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Violet Cold - Empire of Love

2021/Blackgaze, Post Black Metal/Azerbaijan

Released on CD/LP independently, on tape via Tridroid Records

LP sold out, CD available via VC's BC and official merch store, tape available via Tridroid's BC

'tis indeed a pride themed Black Metal album (and a very good one at that)

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Marche Funèbre - Einderlicht

2020/Death Doom, Blackened Doom/Belgium

Released via Hypnotic Dirge Records on CD/DLP (both still available through HD's Bandcamp page, LP sold out on MF's BC)

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Gnaw Their Tongues/Déhà - Rituel des Ancêtres

2023/Dark Ambient, Blackened Noise/Netherlands, Belgium

Released via Burning World Records on LP

Randomly found this record a while ago in a record store in Venlo, was certainly surprising to find GTT in a regular store, but a welcome surprise at that

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Festung - Der Turm

2022/Atmospheric Black Metal, Raw Black Metal, Old School Dungeon Synth/Germany

Released independently (digital/tape) and on DLP via Amor Fati Productions. Tape long sold out, LP still available trough AF's webshop

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Loth - 616

2023/Melodic Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal/France

Released via Vendetta Records on CD/LP/tape

LP available in black & white, CD also available as a discounted bundle with Loth's 2017 album Apocryphe

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Utarm - Crawling Altars

2017/Blackened Noise/Norway

Released via Records of the Fleshgod on LP

The LP comes with a 14-page art booklet with art done by Sindre Foss Skancke, sole member of Utarm as well as painter (supplying several projects with cover art, Crawling Altars being no exception). Most of his paintings can also be found on his website

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Antigone's Fate - Insomnia

2018/Atmospheric Black Metal, Depressive Black Metal/Germany

Released via Northern Silence Productions on CD (Jewelcase/Digipack)

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Svrm - .​.​. а с​м​е​р​т​ь в​в​і​й​ш​л​а у т​е​б​е в​ж​е д​а​в​н​о

2023/Atmospheric Black Metal, Raw Black Metal/Ukraine

Released via Vendetta Records on 7" EP

The title and lyrics of this EP are taken from works of the Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus

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Udånde - Slow Death - A Celebration of Self-Hatred

2022/Atmospheric Black Metal, DSBM/Slovakia

Released via Vendetta Records on CD/LP/DLP (incl. two bonus songs)/tape

The bonus tracks 'and Try to Keep Calm and Embrace'/'The Void' are Dark Ambient/Drone songs with each around 20 minutes of runtime as opposed to the rest of the album. Physically they are only included on the DLP, however both are featured on all digital releases of the album

Also, for some reason, 'We Should Welcome the Suffering' has some stupidly groovy parts

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Vorga - Striving Toward Oblivion

2022/Melodic Blackened Death Metal/Germany

Released via Transcending Obscurity on CD/LP, sold out at TO's stores but some vinyl copies still available through Vorga's own BC (Striving Toward Oblivion | Vorga (bandcamp.com))

New album 'Beyond the Palest Star' TBR on March 29th

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Houle - s/t

2022/Atmospheric Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal/France

Released via Les Acteurs de l'Ombre on CD/LP/tape

Saw these guys live as a support band a while ago and their show was pretty awesome, there are some really good live recordings on yt. also got to talk to them after their show, and all of them were genuinly really nice people

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Illumine - In Shifting Light

2022/Atmospheric Black Metal, Post Black Metal, Blackgaze/Germany

Released via Vendetta Records on tape, since sold out at Vendetta's BC but some copies and other merch still available on Illumine's BC

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Ild - Kvern

2023/Raw Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal/Norway

Released via Vendetta Records on CD/LP/tape, more merch available on Ild's BC

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Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion

2021/Atmospheric Black Metal, Blackened Doom, RABM/UK

Released by Northern Silence Productions (CD/Tape)/Throne Records (LP)

Jewelcase CD and tape bundle with ES's other albums still available through NSP, all other versions have sold out by now

My personal favourite album of all time, check out the first song Chasmal Fires specifically

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Intro/General Info Post

so, I made this sideblog to recommend artists/albums/songs I think are cool, since on my main blog those posts would likely go under

since I'm mostly into Black Metal, that's what you can expect from here, but there might/will be other stuff every once in a while as well

in general I'll be providing a Bandcamp link to an artist/album (given that they're on BC, which is mostly the case), as well as some basic information

I try to do my research on the bands I like listening to, so pretty much all of these will be clean/non-sketchy*. in case I missed something important about a band, please message me or send an ask

idk how frequently I'll post on here yet, but we'll see

*my standards for sketchy bands include:

-the band itself/members being openly bigoted (incl. openly supporting/tolerating NSBM)

-members playing in openly bigoted bands, as well as other close involvement with sketchy people

-being on labels that openly support NSBM or have signed sketchy bands, such as Osmose Productions (the exception being labels that truly don't care about politics and carry both openly bigoted and openly leftist bands, such as Season of Mist or Northern Silence Productions)

about me:

main blog: @thegaytoadwizard

my preferred pronouns are they/them, still figuring out name stuff

antifascist, anticapitalist, satanist (kinda), very gay

my 'favourite band' spot currently lies somewhere between Ethereal Shroud and Kanonenfieber

English is not my first language, so there might be some weird choice of words and phrasings

if you've read this far, have a nice day