Some special Valentines day metal, thankfully being a day late to Valentines has never had negative repercussions.

Playlist:

• Carcass - Heartwork
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Deathmask Divine
• Tomb Mold - Servants of Possibility
• Pig Destroyer - Hyperviolet
• Astronoid - Air
• Liturgy - GOD OF LOVE
• ENDON - Torch Your House
• Hum - Apollo

A deep dive into the flavours of Quebec tech-thrash and it's compatriots

Playlist:

• Quo Vadis - In Contempt
• Martyr - Virtual Emotions
• Neuraxis - Fractionized
• Hellwitch - Sentient Transmography
• Coroner - Son of Lilith
• Anata - Better Grieved than Fooled
• Dissimulator - Outer Phase
• Replicant - Acid Mirror

Departing from the 90's of last week to more modern black metal from all over the world.

Playlist:

• Serpent Column - Each and Every Temple
• Zhrine - Unortheta
• Unyielding Love - Joy of Magick
• Chaos Moon - The Pillar, the Fall and the Key I
• Entheos - Continent
• Castevet - The Curve
• Cave Sermon - Liquid Gold

90's euro black metal exhibition. And also Curta'n Wall I can't explain that.

Playlist:

• Necrophobic - Nailing the Holy One
• Dissection - Night's Blood
• Odium - Palace of Forgotten Dreams
• Dimmu Borgir - Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny
• Valdrin - Golden Walls of Ausadjur
• Bloody Keep - Werewolf's Tale
• Curta'n Wall - Wiz'rd's Hat
• Dawn - The Knell and the World

Brutal death metal of all varieties, though supposedly inspired by the incredible Disgorge (the Mexican one, though in my opinion this should be the original Disgorge, and we should call the other one Disgorge Cali)

Playlist:

• Dick Pill Overdose - Thick Blue Lines
• Carcass - Ruptured in Purulence
• Disgorge - Rancid Bowel Sarcoma
• Miasmatic Necrosis - Septic Expulsion of a Collapsed Cavity
• Last Days of Humanity - Intoxicated
• Disgorge - Pest.Blood.Metal
• Perverted Dexterity - The Imminent Absurdity
• Degrade - United In Brutality
• Brodequin - Of Pillars and Trees
• Devourment - Profane Contagion
• Seminal Embalmment - Divine Agony

Excerpt from an interview with Trey Azagthoth of Morbid Angel on http://angemorbide.free.fr/interview24.html :

Smother: Explain the concept of lava to us.

Trey: Lava is just something funny. It's just talking about an abundant flow of energy. A vibrant flow of energy.

Smother: Where did you derive that idea?

Trey: Just because I'm silly. I like to have fun. I believe in being serious and still having fun at the same time.

Playlist:

• Hate Eternal - The Obscure Terror
• Origin - Wrath of Vishnu
• Unmerciful - Cast to Flames
• Myrkskog - Utter Human Murder
• Nile - User Maat Re
• Rebaelliun - Bringer of War
• Intonate - Sever
• Morbid Angel - Nothing But Fear
• Heaving Earth - Nailed to Perpetual Anguish

Taking a look at the music that the Prisoner's Dilemma is most excited to hear in the year 2024. I had given up on the idea of a new Sarpanitum release, I need Leon Macey double bass like I need air.

Playlist:

• Defeated Sanity - Into the Soil
• Sarpanitum - Glorification Upon the Powdered Bones of the Dead
• Vitriol - Shame and It's Afterbirth
• Knoll - As Spoken
• Theophonos - No Reprieve
• Chapel of Disease - A Death Though No Loss
• Hull of Light - Sun
• Yellow Eyes - One Rock for the Wild Dog

Album of the Year roundup!

Playlist:

• Nithing - Of Those Immortal, Longing for Decease
• Altarage - Case Full of Putrid Stars
• Acausal Intrusion - Pillar of Rationality
• Torture Chain - Red Vardar
• Brii - Ecos De Imaginacao
• Tomb Mold - Fate's Tangled Thread
• Worm - Sea of Sorrow

Some of the music that I listened to the most this year, not limited to 2023.

Playlist:

• Pyrrhon - Idiot Circles
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Moonlight Equilibrium
• The Black Dahlia Murder - On Stirring Seas of Salted Blood
• Outer Heaven - Unspeakable Aura
• 100 gecs - Hollywood Baby
• Worm - Midwinter Tears
• Hum - Iron Clad Lou
• Hum - Little Dipper
• Hum - The Scientists

Warlike metal of death

Playlist:

• Diocletian - Traitor's Gallow
• Concrete Winds - Flaying Internecine
• Infernal Coil - Our Punishment
• Of Feather and Bone - Entropic Self Immolation
• Dead Congregation - Serpentskin
• Black Curse - Enraptured by Decay
• Vorum - Through the Throats of Liars
• Lvcifyre - Tribes of Khem
• Gath Smane - Genocidal Alchemy
• Heafodban - Behelit of Dreams