Favorite Music 2024

Black Curse - Burning In Celestial Poison
Sumac - The Healer
Diabolic Oath - Oracular Hexations
Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Häxan Sabaoth
Aequorea - Departure
Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok
Cabinet - Hydrolysated Ordination
Ærkenbrand - Hedenfarne Æventyr
Givré - Le Cloître
Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus
Veilburner - The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom
Hoplites - Paramainomeni
Convulsing - Perdurance
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Adorior - Bleed on My Teeth
Geordie Greep - The New Sound
Thou - Umbilical
夢遊病者(Sleepwalker) -  Delirium Pathomutageno Adductum
Buñuel - Mansuetude
Serpent Column - Tassel of Ares
Biesy - Golem
Brii - Camaradagem Póstuma
Sacrificial Vein - Black Terror Genesis
Ævangelist - Perdition Ekstasis Meta
Ævangelist - Fæthm Excursus (demo)
Deathless Void - The Voluptuous Fire Of Sin
Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge
Skin Tension - Prolegomenon
Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
Withering Herd - Ron's Angel House
The Body - The Crying Out of Things
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja
Goat - Goat
Glassing - From the Other Side of the Mirror
Pa Vesh En - Sesyi Rytualisty​Č​Nyja
Hull of Light - Gilded Liminal Shrines
Harvestman – Triptych Part One +Two + Three
Farsot - Life Promised Death
Those Poor Bastards - Back to the Primitive
Verwoed - The Mother
Maudissez - Maudissez
Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt
Cantique Lépreux - Le bannissement
Writhing Squares - Mythology
Maruja - Connla's Well + The Vault
Uboa - Impossible Light
Black Pus - Terrestrial Seethings
Senyawa - Vajranala
Malconfort - Humanism
Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens
Insect Ark - Raw Blood Singing
Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God
Hadit - Metaphysical Engines Approaching The Event Horizon
Prisoner - PUTRID | OBSOLETE
Brodequin - Harbinger of Woe
Secrets - Towards the Nightside
Receive - New Abrasions
Beryllium - Your Laughter is an Echo in my Head
The Body / Dis Fig - Orchards of a Futile Heaven
Altar of Gore - Litanies of the Unceasing Agonies
Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice
Aquilus - Bellum II
Dark Citadel - Carcosa I +The Conqueror Larvae
Orgone - Chimera
Scarcity - The Promise of Rain
Vimur - The Timeless Everpresent
Badbadnotgood - Mid Spiral: Order/Chaos/Growth
Sun Worship - Upon the Hills of Divination
Illyria - Wanderlust
Leprous Vortex Sun - Ш​у​м н​е​б​ы​т​и​я
The Jesus Lizard - Rack
Kee Avil - Spine
Spectral Voice - Sparagmos
Vemod - The Deepening
Rhùn - Conveyance in Death
SLIFT - ILION
Öxxö Xööx - +
Spectral Wound - Songs of Blood and Mire
Beryllium - Your Laughter Is An Echo In My Head
Departure Chandelier - Satan Soldier of Fortune
La Torture des ténèbres - V
Melvins - Tarantula Heart
Elegý - Graveflowers
The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales
Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet
Violent Magic Orchestra - Death Rave
Μνήμα -  Κ​α​τ​α​ρ​α​μ​έ​ν​α Λ​ε​ί​ψ​α​ν​α
His Master's Noise - His Master's Noise
Oči Vlka - Oči Vlka
Aberration - Refracture
Vltimas - Epic
Acathexis - Immerse

 my favorite music for 2023  

in no particular order

 

