Well, here we are again. It’s the time of year when we begin our year-end LISTMANIA extravaganza. For those of you new to this orgy, our LISTMANIA blockbuster comes in four parts:
First, we re-print assorted lists of the year’s best albums, leeched from other big web sites and magazines, like this one yesterday which launched that part of LISTMANIA 2016. Second, we will collect our readers’ lists of the 2016 albums and shorter releases they enjoyed the most (we’ll be asking for those on December 1, so get ready). 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. In case you’ve become an NCS reader since this time last year, here’s what this Most Infectious Song list is all 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 melodies or irresistible 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 you revisit often, 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 — as in every other year, there are a ton of songs on there already. I’ll get more ideas from all of our other writers. But I have no doubt we’ll overlook some songs we really liked from earlier in the year, and there are inevitably a lot more than we just never heard at all. And so here’s where I’m asking for your help:
Please leave comments to this post with your own lists of Most Infectious Songs that you think ought to be on our list — or you can e-mail your ideas to me at: 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. In 2014, life got in the way and I never finished the complete rollout, though I announced 62 songs before I gave up. And last year I stopped at 75.
As you can tell, I have a really fuckin’ hard time making lists. Of course, I have no idea how many songs we’ll feature this year.
So, please reflect on the songs you’ve found most addictive this year and let us hear from you. By leaving your list in the comments, you’ll also help make this post a way for other metalheads to find good music from the year that’s now rushing to an end. Thanks for your help.
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Khemmis – Three Gates
Ghost – Square Hammer
Moonsorrow – Sudden Tunti
Fallujah – Scar Queen
Dark Tranquility – Clearing Skies
Abbath – Winterbane
Aborted – Termination Redux
Anaal Nathrakh – Depravity Favours the Bold
Alcest – Eclosion
Anthrax – Blood Eagle Wings
Asphyx – Division Brandeburg + Wardroid (needs to be both together, otherwise just pick anything from this amazing album)
Conan – Throne of Fire
Death Angel – Cause For Alarm
Destroyer 666 – Live and Burn
Entombed AD – Midas in Reverse
Fleshgod Apocalypse – The Fool
Ghost – Square Hammer
Gojira – Stranded (mainstream approach)
Gojira – Magma + Pray (progressive approach, needs to be both together)
Gruesome – Dimensions of Horror
Ihsahn – Mass Darkness
Ihsahn – Until I Too Dissolve
In Mourning – Fire and Ocean
Memoriam – Resistance
Meshuggah – Born In Dissonance
Nails – They Come Crawling Back
Nervosa – Theory Of Conspiracy
Oathbreaker – Immortals
Obscura – Perpetual Infinity
Obscure Sphinx – Nothing Left
Obsidian Kingdom – The Kandinsky Group
Opeth – Sorceress
Rotting Christ – For a Voice Like Thunder
Rotting Christ – Les Litanies de Satan
Scour – Clot
Skeletonwitch – The Apothic Gloom
Testament – Brotherhood Of The Snake
Vader – Angels of Steel
Uada – Black Autumn, White Spring
A lot of potential choices off Anaal Nathrakh. I’d go for “Hold your children close and pray for oblivion”
Blood incantation – Starspawn
Cancer – Chicanery
Death Fetishist – Voidtripper
Inverloch – The Empyrean Torment
Mortichnia – Searing Impulse
Skaphe – V
Veneficium – Mordant Photism Above Cathedrals Of Ash
Voidspwan – Sisyphean Ideation
I’ve been working on my list since May haha! I’m mostly focusing on albums, but here are a couple of songs that may not be super extreme or cvlt, but I can’t seem to get them out of my head:
Revocation – Arbiters of the Apocalypse
Havukruunu – Rautalintu
Blood Incantation: Vitrification of Blood (Part 1)
Anicon – Hallucinating Fate
Khemmis – Candlelight
Hammers of Misfortune – Dead Revolution/ Days of ’49
Gojira – Silvera
Messa – Hour of the Wolf
Opeth – Sorceress
Skeletonwitch – Well of Despair
Hail Spirit Noir – I Mean You Harm
Glorior Belli- Satanists out of Cosmic Jail
Anaal Nathrakh-Hold your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion
Schammasch-Above the Stars of God
Terra Tenebrosa-The End is Mine to Ride
ColdWorld-Void
Gruesome – Raped by Darkness
Krypts – Arrow of Entropy
Ghoulgotha – Damp Breeze of Sleeping Veins
Metallica – Moth into Flame
Serpentine Dominion – The Vengeance in Me
Ghoul – Ghetto Blasters
Anthrax – Blood Eagle Wings
Megadeth – The Threat is Real
Gatecreeper – Rotting as One
Vader – Prayer to the God of War
Korn – Insane
Aborted – The Mephitic Conundrum
Witch Vomit – Below the Dirt
Lamb of God – The Duke
Ripper – Rotten Dreams
Baby Metal – Karate
🙂
Godless Angel – The Worms are Eating Him Now
😉
“Korn – Insane”
Dont even think about it Islander!!!
