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All new dark wave set! 0:24-5:09 QUAL (UK)(Nov 2025) Come With Me 5:09-8:36 SOFT DIVIDE (NY) dressed in black 8:37-12:21 GENO BEACH (Denver) Chronos 12:21-16:21 СКУБУТ (Austria) Tvoi Glaza 16:21-19:29 ANNUL NOIR (OH) (s)Inner Sanctum 19:29-24:03 BODY SYSTEM (Italy) Insane 24:03-28:43 OCCULTS (CA) My Type 28:44-32:29 THE DEPTHS (Greece) Good Girls 32:30-36:45 KISS TO KILL (CA) femme fatal 36:46-40:33 THEY DIE (Italy) Death Spell (Backfire) 40:33-45:24 THE PHANTOMS OF SATURN (TN) Two Moons 45:25-47:42 AVEN GRAPH (Belarus) Hallucinogens 47:43-52:34 ТЕАТР АБСУРДА (Ukraine) Поганий сон 52:34-55:12 CASKET CASSETTE (CA) Becoming 55:13-57:15 DRKLV (Ukraine) Cold Kiss 57:15-1:01:06 SHV/ARZ (GER) Counting Sand 1:01:06-1:06:29 L'AVENIR (MD) The Wanderer 1:06:29-END OVRGRWN (SF) Eat You Alive

0:24-9:46 ETHEREAL DARKNESS (Belgium) The Cycle — Vocal anguish accompanies melodic doom and atmospheric, melodic, incredibly groovy black. 11:03-17:01 DECIPHER (Greece) Bound To The Wheel — Debut black metal shimmer that is stark with raw death blast beats and thrashy riffs. 17:44-21:46 THE SILVER (Philly) Memorias — My #1 album of 2021. Momentous heart-ripping progressive doomy black metal. 22:12-29:17 EGREGORE (CAN) Craven Acts of Desperate Men — Rumbling grumbling death that gallops to thrash and proggy density. 29:35-36:31 GUTVOID (CAN) Of Smothering Sea — Psychedelic, proggy death doom with soaring, dynamic instrumentals ending in a crushing death. 36:54-43:58 IRON FIRMAMENT (WA) The Coast Of Worlds — Moody, isolated black, slowing the pace to allow it to linger. Alien vocals are fantastically grotesque. 44:22-52:34 NEUROSIS (Oakland) Seething And Scattered — Fucking Neurosis with Aaron Turner. 52:53-57:29 PROTRUSION (IN) Morbid Mortality — Absurd vocals and decomposing death with shiny guitar solos. 57:59-END GAEREA (Portugal) Uncontrolled — Gaerea went too "core" on this. Still one of the best live bands out there.

Darkwave show! 0:25-5:44 TRAITRS (CAN) Dream Drowning 5:45-9:50 THEY DIE (Italy) Borderline 9:51-13:49 STATION MODEL VIOLENCE (AU) Crepe Throne 13:50-17:50 I WOKE UP CHINESE (Italy) Reach For A Shadow 17:51-19:57 BAD BAD LUCK (Nashville) superego 19:58-24:38 FOPMUSIC (Sweden) I don´t want to know 24:55-28:34 TRANXHAINE (France) Ni Catharsis Ni Pardon 28:35-32:09 NIGHTCRAWL (Ireland) The Blood 32:10-36:39 TOUCH BY TOUCH (Vienna) Hard To Love 36:40-40:45 LEVA (Italy) Indelible Memories 40:45-44:05 SHADOWS VEIL (Portugal) Wayward 44:06-46:47 LOVELYEDDIE (CA) black skirt 46:48-50:16 HIROSZYMA (Poland) Afterglow 50:17-54:20 BLUE REMAINS (Buenos Aires) Concrete 54:21-END PERTURBATOR (France, 10/25) Venus (ft. Author & Punisher)

