It’s that time of year again, when we start preparing for the frenzy of year-end Listmania. For those of you new to the frenzy, our Listmania extravaganza comes in four parts. First, we re-print assorted lists of the year’s best albums, leeched from other big web sites and magazines. Second, we will collect our readers’ lists of the 2015 albums and shorter releases they enjoyed the most. Third, we post the year-end lists of our own staff and assorted guest writers. And fourth, I’ll roll out my list of the year’s Most Infectious Extreme Metal Songs.
And that last list is the subject of this request for help (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 become an NCS reader since this time last year, here’s what this Most Infectious Song list is about:
This is about individual songs, not albums, EPs, demos, etc. It’s also not 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, this is a list of the most infectious extreme metal songs we’ve heard this year. The idea is to think of 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 should be something that’s stuck in your head, something you put on playlists, something you mentally replay at unexpected times — songs you go back to repeatedly for listening. “Most played” might be a good synonym.
I’ve already got my own working list of candidates — there are a ton of songs on there at the moment — and I’m going to collect suggestions from all of our regular writers. But no doubt we will overlook some gems, so here’s what I’m asking: 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 or three as we get closer to year-end. The first year we did this (2009), I limited the list to 10 songs. In 2010, I expanded it to 30. In 2011 it grew to 39. In 2012 it topped out at 56. In 2013 I worked really hard and got the list all the way down to.. gulp… 73. And last year, well, last year life got in the way and I never finished the complete rollout, though I announced 62 songs before I gave up.
As you can tell, I have a really fuckin’ hard time making lists. And of course 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 favorite songs in the comments, this post will also become a way for other metal fans to find good music from the year that’s rushing to an end.
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For me it’s easily Sodomy and Blasphemy from Rabbid Armagedon by Under the Church. The whole fucking album is the bees knees in my opinion but I find myself singing this track specifically all day.
heh, what a dolt. It’s Rabid Armageddon. My appologies. I live in Washington state and take full advantage of it.
Great album for sure. Definitely some good picks from it.
Tribulation – Strange Gateways Beckon (possibly my favorite song of the year)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNZgqxAxaj4
Firespawn – The Emporer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLeZZ1A-MiA
Ram – Enslaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6YXsaYPSo
Draconian – Heavy Lies The Crown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WAf-RF02rY
Horrendous – Sum of All Failures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npFkLpZz7jQ
Avatarium – Iron Mule
(Sorry couldn’t find a YouTube link – songs awesome though!)
Lost Soul – Aqueous Ammonia (or anything from that album really)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri9YE345g2s
Sulphur Aeon – Into The Courts of Azathoth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCVKKZlISeY
Sulphur Aeon – Seventy Steps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsWxw7BzSyU
With The Dead – Living With The Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yN8DbTYANo
Clutch – X-Ray Visions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cmbmwFAl8
Division Speed – Blazing Heat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1z03A0OOdw
Black Breath – Slaves Beyond Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdTdvOVAquc
In Twilight’s Embrace – Gravitate Towards The Unknown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecG0hHKzIFQ
Speedtrap – Savage The Prey
(Sorry couldn’t find a link on YouTube)
Ramming Speed – Don’t Let This Stay Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcTc5eBy75s
Adversarial – Dissenting The Waking Shell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WWWqqDQYm8
There is so much more, but that’s all I can think of at the moment! Cheers!
That Tribulation has so many gems. “Strange Gateways Beckon”, “Melancholia”, “In The Dreams of the Dead”, or “The Motherhood of God” could/should all make the list. Same goes for like at least half of Anareta. And I need to get to that new Clutch, especially since Earth Rocker was so damn solid.
Just wanted to belatedly thank you for your list (and for including links) — sorry that the comments were inadvertently turned off when you first tried to leave it here.
Awe -Clotho
https://moerae.bandcamp.com/track/clotho
When it comes to infectious, it’s gotta be Gorod. Either ‘Celestial Nature’ or ‘The Mystic Triad of Artistry’ for mine.
Panopticon – Pale Ghosts (or almost any other song from Autumn Eternal).
Havukruunu – Unien Havulinnaan
Blind Guardian – Prophecies
Forefather – Curse of the Cwelled
Tsjuder – Demonic Supremacy
That Havukruunu track is brilliant. Also worth a mention is “Midsommarblot” by Ereb Altor.
