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Full-Lengths HM: CRUCIFIED MORTALS - 20 Years Damned (compilation) (Death thrash – USA) Tier 3: Гробъ - Смирение (Humility) (black death – Bulgaria) Hell-Born - Natas Liah (Blackened DM - Poland) Excruciation by Silence - Metal Madness (Thrash – Russia) Obsolete - Animate//Isolate (Tech Thrash Death – USA) OLDSKULL - NETHER HOLLOW OF NO RETURN (DM – Thailand) Morbid Breath - In the Hand of the Reaper (Thrash – Sweden) CAMBION - Conflagrate the Celestial Refugium (blackened Death Thrash – USA/Germany) FRIGHTFUL - Spectral Creator (death thrash – Poland) Evil Damn – Necronomicon (DM – Peru) Goat Torment – Forked Tongues (Black – Belgium) Malison - Death's Embrace (Shred porn – USA) Estertor - Tales From The Ancient Grave (Thrash – Spain) Tardus Mortem – Armageddon (Avant black death – Denmark) Funeral Chant - Dawn of Annihilation (black death – USA) Makes it on vibe as much as the tunes. Great effort, needs more craftmanship imo. ILLUM ADORA - Ophidian Kult (black – Germany) VRAJ - Sojourn of the Soul (USBM – USA) Promising debut. Tier 2: Nekromantheon - Visions of Trismegistos (Death/Thrash – Norway) Every release from these guys meets the highest standards of ripping death thrash and this is no exception. May not reinvent anything but slays your face from start to finish. An unholy banger that is a hazard to your neck vertebrae. Gravesend - Methods of Human Disposal (Grind – USA) A lot of love for this one and well deserved. This one goes for the jugular no bs. Cadaveric Fumes – Echoing Chambers of the Soul (DM – France) There were times when I thought this was going to be the best album of the year, but it has slipped just a little. Superlative and thoughtful DM. Bummer they split up! MORTIFERUM - Preserved In Torment (Death Doom – USA) Uber heavy, grim and crushing. Nuance is there if you can stomach the downward spiral. Disembody - Reigniting Hellfire (Black/Thrash – Finland) One of my most frequent plays. Too much goodness here. Gravecarver - Spectral Carnage (DM – USA) Meat n’ Potatoes DM is still a thing because sometimes that’s all you really want or need. This one hits the mark for me. DRAWN AND QUARTERED - Congregation Pestilence (DM – USA) I was a sceptic of D+Q at first but they won me over. This is just too good to be denied a spot. A band on the rise. GNOSIS - Omens from the Dead Realm (DM – USA) Spooky, dark and evil but does not neglect the riffs, which are epic. Morbid Cruelty – Holodomor (Death Thrash – Chile) Thrashing black mayhem with no let up. HAALBUAER - Mortal Ones Scream in Horror (OSDM – Norway) Just love this disgusting vibe and groove. Sounds new again. Pandemic Outbreak – Skulls Beneath the Cross (Death thrash – Poland) Killer death thrash and that’s all I need most days. Mortal Vision - Mind Manipulation (thrash – Ukraine) Nothing new or ground breaking, just riffs played fast and hard. SAVAGE DEITY - DECADE OF SAVAGERY (OSDM – Thailand) Love the guitar tone, tempo and the gnarly vocals. Dungeon Serpent – World of Sorrows (DM – Canada) This Canadian has a grim but promising future! AUTOKRATOR – Persecution (Death black Industrial – France) Punishment for your nasty soul! Destructo - Demonic Possession (black thrash – Netherlands) Lots of black thrash talent making an infernal racket. Steel Bearing Hand – Slay in Hell (Death thrash – USA) Another pleasant surprise from a band I had not really paid much attention to. TANATOR – Disapotheosis (Black thrash – Russia) Excellent but just a smidge below Desaster and Nekromantheon and Rapture. Archgoat - Worship The Eternal Darkness (goat metal – Finland) Aptly named. The first name in Goat Metal. Taekaury – S/T (raw black – S. Korea) This is excellent raw black metal and it is amazing that this exists. Wound – Serpent Crown (Melodic DM – Germany) Bring the riffs in all shapes and sizes. Eternal Evil - The Warriors Awakening Brings the Unholy Slaughter (black thrash – Sweden) Tier 1: Apostasy – Death Return (Blackened Thrash – Chile) ***** These guys have been a revelation. What a remarkably unheralded band going back to 1988. What you have in this album is masterful slightly-blackened thrash crafted by skilled veterans. This is not revival thrash, this is the genuine article played by long time vets, take heed and hail! SPECTRAL WOUND - A Diabolic Thirst (Black – Canada) When it comes to black metal I am not going to over think this one. It is the total package of kvlt raw savagery with musicianship and song craft. Frigid and spellbound indeed. Rapture - Malevolent Demise Incarnation (Death Thrash – Greece) ***** More death thrash that is like drinking from a blender of razor blades and malt liquor and incites metal thrashing madness. QRIXKUOR - Poison Palinopsia (Avant/DM – UK) ***** I just want Thatguy to think I am worthy with this one because it might just be weird enough for him. This is immersive, challenging, dark, heavy af and brilliant. I am so glad this exists and it is truly superlative avant garde black death abyss worship. Desaster - Churches Without Saints (black thrash – Germany) I thought these guys had fallen off. I was wrong. This is a monster of an album that combines the mania of balls out black thrash with skilled production and well thought-out song craft. Venefixion - A Sigh From Below (DM – France) Another killer blackened thrash release that manages to carve out a unique sound and add lots of evil satanic menace along with the non-stop riffage. This is pretty much my sweet spot, in case anyone didn’t notice. Black Mass - Feast at the Forbidden Tree (blackened speed thrash – USA) If someone said hey play some heavy metal and you put this on I think it would satisfy 90% of metal fans and the other 10% need to lighten up and have some fun. CRYPTS OF DESPAIR - All Light Swallowed (DM - Lithuania) An early favorite. Heavy dark suffocating and evil. A crusher for sure. Abkehr - In Blut (Black – Germany) If you enjoy having your soul ripped out through your nostrils this is kind of like that maybe. Bleak and savage but achingly beautiful black metal. Eternity's End - Embers of War (power/shred porn – Germany) I don’t care what you usually head bang to but if you can’t rock out to this you might be doing metal wrong. Pakkt - To Brocken Heights Where Witches Dance (black – Germany) Debut from an unknown band that absolutely kills. Mixes punk, groove and doom and death into a filthy black metal cauldron.