Vile Ritual - Caverns of Occultic Hatred
ὁ Μέɣας - κ​ή​ρ​υ​ξ π​ῦ​ρ
Skin Tension - Celebrant
Skin Tension/Cryptic Rising - Split EP
Yves Tumor – Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
Reuerorum ib Malacht - Aieganzes Aigonzis : Angels of God
Reuerorum ib Malacht - Kyrie Eleison
Reuerorum ib Malacht - Emet Amen : The dark night of the faith
Kostnateni - Úpal
MUMS - Legs
Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis
Cultum Interitum - Sacrum Funeral
RUÏM - Black Royal Spiritism – I – O Sino da Igreja
Ulthar - Anthronomicon
Ulthar - Helionomicon  
Árstíðir Lífsins - Hermalausaz
Maruja - Knocknarea
Ciśnienie - Zwierzakom
L'Rain - I Killed Your Dog
Nithing – Agonal Hymns
Tetragrammacide - Typho​-​Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur'an
Iskandr - Spiritus Sylvestris
Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Necrosis
Amun - Spectra And Obsession
LUCIFIXION - Trisect Joys of Pierced Hearts
Bríi - Último Ancestral Comum
Goat - Medicine
Bolt Gun - The Tower
Peopling - Appearance
Brobdingnagian - unwell_tiresome
Ringarë - Of Momentous Endless Night
Vastum - Inward to Gethsemane
Altarage - Worst Case Scenario
ÉRTÉKTELEN - Reménytelen
RüYYn - Album: Chapter II: The Flames, the Fallen, the Fury
Black Pumas - Chronicles of a Diamond
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
VOIDSPHERE - To Infect | To Inflict
Nightmarer - Deformity Adrift
Tongues - Formløse Stjerner
Sadus - The Shadow Inside
Haunter - Incantations
Dark Citadel - This Curse Is Our Punishment
Dark Citadel - The Orb Chamber
Dark Citadel - Shapeless Dreams and Formless Shadows
Dark Citadel - Dark Citadel
RORCAL - Silence
Anti-God Hand - Blight Year
Renret - Nothing Will Endure
Khanate -To Be Cruel
Disimperium - Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars
Oxbow - Love's Holiday
Jour J Mental - Faire la secte
CONCILIUM - Sky Burial
The Body - I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant
Scáth Na Déithe - Virulent Providence
Kuujeojabenojujanomiashikushija - Collected Works: MMXIV​–​MMXX
Ὁπλίτης - Ψευδομένη
Ὁπλίτης  - Τρωθησομένη
Ὁπλίτης - Ἀ​ν​τ​ι​τ​ι​μ​ω​ρ​ο​υ​μ​έ​ν​η
JAAW - Supercluster
Hasard - Malivore
Sutekh Hexen, Funerary Call - P:R:I:S:M
DECOHERENCE - Order
Incendiary Visage - Salvage Gnosis
HWWAUOCH - Under the Gaze of Dissolution
Algiers - Shook
夢遊病者 - Skopofoboexoskelett
Panopticon - The Rime of Memory
Zahn - Adria
Skyjelly - Spirit Guide مرشد حقيقة
VoidCeremony - Threads of Unknowing
VIDE - The Parish
Afsky - Om hundrede år
apologist - everything feels brighter
Zeal and Ardor - Zeal and Ardor
Netherlands - Severance
Impetuous Ritual - Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis
The Drin - Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom
Cursed Excruciation - Arcane Diabolism
Health - Rat Wars
Blut Aus Nord - ​Disharmonium - Nahab
Lebrique - Head Trap
I Cut People - The End
Body Void - Atrocity Machine
BAG X Collapsing Drums - Momentary Lapses
Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness - A Mournful Kingdom of Sand
Tropical Fuck Storm - Submersive Behaviour
Grá  - Lycaon
Sól Án Varma - Sól Án Varma
Spectral Lore - 11 Days
Dwarfs of East Agouza - High Tide In The Lowlands
Vitriolic Sage - 梦路
Dead Bob - Life Like
V:XII - Lu​-​Cipher​-​Sabbatean
Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
AYYUR - Prevail
Spirit Possession - Of the Sign…
Lamp of Murmuur - Saturnian Bloodstorm
newmath - Bloom
Violet Cold - Multiverse
The Gorge - Mechanical Fiction
Liturgy - 93696
Material - Hazardous Material
Moni Jitchell  - Unreal
Mezzanine Swimmers - Miserable Miracle
Full Of Hell, Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination
Big|Brave - nature morte
Sanguisugabogg - Homicidal Ecstasy
Cthonica - Of Sphere Dehydration and Spiritual Contradiction
WELLS VALLEY - Achamoth
ZAÄAR - Magická D​ž​ungl​’​
ZAÄAR / Spintria  -  Genesis of Cyclopian Sorcerer
Pa Vesh En - Martyrs
Agriculture - Agriculture
Irreversible Entanglements - Protect Your Light
Mspaint - Post-American
Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music
Gossamer - The Culling of Crones
Kaatayra / Pessimista (split)
Mr.Phylzzz - Fat Chance
Dead Times - Dead Times
CH'AHOM - Camazotz Cult
The Pleasure Majenta - Looming, The Spindle
Melvins/Helms Alee - Controlling Data For A Better Feeling Future
B R I Q U E V I L L E - llll
Yellow Eyes - Master's Murmur
Ôros Kaù - Thanatos
Atrium Carceri - Forgotten Gods
Slog - Divination
UADA - Crepuscule Natura

