Nov 182016
 

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Well, here we are again. It’s the time of year when we begin our year-end LISTMANIA extravaganza. For those of you new to this orgy, our LISTMANIA blockbuster comes in four parts:

First, we re-print assorted lists of the year’s best albums, leeched from other big web sites and magazines, like this one yesterday which launched that part of LISTMANIA 2016. Second, we will collect our readers’ lists of the 2016 albums and shorter releases they enjoyed the most (we’ll be asking for those on December 1, so get ready). 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. In case you’ve become an NCS reader since this time last year, here’s what this Most Infectious Song list is all about:

 

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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 melodies or irresistible 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 you revisit often, 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 — as in every other year, there are a ton of songs on there already. I’ll get more ideas from all of our other writers. But I have no doubt we’ll overlook some songs we really liked from earlier in the year, and there are inevitably a lot more than we just never heard at all. And so here’s where I’m asking for your help:

 

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Please leave comments to this post with your own lists of Most Infectious Songs that you think ought to be on our list — or you can e-mail your ideas to me at: 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. In 2014, life got in the way and I never finished the complete rollout, though I announced 62 songs before I gave up. And last year I stopped at 75.

As you can tell, I have a really fuckin’ hard time making lists. Of course, I have no idea how many songs we’ll feature this year.

So, please reflect on the songs you’ve found most addictive this year and let us hear from you. By leaving your list in the comments, you’ll also help make this post a way for other metalheads to find good music from the year that’s now rushing to an end. Thanks for your help.

  59 Responses to “HELP! WE NEED YOUR “MOST INFECTIOUS SONG” IDEAS!”

  1. Khemmis – Three Gates
    Ghost – Square Hammer
    Moonsorrow – Sudden Tunti
    Fallujah – Scar Queen
    Dark Tranquility – Clearing Skies

  2. Abbath – Winterbane
    Aborted – Termination Redux
    Anaal Nathrakh – Depravity Favours the Bold
    Alcest – Eclosion
    Anthrax – Blood Eagle Wings
    Asphyx – Division Brandeburg + Wardroid (needs to be both together, otherwise just pick anything from this amazing album)
    Conan – Throne of Fire
    Death Angel – Cause For Alarm
    Destroyer 666 – Live and Burn
    Entombed AD – Midas in Reverse
    Fleshgod Apocalypse – The Fool
    Ghost – Square Hammer
    Gojira – Stranded (mainstream approach)
    Gojira – Magma + Pray (progressive approach, needs to be both together)
    Gruesome – Dimensions of Horror
    Ihsahn – Mass Darkness
    Ihsahn – Until I Too Dissolve
    In Mourning – Fire and Ocean
    Memoriam – Resistance
    Meshuggah – Born In Dissonance
    Nails – They Come Crawling Back
    Nervosa – Theory Of Conspiracy
    Oathbreaker – Immortals
    Obscura – Perpetual Infinity
    Obscure Sphinx – Nothing Left
    Obsidian Kingdom – The Kandinsky Group
    Opeth – Sorceress
    Rotting Christ – For a Voice Like Thunder
    Rotting Christ – Les Litanies de Satan
    Scour – Clot
    Skeletonwitch – The Apothic Gloom
    Testament – Brotherhood Of The Snake
    Vader – Angels of Steel
    Uada – Black Autumn, White Spring

  3. Blood incantation – Starspawn
    Cancer – Chicanery
    Death Fetishist – Voidtripper
    Inverloch – The Empyrean Torment
    Mortichnia – Searing Impulse
    Skaphe – V
    Veneficium – Mordant Photism Above Cathedrals Of Ash
    Voidspwan – Sisyphean Ideation

  4. I’ve been working on my list since May haha! I’m mostly focusing on albums, but here are a couple of songs that may not be super extreme or cvlt, but I can’t seem to get them out of my head:

