1. Trinacria: "Make No Mistake"
Insanely inspired collaboration between viking-metal grind and noise-terror agit-processing, easily the most bracing thing I've heard in years.
2. Leviathan: "Receive the World"
Like being shredded in a slow-motion tornado filled with mid-explosion bombs and extrapolated nightmares.
3. Ihsahn: "Emancipation"
Progressive and necromantic at once, like court music from a Hades starting to gentrify just a little as it discovers its political strength.
4. Moonspell: "Dreamless (Lucifer and Lilith)"
Gothic metal's current standard-bearers.
5. Charon: "Deep Water"
A HIM to Moonspell's Sentenced.
6. Morgion: "Mundane"
A funeral march for glaciers.
7. Dalriada: "Tavaskzköszöntõ"
And at the end of the march, the unexpected moment when you are caught and carried off by sprint-pogoing goat-horned leprechauns and their seven-armed princess who only ever speaks backwards fast.
(All 14 in AAC; 65MB zip file)
Insanely inspired collaboration between viking-metal grind and noise-terror agit-processing, easily the most bracing thing I've heard in years.
2. Leviathan: "Receive the World"
Like being shredded in a slow-motion tornado filled with mid-explosion bombs and extrapolated nightmares.
3. Ihsahn: "Emancipation"
Progressive and necromantic at once, like court music from a Hades starting to gentrify just a little as it discovers its political strength.
4. Moonspell: "Dreamless (Lucifer and Lilith)"
Gothic metal's current standard-bearers.
5. Charon: "Deep Water"
A HIM to Moonspell's Sentenced.
6. Morgion: "Mundane"
A funeral march for glaciers.
7. Dalriada: "Tavaskzköszöntõ"
And at the end of the march, the unexpected moment when you are caught and carried off by sprint-pogoing goat-horned leprechauns and their seven-armed princess who only ever speaks backwards fast.
(All 14 in AAC; 65MB zip file)