Nov 142013
 

It’s getting to be that time of year, the time when we dive head first into the polluted sea of year-end listmania. Our listmania extravaganza comes in four parts. First, we re-print assorted lists of the year’s best albums, leeched from other web sites and magazines. Second, we collect our readers’ lists of the songs they enjoyed the most from the year that’s rapidly drawing to a close. Third, we post the year-end lists of our own staff and assorted guest writers. And fourth, we roll out our list of the year’s Most Infectious Extreme Metal Songs.

And that last list is the subject of this post (we’ll be inviting you to give us your lists of the year’s best albums as we get closer to the actual end of the year — so start thinking about that).

In case you’ve forgotten, or you’ve become an NCS reader since this time last year, here’s what this is about:

To repeat, this isn’t a list of the best metal albums of the year. It’s not even our list of the best individual extreme metal songs of the year — though some of the songs might actually be among the best of the year. Instead, ours is a list of the most infectious extreme metal songs we’ve heard this year. We’re talking about songs that might produce involuntary physical movement, songs that have got catchy rhythms, memorable melodies, sweet grooves, or anything else that sticks the song in your head and makes you want to keep listening to it.

To be one of the most infectious songs of the year, it’s got to be something that worms its way into your brain to such an extent you can’t get it out (and wouldn’t want to) — you mentally replay it at unexpected times and you go back to the song repeatedly for listening.

Maybe it’s the kind of song that has become one of your favorites for some kind of activity — whether it be drinking or smoking, working out, humping, rolling down the road in some kind of wheeled vehicle with the volume turned up, trying to drown out your kids, doing your laundry, doing school work, doing actual paying work, pleasuring yourself while gazing at a photo of me, getting into the right kind of mood or out of the wrong one, or even just day-dreaming.

I’ve already got my own working list of candidates and I’m going to collect suggestions from our regular writers, but no doubt we will overlook some gems. So, here’s what I want: Please leave comments to this post with your suggestions — or e-mail them to: islander@nocleansinging.com

I’ll then pick what I think are the most infectious tracks of the year and start playing those songs for you in groups of two as we get closer to year-end. The first year we did this, I limited the list to 10 songs. In 2010, I expanded it to 30. In 2011 it grew to 39. Last year it topped out at 56! As you can see, I have a really fuckin’ hard time making decisions. I have no idea how many songs we’ll feature this year.

So, reflect on the music you’ve really been enjoying this year and please let us hear from you. By leaving your favorites in the comments, this post will also become a way for other metal fans to find new music.

  67 Responses to “HELP A BROTHER OUT? (We Need Yore Songs)”

  1. Beastwars – Realms

  2. Every track on Serpents Unleashed!

    {artist-song)
    Black Dahlia Murder – Raped In Hatred By Vines of Thorn
    Anciients – Raise the Sun
    Kingcrow – The Hatch (the chorus is mad catchy)
    Ghost – Year Zero
    Satan – Life Sentence
    Arsis – Handbook For The Recently Deceased
    Thrawsunblat – Lifelore Revelation
    Red Fang – Blood Like Cream

    These are some picks after a quick cycle through the library

  3. Caligula’s Horse – Atlas
    Nekrogoblikon – Powercore
    Altar of Plagues – Remedy And A Fever
    The Amenta – Obliterate’s Prayer
    Benea Reach – Empire
    Soilwork – Tongue
    Shade Empire – Ruins
    TesseracT – Nocturne
    Dark Tranquillity – The Science of Noise
    Castevet – As Fathomed By Beggars and Victims

  4. Arsis – Choking on the Sand
    Black Dahlia Murder – Raped In Hatred By Vines of Thorn
    Children of Bodom – Halo of Blood
    Exhumed – Necrocracy
    Fleshgod Apocalypse – Elegy
    Soilwork – Spectrum of Eternity
    Soilwork – Tongue
    Suffocation – Pinnacle of Bedlam

  5. Wormed – Xenoverse Discharger
    Whoretopsy – Nature’s Pocket (The album is not out yet, but this single is kickass.)
    Gorguts – The Battle of Chamdo
    Eibon – The Void Settlers
    Bring Me The Horizon – And The Snakes Start To Sing
    The Body – Bearer of Bad Tidings
    The Body – The Ebb And Flow of Tides In A Sea Of Ash
    Rivers of Nihil – Rain Eater
    Portal – Curtain
    Guttural Secrete – Deadened Prior to Coitus
    Locrian – Return To Annihilation

    • Yeah I know, the Gorguts one isn’t metal at all, but the whole album is really amazing, so choosing one would be really hard.

