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New Darkthrone day is always a good day. Darkthrone - It Beckons Us All

Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today, UK 2007 Dopethrone - III, Monreal Quebec 2012

ZAO - A Well-Intentioned Virus

Opeth/My Arms, Your Hearse-Ok, after several spins of the rather gloomy and rainy Morningrise, this is starting to sound more like the Opeth I came to know with BWP and Ghost reveries.

Scorpions - Animal Magnetism (1980)

Morningrise was where I discovered Opeth. Love it to pieces, but BWP is their pinnacle which extends through the twins of Deliverance and Damnation. @markm, id hesitate to reconsider your back catalog rule with any other band, but Opeth is different. Everything they did from the first album through Ghost Reveries is worth your time. My Arms and Orchid both have some real gems. The Baying of the Hounds, Face of Melinda, The Moor... just so many great tunes.

Paradise Lost - Gothic (1991) Fuck yeah!

Enslaved - "Heimdal" My Dying Bride - "For Lies I Sire" Vitriol - "Suffer & Become" Exodus - "Blood In, Blood Out"

Opeth - Morningrise (1996)

Storm of the Light's Bane, 1995 Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triarchy) Sweden 1998 Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer for Evogher, 1994 Unanimated - In Light of Darkness, Sweden 2009 Necrophobic - Hrimthursum, Sweden 2006

IGGY POP - I'm Bored

Morbid Angel - Covenant

Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

Accept - "Humanoid" Judas Priest - "Invincible Shield"

Ulcerate - promo tracks from the new one Vauruvã - Por Nós da Ventania

OBITUARY - Live

Ritual Necromancy - Disinterred Horror, Portland OR 2018 Omnikinetic - Kinesis (EP) black/death Portland OR 2020 Witch Vomit - Funeral Sanctum, Portland OR the new one

Witch Vomit/Funeral Sanctum-I've been listening to this one a lot. It's my favorite so far. One wonders when the market for OSDM will be completely oversaturated, on the other hand, I find OSDM one of the most enduring forms of extreme metal. This is just 30 minutes of melodic well done OSDM that hits the right notes for meat and potatoes death metal for me. I've been spinning this one a lot. It will probably end up being one of my favorite albums of 2024. Slimelord/Chytridiomycosis Relinquished-this will absolutely go down as a highpoint for 2024 extreme metal. What an interesting take on doom death. For one thing, the production is clean, or at least clear, but not slick. This is not cavern core. There is death metal and there is doom but there is also so much more going on. For starters, this is weird ass metal. Sure, there's a death doom center, but it shifts and morphs into an oozing cesspool of creativity: chaotic hints of black death with prog leanings (just check out the bass playing) reminding me of Ulthar's output last year, and maybe a hint of Lord Mantis. Gorguts is an obvious reference point. There's psychedelic influence, there's plenty of dissonance. The production brings in various gurgling effects creating a sound of liquid slime swampiness with the tracks oozing and shifting into different shapes. This is somewhat of a technical album without being tech death. You just can't pin this fucker down. And it's a concept album about a fungal disease that apparently kills large numbers of amphibians. Whaat? One of the things that keeps me in the death game is the way new artists emerge with creative boundary expanding takes on staid, seemingly limited definitions of metal genres. Death metal is a never ending steam engine lava flow that wont' be stopped and won't be hemmed in. Carry on.

Amebix - The Power Remains the Same DVD Live Minneapolis 5/27 2009 After the Bombs - Relentless Onslaught, metallic crust Montreal Quebec 2007 Swordwielder - System Overlord, 2019

NP: Dolmen Gate - Gateways of Eternity ▶︎ Gateways of Eternity | Dolmen Gate (bandcamp.com) Marcolin era Candlemass is pretty easily identifiable as the primary source of influence. You could probably point to a little Trouble or Pentagram here and there. I do enjoy some of the Marcolin Candlemass albums, so this is a pretty easy going listen for me. The songwriting is excellent on this, even if I'm not a fan of echo laden Solitude Aeternus style production. The vocal layering is frustrating since the singer clearly has the pipes to carry her weight through the style. It's the same sort of frustration I feel when I hear the early Fates Warning albums with John Arch. They should really just trust their vocalist enough to leave the mix a little rawer and pick up a lot more of the inflections that the production seems to smooth over. Still definitely my kind of doom. B+ from me. Mayhem have had such an interesting career. I'm one of those nutcases who will actually defend A Grand Declaration of War onward era Mayhem. This album in particular seems to love making use of rests and what I would call very loud silences in the guitar work. It tends to push Attila's rangy growls a little further to the front, but in return we get erratic quick lashing riffs that actually finds me listening to the rests as intently as the notes themselves. You don't get into the listener's head like that without long years of experience and high confidence in your songwriting.

Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao Naked City - Leng Tch'e

KRIEGSHOG - Love & Revenge

Swordwielder - Grim Visions of Battle, Swedish Crust 2013 Amebix - Sonic Mass, UK 2011

THE DARK - Sinking Into Madness

G.B.H - City Baby Attacked by Rats (1982)

Venom - Welcome to Hell (1981)

Amebix - Arise, UK 1985 Swordwielder - Wielding Metal Massacre, Swedish Crust Punk 2023 Dödsrit - Spirit Crusher, black/crust Sweden 2018

Rush - All the World's a Stage

Ihsahn - Ihsahn (2024)

Tsjuder - Kill for Satan (2000)

Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light (2012) Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (1996)

Bon jour Ari. Every morning you come and I think maybe I should listen to some French bands. Never realized how many French metal bands there actually were 'til you showed up here. I've noticed tonight that all 3 of these bands are from various towns in the eastern part of France, not far from Switzerland. Would you say this is probably just a coincidence, or are the people from eastern French just more grindy for the most part? I know they have to grind the mustard to make dijon (the only type of mustard I'll eat) maybe that grinding mentality has spilled over into their music. You're down in the southwest part of France near Bordeaux right? I love looking at European maps and seeing all the various names of places we've adopted here in America. I see you have a Bayonne over there in Aquitaine, we have one too right here in New Jersey, also a port city. And even "Jersey" is the name of a place in France. We're practically brothers! It's funny my ex's father was French so she used to always ask if we could go to France one day. And I always told her no because I never had any desire to see France. We hear stories here in the states about how the French hate Americans because we come over there acting all loud and pompous and entitled and uncouth and idiotic and none of us speak a word of French, we just expect you guys to cater to us. Shit, I don't want to be one of those stupid Americans. I've always wanted to see Spain or Greece or Scandinavia or even the UK could be cool, but never France. But now that I've found all these French bands I've become a little bit curious about France. Not gonna ask my ex though, she got tired of waiting for me and finally made it to France with her sister a couple of years ago. Chiens - Vultures Are Our Future, crust/grind from Nancy France Warfuck - Diptyque, grindcore from Lyon France 2023 Whoresnation - Dearth, deathgrind from Besançon France 2022

Bolt Thrower - Realm Of Chaos

Seconded w/ gusto

Chris Poland - Return To Metalopolis

HAUNTER - Discarnate Ails NP - OLIVIER MESSIAEN - Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortourum

Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence, Sweden 1993 Necrophobic - The Third Antichrist 1999

Thanks, I'll give it a spin along with the others. And thanks @navybsn for the recs. I'll add those to the list. I'm sure there will be some more awesome stuff to find in addition to that Unanimated album I'm currently enjoying.

I'd say if you're looking at Unanimated don't skip out on Ancient God of Evil. Great album if not that similar to Dissection. Also, for a more modern equivalent, check out these guys: Ninkharsag https://vendetta-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-dread-march-of-solemn-gods

One of their best albums. Sealed With a Fist is such a banger. Thanks @GoatmasterGeneral. I'm really digging Unanimated - In Light of Darkness. Missing some of the speed of Somberlain but it has those evil riffs I love. Light's Bane is one of my all time fav albums. Still gotta check the Necrophobic album. Thanks @SurgicalBrute. I'll check all these out. It will take several days but I'm well stocked for now. Got a craving for that Dissection sound.

I'll second this suggestion. It's not quite as catchy as Dissection were at their best, but what it loses in that department it more than makes up for in depth and quieter shifts in the guitars. For me at least, that creates a ton of replayability. NP: Fantasma - Abomination of Human Pestilence ▶︎ Abomination of Human Pestilence | Fantasma | Narbentage Produktionen (bandcamp.com) This one's growing on me. It's only an EP, but it shows a lot of potential.

Exodus - Tempo of the Damned (2004)

Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi, Finland 2017 Havukruunu - Havulinnaan, 2015

I don't often have the time, (or make the time), for watching or listening to podcasts but if I did that looks like one I would watch.

SKALLAR - Skallar ADIXION - Disfruta Tupa & Lang

Saw ASG last night. Probably one of my favorite live bands ever. Killer show. So this morning on the way to the grocery store: ASG - Feeling Good is Good Enough ASG - Win Us Over Now, eating chips and queso listening to my RSD haul: Motorhead - Remorse? No! The Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini Sisters of Mercy - first 2 EPs Sepultura - Morbid Visions Sepultura - Bestial Devastation

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland

If my booty moved like Sarsippius then I'd show you. NP: Infectious Grooves - Sarasippius' Ark

BIG|BRAVE - A Chaos Of Flowers. There are some beautiful passages here. They are further from metal than ever but that's OK. ENGULFED - Unearthly Litanies of Despair. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Noice, but. MÆRE - ...And The Universe Keeps Silent. Spare, thoughtful music.