    Revocation – Arbiters of the Apocalypse
    Havukruunu – Rautalintu
    Blood Incantation: Vitrification of Blood (Part 1)
    Anicon – Hallucinating Fate
    Khemmis – Candlelight
    Hammers of Misfortune – Dead Revolution/ Days of ’49
    Gojira – Silvera
    Messa – Hour of the Wolf
    Opeth – Sorceress
    Skeletonwitch – Well of Despair
    Hail Spirit Noir – I Mean You Harm

  5. Glorior Belli- Satanists out of Cosmic Jail
    Anaal Nathrakh-Hold your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion
    Schammasch-Above the Stars of God
    Terra Tenebrosa-The End is Mine to Ride
    ColdWorld-Void

  6. Gruesome – Raped by Darkness
    Krypts – Arrow of Entropy
    Ghoulgotha – Damp Breeze of Sleeping Veins
    Metallica – Moth into Flame
    Serpentine Dominion – The Vengeance in Me
    Ghoul – Ghetto Blasters
    Anthrax – Blood Eagle Wings
    Megadeth – The Threat is Real
    Gatecreeper – Rotting as One
    Vader – Prayer to the God of War
    Korn – Insane
    Aborted – The Mephitic Conundrum
    Witch Vomit – Below the Dirt
    Lamb of God – The Duke
    Ripper – Rotten Dreams
    Baby Metal – Karate
    🙂

  7. Dark Funeral-As I ascend

  8. Altarage – Batherex
    Black Table – Obtuse
    Cobalt – Hunt the Buffalo
    Colosso – Soaring Waters
    Corbeaux – Old Tired Horse
    Dormant Ordeal – The Mist
    Downfall of Gaia – Brood
    Gilded Lily – A Sparse Room
    Gomorrah – Sitra Achra
    Kambodsja – Guillotine
    KEN Mode – The German Businessman
    Krypts – Transfixed
    Lesbian – Pyramidal Existinctualism
    The Lion’s Daughter – They’re Already Inside
    Lotus Thief – Circe
    Mizmor – Woe Regains My Substance
    Nails – Life Is A Death Sentence
    Noise Trail Immersion – Light Eaters
    Nox Formulae – The Shadow Smoke
    Oathbreaker – Needles In Your Skin
    Oranssi Pazuzu – Saturaatio
    Plebian Grandstand – Low Empire
    Schammasch – Awakening from the Dream of Life
    Seer – Haunter
    Seputus – Two Great Pale Zeroes
    Sleep Toekn – Thread the Needle
    Spire – Labyrinthine
    Throwers – Singularity
    Tombs – Obsidian
    Trap Them – Luster Pendulums
    TRNA – Gale
    Ulcerate – Shrines of Paralysis
    Ur Draugr – Rise of the Thaumaturge
    Vermin Womb – Disrepair
    Void Omnia – A Fallowed Remembrance
    Vorvan – Breothan
    Wolves in the Throne Room – Face in a Night Time Mirror, Pt. 1
    Wreck and Reference – Manifestos
    Zhrine – Utopian Warfare

  9. Hyperion – Blood of the Ancients
    Allegaeon – All Hail Science
    Dark Tranquillity – Faithless By Default
    Be’Lakor – An Ember’s Arc
    Amon Amarth – At Dawn’s First Light
    Oracles – Catabolic (I Am)

  10. Abnormality – Mechanisms of Omniscience
    Virvum – Ad Rigorem
    Vektor – Pillars of Sand

    These tracks/bands rip

  11. Khonsu – The Observatory
    In Mourning – Below Rise to the Above
    Negative Voice – City of Decaying Gaze
    Wardruna – Odal (yeah yeah, I know, I don’t care…)
    Skuggsjá – Bøn Om Ending – Bøn Om Byrjing (damn, that was hard to write!)
    Devin Townsend – Stormbending
    Insomnium – Winter’s Gate (the whole album, as you understand)
    Mistur – Matriarch’s Lament

    Some stuff that is not exactly extreme, but who gives a shit? This has been a great year in music.