  6. In no particular order…

    1. Sannhet- Absecon Isle (http://sannhet.bandcamp.com/track/absecon-isle)
    2. Deafheaven- Dream House (http://deafheavens.bandcamp.com/album/sunbather)
    3. Falls of Rauros- All That Howling Fog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEc89wpMu3g)
    4. Vulture Industries- The Tower (https://soundcloud.com/vulture-industries)
    5. Russian Circles- Memorial (http://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/track/memorial)
    6. Red Fang- Crows in Swine (http://redfang.bandcamp.com/track/crows-in-swine-2)
    7. Lord Dying- In a Frightful State of Gnawed Dismemberment (http://lorddying.bandcamp.com/track/in-a-frightful-state-of-gnawed-dismemberment)
    8. Cult of Luna- Passing Through (http://offtherecord.fi/cult-of-luna/)
    9. The Ocean- Bathyalpelagic II: The Wish in Dreams (https://soundcloud.com/metalbladerecords/the-ocean-bathyalpelagic-ii)
    10. Battlecross- Flesh & Bone (https://soundcloud.com/battlecross/flesh-bone)
    11. Shining- I Won’t Forget (https://soundcloud.com/user3105090/i-wont-forget?in=user3105090/sets/the-shining-one-one-one)
    12. Ihsahn- Hiber (https://soundcloud.com/candlelight-records/hiber-1)
    13. ASG- Blood Drive (https://soundcloud.com/relapserecords/asg-blood-drive)
    14. Noctum- Temple of the Living Dead (https://soundcloud.com/metalbladerecords/noctum-temple-of-the-living)

    OK, I’m getting carried away. I’ll stop now.

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wDvS1YT0A

    Listen to the brand new track from Upon Your Grave’s Eponym album coming out November 28th ! here is ” Life Simulator ”

  8. Decaying – The Ardennes Offensive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dozD_o_EQZk
    Hail of Bullets – Pour le Merite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KiGFsj_RP8
    Manegarm – Hordes of Hel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6XALmSHJek
    Manegarm – Sons of War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZECY3zFQQQ
    Maniac – Corrupted Moon http://maniacband.bandcamp.com/
    Procession – To Reap Heavens Apart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgY4iRXBpwM
    Convulse – Unholy War http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgBt2-NOGVc

  9. Holy shit. On the one hand, I’m glad I invited other ideas, because I overlooked so many of these or haven’t heard them at all. On the other hand, my list is now growing like mushrooms after a heavy rain.

  10. (1) Skeletonwitch – “From a Cloudless Sky”
    (2) Sockweb – “Werewolf”
    (3) In Solitude – “Death Knows Where”
    (4) White Wizzard – “Strike the Iron”
    (5) Exhumed – “Dysmorphic”
    (6) Carcass – “316L Grade Surgical Steel”
    (7) Toxic Holocaust – “Salvation is Waiting”
    (8) Warbringer – “The Turning of the Gears”
    (9) Havok – “It Is True”
    (10) Kataklysm – “Like Animals”
    (11) Skeletal Spectre – “Serpent Moon”
    (12) Dark Tranquillity – “For Broken Words”
    (13) Fleshgod Apocalypse – “Minotaur (The Wrath of Poseidon)”
    (14) Heaven Shall Burn – “Hunters Will Be Hunted”
    (15) TOAD – “Taste of the Grave”
    (16) Darkthrone – “Leave No Cross Unturned”
    (17) Wormed – “Stellar Depopulation”
    (18) Scale the Summit – “Atlas Novus”
    (19) Within the Ruins – “Ataxia II”
    (20) Kalmah – “Wolves in the Throne”
    (21) Immolation – “Kingdom of Conspiracy”
    (22) Revocation – “Fracked”
    (23) Amorphis – “The Wanderer”
    (24) Soilwork – “Spectrum of Eternity”
    (25) Black Fast – “Obelisk”

  11. This is tough to just spit out, but I’ll give it a go. Besides, it figures that the most infectious songs are those that are sticking with me at any given moment.