0:25-6:16 INCANDESCENCE (CAN) Confluence — Gorgeous melodic black metal with technical, proggy drumming and intricate guitars that build to sinister snarling passages. 7:15-12:15 PHASMA (Greece) I — Muscular death growls, a blinding black metal screech, and a shouted hardcore to match a refined icy black and a blasted death groove. 12:55-18:03 CEMETERY REIGN (Santa Fe) Captive in a Coffin — Chugging death broken with whispers of vocals, gasps of atmosphere and swirling melodic guitars. 18:19-25:39 MISERERE LUMINIS (CAN) Dans La Voie De Nos Lumières — Lush violins and pianos provide a sparkling instrumentation in an elaborate vibrating melodic wall of black metal. 26:17-32:30 BIZARREKULT (Norway) Blikket Hennes — A best of 2023. Another stunner of post-black and unpredictable, restless vibrant rock. LOVE this band. 32:50-41:58 MARLUGUBRE (Italy) Iphigenia — Romantic blackgaze and heavy metal reminiscent of Alcest with throaty vocals and a contrasting female vocals that are just lovely. 42:22-48:08 VALDRIN (OH) Impaled Visions Breed Within The Vines — A best of 2020. Pummeling, badass, riff-heavy black metal in crystal clear production with organic instrumentation. 48:27-51:21 PREDATORY VOID (Belgium) Peeling Cycle — 90s indie girl vocalist-style is a surprise, with the spoken word. Of course this has all the aggressive brutality. I'm keeping an eye on this one! 51:47-56:03 NECROFIER (TX) Servants of Darkness, Guide My Way I — A best of 2023. Creepy, malevolent black metal and a baleful vocalist. Meaner than their debut. 56:23-59:43 FINAL GASP (Boston) Gifted Shame — Melodic hardcore with atmosphere and haunting passages, that really mixes it up. 1:00:10-END WORM (FL) Necropalace — Cinematic, vampiric black metal with gleaming fangs. Drama dude.

Darkwave set! 0:25-3:21 SOCIAL STATION (DC) Good to Me 3:22-6:48 CURSING (Denver)(Oct 2025) I Like That We Fuck 6:49-10:44 FALSE FIGURE (Oakland) Favorite Game 10:45-14:19 HARDENED HEARTS (OR) Vampire Bites 14:20-18:10 LA MAIN (France) Dully 18:11-22:34 TORQUE MEMORY (Spain) Keepsakes 22:35-25:41 DEAD BORN BABIES (Montreal) To me you are the sun (ft Grizz) 25:42-29:34 AETHER SOUNDS (GER) Quiet Continuum 29:34-34:16 ALONE IN MY ROOM (GA) Wasteland 34:17-36:47 BRIDES (Norway) Bad Blood 36:48-41:23 KEYBOARDS AND RED LIPSTICK (France) Guns 41:24-45:46 NIGHT ENJOYER (Switzerland) Pakistani Girl 45:47-48:56 DETECTS (MI) Made-Up 48:57-51:28 POLY TEARS (CA) Heart In Hands 51:28-55:16 EDDIE DARK (Greece) Ο ΑΚΑΛΕΣΤΟΣ 55:16-END UNWISHED (Greece) Key To My Heart

Darkwave show! 0:24-3:40 ANTIPOLE & PARIS ALEXANDER (Norway) Alone Again 3:41-8:13 FEYLEUX (NC) Mercury 8:14-12:56 ATTIC FROST (GER) Promise Me (An Armageddon) 12:57-17:13 TEMPTRIX (TX) Dare to Try 17:14-20:47 DEATH'S COLD GRASP (MA) Your Last Breath 20:48-25:24 STRANGE FUTURES (UK) Hold Your Nerve (S Y Z Y G Y X Remix) 25:25-27:42 COLD KISS (CA) Llévame A Tu Cama 27:43-32:42 DLINA VOLNY (Minsk) Midnight (INHALT Dance Mix) 32:43-34:59 CVSTLES (TX) Let Me 35:00-38:07 HINFORT (GER) alive 38:08-41:27 FEVR (CA) Drifting 41:28-44:38 SILUETT (Sweden) Under the Marquee 44:39-48:17 KONJI (Slovenia) Podobe demo 48:17-52:28 SLOW DANSE WITH THE DEAD (NM) Threat or a Prayer 52:28-56:01 DANSER LA NUIT (Italy) Your Eyes Anymore 56:01-1:00:38 SONIC THING (France) Darkness Dancers