  12. Alcest – Je suis d’ailleurs
    Alux Todolo – 7:54
    Anaal Nathrakh – Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion
    Auroch – Say Nothing
    Brain Tentacles – Cosmic Warrior Girth Curse
    Departe – Grief Echoes (Golden Scars)
    Disillusion – ALEA
    Drudkh – His Twenty-Fourth Spring
    Ghost – Sqaure Hammer
    Mechina – Ashes of Old Earth
    Mithras – The Statue on the Island
    Schammasch – Above the Stars of God
    Striker – The Phoenix Light
    Textures – New Horizons
    Vanhelga – Det som aldrig fanns
    Witherscape – Marionette

  13. ADE – With Tooth and Nail
    ADE – Mare Nostrum
    Harakiri for the Sky – Thanatos
    Hyperion – Seraphical Euphony
    Oracles – Canvas of Me
    Thrawsunblat – Dead of Winter
    Vinterblot – Stone Carved Silence
    Vredehammer – Light the Fucking Sky
    Vredehammer – Violator (this!)

  14. Deathcrown “The Witch Hammer”

  15. I’d say my list so far scans more metal-adjacent than proper NCS material, but a few heavy and/or loud songs I kept coming back to this year include:

    Devil is Fine–Zeal and Ardor
    Howling of the Distant Spaces–Mithras
    Je Suis d’ailleurs–Alcest
    Up and Atom–Astronoid
    Dismal Veil of Nothingness–Funeral Mourning
    Apex–Ascendance
    Steaming Blood Ascends Beyond the Moon–Wryding*

    *Really just about every song on the Wyrding album would qualify as one of my most infectious, I just love this shit. One of the oddest and most distinctive sounding records of the year, like monks with a great feel for melodic hooks rocking sparse funeral doom of totally sensible song-lengths. I urge you to check it out if you haven’t already!

  16. Acyl – Gibraltar
    ADE – Carthago delenda est
    Betrayal – Fighting Perdition
    Beyond Grace – Acolytes
    Car Bomb – Black Blood
    Cloak – In Darkness, The Path
    Cobalt – Hunt the Buffalo
    Cult of Luna & Julia Christmas – Chevron
    Dawn of Disease – The Sky is Empty
    Death Angel – Hatred United/United Hate
    Domkraft – Red Lead
    Dust Bolt – Mass Confusion
    Entombed A.D. – Dead Dawn
    Gatecreeper – Craving Flesh
    Gojira – Slivera
    Graves at Sea – The Curse That Is
    Heaven Shall Burn – Downshifter
    Hyperion – Novus Ordo Seclorum
    Kartikeya – The Golden Blades
    Khonsu – A Jhator Ascension
    Left Behind – Rock Bottom
    Mantar – Era Borealis
    Memorium – Resistance
    Mithras – The Statue on the Island
    Moonsorrow – Suden Tunti
    No Trust – Lift
    Obscure Sphinx – Nothing Left
    Oozing Wound – Diver
    Skeletonwitch – Well of Despair
    Soar – The Declaration
    Wode – Cloaked in Ruin
    Wolf’s Hunger – Gvozdeni Puk

  17. Gonna keep this short and sweet here

    Destroyer 666 – Hounds At Ya Back
    Gatecreeper – Desperation
    Mithras – The Statue on the Island
    Inquisition – Wings of Anu
    Katalepsy – The Long Bright Darkness
    Anciients – Following the Voice

  18. Revocation – Cleaving Giants of Ice
    Khonsu – I’m just listening through the whole album today (woohoo, release day, just like Xmas!). But I’d go for “The Observatory” given how many times I’ve played that through here on NCS.
    Allegaeon – Gray Matter Mechanics. Flamenco undercurrents and slamming riffs, yes please.
    Protean – Bringer of Fear. This isn’t infectious in the sense of gripping riffs, but more like a slow lumbering beast that will carve it’s way in to your subconscious.
    Rotting Christ – Elthe Kyrie
    Mechina – Progenitor
    Terra Tenebrosa – The End Is Mine To Ride
    Sarcoptes – Within The Labyrinth Mind
    Darkend – Clavicula Salomonis. Damn that chorus is catchy.
    Zeal and Ardor – “Blood In The River” hooked me early, but I’d say “Come On Down” takes my pick in the end.
    Wardruna – Odal
    Anaal Nathrahk – Hold Your Children Close And Pray For Oblivion
    Ereb Altor – A Fine Day To Die (Yeah, it’s a cover, but I’ve been cranking it, so it’s here)

