Doug and CHR decide to revisit two albums that didn't make the cut on the main episode for various reasons. First up is the rap/hardcore hybrid project of Ice-T and friends, Body Count. CHR also shares his love for Powerwolf and sees if their over-the-top antics can win over Doug as well.

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The Albums:

Body Count : Bloodlust (2017)

When rapper Ice-T got a hankering for metal back in the early 1990s, he hooked up with guitarist Ernie C. and formed Body Count, a rap/thrash hybrid who created waves with their first album Cop Killer (later retitled to Body Count). Twelve years later, Ice-T has the metal bug biting at him again.

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Powerwolf : The Sacrament of Sin (2018)

Powerwolf is a multi-national power metal band who eschew typical power metal tropes and instead utilize themes and imagery more indicative of black/extreme metal. Their tongues might be firmly planted in their cheeks, but the music lives up to their name.

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CHR and Doug go old school (sort of) with this month's new albums. Doug picks the Jamey Jasta-produced solo album from Dee Snider, while CHR opts for some throwback metal in Lucifer's second album. Doug stays true to form with a solid melodeath indie pick before CHR blows his mind with the black metal polka onslaught of the infamous Finntroll in Heavy Metal Valhalla.

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New Releases:

Dee Snider : For The Love Of Metal (2018)

Dee Snider is an American singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor, primarily known as the lead singer of Twisted Sister. The 63 year-old singer was approached by Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta to participate in an idea he had for an album.

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Lucifer : Lucifer II (2018)

Lucifer are a German/Swedish retro rock/metal band featuring vocalist Johanna Sadonis, formerly of The Oath. Their sound sits at the border between classic rock bands like Fleetwood Mac or Heart and the early doom metal of Black Sabbath.

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Local/Indie Band:

Warbreed : Legacy (2018)

Warbreed is an Argentinian melodic death metal band performing music with themes about World War II, life, and philosophy.

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CHR and Doug keep things a little simpler this month with a look at new albums from NYC hardcore legends Madball and Lamb of God's covers album under their old Burn The Priest moniker. Things get significantly more complex in the indie segment with Portugal's Dallian, but everything ends well with some classic line-up Black Sabbath in Heavy Metal Valhalla.

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News:

* Former Malevolent Creation singer Bret Hoffman passes away

* Metalocalypse director Jon Schnepp passes away

New Releases:

Madball : For The Cause (2018)

Originally a side project of Agnostic Front, Madball has evolved into its own band, remaining a stalwart in the New York hardcore scene for nearly thirty years.

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Burn The Priest : Legion: XX (2018)

To celebrate their twentieth anniversary, Lamb of God reverted back to their original band name and produced a covers album of the music that inspired them to produce music.

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Local/Indie Band:

Doug continues his exploration of the varieties of melodic death metal with the technical prowess of Inferi and the proggier stylings of Orbit Culture. CHR, on the other hand, goes from one extreme to the other with the female-fronted folk of Midnattsol and the fathers of brutal death metal, Suffocation.

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News:

Vinnie Paul Abbott (Pantera, Damageplan, Hellyeah) passes away. (June 22, 2018)

New Releases:

Inferi : Revenant (2018)

Inferi are a Nashville, Tennessee-based melodic death metal band who incorporate a lot of progressive and technical elements into their sound.

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Midnattsol : The Aftermath (2018)

Midnattsol are a female-fronted folk metal band from Germany featuring the dual vocals of the Espenæs sisters, Carmen and Liv Kristine.

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Local/Indie Band:

CHR and Doug have a showdown of East vs. West this time around. CHR champions Asian power metal with Mary's Blood from Japan and DreamSpirit from China. Doug, on the other hand, chooses to stay in the USA with stoner rock/metal band Gozu and a look back at Pantera's breakout album, Cowboys From Hell.

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New Releases:

Mary's Blood : Revenant (2018)

Mary's Blood is a Japanese all-female power metal band formed in 2009 by four former members of Destrose.

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Gozu : Equilibrium (2018)

Gozu is a Boston, Massechusetts-based stoner metal band that combines the fuzzy riffs of 1960s psychedelia with elements of 1990s grunge and classic rock.

Get this album: Bandcamp • Amazon.com • iTunes • CD Universe • Spotify

Local/Indie Band:

DreamSpirit : General Triumphant (2017)

DreamSpirit is a power/folk metal band from China. The band combines traditional heavy metal guitar riffing and Chinese folk-inspired elements to create a unique voice in the subgenre.

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CHR and Doug kick off Year Seven of the show with a look at the previous year. After that, it's business as usual with new albums from Rivers of Nihil and the legendary Judas Priest. Doug brings some high-speed tech-death from Archspire to the indie segment while CHR attempts to relive his glory days with Skid Row's second album.

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New Releases:

Rivers of Nihil : Where Owls Know My Name (2018)  

Rivers of Nihil is an American death metal band from Reading, Pennsylvania. Traditional subgenres don't apply as the band incorporates technical, atmospheric, progressive, and jazz elements into their songs making for a unique experience.