0:26-7:18 AGENBITE MISERY (NH) Whatness of Allhorse — Experimental twists in a house of black metal horror, with sludge lead-ups and groove. 8:16-19:51 GAVRAN (Netherlands) Okreni — Lovely post-metal with a dark edge and dreamy, hypnotic passages. 20:14-26:31 GORRCH (Italy) Vorago — Chaotic, seething black metal with moody moments of hush. 26:52-34:05 MORS VERUM (CAN) Your Apocalypse — Abrasive death with proggy fluid beauty. 34:38-41:26 MAYHEM (Norway) Despair — One of the best bands live, and one of the most influential metal bands to exist, still tight and relevant decades later. 41:39-45:59 VIDYUT (Chennai) Jallianwalabagh Massacre — Old school death chomp, just a blast of an entire album. 46:23-50:54 ORGG (Italy) Morituri (The Boys Of '99) — A sweet, sweeping landscape within the opposing bleak force of black metal. 51:24-58:09 ENSANGUINATE (Slovenia) Angel of a Thousand Poisons — Crushing death and black atmospheric melodic with haunted guitar solos and hypnotic dark psychedelic builds. 58:34-1:02:41 NEL BUIO (Italy)(Dec 2025) Splendeva Di Vita — Cinematic synth and melodic black. You want this vampire to bite you in the dark. 1:03:06-1:07:49 EXIMPERITUS (Belarus) Finding Consistency In The Fourth Quadrant Of Eternity — Thick, meaty death that retains moody, rich sophisticated layers. 1:08:20-END NIGHTMARER (OR) Shame Spiral — A best of 2023. Unconventional death with experimental circling structures, circling.

0:24-8:08 THE RUINS OF BEVERAST (GER) Last Theatre Of The Sea — The Ruins Of Beverast turns yet another leaf, but keep that achingly lonely, ethereal, tribalistic quality that is unique to them. This is a great follow-up to their 2017 album Exuvia, one of my top 20 albums of the last 20 years. 8:53-17:17 WILDHUNT (Austria) Made Man — Gloriously righteous, theatrical thrash with soaring guitars and big builds. 17:42-23:55 BROKEN TRINITY (GA) Straw Boss — A spectrum of genres, swinging from melodic black to organic doom and folk to hypnotic passages. 24:35-29:00 KREATOR (GER) Seven Serpents — Just, fucking Kreator. Fresh and exciting, I don't know how they do it. 29:26-36:31 ELLENDE (Austria) Wahrheit Teil I — Let the melancholy black metal roll over you. 37:05-42:24 CARRION VAEL (IN) 1912 — A best of 2024 and 2022. Dynamic tech death with a sprinkle of sweet clean vocals. 42:48-46:10 HEALTH (CA) You Died — Electronic and industrial with fantastic vocals. 46:37-54:06 KADAVRIK (GER) Widerhall — Walls of sludge and death, sexy unworldly growls and German electronic. 54:30-END ULVER (Norway) Fire In The End — Bliss.

Brand new darkwave show! 0:24-4:37 IAMNOONE (Italy) out of this world 4:38-8:04 UNDERTHESKIN (Poland) Always | Never 8:04-11:32 DEAdpILOT (GA) This Time Tonight 11:33-14:27 NIGHTSISTER (Portland) Spirit 14:28-17:35 VAMPIRE VALENTINE (UK) Thorns 17:36-20:54 BLIND SEAGULL (Russia) easy to forget 20:54-23:20 DAVID GALAS (MI) Halo 23:20-27:00 PLASTIK NOIR (Norway) Darkness 27:13-32:09 HEIMBERG (France) Blind Eye 32:09-34:41 BINDING (Detroit) Sword 34:42-37:44 WILLIAM BLEAK (Berlin) Ex Rent Boy 37:45-41:01 BLIND DREAMS feat. LIVINROOM (Russia) Dawn Comes Quietly 41:02-45:21 LOYAL OBJECT (WA) The Day You Change 45:22-50:05 BLEACHED HEAT (CAN) Divination 50:06-53:34 SUB ZERO DREAMS (GER) Say Goodbye 53:34-57:09 DAS NOIR (Greece) Demons 57:10-1:00:15 DEAD ENERGY (CA) In Two 1:00:16-END HEX FORMES (+ SCOTT BAKER GRAHAM) (DC) Vampire's Kiss