Crypt Sermon – “Temple Doors”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spfXao0s4p8
Encyrcle – “Dizzy Me Deadly”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV7Et9d7I2E
Oh yes, “Temple Doors” is seconded.
Alkaloid-Cthulhu
I know it’s “no clean singing” but seriously, my most infectious song of the year is Ghost Ship Octavius-Mills of the Gods. It’s a near perfect modern metal song imho
Khemmis – The Bereaved
Thank you for the request, this is my list about the “Most Infectious Songs” of the year:
1) Sarpanitum – “I Defy for I Am Free”
2) Sulphur Aeon – “Into the Courts of Azathoth”
3) Hate Eternal – “The Stygian Deep”
4) Theories – “Cycle of Decay”
5) Abhorrent Decimation – “Odious”
6) Cattle Decapitation – “Manufactured Extinct”
7) Rivers Of Nihil – “Terrestria II: Thrive”
8) Abyssal – “Telomeric Erosion”
9) Aevangelist – “Levitating Stones”
10) Vorum – “Current Mouth”
11) Rannoch – “Porphyria”
12) Human Improvement Process – “Project Monarch”
13) Cruciamentum – “Tongues of Nightshade”
14) Slaegt – “Move in Chaos”
15) Kaeck – “Afgod”
16) Devouring Star – “Decayed Son of Earth”
17) Adversarial – “Lone Wresting Hymns to the Warmoon of Chaos”
18) Leviathan – “Within Thrall”
19) Reverie – “Circles”
20) Panopticon – “Oaks Ablaze”
21) Amiensus – “One in Spirit”
22) Vampire – “Pyre of the Harvest Queen”
23) Tribulation – “Holy Libations”
24) Horrendous – “Acolytes”
25) Gruesome – “Hideous”
26) Undead – “Voices Within”
27) Sadistic Ritual – “Executioner”
28) The Monolith Deathcult – “Hangmen Also Die”
29) Mgla – “Exercises in Futility II”
30) Misþyrming – “Songur uppljomunar”
31) Serpents Lair – “The Serpentine Gnosis”
32) Shrine of Insanabilis – “Invocation”
33) Devathorn – “Cathedral of Set”
34) Acherontas – “Therionic Transformation”
35) Shape of Despair – “Descending Inner Night”
36) Paradise Lost – “Beneath Broken Earth”
37) Alkaloid – “Cthulhu”
38) Sanzu – “Ubiety”
39) Black Breath – “Reaping Flesh”
40) Marduk – “Between the Wolf-Packs”
41) Bloodstrike – “Bells of Death”
42) Destruktor – “Forever the Blood Shall Flow”
43) Possession – “Ceremony”
44) Sacrificium Carmen – “Nemesis”
45) Kampfar – “Tornekratt”
46) Enslaved – “One Thousand Years of Rain”
47) Drudkh – “To the Epoch of Unbowed Poets”
48) Kroda – “Black Carpathian Spines”
49) Khors – “Following the Ways of Blood”
50) Outre – “Chant 4 – Lament”
51) Serpent Noir – “Al Runa”
52) Akhlys – “Consummation”
53) Blaze of Perdition – “Cold Morning Fears”
54) Creeping – “Drear”
55) Crypt Sermon – “Heavy Riders”
56) Windhand – “Two Urns”
57) Hooded Menace – “Ashen With Solemn Decay”
58) Gorrch – “Cinico Dominio”
59) Isvind – “Boken”
60) Abjvration – “The Clawed Redeemer”
61) Aegrus – “Woves of Luciferian Light”
62) Tsjuder – “Djevelens Mesterverk”
63) Awe – “Actus Primus”
64) Altarage – “Vortex Pyramid”
65) Tyranny – “A Voice Given Unto Ruin”
66) In Dread Response – “Weight”
67) Thornesbreed – “Horns Ov Gaia”
68) Azavatar – “Kaos”
69) Inculter – “Death Domain”
70) Deathhammer – “Powertrip”
71) Byzantine – “The Agonies”
72) Cold Cell – “Needle’s Asylum”
73) Ghost Bath – “Golden Number”
74) Pyrrhon – Cancer Mantra”
75) Imperial Triumphant – “Opposing Holiness”
Damn, solid list man. You definitely put a lot of effort into it. Lots of great songs.
