Nov 192015
 

Infectious

 

It’s that time of year again, when we start preparing for the frenzy of year-end Listmania. For those of you new to the frenzy, our Listmania extravaganza comes in four parts. First, we re-print assorted lists of the year’s best albums, leeched from other big web sites and magazines. Second, we will collect our readers’ lists of the 2015 albums and shorter releases they enjoyed the most. Third, we post the year-end lists of our own staff and assorted guest writers. And fourth, I’ll roll out my list of the year’s Most Infectious Extreme Metal Songs.

And that last list is the subject of this request for help (we’ll be inviting you to give us your lists of the year’s best albums as we get closer to the actual end of the year — so start thinking about that).

In case you’ve become an NCS reader since this time last year, here’s what this Most Infectious Song list is about:

This is about individual songs, not albums, EPs, demos, etc. It’s also not our list of the best individual extreme metal songs of the year — though some of the songs might actually be among the best of the year. Instead, this is a list of the most infectious extreme metal songs we’ve heard this year. The idea is to think of songs that might produce involuntary physical movement, songs that have got catchy rhythms, memorable melodies, sweet grooves, or anything else that sticks the song in your head and makes you want to keep listening to it.

To be one of the most infectious songs of the year, it should be something that’s stuck in your head, something you put on playlists, something you mentally replay at unexpected times — songs you go back to repeatedly for listening. “Most played” might be a good synonym.

I’ve already got my own working list of candidates — there are a ton of songs on there at the moment — and I’m going to collect suggestions from all of our regular writers. But no doubt we will overlook some gems, so here’s what I’m asking: Please leave comments to this post with your suggestions — or e-mail them to: islander@nocleansinging.com

I’ll then pick what I think are the most infectious tracks of the year and start playing those songs for you in groups of two or three as we get closer to year-end. The first year we did this (2009), I limited the list to 10 songs. In 2010, I expanded it to 30. In 2011 it grew to 39. In 2012 it topped out at 56. In 2013 I worked really hard and got the list all the way down to.. gulp… 73. And last year, well, last year life got in the way and I never finished the complete rollout, though I announced 62 songs before I gave up.

As you can tell, I have a really fuckin’ hard time making lists. And of course I have no idea how many songs we’ll feature this year.

So, reflect on the music you’ve really been enjoying this year and please let us hear from you. By leaving your favorite songs in the comments, this post will also become a way for other metal fans to find good music from the year that’s rushing to an end.

  58 Responses to “A REQUEST FOR YOUR “MOST INFECTIOUS SONG” CANDIDATES”

  1. For me it’s easily Sodomy and Blasphemy from Rabbid Armagedon by Under the Church. The whole fucking album is the bees knees in my opinion but I find myself singing this track specifically all day.

  2. Tribulation – Strange Gateways Beckon (possibly my favorite song of the year)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNZgqxAxaj4

    Firespawn – The Emporer
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLeZZ1A-MiA

    Ram – Enslaver
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6YXsaYPSo

    Draconian – Heavy Lies The Crown
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WAf-RF02rY

    Horrendous – Sum of All Failures
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npFkLpZz7jQ

    Avatarium – Iron Mule
    (Sorry couldn’t find a YouTube link – songs awesome though!)

    Lost Soul – Aqueous Ammonia (or anything from that album really)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri9YE345g2s

    Sulphur Aeon – Into The Courts of Azathoth
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCVKKZlISeY

    Sulphur Aeon – Seventy Steps
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsWxw7BzSyU

    With The Dead – Living With The Dead
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yN8DbTYANo

    Clutch – X-Ray Visions
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cmbmwFAl8

    Division Speed – Blazing Heat
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1z03A0OOdw

    Black Breath – Slaves Beyond Death
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdTdvOVAquc

    In Twilight’s Embrace – Gravitate Towards The Unknown
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecG0hHKzIFQ

    Speedtrap – Savage The Prey
    (Sorry couldn’t find a link on YouTube)

    Ramming Speed – Don’t Let This Stay Here
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcTc5eBy75s

    Adversarial – Dissenting The Waking Shell
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WWWqqDQYm8

    There is so much more, but that’s all I can think of at the moment! Cheers!

    • That Tribulation has so many gems. “Strange Gateways Beckon”, “Melancholia”, “In The Dreams of the Dead”, or “The Motherhood of God” could/should all make the list. Same goes for like at least half of Anareta. And I need to get to that new Clutch, especially since Earth Rocker was so damn solid.

