0:25-5:40
NEGATOR (Germany)
Pyroleophis
— Another badass German black metal with incredibly emotional desperation that made me nuts(ier). The lead singer, I bow to his screams.

6:55-12:20
XOTH (Seattle)
Plague Revival 20XX
— A scifi-loving technical black speed and death muscularity with a lead singer who lets loose and pushes this out of control.

12:54-20:33
ALCEST (France)
Spiritual Instinct
— Blackgaze is not benign; Alcest is soaring and bellowing landscapes that breathe fresh.

21:04-28:41
THE GREAT OLD ONES (France)
Lost Carcosa
— Blastbeat heavy lead-ups paced into headbanging French broodiness.

29:45-34:16
MAYHEM (Norway)
Agenda Ignis
— Dead, Euronymous, Varg, Norwegian prison, books, movies, documentaries, legends. Well the legends have released their malevolent beast of a sound yet again. Attila's vocals are extraordinary evil.

34:52-38:43
DAWN RAY’D (UK)
The Smell of Ancient Dust
— Raw aggression sliced with violin and vocals, screeching against fascism and invisible borders.

39:10-45:14
RUNEMAGICK (Sweden)
Necromancer of the Red Sun
— Slow, sinister, thickly-toned guitar swirled with groove and riffs.

46:01-50:43
COFFIN ROT (OR)
Forced Self-Consumption
— Portland brings the chunky jagged death speed.

50:58-54:00
EXHORDER (New Orleans)
Ripping Flesh
— 30 years creates a cacophony of explosive thrash.

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CHAINED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN (MA)
I Will Possess Your Heart
— The vocalist highlights this brand of sludge, with a spectrum of brutal breaking into gorgeous clean.

0:25-6:26
TEITANBLOOD (Spain)
Inhuman Utterings
— Scorched, bubbling, explosive heat from a tightly textured mass.

7:17-14:43
FLESHMEADOW (Norway)
Visions
— Norwegian jagged black metal with death chomping at the edges.

15:07-21:13
THE HOLEUM (Spain)
Fractal Visions
— Somber melancholy epic sludge with quiet pools of guitar and saxophone.

21:48-26:48
LIGHTNING BOLT (RI)
Big Banger
— Rabid fans at their shows for a reason. Drummer vocalist is a performance artist. These guys are actually getting better, frenzied and loud and unique as ever.

27:28-34:42
UNAUSSPRECHLICHEN KULTEN (Spain)
Flapping Membraneous Wings
— Angular weird proggy death and nothing creating boundaries. Surprising piano refreshes.

35:17-41:12
HOLY SERPENT (AU)
Marijuana Trench
— Soaring psychedelic rock and a deeply romantic vocalist.

41:28-47:56
OSSUAIRE (CAN)
La Flamme Noire de Ge'henom
— Debut melodic black metal with thrash and gravelly vocals.

49:00-53:41
1349 (Norway)
Dødskamp
— Norwegian black metal with clean production, but don't be scared. Solid offering,

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FVNERAL FVKK (Germany)
To Those in the Grave
— Crisp, clean layers with tempo and vocals as the main instruments.

0:25-6:02
CLOAK (Atlanta)
Tempter’s Call
— Ah, I love me a little goth and deathrock in black metal. Cloak also has a sexy baritone wrapping it up in a blast of a package.

7:08-14:09
BLOOD INCANTATION (CO)
The Giza Power Plant
— Psychedelic expands the tight corners of death into a wild tempestuous ride.

14:45-19:21
GOSUDAR (Russia)
King of Pain
— Part of a split with Carcinoid, playing their brand of gnarly doom and death.

19:39-26:31
CARCINOID (Australia)
Sickness
— This is from their debut full-length, released with their split with Gosudar. Filthy crusty death distorted into a vomit of sound.

27:08-31:49
SLUTVOMIT (Seattle)
Scythe of Mass Damnation
— Nothing but serious, raw, and desperate.

32:12-37:38
PROFANATICA (CT)
Sacramental Cum
— The vocals are just wickedly unique and scratching the edges of your brain.

37:51-46:18
SORXE (AZ)
Wondering If I Exist
— Electronic and sludge with a haunting lead singer.

47:24-55:30
MORTIFERUM (WA)
Putrid Ascension
— Another vicious, pummeling death with breakdowns of mid-tempo and sinister horror.

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EXHUMED (San Jose)
Naked, Screaming, and Covered in Blood
— More old-school explosive chompable nuggets from Exhumed.

0:25-5:20
ARALLU (Israel)
Devil's Child
— Middle eastern ethnicity fully integrated in explosive death metal. Infectious, unique and deeply headbang-worthy.

6:18-12:14
VUKARI (Chicago)
Curiosity And Obsession
— Chicago brings in the proggy to this atmospheric black metal with a bleak and beautiful theme.

12:37-16:41
HIGH COMMAND (MA)
Merciless Steel
— Chomping, bumping, romping, punching, lurching, thrashy good times.

17:15-22:43
SEMPITERNAL DUSK (Portland)
Refracted Suffering Through The Windows Of Hell
— Portland wine with death metal. Perfect.

23:28-30:33
VERHEERER (Germany)
...He Shall Reap a Thousandfold
— Germanic black metal is my favorite. Brooding and theatrical with glorious and vivid compositions, but still fucking rocks out.

30:54-36:18
ALGEBRA (Swizerland)
Hateful Source
— Technical thrash with disjointed proggy tempos.

37:04-41:57
LORD MANTIS (Chicago)
Damocles Falls
— My 2014 Best Album of the year is finally back with the original lead singer who is famously raspy. And by famously, I mean, to me. This is a razor sharp vocal spread over mutated sludge, and I am looking forward to the full November release. With members from Abigail Williams, Cobalt, Indian, Pelican, and more.

42:11-47:55
TOXIC HOLOCAUST (Portland)
Cybernetic War
— Run in place with your parachute pants to this soundtrack.

48:14-55:41
FISTER (St. Louis)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
— One of my favorite sludge bands just released an album of covers. Hell yeah dude.

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BLUT AUS NORD (France)
Haallucinählia
— More French black metal covered in a layer of mist and ethereal.

0:25-8:51
OPETH (Sweden)
Heart In Hand
— Opeth dive straight into the prog rock galaxy of sound effects, jammy meandering, piano, organ and intimate vocals.

10:27-14:56
URN (Finland)
Prayers
— Heavy metal-infused anthemic Lovecraftian-loving thrash.

15:20-20:59
ARCTOS (CAN)
A Realm Beyond
— Frosty warrior-marching black metal crossed with deeply emotional atmospheric melodic.

21:20-26:43
ANIFERNYEN (Portugal)
Christendoom
— Black metal vocalist supporting groove and death.

27:29-35:29
WHITE WARD (Ukraine)
Poisonous Flowers of Violence
— A massive album relaying a distorted, proggy, saxophone-filled post and black metal. It's a weird one.

35:48-41:19
MURDER MADE GOD (Greece)
Cognitive Dissonance
— Machine precise beats with bleak vocals makes it an evil Helmet.

42:00-46:52
NETHERBIRD (Sweden)
The Obsidian White
— Ballad-loving grandiose guitars and blast-beated black metal.

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KOSTNATĚNÍ (CZ)
Hrůza zvítězí
— One-person steaming demonic vocals, pummeling blast beat and suffocating dread breaking into galloping riffs.