“This atmospheric track dives deep into the hidden struggles behind our public façades, blending doom, black and post metal.”
From the abyss and beyond: The Color Out Of Space's The Storm That Erases unleashes Lovecraftian black metal "about the storm that comes from the stars to destroy all things," while The Utter's In The Empyrean Loft offers a raw black metal concept album about the wind, sung in English and Hungarian. Oskoreien's All Too Human meditates on free will and morality through "unrelenting waves and layers of guitars" inspired by the Charles Whitman tragedy, and Laconist's Vermiforming sees Brazilian brutal death metal return after a 10-year hiatus, "back to honor the lords of pestilence" with guest vocals from Kyle Ball. Salt Divination's The Boiled Sorceress rounds it out with black metal and hardcore fused with power violence and grind — "obscene and beautiful in equal measure."