Fact: Winter Lager is officially the only Sam Adams beer I pursue anymore.

• Obsidian Tongue, one of my favorite local black metal acts, dropped a new track today titled “The Stone Heart”. That’s the title track from a new EP slated for a February 2 release, and it features Obsequiae’s Tanner Anderson which is dope.
• Thrash metal crew Warbringer are reissuing their first four albums on cassette in partnership with M-Theory Audio and Century Media. They’ll be released on February 9 and will be limited to 100 copies of each.
• Doom crew Forever Falling have signed on with My Kingdom Music and are releasing their sophomore album, The Determinism Of Essence In Matter, next May. So keep an eye out for new material from that one as we head into the new year.
• Italian progressive psych rockers Mr. Bison dropped a new video for “Collision”. That’s the second single taken from Echoes From Their Universe, their new album set for a February 16 release through Heavy Psych Sounds.
• In celebration of the Winter Solstice, Enslaved released “Sequence – Live”. A track originally featured on Utgard, this live performance was from 2021’s streaming event The Otherworldly Big Band Experience. Check out the video below.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”
– cmb