OUR LIST OF 2019’S MOST INFECTIOUS EXTREME METAL SONGS: THE COMPLETE LIST

 

First of all, I want to thank everyone who suggested songs for this list, from the readers who left so many good recommendations in the Comments on this post last November to my NCS comrades who offered some of their own. With more than 450 songs on the final list of candidates compiled from those sources, plus my own ideas (which I assembled as 2019 went along), it’s obvious that what I chose was going to be massively incomplete. For the sake of accuracy I should consider re-naming this “Among the Most Infectious Extreme Metal Songs of the Year“.

As I’ve made clear already, I forced myself to stop yesterday, not because I was completely satisfied that I’d gone far enough, but because I want to start devoting more time to 2020 music. At the end, I included 60 songs on the 2019 list, compared to a whopping 99 on the 2018 list, 78 from 2017, and 71 from the year before that. Below I’ve listed all the songs I chose, in the order in which I rolled them out, and I’ve hyperlinked them to the original posts where you can listen to the music. (I know it would have been easier on listeners if I had included all the streams right here in one place, but that would have taken more time than you probably realize. HOWEVER, one of our supporters, matt, has created a Spotify playlist that includes almost all the songs, and you can find that here.)

Yesterday one commenter asked if I would consider adding some honorable mentions, since it’s obvious that I stopped before including other songs that I would have included if I’d just kept this thing going deeper into February. I don’t think “honorable mentions” is really the right label, because that would imply greater consideration and selectivity than it’s possible for me to exercise at this point, but I have listed some more songs down at the bottom of this post that were “on deck” (to use a baseball term) for the next few installments if I’d kept going.

And with that, here are those 60 songs I picked from 2019. It was a great year for metal — and I have no doubt that 2020 will be too.

 

PART 1
Gherzen – “Пять Выстрелов“ (“Five Shots”)
Uroboros – Absente

PART 2
Misþyrming – Ísland, steingelda krummaskuð
Eternal Storm – Through the Wall of Light Pt. 1 (The Strand)

PART 3
Gloson – Usurper
Hath – Usurpation

PART 4
Misery Index – New Salem
Witch Vomit – Fumes of Dying Bodies

PART 5
High Command – Visions From the Blade
Idle Hands – Give Me To the Night

PART 6
Nocturnus AD – Precession of Equinoxes
Konkhra – Thoth

PART 7
Mordbrand – Efter Döden
Rattenfänger – Prima Materia

PART 8
Abigail Williams – Sun and Moon
White Ward – Love Exchange Failure

PART 9
The Great Old Ones – The Omniscient
Popiół – Wybiło

PART 10
In Mourning – Black Storm
Insomnium – Heart Like A Grave

PART 11
Cattle Decapitation – Death Atlas
Hideous Divinity – The Embalmer

PART 12
Rotting Christ – Fire, God and Fear
Amon Amarth – Shield Wall

PART 13
Krater – Zwischen den Worten
Hate – Sovereign Sanctity
Raptvre – Echokammer

PART 14
Vacivus – Indignus
Deathswarm – Let the Flames Devour
Sněť – Obří kat‘

PART 15
Blut Aus Nord – Sibellius
Thy Catafalque – Szélvész
Strigoi – Phantoms

PART 16
Crypt Sermon – The Snake Handler
Fvneral Fvvk – Chapel of Abuse
Disillusion – Time To Let Go

PART 17
Sargeist – Death Veneration
Darkend – With Everburning Sulphur Unconsumed

PART 18
Sūrya – Saviours
Dimholt – Death Coms First
Excruciation – Lybia 1942

PART 19
Sorcery – I’ll Be Gone In the Dark
WarCrab – Blood For the Blood God
To Dust – Through the Others

PART 20
Obsequiae – Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Grylle – France, qui te veult mal?
Véhémence – Passage dans les Douves
Sühnopfer – L’Hoirie de mes Ancestres

PART 21
Gaahls Wyrd – Carving the Voices
Swallow the Sun – Firelights
Arctic Sleep – Eternal Sunbeam
Klone – Breach

PART 22
Matterhorn – Clarity
Hellripper – All Hail the Goat
Ultra Silvam – Birth of a Mountain
Man Must Die – Gagging Order
Gorgon – Still six six six
Tyrant Goatgaldrakona – Conspiracy With Marquis
Exulansis – Sequestered Sympathy
Borknagar — Thunderous

 

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SONGS THAT WERE “ON DECK” FOR THE NEXT INSTALLMENTS WHEN I STOPPED

 

1349 – Dødskamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NENDWjcin1g

1914 – Arrival. The Meuse-Argonne
https://x1914x.bandcamp.com/track/arrival-the-meuse-argonne

Abnormality – Curb Stomp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV0kV5ULjl4

Agabas – Tussmørke
https://soundcloud.com/islanderncs/agabas-tussmorke

Carnal Forge – Bound In Flames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMIEv874Z9Y

Funereal Presence – Wherein Achatius is Awakened and Called Upon
https://funerealpresence.bandcamp.com/track/wherein-achatius-is-awakened-and-called-upon

Godeater – Eternal Ending
https://godeateruk.bandcamp.com/track/eternal-ending

King – Mountains Call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPrd2F1EYXU

Patronymicon – Haissem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03BmjoeJZWc

Rammstein – Deutschland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeQM1c-XCDc

Rebel Wizard – hair, wet soil, metallic taste
https://rebelwizard.bandcamp.com/track/hair-wet-soil-metallic-taste

Sidious – Possessed by The Ardent Flame
https://sidious.bandcamp.com/track/possessed-by-the-ardent-flames-of-the-abyss

Sorxe – Dependence Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxZslO2T2o

Svartgren – Lapot
https://svartgren.bandcamp.com/track/lapot

Tomb Mold – Infinite Resurrection
https://listen.20buckspin.com/track/infinite-resurrection

Vitriol – Legacy Of Contempt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=480Jj_rSaxU