Adrien Begrand
- Fucked Up – David Comes to Life (Matador)
- Hell – Human Remains (Nuclear Blast)
- Arch Enemy – Khaos Legions (Century Media)
- Austra – Feel it Break (Paper Bag)
- Amorphis – The Beginning of Times (Nuclear Blast)
Book: A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan (Knopf)
DVD: Alphaville, dir. Jean-Luc Godard (Criterion)
Gruesome Greg
- Pentagram – Last Rites (Metal Blade)
- Pentagram – Turn to Stone (Peaceville)
- Pentagram – Show ’em How (Black Widow)
- SweetKiss Momma – Revival Rock (indie)
- Blizaro – City of the Living Nightmare (Razorback)
BOOK: Angels of Death: Inside the Biker Gang’s Crime Empire by Julian Sher and William Marsden (Da Capo Press)
Kyle Harcott
- Batillus – Furnace (Seventh Rule)
- Goat Horn – Storming the Gates (October 32nd)
- Axis Of Perdition – Tenements (of the Anointed Flesh) (Aural Music/Code666)
- Gates Of Slumber – The Wretch (Rise Above)
- Pentagram – Last Rites (Metal Blade)
BOOK: Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag, Stevie Chick
MOVIE: Insidious
DOCUMENTARY: Kubrick’s Odyssey: Secrets Hidden in the Films of Stanley Kubrick
Rob Hughes
- Red Fang—Murder the Mountains (Relapse)
- Graveyard—Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Blast)
- Primordial—Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand (Metal Blade)
- Obscura—Omnivium (Relapse)
- Zombi—Escape Velocity (Relapse)
Book: Spaz, by Bonnie Bowman
Film: American: The Bill Hicks Story
Rob Kachluba
- Demonaz – March of the Norse (Nuclear Blast)
- While Heaven Wept – Fear of Infinity (Nuclear Blast)
- Artillery – My Blood (Metal Mind)
- Mercenary – Metamorphosis (Prosthetic)
- Darkest Era – The Last Caress of Light (Metal Blade)
Sarah Kitteringham
- Altar of Plagues- Mammal (Profound Lore)
- Sleep- Dopesmoker (Tee Pee)
- Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless (Hydra Head)
- Coffins – Mortuary in Darkness (Enucleation Records)
- Black Flag – Slip It In (SST)
Book – The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
Film- Lemmy
Matt Lewis
- Amon Amarth – Surtur Rising (Metal Blade)
- Between the Buried and Me – Parallax Hypersleep (Metal Blade)
- The Ocean – Heliocentric (Metal Blade)
- The Ocean- Anthropocentric (Metal Blade)
- Rammstein – Mutter (Motor)
Albert Mansour
- Augury – Concealed (Sonic Unyon Metal)
- Profaner – Signs Of Nine (Northern Storm Records)
- Anvil – Juggernaut of Justice (The End)
- Riot – Narita (Capital records)
- Blind Illusion – The Sane Asylum (Combat)
Film: The Terminator
Ola Mazzuca
- Red Circuit – Homeland (Limb Music)
- Lacuna Coil – Karmacode (Century Media)
- Arch Enemy – Rise Of The Tyrant (Century Media)
- Fabri Fibra – Controcultura (Universal Italia)
- The Chemical Brothers – Further (Parlophone)
Film: Under The Tuscan Sun, dir. by Audrey Wells
Justin M. Norton
- Gates Of Slumber – The Wretch (Rise Above)
- Autopsy – Macabre Eternal (Peaceville)
- Tombs – Path of Totality (Relapse)
- Gridlink – Orphan (Hydra Head)
- Incantation – Onward To Golgotha (Relapse)
Book: The True History Of The Elephant Man by Michael Howell and Peter Ford
Sean Palmerston
- Altar of Plagues – Mammal (Profound Lore)
- Darkest Era – The Last Caress Of Light (Metal Blade)
- Deceased – Surreal Overdose – (Shrieks From The Hearse/PATAC Records)
- In Solitude – The World.The Flesh.The Devil (Metal Blade)
- Zombi – Escape Velocity (Relapse)
Blu-Ray: America Lost and Found:The BBS Story – Criterion
TV: Game Of Thrones
Jonathan Smith
- Fauna – Rain (Independent)
- Echtra – A War For Wonder (20 Buck Spin)
- Krallice – Diotima (Profound Lore)
- Anathema – Judgement (KOCH Records)
- Blackfield – s/t (KOCH Records)
Book: Inventing Japan, by Ian Buruma
Film: The inside of my eyelids
Kevin Stewart-Panko
- New Keepers of the Water Towers – The Calydonian Hunt (Meteor City)
- KEN Mode – Venerable (Profound Lore)
- Fuck the Facts – Disgorge Mexcio (Relapse)
- DJ Victor Wooten – Now or Never [youtube]
- Exhumed – All Guts, No Glory (Relapse)
Book: Argh, Fuck, Kill: The Story of the Dayglo Abortions, Chris Walter
Renee Trotier
- Volbeat – Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood (Mascot)
- Torche – Meanderthal (Hydra Head)
- Primordial – Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand (Metal Blade)
- American Heritage – Sedentary (Translation Loss)
- Turbid North – Orogeny (Self Released)
Book: Onward – Howard Shultz
Jason Wellwood
- Amon Amarth – Sutur Rising (Metal Blade)
- Anvil – Juggernaut of Justice (The End)
- KEN Mode – Venerable (Profound Lore)
- Cauldron – Burning Fortune (Earache)
- Norris – The Great White North (Year of the Sun)
Revisiting: Sabaton – The Art of War (Re-Armed Edition)
Book: The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Movie: Phantasm (working my way through the entire series)
Adam Wills
- Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction (Inside Out)
- November’s Doom – Aphotic (The End)
- Pentragram – Last Rites (Metal Blade)
- Primordial – Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand (Metal Blade)
- Subrosa – No Help For The Mighty One (Profound Lore)
Movie: Rubber
Laura Wiebe
- My Dying Bride – Evinta (Peaceville)
- Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here (The End)
- Wolverine – Communication Lost (Candlelight)
- Devin Townsend Project – Ghost (Inside Out)
- Eyeswithoutaface – Monotoneoteny (Unsigned)
TV: Game of Thrones
Natalie Zed
- Melechesh – The Epigenesis (Nuclear Blast)
- Septicflesh – The Great Mass (Season of Mist)
- Tombs – Path of Totality (Relapse)
- Tyr – The Lay of Thrym (Napalm Records)
- II – Xerath (Candlelight)