Korn – Rotting in Vain
😉
Do not force me to mock you mercilessly
Korn – A Different World
😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJXYMDu6dpY
Hellyeah – Be Unden!able
😛
Too late! It’s Number One with a bullet!
I have a kidney punch in my pocket with your name on it
I’m used to this kind of thing, which is why I had my kidneys surgically removed and replaced with disposable Brita water filters.
Dark Funeral-As I ascend
Altarage – Batherex
Black Table – Obtuse
Cobalt – Hunt the Buffalo
Colosso – Soaring Waters
Corbeaux – Old Tired Horse
Dormant Ordeal – The Mist
Downfall of Gaia – Brood
Gilded Lily – A Sparse Room
Gomorrah – Sitra Achra
Kambodsja – Guillotine
KEN Mode – The German Businessman
Krypts – Transfixed
Lesbian – Pyramidal Existinctualism
The Lion’s Daughter – They’re Already Inside
Lotus Thief – Circe
Mizmor – Woe Regains My Substance
Nails – Life Is A Death Sentence
Noise Trail Immersion – Light Eaters
Nox Formulae – The Shadow Smoke
Oathbreaker – Needles In Your Skin
Oranssi Pazuzu – Saturaatio
Plebian Grandstand – Low Empire
Schammasch – Awakening from the Dream of Life
Seer – Haunter
Seputus – Two Great Pale Zeroes
Sleep Toekn – Thread the Needle
Spire – Labyrinthine
Throwers – Singularity
Tombs – Obsidian
Trap Them – Luster Pendulums
TRNA – Gale
Ulcerate – Shrines of Paralysis
Ur Draugr – Rise of the Thaumaturge
Vermin Womb – Disrepair
Void Omnia – A Fallowed Remembrance
Vorvan – Breothan
Wolves in the Throne Room – Face in a Night Time Mirror, Pt. 1
Wreck and Reference – Manifestos
Zhrine – Utopian Warfare
Hyperion – Blood of the Ancients
Allegaeon – All Hail Science
Dark Tranquillity – Faithless By Default
Be’Lakor – An Ember’s Arc
Amon Amarth – At Dawn’s First Light
Oracles – Catabolic (I Am)
Abnormality – Mechanisms of Omniscience
Virvum – Ad Rigorem
Vektor – Pillars of Sand
These tracks/bands rip
Khonsu – The Observatory
In Mourning – Below Rise to the Above
Negative Voice – City of Decaying Gaze
Wardruna – Odal (yeah yeah, I know, I don’t care…)
Skuggsjá – Bøn Om Ending – Bøn Om Byrjing (damn, that was hard to write!)
Devin Townsend – Stormbending
Insomnium – Winter’s Gate (the whole album, as you understand)
Mistur – Matriarch’s Lament
Some stuff that is not exactly extreme, but who gives a shit? This has been a great year in music.