 

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 My favorite music of 2022:

in no particular order (sort of)

Sigh - Shiki
Brobdingnagian - trambus tines
Asunojokei - アイランド (Island)
Comfort Food - Adventures of Mammals
Qrixkuor - Zoetrope
Lucrecia Dalt - ¡Ay!
Misþyrming - Með hamri
夢遊病者 / חושך - BVAKVM AKHZR
Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed
Iosonouncane - IRA*
Climax Golden Twins  - Climax Golden Twins  
Unyielding Love - Flesh of The Furnace
Cryptae - Capsule
The Body and OAA   Enemy of Love
Autonoesis - Moon of Foul Magics
Heilung - Drif
Ixtlahuac - Tekuyotl de la Yaotlachinoli
Marrasmieli - Martaiden mailta
Imperial Circus Dead Decadence - MOGARI - Shi E Fukeru Omoi Wa Rikujoku Sura Kurai
Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
ꙂꙨѮŮӜŮѮꙨꙂ - Ŷ​ᾦ​Ϛ​Ӿ​Ѻ​ᾦ​Ѻ​Ӿ​Ϛ​ᾦ​Ŷ
Deathspell Omega - The Long Degeat
Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable
Vanessa Rossetto - The Actress
White Ward - False Light
Moor Mother - Jazz Codes
The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory
Discrepants - Beginnings
Special Interest - Endure
Vel'HAR - Letania I
Gevurah - Gehinnom
DIABOLIC OATH - Aischrolatreia
Black Midi - Hellfire
Those Poor Bastards - God Awful
Shinra Knives - You Will Never See Heaven
Anticreation - From the Dust of Embers
Oiseaux-Tempête - What On Earth (Que Diable)
newmath - Bloom
Rejoice! The Light Has Come - Untitled
Verberis - Adumbration of the Veiled Logos
Throwing Bricks - The Burden
Pilori - Quand Bien Meme L'Enfer Et Le Deluge S'abattraient Sur Nous
Et Moriemur - Tamashii no Yama
FRKSE - Desecrated Anxiety EP
Minibeast - On Ice
Saccage - Charogne
Ultha - All that has Never been True
Firtan - Marter
Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed Ones
Officine - Officine
The Wakedead Gathering - Parallaxiom
Hissing - Hypervirulence Architecture
Aequorea - DIM
Venus Twins - Raxis
Mizmor and Thou -  Myopia
Chat Pile - God's Country
Skin Tension - Omni
Sheng Jie & Shen Jing - Parallel Weaving
Watain -The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain
Space Coke - Lunacy
The Winston Brothers - Drift
Backxwash - HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING
Blackbraid - Blackbraid I
Ulthar - Nightgaunts MMXVI
Decoherence - More Is Different
Vaura - Vista Of Deviant Anatomies
Hath - All That Was Promised
Acherontas - Malocchio - The Seven Tongues Of Ahmon
Melt Yourself Down - Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In
Reuerorum ibn Malachtum - Vacuum. The mystery of faith...
Sulphur Nurse - Roopkund
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Cold As Weiss
Buñuel - Killers Like Us
Immolation - Acts Of God
An Isolated Mind - A Place We Cannot Go
Author & Punisher - Krüller
Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor
Homeskin - Integument Crystallization/Cries Methodically
Sunk Heaven - Porous Mirror
Melvins - Bad Mood Rising
Vile Ritual - Tongues of the Exanimate
UIV - Frigus (EP)
Chaos Perversion - Petrified Against the Emanation
Cult Of Luna - The Long Road North
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Μνήμα - Disciples of Excremental Liturgies
Bríi - Corpos transparentes
Vio-lence - Let the World Burn


