Up at 4:30 a.m. involuntarily, but what else is new? Insomina is a way of life and I can never seem to stop the gray matter from percolating, bubbling, and spitting juice.. Then I start thinking that I’ve not done one of these playlists in quite a while. But then again, they are infrequent, as the title would seem to indicate. Goddamn, I’m tired. Coffee time, baby! Read it!

Midnight – Satanic Royalty (Hells Headbangers). How does Motorhead get any dirtier? They become Midnight.

Invection – Facet of Abberation (Stormspell). Great band and tough as hell in a Slayer kind of way.

MC5 – High Time (Rhino). It came out a long time ago. Do you love them?

Reign of Vengeance beanie. I left it on the bus, but got it back. It’s a miracle of Christ.

Lacuna Coil – Dark Adrenaline (Century Media). Never used to care about this band. The new album changed that big time.

Anatomia / Absconder – Audible Assault (HPGD Productions) – Meet two of my new favorite bands. And Anatomia’s opiate-induced, doomed and crawling cover of Judas Priest’s “Turbo Lover?” Forget about it!

Anatomia / Grudge / Coffins – Doomed to Death, Damned in Hell (Obliteration) – So I had to seek out more material with the Anatomia name attached. Japenese of the doomed. Just friggin’ bad ass.

Nocturnal Torment – They Come at Night (Deathgasm). I can’t list this here or write anything about it since ClawHammer PR is promoting the release. What’s that? I already did? Fuck!

King – Forged by Satan’s Doctrine (Deathgasm). See above. Ah shit!

Blood Mortized – Bestial (Chaos). Oops, I did it again. Seriously, it’s a freakin’ playlist. What am I supposed to do? Pretend I wasn’t listening to it?

’77 – High Decibel (Listenable). Yeah, above…christ!

Satanika – Metal Possessed (Iron Shield). Dirty, gnarly ass, pussed filled thrash, the kind of stuff that Hells Headbangers would release. There was some stuff toward the end with cleaner vocals, but I was involved in some meaningless activity at the time or listening to some meaningless blather from some meaningless individual on the meaningless street.

Scorpions – Comeblack (Sony Legacy). Pointless.

Anti-Flag – The General Strike (Sideone Dummy). Heard about this band for years, but never heard an album until now. Impressed and surprised at how much I’m digging it. Definitely channeling The Clash (70s stuff) at various monents across the album.

Atkins / May Project – Serpents Kiss (Gonzo). Atkins sang for Judas Priest about 150 years ago, May is an accomplished guitarist and well known in “Christian” music or metal (or some shit) circles and busts out some damn fine licks here. The result is a pretty darn good traditional metal album.

Christian Mistress – Possession (Relapse). Outstanding! Traditional, old school, NWOBHM, whatever….super well done, super well written, super righteous!

Strikemaster – Vicious Nightmare (Metalhit). Vicious Mexican thrash metal with a hellacious gutiar tone. Good stuff.

Root – Heritage of Satan (Agonia). Lots of cool ideas within a black metal context, even if it gets a little too all all-over-the-place at times. Czech black metal ya know.

Aspyhx – Deathhammer (Century Media). Love the band, love the album title, and love the music on this bad boy. Really effing good, rivaling the classic stuff; that’s right, you read it here.

UFO – Seven Deadly (SPV). An early working title was The Last of the Bone Riders. Seriously. Great album; they do no wrong. Bigger riffs and some heavier material to go with the bluesy fare too.

Aborted – Global Flatline (Century Media). Best Aborted in years. Sven still kills it too.

Lamb of God – Resolution (Epic). Reliable. Wrath is better.

Burial Ritual – Exterminating the Masses (Self Released). So far, so good.

Rammstein – Made in Germany: 1995-2011. German band. You heard of ‘em?

Blotted Science – The Animation of Entomology (Eclectic Electic). Awesome instrumentalists! No, wait…brilliant freakin’ instrumentalists!

Meshuggah – Koloss (Nuclear Blast). Watch out! Meshuggah just got more aggressive. And guess what? The tuning ain’t all lower than your sub basement on this one.

That’s it. There is more, but I’m done with it. Must fight burnout…must get more coffee. Must stave off extinction. Goodbye.