Suicidal Tendencies - S/T

Brutal Truth - Need To Control Assück - Anticapital

Aerosmith - "Toys in the Attic" (album)

Wardruna - Yggdrasil

Narzissus - Akt I: Wille - i'm on the Erech Leleth wagon now?

I hoped for more from Black Mass in 2021, but Feast At The Forbidden Tree was not as good as Warlust in my opinion. Overkill - Under The Influence

Chopin - (Various) Nocturnes Edit - gave up switching the million CD’s I have with bits of Nocturnes on and just got the Arthur Rubinstein collection on stream.

Band names including the word vomit, necro/nekro, goat and/or void make up about 90% of what I listen to! Speaking of which, NP Nekrovault, one that crushes and I missed from @GoatmasterGeneral's DM list.

NCS gives Surge some nice press and attention by highlighting his list-so I say let him have his moment. The goats have spoken on a few albums I clearly need to add to my roster-will have to check out Cerebral Rot today. I was sure the Venn diagram crossed circles on at least one band title with Vomit that I was looking forward to add. Alas, there are too many bands with the word vomit for me to keep track. I myself own Vomitor and Witch Vomit from previous years. Here, we've got Vomit Ritual from GG list, Vomit Spell from Navy's list, and Vomit Forth (demo) from Hungarino. It seems the M-F crew are taken with a variety of forms of vomit that seem to be proprietary but no real cross over.

@Hungarino hails brother goat! Thanks for the list dude. Lots to check out and evaluate. I don't even recognize half of those releases. That's the thing I love about list season. Finding out about all of the things I missed along the way. I know many don't get much from these lists, but I certainly do. I think it comes down to "knowing" you guys for a while and knowing who's tastes align with my own. I can look at the M-Fi crew's lists and can figure out things I will enjoy. I'm learning the regulars here fairly quickly too and starting to see when I should pay attention to certain recommendations. I don't get much out of the blog list on various sites, but guys like Neil Jameson, our old buddy Surge, and a few others always come through with some excellent gems. Anyway, thanks to everyone who has taken the time to post. I hope folks are finding this thread enjoyable. Even if you're not trying to run down any of these releases, maybe reading along is somewhat entertaining. BTW - I just found out about that Desaster on NYE. It is indeed excellent.

