SHADES OF BLACK (BREAK)

I have an explanation and a request.

The explanation concerns why I haven’t written a Shades of Black column today for one of a very few times since I started this Sunday thing many years ago. After finishing the Saturday roundup I checked out of listening to music or writing about it the rest of yesterday and last night, and spent all that time with my spouse and cats instead.

And then this morning I left the house very early with her and another friend to go to a reputedly great breakfast place about a half hour away that you reportedly couldn’t get into without a long wait if you didn’t arrive when it opened (turned out to be true). By the time I got back home, having satisfied my total recommended caloric intake for the whole week, the morning was gone.

Now for the request I’d like to make of you.

Since I always hog the choices at our site on these Sundays, I thought it would make sense to open the floor to you. So the request of our visitors is that you use the Comments to share what you’ve been recently listening to and enjoying from the realms of black or black-adjacent metal, whether it’s an individual song or a complete release. Adding links to the music in your Comment would be appreciate, but not demanded.

I really hope some of you will participate. Hell, I really hope all of you will participate.

P.S. The artwork at the top of this post is the cover of an EP named Needle Cathedral by the Czech band Můra. It’s coming out in January on the Doomentia and Caligari labels. I haven’t yet listened to it, but I plan to, based mainly on that cover art, the name of the EP, and those labels being involved. The Bandcamp page is here, but none of the songs are streaming yet.