4) Qrixkuor - The Womb of the World
There's a sub-sub-genre I've been keeping an eye out for. Attempting to name it... I don't know... "ritualistic blackened death metal" maybe. It's got some of the trappings of black metal in theme, but the riffs are certainly death, but the hook is that it sounds like the band is performing an ancient rite that appears to be working. The music of Akhlys, and now Qrixkour seem to be taking ritualistic esotericism to a place beyond Satanism. There's something older and more mysterious that's being conjured by this music. This is music Lovecraft would've chosen for his film adaptations if he were alive to direct.
This is deeply unsettling, so it would be the most difficult one to recommend from this year's list. You not only need to get past the incomprehensible vocals, the jagged instrumentation, but you also have to worry about conjuring a foul ancient spirit into existence that may whisper in your ear promises of pleasure and success only to render you into a husk, blank and dim. Check in on me occasionally if I can bother you to do so. If I start acting like Renfield in service to my master, call someone, though I don't know who that might be.
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