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Dark wave set! 0:24-5:05 HUIR (Spain) Arch 5:05-10:35 THE CITY GATES (Montreal) The Great Devourer 10:35-14:17 ANTIPOLE & PEDRO CODE (Norway) Your Dreams Explode 14:18-17:48 BILLY ᛟ ODAL (AU) No One Can Hurt Them Now (feat. Flower Children Of The Apocalypse) 17:49-21:30 SHV/ARZ (GER) Dancing On The Edge 21:31-24:16 CIGARETTES AFTER SEX (CA) Twizzler 24:30-28:53 KISS TO KILL (CA) dying night 28:53-31:25 TIGJEZ (Belgium) dalheim_13 31:26-36:11 PILGRIMS (Boston) Amethyst 36:12-40:07 ORTROTASCE (?) As I See It 40:08-43:02 BRIDES (Norway) Kiss And Destroy 43:02-45:57 KILLMOURE (CA) Never Again 45:57-49:00 CYBER NIIOR (Brazil) Weird Boy 49:00-END TRANSMIGRATION (UK) Living Information

0:24-5:48 AS THE SUN FALLS (Finland) A Shimmer On The Tides — Hot, moody as fuck melodic death Vikings romance soundtrack. 6:42-11:25 DEFECT DESIGNER (Norway) As The Terracotta Dust Settles — Theatrical furnace death blended with witchy pagan, cosmic American, grind, psychedelic. 11:42-14:27 PSYCLOPS (Portland) Consequences Iii: Swallowed Skies, Sea Of Eyes (Pg. 12) — Storytelling proggy metal in such a wonderful journey. 14:49-19:06 ARA (Austria) Geweiht — Tribal, vicious black metal with didgeridoo vocals, sometimes pausing in gorgeous post-black. 19:24-24:13 TEMPLE OF VOID (Detroit) Godless Cynic — Cavernous vocals in a bluesy swagger colliding with groove-infused death. 24:49-35:05 JUNON (GER) Propheten der blauen Flamme — Experimental jangling black with sharp edges of unsettling, twisted sounds and a grumbling alien vocalist. 35:24-41:42Thank LORN (Italy) Threshold's Tragedy — Beautiful, lush atmospheric black with whispered heated vocals building into sinister. 42:05-47:43 TYRANNUS (Scotland) Orbus Non Sufficit — Punk-infused riffy thrash with bad attitude and a touch of delicious melodic to make things interesting. 48:03-52:57 IFFERNET (France) A Gate — Crawling vocals in a bare-boned, distorted, primitive black metal. 53:16-END SHEWOLFF (Belgium) Nail + Burn — Raw, punk leaning black metal with infectious energy.

0:24-10:21 PURE WRATH (Indonesia) Bleak Days Ahead, Pt. II — A Best of 2022 band. Tormented, distressed black metal with moments of beauty. Another stunning album. 11:42-16:07 REEKING AURA (NY/NJ) Gorged Beyond Grudges — A Best of 2022 band. Members of Artificial Brain and Buckshot Facelift. Heavy bouts of groove in tight, precise death metal. 16:44-24:16 NORTHERN GRAVES (TX/CAN) Endless (feat. Nick Block) — Lush black with organic instrumentation creating a cold blizzard from south Texas. DOES make sense the dramatic lead singer is from Saskatchewan. 24:38-31:20 NEQUIENT (Chicago) Obsolete Machines — Intricate, mathy, brash hardcore with a brain piercing Converge-y edge. 31:54-35:56 COGNIZANCE (UK) Witness Marks — Spacing out in technical compositions and ear wormy breaks. 36:11-39:05 PIG'S BLOOD (WI) Aftermath — Guttural raw death with sweet riffs. 39:31-43:42 PORTRAYAL OF GUILT (Austin) The Last Judgement — Weirdo sludge and black metal. Love the experimental and tongue-in-cheek effects. 44:02-50:07 DOODSWENS (Netherlands) The Black Flame — Horror in a 2-piece of slicing black. 50:27-END LIVIDUS (Portland) Jettatori — Debut black metal mishmash.