My Best 35 Metal Albums of 2025! My #1 and #2 technically released in December of 2024, but what can I say. It's my fucking list. #1 Aara: I loved the vocals, the emotions. Just a nail in my head, immediately. #2 Spectral Lore: A beast of a legendary band. This was released on 12-31-2024, as a "Demo". What a nut. Top 11 are listed in order, and the rest are alphabetized. 0:25-7:29 #1 Aara (Swiss), album - Eiger (Dec 6 2024) Senkrechte Welten 7:30-17:20 #2 Spectral Lore (Greece), album - IV (Part 1)(Dec 31, 2024) Solitary Mirrors 17:21-24:44 #3: Maladie (GER), album - Symptoms V The Implacability Of Time 24:45-28:56 #4: 1914 (Ukraine), album - Viribus Unitis 1914 (The Siege Of Przemyśl) 28:57-37:15 #5: Patristic (Italy), album - Catechesis A Vinculis Soluta II 37:16-45:17 #6: Blut Aus Nord (France), album - Ethereal Horizons The Fall Opens The Sky 45:18-55:10 #7: Haxprocess (FL), album - Beyond What Eyes Can See The Confines of the Flesh 55:11-58:36 #8: Thron (GER), album - Vurias A Paradox 58:37-1:05:50 #9: Phosphorus (GER), album - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands Frail Grasp Of Broken Hands 1:05:51-1:13:08 #10: Orm (Denmark), album - Guld Undfangen 1:13:09-1:16:50 #11: Changeling (GER), album - S/T Falling In Circles And the rest (alphabetized): 1:16:51-1:20:07 ..And Oceans (Finland), album - The Regeneration Itinerary The Fire In Which We Burn 1:20:08-1:28:28 Abigail Williams (WA), album - A Void Within Existence No Less Than Death 1:28:29-1:33:22 Akantophis (GER), album - Erneuerung Perforation 1:33:23-1:43:14 An Abstract Illusion (Sweden), album - The Sleeping City The Sleeping City 1:43:15-1:49:24 Ancient Death (MA), album - Ego Dissolution Violet Light Decays 1:49:24-2:01:43 Ba'al (UK), album - The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here Mother's Concrete Womb 2:01:44-2:08:44 Beannachd Leibh (CAN), album - Walking in His Works Born Grey 2:08:45-2:15:42 Blood Abscission (Anon), album - II II - V 2:15:43-2:21:26 Centuries of Decay (CAN), album - A Monument to Oblivion Between the Waves of Grief 2:21:27-2:28:56 Dessiderium (AZ), album - Keys To The Palace In The Midst Of May 2:28:57-2:35:11 Dormant Ordeal (Poland), album - Tooth and Nail Against the Dying of the Light 2:35:12-2:39:45 Exilium Noctis (Greece), album - Pactum Diaboli Fall Of Babylon 2:39:46-2:44:09 Floating (Sweden), album - Hesitating Lights I Reached the Mew 2:44:10-2:50:13 Gabestok (Denmark), album - Alle Dør I Fremtiden Incelcitadel (De Sidste Fyldte Papirer) 2:50:14-2:53:55 Grey Aura (Netherlands), album - Zwart vierkant Slotstuk Opgehangen afgrond 2:53:56-3:02:00 Grima (Russia), album - Nightside The Nightside 3:02:01-3:05:19 Hecktic (Bulgaria), album - Unbeholden Black Swan 3:05:20-3:09:46 Morbikon (VA), album - Lost Within The Astral Crypts Ghoul Infested Mausoleum 3:09:47-3:15:52 Sepulchral Curse (Finland), album - Crimson Moon Evocations House Of The Black Moon 3:15:53-3:22:02 Sargassus (Finland), album - Vitruvian Rays Carving the Veins of God 3:22:03-3:27:45 Umulamahri (TX), album - Learning the Secrets of Acid Orifice Invocation 3:27:46-3:33:34 Uulliata Digir (Poland), album - S/T Omni Dirga 3:33:35-3:37:32 Vokodlok (Romania), album - The Egregious Being Disdain 3:37:33-END Withering Soul (Chicago), album -Passage of the Arcane Grievance Eludes the Light