  19. Darkthrone – Boreal Fiends

  20. I’ll name my five most crippling infections!

    1. Eternal Champion – I am the Hammer
    2. Astronoid – Up and Atom
    3. Haken – 1985
    4. Herder – Everlasting Pace
    5. Destroyer 666 – Live and Burn

  21. Abbath – Winter Bane

    Amon Amarth – One Thousand Burning Arrows

    Anaal Nathrakh – On Being a Slave

    Anaal Nathrakh – Extravaganza

    Astronoid – Up and Atom

    Behexen – Umbra Luciferi

    Borknagar – Winter Thrice

    Clouds – I Gave My Heart Away

    ColdWorld – Void

    Countless Skies – Ethereal

    Dark Tranquillity – Encircled

    Draugnim – That Name Is Hate

    Forteresse – Vespérales

    Forteresse – Par La Bouche De Mes Canons

    Germ – Escape

    Hyperion- Seraphical Euphony

    Mistur – Tears of Remembrance

    Mithras – The Statue on the Island

    Mork – I Sluket Av Myra

    Nordjevel – The Shadows Of Morbid Hunger

    Omnium Gatherum – Skyline

    Sorrow Plagues – Fade

    Thrawsunblat – She Who Names the Stars

    Witherscape – Marionette

    Winterhorde – Antipath

    Winterhorde – Maestro

    Vredehammer – Ursus

    Vredehammer – Violator

  22. Bifrost – Verraters Geschick
    Combativo – Aun de Pie
    Hordak – Padre
    Hyperion – Blood of the Ancients
    Tamoanchan – Ensonaciones

  23. I guess this means every release that I haven’t listened to won’t make it into this list, but okay here goes nothing (in no particular order and not every song might be an extreme metal song, but I like them enough to revisit them often):

    Venomous Concept – Rise
    Marionette – Dirty And Free
    Magrudergrind – The opportunist
    Oranssi Pazuzu – Hypnotisoitu Viharukous
    The Fall Of Troy – Savior
    Lacuna Coil – The House of shame
    Architects – Nihilist
    Katatonia – Takeover
    American Head Charge – Drowning under everything
    DevilDriver – Bad deeds
    Evans Blue – Comfortable with hate
    Aborted – Divine Impediment
    Night Verses – A Dialogue in Cataplexy
    Kambrium – Abyssal Streams
    Imperium – The Unseen one
    Evergrey – Someday
    Unzucht – Neuntöter
    Breakdawn Of Sanity – New world
    Imperium Dekadenz – Only Fragments Of Light
    Freya – Eyes of malevolence
    The Devil Wears Prada – Detroit Tapes
    Mithras – When the stars align
    Hail Spirit Noir – Riders to Utopia
    Car Bomb – From The Dust Of This Planet
    Böhse Onkelz – Frei
    Testament – Brotherhood of the snake
    Tardigrada – E Sturm zieht uf
    Parabelle – The Prisoner
    Unlight – Antihelion
    Winterfylleth – Pariahs Path
    Raging Speedhorn – Shit outta luck
    Dawn Of Ashes – Still Born Defect
    Adept – Rewind The Tape
    Cicada The Burrower – Only the elms remember (Re-Release)
    Anciients – Following The Voice
    Veilburner – Baphometic Catalyst
    Knives Out! – Mysterious Ways
    Anaal Nathrakh – We Will Fucking Kill you
    Norma Jean – I. The Planet
    Harakiri For The Sky – Thanatos
    Withered – Feeble Gasp
    Node – Stagnation
    Cobalt – Ruiner
    LVTHN – Eradication Of Nescience
    Fallujah – The Void alone
    UNRU – Totemiker
    Be’lakor – Roots To Sever
    Nomy – I have a problem
    Sick Puppies – Walls (You Changed)
    Cyprus – Fi Al Jahiliyyah Jadid
    Insomnium – Winters Gate Pt. 7
    Pain – A Wannabe
    Circle Of Contempt – Ascend From Disruption
    Alaskan – Assimilate
    VIII – I – Symptom (although I still think this song could be divided into two songs at around 8 minutes and something)
    The Dillinger Escape Plan – Limerent Death
    Barishi – The great enreat
    October Tide – Sleepless Sun
    Zygoma – The Finger Print
    GWLT – Watts 1965
    In Mourning – The Grinning Mist
    The Schoenberg Automaton – Of Omnipotence
    Mare Cognitum – The First Point Of Aries

