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Essence

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	Olde Throne In the Land of Ghosts some good old fashioned slightly folk inspired atmospheric black metal fun. smacks of windir in a spot here and there	4.0 02.09.24
	Rhun (USA-ME) Conveyance In Death has it all. riffs, atmosphere, dissonance, all executed to the pedigree of Falls of Rauros. a stellar release	4.5 02.08.24
	Vitriol (USA) Suffer & Become overwhelmingly loud and noisy. if you can listen to this and hear anything besides the constant trigger of the bass drum, then there is proficient, interesting death metal to be found	3.0 01.31.24
	Cave Sermon Divine Laughter shockingly good prog/death metal. the dissonant ambient passage that bridges the two halves of Beyond Recognition is absolute genius	4.5 01.29.24
	Sadness I want to be there this is genuinely a masterpiece touching, heartfelt, dreamy - lightning in a bottle to capture the very essence of blackgaze so perfectly	5.0 01.06.24
	Panopticon The Rime of Memory where scars was a little unfocused and ...again was a bit messy, rime is austin's vision delivered with perfect clarity and precision. as others have said - a culmination of the band's collective efforts over the years, this is panopticon tuned to a razor edge some of the very best emotional work he has done in his whole career - enduring the snow drought should go down as a black metal classic	4.5 11.30.23
	Valdrin Throne of the Lunar Soul late year contender for 2023 best in black metal. up there with stormruler's recent LP. look nowhere else for combining the bombast, melodicism and fury of 90s symphonic black with modern sensibilities and incredible leads. if you jammed moonlight sorcery, give this a go	4.5 11.28.23