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Best of 2024, Dark/Cold/New Wave show!! My #1 alternative album is Holograph (South Africa)!! 0:25-2:58 HOLOGRAPH (South Africa), album - S/T Microscopic beings 2:58-7:16 TWIN TRIBES (TX), album - Pendulum Monolith 7:17-11:00 TR/ST (CA), album - Performance All at Once 11:00-14:46 OCCULTS (CA), album - Rituals Strawberry Moon 14:47-19:11 DATA FRAGMENTS (Greece)(Dec 2023), album - Total Absence Of Light Addiction 19:11-22:44 TOPOGRAPHIES (SF), album - Interior Spring Tied 22:45-27:00 COLD CAVE (CA), album - Passion Depression Blackberries 27:00-30:48 WORN OUT (GER), album - The Coming Flood Run Away 30:48-33:54 TSAFFIRE (CA), album - Torment Fatal Attraction 33:55-37:46 DURL (NJ), album - …and I loved death lágrimas frías 37:47-41:33 TRICOR (GER), album - S/T Gloomy Waves 41:33-45:52 NO (Montreal)(Dec 2023), album - Wave Function Push It Away 45:53-49:09 NEON LIES (Croatia), album - Demons Overrun 49:10-52:05 VOLGA (Italy)(Dec 2023), album - S/T Dark Clouds 52:05-55:00 UNTO OTHERS (Portland), album - Never, Neverland Butterfly 55:01-1:00:45 MIDNIGHT DARKWAVE (Berlin), album - 𝕸𝖎𝖉𝖓𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖕𝖎𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖁𝖔𝖑.1 𝕳𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘 1:00:46-1:04:59 DECOMME (CAN), album - Sentiment Foreign Concepts 1:05:00-1:07:08 CLOSED TEAR (CA), album - Secrets Gallery 1:07:08-1:11:16 ALIEN TEARS (France), album - S/T A Ghost Town 1:11:16-1:14:54 CARESS (CA)(Nov 2023), album - Night Call Mortal Flaw 1:14:54-1:17:28 BLEACHED HEAT (CAN), album - Anomie Melatonin 1:17:28-1:22:15 LOCUST REVIVAL (AU), album - The New Cure Album LOCUST HAUS 1:22-16-1:26:18 ATTIC FROST (Berlin), album - A Sad Thought Made Dance The sun and the rainfall (Depeche Mode cover) 1:26:19-1:30:56 HUIR (Spain), album - Triumphal Arch Lovers Arch 1:30:56-1:34:21 ANTIPOLE & PARIS ALEXANDER (Norway/UK), album - Perspectives III Disjointed (Corbeau Hangs Remix)

Show 2, Best of 2024, with my #1 band, Spectral Wound (CAN)! 1:46-7:26 SPECTRAL WOUND (CAN), album - Songs Of Blood and Mire The Horn Marauding — Magical black metal that is despaired, intense, and powerful. 8:03-13:40 MODERN RITES (US/Swiss), album - Endless Veil Of Opulence — Melodic black metal crashing down from a storm of clouds. 14:14-21:29 IOTUNN (Denmark), album - Kinship The Coming End — Thunderous vocals in a complex and epic death with grandiose, melodic compositions backed by an insane drummer playing with proggy, intricate rhythms. 21:58-26:22 KERES (Italy), album - Homo Homini Lupus Void and Silence — Ear-worm fun tech melodic death with a maelstrom of hurtling drums, and complex, writhing guitars. 27:19-34:24 LUUSÄKKI (Finland), album - S/T Fifth of the Fifth Columns — A one-person black and death metal with wretched vocals set against creepy noise and bleak black. 35:05-40:13 NIGHTWRAITH (Denver), album - Divergence Perpetual Night — Proggy melodic and flying guitar solos, 70s keyboards and flute with the incredible throaty vocals that we love. 40:39-44:56 THE MOSAIC WINDOW (CA), album - Hemasanctum Incantation to Summon the Unstable — Moody meets groove. Flying thrash guitars and an impassioned vocalist leading us through moments of zen. 45:33-51:11 MÚR (Iceland), album - S/T Múr — Lush black metal for the blackest of skies and the thickest of stars, broken by lurching tempos and rocking riffs. 51:33-57:16 DISLOYAL (Poland), album - Divine Miasmata Religion Of Warfare — Thunderous death, sweeping riffs, a sly and ominous lead vocalist and proggy, dynamic and intricate compositions. 