Friday Night Metal
Malefactor & Pirate of the High Frequenseas & polluter & The Blasphemer
The fate of all flesh, displayed in austere glory. The Malefactor's dominion arrives once more.
Behold the Malefactor's unholy presence here.
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| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passeisme | Stubborn Zeal Chant | Alternance | Antiq | Kicking off this list is the Malefactor's sixth-ranked release of 2023, a rousing display of exuberant and dexterous black metal, this Russian band's second album. Replete with riffs and lavish in its textures, an expression of prodigious talent. |
| Minenwerfer | Sturmtruppen III (Sommekämpfer) | Feuerwalze | Osmose | Number Five: The triumphant return of Sacramento's WWI enthusiasts marks a vicious, bleak contrast with the melodious tones of their successful Alpenpässe full-length from 2019. An essential for devotees of aggressive black metal. |
| Invultation | Feral Legion | Feral Legion | Sentient Ruin Laboratories | Fourth: A later entry to the field, this Black/Death band combines pounding, bestial vibes familiar to fans of Archgoat with blazing, fiery assaults in the spirit of Angelcorpse. A refreshing and extremely effective take on this style. |
| Majesties | In Yearning, Alive | Vast Reaches Unclaimed | 20 Buck Spin | Third: This masterful homage to the more esoteric side of Swedish melodic death metal has maintained a top spot all year, providing a welcome contrast from both the saccharine expressions common to this style and the riffless boredom of most of today's less-extreme forms of death metal. Brilliant musicianship and sweeping harmonies elevate it to heights of transcendent grandeur. |
| Ascended Dead | Ungodly Death | Evenfall of the Apocalypse | 20 Buck Spin | Second: A gloriously chaotic and aggressive display of death metal that never feels like a rehash of tired, old ideas. Invokes the spirit of bands like Morbid Angel and Necrovore without sounding like an imitation of either. Energetic, sinister, and powerful. |
| Smoulder | The Talisman and the Blade | Violent Creed of Vengeance | No Remorse | Taking the first spot, an album that The Malefactor has been calling AOTY since it came out in April, this masterpiece of epic, richly-layered, and earnest true metal opus builds ambitiously on the band's debut and delivers the most singularly mighty sword-and-sorcery release of the year. |
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| Death Worship | Superion Rising | Reaping Majesty | Nuclear War Now! | Ryan Forster's post-Conqueror output reaches an arguable zenith here, with this comp/album featuring rerecordings of prior tracks and two new cuts. Top-tier black/death. Limited edition festival version. |
| Funeral Chant | Oneiric Perversion | Dawn of Annihilation | Carbonized | 2021 album of sinister black/death. |
| Innominate | Crowning the Oppressor | Foreboding | Eminent Sounds | Fantastic brand-new debut full-length from one of California's best death metal bands. |
| Abominator | Dimensions of Mammon Enshroud | Nuctemeron Descent | Osmose | 2003 entry in Abominator's catalogue sees them at their most venomous and powerful. |
| Sarcofago | The Black Vomit | The Laws of Scourge | Cogumelo | Re-recording of the track originally found on INRI. |
| Submerged | Disenchanting the Ancient Ents | Promo 2023 | Eminent Sounds | Debut recording from this new band, just now signed to New Standard Elite. |
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| Aeternus | Vind | Beyond The Wandering Moon | Hammerheart | Heroic, barbaric, triumphant; this masterful debut by Norway's "dark metal" legends has few imitators. |
| Sacramentum | Obsolete Tears | Far Away From The Sun | Adipocere Records | 1996's Swedish cult classic. |
| Profanatica | Foul The Air With Blasphemy | Thy Kingdom Cum | Hell's Headbangers | 2013. |
| God Dethroned | Boiling Blood | Bloody Blasphemy | Metal Blade | 1999. |
| Stormwarrior | To Foreign Shores | Northern Rage | Remedy Records | 2006. |
| Hades | ...Again Shall Be | ...Again Shall Be | Full Moon Productions | 1994. |
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| Darkmoon | Writhing Glory | Seas of Unrest | Music For Nations | 1999 cult classic of USBM featuring Jon Vesano, who went on to play bass and vocals in Nile for two albums. |
| Runemagick | Curse of the Dark Rune | The Supreme Force of Eternity | Century Media | Classic 1998 debut. |