Jan 5, 2025
Bands I missed at the end of the year, all of these are big albums.
0:25-5:13
AARA
(Swiss)
Grausig Ist Der Blick
— Ripping your flesh by blades vocals
and a frenetic pace with drops of beauty. Make out with demons
music.
6:36-12:38
MISANTHROPY
(Chicago)
Of Sulking And The
Wrathful
— Winding, intricate guitars and
tempo churns creating monstrous tornadoes that will bend your
brain.
13:14-20:55
BEDSORE
(Italy)
Realm Of Eleuterillide
— 70s-psychedelic create dreamy death
and pummeling black.
21:29-27:37
HIDDEN MOTHERS
(UK)
Violet Sun
— Passionate, raw and anguished
hardcore that is spectacularly touching.
28:19-32:19
MARROWER
(Oakland)
Tempest
— Rasped mixed with ballad-styled
heavy metal vocals in a progressive doom with contrasting
atmospheric and a fun touch of the 90s.
32:49-37:05
MEFITIS
(Oakland)
…And The Mason Wept
— Theatrical and gothic mixed in a
jaunty, proggy black and death.
37:31-40:43
RITUAL FOG
(TN)
Slimeblade
— Groovy death metal and churning
thrash with an overall darkly sinister tone.
41:22-50:55
SPECTRAL LORE
(Greece)
Solitary Mirrors
— Ethnic flair and beautiful acoustic
interludes in a gorgeously layered black metal.
51:16-55:29
STENCHED
(Mexico)
Effusion Of Foul Smelling
Fluids
— 1-person technical and furnace
death that increases in complexity and progression.
55:51-1:00:36
GENUFLEXIÓN
(Argentina)
Teogonía
— Soulful, desolate and sweet black
metal with immersive beauty.
1:01:02-END
PILLAR OF LIGHT
(MI)
Leaving
— Melancholy brooding sludge and
post-metal hailing from the tundras of North
America.