UNDERGROUND METAL FOR THE TRVE CURMUDGEON (BEST OF 2019 EDITION)

(For the 9th year in a row, we asked our old friend SurgicalBrute to weigh in with his year-end list of favorite albums and/or EPs. As expected, his list adds many names of some especially savage underground releases that haven’t appeared before in our 2019 Listmania series.)

By the time you read this, the year, and the decade, will be just about over, Listmania will be in full swing, and if you’re anything like me you’ll probably be ready to shove an icepick into your eye if you have to read one more list showing the same 10 albums you’ve seen on a dozen other websites.

Yes, Tomb Mold and Blood Incantation put out really good albums, but unless you’ve been living under a rock you already know that… no one wants to see the same names again and again. So, with that in mind, Islander has once again turned to me to save you out-of-touch causals from the boredom of the mainstream by giving you a brief glimpse into the metal underground. Grab your bullet belts and corpse paint, because only the grim and trve are allowed beyond this point …enjoy the music \m/

 

 

Black Metal

 

 

Departure Chandelier – Antichrist Rise to Power

 

 

 

 

Sadisme – Festering in Telepathic Communion

 

 

 

 

Dai-ichi – Dai-ichi

 

 

 

 

Hulder – Embraced by Darkness Mysts

 

 

 

 

Volahn – El Tigre del sur

 

 

 

 

Ifernach – Skin Stone Blood Bone

 

 

 

 

Vothana – Never to Submit

 

 

 

 

Wampyric Rites – Reflections of a Frostbitten Moon

 

 

 

 

 

Heavy/Speed Metal

 

Chevalier – Destiny Calls

 

 

 

 

Mystik – Mystik

 

 

 

 

Mirror – Pyramid of Terror

 

 

 

 

Vultures Vengeance – The Knightlore

 

 

 

 

Death Metal

 

Undeath – Sentient Autolysis

 

 

 

 

Malignant Altar – Retribution of Jealous Gods

 

 

 

 

Black Curse – Endless Wound

 

 

 

 

Fetid – Steeping Corporeal Mess

 

 

 

 

Vastum – Orificial Purge

 

 

 

Chthonic Deity – Reassembled in Pain

 

 

 

 

Sedimentum – Demo

 

 

 

 

Cemetarian – Tomb of Morbid Stench

 

 

 

 

 

Blackened Death Metal

 

 

Antichrist Siege Machine – Schism Perpetration

 

 

 

 

Profane Order – Slave Morality

 

 

 

 

Concrete Winds – Primitive Force

 

 

 

 

Teitanblood – The Baneful Choir

 

 

 

 

Vile Ritual – Vile Ritual