With one week left in the miserable year that is 2022, the fourth quarter picks are looking like this for me: Gorycz - Kamienie, Fell Ruin - Cast In Oil The Dressed Wrought, Lower Automation - Strobe Light Shadow Play, Veilburner - VLBRNR, Blightcaster - Of Blood-Cursed Night, Blattaria - Dismantle the New Cult, Nothing is Real - The End is Near, OTDHR - Maraud, Mo’ynoq - A Place for Ash, Citadel - Chosen Bereft, Unyielding Love - Flesh of the Furnace, Unformulas - Post Mortem Visionary, The Otolith - Folium Limina, Faetooth - Remnants of the Vessel, Moeror - All That We Seem, Kamra - Cerebral Alchemy, Wolok - The Bilious Hues of Gloom, Embrace the Maddness - Hyperbolic Ascension, Epectase - Necroses, Blut Aus Nord - Lovecraftian Echoes, Luces Lejanas - Partida, Arizmenda - Spiders Lust in the Dungeon's Dust, Estrangement - Disfigurementality, REMINA - STRATA
I must thank Ilias at No Clean Singing for setting me straight on Estrangement. Honestly, I would never have given this a listen given the cover art. Doesn’t even matter it is Esoteric approved being on Aesthetic Death. I’m not having that cover art at all. This video on the other hand: Holy hell. Brilliant.
When the new year dawns I’ll break this all down to a top 50. Reason being there is bound to be a last second release of staggering magnitude, much like Mütterlein- Bring Down the Flags was last year.
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While we’re on the topic of great videos, truly a lost art. Shall we press on?
This short movie comprised of a few Wormrot songs is stellar stuff.
The way the C.O.I.N. shot this for Fell Ruin is magnificent.
Shall we dig in the dirt? No, not with Peter Gabriel, but Gorycz.
Sure, this was last year, but, SNAUM is from Poland, too, and they have this crazed kaiju idea they’re rolling that is fitting of a Shinya Tsukamoto flick that I have to let it slide.
Whether or not you care for them you can always expect big visuals from Behemoth and their collaborators.
Voivod have a few videos off Synchro Anarchy, but this AI generated clip for “Quest for Nothing” is very much in keeping with Away’s style and is probably visually the best of the four.
And speaking of AI and Away… Thisquietarmy x Away off Machine Consciousness, Phase III
more animation of a stop motion bent from Anticreation taking inspiration from Jan Švankmajer.
For what is probably an inspiration for Švankmajer, a restoration ofWładysław Starewicz’s The Mascot/ The Devil’s Ball.
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Best combination of Gene Hoglan and Eric Andre in a video from 2022.