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This!

These are all black metal bands, there are just different vocal styles within the genre. For instance:

Funny because its the first time that anything approaching funeral doom did grab me. I like all the elements and execution, but kind of one trick pony to some degree: play really slow, then fast. I can see this providing diminishing returns, but with some polish and attention to detail these guys could get better. There are moments where they are putting together some layers and phrasing that are just poorly edited/mixed imo. But there are some ideas there, and I love the vibe and overall sound.

New Escarnium! Haven't even listened yet. But these cats are seriously heavy. And awesome!

That's killer mate. Utmost respect for everyone who plays metal. Welcome!

Verbum (Chile) has a new release that mixes black death and funeral doom to immersive and devastating effect. I would post the link but I am typing from my phone currently and can't be bothered. Its on BC though, sorry if double posted.

I happen to be in Japan right now, albeit sequestered away and not able to enjoy its many delights. Thanks for the link going to check this out!

New Nocturnal Graves kills!

Off to Japan. Tyhja has a new one out and they are awesome. Going to check it asap.

▶︎ Dread Reaver | Abbath (bandcamp.com) Just the available single. Probably won't be at the top of my list but I will check out the full release. I do like the lead guitars, hopefully he makes that a feature. Getting some later Motorhead vibes.

Curses From The Past | ERED (bandcamp.com)

I am seeing articles from reputable sources saying we will all get Omicron, but the severity is clearly much lower than other strains. It would be really helpful to categorize Omicron as a totally different disease at this point, if that is possible. I don't think we can use the same level of protocols to prevent a disease that is so contagious. China looks like they are going to try to keep with the '0 case' strategy we will see how that works. I am going to Japan on Friday and will be pretty much locked down there as well.

Really enjoying this one too! This is high on the list to check out next!

This one is right up my alley. Just found it but sounds list worthy! Has a very Polish black death vibe that kills!

Marras - Endtime Sermon

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.

Water temp of 40?? Or Air temp? 40 degree water would be waaaay to cold for me. At about 50 I tap out. In the winters I wear hooded 4mm and can always add booties or even gloves, but it starts to be more about survival than fun at some point. Surf in the winter here is definitely part of the program, but I do not like any coldness and am often tempted to migrate to warmer climes.

Thanks Navy I realize putting so many is a cop out. Another year, another promise to cull it down next time to like 20-25. But I reached the point where I just had to post it and move on with my life! I will typically take January into March to peruse everyone's lists so apologies for not shouting out the other stand outs yet! Cheers mate yeah the SexMag was new to me and honestly haven't heard much like that recently. Rocking this Hexenbrett now and its fun and definitely sleazy! I could definitely explore this vibe more.

Haha thanks Mark Happy New Year to you! Can you kayak in the winter? Sounds like a cold proposition! I have another buddy Josh Tracy who is also from VA and big into river kayaking. Who knows maybe you have crossed paths? As far as the lists go I debated the Outre-Tombe and Hooded Menace, but who knows why I left them off. And I recognize some more and will check out the black metal list specifically. You definitely have a good representation of darker stuff - you keep moving in the direction of the infernal order of the goats. Maybe you are the goat herder?

Apa kabar Ruby? I am from the US but I love Indonesia and have studies some bahasa Indonesia and travelled there for work and holiday. Welcome! Sorry it took so long to see this post! What is the name of your band? Cheers!

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!

Thanks General, it has been a crazy year, which is true for everyone I suppose. I definitely found more good EPs than usual this year, not sure if full lengths were just missed or bands are putting out more EPs, but they are easy to digest and I have no problem with shorter listening experiences. I also seemed to constantly be finding blackened death/thrash variations, which is great, but have a bad handle on the trve kvlt black metal landscape, so as usual I will be waiting on your list to get some ideas. I also need to practice embedding the images for album covers in my threads. Gotta see the art!

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.

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)