Best Darkwave of 2025!! My #1 album is Haunt Me (TX)! I flew to NYC to see them this summer, and then got to see them in Denver. Love these guys. Lithuania came out as a powerhouse this year for this genre, and my #2 Ghostwave put out an incredible album. Also check out Pusto. I listed Mass Minor (TX) as the best surprise live shows I went to this year - opening for Urban Heat. They only put out an EP and a single this year, but they are one to watch. A lot of this list are "ones to watch". (0:25-4:07) #1: HAUNT ME (TX), album - Watch You Bleed Filthy (4:07-8:52) #2: GHOSTWAVE (Lithuania), album - Fallen Hearts Cold Death (8:53-13:08) #3: VIOFLESH (Chile), album - Nostalgia Naked (13:09-18:12) #4: JOCHEN K & JOHNNY W (Swiss), album - Of Idols and Ghosts Ghosts (18:12-21:29) #5: GLARE (TX), album - Sunset Funeral Guts (21:29-24:58) Best Surprising Live Show: MASS MINOR (Austin), album - Dark Mode Deadendrive (24:58-28:26) Top 10: DLINA VOLNY (Belarus), album - In Between Chant (28:26-32:10) Top 10: FEVR (CA), album - Vacant Move Me (32:10-35:33) Top 10: FLASHBACKS (GER), album - \\\ High Energy (35:33-38:13) Top 10: GHOST ENCLAVE (Italy), album - Toten Danse The lighting (38:13-43:20) Top 10: PUSTO (Lithuania), album - Amnesia Prijde Lito The Rest of the List! (alphabetized) (43:21-46:10) AGE OF SLEEP (Sweden), album - Age Of Sleep Strange Lines (46:11-48:38) AVEN GRAPH (Belarus), album - Fragmentation Roses (48:39-52:55) BLXCKFLAMINGO (NJ), album - Attic Tracks Good Morning Death, My Darling (52:56-56:47) BODY MAINTENANCE (AU), album - Far From Here The Surface (56:48-1:01:17) CABARET GREY (Poland), album - Second Wave Follow (1:01:17:1:04:42) DAMIEN HEARSE (AR), album - CROSSED; album - Marble Maiden LECTIO DIVINA (1:04:42-1:08:20) DANCING PLAGUE (Portland), album - Domain Bitter Taste (1:08:20-1:11:00) DETECTS (MI), album - Minus Decelerate (1:11:00-1:16:03) HAPPY PHANTOM (TX), album - Under The Blood Red Moon Siren Calls (1:16:04-1:19:52) IN A DARKENED ROOM (TX), album - VOIX Sounds of Warning (1:19:53-1:23:21) IRÈNE DE MILO (France), album - Barzh Kyūshū (1:23:22-1:28:26) LAURA KRIEG (Montreal), album - Crépuscule Crépuscule (1:28:27-1:32:51) LUSTTONE (Greece), album - Living In A Dead World The Only Answer (1:32:52-1:35:21) MILLIKEN CHAMBER (CA), album - Hyperphantasia Lisa Hoberman (1:35:21-1:38:10) MISERY MILE (CA), album - Bloodlust In My Mind (1:38:10-1:41:35) N8NOFACE (CA), album - As Of Right Now Everything We Thought We Knew (1:41:36-1:43:28) NIGHTS TEMPLAR (CA), album - IV Tuesday (1:43:29-1:48:23) NOCHE MISERIA (Ecuador), album - lostworks our war (lost track) (1:48:24-1:52:42) NOCKTUM (Italy), album - Poltergeist Poltergeist (1:52:43-1:55:33) NUIT NOIRE (France), album - Cendres d'Amour - Lettre Inachevée Silence Sur Les Draps (1:55:34-2:00:02) OLEXA (CAN), album - close to you cry (2:00:02-2:02:37) PORCELAIN DANCER (Greece), album - A documentary about nightmares Poison Cloud (2:02:38-2:09:42) PROJECTOR FIRES (MD), album - S/T Failed State (2:09:42-2:13:08) ROSA DAMASK (Berlin)(Dec 2024), album - Adore You The Sun (2:13:08-2:16:53) SEASURFER (GER), album - Electronic Monsters Collapsing (2:16:54-2:20:17) SHAD SHADOWS (Italy), album - Wunderkammer Desire Wrong Rain (2:20:17-2:22:35) SHANX FM (WA), album - Ou Etais Tu Watching You (2:22:36-2:27:42) SILVER TEARS (Berlin), album - S/T Waste of Time (2:27:42-2:32:28) SOFT VEIN (CA), album - Through the Blinds FALLING - Twin Tribes Remix (2:32:28-2:35:13) TALK TO HER (Italy), album - Pleasure Loss Desire Dyve (2:35:14-2:38:14) TERMINAL SERIOUS (Italy), album - Tear You Away Sewn Eyelids (2:38:15-2:42:25) THE COMPLETERS (Brazil), album - S/T Chemicals (2:42:25-2:46:58) THE OCCASION (GER), album -Songs Of The Night Too Close For Comfort (2:46:59-2:50:54) TOUCHED FABLES (CAN), album - The Sum of All Wounds Harsh Rain (2:50:55-2:53:37) VACÍOS CUERPOS (MEX), album - La Cruz De Mi Conciencia Vitiligo (2:53:38-2:57:31) VICKVAPORS (CA) , album - Various Singles It Was Never For Me (2:57:32-3:00:19) VICTORIAN DARKWAVE (AU), album - The Lost Tracks My Tomb (3:00:19-3:03:49) VOITH (Sweden), album - My Shadowblade Alone With You (3:03:49-END) VOYNA (Berlin), album - Monsters Milk