My Best 35 Metal Albums of 2025! My #1 and #2 technically released in December of 2024, but what can I say. It's my fucking list. #1 Aara: I loved the vocals, the emotions. Just a nail in my head, immediately. #2 Spectral Lore: A beast of a legendary band. This was released on 12-31-2024, as a "Demo". What a nut. Top 11 are listed in order, and the rest are alphabetized. 0:25-7:29 #1 Aara (Swiss), album - Eiger (Dec 6 2024) Senkrechte Welten 7:30-17:20 #2 Spectral Lore (Greece), album - IV (Part 1)(Dec 31, 2024) Solitary Mirrors 17:21-24:44 #3: Maladie (GER), album - Symptoms V The Implacability Of Time 24:45-28:56 #4: 1914 (Ukraine), album - Viribus Unitis 1914 (The Siege Of Przemyśl) 28:57-37:15 #5: Patristic (Italy), album - Catechesis A Vinculis Soluta II 37:16-45:17 #6: Blut Aus Nord (France), album - Ethereal Horizons The Fall Opens The Sky 45:18-55:10 #7: Haxprocess (FL), album - Beyond What Eyes Can See The Confines of the Flesh 55:11-58:36 #8: Thron (GER), album - Vurias A Paradox 58:37-1:05:50 #9: Phosphorus (GER), album - Frail Grasp of Broken Hands Frail Grasp Of Broken Hands 1:05:51-1:13:08 #10: Orm (Denmark), album - Guld Undfangen 1:13:09-1:16:50 #11: Changeling (GER), album - S/T Falling In Circles And the rest (alphabetized): 1:16:51-1:20:07 ..And Oceans (Finland), album - The Regeneration Itinerary The Fire In Which We Burn 1:20:08-1:28:28 Abigail Williams (WA), album - A Void Within Existence No Less Than Death 1:28:29-1:33:22 Akantophis (GER), album - Erneuerung Perforation 1:33:23-1:43:14 An Abstract Illusion (Sweden), album - The Sleeping City The Sleeping City 1:43:15-1:49:24 Ancient Death (MA), album - Ego Dissolution Violet Light Decays 1:49:24-2:01:43 Ba'al (UK), album - The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here Mother's Concrete Womb 2:01:44-2:08:44 Beannachd Leibh (CAN), album - Walking in His Works Born Grey 2:08:45-2:15:42 Blood Abscission (Anon), album - II II - V 2:15:43-2:21:26 Centuries of Decay (CAN), album - A Monument to Oblivion Between the Waves of Grief 2:21:27-2:28:56 Dessiderium (AZ), album - Keys To The Palace In The Midst Of May 2:28:57-2:35:11 Dormant Ordeal (Poland), album - Tooth and Nail Against the Dying of the Light 2:35:12-2:39:45 Exilium Noctis (Greece), album - Pactum Diaboli Fall Of Babylon 2:39:46-2:44:09 Floating (Sweden), album - Hesitating Lights I Reached the Mew 2:44:10-2:50:13 Gabestok (Denmark), album - Alle Dør I Fremtiden Incelcitadel (De Sidste Fyldte Papirer) 2:50:14-2:53:55 Grey Aura (Netherlands), album - Zwart vierkant Slotstuk Opgehangen afgrond 2:53:56-3:02:00 Grima (Russia), album - Nightside The Nightside 3:02:01-3:05:19 Hecktic (Bulgaria), album - Unbeholden Black Swan 3:05:20-3:09:46 Morbikon (VA), album - Lost Within The Astral Crypts Ghoul Infested Mausoleum 3:09:47-3:15:52 Sepulchral Curse (Finland), album - Crimson Moon Evocations House Of The Black Moon 3:15:53-3:22:02 Sargassus (Finland), album - Vitruvian Rays Carving the Veins of God 3:22:03-3:27:45 Umulamahri (TX), album - Learning the Secrets of Acid Orifice Invocation 3:27:46-3:33:34 Uulliata Digir (Poland), album - S/T Omni Dirga 3:33:35-3:37:32 Vokodlok (Romania), album - The Egregious Being Disdain 3:37:33-END Withering Soul (Chicago), album -Passage of the Arcane Grievance Eludes the Light

0:25-5:10 DEPRAVITY (AU) Call to the Fallen — Gloriously wicked death with insanely noodling guitars and a delicious melodic and smidgen of tech. 6:13-10:06 GRABJAHRE (Austria) Haut — Desecrated forest black metal with the chaos of galloping noise. 10:35-16:37 AM I IN TROUBLE? (NJ) White — Atmospheric psychedelic black metal with a spectrum of vocals and sweet emotions. 17:10-25:04 MORBIKON (VA) Lost Within The Astral Crypts — With members from Iron Reagan and Municipal Waste, you know this is going to thrash the shit out of thrash. An evil touch with the slicing vocals and tight assault of guitars and hyper tempo. 25:44-35:15 BLUT AUS NORD (France) The End Becomes Grace — Storytelling melodic black metal with layers upon layers of intricate instrumentation and vocals that ache by itself. 35:41-40:19 TERROR CORPSE (TX) Sons of Perdition — Gnarled vocals in a clean production of blustery, proggy death that somehow still crawls in the dirt. 40:42-48:16 OROB (France) Sun, Borrowed — Proggy, atmospheric and post-black within black metal aggression. 48:38-54:59 PHOBOCOSM (CAN) Unbound — Suffocating, harrowing death metal with dense but nuanced malevolence. 55:19-58:36 WHITE NIGHTS (US) A Witching Stone — Ambient, post-rock, garage rock blended with black metal. 59:07-END OMEGAVORTEX (GER) Psychopathic Majesty — Brutal and absolutely cruel.

