Let's start this year's metal with an extra-long show! I am including December releases as part of 2024.
0:25-6:43 ABHORIA (CA) Winter’s Embrace — Ginger-viking led Abhoria with one of the hottest vocals. Evolving textural black metal that grows within each song. Majestic, precise and unique.
8:29-15:07 SOVEREIGN (Norway) Altered Reality — Groove-filled charming death with hits of thrash and heavy metal with weird melodic and galaxy guitars in a debut.
15:43-19:26 PROGENY OF SUN (Finland) Courier — From squeals to death growls to black screams. The swift perfection of both genres, the pull and push of brutal technical and dynamic melodic.
19:58-24:15 RESIN TOMB (AU) Putrescence — Venomous is just SO Australia. A desperate high-pitched vocal in a filthy suffocating death and sinister sludge.
24:59-29:24 LORD DYING (Portland) Break in the Clouds (In the Darkness of Our Minds) — Theatrical rock and doom, organic instrumentation, haunting and introspective compositions building into proggy and intricate guitars. Kurt Ballou produced.
29:56-33:35 SUBLATION (Philly) Like a Fire That Consumes All Before It — A blast of melodic tech death with majestic tremolo black metal. Ferocious and complex, and a lot of fun.
34:00-39:40 PHOBOCOSM (CAN) Revival — Harrowing dangerous death metal. Dense swarmy guitars with nuanced vocals and rolling drums.
40:07-46:09 BULL OF APIS BULL OF BRONZE (CO) Annihilation — We all know that black metal belongs in the serial killer mountains of Colorado.
46:32-50:54 ENGULF (NJ) Lunar Scourge — Death with insane tempos and captivating melodic that drive you in a hundred directions.
51:12-56:49 MALIST (Russia) Ode To The Night — Black metal leans into atmospheric, with a bit of cold brought in by sweeping raspy vocals.
57:15-1:05:16 DWELLING BELOW (US) Swallowed — Stalking metal with tribal drums, furnace vocals and winding guitars building the unease.
1:05:34-1:10:53 NARZISSUS (Austria) Vanitas/Victoria — Folk-influenced black metal that is soulful.
1:11:22-END SAEVUS FINIS (Portugal) Thou Hast Destroyed Thyself — Horror metal with no joy. Just anxious with razors.