0:25-5:10 DEPRAVITY (AU) Call to the Fallen — Gloriously wicked death with insanely noodling guitars and a delicious melodic and smidgen of tech. 6:13-10:06 GRABJAHRE (Austria) Haut — Desecrated forest black metal with the chaos of galloping noise. 10:35-16:37 AM I IN TROUBLE? (NJ) White — Atmospheric psychedelic black metal with a spectrum of vocals and sweet emotions. 17:10-25:04 MORBIKON (VA) Lost Within The Astral Crypts — With members from Iron Reagan and Municipal Waste, you know this is going to thrash the shit out of thrash. An evil touch with the slicing vocals and tight assault of guitars and hyper tempo. 25:44-35:15 BLUT AUS NORD (France) The End Becomes Grace — Storytelling melodic black metal with layers upon layers of intricate instrumentation and vocals that ache by itself. 35:41-40:19 TERROR CORPSE (TX) Sons of Perdition — Gnarled vocals in a clean production of blustery, proggy death that somehow still crawls in the dirt. 40:42-48:16 OROB (France) Sun, Borrowed — Proggy, atmospheric and post-black within black metal aggression. 48:38-54:59 PHOBOCOSM (CAN) Unbound — Suffocating, harrowing death metal with dense but nuanced malevolence. 55:19-58:36 WHITE NIGHTS (US) A Witching Stone — Ambient, post-rock, garage rock blended with black metal. 59:07-END OMEGAVORTEX (GER) Psychopathic Majesty — Brutal and absolutely cruel.

All new dark wave show! 0:25-5:19 HEX FORMES + BL!NDS (DC) (The Cure covers) strange day 5:20-10:30 POST-PUNK'ER (Romania) Last day 10:31-14:56 GHOSTWAVE (Lithuania) Blood Cathedral 14:56-18:01 TALK TO HER (Italy) The Half Light 18:02-20:50 ROUTINE (Berlin) I Disappear 20:51-23:38 VACÍOS CUERPOS (MEX) Love Killer 23:39-28:11 GHOST ENCLAVE (Italy) Away 28:12-33:22 K Я U R (Italy) Draught of Gall 33:23-36:54 NOCKTUM (Italy) Lost Feelings 36:55-40:40 SECOND DIVINE (CA) Illusions 40:40-43:50 NEGATIVE1 (Sweden) The Weight of God 43:50-49:53 FADED PULSE (DC) Fallen 49:53-55:12 ATTIC FROST (Berlin) About A Dead (Hocico Cover) 55:13-59:10 IN ICTU OCULI (Netherlands) Burning Sun 59:11-END THYMIAN (Swiss) Worst Enemy