Alcest – Je suis d’ailleurs
Alux Todolo – 7:54
Anaal Nathrakh – Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion
Auroch – Say Nothing
Brain Tentacles – Cosmic Warrior Girth Curse
Departe – Grief Echoes (Golden Scars)
Disillusion – ALEA
Drudkh – His Twenty-Fourth Spring
Ghost – Sqaure Hammer
Mechina – Ashes of Old Earth
Mithras – The Statue on the Island
Schammasch – Above the Stars of God
Striker – The Phoenix Light
Textures – New Horizons
Vanhelga – Det som aldrig fanns
Witherscape – Marionette
ADE – With Tooth and Nail
ADE – Mare Nostrum
Harakiri for the Sky – Thanatos
Hyperion – Seraphical Euphony
Oracles – Canvas of Me
Thrawsunblat – Dead of Winter
Vinterblot – Stone Carved Silence
Vredehammer – Light the Fucking Sky
Vredehammer – Violator (this!)
Good choices, but I’d go with Ursus in the case of Vredehammer 🙂
Thanks for the heads-up on Vredehammer. I don’t know how I missed that this year, but it’s great!
Deathcrown “The Witch Hammer”
I’d say my list so far scans more metal-adjacent than proper NCS material, but a few heavy and/or loud songs I kept coming back to this year include:
Devil is Fine–Zeal and Ardor
Howling of the Distant Spaces–Mithras
Je Suis d’ailleurs–Alcest
Up and Atom–Astronoid
Dismal Veil of Nothingness–Funeral Mourning
Apex–Ascendance
Steaming Blood Ascends Beyond the Moon–Wryding*
*Really just about every song on the Wyrding album would qualify as one of my most infectious, I just love this shit. One of the oddest and most distinctive sounding records of the year, like monks with a great feel for melodic hooks rocking sparse funeral doom of totally sensible song-lengths. I urge you to check it out if you haven’t already!
Oh yeah! and
Potomac–Inter Arma
Looking forward to checking out all of these, except Devil Is Fine, which has been guaranteed a place on the list since I first heard it on the day it mysteriously appeared. 🙂
Blood in the River is very hard to get out of my head after hearing it. Or now, as a matter of fact.
Acyl – Gibraltar
ADE – Carthago delenda est
Betrayal – Fighting Perdition
Beyond Grace – Acolytes
Car Bomb – Black Blood
Cloak – In Darkness, The Path
Cobalt – Hunt the Buffalo
Cult of Luna & Julia Christmas – Chevron
Dawn of Disease – The Sky is Empty
Death Angel – Hatred United/United Hate
Domkraft – Red Lead
Dust Bolt – Mass Confusion
Entombed A.D. – Dead Dawn
Gatecreeper – Craving Flesh
Gojira – Slivera
Graves at Sea – The Curse That Is
Heaven Shall Burn – Downshifter
Hyperion – Novus Ordo Seclorum
Kartikeya – The Golden Blades
Khonsu – A Jhator Ascension
Left Behind – Rock Bottom
Mantar – Era Borealis
Memorium – Resistance
Mithras – The Statue on the Island
Moonsorrow – Suden Tunti
No Trust – Lift
Obscure Sphinx – Nothing Left
Oozing Wound – Diver
Skeletonwitch – Well of Despair
Soar – The Declaration
Wode – Cloaked in Ruin
Wolf’s Hunger – Gvozdeni Puk
Gonna keep this short and sweet here
Destroyer 666 – Hounds At Ya Back
Gatecreeper – Desperation
Mithras – The Statue on the Island
Inquisition – Wings of Anu
Katalepsy – The Long Bright Darkness
Anciients – Following the Voice
Revocation – Cleaving Giants of Ice
Khonsu – I’m just listening through the whole album today (woohoo, release day, just like Xmas!). But I’d go for “The Observatory” given how many times I’ve played that through here on NCS.
