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I often make the argument that the arts are a playground for the mind in which one can experience emotions they would never experience other...

 A friend recently brought up the topic of death in the context of the military and I thought it useful to spend some time thinking about it...

 1) Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere I often think about what artistic expression would look like if artists didn't have to worry ...

 2) ERRA - Cure Most of my list year to year is composed of very challenging music. This is because I like to be challenged. I love when som...

 3) Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God Ulcerate isn't cosmic death metal. Over the years of featuring them on my lists I don't thi...

 4) Bedsore - Dreaming the Strife for Love A bedsore is something you get due to inactivity, something you get when you're dying slowly ...

 5) The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales On first spin of Weird Tales all I could hear were egregious missteps in composition, tracks that seemed ...

 6) BIG | BRAVE - A Chaos of Flowers As Donald signs executive orders demonizing and effectively outlawing the DEI movement, I've been r...

 7) Wormed - Omegon Cosmic death metal album #2. Wormed are actually one of the OG cosmic death metal examples. And they happen to be one of...

 8) Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness Hey, you all know Ulcerate came out with an album this year, it's in here, surprise spoiled. But...

 9) Siderean - Spilling the Astral Chalice Remember last year, when I said Afterbirth was a flash in the pan, that no one else would be taki...

 10) Pijn - From Low Beams of Hope This was my little secret of the year. It will not appear on any other lists unlike the rest of my picks....

In the year 2024 I met a grown man who believed in astrology. I was talking to him at a bar and he was trying to sell it to me. "Oh eve...

 1) Afterbirth - In But Not Of I love brutal death metal bands... in the way that one loves corndogs. They're tasty and non-serious. You...

 2) Saturnus - The Storm Within Nostalgia should be able to bring you just so far toward happiness or contentment. The reminder of a past be...

 3) Ahab - The Coral Tombs Ahab has been writing concept albums since they started and I've made a ritual of reading the book in the sam...

 4) Rotten Sound - Apocalypse I took a vacation to visit my family recently. The bulk of the visit was listening to my conservative father c...

 5) Werewolves - My Enemies Look and Sound Like Me When I first started my job at a tech company I remember the "ice breaker" ques...

 6) Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility I remember years ago begrudgingly including a thrash band on my list and then every year since I'...

 7) Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant For Us This was certainly one of my more stubborn moments of 2023. I kept seeing ridiculously posi...

 8) Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite I first got into Cattle Decapitation with To Serve Man, and really only because the album art was fuckin...