  24. 1. Coffin Birth – Wormwitch
    2. Above the Stars of God – Schammasch
    3. Drowning Into Sorrow – Coma Cluster Void

  25. Red Fang – Cut it Short
    Cokegoat – Quiet Tyrant
    Yeti on Horseback – Viking Mushroom Tea
    Cough – Shadow of the Torturer
    Khemmis – Hunted
    Noire – The Tracks of the Hunted

  26. Valborg – Ich bin total
    Vanhegd – Rebellion of the iniquitous
    Abbath – Ocean of wounds
    Gatecreeper – Carved into stone
    Skraeckoedlan – Talisman
    Grand Magus – Freja´s choice
    Protector – Cursed and coronated
    Warfect – Purveyors of cadavers
    Heaven shall burn – Downshifter
    Witchcraft – The outcast
    Volturyon – Hinterkaifeck
    Vanhelgd – Temple of phobos
    Dustbolt – Mass confusion
    Opeth – Sorceress
    Astrophobos – Tabula rasa
    Imperium Dekadenz – Dis Manibvs
    Harakiri for the sky – Funeral dreams
    Mantar – Era borealis
    Nazghor – Under a venomous spell
    Testament – The pale king
    Karg – Tor zu tausend wusten
    Terra Tenebrosa – The end is mine to ride

  27. Just thought I’d stop by and thank everyone who has contributed so far. As usual, there’s a ton of stuff in these lists I haven’t heard yet, along with a lot of validations for things that I have included in my list of candidates. This is going to be fun.

  28. Some excellent Doom & Sludge releases from Japan this year. My personal top 3 tracks out of all of them would be:

    GUEVNNA (ex-Coffins, ex-Shikabane, Veiyadra, Unholy Grave): “Parasitic” off of their new 1st album, also named “Heart of Evil”.
    https://longlegslongarms.bandcamp.com/album/heart-of-evil-guevnna

    Nepenthes (ex-Church of Misery, ex-Coffins, Inside Charmer, Floaters, Redwood Blues): “Cease” off of their new 1st album, “Scent”.
    https://soundcloud.com/daymarerecordings/nepenthes-cease

    Sithter (ex-Dhidalah, ex- MONE¥I$GOD): “Smoke Demon” off of their soon-to-be-released new 2nd full album, “Chaotic Fiend”.
    https://bontenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chaotic-fiend

    *NOTE* Neither the GUEVNNA or Sithter songs I’ve listed are online, though other, also very good tracks, are. This is something we at Kaala are in negotiations about, but its an ongoing process. If yr interested in getting yr hands on the material, we work closely with all of the bands and labels, and would be happy to help getting

  29. Oh boy oh boy oh boy I love lists so much yes I do.

    1. Magrudergrind– “War for Resources”
    2. Wormrot– “God’s in His Heaven”
    3. The Drip– “Painted Ram”
    4. The Dillinger Escape Plan– “Honeysuckle”
    5. Every Time I Die– “I Didn’t Want To Join Your Stupid Cult Anyway”
    6. Norma Jean– “Forever Hurtling Towards Andromeda”
    7. Arms– “Blackout”
    8. Car Bomb– “From The Dust of this Planet”
    9. Ghoul– “Shred the Dead”