    • Just wanted to belatedly thank you for your list (and for including links) — sorry that the comments were inadvertently turned off when you first tried to leave it here.

  3. When it comes to infectious, it’s gotta be Gorod. Either ‘Celestial Nature’ or ‘The Mystic Triad of Artistry’ for mine.

  4. Panopticon – Pale Ghosts (or almost any other song from Autumn Eternal).

  5. Havukruunu – Unien Havulinnaan

    Blind Guardian – Prophecies

    Forefather – Curse of the Cwelled

    Tsjuder – Demonic Supremacy

  6. Crypt Sermon – “Temple Doors”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spfXao0s4p8

    Encyrcle – “Dizzy Me Deadly”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV7Et9d7I2E

  7. Alkaloid-Cthulhu

  8. I know it’s “no clean singing” but seriously, my most infectious song of the year is Ghost Ship Octavius-Mills of the Gods. It’s a near perfect modern metal song imho

  9. Khemmis – The Bereaved

  10. Thank you for the request, this is my list about the “Most Infectious Songs” of the year:

    1) Sarpanitum – “I Defy for I Am Free”
    2) Sulphur Aeon – “Into the Courts of Azathoth”
    3) Hate Eternal – “The Stygian Deep”
    4) Theories – “Cycle of Decay”
    5) Abhorrent Decimation – “Odious”
    6) Cattle Decapitation – “Manufactured Extinct”
    7) Rivers Of Nihil – “Terrestria II: Thrive”
    8) Abyssal – “Telomeric Erosion”
    9) Aevangelist – “Levitating Stones”
    10) Vorum – “Current Mouth”
    11) Rannoch – “Porphyria”
    12) Human Improvement Process – “Project Monarch”
    13) Cruciamentum – “Tongues of Nightshade”
    14) Slaegt – “Move in Chaos”
    15) Kaeck – “Afgod”
    16) Devouring Star – “Decayed Son of Earth”
    17) Adversarial – “Lone Wresting Hymns to the Warmoon of Chaos”
    18) Leviathan – “Within Thrall”
    19) Reverie – “Circles”
    20) Panopticon – “Oaks Ablaze”
    21) Amiensus – “One in Spirit”
    22) Vampire – “Pyre of the Harvest Queen”
    23) Tribulation – “Holy Libations”
    24) Horrendous – “Acolytes”
    25) Gruesome – “Hideous”
    26) Undead – “Voices Within”
    27) Sadistic Ritual – “Executioner”
    28) The Monolith Deathcult – “Hangmen Also Die”
    29) Mgla – “Exercises in Futility II”
    30) Misþyrming – “Songur uppljomunar”
    31) Serpents Lair – “The Serpentine Gnosis”
    32) Shrine of Insanabilis – “Invocation”
    33) Devathorn – “Cathedral of Set”
    34) Acherontas – “Therionic Transformation”
    35) Shape of Despair – “Descending Inner Night”
    36) Paradise Lost – “Beneath Broken Earth”
    37) Alkaloid – “Cthulhu”
    38) Sanzu – “Ubiety”
    39) Black Breath – “Reaping Flesh”
    40) Marduk – “Between the Wolf-Packs”
    41) Bloodstrike – “Bells of Death”
    42) Destruktor – “Forever the Blood Shall Flow”
    43) Possession – “Ceremony”
    44) Sacrificium Carmen – “Nemesis”
    45) Kampfar – “Tornekratt”
    46) Enslaved – “One Thousand Years of Rain”
    47) Drudkh – “To the Epoch of Unbowed Poets”
    48) Kroda – “Black Carpathian Spines”
    49) Khors – “Following the Ways of Blood”
    50) Outre – “Chant 4 – Lament”
    51) Serpent Noir – “Al Runa”
    52) Akhlys – “Consummation”
    53) Blaze of Perdition – “Cold Morning Fears”
    54) Creeping – “Drear”
    55) Crypt Sermon – “Heavy Riders”
    56) Windhand – “Two Urns”
    57) Hooded Menace – “Ashen With Solemn Decay”
    58) Gorrch – “Cinico Dominio”
    59) Isvind – “Boken”
    60) Abjvration – “The Clawed Redeemer”
    61) Aegrus – “Woves of Luciferian Light”
    62) Tsjuder – “Djevelens Mesterverk”
    63) Awe – “Actus Primus”
    64) Altarage – “Vortex Pyramid”
    65) Tyranny – “A Voice Given Unto Ruin”
    66) In Dread Response – “Weight”
    67) Thornesbreed – “Horns Ov Gaia”
    68) Azavatar – “Kaos”
    69) Inculter – “Death Domain”
    70) Deathhammer – “Powertrip”
    71) Byzantine – “The Agonies”
    72) Cold Cell – “Needle’s Asylum”
    73) Ghost Bath – “Golden Number”
    74) Pyrrhon – Cancer Mantra”
    75) Imperial Triumphant – “Opposing Holiness”