    In no particular order:
    Shade Empire – Nomad
    In Vain – Floating on the Murmuring Tide
    Dark Tranquillity – None Becoming
    Altar of Plagues – A Remedy and a Fever
    Wolfheart – Routa pt. 2
    Hanging Garden – Ash and Dust
    Fleshgod Apocalypse – Minotaur (Wrath of Poseidon)
    The Ocean – Signals of Anxiety
    Omnium Gatherum – Formidable

    I must have missed dozens but these are the ones that come to mind just now.

  12. Catharist – At the Gates
    Conducting from the Grave – Into the Rabbit Hole
    Dark Tranquillity – The Science of Noise
    Deals Death – Point Zero Solution
    Kartikeya – Tunnels of Naraka
    Man Must Die – Patriot
    Spheron – Saturnian Satellites

    I could lengthen the list, but these are the *most* infectious (that I can think of right now, without looking at others’ lists).

  13. In no particular order:
    Shade Empire – Ruins
    Kuolemanlaakso – Minä Elän (Or any else from that album)
    Wolfheart – Routa pt.2
    Sons of Aeon – Wolf Eyes
    Omnium Gatherum – The Unknowing
    Kaunis Kuolematon – En ole mitään

  14. I’ve been thinking about this list all year, and the two songs which stay on the list are:

    Vreid – The Reap
    Bölzer – Entranced by the Wolfshook

    Right now, I would probably add the following songs:

    Mitochondrion – Insummation (I think it is mostly the breakdowns in the last couple of minutes that are keeping this one in my head)
    Thrawsunblat – Wanderer on the Continent of Saplings (I agree that the other Thrawsunblat pick above is infectious, but this one has been in my head for months)
    Darkthrone – Lesser Men (I saw the “Leave No Cross Unturned” pick above, and I think that is also a good choice)
    Exhumed – Coins Upon the Eyes

    After I have had more time to listen to it, I think one of the songs from the new Carcass album would also make this list.

  15. Definitely Arsis- Sunglasses at Night
    I’ll think of more later

  16. (Psychoparalysis) – The Numbers Become My Enemies
    Exhumed – Dysmorphic
    Feared – Vintersol
    Solium Fatalis – Molecular Devices
    Unhuman – Once Again
    Soul Remnants – Incinerator
    Darkane – The Sinister Supremacy
    Soulfly – The is Violence
    Suffocation – As Grace Descends
    Dormant Ordeal – Days That Didn’t Make It
    Megalodon – Dual Vision Triple Sonic
    Carcass – Captive Bolt Pistol

  17. Hard to say, I’m still waiting on a few albums to come out (Code ,DunkelNacht, Bliss of Flesh) and a few others to arrive – So far:

    Twilight of the Gods: Fire on the Mountain
    Shining: The Hurting Game / I Won’t Forget
    Devin Townsend – Grace (Retinal Circus)
    Entropia – Vesper
    geÄst – NebellebeN
    Thy Light – Wander of Solitude
    Progenie Terrestre Pura – Progenie Terrestre Pura
    Rotting Christ – Grandis Spiritus Diavolos
    Manzer – Pictavia

    This is unfortunately only a few. There is more, just can’t think of them at the moment.

    Would also love to add other things that I’ve come across but are from previous years, that I only found out about this year: Agruss, Advent Sorrow, Doomsday, Chrome Waves, The Senseless and Nagelfar (Hünengrab im Herbst) to name but a few.

    Good luck with the list

  18. Concrete- Batillus
    Burnt Year- Altar of Plagues
    I Am Rebirth- Ancient VVIsdom
    In Exodus- Nails
    Tears of Blood- Olde Growth
    Rags- Primitive Man
    Burned From Bone- Skeletonwitch
    Khan- Tenggar Cavalry
    Lifelore Revelation- Thrawsunblat
    Another Fallen Brother- Tyr

    To name a few… 🙂

  19. Uh… this will be my last one.

    Sol Invictus- Atlantean Kodex

  20. i’m terrible at these kind of lists, but here goes.