Allegaeon – Gray Matter Mechanics. Flamenco undercurrents and slamming riffs, yes please.
Protean – Bringer of Fear. This isn’t infectious in the sense of gripping riffs, but more like a slow lumbering beast that will carve it’s way in to your subconscious.
Rotting Christ – Elthe Kyrie
Mechina – Progenitor
Terra Tenebrosa – The End Is Mine To Ride
Sarcoptes – Within The Labyrinth Mind
Darkend – Clavicula Salomonis. Damn that chorus is catchy.
Zeal and Ardor – “Blood In The River” hooked me early, but I’d say “Come On Down” takes my pick in the end.
Wardruna – Odal
Anaal Nathrahk – Hold Your Children Close And Pray For Oblivion
Ereb Altor – A Fine Day To Die (Yeah, it’s a cover, but I’ve been cranking it, so it’s here)
Darkthrone – Boreal Fiends
I’ll name my five most crippling infections!
1. Eternal Champion – I am the Hammer
2. Astronoid – Up and Atom
3. Haken – 1985
4. Herder – Everlasting Pace
5. Destroyer 666 – Live and Burn
Abbath – Winter Bane
Amon Amarth – One Thousand Burning Arrows
Anaal Nathrakh – On Being a Slave
Anaal Nathrakh – Extravaganza
Astronoid – Up and Atom
Behexen – Umbra Luciferi
Borknagar – Winter Thrice
Clouds – I Gave My Heart Away
ColdWorld – Void
Countless Skies – Ethereal
Dark Tranquillity – Encircled
Draugnim – That Name Is Hate
Forteresse – Vespérales
Forteresse – Par La Bouche De Mes Canons
Germ – Escape
Hyperion- Seraphical Euphony
Mistur – Tears of Remembrance
Mithras – The Statue on the Island
Mork – I Sluket Av Myra
Nordjevel – The Shadows Of Morbid Hunger
Omnium Gatherum – Skyline
Sorrow Plagues – Fade
Thrawsunblat – She Who Names the Stars
Witherscape – Marionette
Winterhorde – Antipath
Winterhorde – Maestro
Vredehammer – Ursus
Vredehammer – Violator
Bifrost – Verraters Geschick
Combativo – Aun de Pie
Hordak – Padre
Hyperion – Blood of the Ancients
Tamoanchan – Ensonaciones
I guess this means every release that I haven’t listened to won’t make it into this list, but okay here goes nothing (in no particular order and not every song might be an extreme metal song, but I like them enough to revisit them often):
Venomous Concept – Rise
Marionette – Dirty And Free
Magrudergrind – The opportunist
Oranssi Pazuzu – Hypnotisoitu Viharukous
The Fall Of Troy – Savior
Lacuna Coil – The House of shame
Architects – Nihilist
Katatonia – Takeover
American Head Charge – Drowning under everything
DevilDriver – Bad deeds
Evans Blue – Comfortable with hate
Aborted – Divine Impediment
Night Verses – A Dialogue in Cataplexy
Kambrium – Abyssal Streams
Imperium – The Unseen one
Evergrey – Someday
Unzucht – Neuntöter
Breakdawn Of Sanity – New world
Imperium Dekadenz – Only Fragments Of Light
Freya – Eyes of malevolence
The Devil Wears Prada – Detroit Tapes
Mithras – When the stars align
Hail Spirit Noir – Riders to Utopia
Car Bomb – From The Dust Of This Planet
Böhse Onkelz – Frei
Testament – Brotherhood of the snake
Tardigrada – E Sturm zieht uf
Parabelle – The Prisoner
Unlight – Antihelion
Winterfylleth – Pariahs Path
Raging Speedhorn – Shit outta luck
Dawn Of Ashes – Still Born Defect
Adept – Rewind The Tape
Cicada The Burrower – Only the elms remember (Re-Release)
Anciients – Following The Voice