    • Damn, solid list man. You definitely put a lot of effort into it. Lots of great songs.

    • Good lord.

      • It was kinda funny your comment, you’re right, this list is long, I can’t wait to see your final lists about the albums and songs along with Islander and all the others writers here! 🙂

    • I know that my list is pretty long but I have three songs still:

      76) Katavasia – “Visions of the Misty Night”
      77) Just Before Dawn – “Graves Without Crosses”
      78) Cut Up – “A Butchery Improved”

  11. What I can remember now (it figures that the most infectious ones are the ones you remember), in no particular order:
    – Panopticon: Oaks Ablaze
    – Paradise Lost: No Hope In Sight
    – Hanging Garden: Whiteout
    – Draconian: Pale Tortured Blue
    – Swallow the Sun: Abandoned By the Light
    – Deafheaven: Come Back
    – Chelsea Wolfe: Simple Death
    – Barren Earth: The Vault
    – Amorphis: The Four Wise Ones
    – Keep of Kalessin: The Grand Design
    – My Dying Bride: And My Father Left Forever
    – So Hideous: The True Pierce
    – Vattnet Viskar: Impact
    – Zatokrev: Swallow the Teeth
    – Wolfheart: Resistance

  12. Mgla – “Exercises in Futility I”
    Mgla – “Exercises in Futility IV”
    Barren Earth – “A shapeless Derelict”
    Peste Noire – “Le dernier putsch”
    Shining – “Last Day”
    Diabolicum – “One Man’s War”
    Tempel: “Carvings in the Door”
    Leprous – “rewind”
    Murg – “Nejderna Brinner”
    Demonical – “To Become the Weapon”

    NOT extreme metal :
    The Night FLight Orchestra – “sail on”
    Queensrÿche – “Hellfire”
    Chelsea Wolfe – “Carrion Flowers”
    Symphony X – “kiss of Fire”

  13. I’ll give this a shot here

    Cattle Decapitation – Not Suitable For Life
    Firespawn – Lucifer Has Spoken
    Sulphur Aeon – Abysshex
    Trident – Aftermath
    Theories – Cycle Of Decay
    Sarpanitum – Glorification Upon The Powdered Bones Of The Sundered Dead
    Rivers Of Nihil – Sand Baptism
    Putridity – Conceived Through Vermination
    Dalkhu – Accepting The Burried Signs
    Elder – Compendium
    Iron Maiden – The Red And The Black
    Obsequiae – Autumnal Pyre
    Horrendous – Sum Of All Failures
    Iniquitous Deeds – Embittered Materialization
    Abhorrent – A Lightness Of Mind

  14. I’ll give this a shot here

    Cattle Decapitation – Not Suitable For Life
    Firespawn – Lucifer Has Spoken
    Sulphur Aeon – Abysshex
    Trident – Aftermath
    Theories – Cycle Of Decay
    Sarpanitum – Glorification Upon The Powdered Bones Of The Sundered Dead
    Rivers Of Nihil – Sand Baptism
    Putridity – Conceived Through Vermination
    Dalkhu – Accepting The Burried Signs
    Obsequiae – Autumnal Pyre
    Horrendous – Sum Of All Failures
    Iniquitous Deeds – Embittered Materialization
    Abhorrent – A Lightness Of Mind

  15. Every year I think “I should keep a list of awesome tracks that stick in my mind” and fail to follow through. So off the top of my leaky memory:

    Sarpanitum – By Virtuous Reclamation
    https://willowtip.bandcamp.com/track/by-virtuous-reclamation
    Because – there’s at least 3 or 4 great riff/melodies that would be a great addition to any song. And like kids in a candy store they went and jammed them all into their mouth, I mean song, all at once

    Second To Sun – Land of the Fearless Birds
    https://secondtosun.bandcamp.com/track/land-of-the-fearless-birds
    Because – I was sold on buying this album after hearing this streaming here on NCS… and played it over and over until the album dropped 🙂 Heavy and slightly wacky… but despite the leftfield forays along the way they keep the song flying forward, threatening to go off the rails but still maintaining a coherent song structure. Golf claps all around for these crazy gentlemen!

