Steven Wilson as a solo artist is one of the most interesting creative forces in alternative and progressive music. If a great clean section gets you sprung, check this out ASAP. The dark metal veterans (De Arma counts members of Fen and Armaggeda) strike a note of resignation with clean vocals and piercing emotional shrieks over a very desolate musical landscape. Lost, Alien & Forlorn is a fitting description alright - and this shoe-gazing black metal doesn’t disappoint.

Listen “Behind These Filthy Panes” ( here) “Watching The Walls Come Down” ( here)Ĭall it depressive metal or dark metal (or a name as pretentious), but you can imagine from that description the chilly, lovelorn gloom created by De Arma.

On a playlist with: Agalloch, Fen, Nahemah

G‘s lyrics, the Pristina guys seem to grapple with drug addiction - and on a very visceral level via creepy religious imagery for maximum discomfort.

Godless is an extremely raw piece of work with jagged glass riffs, shiver-inducing melodic sections, and poignant interludes.

Much to my surprise, the gentleman of Pristina (who live 25 minutes from my hometown of New Haven CT) have put out one of the most upsetting and memorable metallic hardcore releases I’ve heard in 2013: Hopeless Hardcore can be one of the most unsettling, emotionally rattling genres. Listen “The Immoralist” ( here) “The Motherfucker” ( here) On a playlist with: Today Is The Day, Converge, KEN Mode

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