Veilburner – Baphometic Catalyst
Knives Out! – Mysterious Ways
Anaal Nathrakh – We Will Fucking Kill you
Norma Jean – I. The Planet
Harakiri For The Sky – Thanatos
Withered – Feeble Gasp
Node – Stagnation
Cobalt – Ruiner
LVTHN – Eradication Of Nescience
Fallujah – The Void alone
UNRU – Totemiker
Be’lakor – Roots To Sever
Nomy – I have a problem
Sick Puppies – Walls (You Changed)
Cyprus – Fi Al Jahiliyyah Jadid
Insomnium – Winters Gate Pt. 7
Pain – A Wannabe
Circle Of Contempt – Ascend From Disruption
Alaskan – Assimilate
VIII – I – Symptom (although I still think this song could be divided into two songs at around 8 minutes and something)
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Limerent Death
Barishi – The great enreat
October Tide – Sleepless Sun
Zygoma – The Finger Print
GWLT – Watts 1965
In Mourning – The Grinning Mist
The Schoenberg Automaton – Of Omnipotence
Mare Cognitum – The First Point Of Aries
1. Coffin Birth – Wormwitch
2. Above the Stars of God – Schammasch
3. Drowning Into Sorrow – Coma Cluster Void
Red Fang – Cut it Short
Cokegoat – Quiet Tyrant
Yeti on Horseback – Viking Mushroom Tea
Cough – Shadow of the Torturer
Khemmis – Hunted
Noire – The Tracks of the Hunted
Valborg – Ich bin total
Vanhegd – Rebellion of the iniquitous
Abbath – Ocean of wounds
Gatecreeper – Carved into stone
Skraeckoedlan – Talisman
Grand Magus – Freja´s choice
Protector – Cursed and coronated
Warfect – Purveyors of cadavers
Heaven shall burn – Downshifter
Witchcraft – The outcast
Volturyon – Hinterkaifeck
Vanhelgd – Temple of phobos
Dustbolt – Mass confusion
Opeth – Sorceress
Astrophobos – Tabula rasa
Imperium Dekadenz – Dis Manibvs
Harakiri for the sky – Funeral dreams
Mantar – Era borealis
Nazghor – Under a venomous spell
Testament – The pale king
Karg – Tor zu tausend wusten
Terra Tenebrosa – The end is mine to ride
Just thought I’d stop by and thank everyone who has contributed so far. As usual, there’s a ton of stuff in these lists I haven’t heard yet, along with a lot of validations for things that I have included in my list of candidates. This is going to be fun.
Some excellent Doom & Sludge releases from Japan this year. My personal top 3 tracks out of all of them would be:
GUEVNNA (ex-Coffins, ex-Shikabane, Veiyadra, Unholy Grave): “Parasitic” off of their new 1st album, also named “Heart of Evil”.
https://longlegslongarms.bandcamp.com/album/heart-of-evil-guevnna
Nepenthes (ex-Church of Misery, ex-Coffins, Inside Charmer, Floaters, Redwood Blues): “Cease” off of their new 1st album, “Scent”.
https://soundcloud.com/daymarerecordings/nepenthes-cease
Sithter (ex-Dhidalah, ex- MONE¥I$GOD): “Smoke Demon” off of their soon-to-be-released new 2nd full album, “Chaotic Fiend”.
https://bontenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chaotic-fiend
*NOTE* Neither the GUEVNNA or Sithter songs I’ve listed are online, though other, also very good tracks, are. This is something we at Kaala are in negotiations about, but its an ongoing process. If yr interested in getting yr hands on the material, we work closely with all of the bands and labels, and would be happy to help getting
Oh boy oh boy oh boy I love lists so much yes I do.
