Feb 6, 2019
0:25-7:30
ALTARAGE
(Spain)
Urn
– Newest album is even better than
their last that made it to my Best of 2016 list. From drone to
muscular chaos, made to challenge the cynical.
8:37-14:05
SOULMASS
(FL)
Blacksmith's Wisdom
– Crisp production and strangling
gurgling vocals, all within a wall of head churning
explosion.
14:31-18:35
SVARTELDER
(Norway)
Part V
– Norwegians speak of despair in a
shitty world with melodic black and horror.
19:07-25:44
HERMÓDR
(Sweden)
Northern Forest
– Stunning balance of soft gorgeous
acoustic melodies against bleak frosty black metal. You understand
why so many metal albums use the imagery of black limbed trees with
light glowing between.
26:28-30:09
LIGHT DWELLER
(AR)
Cradel
– Arizona births jagged angular sharp
complex death.
30:30-36:47
FERNDAL
(Germany)
Die Verlorenen
– Symphonic black metal with just the
right touch of organic cello and organ and piano, without going
overboard. Retains its sharp edge through out.
38:11-44:03
GUÐVEIKI
(Iceland)
Vængför
– Another explosive alien black metal
offering from Iceland, raw and progressive and scary.
45:04-51:25
DEATH FORTRESS
(NJ)
Wrath of God
– Speaking of New Jersey, the black
metal scene is seething here. This allows itself to breath between
suffocating, and melody rises to the top.
51:55-55:15
AT THE GATES
(Sweden)
The Chasm (Per Boder guest
vocalist)
– At the Gates has guest vocalists
for their 2018 B side songs, and they are pretty frigging
spectacular.
55:52-END
NOCTAMBULIST
(Denver)
Atmosphere of Desolation
– Rumbling rasping screeching
vocalist god.