Tankard - The Morning After

Thanks for your extensive list @Hungarino! I see I have huge amount of catching up to do seeing the EP/ Demo post. For the full lengths I recognize quite a bit but as well quite some unknowns to me.

Man I recognize almost none of @Hungarino picks. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing! I do like that you gave some love to SexMag though! Those guys really channel the sleazy vibe of 80's eastern europe black/thrash. Have you heard Hexenbrett of the same label (Dying Victims)? Hexenbrett - Intermezzo dei quattro coltelli nudi

Probably that option too Haha. Kinda off topic, but I was wondering what some of your fav bands are? Trying to expand my taste a little

My man! Good to see you. You and the GG always upend the beginning of the new year with bestial homework, and if you have to do homework, it might as well be laced with Satanic fury. Who will be my Profane Order of 2021....time will tell but Hangarino will summon it from the dark depths of hell.

Do not trust this guy with your kids! My wife as the Squid Game boss, me, and my niece this year at the small town trick-or-treating event in middle America. Literally a town where strangers feel comfortable walking up to ask if you have accepted Jesus as your personal savior etc. etc. Hopefully we made an impression.

Oh man, I feel foolish. Let me try: Yup, pretty darn easy. I need to go edit my post just for fun now. The pic is me in my annual Halloween get up. I need a wig and more detail on the corpse paint. It is really fun though, I always rock out and act generally ridiculous. I have some more good pics, since I can post them now, I will!

Sijjin - Sumerian Promises, death/thrash Germany Abkehr - In Blut, German black Hells Coronation - Silver Knife Mysticism, Polish black/death/doom

EPs/Demos/Promos Tier 1: Gzekhratüs - Enter the Morbid Obscurity (Black Death - Spain) Eranthos - Eternal Decay (Black – Germany) Goat Tyrant – Towards the Threshold of Death (Blackened Thrash Death – Poland) ERUPTED EVIL – Teufel (blackened death – Poland) Primordial Serpent - Hail the Serpent (Black – Canada) Argento - First Comes Madness... Then Comes Death! (DM – Argentina) VATICINAL RITES - Self-Titled EP (death thrash – UK) Abhorration - After Winter Comes War (Blackened DM – Norway) HELL'S CORONATION - Silver Knife Mysticism (black doom – Poland) Tier 2: SexMag - Sex Metal (goat death thrash – Poland) ANHARAT – Blood Sorcery (Heavy AF DM – USA) Enfleshment – Cellar Death (DM – USA) IFRINN - Caledonian Black Magick (Black – UK) FOSSILIZATION - HE WHOSE NAME WAS LONG FORGOTTEN (Cavernous Death Doom – Brazil) Benothing - Temporal Bliss Surrealms (OSDM – Finland) Tempter’s Sacrament - Temptation Steel Scourge (black crust – USA) Perilaxe Occlusion - Raytraces of Death (Modern DM – Canada) ReDimoni - On The Brink Of Existence (Death thrash – Spain) Havukruunu - Kuu Erkylän Yllä (black – Finland) ANOTHERSIDE - Odors of Sepulchral (black death – Russia) Satanism - Whore of Death, Black Invocation of the Infernal Spirit (Black death goat – USA) Tier 3: Můra - Doom Invocations and Narcotic Rituals (Death/Doom - Czech Rep) NIGROMANCIA – Hidden Rituals (death thrash – Chile) Order of Omega - - 333 – (Blackened Death – UNKN) PHENOCRYST – Explosions (DM – Portugal) Ossuaire – Triumvirat (black – Canada) Vomit Forth – Demo (Brutilish DM – USA) Nekrovomit – Demonic Possession (black thrash goat - Indonesia)

I am going to start posting this unholy abomination of a list, starting with a few Splits that I enjoyed. Not as many Splits this year, I probably missed a bunch of really good ones I reckon. Opferblut / Misotheismus (raw black - Sweden/Equator) Kūka'ilimoku // Sandworm (raw black – Hawaii and Rhode Island) WHARFLURCH / WRITHING SHADOWS - Beneath The Blackened Clouds of War (Bestial black death – USA) Blue Holocaust / Houkago Grind Time - Do You Love Anime? Pt. 7 / Nilbog Attack (grind - France/ USA) Reign / Gate Master (black - UK)

Witchmaster - Masochistic Devil Worship. Dirty & fast Black/thrash from Poland. This is an older album but well worth seeking out. For D666 and Aura Noir fans.