    Stonebringer – Rubin
    https://stonebringer.bandcamp.com/track/rubin-3
    Because – early Mastodon-y riffage with soaring female vocals and an oddly downbeat but catchy as hell chanted chorus. Somehow this song just sounds like home.

    Fear Factory – Anodised
    https://youtu.be/B5PH1lK5gH4
    This is album is pretty catchy really, but this chorus just stuck in my head. The perfect accompaniment to watching a bit of ‘Humans’ or ‘Ex Machina’

    Mechina – On The Wings of Nefeli.
    https://mechinamusic.bandcamp.com/track/4-on-the-wings-of-nefeli
    Because – I think they just invented a new genre of ‘cyber space J-pop’… even though that’s probably not Japenese she’s singing… all I know is it sounds good passing into my earholes, hammering my hammer and staples 😉 Mel Rose nails it on this album.

    Opensight – The Chase:
    https://opensight.bandcamp.com/track/the-chase
    Because – it should have been on the James Bond soundtrack, timed to coincide with a cameo from Sean Connery just to mindfuck everyone with a retro throwback 🙂

    In Dread Response – Earthen Bonds
    https://indreadresponse.bandcamp.com/track/earthen-bonds
    The first song on the album and they make it clear they’re not here to fuck around! Riffs, velocity, solos, double bass fills = involuntary headbanging

    Mephorash – Riphyon – The Tree of Assiyah Putrescent
    https://youtu.be/VefPsf1B2vc
    Because – dark, luciferian chants that dig into the depths of my mind, combined with solid heavy tunes…mmmmmm

    Finsterforst – Zeit für Hass
    Because – big band metal! For the life of me I can’t find a stream of it anywhere though… 🙁

    Lost Soul – Aqueous Ammonia:
    https://soundcloud.com/apostasy-records/lost-soul-aqueous-ammonia
    Because – fury

  16. .. knew I’d forget something!

    Ladybaby – Nippon Manju
    https://youtu.be/M8-vje-bq9c
    For all those fans of Babymetal out there!

  17. Here we go, I’ll fill out a Side A and Side B for you from this year.

    A: Belzebong – ‘Diabolical Dopenosis’
    A: Goatsnake – ‘Coffee & Whiskey’
    A: Turbowolf – ‘American Mirrors’
    A: Cult Leader – ‘Walking Wastelands’

    B: Sigh – ‘Kaedit Nos Pestis’
    B: Wilderun – ‘Bite the Wound’
    B: Monolord – ‘Cursing the Lord’

  18. My List so far
    Nightfell – Collapse
    Keep Of Kalessin – Dark Divinity
    Hegemon – Interpreting Signs For War: Aruspicine
    Wolfheart – Aeon Of Cold
    Vampire – Pyre Of The Harvest Queen
    Orchid – Under The Sign Of The Witch
    Black Flame – Under The Bridge Of illusions
    Invoker – Across The Abyss
    Inglorious – My Death
    In Twilights Embrace – No
    Tribulation – Holy Libations
    Graveworm – The Death Heritage
    Enslaved – One Thousand Years Of Rain

  19. Skinless – Serpenticide
    Moan – Exempt
    Hooded Menace – Elysium of Dripping Death
    My Dying Bride – To Shiver in Empty Halls
    Bloody Tyrant – Flesh Roots
    Bloody Tyrant – Ode to the Falling Rain
    My Funeral – Violence Academy
    Paradise Lost – No Hope in SIght
    Tribulation – The Motherhood of God
    Non-extreme metal
    Venomous Maximus – My Machine
    Uncle Acid and the Dead Beats – Melody Lane

  20. Love this series. I find so much cool stuff from this.

    Alkaloid – “The Malkuth Grimoire”
    The Armed – “Dead Actress”
    Between the Buried and Me – “The Coma Machine”
    Byzantine – “God Forsaken”
    Cattle Decapitation – “Manufactured Extinct”
    Deafheaven – “Baby Blue”
    Gods of Eden – “The Overseer”
    Intronaut – “Fast Worms”
    Rivers of Nihil – “Sand Baptism”
    Slice the Cake – “Stone and Silver i. The Mountains of Man”
    Slugdge – “The Toxic Salts”
    Turbid North – “Eyes Alive”
    Ur Draugr – “Unseen Golgotha”
    Wrvth – “Harrowing Winds”

  21. Akhlys – The Dreaming I
    Alkaloid – Carbon Phrases
    Barren Earth – Set Alight
    Lychgate – I Am Contempt
    Sigh – Kaedit Non Pestis
    Oxxo Xoox – Abym

    Just a few.