*2021

Massive Inch - Bandcamp link

These are the my favorites from 2021

random list, not in any order
favs from 2021


Brii - Sem Propósito
Altarage - Succumb
Hadit - With Ardour and Joy Through the Incommensurable Path
夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) - Noc Na Krayu Sveta / Валаам
Dakhma - Blessings of Amurdad
Sunk Heaven - Y Serpentine (and everything else they do)
Suspiral - Delve Into the Mysteries of Transcendence
Brobdingnagian - Backpfeifengesicht
Kayo Dot - Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike
Plebeian Grandstand - Rien ne suffit
Scanner - Earthbound Transmissions
Final Cop/Cop Funeral - Split
Mastodon - Hushed and Grim
hyacinth. - insomniac beats.
Here Lies Man - Ritual Divination
Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion
Cremation Lily - Cremation Lily Smells the Flowers
Aquilus - Bellum I
The Dura Hotel - Room Service
Somnolent - The Infernal Expanse
Porridge Fist - California Resort
Pa Vesh En - Maniac Manifest
Fyrnask - VII: Kenoma
Moin - Mute!
L'Rain - Fatigue
DSKNT - Vacuum y-Noise Transition
dinky mirage - 005 + 007 + 016
Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
Iskandr - Vergezicht
Lorna Shore - ...And I Return To Nothingness
Pan-Amerikan Native Front - Little Turtle's War
babelfishh - Coma Worthy
Ars Magna Umbrae - Throne Between Worlds
Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air
Abkehr - In Blut
Panopticon - ...And Again Into The Light
Human Failure - Crown On the Head of a King of Mud
Succumb - XXI
IDLES - Crawler
massaith -  4 · my inner demons speaks · chapter one
Sorcier Des Glaces - Ghastly Memories EP
Donald Miller - Transgression!!!
Spire - Temple of Khronos
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - I Told You So
Bisk - Vacation Package
Portal - Avow + Hagbulbia
Divide And Dissolve - Gas Lit
Funeral Mist - Deiform
Monte Penumbra - As Blades in the Firmament
Useless - Downfall
Hail Spirit Noir - Mannequins
cop funeral - meditations in discomfort
Black Country, New Road - For the first time
Chaos Echoes - Ecstasy with the Nonexistents
Fashion Pimps And The Glamazons - Jazz 4 Johnny
Somalgia - Inverted World
Anthony Joseph - The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives
Arabrot - Norwegian Gothic
Portrayal of Guilt - We Are Always Alone + Garden of Despair
Genghis Tron - Dream Weapon
Disimperium - Malefic Obliteration
Alkerdeel - Slonk
Thumbscrew - Never Is Enough
Valac - Burning Dawn Of Vengeance
Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia
Ûkcheânsâlâwit - Alaskan Escape
Decoherence - System I
LLNN - Unmaker
Asthma Choir - Spent My Life in Sugar Town
Drawn and Quartered - Congregation Pestilence
Five The Hierophant - Through Aureate Void
Worm - Foreverglade
Thy Catafalque - Vadak
Hiraki - Stumbling Through The Walls
newmath - kudzu
Reverorum ib Malacht - Not Here/Svag i Doden
Mzylkypop - Kiedy Wilki Zawyja?
8-Hour Animal - Resigner
Vessel of Iniquity - The Doorway
Chestcrush - Vdelygmia
Concilium - Desecration
Carcass - Torn Arteries
Sunburned Hand of the Man - Pick a Day to Die
Spectral Lore - Etepoqwtoc
Senyawa - Alkisah
Why Bother? - Why Bother?

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I'll probably be adding to this, stay untuned!
 

 This is my list of 2020 favorites in music in no particular order:


Cryptae - Nightmare Traversal  

Samuel Goff - Transmissions  

Neptunian Maximalism – Eons 

Ysgaroth - Storm Over a Black Sea

Skáphe - Skáphe³ 

Black Curse - Endless Wound
Slift - Ummon
FRKSE - Desecration Anxiety ll
Ogdens' - Decay
Scáth Na Déithe - The Dirge Of Endless Mourning
Plague Organ - Orphan
Entropy Created Consciousness - Antica Memoria di Dis
CLUB SIESTE - S/T
Akhlys - Melinoë
New Primals - Horse Girl Energy
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi
Ôros Kaù - Imperii Templum Aries
Serpent Column - Endless Detainment
Paysage D'hiver - Im Wald
Arstidir lífsins - Saga...
Aversio Humanitatis - Behold The Silent Dwellers
Dèarth - To Crown All Befoulment
Decoherence - Unitarity
Reverorum ib Malacht - Vad Är Inte Sju Huvud?
Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
In Chasms Deep - The Wind and Her Lament
Death. Void. Terror. - To The Great Monolith II
Psychic Graveyard - A Bluebird Vacation
Serpent Column - Kathodos
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Patchouli Blue
Attic Ted - Kafka Dreaming
clipping. - Visions of Bodies Being Burned
An Isolated Mind - Self Titled
Human Adult Band - Beyond the Time Barrier Travelers
Algiers - There Is No Year
Marrasmieli - Between Land And Sky
Raspberry Bulbs - Before The Age Of Mirrors
Casual Nun - Resort For Dead Desires

I'm sure I will update as I hear more from 2020 so stay tuned out. 