Thank you, yeah, It’s a pretty long list, glad that you appreciate some of this songs!
The title about the song Nr. 61 is not correct, here we are: 61) Aegrus – “WOLVES OF THE LUCIFERIAN LIGHT”
Good lord.
It was kinda funny your comment, you’re right, this list is long, I can’t wait to see your final lists about the albums and songs along with Islander and all the others writers here! 🙂
I know that my list is pretty long but I have three songs still:
76) Katavasia – “Visions of the Misty Night”
77) Just Before Dawn – “Graves Without Crosses”
78) Cut Up – “A Butchery Improved”
What I can remember now (it figures that the most infectious ones are the ones you remember), in no particular order:
– Panopticon: Oaks Ablaze
– Paradise Lost: No Hope In Sight
– Hanging Garden: Whiteout
– Draconian: Pale Tortured Blue
– Swallow the Sun: Abandoned By the Light
– Deafheaven: Come Back
– Chelsea Wolfe: Simple Death
– Barren Earth: The Vault
– Amorphis: The Four Wise Ones
– Keep of Kalessin: The Grand Design
– My Dying Bride: And My Father Left Forever
– So Hideous: The True Pierce
– Vattnet Viskar: Impact
– Zatokrev: Swallow the Teeth
– Wolfheart: Resistance
Mgla – “Exercises in Futility I”
Mgla – “Exercises in Futility IV”
Barren Earth – “A shapeless Derelict”
Peste Noire – “Le dernier putsch”
Shining – “Last Day”
Diabolicum – “One Man’s War”
Tempel: “Carvings in the Door”
Leprous – “rewind”
Murg – “Nejderna Brinner”
Demonical – “To Become the Weapon”
NOT extreme metal :
The Night FLight Orchestra – “sail on”
Queensrÿche – “Hellfire”
Chelsea Wolfe – “Carrion Flowers”
Symphony X – “kiss of Fire”
I’ll give this a shot here
Cattle Decapitation – Not Suitable For Life
Firespawn – Lucifer Has Spoken
Sulphur Aeon – Abysshex
Trident – Aftermath
Theories – Cycle Of Decay
Sarpanitum – Glorification Upon The Powdered Bones Of The Sundered Dead
Rivers Of Nihil – Sand Baptism
Putridity – Conceived Through Vermination
Dalkhu – Accepting The Burried Signs
Elder – Compendium
Iron Maiden – The Red And The Black
Obsequiae – Autumnal Pyre
Horrendous – Sum Of All Failures
Iniquitous Deeds – Embittered Materialization
Abhorrent – A Lightness Of Mind
I’ll give this a shot here
Cattle Decapitation – Not Suitable For Life
Firespawn – Lucifer Has Spoken
Sulphur Aeon – Abysshex
Trident – Aftermath
Theories – Cycle Of Decay
Sarpanitum – Glorification Upon The Powdered Bones Of The Sundered Dead
Rivers Of Nihil – Sand Baptism
Putridity – Conceived Through Vermination
Dalkhu – Accepting The Burried Signs
Obsequiae – Autumnal Pyre
Horrendous – Sum Of All Failures
Iniquitous Deeds – Embittered Materialization
Abhorrent – A Lightness Of Mind
Every year I think “I should keep a list of awesome tracks that stick in my mind” and fail to follow through. So off the top of my leaky memory:
Sarpanitum – By Virtuous Reclamation
https://willowtip.bandcamp.com/track/by-virtuous-reclamation
Because – there’s at least 3 or 4 great riff/melodies that would be a great addition to any song. And like kids in a candy store they went and jammed them all into their mouth, I mean song, all at once
Second To Sun – Land of the Fearless Birds
https://secondtosun.bandcamp.com/track/land-of-the-fearless-birds
Because – I was sold on buying this album after hearing this streaming here on NCS… and played it over and over until the album dropped 🙂 Heavy and slightly wacky… but despite the leftfield forays along the way they keep the song flying forward, threatening to go off the rails but still maintaining a coherent song structure. Golf claps all around for these crazy gentlemen!