    Battlecross – Force Fed Lies
    The Black Dahlia Murder – Phantom Limb Masturbation
    Born Of Osiris – Absolution
    Chimaira – All That’s Left is Blood
    Exhumed – Dysmorphic
    Facebreaker – Meat Freak
    Grave – Morbid Ascent
    Hail of Bullets – Swoop of the Falcon
    Heaven Shall Burn – Hunters Will Be Hunted
    Jungle Rot – Carpet Bombing
    Just Before Dawn – Pulverised
    Killswitch Engage – The Hell In Me
    Kataklysm – Elevate
    The Monolith Death Cult – Human Wave Attack
    Portal – Kilter
    Revocation – The Hive
    Saprogenic – Choking Victim
    Six Feet Under – Prophecy (i swear i hear this fucking song in my dreams, it’s so damn catchy)
    Skeletonwitch – Burned From Bone
    Svart Crown – Profane
    Soilwork – Rise Above The Sentiment
    Wormed – Nucleon

  21. I may be a bit biased with this (being that it’s off my current AOTY), but “Eyes Become Black” by Voices is.. like, the perfect black metal song of 2013. There are definitely better songs on the album, but that one in particular has everything that’s great about the band on display. Even at 6 minutes, it’s way too short. I almost always replay it as soon as the song’s over.

    Also I think it’s already been mentioned, but either “Serpent Moon” or “Bone Dust” by Skeletal Spectre. Both those songs are criminally infectious.

    • I might argue that “Eyes Become Black” is the best song on the album, and it’s one of my favorite songs/albums of the year. I’ll second this for the list, in part because I don’t think that album has gotten enough exposure.

  22. 1) Omnium Gatherum – “The Sonic Sign”
    2) Dark Tranquillity – “Endtime Hearts”
    3) Children Of Bodom – “All Twisted”
    4) Kalmah – “Black Marten’s Trace”
    5) Arsis – “Carve My Cross”
    6) Soilwork – “Parasite Blues”
    7) The Ocean – “Hadopelagic II: Let Them Believe”
    8) Deafheaven – “Vertigo”
    9) Altar Of Plagues – “Scald Scar of Water”
    10) Intronaut – “The Welding”
    11) Ihsahn – “Regen”
    12) Ghost B. C. – “Per Aspera Ad Inferi”
    13) Toxic Holocaust – “Rat Eater”
    14) Skeletonwitch – “This Evil Embrace”
    15) Onslaught – “Fuel For My Fire”
    16) The Black Dahlia Murder – “Phantom Limb Masturbation”
    17) Hail Of Bullets – “The Desert Fox”
    18) Tribulation – “Wanderer in the Outer Darkness”
    19) Watain – “De Profundis”
    20) Gorguts – “Absconders”
    21) Ulcerate – “Confronting Entropy”
    22) Fleshgod Apocalypse – “Warpledge”
    23) Fallujah – “Venom Upon The Blade”
    24) Immolation – “Bound To Order”
    25) Rivers Of Nihil – “Mechanical Trees”

  23. Here’s a few:

    American Sharks – Overdrive
    Anciients – Raise The Sun
    Arsis – Sunglasses At Night
    Battlecross – Flesh & Bone
    The Black Dahlia Murder – In Hell Is Where She Waits For Me
    Clutch – D.C. Sound Attack!
    Cult Of Luna – I: The Weapon
    Death Angel – Caster Of Shame
    Deicide – In The Minds Of Evil
    Dethklok – Blazing Star
    The Dillinger Escape Plan – Prancer
    Exhumed – Coins Upon The Eyes
    Exmortus – Immortality Made Flesh
    Extol – A Gift Beyond Human Reach
    Fleshgod Apocalypse – Minotaur (The Wrath Of Poseidon)
    Fuck The Facts – l’enclume le et marteau
    GWAR – Madness At The Core Of Time
    Hail Of Bullets – Pour Le Merite
    Hatchet – Fall From Grace
    In Solitude – A Buried Sun
    Kataklysm – Fire
    Kvelertak – Evig Vandrar
    Leprous – The Valley
    Man Must Die – Antisocial Network
    Noisem – Voices In The Morgue
    The Ocean – Abyssopelagic II: Signals Of Anxiety
    Orchid – Wizard Of War
    Pyrexia – Thy Minion
    Red Fang – Blood Like Cream
    Revocation – Invidious
    Shining – I Won’t Forget
    Skeletonwitch – I Am Of Death (Hell Has Arrived)
    Sockweb – Werewolf
    Toxic Holocaust – Chemistry Of Consciousness
    Tyr – Blood Of Heroes
    Warbringer – Hunter-Seeker
    Watain – They Rode On
    Windhand – Orchard or Evergreen

    I’m extremely decisive, as you can see.