  22. Looking over these lists is like a horrific reminder of all the releases I’ve missed this year… sigh… only one lifetime and so much good metal!

  23. Mechina – On the Wings of Nefeli
    Der Weg einer Freiheit – Einkehr
    Cattle Decapitation – Manufactured Exctinct
    Lamb of God – 512

  24. A handful of these may contain clean singing or be less than extreme or metal in the puritan sense but anyways, here we go:

    Abigail Williams – Path of Broken Glass
    Aethyr – Templum
    Akhlys – Tides of Oneiric Darkness
    Antichrist Imperium – Elegy
    Antichrist Imperium – Spiritual Rapist
    Arche – Plains of Lethe
    Arcturus – The Arcturian Sign
    Angel Eyes – Things Have Learnt to Walk that Ought to Crawl (Part I)
    Angel Eyes – Things Have Learnt to Walk that Ought to Crawl (Part II)
    Barus – Tarot
    Bearstorm – Glacial Relic \ Riparian Forest
    Beaten to Death – Don’t You Dare to Call Us Heavy Metal
    Caïna – I am the Flail of the Lord
    Cattle Decapitation – Manufactured Extinct
    Cattle Decapitation – Clandestine Ways (Krokodil Rot)
    Chapel of Disease – Symbolic Realms
    CHRCH – Dawning
    Claret Ash – Desolation of a Pierced Soul
    Contrarian – Polemic
    Corrections House – Crossing My One Good Finger
    C R O W N – Serpents
    Dead River Runs Dry – Hyperic Vortex
    Deep Space Destructors – Journey to the Space Mountain
    Destroy Judas – Forever Like Stars… We Shine
    Domovoyd – Domovoyage
    Drouth – Vast, Loathsome
    Ereb Altor – Midsommarblot
    Ereb Altor – Nattramn
    Enslaved – Thurisaz Dreaming
    Enslaved – Building with Fire
    Ghost Bath – Golden Number
    Grimoire – Tragédie des ombres
    Halshug – Gudsforladt
    He Whose Ox is Gored – Omega
    Human Serpent – Starving Void Upon Earth
    InAeona – Bright Black
    InAeona – Leader
    InAeona – Never Forever
    Iskra – Lawless
    Keeper – The King
    Ketha – #!%16.7 (considering the whole EP as a single song)
    Khemmis – The Bereaved
    Macabre Omen – I See, the Sea
    Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Nachthexen
    Marriages – Skin
    Mgla – Exercises in Futility I
    Monolord – Died a Million Times
    Mother Crone – Black Sea
    Napalm Death – Smash a Single Digit
    Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus – Väinämöinen
    Obsequiae – Pools of a Vernal Paradise
    Plaguewielder – Palms of the Earth
    Psudoku – cWaRP-4
    Pyramids – The Substance of Grief is not Imaginary
    Sangus – Blood Legions
    Sangus – Leeching Pigs
    Sangus – Genocidio
    Sangus – Ave il Luce
    Sarpanitum – By Virtuous Reclamation
    Sarpanitum – Blessed Be My Brother
    Shroud Eater – Face the Master
    Slugdge – Spore Ensemble
    Slugdge – Toxic Salts
    Snakefeast – Golem
    Stone Healer – He Who Rides Immolated Horses
    Sulphur Aeon – Devotion to the Cosmic Chaos
    Sunset in the 12th House – Desert’s Eschaton
    Teethgrinder – 187
    Torche – Bishop in Arms
    Torche – Undone
    Ufomammut – Plouton
    Veilburner – Ever Relapsing Fever
    Vhol – The Desolate Damned
    VI – Il est trop tard pour rendre gloire. Ainsi la lumière sera changée en ombre de la mort.
    Windfaerer – Celestial Supremacy
    Yuri Gagarin – Sea of Dust
    Yuri Gagarin – Psychological Discontinuity
    Zatokrev – Swallow the Teeth
    ZAUM – The Serpentshrine

  25. Here’s a few, I know there’s dozens more I’m forgetting 🙂
    Slayer – Repentless
    Slayer – When the Stillness Comes
    Slayer – Piano Wire
    Nile – Call to Destruction
    Krisiun – Dogma of Submission
    Fear Factory – Dielectric
    Lamb of God – Still Echoes
    Fear Factory – Dielectric
    Lamb of God – 512
    Fear Factory – Dielectric
    Lamb of God – Overlord
    Jungle Rot – Paralyzed Prey
    Skinless – Flamethrower
    Six Feet Under – Open Coffin Orgy
    Six Feet Under – Gruesome
    Huntress – Sorrow

  26. Fuck, so many songs, so little time.

    Off the top of my head:

    The ugly – Black goat. Perhaps one of the catchiest songs this year for me, it’s also the highlight of an otherwise mediocre album.
    https://vicisolumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/decreation

    Moloken – Subliminal hymns. That intro. That bass sound.
    https://youtu.be/_fTuecWGKfU

    ShadowQuest – All one. Power metal with clean singing, but damn do they channel vintage Helloween in a most excellent way.
    https://youtu.be/GdTyoTpQpZ8

    Leprous – Rewind.
    https://youtu.be/m3ken_aH550

    Raised fist – Gates. The breakdown at 1:28 is damn nice.
    https://youtu.be/s4sWQbVsfxA

    Raised fist – Depression
    https://youtu.be/pZs74JeOUFI

    Marduk – The blonde beast. The things you can achieve with a steady 4/4 beat and a possessed vocalist.
    https://youtu.be/Ygvyge6jaJo

    Shining – Människotankens vägglösa rum.
    https://youtu.be/40sPuvyiaK8

    Vholdghast – I am. Pretty unknown band, but a great intro riff and a compelling vocal effort on this song.
    https://youtu.be/O0tD1oPOi7M

    Alkaloid – Cthulhu. Ya can’t go wrong with Lovecraft at a crawling pace.
    https://youtu.be/8gONcgI01wA

    Månegarm – Odin owns ye all. Cheesy, not a favourite by any means, but by George is that a ridiculously catchy song.
    https://youtu.be/Bqfk7oBMsW4

    Cut-up – Burial time
    https://youtu.be/Tb7INPQX4t0

    Cattle decapitation – Manufactured extinct.
    https://youtu.be/u8t8g8lU4ms

    Ghost – From the pinnacle to the pit. I could include pretty much the whole album, but this song stands out thanks to it’s throbbing bassline.
    https://youtu.be/6A-IoOEPbUs

  27. Tau Cross – Prison
    Tau Cross – The Devil knows his own
    The whole album is just fantastic and currently my album of the 2015

    Kampfar – Daimon
    still need to listen to the whole album, but this song is just awesome

    Seagrave – Harvest in June
    some nice post/atmospheric BM

    Ghost Bath – Golden Number
    Brilliant song on a otherwise disappointing album.

    Gloryhammer – Universe on fire
    just some glorious happy metal

    Cross Vault – Revocable Loss
    I missed their debut, but I like the new songs. Kinda eerie, beautiful doom

    Gentleman’s Pistols – Devil’s advocate on call
    you just wanna dance and drink to this song

    Graveyard – Too much isn’t enough
    Slaegt – Move in Chaos

    And there are some other albums I have to wrap my head around (and would probably make this list but I’m quite bad at rembering song titles).

  28. Lot of good recs. Couple of others I thought of.

    Sylosis – Servitude
    Sanzu – Heavy over the Home

  29. Arkham Witch – From Beyond
    https://metalonmetalrecords.bandcamp.com/track/from-beyond

    I just listen to this over and over again.

    (I blew the links in the 2015 year end list thread, apparently…)

  30. Rivers of Nihil – Monarchy

  31. Late to the party, and probably nothing here others haven’t suggested, but these are some of the metal songs that ruled my year:

    Panopticon–“Autumn Eternal”
    Horrendous–“Acolytes”
    Tau Cross–“Our Day”
    Hate Eternal–“Locust Swarm”
    Myrkur–“Dybt I Skoven”
    Khemmis–“The Bereaved”
    Violet Cold–“La Petite Mort” (\m/83)
    Cloud Rat–“Rouge Park”
    Royal Thunder–“Time Machine”

    Not as heavy or ugly as some years, but whatever, these are the songs that kept me pushing replay. Hope to discover a shit-ton more when the lists are finalized! (Most years I don’t even discover half the good stuff until I get turned onto it by sites like this one and readers/commenters like these.)

