21/12/2024
And finally, we have Daniel’s honorable mentions…
- Replicant: Infinite Mortality (Dissonant Death metal, technical death metal, brutal death metal)
Slimy, murky, ugly… Replicant delivered premium dissonant death metal with an exceptional combination of brutality and terror. Disgusting vocals, unhinged percussion and savage riffage turn “Infinite Mortality” into infinite fun.
- Selbst: Despondency Chord Progressions (Black metal, Post-black metal)
From the pen of Venezuelan solo artist Selbst, this album is an evocative masterpiece of powerful post-black metal that goes through bone and marrow. It impresses with evocative, cathartic songs that shatter our inner tension and relieve unconscious conflicts through layers of dark, woeful soundscapes and staggering instrumentation.
- Orgone: Pleroma (progressive metal, avantgarde metal, technical death metal)
“Pleroma” is a journey into the unknown, drawing us into a world of lush, multifaceted soundscapes, various emotions, and moods, as well as intricately woven narratives, and all of it flows organically in a chaotic yet ordered manner, enthralling us with either gorgeous, dreamy string and piano parts, or shaking us with hardened aggression, masterfully set in motion with progressive riffage and elaborate percussion.
- Caelestra: Bastion (progressive metal, post metal, melodic death metal, synthwave)
Crafted with much passion and splendor, “Bastion” is the ideal immersion into a world of larger-than life compositions and ethereal soundscapes. Drawing from post, progressive, melodic death metal, and 80’s synthesizers, this album is a true spectacle of dreamy melodicity, mythical atmospheres and emotional weight.