100% seconded. Very much appreciate the good music, good discussion, and lack of BS the Metal-Fi crew has brought over. Haven't felt like anyone needed a sandbox in a while now. I think I get less out of lists than most people. I'm much more likely to find something new to enjoy throughout the year in the course of normal conversation than I am by hunting through someone else's favorites. I don't bother reading most commercial work products and I take a pretty dim view of lists that purport to be objective. But I do like reading personal lists anyway, even if it's just for kicks. I'd like to say they give me a sense of where someone is coming from, but looking at my own lists that's not necessarily true either... They're just a snapshot of stuff I happened to stumble across and enjoy during some particular, basically arbitrary window of time. Like I said earlier, kudos to those of you who can listen more and maybe be more disciplined about it without burning out.

I know I had said I was gonna wrap up my black metal list and post that one first, but this one had less contestants to chose from so it was a little easier to finalize. I'll drop this here for yiz now so I can stop thinking about it put it behind me which will allow me to focus on the black metal list. @Kuke, Harsh? C'mon man, I put the little smiley face laughing emoji guy, I was just having some fun with ya. Re: my exchange with Navy the other night... after spending the better part of 2 days listening to almost nothing but my 2021 death metal albums, I can honestly say without fear of contradiction that this has most definitely not been a weak year for death metal at all imho. I have compiled a nifty little list here for your perusal of just over 20 really solid and deserving death metal albums. I'm quite proud of this list, even the ones down towards the bottom are killer. And I could have gone to 40, I had another 20 albums ready to go that I will make note of and save for future reference in years to come, but I won't bore everyone by listing all the rest of them here as I reckon most people probably only look at the top 10 anyway. So without further ado, here I present to you the Goatmaster top 20 Death Metal albums of 2021: 1. Cadaveric Incubator - Nightmare Necropolis, Finnish deathgrind, they're presenting this to the world as 'deathgrind' but I don't hear grindcore here, it honestly just feels like some gnarly filthy Finnish death metal to me. I wish all death metal bands could sound like these guys. This will be a common theme on this as well as on all my death metal lists: there will be no prog or avant-garde or anything too unique, weird, different, trend-setting, genre-bending envelope-pushing, forward-thinking or adventurous. It's all just gonna be straight-forward, meat & potatoes, old school, filthy, disgusting & brutal. Just want everyone to be aware of that up front so that no one wastes a lot of time reading my whole list if that's not their bag. 2. Invultation - Unconquerable Death, black/death from Ohio, another goat worthy one in much the same vein as my #1 CI. I've played this one many times this year as it was one of my go-to's for those times when I wasn't really sure what I wanted to listen to yet. so it feels like an old friend to me now. 3. Crypts of Despair - All Light Swallowed, Lithuania, crushing death metal that is nasty and brutal and just ever so slightly blackened, this is just how I like it. It even has clear modern production for those who shun the lo-fi stuff. 4. Altered Dead - Returned to Life, Victoria BC, Vancouver Island Canadia, right across the sea from Olympic Natl Park, Everett and Seattle WA. As Zack will attest, this is a top notch death metal album that should be in everyone's collection. Might not have ranked it quite so high but they won me over with their cover of Celtic frosts Into the Crypts of Rays. 5. Wharflurch - Psychedelic Realms ov Hell Florida, just a wonderful slab of "cosmic/psychedelic" death metal, love the lead work here. Have a buddy of mine who was the one that first turned me onto this band a year or two ago, who said he didn't like this full length nearly as much as their demos. I can see what he's saying, it's not as primitive anymore, but imo they more than make up for it with the songwriting and lead work. I can't personally hear whats so cosmic or psychedlic about this, just sounds like death metal to me but they can call themselves whatever they like. 6. Morbid Messiah - Disgorged in the Coffin, Mexico, Fuck yeah, these Mexicans are onto it! This is what death metal is supposed to sound like, bludgeoning & pulverizing. No pretense, no gimmicks, they give it to you dirty, raw and unfiltered. 7. Ruin - Spread Plague Death, SoCal, pure filth, somehow I had previously placed this one all the way down at #10, but that's been semi-corrected now. This is fucking awesome, I wish I could go top 5 with this one but then who the hell would I bump to make room? 8. Nunslaughter - Red is the Color of Ripping Death, Cleveland Ohio, tbh I've never been the biggest Nunslaughter fan beyond their first two excellent full length releases from 2000 & '03. They've tended to avoid making proper full lengths over the years and have just releasde a whole shitload of splits. And by a shitload I mean dozens of them, most of which I've never bothered with. Glad I bothered with this album though, it's a fucking ripper. Except for long time bassist/vocalist Don of the Dead who has been a member since the beginning in 1987, the rest of the band is all new as of 2014,'16 and '19 respectively so they do have a somewhat different sound now, more death metally and less death/thrashy. Count me in, I'm down. 9. Phrenelith - Chimaera, Denmark, I'll start by saying this new one is not nearly as great as their monolithic 2017 debut album 'Desolate Endscape' you might have heard, but it would almost be too much to ask to expect them to top that massive one. Still after 4 and a half years of waiting with nothing more than a 2-track EP teaser to tide us over in-between, and what with so many bands shitting the bed with their sophomore releases, this is a fantastic follow-up, no complaints whatsoever. 