Slumbag (Independent)

Enterré Vivant – Kurogoku (Transcendance Records)

Servant – Lux Ex Inferis (AOP Records)

Asomvel – Set Your World On Fire (Independent)

Burner – No One Is Coming To Save Us (Church road records)

Tårfödd – En Känsla Av Hopplöshet (Purity Through Fire)

Dissimulator – Artifice Dissolves (20 Buck Spin)

Ethereal Tomb – Living To Dream Again (Bat Skull Records)

Noctule – Extinguish Thy Flame (Independent)

Adam Wiltzie & Jóhann Jóhannsson – Friendship Survival Guide (Deutsch Grammophon)

Showing Teeth – A fate worse than loneliness (spinefarm)

Ch’ahom – Anthemic Rites Of Sublimination (20 Buck Spin)

Suffering Quota – Sisyphean Life (7 Degrees/Tartarus Records)

Slug Comparison – Cold In Cold Out (Independent)

Green Lung – Necropolitan (Nuclear Blast)

Filth – Death Exhibition (Me Saco Un Ojo)

Discouraged – A Farewell In Stages (FDA Records)

Foreign Body – Libertine (Brutal Panda)

Epitaphe – III (Independent)

Wyrdstæf – Primordial Bloodlines (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)

Kulk – Choosing To Die (Church Road Records)

Ricky Warwick – Fire & Vengeance (Earache Records)

Devil Master – Bloody Dreams (Relapse Records)

President – Blood Of Your Empire (Kings of Terrors Ltd)

Sigh – Goh-Ka (Peaceville Records)

A-Tota-So – I Told You So (buttonPusher)

Invocation Ritual – Altered Realm (Iron Fortress Records)

Death Kommander – The Great Offensive (FDA Records)

Nothingness – Godslaughter (Everlasting Spew Records)

Mould – Hoping As A Coping Mechanism (5db Records)

Heretic Cult Redeemer – In Oculum Chaos (Serpent Sun Records)

REZN – Cycles In The Infinite Dream (Sargent House)

Profane Burial – Desolate Echoes Of Turmoil (These Hands Melt)

Wehmut – IV. Sommer (Naturmacht Productions)

Iron Slaught – Metallic Torments (Gates of hell records)

Slor – Eternal Mirror (Independent)

Snorlax – Toxic Current Current (Avantgarde Music)

Inferno – The Anthropic Sophisms (On The Heights of Despair) (Debemur Morti Productions)

Anton Pearson – Driving Through Belgium (World of Echo)

Nxmad – The Second Fall (APF Records)

Thætas – The Irredeemable Age (Profound Lore records)

A World Worth Burning – The Sky Was Colored As Hammered Lead (Argonauta Records)

Boneripper – Radiant In Ruin (Independent)

Truck Violence – The Weathervane Is My Body (The Flenser)

Verdun – Abyssal Womb (Transcending Obscurity Records)

CMF – If We’re Apart, I’m Somewhere Missing You (Saesori Sounds)

Arrogant Destruktor – The Old Spirit Remains (Satanath Records)

Stormkeep – The Nocturnes of Iswylm (Vesperian)

Man Looking Man – Man Looking Man (Argonauta Records)

Goetia – Mortuary Cult (Carbonized Records)

Wylk – Archaica (Independent)

Kybalion – Make The World Bleed (Non Serviam Records)

Graveir – The Festering Triad (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)

Hecate Enthroned – The corpse Of A titan, a lament long buried (m-Theory Audio)

Horrific Visions – Remnants of Atrophy (Comatose Music)

Goat The Head – Death By Default EP (Crispin Glover Records)

This Is Hell – Born Suspicious (Trustkill)

Houkago Grind Time – Sorry I Am Not From Japan (Outrageous Weeb Power Productions)

Mauna Sol – The Calling (loud Rage Records)

Lorn – Searing Blood (I, Voidhanger Records)

Jungle Rot – Cruel Face Of War (Unique Leader Records)

otay:onii – love is in the shit (pelagic Records)

Social Distortion – Born To Kill (epitaph Records/Crime Don’t Pay Inc.)

Terror – Still Suffer (Flatspot Records)

The Prestige – Isthmos (Banshies)

Astraya – Atropine (These Hands Melt)

At The Gates – The Ghost Of A Future Dead (Century Media Records)

Pilori – Sans adieu (Frozen records/Terrain Vague Records)

Crippled Black Phoenix – Sceaduhelm (Season of Mist)

Poison Ruin – Hymns From The Hills (Relapse Records)

Uada – Interwoven (eisenwald)

Mild – Boss (Independent)

Immolation – Descent (Nuclear Blast Records)

Nervosa – Slave Machine (Napalm Records)

Winterfylleth – The Unyielding Season (Napalm Records)

Melting Rot – Infatuation With Premeditation (Hell’s Headbangers Records)

Joep Beving – Liminal (Deutsche Grammophon)

Heretkau – Amentit (Independent)

Gaerea – Loss (Century Media Records)

Dropkick Murphys/Haywire – New England Forever EP (Dummy Luck Records)

The Black Crowes – A Pound of Feathers (Silver Arrow)

Vitamin X – Ride The Apocalypse (Svart Records)

Lamb Of god – Into Oblivion (Century Media records)

Disgracing – descension Into despair (EP)

Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks (Apocalyptic Witchcraft)

Desert Storm – Buried Under The Weight of Reason (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Lost Society – Hell Is A State Of Mind (Nuclear Blast Records)

Temple of Void – the crawl (relapse records)

Black Stone Cherry – Celebrate (Mascot Records)

Miserere Luminis – Sidera (Debemur Morti productions)

Speglas – Endarkenment, Being & Death (Trust No One recordings)

Blunt Knife castration – Blood & Oil (Remorseless Records/ independent)

Olhava – Memorial (Avantgarde Music)

Domhain – in perfect stillness (these hands melt)

Coscradh – carving the causeway to the otherworld (20 buck spin)

Review: Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean – Let Us Not Speak Of Them But Look And Pass On (Redscroll Records)

Belzebong – The End Is High (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Die Spitz – Something To Consume (Third Man Records)

Exhumed – Red Asphalt (Relapse Records)

Mumford And Sons – Prizefighter (Universal)

De l’Abîme Naît l’Aube – Rituel: Initiation (Hypnotic Dirge Records)

Hoaxed – Death Knocks (Relapse Records)

All The Damn Vampires – Vicecore (Independent)

Ponte del Diavolo – De Venom Natura (Season of Mist)

Puke Wolf – Descend (5FeetUnder Records Plus others)

Mayhem – Liturgy of Death (Century Media Records)

Kavari- Plague Music EP (XL Recordings)

Møl – Dreamcrush (Nuclear Blast Records)

Moloch – Bend. Break. Kneel. Crawl. (Dry Cough/SuperFi/ Independent)

Sidious – Malefic Necropolis (Immortal Frost Productions)

qasu – A Bleak King Cometh (Phantom Limb/Apocalyptic Witchcraft)

Gorrch – Stillamentum (Avantgarde Music)

Cwfen – Sorrows (New Heavy Sounds)

Gros Enfant Mort – Le Sang Des Pierres (Moment of Collapse)

JB Dunckel – Paranormal Music Chamber (Prototyp recordings)

Health – Conflict DLC (Loma Vista Recordings)

Anaemia – Bloodletting eP (Independent)

Kreator – Krushers of the World (Nuclear Blast)

Void Sinker – Depth (Independent)

Tombseeker – Tombseeker (Iron Fortress Records)

Carrion Vael – Slay Utterly (Unique Leader Records)

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