1. Magrudergrind– “War for Resources”
2. Wormrot– “God’s in His Heaven”
3. The Drip– “Painted Ram”
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan– “Honeysuckle”
5. Every Time I Die– “I Didn’t Want To Join Your Stupid Cult Anyway”
6. Norma Jean– “Forever Hurtling Towards Andromeda”
7. Arms– “Blackout”
8. Car Bomb– “From The Dust of this Planet”
9. Ghoul– “Shred the Dead”
Ashbringer- “Oceans Apart”
Uada- “Natus Eclipsum”
Vredehammer- “Ursus”
Ghost BC- “Square Hammer”
Kvelertak- “Nattesferd”
Vektor- “Recharging the Void”
The Vision Bleak- “Into the Unknown”
Oh boy it’s that time of the year! Gonna have a feast with these suggestions. Here are mine:
1. Oathbreaker – Needles in Your Skin
2. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – A Greater Call
3. Code Orange – Forever
4. Gojira – Stranded
Sorry to be tardy to the party;
Skeletonwitch “Red Death, White Light”
Skeletonwitch “Black Waters”
Serpentine Dominion “This Endless War”
Hammers of Misfortune; “Days of ’49”
Inquisition “Wings of Anu”
Ghoul “Ghoulunatics”
Revocation “Monolithic Ignorance”
Asphyx “Incoming Death”
Gojira “Stranded”
Hail Spirit Noir “I Mean You Harm”
Thrawsunblat “She Who Names The Stars”
Allegaeon “Proponent For Sentience III – The Extermination”
Ketzer “Earthborn”
The Unknown “The Kindred of the Sunset”
Heaven Shall Burn “Prey To God”
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Cold as Perfection
Omnium Gatherum – Majesty and Silence
Obsidian Kingdom – A Year with No Summer
Deftones – Hearts/Wires
Cult of Luna, Julie Christmas – The Wreck of S.S. Needle
October Tide – Swarm
Fallujah – The Void Alone
Sylvaine – Wistful
In Mourning – Below Rise to the Above
Gojira – Stranded
Be’lakor – The Smoke of Many Fires
Coldworld – Womb of Emptiness
Haken – 1985
Insomnium – Winter’s Gate (part 7, if I had to be specific)
In Flames – Save Me
Dark Tranquillity – Forward Momentum
Anaal Nathrakh – Depravity Favours the Bold
Hanging Garden – Penumbra
Lessen – Already Dead
Korn – Black is the Soul
Obscure Sphinx – Nothing Left
Trees of Eternity – Gallows Bird
Metallica – Hardwired
Abbath – Winterbane
An Endless Sporadic – Sky Run (featt. Jordan Rudess)
Astronoid – Up and Atom
Bombus – Deadweight
Cobalt – Beast Whip
Crobot – Not For Sale
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – A Greater Call
Daniel Lioneye – Aetherside
Dark Suns – Everchild
Disillusion – Alea
Earth Ship – Red Leaves
Ghost – Square Hammer
Ghost Bath – Happyhouse
Gojira – Silvera
Gone is gone – Violescent
Grieved – Opaque
Hexvessel – Cosmic Truth
Ihsahn – Mass Darkness
Nails – You will never be one of us
Netherlands – L.M.M.
Opeth – Sorceress
Perihelion – Feneketlen
Port Noir – Earth
Steven Wilson – My Book of Regrets
Thrice – Black Honey
Tusmorke – De Reiser fra Oss
Witchcraft – The Outcast
Wolfmother – Victorious
Dang it. Hate it when I see this one late. I’m always afraid my unquestionably amazing suggestions will be overlooked.