Stonebringer – Rubin
https://stonebringer.bandcamp.com/track/rubin-3
Because – early Mastodon-y riffage with soaring female vocals and an oddly downbeat but catchy as hell chanted chorus. Somehow this song just sounds like home.
Fear Factory – Anodised
https://youtu.be/B5PH1lK5gH4
This is album is pretty catchy really, but this chorus just stuck in my head. The perfect accompaniment to watching a bit of ‘Humans’ or ‘Ex Machina’
Mechina – On The Wings of Nefeli.
https://mechinamusic.bandcamp.com/track/4-on-the-wings-of-nefeli
Because – I think they just invented a new genre of ‘cyber space J-pop’… even though that’s probably not Japenese she’s singing… all I know is it sounds good passing into my earholes, hammering my hammer and staples 😉 Mel Rose nails it on this album.
Opensight – The Chase:
https://opensight.bandcamp.com/track/the-chase
Because – it should have been on the James Bond soundtrack, timed to coincide with a cameo from Sean Connery just to mindfuck everyone with a retro throwback 🙂
In Dread Response – Earthen Bonds
https://indreadresponse.bandcamp.com/track/earthen-bonds
The first song on the album and they make it clear they’re not here to fuck around! Riffs, velocity, solos, double bass fills = involuntary headbanging
Mephorash – Riphyon – The Tree of Assiyah Putrescent
https://youtu.be/VefPsf1B2vc
Because – dark, luciferian chants that dig into the depths of my mind, combined with solid heavy tunes…mmmmmm
Finsterforst – Zeit für Hass
Because – big band metal! For the life of me I can’t find a stream of it anywhere though… 🙁
Lost Soul – Aqueous Ammonia:
https://soundcloud.com/apostasy-records/lost-soul-aqueous-ammonia
Because – fury
Thanks for the flattering ‘James Bond soundtrack’ comment 😉
.. knew I’d forget something!
Ladybaby – Nippon Manju
https://youtu.be/M8-vje-bq9c
For all those fans of Babymetal out there!
Here we go, I’ll fill out a Side A and Side B for you from this year.
A: Belzebong – ‘Diabolical Dopenosis’
A: Goatsnake – ‘Coffee & Whiskey’
A: Turbowolf – ‘American Mirrors’
A: Cult Leader – ‘Walking Wastelands’
B: Sigh – ‘Kaedit Nos Pestis’
B: Wilderun – ‘Bite the Wound’
B: Monolord – ‘Cursing the Lord’
My List so far
Nightfell – Collapse
Keep Of Kalessin – Dark Divinity
Hegemon – Interpreting Signs For War: Aruspicine
Wolfheart – Aeon Of Cold
Vampire – Pyre Of The Harvest Queen
Orchid – Under The Sign Of The Witch
Black Flame – Under The Bridge Of illusions
Invoker – Across The Abyss
Inglorious – My Death
In Twilights Embrace – No
Tribulation – Holy Libations
Graveworm – The Death Heritage
Enslaved – One Thousand Years Of Rain
Skinless – Serpenticide
Moan – Exempt
Hooded Menace – Elysium of Dripping Death
My Dying Bride – To Shiver in Empty Halls
Bloody Tyrant – Flesh Roots
Bloody Tyrant – Ode to the Falling Rain
My Funeral – Violence Academy
Paradise Lost – No Hope in SIght
Tribulation – The Motherhood of God
Non-extreme metal
Venomous Maximus – My Machine
Uncle Acid and the Dead Beats – Melody Lane
Love this series. I find so much cool stuff from this.
Alkaloid – “The Malkuth Grimoire”
The Armed – “Dead Actress”
Between the Buried and Me – “The Coma Machine”
Byzantine – “God Forsaken”
Cattle Decapitation – “Manufactured Extinct”
Deafheaven – “Baby Blue”
Gods of Eden – “The Overseer”
Intronaut – “Fast Worms”
Rivers of Nihil – “Sand Baptism”
Slice the Cake – “Stone and Silver i. The Mountains of Man”
Slugdge – “The Toxic Salts”
Turbid North – “Eyes Alive”
Ur Draugr – “Unseen Golgotha”
Wrvth – “Harrowing Winds”
Akhlys – The Dreaming I
Alkaloid – Carbon Phrases
Barren Earth – Set Alight
Lychgate – I Am Contempt
Sigh – Kaedit Non Pestis
Oxxo Xoox – Abym
Just a few.
i like these all
Looking over these lists is like a horrific reminder of all the releases I’ve missed this year… sigh… only one lifetime and so much good metal!