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These weren't released this year,

but I discovered them this year
and they made an impact:

Yairms - Hope's Stable 2019
Avida_Dollars - DMMM 2019
Officine - Dieu 2019
Crown Larks - Population 2017
Slump - Flashbacks from Black Dust Country 2019
Office Skin - Slough 2014

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For what it's worth, here is a list of albums that tickled my fancy the most in 2019.



 

 

avida_dollars - DMMM 

S.E.K.H. - Acéphale & Arkhé Tenebre
Cryptae - Vestigial
Mylingar - Döda Själar
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
Portrayal of Guilt - Suffering is a Gift
Cthonica - Typhomanteia: Sacred Triarchy of Spiritual Putrefaction
Vessel of Iniquity - Void of Infinite Horror
Shit and Shine - Doing Drugs, Selling Drugs
Altarage - The Approaching Roar
Sutekh Hexen - Sutekh Hexen
Endon - Boy Meets Girl
Turbohaler - Metal Vessel Music
Deadkids - Metaprogramação
Hold Me Down - Hold Me Down
Abyssal Vacuum - MMXVIII
Inter Arma - Sulphur English
Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk
Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces Of Palingenesia
An Isolated Mind - I'm Losing Myself
Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling
Pinkish Black - Concept Unification
Full Of Hell - Weeping Choir
Friendship - Undercurrent
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Heilung - Futha
Merda Mundi - Hatred
Serpent Column - Mirror in Darkness
Árstíðir lífsins - Saga Á Tveim Tungum I Vápn Ok Viðr
Aiua - Tragos
Chat Pile - Remove Your Skin Please + This Dungeon Earth
Terminal Cheesecake - Le Sacre Du Liévre
Cloud Rat - Pollinator
Akasha - Canticles Of The Sepulchral Deity
Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia
Pa Vesh En - Pyrefication
NYOGTHAEBLISZ - Abrahamic Godhead Besieged by Adversarial Usurpation
Calf - --------
Lovely Wife - Audible Beef
USA/MEXICO - Matamoros
HWWAUOCH - Into the Labyrinth of Consciousness
Black Pumas - Black Pumas 
Prison Religion - Beachhead
clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Moor Mother - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
Drastus - La Croix De Sang
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism
Child Abuse - Imaginary Enemy
The Budos Band - V
Skáphe + Wormlust - Kosmískur hryllingur
Pound - ••
Coilguns - Watchwinders
Schammasch - Hearts of No Light
Acrylics - Sinking In

I never do lists but for what it's worth, here is my "Best of" list for 2018

in no particular order:


Dakhma - Hamkar Atonement
夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) "一期一会 (Ichi-go ichi-e)
Mylingar - Döda Drömmar
Mutilation Rites - Empyrean
Entropy Created Consciousness – Impressions of the Morning Star
Thou - Rhea Sylvia (and everything they put out this year)
Svartidauði - Revelations Of The Red Sword
Hissing - Permanent Destitution
Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
Tomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms
Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury
Gevurah - Sulphur Soul
Infernal Coil - Within A World Forgotten
Guttersnipe - My Mother The Vent
Here Lies Man - You Will Know Nothing
Graveyard - Peace
Funeral Chic - Superstition
HAAN - By The Grace Of Blood And Guts
Masquerade As Angels - The Stranger's Land
Abyssal / Carcinoma - Apanthropinization
Child Bite - Burnt Offerings
Shitty Person - Judgement
Mary Halvorson - Code Girl
In Chasms Deep - The Realm Between
Thumbscrew - Ours
Author & Punisher - Beastland
Sigh - Heir To Despair
One Tail. One Head - Worlds Open, Worlds Collide
Chaos Echœs - Mouvement
Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Rats Don’t Eat Synthesizers
Revororum Ib Malacht - Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas Innoble
Zeal & Ardor - Strange Fruit
Deus Vermin - Monument To Decay
Voivod - The Wake
Brainoil - Singularity to Extinction
Cult Leader - A Patient Man
Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
Violet Cold - Sommermorgen
(Pt. I) - Innocence
(Pt. II) - Joy
(Pt. III) - Nostalgia