0:25-7:25 WITHERING SOUL (Chicago) Among Covetous Eyes — Black metal with intense death groove and strings-inspired tremolo picking. 8:24-15:46 RAGANA & DROWSE (WA) Ash Souvenir — Stunning male and female shoegaze and tortured vocals with eclectic black mixed with shoegazy melodic and indie rock. 16:25-22:18 1914 (Ukraine) 1917 (The Isonzo Front) — A best of 2018 and 2022 because these guys CRUSH their melodic, cinematic death and black atmosphere with a monster vocalist. 22:48-28:48 DEMON KING (TN) Requiem For A Dead World — Members of in another technical death album of fury and speed and breathtaking complex guitars. 29:16-36:23 LAMP OF MURMUUR (CA) The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy, Pt. I - Moondance — Amazing corpse paint live band, saw them recently. Epic black and roll with touching beauty. 36:42-40:45 VOIDCEREMONY (CA) Seventh Ephemeral Aura — Proggy as all hell weirdo death with edges that sear and burn. 41:10-53:08 QRIXKUOR (UK) So Spoke The Silent Stars — Vivid black metal theater with death groove, mutterings and alien dystopia. 53:30-59:25 WALDGEFLÜSTER (GER) Crusade in the Dark — Gorgeous Primordial-esque vocalist in a sweetened atmospheric black and folk. 59:56-1:05:45 VEILBURNER (PA) Matter o' the Most Awful of Martyrs — Black metal with horror vocals, dissonant death and psychedelic. 1:06:10-END TZEVAOT (UK) Air, Fire, Water, Earth — Avant-garde black metal with70s-style proggy pagan-influenced keyboards jazzy eclectic compositions.

0:25-6:03 BLISS OF FLESH (France) Sacrifice — My favorite type of melodic that encompasses ferocious death and tremolo black with so much groove. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yacIiYsnHZ8 6:57-11:00 GLORIOUS DEPRAVITY (NYC) Scourged By The Wings Of The Fell Destroyer — Direct death hits to the brain, allowing my brain to rest. Nothing complex here, in the best way. The smoothest, hottest vocals. 11:20-18:27 FÄUST (France) In a Ghastly Silence — Melodic black with tight guitars and headchurning riffs. 18:52-26:30 GRUTA (Columbia) Vorágine Espectral — Early-era punk-influenced style of raw black metal with a gripping vocalist and delicious breakdowns. 27:05-30:37 KOSTNATĚNÍ (MN) Křehký bůh (Fragile God) — Progressive black metal, post-metal and sludge that is textural and intense. 31:00-38:56 MALEPESTE (France) Relapsus — An atmospheric theatrical black mist. 39:20-41:41 PUPIL SLICER (UK) Gordian — Pummeling their souls into your face. 42:04-47:58 THE DEVIL'S TRADE (Hungary) Weltschmerz — Ballad-y vocals in dark folk and moody ambient. 48:18-END CENTINEX (Sweden) I Am The Way — Jaunty, thrashy death metal with wicked guitars.

0:27-5:57 HECKTIC (Bulgaria) Vital to the Clockwork — Technical, tight, complex, proggy death with dynamic vocals and punchy, groovy thrash energy. 6:44-12:32 MALADIE (GER) Black Hole Weight In Our Hearts — Saxophone infuses a horror-filled dramatic black with jazzy sections. 12:51-16:47 THRON (GER) Hubris' Crown — Psychedelic, lush, melodic black metal. Reminds me a bit of Oranssi Pazuzu. 17:06-24:34 ORM (Denmark) Undfangen — Jagged black metal that engages in moments of unrelenting tremolo, riffs and groove. 25:12-31:33 ONE OF NINE (US) Age Of Chains — JRR Tolkien-inspired, sweeping, winter-laden, battle-weary, fight-the-villains black metal. 31:59-37:29 CONJURER (UK) All Apart — Explosion into emotional storms keeps this vicious, sludgy doom varied and wild. 37:52-44:06 YELLOW EYES (NYC) A Forgotten Corridor — A Best album of 2017 and 2019. Dense, spectacular black. 44:30-49:17 ENSHROUD (UK) Corpses Piled High — Sharp vampire fangs and guitar talons black metal. Just psychotic killing. 49:41-59:31 DROFNOSURA (CAN) Kapala Kriya — Moody atmospheric sludge with textured pace, vicious delicious vocals and swirling electronic meditation. 59:57-END BARREN PATH (JAP) No Geneva — Absolute assault from all angles.