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 Lists
04.13.26 Alk's Best of 2026 Q1 ♦03.25.26 Keep ya head up
03.10.26 2026 country log03.05.26 2026 Black Metal Chronicles
02.19.26 Discog run: Motorhead02.02.26 Favorite mixes
01.29.26 Alk's Top 20 of 202501.15.26 freaky occult/esoteric black metal recs
01.06.26 Alk's Top 10 Horror Movies of 202512.31.25 Archgoat Ranked
12.25.25 Recent CD acquisitions ♦12.01.25 Discog run: Mortuary Drape
11.16.25 Rec Me: Grind11.05.25 Rotting Christ Discog Run
10.27.25 Let's Listen: Blut Aus Nord10.21.25 Listening through Nile
09.25.25 Good Country? Hell yeah bruh

2026 Black Metal Chronicles

Gonna try and add releases as I listen to them. Let's gooooo!
1Black Usurper
Echoes From Beneath

4/5
2The Ruins of Beverast
Tempelschlaf

4.2/5
3Black Hurst
Purgatory of Flesh Bizarre

4/5
4Archvile King
Aux Heures Désespérées

4.5/5
5Barbarian
Reek of God

3.4/5
6Rotting Christ
Aealo (Re-recorded)

4/5
7Mol
Dreamcrush

3.5/5
8Mayhem
Liturgy of Death

2.6/5
9Worm
Necropalace

4.5/5
10Coscradh
Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld

4.1/5
11Trespasser (SWE)
יְהִי אוֹר

4.1/5
12Silver Wings
Hanging Star in the West

3.7/5
13Fire Magic
Memories of Fire

4/5
14Bosse-de-Nage
Hidden Fires Burn Hottest

4.5/5
15Blackbraid
Nocturnal Womb

3.7/5
16Selvnatt / Draugveil
Blades & Roses

3.6/5
17Iron Firmament
In The Land of Pre-Human Kings

4.2/5
18Epigram (USA-CA)
Obsolescent

3.9/5
19Gaerea
Loss

3.2/5
20Hellripper
Coronach

3.2/5
21Malauriu
The Third Nail

3.3/5
22Kekht Arakh
Morning Star

3.1/5
23Serpent Lord (USA-WA)
The Once Forgotten Ways of Old

Stoked for this
24Sisyphean
Divergence

3.7/5

Is good. There are some really interesting bits but overall it's a serviceable black metal album.
25Ultha
A Light So Dim

4.1/5

Atmospheric, bleak and expansive. Gotta love that USBM has become so prominent that Europeans are making versions of it.
26Lomsk
Act II - Of Iron and Blood
27Aldheorte
The Wild Divine
28Mammon's Throne
My Body to the Worms
29Malum (NOR)
From the Voids
30Nahtrunar
Sphären
31Aedel Fetich
Ædel Fetich
32Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne!
Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne!
33Possession (BE)
The Mother of Darkness
34Uada
Interwoven

3.8/5

I'm sure lots of people are going to hate this but I actually dig it. My major quibbles are with the vocals, and the lyrics don't always work as well when you can easily understand them, but the instrumentals create a thick and depressing vibe it's hard not to get sucked in.
35Conifere
À Double Tranchant
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