By Jack Rafferty
As the descent into late-capitalism hell continues to spiral like murky toilet water, another year graces us with its rear-end. The catharsis of music has never been more important. Give me your desolate sonic landscapes. Your echoing corridors of loss. Your empty skies and intimate, hollow darknesses. Dissonance and torturous beauty. Songs hued of vulture-shade. I need you. Here are but some.
Note: I would be happy to write something about all of these, but I wouldn’t have this list finished until 2020 if that were the case.
- Rivers of Nihil, Where Owls Know My Name
- Charlie Looker, Simple Answers
- Thou, Magus/Rhea Sylvia/Inconsolable/The House Primordial/Let Our Names Be Forgotten (Split)
- Daughters, You Won’t Get What You Want
- Spires, A Parting Gift
- Huntsmen, American Scrap
- Khemmis, Desolation
- Uada, Cult of a Dying Sun
- Panopticon, The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness pt. I & II
- Zeal and Ardor, Stranger Fruit
- Bismuth, The Slow Dying of the Great Barrier Reef
- Cult Leader, A Patient Man
- Sumac, Love in Shadow
- Armand Hammer, Paraffin
- The Ocean, Phanerozoic I: Paleozoic
- Wayfarer, World’s Blood
- Anaal Nathrakh, A New Kind of Horror
- Imperial Triumphant, Vile Luxury
- Haley Heynderickx, I Need to Start a Garden
- Chapel of Disease, …And As We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye
- Slugdge, Esoteric Malacology
- Psycroptic, As the Kingdom Drowns
- Hypno5e, Alba - Les ombres errantes
- Polyphia, New Levels New Devils
- Voices, Frightened
- Black Tongue, Nadir
- Carla Bozulich, Quieter
- LLNN, Deads
- Rolo Tomassi, Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
- KEN Mode, Loved
- Oceans of Slumber, The Banished Heart
- Convulsing, Grievous
- Ulthar, Cosmovore
- None, Life Has Gone On Long Enough
- Eartheria, Awaken the Sun
- HamsferÐ, Támsins likam
- Un, Sentiment
- Alkaloid, Liquid Anatomy
- Horizon Ablaze, The Weight of a Thousand Suns
- August Greene, August Greene
- VOLA, Applause of a Distant Crowd
- Mire, Shed
- Sinistro, Sangue Cassia
- 1914, The Blind Leading the Blind
- Shake Stew, Rise and Rise Again
- Monotheist, Scourge
- Revocation, The Outer Ones
- Kaoteon, Damnatio Memoriae
- Turnstile, Time & Space
- The Atlas Moth, Coma Noir
- Mark Lanegan, Duke Garwood, With Animals
- AILS, The Unraveling
- Soul Grip, Not Ever
- Sectioned,Annihilated
- The Aftermath, Vermine
- Gorod, Aethra
- Author and Punisher, Beastland
- Street Sects, The Kicking Mule
- Hissing, Permanent Destitution
- Manes, Slow Motion Death Sequence
- Immortal, Northern Chaos Gods
- Jesus Piece, Only Self
- Ihsahn, Ámr
- Flood Peak, Plagued by Sufferers
- Inferi, Revenant
- Moss Upon the Skull, In Vengeful Reverence
- Irreversible Mechanism,Immersion
- Harm’s Way, Posthuman
- Anachronism, Orogeny
- Conjurer, Mire
Eps
1. Sadistik, Salo Sessions pt. II
2. Marche Funebre/Eye of Solitude, Split
3. Truent, To End an Ancient Way of Life
4. Plini, Sunhead
5. Blame, Almanac
6. Nexilva, Aseity
7. Epiphany from the Abyss, Epiphany from the Abyss
8. Child, I
9. Eternal Rot, Cadaverine
10. Noose Rot, The Creeping Unknown
11. Idle Hands, Don’t Waste Your Time
Honorable Mentions
These are in no particular order. If I liked it a lot, but it didn’t quite make the list, it’s here.