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Judas Priest : Firepower (2018)  

Formed in the late 1960s, Judas Priest is one of the most influential metal bands of all time, especially in the power and thrash subgenres. After forty-plus years, can the old guard still put out a great album?

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Local/Indie Band:

CHR and Doug bring you a varied set of picks this month, starting out with the newest album from Salt Lake City's Visigoth and following up with the final album from Germany's Cripper. In the indie segment, CHR takes you back to Australia to listen to Louis Rando's newest project, Depravity. In Heavy Metal Valhalla, Doug looks at the breakout album by a band that needs no intro, Metallica.

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New Releases:

Visigoth : Conqueror's Oath (2018)

Hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah, Visigoth plays an offshoot of traditional heavy metal with sword-and-sorcery lyrics, evoking bands such as Manilla Road and Grand Magus.

Get this album: Bandcamp • Amazon • iTunes • CD Universe • Spotify

Cripper : Follow Me: Kill! (2017)

Sitting between thrash and death metal, the female-fronted German band Cripper eschew traditional genre boundaries to create a unique style all their own. The band decided to call it quits at the beginning of 2018, but leave a respectable back catalog of albums in their wake.

Get this album: Bandcamp • Amazon • iTunes • CD Universe • Spotify

Local/Indie Band:

Depravity : Evil Upheaval (2018)

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CHR and Doug mix up a subgenre cocktail this month, starting out with the hardcore/crossover leanings of Bloodclot followed by Mystic Prophecy's metal interpretations of various radio classics. In the indie segment, Undrask takes us on a melodeath-infused sci-fi adventure. Finally, it's Black Metal History Month again, so we look at a classic from Behemoth's catalog.

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New Releases:

Bloodclot : Up In Arms (2017)

Bloodclot is a New York City-based hardcore/crossover thrash act featuring former members of the Cro-Mags, Danzig, and Queens of the Stone Age (among others). Their no-frills approach to the material makes for a fast-paced, energetic album of in-your-face brutality.

Get this album: Amazon.com • iTunes • CD Universe • Spotify

Mystic Prophecy : Monuments Uncovered (2018)

Mystic Prophecy is a fairly prolific German speed/power metal band formed by members of Valley's Eve. Combining melodic riffing with powerful drumming, Mystic Prophecy have carved a decent fanbase out of the somewhat crowded German scene. In an effort to combat stagnation, the band released an album of metal covers of traditionally non-metal 1970s–1990s radio classics.

Get this album: Amazon.com • iTunes • CD Universe • Spotify

Local/Indie Band:

Undrask : Battle Through Time (2017)

Undrask is a melodic death metal band formed in August 2013 in North Carolina, USA. Inspired by metal of all flavors, their music features a dash of brutal, a heap of melody, a bit of groove,

CHR and Doug mix things up this time around with new albums from gothic pioneers Moonspell, retro-thrashers Power Trip, and the black/power metal hybrid of The Lightbringer. Finally, Doug tries to overcome CHR's prejudice against the early 2000s metal scene with Lamb of God's third album.

New Releases:

Moonspell : 1755 (2017)

Moonspell is a Portuguese extreme gothic metal band formed in 1992. They are one of the most recognizable metal bands from Portugal and pioneers in the gothic metal scene.

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Power Trip : Nightmare Logic (2017)

Power Trip is a thrash metal band from Dallas, Texas, USA. They employ raw energy, rich tones, fierce riffs, and a solid respect of thrash bands of the past to invoke a sound that is both familiar and original.

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Local/Indie Band:

The Lightbringer : Heptanity (2017)

The Lightbringer is a Canadian band heavily influenced by the melodic black, power, and death metal waves of the 1990s. They take all these disparate and seemingly contradictory genres and link them with symphonic, epic, and ethereal atmospheres.

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CHR and Doug present an episode of two halves: It's melodic death metal vs. epic doom metal with new albums from The Black Dahlia Murder and Sorcerer. Doug showcases Spanish female-fronted melodeath act Bloodhunter while CHR tries to raise awareness of Italian band DoomSword in Heavy Metal Valhalla.

New Releases:

The Black Dahlia Murder : Nightbringers (2017)

The Black Dahlia Murder is an American death metal band from Michigan, USA, formed in 2001. Their style combines characteristics of melodic death metal with those of traditional American death metal.

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Sorcerer : The Crowning of the Fire King (2017)

After releasing two demos in the late 1980s–early 1990s, the members of Sweden's Sorcerer went their separate ways for nearly twenty-five years. In the early 2010s, the band reunited and began putting out full-length albums.

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Local/Indie Band:

Bloodhunter : The End of Faith (2017)

Bloodhunter are a Spanish female-fronted melodic death metal band. Taking a lot of influences from Gossow-era Arch Enemy, Death, and early Carcass, the band employs high-energy guitars and a vicious delivery.

Get this album: Bandcamp • Amazon.com • iTunes     Info: Facebook

Heavy Metal Valhalla: