“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?
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
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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