Anciients – “Pentacle”
Anciients – “Ibex Eye”
Atlantis Chronicles – “Within the Massive Stream”
Bhavachakra – “Sybaritic Apparitions”
Black Crown Initiate – “Belie the Machine”
Boyfrndz – “Ghosted”
Car Bomb – “From the Dust of This Planet”
Deftons – “Phantom Bride”
The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Limerent Death”
Disillusion – “Alea”
Fallujah – “The Void Alone”
Fleshgod Apocalypse – “Healing Through War”
Ghost – “Square Hammer”
Gojira – “Stranded”
Hyperion – “Seraphical Euphony”
Madder Mortem – “Blood on the Sand”
Lizard Professor – “Simply Complex”
Moon Tooth – “Igneous”
The Motion Mosaic – “Shapeshifter”
Oathbreaker – “Needles in Your Skin”
Obscure Sphinx – “Nothing Left”
Obsidian Kingdom – “A Year with No Summer”
Oceans of Slumber – “Winter”
Oceans of Slumber – “Apologue”
The Odious – “Arbiter of Taste”
Slice the Cake – “The Mountains of Man”
Thank You Scientist – “Blue Automatic”
Twelve Foot Ninja – “Sick”
Ulcerate – “Abrogation”
Vale of Pnath – “A Nightmare Phantasm”
Dammit I completely forgot Fleshgod Apocalypse came out this year!
And last but not least:
Svarttjern – “All Hail Satan”
Nordjevel – “Djevelen I Nord”
Uada – “Devoid of Light”
Mistur – “Downfall”
Artillery – “Live by the Scythe”
Noctem – “The Dark One”
Forteresse – “Spectre de la Rebellion”
Conceived by Hate – “The Underdog”
Kreator – “Gods of Violence”
Centinex – “Exist to Feed”
Well, you’re last for now, but further additions to this large list of candidates will be welcome and considered if other folks show up here later. I’m still a couple of weeks away from launching the rollout — and have a shitload of decisions to make in the meantime.
Cult of Luna/Julie Christmas- A Greater Call
Harakiri for the Sky -Thanatos
Thy Catafalque -Vonatut Az Ejszakaben OR Urania
Obscura – The Monist
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Healing Through War
Forgot one:
Tengger Calvary- Calvary in Thousands
Aenaon – Oneirodynia.
Maleficence- ‘Realms of Mortification’ 7″ on Blood Harvest. Either song (“Pyre of Penetence” and “Of Mortification and Beyond”) are serious candidates for your purposes here, and I didn’t see this most excellent band mentioned above.
40 Watt Sun – Pictures
Astronoid – Air
Balance Interruption – Incubatum Conveyer
Blood Incantation – Starspawn
Cairiss – Disgraced
Candiria – Mereya
Chthe’ilist – Voidspawn
Crator – The Ouroboros is Broken
Cruz – A Cops De Destral
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – The Wreck of S.S. Needle
Dälek – Shattered
Dasein – Le Serment De Tsion
Départe – Ashes in Bloom
Deströyer 666 – White Line Fever
Droids Attack – Brahma Astra
Fórn – Ambitions Toward Nothingness
Forteresse – Là où nous allons
The Gentle Art of Cooking People – King Tukan II
Haken – The Architect
Hesychast – Discordant
Hemotoxin – Forgotten Faces
Highrider – S=Txl
Inquisition – Through the Divine Spirit of Satan a Glorious Universe is Known
Inter Arma – Summer Drones
Kosmokrator – Death Worship
Lotus Thief – The Book of Lies
Lycus – Solar Chamber
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Cithuula
Mare Cognitum – The First Point of Aries
Martyrdöd – Harmagedon
Mithras – Between Scylla and Charybdis
Moon Tooth – Belt Squeezer
Mortichnia – Heir
Obscura – Sermon of the Seven Suns
Obsidian Kingdom – Away / Absent
Oranssi Pazuzu – Hypnotisoitu Viharukous
Ortega – Strong Eye
Ragehammer – First Wave Black Metal
Schammasch – Metanoia
Setentia – The Enemy Within
Spheron – The Blind Watchmaker
Stench Price – Living Fumes
Syberia – Taunus
Uada – Natus Eclipsim
Urfaust – Meditatum II
Vainaja – Sielu
Veilburner – In the Revelations of Bloodstained Void
Vektor – Recharging the Void
Vex – To Anacreon (Strangling the Muse)
Virvum – Illuminance
Votum – Satellite
Vrtra – Perpetually Hag Ridden
White Lung – Dead Weight
Youdash – Celestial Phenomena