Year-end coverage truly is a double-edged sword.
Mechina – On the Wings of Nefeli
Der Weg einer Freiheit – Einkehr
Cattle Decapitation – Manufactured Exctinct
Lamb of God – 512
A handful of these may contain clean singing or be less than extreme or metal in the puritan sense but anyways, here we go:
Abigail Williams – Path of Broken Glass
Aethyr – Templum
Akhlys – Tides of Oneiric Darkness
Antichrist Imperium – Elegy
Antichrist Imperium – Spiritual Rapist
Arche – Plains of Lethe
Arcturus – The Arcturian Sign
Angel Eyes – Things Have Learnt to Walk that Ought to Crawl (Part I)
Angel Eyes – Things Have Learnt to Walk that Ought to Crawl (Part II)
Barus – Tarot
Bearstorm – Glacial Relic \ Riparian Forest
Beaten to Death – Don’t You Dare to Call Us Heavy Metal
Caïna – I am the Flail of the Lord
Cattle Decapitation – Manufactured Extinct
Cattle Decapitation – Clandestine Ways (Krokodil Rot)
Chapel of Disease – Symbolic Realms
CHRCH – Dawning
Claret Ash – Desolation of a Pierced Soul
Contrarian – Polemic
Corrections House – Crossing My One Good Finger
C R O W N – Serpents
Dead River Runs Dry – Hyperic Vortex
Deep Space Destructors – Journey to the Space Mountain
Destroy Judas – Forever Like Stars… We Shine
Domovoyd – Domovoyage
Drouth – Vast, Loathsome
Ereb Altor – Midsommarblot
Ereb Altor – Nattramn
Enslaved – Thurisaz Dreaming
Enslaved – Building with Fire
Ghost Bath – Golden Number
Grimoire – Tragédie des ombres
Halshug – Gudsforladt
He Whose Ox is Gored – Omega
Human Serpent – Starving Void Upon Earth
InAeona – Bright Black
InAeona – Leader
InAeona – Never Forever
Iskra – Lawless
Keeper – The King
Ketha – #!%16.7 (considering the whole EP as a single song)
Khemmis – The Bereaved
Macabre Omen – I See, the Sea
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Nachthexen
Marriages – Skin
Mgla – Exercises in Futility I
Monolord – Died a Million Times
Mother Crone – Black Sea
Napalm Death – Smash a Single Digit
Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus – Väinämöinen
Obsequiae – Pools of a Vernal Paradise
Plaguewielder – Palms of the Earth
Psudoku – cWaRP-4
Pyramids – The Substance of Grief is not Imaginary
Sangus – Blood Legions
Sangus – Leeching Pigs
Sangus – Genocidio
Sangus – Ave il Luce
Sarpanitum – By Virtuous Reclamation
Sarpanitum – Blessed Be My Brother
Shroud Eater – Face the Master
Slugdge – Spore Ensemble
Slugdge – Toxic Salts
Snakefeast – Golem
Stone Healer – He Who Rides Immolated Horses
Sulphur Aeon – Devotion to the Cosmic Chaos
Sunset in the 12th House – Desert’s Eschaton
Teethgrinder – 187
Torche – Bishop in Arms
Torche – Undone
Ufomammut – Plouton
Veilburner – Ever Relapsing Fever
Vhol – The Desolate Damned
VI – Il est trop tard pour rendre gloire. Ainsi la lumière sera changée en ombre de la mort.