  24. I’ll say:

    Saille- Runaljod
    Aether Realm- Winter’s Grasp
    Skineater- Stab
    Impalers- Power Behind the Throne
    Mechina- Elephtheria
    Starkill- New Infernal Rebirth
    Tristania- Number
    Fetid Zombie- The Cold Grip of Death
    Thou Art Lord- Artificial Malevolence and Πολιτεία Δαιμόνων
    Sacriphyx- Buried Behind the Lines
    Porta Nigra- Megalomaniac
    Caladan Brood- Echoes of Battle

    That’s probably enough.

    • Can we talk about how awesome that Caladan Brood album is? It’s what I was hoping Summoning would do to follow up Oath Bound (not that Old Mornings Dawn is bad, it’s just not what I expected)

    • I cant get past the Casio keyboard sound to those synths.

  25. Amon Amarth – As Loke Falls
    Ghost – Secular Haze / Year Zero
    Gorguts – The Battle of Chamdo
    Hatebreed – Put it to the Torch
    Heaven Shall Burn – Land of the Upright Ones
    KALMAH – PIKEMASTER
    Leprous – The Valley
    Newsted – King of the Underdogs
    RED FANG – BLOOD LIKE CREAM
    Within the Ruins – Terminal

  26. “pleasuring yourself while gazing at a photo of me” ..what? without knowing what your face looks like 🙂

    okay, this is going to be difficult, but here’s a try:

    Agrypnie – Trümmer
    Psychotic Pulse – Asylum. I’m with DGR (https://www.nocleansinging.com/2013/08/27/psychotic-pulse-psychotic-pulse/) this opening track just gets my adrenaline pumping, just like the band name.
    Rotting Christ – agree with others, so hard to pin down from such an outstanding album, but for infectious I’d go either ‘Grandes Spiritus Diavolos’ or ‘Ahura Mazda Anra Mainiuu’
    Welicoruss – Sons of the North
    Byzantine – Soul Eraser
    Mechina – such a phenomenal album there’s a few contenders, but ‘Elephtheria’ probably wins out for this list.
    I feel like something from the Nothnegal EP should be here, probably track 2 ‘Rannamaari’
    Dreaming Dead – Overlord: http://youtu.be/e2s3vltlM0o (as an aside, that video seems to have the audio of what they’re actually playing, the album mix is different. Man that’s tight for a live show!)
    Kartikeya – Tunnels of Naraka. I’ve played that video through a few times since it appeared on NCS. Good stuff.
    Hanging Garden – Ten Thousand Cranes
    Ancient Vvisdom – Let The End Begin
    Scorned Deity – From a Lion Of Gold
    Hope For The Dying – I think part of the appeal of this is that it’s actually the album-opener: beginning an album with a slow instrumental build up is a pretty ballsy apporach.
    Avalerion – Into The Wild (http://youtu.be/2N9t5Iw7pXw)
    In Vain – Image of Time: the juxtaposition of happy hippy-sounding clean singing with a solid beat and black metal vocals just gets me every time.
    Even though I have heard zero of their albums, this song by We Butter The Bread With Butter – ‘Alles was ich will’, infected my brain with its sheer hilarity of a circus freak show with a Rammstein-esque driving rhythm: http://youtu.be/8aQRpfLxieI . I found myself wandering around wanting to scream ‘Ich bin der könig!’
    Also, although not released as an album I found this track Osiris by Diablerie screamed ‘play me some more!’ https://www.nocleansinging.com/2013/04/14/dark-things-rising-diablerie-thou-art-lord-and-slidhr/ (hmm the music talks to me, maybe I should stop now…)

  27. This one came straight into my head and it’s still haunting me — definitely infectious:

    HEXER – II:I (Cassette II, Track I)

    Posted by Islander at NCS this year (Sep 27) — see https://www.nocleansinging.com/2013/09/27/hexer-hexer/

  28. Avatarium – Moonhorse (VIOLATION!)
    Death Angel – Fallen. – that chorus will stick in your head for months, so will the solos and ending.
    Witherscape – Dead for a day – Swanö has lived in my head ever since that came out.
    Sodom – Final Bullet – just catchy as all hel.
    Kataklysm – Elevate – i have been singing “because.. ELEVATE!” to myself for weeks now!
    Children of Bodom – Halo of Blood. Just because its awesome.
    Mortillery – F.O.A.D – FAAAACKYAAAAAAO!
    Necrophobic – Splendour Nigri Solis – Du-Ah-Lih-Stic Pow-ah-struggle!
    Black Fast – Obelisk
    Månegarm – Wake the Gods
    Watain – The child must die.
    Ultra-Violence – Ride Across the Storm
    Lightning Swords of Death “Baphometic Chaosium”
    Hate – Solarflesh
    Hypocrisy – 44 Double Zero
    Misanthropic Propaganda – Red Dust
    Persefone – Consciousness (Pt.2) : A Path To Enlightenment

    AAAnd a berjilion others im forgetting right now, cos holy fuck did all these albums come out THIS year?

