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Viking's Choice: Skull-Melting Feedback, Free-Jazz Psych, Experimental Lute

You can absolutely judge an album by its cover, especially when it involves a possessed Toad King surrounded by dead toad soldiers. Plus new music from Sunwatchers, Jozef Van Wissem.
Goblinsmoker's grubby artwork really just sets the vibe, you know?

Gonna keep it 100: I absolutely judge an album by its cover. Does it have a sick wizard? A most-pleasing font and color combination? An impossible and-or nightmarish fantasia?

When I scroll through Bandcamp, on the hunt for hidden corners of punk, metal and outer sounds, the first sense

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