10. Fossilization - He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten, Death/Doom Brazil, long forgotten is appropriate, I grabbed this back in May and until now I probably hadn't played it since June. So damn good, cavernous and crushing. With just 5 tracks in 25 minutes these two dudes don't fuck around, they show up, plug in, destroy everything in sight and get the fuck out. Fuckin' hell I really suck at ranking shit, wish I could just put all of these into my top 5 and be done with it. This probably deserves to have been ranked a few spots higher but I've been moving these all around back and forth which tells you that I don't actually know what the fuck I'm doing anyway. 11. Vomit Ritual - Callous black/death SoCal, going by their picture and their stage names I think these dudes from Riverside CA might originally hail from somewhere south of the border and it shows in their music, this is very Mexican or Chilean sounding thrashy black/death. Outside of the good ole US of A, I reckon Chile has probably become my favorite death metal producing country along with Finland, Mexico & Germany. 12. Sarcoughagus - Delusions of the Sick, Cleveland, first full length from these Clevelanders, short, sweet, and old school, I'm impressed. Their M-A page lists their genre as 'stoner death metal' (???) which made me chuckle but whatever, just sounds like regular (modern) old school death metal to me, I'm really not catching any kind of a stoner vibe off this or anything, but it is groovy and the songs are good so there ya go. 13. Huoripukki - Ikuinen Kamppailu black/death Finland, nearly equal parts black & death, this probably could have been at home on either of my lists but after giving it another close listen I decided it seemed like a better fit right here on the death metal list. The goats and Ukko (Finnish God of thunder & the sky) are undoubtedly pleased with this one. 14. Husqwarnah - Front: Toward Enemy, Italy, no idea where they came up with the band name, cracks me up a little because here in the states Husqvarna is a leading brand of chainsaws and outdoor power equipment. This is a half hour of absolutely viscious killer death metal. First full length from a young band, I'm quite keen to see what they release next. 15. Malignant Altar - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity, Houston TX, rotten, putrid, filthy, very Finnish sounding, this is the sound I think of first when I hear the phrase "death metal." I've seen people badmouthing this one as not that great or nothing special but I imagine they probably listen to prog metal or some such nonsense. For us meat & potatoes guys this is fan-fucking-tastic. 16. Autokrator - Persecution black/death/doom France, released the first week of November but I found this later in the year and my fucking god is this album just ever so satisfying. Cavernously heavy and engaging, and surprise it's not just meat & potatoes! But it does what it does without being all dissonant and weird which I really appreciate. Autokrator is not a new band to me, I already had their 2018 album Hammer of the Heretics, but this new one really ups their game, it almost sounds like an entirely different band. 17. Obscurial - Funeral, Burial and Rites, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, Had no idea there were killer death metal bands like this from Malaysia. I had to look up exactly where Kuala Lumpur was and now I see it's up the penninsula about 350 km from Singapore there. But wherever they're from holy shit this is a fucking bangin' debut from these young dudes, you really need to hear this. 18. Wormveil - Profane Excellence, Sweden/UK, two veterans of shitloads of different death metal bands, but namely Johnny Petersen of Wombbath fame who seems to pop up aall over the place. This is actually one of his better projects, I like this a lot better than the new Wombbath, which to be clear is also very good, but it missed making my list because I just have too much that's more deserving of attention. 19. Worm - Foreverglade Death/Doom Florida, love this because it reminds me so much of Evoken without being so painfully slow all the time. There was quite a bit of conversation about this album on the forum this year, I'll just assume that anyone who'd be interested in a primo slab of death/doom like this has already heard it and bought it. 20. FŌR - The Life Feeding Flame, Death/Doom Sweden, yes the other death/doom album on my list, I know I've used the word "crushing" about 20 times already during the course of this list but I have no choice but to trot it out again here for this one because it's heavy as a planet. Like when you're stoned and your legs feel like they weigh 5,000 pounds each and you couldn't possibly move them from that spot they're rooted to if your fucking life depended on it. For is the Proto-Germanic word for 'Fire' btw. 21. Cerebral Rot - Excretion of Mortality, Seattle, yeah you get the idea, yet another example of the kind of cavernous old school sounding rotten putrid filth I love. These guys are dependable now with their 2nd excellent full length. 22. Wound - Serpent Crown, Germany, late entry so I'm sticking it here for now, not as gnarly and brutal and filthy as some of the entries on this list, it's just a touch more melodic but it has catchy songs and some of that cool lead guitar work I'm so fond of. Sometimes I'll forget just how much guitar solos can add to a record until I hear an album that has them like this. 23. Venefixion - A Sigh From Below, France, ever so slightly blackened and thrashy death metal from Bretagne (Brittany) right across the channel from Plymouth over there on the French side. I've enjoyed everything they've done so far, their first 15 minute demo from 2015 being the best of all imo, but this is very good too. I had another 18 albums but I'm gonna end this list here in the interest of not boring everybody too much more than is absolutely necessary.

