Goths on Drugs. Volume 1.

Blackened industrial music from Australia. Intensely oppressive noise. Guttural growls. Densely programmed drums. Crashing guitars. Harsh. Destructive.

Goths on Drugs - 'Volume 1'

2013

1. Temple of Agony

2. Dream

3. Ballad

4. Sweet Suicide

5. Do You Really Want To Die

6. Interlude

7. Despair

8. Icy Death

9. Coma

10. For The Ones That Are Dead

11. Everyone is Dead

12. CrazyboiJihad

13. Demons Are My Friends

14. Rain

15. Temple of Despair (Sick Circuit Step Remix)

16. Everything is Meaningless

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MARNOST. Die Hamletmaschine.

Long-form black metal from the Czech Republic. Furious feedback.Vicious guitar stabs. Powerful blast beats. Torturous shrieks. Massive atmosphere. Unrelenting darkness.

MARNOST - 'Die Hamletmaschine'

2013

1. Die Hamletmaschine

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Deuil. Acceptance/Rebuild.

Thick Belgian post-blackened doom. Monstrously heavy slow riffs. Distortion-laden blast beats. Broken screams over blistering guitars. Beautiful choral ambience. Expressive weight. Crushing enormity.

Deuil - 'Acceptance/Rebuild'

2013

1. Acceptance

2. Rebuild

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Night Heir. Wind In My Dream Mist In My House.

Deep progressive black metal from Portland. Plodding acoustic tracks. Giant drums. Crashing guitars. Impassioned vocals. Absolutely stunning. Hugely immersive.

Night Heir - 'Wind In My Dream Mist In My House'

2010

I. Weeping of the Boughs

II. The Night Heir

III. No Sympathy From Demanding Idols

IV. Indigo Woman

V. Böcklin

VI. Temples of Muir (every tree a cross)

VII. Plaintive Orion

VIII. I Seek Myself

IX. I See Myself

X. DawnMan Outroduction

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Cara Neir/Ramlord. Split.

Furious black metal split. Crust and sludgey hardcore influences. Violent shrieks. Blazing drums. Gorgeous guitars. Vital. Urgent.

Cara Neir/Ramlord - 'Split'

2012

1. Cara Neir - Family Dirge

2. Cara Neir - Cradled by Apathy

3. Cara Neir - Wilted Blue

4. Ramlord - Affliction of Clairvoyance (Part One)

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MISERY. Miséricordes.

Viciously bleak one-man black metal from France. Experimental ambience. Atmospheric guitars. Slow dirges. Throat-tearing shrieks. Dank. Evil.

MISERY - 'Miséricordes'

2012

1. Église de misère

2. Hantée par les plaies

3. Sous l’égide des martyrs

4. Le cloître aux choeurs maudits

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Paysage d'Hiver. Steineiche.

Super-atmospheric black metal. Hazy guitars. Desperate screams. Immense long-form songs. Bleak. Desolate. Necessary.

Paysage d'Hiver - 'Steineiche'

1998

1. Die Baumfrau

2. Der Baummann

3. Der Baum

4. Déjà Vu

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Wildernessking. The Writing of Gods in the Sand.

South African semi-atmospheric black metal. Flowing melodies. Vicious vocals. Destructive instrumentals. Mighty. Heavy. Ceaselessly inventive.

Wildernessking - 'The Writing of Gods in the Sand'

2012

1. Rubicon

2. Discovery

3. River

4. Utopia

5. Surrender

6. Reveal

7. Inifinity

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Nortt. Galgenfrist.

Blackened funeral doom from Denmark. Thundering bass. Crushing guitars. Broken ambience. Huge. Tragic. Destructive.

Nortt - 'Galgenfrist'

2007

1. Galgenfrist

2. Til Gravens Vi

3. Af Døde

4. Kaldet

5. Over Mit Lig

6. Havet Hinsides Havet

7. Hjemsøgt

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Lonesummer. There Are Few Tomorrows For Feeding Our Worries.

Philadelphian bedroom-. -black metal. -post rock. -shoegaze.

More reverb. More droning. More lo-fi.