Windfaerer – Celestial Supremacy
Yuri Gagarin – Sea of Dust
Yuri Gagarin – Psychological Discontinuity
Zatokrev – Swallow the Teeth
ZAUM – The Serpentshrine
Here’s a few, I know there’s dozens more I’m forgetting 🙂
Slayer – Repentless
Slayer – When the Stillness Comes
Slayer – Piano Wire
Nile – Call to Destruction
Krisiun – Dogma of Submission
Fear Factory – Dielectric
Lamb of God – Still Echoes
Fear Factory – Dielectric
Lamb of God – 512
Fear Factory – Dielectric
Lamb of God – Overlord
Jungle Rot – Paralyzed Prey
Skinless – Flamethrower
Six Feet Under – Open Coffin Orgy
Six Feet Under – Gruesome
Huntress – Sorrow
Ha ha.. subtle hint in there? I’d be happy with Dielectric making the cut too.
Fuck, so many songs, so little time.
Off the top of my head:
The ugly – Black goat. Perhaps one of the catchiest songs this year for me, it’s also the highlight of an otherwise mediocre album.
https://vicisolumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/decreation
Moloken – Subliminal hymns. That intro. That bass sound.
https://youtu.be/_fTuecWGKfU
ShadowQuest – All one. Power metal with clean singing, but damn do they channel vintage Helloween in a most excellent way.
https://youtu.be/GdTyoTpQpZ8
Leprous – Rewind.
https://youtu.be/m3ken_aH550
Raised fist – Gates. The breakdown at 1:28 is damn nice.
https://youtu.be/s4sWQbVsfxA
Raised fist – Depression
https://youtu.be/pZs74JeOUFI
Marduk – The blonde beast. The things you can achieve with a steady 4/4 beat and a possessed vocalist.
https://youtu.be/Ygvyge6jaJo
Shining – Människotankens vägglösa rum.
https://youtu.be/40sPuvyiaK8
Vholdghast – I am. Pretty unknown band, but a great intro riff and a compelling vocal effort on this song.
https://youtu.be/O0tD1oPOi7M
Alkaloid – Cthulhu. Ya can’t go wrong with Lovecraft at a crawling pace.
https://youtu.be/8gONcgI01wA
Månegarm – Odin owns ye all. Cheesy, not a favourite by any means, but by George is that a ridiculously catchy song.
https://youtu.be/Bqfk7oBMsW4
Cut-up – Burial time
https://youtu.be/Tb7INPQX4t0
Cattle decapitation – Manufactured extinct.
https://youtu.be/u8t8g8lU4ms
Ghost – From the pinnacle to the pit. I could include pretty much the whole album, but this song stands out thanks to it’s throbbing bassline.
https://youtu.be/6A-IoOEPbUs
Tau Cross – Prison
Tau Cross – The Devil knows his own
The whole album is just fantastic and currently my album of the 2015
Kampfar – Daimon
still need to listen to the whole album, but this song is just awesome
Seagrave – Harvest in June
some nice post/atmospheric BM
Ghost Bath – Golden Number
Brilliant song on a otherwise disappointing album.
Gloryhammer – Universe on fire
just some glorious happy metal
Cross Vault – Revocable Loss
I missed their debut, but I like the new songs. Kinda eerie, beautiful doom
Gentleman’s Pistols – Devil’s advocate on call
you just wanna dance and drink to this song
Graveyard – Too much isn’t enough
Slaegt – Move in Chaos
And there are some other albums I have to wrap my head around (and would probably make this list but I’m quite bad at rembering song titles).
Kampfar – Daimon: How did I forget this!? An odd, haunting verse mixed with a passionate chorus. Seconded.
So how do you feel about bands starting with T, G or C?
Lot of good recs. Couple of others I thought of.
Sylosis – Servitude
Sanzu – Heavy over the Home
Arkham Witch – From Beyond
https://metalonmetalrecords.bandcamp.com/track/from-beyond
I just listen to this over and over again.
(I blew the links in the 2015 year end list thread, apparently…)
Rivers of Nihil – Monarchy
Late to the party, and probably nothing here others haven’t suggested, but these are some of the metal songs that ruled my year:
Panopticon–“Autumn Eternal”
Horrendous–“Acolytes”
Tau Cross–“Our Day”
Hate Eternal–“Locust Swarm”
Myrkur–“Dybt I Skoven”
Khemmis–“The Bereaved”
Violet Cold–“La Petite Mort” (\m/83)
Cloud Rat–“Rouge Park”
Royal Thunder–“Time Machine”
Not as heavy or ugly as some years, but whatever, these are the songs that kept me pushing replay. Hope to discover a shit-ton more when the lists are finalized! (Most years I don’t even discover half the good stuff until I get turned onto it by sites like this one and readers/commenters like these.)
