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Review: Experimental death metal group Job For A Cowboy share their latest cosmic horrifier Moon Healer, forming the sophomore counterpart to their prior album Sun Eater. Don't be fooled though, as even this remedial cosmic entity has just as many sonic teeth as the prior record's solar galactus. After a short hiatus in which the band drifted from each other for a period of time, their primary focus with this record was an aggressive yet confluent return to form, centring on the titular lunar concept as a vehicle for rampant shreddings ('Etched Into Oblivion'), crystalline exhumings ('Into The Crystalline Crypts') and bleakly violent, yet still melancholic progressions ('A Sorrow-Filled Moon'). In frontman Jonny Davy's own words: - envision this as a death metal album born from the mystical confines of an alchemist's laboratory. The music acts as potent potions, inducing hallucinogenic journeys that unlock the secrets of the universe."

Review: King Diamond fronted, proto black metal legends Mercyful Fate, are a group that require little introduction to any black-hearted soul who considers themselves a true metal fan. Following on from 1993's reunion album Into The Shadows, their fourth full-length Time would arrive the very next year just in time (no pun intended) for Halloween 1994. Now almost three decades on, both lifers and newcomers alike have an opportunity to spin this underrated gem in its truest form. With lyrical topics delving into the macabre and Satanic, with even the standout cut 'The Mad Arab' detailing the H.P. Lovecraft character Abdul Alhazred, who authored the fictional forbidden tome of occult lore The Necronomicon, this is a grandiose, theatrical and Satanic Panic pushing collection of classic, parents upsetting, falsetto shrieking gothic heavy metal for all seasons.