0:25-7:25 WITHERING SOUL (Chicago) Among Covetous Eyes — Black metal with intense death groove and strings-inspired tremolo picking. 8:24-15:46 RAGANA & DROWSE (WA) Ash Souvenir — Stunning male and female shoegaze and tortured vocals with eclectic black mixed with shoegazy melodic and indie rock. 16:25-22:18 1914 (Ukraine) 1917 (The Isonzo Front) — A best of 2018 and 2022 because these guys CRUSH their melodic, cinematic death and black atmosphere with a monster vocalist. 22:48-28:48 DEMON KING (TN) Requiem For A Dead World — Members of in another technical death album of fury and speed and breathtaking complex guitars. 29:16-36:23 LAMP OF MURMUUR (CA) The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy, Pt. I - Moondance — Amazing corpse paint live band, saw them recently. Epic black and roll with touching beauty. 36:42-40:45 VOIDCEREMONY (CA) Seventh Ephemeral Aura — Proggy as all hell weirdo death with edges that sear and burn. 41:10-53:08 QRIXKUOR (UK) So Spoke The Silent Stars — Vivid black metal theater with death groove, mutterings and alien dystopia. 53:30-59:25 WALDGEFLÜSTER (GER) Crusade in the Dark — Gorgeous Primordial-esque vocalist in a sweetened atmospheric black and folk. 59:56-1:05:45 VEILBURNER (PA) Matter o' the Most Awful of Martyrs — Black metal with horror vocals, dissonant death and psychedelic. 1:06:10-END TZEVAOT (UK) Air, Fire, Water, Earth — Avant-garde black metal with70s-style proggy pagan-influenced keyboards jazzy eclectic compositions.

0:27-5:57 HECKTIC (Bulgaria) Vital to the Clockwork — Technical, tight, complex, proggy death with dynamic vocals and punchy, groovy thrash energy. 6:44-12:32 MALADIE (GER) Black Hole Weight In Our Hearts — Saxophone infuses a horror-filled dramatic black with jazzy sections. 12:51-16:47 THRON (GER) Hubris' Crown — Psychedelic, lush, melodic black metal. Reminds me a bit of Oranssi Pazuzu. 17:06-24:34 ORM (Denmark) Undfangen — Jagged black metal that engages in moments of unrelenting tremolo, riffs and groove. 25:12-31:33 ONE OF NINE (US) Age Of Chains — JRR Tolkien-inspired, sweeping, winter-laden, battle-weary, fight-the-villains black metal. 31:59-37:29 CONJURER (UK) All Apart — Explosion into emotional storms keeps this vicious, sludgy doom varied and wild. 37:52-44:06 YELLOW EYES (NYC) A Forgotten Corridor — A Best album of 2017 and 2019. Dense, spectacular black. 44:30-49:17 ENSHROUD (UK) Corpses Piled High — Sharp vampire fangs and guitar talons black metal. Just psychotic killing. 49:41-59:31 DROFNOSURA (CAN) Kapala Kriya — Moody atmospheric sludge with textured pace, vicious delicious vocals and swirling electronic meditation. 59:57-END BARREN PATH (JAP) No Geneva — Absolute assault from all angles.

0:24-6:10 UMULAMAHRI (TX) Rot Shall Rule the Oily Voids — Tribalistic, jazzy death with lurching pace and relentless, rumbling drums. 7:24-11:22 TOMBS (Brooklyn) Glass Eyes / Ghoul — Romantic, sludge-driven black metal with howling, emotional vocals. Always one of my faves. 11:51-19:19 AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION (Sweden) Like A Geyser Ever Erupting — Smoke pot metal. 19:53-25:04 UNSOULING (MN) To Come Unbound — Moody post-black with organic instrumentation and full immersion before the tremolo-ferociousness. 25:39-31:50 AFSKY (Denmark) Velkommen Til Livet — A Best of 2020 album. Shimmering and soulful black metal. 32:15-36:06 ENRAGEMENT (Finland) Insectiferous Abomination — Bullet-drums and a maelstrom of groovy riffs with dynamic compositions. 36:35-41:38 INTRAETHER (Spain) And Then, Just Nothingness — "Flying from a cliff into the crashing grey waters below" black metal. 42:07-44:16 SUFFERING HOUR (MN) Incessant Dissent — Raw Minnesota explosive black metal with a seething vocalist. 44:38-51:17 DARK WATCHER (MO) Damned By Proxy — Twangy western guitars meets in a standoff with lonely and dramatic black metal. 51:46-58:01 AGRICULTURE (CA) Bodhidharma — More of that complex Agriculture style of sadistic and strange. 58:17-1:03:41 AUßERWELT (GER) Whiteout Solace — Sludge mixed with melancholy, blissful post-black. 1:04:05-1:09:25 CORONER (Swiss) Cirsium Bound — 32 years in the making! Proggy and thrashy guitars within a massive volume of riffs. 1:09:51-END WODE (UK) Saturn Shadow — Rollicking heavy metal guitars and chomping black metal pace.