  32. So many great choices on here already. Nice work.

    Beaten to Death – “Robert Sylvester Kelly”
    Tau Cross – “Our Day”
    Cattle Decapitation – “Mammals in Babylon”
    Marduk – “The Blond Beast”

  33. Dangz, I have but but skimmed the scurf of this year’s offerings. But here are some infectious melodies that I haven’t seen in my extremely brief perusal of the offerings above. And if they are already mentioned, my apologies. They be good enough to mention again!

    1. Melechesh – Multiple Truths (the whole fuckin album rocks)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euzd-Om57vM

    2. JØTNARR – Rise by sin
    https://jotnarr.bandcamp.com/track/rise-by-sin-3

    3. Obsequiae – Anlace and heart
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHiLiwWBgTk

  34. In no particular order, save for the first:

    Akhlys – The dreaming I
    Haethen -Shaped by Aeolian Winds
    Misthryming – Songvar elds oreidu
    Shaidar Logoth – Chapter II: The Ritualist
    Mgla – Exercises in Futility
    Lluvia – Eternidad Solemne
    AWE – Providentia
    Dragged into Sunlight, Gnaw Their Tongues – N.V.
    Abyssal – Antikatastaseis
    Adversarial – Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of Nihilism
    VI – De Praestigiis Angelorum
    Temple of Baal – Mysterium
    Havukruunu – Havulinnaan
    Sepents Lair – Circumambulating the Stillborn
    Aosoth/Order of Orias – Split LP
    Manii – Skuggeheimen
    Svartsyn – Nightmarish Sleep
    Pyramids – A Northern Meadow

  35. Feared, Silent Screaming

  36. No order here, probably already covered above but these ruled my year:

    Khemmis – The Bereaved
    Obsequiae – Anlace and Heart
    Sarpanitum – Glorification Upon The Powdered Bones Of The Sundered
    Seven Sisters of Sleep – War Master
    Contrarian – Diogenes At Delphi
    Elder – Spirit at Aphelion
    Taake – Orm
    Rivers of Nihil – Circles In the Sky
    Cruciamentum – Piety Carved From Flesh
    False – Hedgecraft
    Primordial – Ghosts of the Charnel House
    Malthusian – Forms Become Vapour
    Vaee Solis – Ennoia
    CROWN – Wings Beating Over Heaven
    Weedpecker – Into the Woods

  37. just to add the ones not yet mentioned here:

    1- Temper Tempest Enlil Enraged
    2- The Clouds Prepare For Battle
    3- Dungeon Keys (Odious, Skin Age, Egypt)

  38. A bit late getting to this. Apologies. But here we are.

    Ahab – Like Red Foam (The Great Storm)
    Malevolent Creation – Blood Of The Fallen
    Sorcerer – Dark Tower Of The Sorcerer
    Crypt Sermon – Heavy Riders
    Witchsorrow – Made Of The Void
    Grave – Mass Grave Mass
    Cattle Decapitation – Manufactured Extinct
    Six Feet Under – Stab
    Slayer – Repentless
    Kataklysm – Black Sheep
    Necroblation – Gehenna
    Creedsmen Arise – Temple
    Iron Maiden – Speed Of Light
    Goatsnake – Elevated Man
    Windhand – Two Urns
    Monolord – Cursing The One
    Swallow The Sun – Pray For The Winds To Come
    Wolfheart – Aeon Of Cold
    Reign Of Fury – The Gates Of Sanity
    Shape Of Despair – The Distant Dream Of Life
    Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats – Waiting For Blood
    Horsehunter – Stoned To Death
    Mammoth Storm – Fornjot
    Moonbow – Volto Del Demone
    Dolven – To Fly Free
    Cryptic Hymn – Garden Of Flesh
    Elder – Compendium
    Black Breath – Seed Of Cain
    Killing Addiction – Promethean
    Jungle Rot – Paralyzed Prey
    Norilsk – Japetus
    Trivium – Silence In the Snow
    Freedom Hawk – Blood Red Sky
    Hate Eternal – The Styigian Deep
    Bevar Sea – Sleeping Pool
    Chvrch – Dawning
    Swamp Witch – Marsh Of Delusion

  39. “As Below, so Above” by Njiqahdda.

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