She Likes It Heavy_Show 550_Best of 2024 Set 1

This is the FIRST set of TWO Best of 2024 shows.  Today I start with my #2 album of the year.  Next week, I start with my #1. 

My #2 album of 2024 is Blighted Eye. Listen to next week for my #1, and another 3-hour set! 

1:54-8:28
BLIGHTED EYE (Seattle), album - Agony's Bespoke 
Howls From Beyond The Mist
— Hot muscular vocals with noodling guitars and complex melodic layers.  Top fucking notch fun dudes.

9:08-14:22
OCTOPLOID (Finland), album - Beyond The Aeons
Shattered Wings
— Psychedelic death bliss blending folk, 70s rock, and magical bubbles to float within.  

14:50-18:42
VØIDWOMB (Portugal), album - Spiritual Apotheosis
Black Putrescence
— Raspy guttural seething over bitter black metal with a sultry groove.

19:15-27:43
THE FLIGHT OF SLEIPNIR (US), album - Nature's Cadence
Madness
— Beautiful, epic black metal with massive, instrumental compositions and a powerful vocalist.

28:10-33:10
KVAEN (Sweden), album - The Formless Fires
The Formless Fires
— A best of 2022, flying calloused fingertips in black tremelo flair and anthemic thrash.

33:44-41:26
MOSS UPON THE SKULL (Belgium), album - Quest For The Secret Fire
Quest for the Secret Fire (Theurgic Practice)
— Improvised speaking-tongues guitars and jazzy unhinged drumming that still has a lovely melodic soul. 

42:00-47:03
NECROWRETCH (France), album - Swords Of Dajjal
Dii Mauri
— Alien rasped vocals in a groovy black metal with heavy metal guitars that build into frenetic and sinister swarms. 

47:30-52:33
DEFACEMENT (Netherlands), album - Duality
Barrier
— Fuming, face melting furnace death metal with writhing vocals and creepy electronic effects.

53:07-1:00:27
HAIL SPIRIT NOIR (Greece), album - Fossil Gardens
The Temple of Curved Space
— A Best of 2016.  Psychedelic avant-garde synth-infused proggy black metal with a fizzy lead singer.

1:01:09-1:06:08
GAEREA (Portugal), album - Coma
Suspended
— Evocative instrumentals and clean vocals added to their style of rapturous black metal. 

1:06:34-1:11:05
CIVEROUS (CA), album - Maze Envy
Labyrinth Charm (ft. Derek Rydquist)
— A horror soundtrack within proggy and textured death with surprising jazzy drums and beautiful strings.

1:11:34-1:17:22
BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE (GER), album - Metaphysicize
Death of The Architect
— My emo pick of the year.  Another German masterpiece, this one is a proggy post-metal that explodes into cold black metal riffs. 

1:17:56-1:23:57
STORMCROW (Italy), album - Path To Ascension 
Detached
— Another incredible vocalist that gives full-body chills.  Emotional black metal with an intense high-paced drummer and beautiful melodic.

1:23:31-1:32:58
SLIMELORD (UK), album - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished
Gut-Brain Axis
— Unexpected moody meditative thoughtful universe with some swings into a moshy grind.

1:33:26-1:38:49
CEREMONY OF SILENCE (Slovakia), album - Hálios
Light Runs Through Light
— A Best of 2019. Tempestuous psychedelic death metal and sadistic technical prowess.

1:39:14-1:44:55
EXUVIAL (CO, OK), album - The Hive Mind Chronicles Part I: Parasitica
Hive Mind I: Convergent Evolution
— A melodic technical death masterpiece. 

1:45:24-1:52:53
ÆTHĔRĬA CONSCĬENTĬA (France), album - The Blossoming
Haesperadh
— Cool horns and meditative sections in a black psychedelic within vast compositions.

1:53:33-1:58:19
ABHORIA (CA/Denver), album - Depths
Ghosts in the Smoke
— Ginger-viking led Abhoria with one of the hottest vocals.  Evolving textural black metal that grows within each song. Majestic, precise and unique.  

1:58:45-2:04:21
VALE OF PNATH (Denver), album - Between The Worlds Of Life And Death
Beneath Ashen Skies
— So glad these dudes are from Denver.  The raspy vocalist and masterfully technical, melodic death is delightfully groovy. 

2:04:45-2:12:13
ULCERATE (New Zealand), album - Cutting The Throat Of God
The Dawn Is Hollow
— Brooding death with strains of black and post-metal that shimmers and explodes.  

2:12:34-2:19:21
PARFAXITAS (International), album - Weaver Of The Black Moon
Weaver Of The Black Moon
— Intricate layers of dissonant guitars and vulgar vocals in a haunting, harsh black atmospheric metal. 

2:19:51-2:27:38
DÖDSRIT (Sweden), album - Nocturnal Will
Nocturnal Fire
— Playing both sides of folk-oriented harmonizing melodic and brutal epic.

2:28:08-2:34:12
KNOLL (TN), album - As Spoken
Revile of Light
— Horns and a lethargic pace amidst the chaos and storm makes this avant-garde horror death grind creepier. 

2:34:33-2:41:35
SUN OF NOTHING (Greece), album - Maze
Ghost
— A screeching moody monster riding atop a psychedelic death rock masterpiece.

2:42-03-2:48:06
JOB FOR A COWBOY (AZ), album - Moon Healer
The Forever Rot
— Proggy structures and noodling guitars create delicious space with rap-inspired tumbling vocal styles like Archspire. 

2:48:29-2:54:18
SYK (Italy), album - eartHFlesh 
I Am The Beast
— Powerful delivery of vocals with savage riffs and rhythmic annihilation. Ominous, beautiful black and death. 

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DREAMLESS VEIL (VA), album - Every Limb of the Flood
Glossolalia
— Artifical Brain and Inter Arma members in an intricately layered black and death metal with spooky shrieks and blistering death rhythm.