  30. Ashbringer- “Oceans Apart”
    Uada- “Natus Eclipsum”
    Vredehammer- “Ursus”
    Ghost BC- “Square Hammer”
    Kvelertak- “Nattesferd”
    Vektor- “Recharging the Void”
    The Vision Bleak- “Into the Unknown”

  31. Oh boy it’s that time of the year! Gonna have a feast with these suggestions. Here are mine:

    1. Oathbreaker – Needles in Your Skin
    2. Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – A Greater Call
    3. Code Orange – Forever
    4. Gojira – Stranded

  32. Sorry to be tardy to the party;

    Skeletonwitch “Red Death, White Light”
    Skeletonwitch “Black Waters”
    Serpentine Dominion “This Endless War”
    Hammers of Misfortune; “Days of ’49”
    Inquisition “Wings of Anu”
    Ghoul “Ghoulunatics”
    Revocation “Monolithic Ignorance”
    Asphyx “Incoming Death”
    Gojira “Stranded”
    Hail Spirit Noir “I Mean You Harm”
    Thrawsunblat “She Who Names The Stars”
    Allegaeon “Proponent For Sentience III – The Extermination”
    Ketzer “Earthborn”
    The Unknown “The Kindred of the Sunset”
    Heaven Shall Burn “Prey To God”

  33. Fleshgod Apocalypse – Cold as Perfection
    Omnium Gatherum – Majesty and Silence
    Obsidian Kingdom – A Year with No Summer
    Deftones – Hearts/Wires
    Cult of Luna, Julie Christmas – The Wreck of S.S. Needle
    October Tide – Swarm
    Fallujah – The Void Alone
    Sylvaine – Wistful
    In Mourning – Below Rise to the Above
    Gojira – Stranded
    Be’lakor – The Smoke of Many Fires
    Coldworld – Womb of Emptiness
    Haken – 1985
    Insomnium – Winter’s Gate (part 7, if I had to be specific)
    In Flames – Save Me
    Dark Tranquillity – Forward Momentum
    Anaal Nathrakh – Depravity Favours the Bold
    Hanging Garden – Penumbra
    Lessen – Already Dead
    Korn – Black is the Soul
    Obscure Sphinx – Nothing Left
    Trees of Eternity – Gallows Bird
    Metallica – Hardwired

  34. Abbath – Winterbane
    An Endless Sporadic – Sky Run (featt. Jordan Rudess)
    Astronoid – Up and Atom
    Bombus – Deadweight
    Cobalt – Beast Whip
    Crobot – Not For Sale
    Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – A Greater Call
    Daniel Lioneye – Aetherside
    Dark Suns – Everchild
    Disillusion – Alea
    Earth Ship – Red Leaves
    Ghost – Square Hammer
    Ghost Bath – Happyhouse
    Gojira – Silvera
    Gone is gone – Violescent
    Grieved – Opaque
    Hexvessel – Cosmic Truth
    Ihsahn – Mass Darkness
    Nails – You will never be one of us
    Netherlands – L.M.M.
    Opeth – Sorceress
    Perihelion – Feneketlen
    Port Noir – Earth
    Steven Wilson – My Book of Regrets
    Thrice – Black Honey
    Tusmorke – De Reiser fra Oss
    Witchcraft – The Outcast
    Wolfmother – Victorious

  35. Dang it. Hate it when I see this one late. I’m always afraid my unquestionably amazing suggestions will be overlooked.

    Anciients – “Pentacle”
    Anciients – “Ibex Eye”
    Atlantis Chronicles – “Within the Massive Stream”
    Bhavachakra – “Sybaritic Apparitions”
    Black Crown Initiate – “Belie the Machine”
    Boyfrndz – “Ghosted”
    Car Bomb – “From the Dust of This Planet”
    Deftons – “Phantom Bride”
    The Dillinger Escape Plan – “Limerent Death”
    Disillusion – “Alea”
    Fallujah – “The Void Alone”
    Fleshgod Apocalypse – “Healing Through War”
    Ghost – “Square Hammer”
    Gojira – “Stranded”
    Hyperion – “Seraphical Euphony”
    Madder Mortem – “Blood on the Sand”
    Lizard Professor – “Simply Complex”
    Moon Tooth – “Igneous”
    The Motion Mosaic – “Shapeshifter”
    Oathbreaker – “Needles in Your Skin”
    Obscure Sphinx – “Nothing Left”
    Obsidian Kingdom – “A Year with No Summer”
    Oceans of Slumber – “Winter”
    Oceans of Slumber – “Apologue”
    The Odious – “Arbiter of Taste”
    Slice the Cake – “The Mountains of Man”
    Thank You Scientist – “Blue Automatic”
    Twelve Foot Ninja – “Sick”
    Ulcerate – “Abrogation”
    Vale of Pnath – “A Nightmare Phantasm”

