She Likes It Heavy_Show 551_Best of 2024 Show 2

Show 2, Best of 2024, with my #1 band, Spectral Wound (CAN)!  

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SPECTRAL WOUND (CAN), album - Songs Of Blood and Mire
The Horn Marauding
— Magical black metal that is despaired, intense, and powerful.

8:03-13:40
MODERN RITES (US/Swiss), album - Endless
Veil Of Opulence
— Melodic black metal crashing down from a storm of clouds.

14:14-21:29
IOTUNN (Denmark), album - Kinship
The Coming End
— Thunderous vocals in a complex and epic death with grandiose, melodic compositions backed by an insane drummer playing with proggy, intricate rhythms.

21:58-26:22
KERES (Italy), album - Homo Homini Lupus
Void and Silence
— Ear-worm fun tech melodic death with a maelstrom of hurtling drums, and complex, writhing guitars.

27:19-34:24
LUUSÄKKI (Finland), album - S/T
Fifth of the Fifth Columns 
— A one-person black and death metal with wretched vocals set against creepy noise and bleak black.

35:05-40:13
NIGHTWRAITH (Denver), album - Divergence
Perpetual Night
— Proggy melodic and flying guitar solos, 70s keyboards and flute with the incredible throaty vocals that we love.

40:39-44:56
THE MOSAIC WINDOW (CA), album - Hemasanctum
Incantation to Summon the Unstable
— Moody meets groove. Flying thrash guitars and an impassioned vocalist leading us through moments of zen.

45:33-51:11
MÚR (Iceland), album - S/T
Múr
— Lush black metal for the blackest of skies and the thickest of stars, broken by lurching tempos and rocking riffs.

51:33-57:16
DISLOYAL (Poland), album - Divine Miasmata
Religion Of Warfare
— Thunderous death, sweeping riffs, a sly and ominous lead vocalist and proggy, dynamic and intricate compositions. 

57:44-1:04:07
SEAR BLISS (Hungary), album - Heavenly Down
The Winding Path
— 70’s style majestic synth and horns that add to their ambient black metal, evolving to chomping, fist pumping earworm and a touch of sludge.

1:04:47-1:10:23
ANOXIDE (UK), album - Morals & Dogma
Age of Austerity
— Vocals are a punch within uneasy, blistering death with sticatto, djent additions.

1:10:50-1:14:19
CHAT PILE (OK), album - Cool World
Shame
— Retro-leaning moody melodic hardcore modernized with sludge and noise and 90s indie guitar. 

1:14:46-1:19:17
CABINET (US), album - Hydrolysated Ordination
Hydrolysated Ordination
— Immediate malevolence of death suffocation, but in a meditative lovely way.

1:19:52-1:25:49
BLOOD INCANTATION (Denver), album - Absolute Elsewhere
The Message [Tablet I]
— Their furnace death metal cut with instrumental twists and 70s krautrock and a splatter of Pink Floyd that creates floating bubbles of synthy metal candy. 

1:26:14-1:31:29
VORGA (GER), album - Striving Toward Oblivion
Starless Sky
— Plenty of heartstrings pulled with chilling notes in hypnotic arrangements, and cool spacy synth creating beautiful melodies.

1:32:07-1:35:52
REPLICANT (NJ), album - Infinite Mortality
Nekrotunnel
— A best of 2021 band with members in Putrascension, a best of 2023 band.  Baritone and screech charges like a warrior within octane intricate technical death and angular tempos.

1:36:23-1:39:36
SUMMONING THE LICH (MO), album - Under The Reviled Throne
The Forest Feasts
— An incredible live performance, and more of the topnotch dueling vocals and technical at the speed of light.  

1:40:12-1:46:57
AKLASH (UK), album - Reincarnation
Cossack
— Doom, melodic black, psychedelic and folk with horns and accordion that is intense and satisfyingly groovy.  

1:47:26-1:51:58
KARKOSA (IN), album - Esoterrorcult
Shattered Throne
— Compressed rasps and tumbling-forward vocals with an avalanche of lyrics in a wickedly paced black metal with tech death elements.

1:52:24-1:57:29
VOLCANDRA (KY), album - The Way Of Ancients
Not Even Death
— Knife vocals and bludgeoning baritones create an epic, moody black and death with catchy thrashy awesomeness. 

1:57:54-2:04:06
CARRION VAEL (IN), album - Cannibals Anonymous
Savage Messiah
— In my Best of 2022, this is more excellence. Slaughtering vocal in an explosive tech death with undulating guitars and a raging drummer.  The sweet clean vocals add to the dynamic mix. 

2:04:30-2:11:58
SELBST (Chile), album - Despondency Chord Progressions
The One Who Blackens Everything
— Rich instruments stack and become jammy.  Epic, plaintive and demanding with vocals that beat its chest on a mountain.

2:12:26-2:21:42
ANTE-INFERNO (UK), album - Death’s Soliloquy
Towards Asphyxiating Darkness
— Ripped apart by vocal fury, and soothed with deeply disturbed melodic compositions.

2:22:02-2:25:51
SERVANT (GER), album - Death Devil Magick
Devil
— Rippling guitar in a moody mix of tremelo-heavy black metal and an expressive lead singer.

2:26:18-2:34:09
HIDEOUS DIVINITY (Italy), album - Unextinct
Atto Quarto: The Horror Paradox
— A balance between a show of power with badass savage riffage and intricate noodle-y compositions.  The vocals are a ride. 

2:34:33-2:40:55
OUBLIETTE (TN), album - Eternity Whispers
Desolate Path    
— Roars over organic and erupting textural melodic black metal drenching you in its beauty. 

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WORMWITCH (CAN), album - S/T
Godmaegen
— Best Blackened Death in 2019.   Another hit into the galaxy of groove and shrapnel hitting you right in the face.