0:25-9:01
NIGHTFELL (OR)
(As Now) We Must Succumb
— Metal does depressive in the most monstrous way. This 2-piece adds a touch of gothic melancholy along with a fiery baritone vocalist and eruptions in riffs.

9:52-15:20
BELENOS (France)
Bleizken
— 8th album from this 1-piece who is uplifting in his solemnity; and sweet in his rage. Immense black metal that is incredibly thoughtful. I loved this album from beginning to end.

15:55-18:26
NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE DEAD THINK (NJ)
Cinder
— Thriving New Jersey scene offers No One Knows What The Dead Think is dynamic grindcore with expressively insane vocals and brutal tempo. The album is hella solid.

18:56-25:00
IMPERIUM DEKADENZ (Germany)
A Cave Called Wisdom
— Black hearts flutter around my head as I get swallowed whole by this 2-piece.

25:54-32:50
HAUNTER (TX)
Subversion of a Heathen Tongue
— Technical shards of dissonant-shaped death that pummel, mastered by one of my favorite musicians, the dude from Convulsing, hearts.

33:11-37:58
ENGULF (NJ)
Bane Of Fire
— A chugging, buzzing, blast-beated badass death from another incredible 1-piece!

39:11-46:08
CULT OF LUNA (Sweden)
Inland Rain
— I gave up on Cult of Luna when I gave up on post-metal. But this is strong, atmospheric doom with so many different angles. They are back. Well, they were always here, just back to me. Me, the most important in this equation.

47:12-50:40
BONES (Chicago)
Blood, Diarrhea, and Tears
— Oh, it is so easy to google "Bones Diseased" and come up with nothing relevant to a band. This is seething badass infectious Chicago death. Fuck yes!

51:05-END
ABIGAIL WILLIAMS (WA)
I Will Depart
— Crisp, translucent production; guitar tone is incredible. Just heard the single, excited to hear the rest.

0:25-5:09
APPARATUS (Denmark)
Synchraat
— Alien dissonance with cracks and mountains and whirlwinds and black holes, taking you out of your brain. Exactly what we need.

6:01-8:09
CLOUD RAT (MI)
Webspinner
— Cloud Rat has released 2 albums - a dark ambient synth weird-wave E.P; and a full-length of her grind and vibrant vocals. Love the diversity and quality of releases from this band. Yet another band I missed live because I was out of town for work.

8:42-13:20
DOLD VORDE ENS NAVN (Norway)
Vitnesbyrd
— Norwegian powerhouse of a supergroup, featuring members of Ulver, Nidinger, Dodheimsgard creating a too-short tempo-driven black metal E.P. I wanted more.

13:39-18:19
INSURRECTION (Netherlands)
Origin
— Immensely fun chomping thrash and death with vivid melodic punching through.

18:39-24:12
BLOOD RED THRONE (Norway)
Bloodity
— Splattered death with riffs, and a full range of vocals from beginning to end.

25:18-32:14
MGLA (Poland)
Age Of Excuse V
— Possibly far right-leaning, but I don't go with vague rumors. This is my Best Black Metal of 2016, bringing more of the excellent: deeply emotional black metal with filth and undertone of evil.

32:38-35:44
SLAUGHTBBATH (Chile)
Prophetic Crucifixion
— Dude, so refreshing for a chaotic technical dense black metal.

36:19-40:16
ETERNITY (Norway)
Horror Vacui
— Another awesome Norwegian band this week! The bassist of Mayhem and some other dudes have created their awesome version of Satanic black metal. All hail my butt!

40:37-45:31
BAEST (Denmark)
As Above So Below
— Muscular, filthy, galloping, terrorizing death.

46:40-51:44
KEYS OF ORTHANC (CAN)
Uruk Agh Burgul
— Tolkien loving dorks create dramatic black metal (surprise surprise) with a plethora of vocal style: high, low, and clean.

51:59-55:07
EYE FLYS (PA)
Fuckface
— Full of Hell dude creating tempo-lurching noise rock.

55:28-END
VITRIOL (Portland)
The Parting Of A Neck
— What else do you expect from the name of this band. Full on hate.

0:25-3:29
KNOCKED LOOSE (Kentucky)
By the Grave
— Fist-forward, direct blistering fun beastly hardcore.

4:40-10:47
SLEEPING ANCIENT (TX)
A Path Emerges
— Debut of black metal split apart by organic doom and gothic post-metal.

11:21-14:14
LORD GORE (Portland)
Million Maggot March
— Growling filthy Lord Gore haven't released anything for 15 years, but somehow stay relevant in muscular grind and death.

14:42-24:22
MIZMOR (Portland)
Desert of Absurdity
— One of my favorites, because so dynamic, so immense, so emotional and all the vocals. Love the plaintive.

25:09-30:17
TENEBRAE IN PERPETUUM (Italy)
Nero, oscuro concetto di assoluto
— Italian black metal with theatrical electronic blips making this strange and charming.

30:38-37:12
CRYPT SERMON (Philly)
Christ is Dead
— Soaring melodic vocal and lyric-forward dramatic heavy metal.

37:39-44:37
PA VESH EN (Belarus)
Wastelands of Plague
— You know you always want to hear your black metal through a wall of corpses 4 feet thick and ears filled with blood? Well here you go.

45:33-51:55
ETERNAL STORM (Spain)
Detachment
— A balanced approach of melodic melancholy and death without it being cheesy or overly dramatic.

52:24-56:20
COGNIZANCE (UK)
Ether of the Void
— Look, dudes are hot.

56:48-END
WRVTH (CA)
Pirouette Of Hysterics
— Band is done, but offering of melodic black and core with expansive passages of acoustic and atmospheric guitars.

0:25-7:15
HOPE DRONE (AU)
Forged by the Tide
— Australia's version of frosty, alien black metal with pockets of air to take gulps of their harmony and melody within.

8:26-13:38
WARCRAB (UK)
In The Arms Of Armageddon
— Swampy, thick monstrous sludge with massive drumwork.

14:11-18:48
WITCH VOMIT (Portland)
Dead Veins
— Nothing tongue-in-cheek here. Serious muscular death and sludge.

19:04-20:25
NO MÁS (D.C.)
Police Brutality
— Digestible chunks of grind made to decapitate you.

20:44-25:30
ECLIPTIC VISION (NY)
Cephalic Anomaly
— Catchy, crunchy, punchy death with a spectrum of vocals.

26:23-29:43
MYSTAGOGUE (Netherlands)
A Nacreous-Tinted Halo Of Bright Sorrow
— Bleak meditative black metal with hints of melody. The song titles are incredible.

30:09-32:09
PORTRAYAL OF GUILT (Austin)
Merciless
— Chaotic hardcore and black metal with a love for Converge

32:39-35:53
METH. (Chicago)
Failure
— Chicago style of experimental hardcore leaning towards creating a soundtrack of horror.

36:11-38:57
SUICIDAL ANGELS (Greece)
D.I.V.A
— Greek joyous thrash with riffs, hooks and rolling pumps and fists and skips.

39:27-46:22
CRIMSON MOON (Germany)
Vanitas
— Unique scraped vocals with vampiric black metal.

47:14-50:24
DEFACEMENT (Netherlands)
Anguished
— A hollow blur of vocals blasts heat against the dissonance.

50:47-54:30
DISOWNING (France)
Battle of Neverness
— Down with the man and the crown, all the assholes. We are all just human cattle.

55:02-END
ENTOMBED A.D. (Sweden)
Bowels Of Earth
— Swedish band Entombed A.D. is having fun with chomping anthemic beer and shot metal.