  29. Borg 64 – Death to false pwoer chords http://youtu.be/8lHuyckrF7Q
    Cult of Luna – I, the weapon http://youtu.be/qkHSvwKgJQA
    Diabolical – Metamorphosis http://youtu.be/1cGOG_kPXZg
    Ghost – Year zero http://youtu.be/gkBt7yLXyDk
    Hail of bullets – DG-7
    Katatonia – Leech http://youtu.be/FQcbi0xyedQ
    Lesra – All I got (technically it’s hardcore, but with an metal edge, available on Spotify).
    The monolith death cult – Drugs, thugs & machetes http://youtu.be/0kV3KmBP2jU
    New keepers of the watchtower – Pyre of the red sage http://youtu.be/2MYCbowpG4I
    Queens of the stoneage – Kalopsia (maybe not the right genre, but fuck that’s a great chorus) http://youtu.be/NdiSbAaVICc
    Rob Zombie – Ging Gang Gong De Do Gong De Laga Raga http://youtu.be/XjJbcsRH9Bs
    Soilwork – Spectrum of eternity http://youtu.be/-1uj4PntkOY

  30. Rising – Vengeance is timeless (http://rising.bandcamp.com/track/vengeance-is-timeless)
    Red Fang – Blood like cream
    Satyricon – Nekrohaven (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mA1Pn3VdRI)
    Skeletonwitch – I am of Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPPPGMGNg8I)
    Phantom Glue – Captain Keith Pierce (http://phantomglue.bandcamp.com/track/captain-keith-pierce)
    Demonical – The Order (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RbSxPKPS8U)
    Tribulation – Vagina Dentata (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOnoRvCtI5w)
    Skeletal Spectre – Altar of Damballah (http://pulverised.bandcamp.com/track/altar-of-damballah)
    Parasite Inc. – The Pulse of Death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6ZzLMMVe4)
    The Moth – Rawhawk (http://the-moth.bandcamp.com/track/rawhawk)

  31. Amon Amarth – Shape Shifter
    Satan – Time to Die
    Ashes of Ares – Move the Chains
    Tyr – Blood of Heroes
    Turisas – Ten More Miles
    Inquisition – Darkness Flows Towards Unseen Horizons
    Kataklysm – Elevate

  32. Here’s a list, just to start

    Germ – Blue As the Sky, Powerful As the Waves
    Cultes des Ghoules – Vintage Black Magic
    Psychonaut 4 – My Despair Can’t Be Explained
    Thy Light – Wanderer Of Solitude
    Bolzer – Entranced by the Wolfshook
    Gorguts – Coloured Sands
    Gris – Les Forges
    Fanisk – Departure Rose Garden
    Caladan Brood – City of Azure Fire
    Omb – A Smaller Dose of Tyranny
    Zemial – Pharos
    Will of the Ancients – To Our Glorious Dead
    Enforcer – Mesmerized By Fire
    Ovid’s Withering – The Reckoning, The Summoning, The Purge
    Malthusian – The Mother’s Blade
    Haken – Falling Through the Sky
    Cosmic Church – Lupaus äänettömälle äänelle

  33. Get ready, lots of clean singing in this here list.

    Argus – The Hands of Time Are Bleeding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoZMLNzv6f4

    Autopsy – Flesh Turns To Dust http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88XiAjqaqc

    Bolzer – Entranced By The Wolfshook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXkP4WS8Y_Y

    Carcass – Noncompliance to ASTM F 899-12 Standard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7z0x_cGOKQ
    Darkthrone – Valkyrie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyNOB-MBS50

    Devil – Restless Wanderer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqSPLrxtZiY

    Enforcer – Take Me Out of This Nightmare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1IU6acs3LA

    Eternal Champion – The Last King of Pictdom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e19mNlth4Yg