  36. And last but not least:

    Svarttjern – “All Hail Satan”
    Nordjevel – “Djevelen I Nord”
    Uada – “Devoid of Light”
    Mistur – “Downfall”
    Artillery – “Live by the Scythe”
    Noctem – “The Dark One”
    Forteresse – “Spectre de la Rebellion”
    Conceived by Hate – “The Underdog”
    Kreator – “Gods of Violence”
    Centinex – “Exist to Feed”

    • Well, you’re last for now, but further additions to this large list of candidates will be welcome and considered if other folks show up here later. I’m still a couple of weeks away from launching the rollout — and have a shitload of decisions to make in the meantime.

  37. Cult of Luna/Julie Christmas- A Greater Call
    Harakiri for the Sky -Thanatos
    Thy Catafalque -Vonatut Az Ejszakaben OR Urania
    Obscura – The Monist
    Fleshgod Apocalypse – Healing Through War

  38. Aenaon – Oneirodynia.

  39. Maleficence- ‘Realms of Mortification’ 7″ on Blood Harvest. Either song (“Pyre of Penetence” and “Of Mortification and Beyond”) are serious candidates for your purposes here, and I didn’t see this most excellent band mentioned above.

  40. 40 Watt Sun – Pictures
    Astronoid – Air
    Balance Interruption – Incubatum Conveyer
    Blood Incantation – Starspawn
    Cairiss – Disgraced
    Candiria – Mereya
    Chthe’ilist – Voidspawn
    Crator – The Ouroboros is Broken
    Cruz – A Cops De Destral
    Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – The Wreck of S.S. Needle
    Dälek – Shattered
    Dasein – Le Serment De Tsion
    Départe – Ashes in Bloom
    Deströyer 666 – White Line Fever
    Droids Attack – Brahma Astra
    Fórn – Ambitions Toward Nothingness
    Forteresse – Là où nous allons
    The Gentle Art of Cooking People – King Tukan II
    Haken – The Architect
    Hesychast – Discordant
    Hemotoxin – Forgotten Faces
    Highrider – S=Txl
    Inquisition – Through the Divine Spirit of Satan a Glorious Universe is Known
    Inter Arma – Summer Drones
    Kosmokrator – Death Worship
    Lotus Thief – The Book of Lies
    Lycus – Solar Chamber
    Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Cithuula
    Mare Cognitum – The First Point of Aries
    Martyrdöd – Harmagedon
    Mithras – Between Scylla and Charybdis
    Moon Tooth – Belt Squeezer
    Mortichnia – Heir
    Obscura – Sermon of the Seven Suns
    Obsidian Kingdom – Away / Absent
    Oranssi Pazuzu – Hypnotisoitu Viharukous
    Ortega – Strong Eye
    Ragehammer – First Wave Black Metal
    Schammasch – Metanoia
    Setentia – The Enemy Within
    Spheron – The Blind Watchmaker
    Stench Price – Living Fumes
    Syberia – Taunus
    Uada – Natus Eclipsim
    Urfaust – Meditatum II
    Vainaja – Sielu
    Veilburner – In the Revelations of Bloodstained Void
    Vektor – Recharging the Void
    Vex – To Anacreon (Strangling the Muse)
    Virvum – Illuminance
    Votum – Satellite
    Vrtra – Perpetually Hag Ridden
    White Lung – Dead Weight
    Youdash – Celestial Phenomena

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