So many great choices on here already. Nice work.
Beaten to Death – “Robert Sylvester Kelly”
Tau Cross – “Our Day”
Cattle Decapitation – “Mammals in Babylon”
Marduk – “The Blond Beast”
Dangz, I have but but skimmed the scurf of this year’s offerings. But here are some infectious melodies that I haven’t seen in my extremely brief perusal of the offerings above. And if they are already mentioned, my apologies. They be good enough to mention again!
1. Melechesh – Multiple Truths (the whole fuckin album rocks)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euzd-Om57vM
2. JØTNARR – Rise by sin
https://jotnarr.bandcamp.com/track/rise-by-sin-3
3. Obsequiae – Anlace and heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHiLiwWBgTk
In no particular order, save for the first:
Akhlys – The dreaming I
Haethen -Shaped by Aeolian Winds
Misthryming – Songvar elds oreidu
Shaidar Logoth – Chapter II: The Ritualist
Mgla – Exercises in Futility
Lluvia – Eternidad Solemne
AWE – Providentia
Dragged into Sunlight, Gnaw Their Tongues – N.V.
Abyssal – Antikatastaseis
Adversarial – Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of Nihilism
VI – De Praestigiis Angelorum
Temple of Baal – Mysterium
Havukruunu – Havulinnaan
Sepents Lair – Circumambulating the Stillborn
Aosoth/Order of Orias – Split LP
Manii – Skuggeheimen
Svartsyn – Nightmarish Sleep
Pyramids – A Northern Meadow
Feared, Silent Screaming
No order here, probably already covered above but these ruled my year:
Khemmis – The Bereaved
Obsequiae – Anlace and Heart
Sarpanitum – Glorification Upon The Powdered Bones Of The Sundered
Seven Sisters of Sleep – War Master
Contrarian – Diogenes At Delphi
Elder – Spirit at Aphelion
Taake – Orm
Rivers of Nihil – Circles In the Sky
Cruciamentum – Piety Carved From Flesh
False – Hedgecraft
Primordial – Ghosts of the Charnel House
Malthusian – Forms Become Vapour
Vaee Solis – Ennoia
CROWN – Wings Beating Over Heaven
Weedpecker – Into the Woods
just to add the ones not yet mentioned here:
1- Temper Tempest Enlil Enraged
2- The Clouds Prepare For Battle
3- Dungeon Keys (Odious, Skin Age, Egypt)
A bit late getting to this. Apologies. But here we are.
Ahab – Like Red Foam (The Great Storm)
Malevolent Creation – Blood Of The Fallen
Sorcerer – Dark Tower Of The Sorcerer
Crypt Sermon – Heavy Riders
Witchsorrow – Made Of The Void
Grave – Mass Grave Mass
Cattle Decapitation – Manufactured Extinct
Six Feet Under – Stab
Slayer – Repentless
Kataklysm – Black Sheep
Necroblation – Gehenna
Creedsmen Arise – Temple
Iron Maiden – Speed Of Light
Goatsnake – Elevated Man
Windhand – Two Urns
Monolord – Cursing The One
Swallow The Sun – Pray For The Winds To Come
Wolfheart – Aeon Of Cold
Reign Of Fury – The Gates Of Sanity
Shape Of Despair – The Distant Dream Of Life
Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats – Waiting For Blood
Horsehunter – Stoned To Death
Mammoth Storm – Fornjot
Moonbow – Volto Del Demone
Dolven – To Fly Free
Cryptic Hymn – Garden Of Flesh
Elder – Compendium
Black Breath – Seed Of Cain
Killing Addiction – Promethean
Jungle Rot – Paralyzed Prey
Norilsk – Japetus
Trivium – Silence In the Snow
Freedom Hawk – Blood Red Sky
Hate Eternal – The Styigian Deep
Bevar Sea – Sleeping Pool
Chvrch – Dawning
Swamp Witch – Marsh Of Delusion
“As Below, so Above” by Njiqahdda.