Dec 18, 2024
This is the FIRST set of TWO Best of 2024 shows. Today I start with my #2 album of the year. Next week, I start with my #1.
My #2 album of 2024 is Blighted Eye. Listen to next week for my #1, and another 3-hour set!
1:54-8:28
BLIGHTED EYE
(Seattle), album - Agony's Bespoke
Howls From Beyond The Mist
— Hot muscular vocals with noodling
guitars and complex melodic layers. Top fucking notch fun
dudes.
9:08-14:22
OCTOPLOID (Finland),
album - Beyond The Aeons
Shattered Wings
— Psychedelic death bliss blending
folk, 70s rock, and magical bubbles to float within.
14:50-18:42
VØIDWOMB (Portugal),
album - Spiritual Apotheosis
Black Putrescence
— Raspy guttural seething over bitter
black metal with a sultry groove.
19:15-27:43
THE FLIGHT OF
SLEIPNIR (US), album - Nature's
Cadence
Madness
— Beautiful, epic black metal with
massive, instrumental compositions and a powerful
vocalist.
28:10-33:10
KVAEN (Sweden),
album - The Formless Fires
The Formless Fires
— A best of 2022, flying calloused
fingertips in black tremelo flair and anthemic thrash.
33:44-41:26
MOSS UPON THE SKULL
(Belgium), album - Quest For The Secret Fire
Quest for the Secret Fire (Theurgic
Practice)
— Improvised speaking-tongues guitars
and jazzy unhinged drumming that still has a lovely melodic
soul.
42:00-47:03
NECROWRETCH
(France), album - Swords Of Dajjal
Dii Mauri
— Alien rasped vocals in a groovy
black metal with heavy metal guitars that build into frenetic and
sinister swarms.
47:30-52:33
DEFACEMENT
(Netherlands), album - Duality
Barrier
— Fuming, face melting furnace death
metal with writhing vocals and creepy electronic
effects.
53:07-1:00:27
HAIL SPIRIT NOIR
(Greece), album - Fossil Gardens
The Temple of Curved Space
— A Best of 2016. Psychedelic
avant-garde synth-infused proggy black metal with a fizzy lead
singer.
1:01:09-1:06:08
GAEREA (Portugal),
album - Coma
Suspended
— Evocative instrumentals and clean
vocals added to their style of rapturous black
metal.
1:06:34-1:11:05
CIVEROUS (CA),
album - Maze Envy
Labyrinth Charm (ft. Derek
Rydquist)
— A horror soundtrack within proggy
and textured death with surprising jazzy drums and beautiful
strings.
1:11:34-1:17:22
BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE
(GER), album - Metaphysicize
Death of The Architect
— My emo pick of the year.
Another German masterpiece, this one is a proggy post-metal
that explodes into cold black metal riffs.
1:17:56-1:23:57
STORMCROW (Italy),
album - Path To Ascension
Detached
— Another incredible vocalist that
gives full-body chills. Emotional black metal with an intense
high-paced drummer and beautiful melodic.
1:23:31-1:32:58
SLIMELORD (UK),
album - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
Gut-Brain Axis
— Unexpected moody meditative
thoughtful universe with some swings into a moshy grind.
1:33:26-1:38:49
CEREMONY OF SILENCE
(Slovakia), album - Hálios
Light Runs Through Light
— A Best of 2019. Tempestuous
psychedelic death metal and sadistic technical prowess.
1:39:14-1:44:55
EXUVIAL (CO, OK),
album - The Hive Mind Chronicles Part I:
Parasitica
Hive Mind I: Convergent
Evolution
— A melodic technical death
masterpiece.
1:45:24-1:52:53
ÆTHĔRĬA CONSCĬENTĬA
(France), album - The Blossoming
Haesperadh
— Cool horns and meditative sections
in a black psychedelic within vast compositions.
1:53:33-1:58:19
ABHORIA (CA/Denver),
album - Depths
Ghosts in the Smoke
— Ginger-viking led Abhoria with one
of the hottest vocals. Evolving textural black metal that
grows within each song. Majestic, precise and unique.
1:58:45-2:04:21
VALE OF PNATH
(Denver), album - Between The Worlds Of Life And
Death
Beneath Ashen Skies
— So glad these dudes are from
Denver. The raspy vocalist and masterfully technical, melodic
death is delightfully groovy.
2:04:45-2:12:13
ULCERATE (New
Zealand), album - Cutting The Throat Of God
The Dawn Is Hollow
— Brooding death with strains of
black and post-metal that shimmers and explodes.
2:12:34-2:19:21
PARFAXITAS
(International), album - Weaver Of The Black
Moon
Weaver Of The Black
Moon
— Intricate layers of dissonant
guitars and vulgar vocals in a haunting, harsh black atmospheric
metal.
2:19:51-2:27:38
DÖDSRIT (Sweden),
album - Nocturnal Will
Nocturnal Fire
— Playing both sides of folk-oriented
harmonizing melodic and brutal epic.
2:28:08-2:34:12
KNOLL (TN),
album - As Spoken
Revile of Light
— Horns and a lethargic pace amidst
the chaos and storm makes this avant-garde horror death grind
creepier.
2:34:33-2:41:35
SUN OF NOTHING
(Greece), album - Maze
Ghost
— A screeching moody monster riding
atop a psychedelic death rock masterpiece.
2:42-03-2:48:06
JOB FOR A COWBOY
(AZ), album - Moon Healer
The Forever Rot
— Proggy structures and noodling
guitars create delicious space with rap-inspired tumbling vocal
styles like Archspire.
2:48:29-2:54:18
SYK (Italy),
album - eartHFlesh
I Am The Beast
— Powerful delivery of vocals with
savage riffs and rhythmic annihilation. Ominous, beautiful black
and death.
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DREAMLESS VEIL (VA),
album - Every Limb of the Flood
Glossolalia
— Artifical Brain and Inter Arma
members in an intricately layered black and death metal with spooky
shrieks and blistering death rhythm.