WILT_2025-14

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 30 Mar 2025 to 5 Apr 2025.

1. Inner Paths (To Outer Space) – Blood Incantation
2. Abscission – Deathspell Omega
3. Charnel Rifts – Black Curse
4. Visceral Ends – Ulcerate
5. Void of Words – Chapel of Disease
6. Sybelius – Blut Aus Nord
7. 1.000 Different Paths – Chapel of Disease
8. The presence of a being, whose interest in our endeavor is ephemeral and rarely believed, speaks imperceptibly in the space in between our breaths – Rejoice! The Light Has Come
9. By Virtue of a Promise – Sweven

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2025-14

Notes

This week is an exploration into black metal, death metal, and the progression between them. 

I started the week being reminded of the band, Horrendous, which then brought Sweven into my rotation, and that in turn led me down some paths that I wished I’d either gone down earlier, or spent more time with.

There’s something in the sheer carnality of the riffage that is explored in these genres, as well as the dissonant brutality of the arrangements and techniques. There is a whole world of expression to explore when adherence to listenability is thrown out the window, which in turn ironically makes something more listenable because the listener was tired of listening.