0:25-14:55 INGURGITATING OBLIVION (Berlin) To Weave The Tapestry Of Nought — Meditative pauses, theatrical and folk-influenced drama, saxophone and eerie atmosphere create breaks in the textured, layered death. A ton to unpack.

16:07-22:03 BLOOD INCANTATION (Denver) The Message [Tablet I] — Their furnace death metal cut with instrumental twists and 70s krautrock and a splatter of Pink Floyd that creates floating bubbles of synthy metal candy. 

22:32-27:13 RIPPED TO SHREDS (CA) 孽鏡臺 (Visions of Sin, Mirror of Darkness) — Unrelenting, dense, technical with a proggy drumming style really cool drops of melodic atmospheric. 

27:58-35:57 ESOCTRILIHUM (France) Lüthirkys Spasmuldis (Near Death Experience) — Moody psychedelic black metal curbed by incredibly rich melodic and an alien vocalist within ancient strands of compositions. Vast and wild.

36:25-43:31 COSMIC PUTREFACTION (Italy) Emerald Fires Atop The Farewell Mountains — The distortion, the confusion, the texture, hauntingly lovely with dissonant vocals and drums.

43:54-50:31 ARKONA (Poland) Prometeus — Epic wailing black metal over mountain tops and a battle scene.  

51:06-53:38 UNDEATH (NY) Bounty Hunter —  Swirling prog guitar in technical and imaginative musicianship and an incredibly fun groove.

54:13-END 1349 (Norway) Obscura — Precise black metal with speed energy and a tons of riffs.