57:44-1:04:07 SEAR BLISS (Hungary), album - Heavenly Down The Winding Path — 70's style majestic synth and horns that add to their ambient black metal, evolving to chomping, fist pumping earworm and a touch of sludge. 1:04:47-1:10:23 ANOXIDE (UK), album - Morals & Dogma Age of Austerity — Vocals are a punch within uneasy, blistering death with sticatto, djent additions. 1:10:50-1:14:19 CHAT PILE (OK), album - Cool World Shame — Retro-leaning moody melodic hardcore modernized with sludge and noise and 90s indie guitar. 1:14:46-1:19:17 CABINET (US), album - Hydrolysated Ordination Hydrolysated Ordination — Immediate malevolence of death suffocation, but in a meditative lovely way. 1:19:52-1:25:49 BLOOD INCANTATION (Denver), album - Absolute Elsewhere The Message [Tablet I] — Their furnace death metal cut with instrumental twists and 70s krautrock and a splatter of Pink Floyd that creates floating bubbles of synthy metal candy. 1:26:14-1:31:29 VORGA (GER), album - Striving Toward Oblivion Starless Sky — Plenty of heartstrings pulled with chilling notes in hypnotic arrangements, and cool spacy synth creating beautiful melodies. 1:32:07-1:35:52 REPLICANT (NJ), album - Infinite Mortality Nekrotunnel — A best of 2021 band with members in Putrascension, a best of 2023 band. Baritone and screech charges like a warrior within octane intricate technical death and angular tempos. 1:36:23-1:39:36 SUMMONING THE LICH (MO), album - Under The Reviled Throne The Forest Feasts — An incredible live performance, and more of the topnotch dueling vocals and technical at the speed of light. 1:40:12-1:46:57 AKLASH (UK), album - Reincarnation Cossack — Doom, melodic black, psychedelic and folk with horns and accordion that is intense and satisfyingly groovy. 1:47:26-1:51:58 KARKOSA (IN), album - Esoterrorcult Shattered Throne — Compressed rasps and tumbling-forward vocals with an avalanche of lyrics in a wickedly paced black metal with tech death elements. 1:52:24-1:57:29 VOLCANDRA (KY), album - The Way Of Ancients Not Even Death — Knife vocals and bludgeoning baritones create an epic, moody black and death with catchy thrashy awesomeness. 1:57:54-2:04:06 CARRION VAEL (IN), album - Cannibals Anonymous Savage Messiah — In my Best of 2022, this is more excellence. Slaughtering vocal in an explosive tech death with undulating guitars and a raging drummer. The sweet clean vocals add to the dynamic mix. 2:04:30-2:11:58 SELBST (Chile), album - Despondency Chord Progressions The One Who Blackens Everything — Rich instruments stack and become jammy. Epic, plaintive and demanding with vocals that beat its chest on a mountain. 2:12:26-2:21:42 ANTE-INFERNO (UK), album - Death's Soliloquy Towards Asphyxiating Darkness — Ripped apart by vocal fury, and soothed with deeply disturbed melodic compositions. 2:22:02-2:25:51 SERVANT (GER), album - Death Devil Magick Devil — Rippling guitar in a moody mix of tremelo-heavy black metal and an expressive lead singer. 2:26:18-2:34:09 HIDEOUS DIVINITY (Italy), album - Unextinct Atto Quarto: The Horror Paradox — A balance between a show of power with badass savage riffage and intricate noodle-y compositions. The vocals are a ride. 2:34:33-2:40:55 OUBLIETTE (TN), album - Eternity Whispers Desolate Path — Roars over organic and erupting textural melodic black metal drenching you in its beauty. 2:41:36-END WORMWITCH

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. 2:55:01-END DREAMLESS VEIL (VA), album - Every Limb of the Flood Glossolalia — Artifical Brain