    Eternal Khan – The Deity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ome-iK_t4I

    In Solitude – Pallid Hands http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ggUL_zzko

    Infant Death – Violent Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnp8HpgJ37A

    Intöxicated – Rock n’ Roll Hell Patröl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgo8PSrJenA

    Yellowgoat – Black Order http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as_y8MUVVUw

    Katechon – Beautiful Desolation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlH_HkBuoSw

    Magic Circle – Magic Circle/Cloven In Two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrEujfaf07I

    Magister Templi – Masters of The Temple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwi3aHoCSHw

    NekroFilth – I’m A Degenerate/Junkie Cunt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pc8sI7-SrE

    Noctum – Liberty In Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T09VvKLZ-MY

    Ranger – Touch of Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsTiItQXBSI

    Sacriphyx – Buried Behind The Lines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfNw-5kYgIs

    Torture Chain – War On The Final Road North http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0Ha0zF2RQ

    Toxic Holocaust – Acid Fuzz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYdJZgkJ9SI

    White Medal – Skratje’s Gate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij8z3zwAA0o

    Wulkanaz – þerh merkwisôms stigilôz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXta7ugHkno

  34. I’m late to this but what the hell.

    Sockweb, “Bullies Are Mean”
    Rerturning We Hear the Larks, “The Corruption of the Third Sister”
    Quadrivium, “Methoca”
    Persefone, “Returning to the Source”
    The Ocean, “Bathypelagic I: Impasses”
    Nero Di Marte, “Convergence”
    Mouth of the Architect, “It Swarms”
    Kevin Carter’s Apology, “Deadwood”
    Iwrestledabearonce, “Carnage Asada”
    Hanging Garden, “Ten Thousand Cranes”
    Extol, “Betrayal”
    The Dillinger Escape Plan, “When I Lost My Bet”
    Deafheaven, “Dream House”
    Byzantine, “Soul Eraser”
    The Black Dahlia Murder, “Phantom Limb Masturbation”
    Black Crown Initiate, “Ghost She Sends”
    Benea Reach, “The Mountain”
    Babymetal, “Megitsune”
    Anciients, “Raise the Sun”
    The Odious, “The Gynecic Curse” (very late 2012)

  35. This was fairly easy since I just made a mix of my favorite 2013 metal. It’s hard to get all the goodness on one 80 minute CD-R, but I think it turned out alright considering the constraints I was under.

    Soilwork – Spectrum of Eternity
    Kvelertak – Evig Vandrar
    Arsis – Carve My Cross
    Extol – Betrayal
    Haken – Cockroach King
    Deeds of Flesh (underrated artist of the year IMO) – Amidst the Ruins
    Leprous – Chronic
    The Dillinger Escape Plan – When I Lost My Bet
    Kataonia – The One You Are Looking For Is Gone
    Fleshgod Apocalypse – Minotaur
    Within the Ruins – New Holy War
    Arsis (again) – Sunglasses At Night
    Anciients – Raise the Sun
    NK (not metal, but it bangs my head) – Shoulder Gorilla
    Shining – I Won’t Forget
    M[I]CRO – Dance (It’s a cover song, but fucking awesome. If you like hip hop and metal get you that Djentlemen Roll Deep mix free off Facebook)
    Extol (again) – A Gift Beyond Human Reach

    There is a lot more I’ve been cranking lately, but this was a readymade list.

  36. My top three of Infectious Extreme Metal Songs in 2013:

    1. Watain – The Wild Hunt
    2. The Monolith Deathcult – Gods Amongst Insects
    3. Sacrilegious Impalement – For Sins of the Pigs

    You might also enjoy these infectious NON-Extreme Metal tracks. (In no particular order):

    Agathodaimon – Favourite Sin
    Falkenbach – Eweroun
    Cnoc An Tursa – The Lion of Scotland
    Death Dealer – Death Dealer
    Ereb Altor – Our Legacy
    Orphaned Land – Let the Truce be Known
    Tengger Cavalry – Cavalry In Thousands

  37. Could be any song off the new Byzantine… It rules and is my favorite this year by a long shot.

    Byzantine – Forged in the Heart of a Dying Star
    Carcass – Noncompliance to ASTM F 899-12 Standard
    Extol – Betrayer
    Kataklysm – Empire of Dirt
    Protest the Hero – Clarity
    Battlecross – Flesh and Bone

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