“Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.” -Goethe

Sun sheaths into twilight, a rising moon pales dimming eyes and wearied ears, whose echoing memories are etched now, in the Riff Index – a weekly inscription of all things metal spawned from the clutch of a new brood.

A serpent uncoils, teeth gnash. The crypt’s grinding lurch; flesh sloughs onto rot-stenched soil. From iron rusted barrows anguish bellows across long fallow battlefields, up gale blasted ruins of towered stone. Smoke curls around snow-bedded branches bowed over churning embers, the night howls.

We convoke to witness these sonorous rites in brief violent blossoming from the skein of unknowing. Each offering a fleeting wound; a cairn of proclamation. Into the shadow of vanishing silence, a procession of flames dance and beckon.

Hark! Will you hear their song?

 

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List of Recommendable Guitar Music:
June 2nd – June 8th, 2025

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Iku-Torso – Wolfheart
Genre: Pagan Black
Streams: Bandcamp | YouTube Music

 

Owls – Une Toile de Plus à Brûler
Genre: Black / Melodic Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | YouTube

 

Gaahls Wyrd – Braiding the Stories
Genre: Dark Post-Black
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Austere – The Stillness of Dissolution
Genre: Brave Murder Day Post / Dark Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Autumn Nostalgie – Metanoia
Genre: Blackgaze
Streams: Bandcamp | YouTube

 

Axis of Light – To the Great Unbearing North
Genre: Raw Atmospheric Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Białywilk – Wniebowstąpienie
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp

 

Lazer Throne – Tomb of the Lunar Oracle
Genre: Cosmic Winter Synth Atmospheric Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Belenos – Egor
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | YouTube

 

Chamber of Mirrors – Tales of Blood
Genre: Raw Black Metal
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Azazel – Ave Dominus Luciferi
Genre: Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | YouTube

 

Iätön – Portit pohjolan
Genre: Raw and Synthy OSBM
Streams: Bandcamp | YouTube

 

Darkenhöld – Le Fléau du Rocher
Genre: Black / Melodic Black Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube

 

Ukhu Pacha – Yanantin
Genre: “Incan” Melodic Black Metal
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Empeiria – The Ascent: Szenen der Katharsis
Genre: Black Metal / Progressive Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Trucizna – Devil’s Glory Among Us
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Affliction Vector – Contra Hominem
Genre: Black Metal / Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Evil Deceiver – Hymns to Death
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal
Stream: YouTube

 

Putrescent – Darkness Embraced
Genre: Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Invocation Ritual – Demo
Genre: Death Metal
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Toxik Volcano – Kaos Dwells Within the Magma Chamber
Genre: Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Gruesome – Silent Echoes
Genre: Progressive OSDM
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Stortregn – One Eternal
Genre: Technical / Melodic Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Lacabra – Lacabra
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Ophiolatry – Serpent’s Verdict
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Streams: Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Parasitic Engorgement – Epoch of the Engorged Plague
Genre: Brutal Death Metal
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Bludgeoned by Deformity – Epoch of Immorality
Genre: Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Tenebro – Inferno Contaminato
Genre: Death Metal / Goregrind
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Putrefaction Sets In / FesterDecay – Putrefaction Sets In / FesterDecay
Genre: Death Metal / Goregrind / Deathgrind
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Refusal – Venomous Human Concept
Genre: Death Metal / Deathgrind
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Handsome Prick – Entry Level Blood Excretion
Genre: Deathgrind
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Devs Mortvorvm – The Oldest Crypt
Genre: Graveyard Doom-Death
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Obsidian Scapes – Death Chants Echo from Aphotic Void
Genre: Slightly Death-y Doom Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Funeral – The Funereal EP
Genre: Funeral Doom
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Aganoor – Doomerism
Genre: Stoner Psych Doom
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Dahuz – Cineres Mundi
Genre: Stoner Doom
Stream: Bandcamp

 

King Parrot – A Young Peron’s Guide To
Genre: Thrash Grindcore
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Battlesnake – Dawn of the Exultants and the Hunt for the Shepherd
Genre: Mad Max Gizzard Heavy Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Nightmärr – Fire in the Sky
Genre: 70s Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Stream: Bandcamp

 

A-Z – A2Z²
Genre: AOR Progressive Metal
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Turian – Blood Quantum Blues
Genre: Metallic Hardcore Noise
Stream: Bandcamp

 

Kollapse & Grava – Kollapse & Grava
Genre: Post-Metal Sludge Hardcore
Streams: Spotify | YouTube Music

 

Sin Deliverance – Universe of Nightmares
Genre: Symphonic Blackened-Tech Deathcore
Streams: Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube Music

 

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Compiled, checked, and recommended by ThyCrossAwaits, Azazzel, and yours truly

Intro by Azazzel

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