0:24-4:50
ABIGAIL WILLIAMS (WA)
Nonexistence
— Cascading instrumentation breaking into galloping black metal with a viciously emotive lead singer.
5:51-10:10
MAWIZA (Chile)
Mamüll Reke
— Progressive, multi-faceted death with vocal effects, hypnotic paces, heavy metal guitars, and ethnic strands.
10:40-16:08
FLOATING (Sweden)
Hesitating Lights / Harmless Fires
— Gruff Fields of the Nephilim vocals in a richly melodic and progressive death with a beautiful background.
16:35-21:33
WYTCH HAZEL (UK)
Run The Race
— My 2018 Best Retro and a runner-up in my 2020 list. 70's pagan, epic retro with a vocalist that hangs from the rafters.
21:51-34:14
HAXPROCESS (FL)
Sepulchral Void
—Thrash threaded death with spiraling excursions that build so deliciously.
34:44-39:17
IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT (MD)
Insufferable Shivers
— Huge cold black metal album with furious blast beats and a vicious rasp. Lots of journey here.
39:41-47:23
BA'AL (UK)
Floral Cairn
— Heavy sludgy sections in a black metal threaded with gorgeous strings and keyboards and topnotch vocals.
47:41-52:16
CELESTIAL WIZARD (Denver)
Ride With Fire
— Folk black metal and harmonized heavy metal guitars, mixed with clean power vocals and the brutality of the black screech.
52:31-55:34
GROTESQUERIE (Swiss)
Cloned (in Perpetuity)
— Mangled furnace of death that is chomping, galloping fun.
55:49-END
KIJE (AU)
its pronounced keejay
— Vicious vocals against a backdrop of shimmering.