I listened to more new stuff in 2021 than I generally do, mostly due to all the energy and constant new music being shared by the Metal Fi crew. Still not a lot compared to some of y'all, maybe two dozen albums. I did my best this year to just listen when I was in the mood and not force it. Wasn't always successful. It seems like, as soon as I start listening for the purpose of "keeping up with new releases", a little switch flips in my head and I get hypercritical and start detesting everything. That's no way to live. More power to those of you who can find joy in dozens or hundreds of albums a year, I'm impressed. Three in particular really captured me: Ad Nauseam: Imperative Imperceptible Impulse - have we reached Peak Disso? This is brilliant, inspired, cerebral, painstakingly assembled. So many intricate rhythmic variations, so much creative interplay between the guitars. The amount of energy and attention to detail makes it compelling for me every time I put it on. Constant companion for walks in the woods earlier this year. Kayo Dot: Moss Grew On The Swords And Plowshares Alike - another inspired album with great musicianship. Heavy but uplifting, full of gorgeous free-flowing melodies in a constantly shifting landscape. The songs meander but they always find a home. The pacing lends itself to a lot of things I do throughout the day, so it's been easy for this one to work its way into my life. Voices: Breaking The Trauma Bond - somehow I already feel like I've been listening to this album for years. I always liked their sound; I feel like this is the most developed and coherent thing they've done so far. Loads of great little hooks throughout the hour-plus runtime keep me looking forward to what's coming next. Love the vocals. I kind of tuned out the lyrics at first, felt like they were overdramatic and cheesy, and was totally unprepared when a few of them hit me right between the eyes after three or four listens; there's some real emotional content here. Maybe it just came at the right time in this weird, difficult year. Other albums I really enjoyed and wound up going back to pretty frequently: Worm: Foreverglade Circle Of Ouroborus: Kiromantia Plebeian Grandstand: Rien Ne Suffit Nur Run: Among Those Waves At The Gates: The Nightmare Of Being Henbane Chariot: Allpine Séance Forhist: s/t Some others I thought were pretty cool, even though I haven't wound up listening to them as much as I would have expected: Grave Miasma: Abyss Of Wrathful Deities Hooded Menace: The Tritonus Bell Dormant Ordeal: The Grand Scheme Of Things The Temple: s/t Suffering Hour: The Cyclic Reckoning Intonate: Severed Within And finally, late entries from Ustalost (Before The Glinting Spell Unvests) and Creature (Eloge De l'Ombre) are getting some good airtime lately.

I bought this album. Tbh without your wise words I wouldn't have. It's surprisingly good overall. I think it's not perfect album but I still don't want to switch off till it's over.Thats a good sign. What a challenge to play live eh. 😉 Have you heard slows music. There music is similar. You may have thought what comes from Belgium apart from fancy chocolate. Good metal if I don't say so my myself😁