Morrow, The Weight of These Feathers
Unflesh, Savior
Apophys, Devoratis
Dead Wretch, Hug Division Dead Wretch
Pale Divine, Pale Divine
Tomb Mold, Manor of Infinite Forms
Ion, A Path Unknown
Horrendous, Idol
Arsis, Visitant
Beyond Creation, Algorythm
Exhaltants, Exhalants
Arakk, Under Sovnen
Jack White, Boarding House Reach
YOB, Our Raw Heart
Burial Invocation, Abiogenesis
Altars of Grief, Iris
Journal, Chrysalis Ordalias
Obliteration,Cenotaph Obscure
Augury, Illusive Golden Age
Micawber, Beyond the Reach of Flame
Soreption, Monuments of the Mind
Æpoch, Awakening Inception
Madder Mortem, Marrow
Monobody, Raytracing
Zealotry, At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds
Barús, Drowned
Mimicking Birds, Layers of Us
Denzel Curry, TA13OO
Voivod, The Wake
Wake, Misery Rites
Svalbard, It’s Hard To Have Hope
Amorphis, Queen of Time
Hate Eternal, Upon Desolate Sands
Aborted, TerrorVision
mol, Jord
Ripped to Shreds, 埋葬
URSA, Abyss Between the Stars
Alghazanth, Eight Coffin Nails
Dautha, Brethren of the Black Soil
Sleep, The Sciences
Alterbeast, Feast
Sulphur Aeon, The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos
Ulvesang, The Hunt
Horsewhip, Horsewhip
Obscura, Diluvium
Trollheims Grott, Aligned with True Death
Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer
Stortregn, Emptiness Fills the Void
J. Cole, KOD
Mammoth Grinder, Cosmic Crypt
Harakiri for the Sky, Arson
Fucked and Bound, Suffrage
Ataraxy, Where All Hope Fades
Outer Heaven, Realms of Eternal Decay
Spectral Wound, Infernal Decadence
Allelic, The Smoke of Atavistic Fires
Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik, Hugsja
Evidence, Whether or Not
Howling Sycamore, Howling Sycamore
All Traps on Earth, A Drop of Light
Coffin Birth, The Serpent Insignia
Vargrav, Netherstorm
SVNEATR, The Howl, The Whisper, The Hunt
Unreqvited, Stars Wept to the Sea
Chaos Echœs – Mouvement
Frontierer, Unloved
Infernal Coil, Within a World Forgotten
Other Notables
Of Feather and Bone, Beastial Hymns of Perversion
The Beast of Nod, Vampira: Disciple of Chaos
Lautreamont, Silence of the Deceased
Urze de lume,As Árvores Estão Secas e Não Têm Folhas
Weltschmerz, Illustra Nos
Black Wizard, Livin’ Oblivion
Mournful Congregation, The Incubus of Karma
Behemoth, I Loved You at Your Darkest
Skeletonwitch, Devouring Radiant Light
Emma Ruth Rundle, On Dark Horses
Oubliette, The Passage
The Crown, Cobra Speed Venom
The Dali Thundering Concept, Savages
Firtan, Okeanos
Between the Buried and Me, Automata I and II
Afgrund, The Dystopian
Good Tiger, We Will All Be Gone
Tribulation, Down Below
Portal, Ion
Modern Day Babylon, Coma
Vexes, Ancient Geometry
Them Moose Rush, Don’t Pick Your Nose
At the Gates, To Drink from the Night Itself
Pig Destroyer, Head Cage
Primordial, Exile Amongst the Ruins
Urfaust, The Constellatory Practice
Myopic, Myopic
Richard Spaven, Real Time
Outre Tombe, Necrovortex
Hooded Menace, Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
Omnium Gatherum, The Burning Cold
Conan, Existential Void Guardian
Necrophobic, Mark of the Necrogram
Letters from the Colony, Vignette
Thy Catafalque, Geometria
Cauldron, New Gods
Susperia, The Lyricist
In Vain, Currents
Order ov Riven Cathedrals, Göbekli Tepe
Aviations, The Light Years
Sojourner, The Shadowed Road
Sun Speaker, Ov Lustra
Born to Murder the World, The Infinite Mirror of Millenial Narcissism
Abyssal Torment, The Misanthrope
Midas Fall, Evaporate
Autokrator, Hammer of the Heretics
Antlers, Beneath.Below.Behold
Windhand, Eternal Return
Agrimonia, Awaken
Genocide Pact, Order of Torment
The Armed, Only Love
HAGO, HAGO
The Sword, Used Future
GoGo Penguin, A Humdrum Star
Melvins, Pinkus Abortion technician
Golgothan Remains, Perverse Offerings to the Void
Knelt Rote, Alterity
SeeYouSpaceCowboy/SecondGradeKnifeFight, Split
SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Fashion Statements of the Socially Aware
Apostle of Solitude, From Gold to Ash
Dead Empires, Designed to Disappear
Scraps of Tape, The Will to Burn
Winterfylleth, The Hallowing of Heirdom
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