Welcome back friends, how is 2020 treating you? Canada is sicking their federal dogs on indigenous protesters and a new coronavirus has infected tens of thousands globally. Are you feeling the doom? I’m feeling the doom. And so is January’s Third Circle.

We open with a doom trifecta from Konvent, Restless Spirit, and Garganjua. Let Rikke Emilie List’s ridiculously good vocals grind you into a pulp, before a sludgy segue followed by another winner from Holy Roar. Next up is from the endlessly creative avant-garde of Thy Catafalque’s latest. Then we chillax a bit with the intro track to the new Caspian, which I highly recommend. A beautiful piano piece from the new Sylvain/Unreqvited split gives you a last few calm moments before we end back where we started with the slow doom of The Osedax’s deep sea dive.

See you next month.

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One of these albums is Name Your Price, and the total for the rest is just shy of $48. To create this album would cost about $7. Support artists!

-Charles