Lonesummer - 'There Are Few Tomorrows For Feeding Our Worries'

2011

1. I Hope You Miss Me Now, Because I Want You To Know How Much That Hurts

2. Worries and Weariness

3. Tobacco, Gin and Bile

4. Ghost Stories

5. All My Bitterness Is Just Regret

6. The Sweetest of The Sweet Dreams

7. To Make Things Good Again

8. There Are Few Tomorrows for Feeding Our Worries

9. You're Ash To Me

10. Dream Me Free

11. Clouded Eyes and Candlelight

12. Despair Will Hold a Place In My Heart, a Bigger One Than You Do

13. ...For Just One Warm Day

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Planning For Burial/Lonesummer. Split.

Atmospheric ambient. Blackened drone. Innumerable heartbreak.

Lo-fidelity. Reverb. Visceral. Raw.

Planning For Burial/Lonesummer - 'Split'

2010

1. Planning For Burial - Sleeping In Separate Rooms

2. Planning For Burial - If I Knew What To Say

3. Planning For Burial/Lonesummer - Boring Domesticated Life

4. Lonesummer - Joy Is A Burden

5. Lonesummer - I Wish I Could Delete Last Night

6. Lonesummer - Regrettably, Out Harvest Never Grew

7. Lonesummer - Your Eyes Always Shake Me

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Ash Borer/Fell Voices. Split.

Cascadian black metal from Arcata. Drone-influenced black metal from Santa Cruz. Massive songs. Untitled songs. Pounding drums. Huge atmospheres. Bleak perfection.

Ash Borer/Fell Voices - 'Ash Borer/Fell Voices'

2010

1. Ash Borer - Untitled

2. Fell Voices - Untitled

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Various Artists. Odour of Dust and Rot.

Insane black metal. Underground. Dark. Evil. Wintery. Grim. Kvlt as fuck.

'Odour of Dust and Rot'

2011

1. Unknown Artist - Enslave Every Star

2. Glossolalia - Filth in the Light

3. Absum - Living Graves

4. Unknown Artist - Strain I

5. Tukaaria - Empty as the Prophecy

6. Unknown Artist - Rhythms of the Feast

7. Absum - Profaned

8. Unknown Artist - Tempest

9. Unknown Artist - Strain II

10. Kuxan Suum - Principle of Harmonic Resonance

11. Nihilobstat - Traced in Absurdity

12. Unknown Artist - Strain III

13. Odz Manouk - A Virulent Wind

14. Absum - Restless Scepter

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Planning For Burial. Leaving.

Post-rock. Black metal. Shoegaze. Solitary experimentation. Ambient despair. Lo-fi melancholy. Pure power.

Planning For Burial - 'Leaving'

2009

1. Wearing Sadness and Regret Upon Our Faces

2. Memories You'll Never Feel Again

3. Oh Pennsylvania, Your Black Clouds Hang Low

4. Humming Quietly

5. We Left Our Bodies with the Earth

6. Being a Teenager and the Awkwardness of Backseat Sex

7. Seasons Change So Slowly

8. Verse/Chorus/Verse

9. Leaving

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Mamaleek. Kurdaitcha.

Experimental black metal. Eastern-tinged noise. Lo-fi emotionalism. Destructive. Visceral. Eerie maximalism. Sound effects for the end of ages.

Mamaleek - 'Kurdaitcha'

2011

1. The Hypocrite & The Concubine

2. Wake Up, Jacob

3. My Body Rock Long Fever

4. Sinner Won't Die No More

5. You Can Bury Me In The East

6. What a Trying Time

7. The White Marble Stone

8. Some Valiant Soldier

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Ash Borer. Ash Borer.

Cascadian black metal. Unrelenting atmospheres. Local music. Minimal synths. Fast Drums. Chaos. Beauty.

Ash Borer - 'Ash Borer'

2011

1. In the Midst of Life, We Are In Death

2. Rest, You Are the Lightning

3. My Curse Was Raised In the Darkness Against a Doomsday Silence

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Unknown Artist. Untitled Album.

Atmospheric black metal. No artist name. No album title. No song titles. Darkthrone worship. Wintery. Cold.

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2011

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Spuolus. Beyond the Event Horizon.

Blackened funeral doom. Spaced-out music. Synths. Slow guitars. Dirges. Crushing atmospheres. Infinite.

Spuolus - 'Beyond the Event Horizon'

2010

1. I Stand Nowhere

2. Your Defencelessness

3. The Last Vanishing

4. Arcane Annihilation

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