Disfiguring the Goddess - Sleeper (2012)

Solo US slam-death. Gutturals, synthetic-sounding guitars, tight, tech-y drumming, and arpeggiating synths, all wrapped up in a ridiculously heavy production job that points towards dude's other gig as a dubstep producer. Now that this style's not so fashionable, can we all just admit how rad it is? Call it industrial metal if it helps you -- just admit it, man.

Track listing:
1. Sleeper
2. Queen Kingdom
3. Daughter of Depths
4. Lady Epicenter
5. Vines of Aftermath
6. Mountain
7. Ocean Tomb

Void leacher

You might also dig:

Lost Soul -
Immerse in Infinity (2009)

Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic
Sonic Landscapes (2011)

Camel - Moonmadness (1976)

Elite-tier prog. Lots of synths on this one, and an overall more laid-back feel than their previous records. Of course, there's still plenty of noodle-y instrumental sections, so don't you worry about that. Also: some of the best production I've ever heard. So clear and crisp, but warm and pillowy.

I only recently heard Moonmadness for the first time -- I made the mistake of trusting this dumb-dumb who told me that Mirage and The Snow Goose were their only good records, and it took me years to realize how wrong he was -- so it's probably too soon to tell, but it might be my favorite Camel. At the very least, it's as good as their first three.

Track listing:
1. Aristillus
2. Song Within a Song
3. Chord Change
4. Spirit of the Water
5. Another Night
6. Air Born
7. Lunar Sea

So far beyond the sky
Not knowing how or why
You realize this feeling is forever

You should also check out:

Earth and Fire -
Atlantis (1973)

Nektar - Remember the Future
(1973) + Magic Is a Child (1977)

Sunn O))) - Rehearsal Demo Nov 11 2011 (2012)

Related:
Sarin - Nihilist (1996)
Sunn O))) - ØØ Void (2000) + Dømkirke (2008)
KTL - 2 (2007)
Ascend - Ample Fire Within (2011)

Pitch-black drone-doom euphoria. Aside from a few samples, this is pure, earth-shaking guitar drone, in raw, (professional) demo-sounding form. Make sure that you're high on drugs, then turn this up as loud as possible and let it slowly enwrap you like a funeral shroud.

Track listing:
1. Holy Water
2. Peacock Angel
3. Power Nurse

It took the night to believe

You will also be into:

Otesanek -
Ontesanek (2004)

Sink -
The Process (2008)

Acrimony - In Unknown Direction (1992)

Polish thrash. Acrimony recorded just one album, and it just so happens to be one of the greatest thrash metal albums in existence. The perfect balance of mosh-friendly asskickery and (possibly) drug-influenced weirdness, and chops aplenty. Can't believe it hasn't gotten the deluxe reissue treatment.

Track listing:
1. Entering
2. Peace of Mind
3. It Stands to Reason
4. Level of Absolute
5. When Night Is Falling
6. What's That Light
7. Nothing of the Kind
8. Y.R.U.B.Z.
9. Digital Frying Pan for Disindustrialization of Night Dreams

Thousand miles of iron veins circulating the synthetic blood

If you like this, give these a spin:

Fear of God -
Within the Veil (1991)

Sabbat -
The Dwelling (1996)

Brats - 1980 Brats (1980)

Related:
King Diamond - The Eye (1990)
Mercyful Fate - Return of the Vampire (1992)

Brats were a short-lived band whose only LP is a killer fusion of punk, hard rock, and heavy metal. Despite the record's awesomeness, it likely would have faded into utter obscurity (as opposed to semi-obscurity) if, shortly after it came out, then-guitarist/vocalist Hank Shermann hadn't recruited a young King fucking Diamond to take over lead vocal duties, thereby planting the seeds for Mercyful fucking Fate.

Track listing:
1. Oy-905
2. Tame Me (Insomniac)
3. B-Brains
4. Punk Fashion
5. Complex (Don't Destroy Me)
6. Fuel
7. Heavy Rocker
8. Pinned on My Eyelids
9. Sense My Boy
10. Ogcah Ghaszlihr
11. Accepted
12. Zombie People

Invade another head

You should also listen to:

Dust -
Hard Attack (1972)

Tom Robinson Band -
Power in the Darkness (1978)

Icos - Fragments of Sirens (2007)

Swedish sludge/post-metal coated in a thick layer of crust. Heavy, atmospheric dirges that evoke images of manmade apocalpyse.

Track listing:
1. Fragments of Sirens
2. Author of Time
3. On My Own
4. In Repose
5. Nightmare
6. Midnight Scenery
7. Shattered Eyes

Blood from the skies

You should also check out:

Ambush -
Lach! (1994)

Oroku - Living Through
the End Time (2005)

Kilo - Kilo (1979)

An obscure gem of smooth, lean 70s funk. Slap bass, sweet-as-honey vocal harmonies, a lil' bit of sexy sax, and plenty of sweet, sweet synth. Be easy, baby.

Track listing:
1. Days
2. Devil's Eye
3. Be Mine
4. You, You, You
5. Satisfy Your Lovin'
6. Interlude
7. All in a Song
8. Fire, Fire, Fire
9. Love So Nice

Lovin' you is all I want to do

If you like this, check out:

Niteflyte -
Niteflyte (1979)

Oliver Cheatham -
The Boss (1982)

Die Verbannten Kinder Evas - Die Verbannten Kinder Evas (1995)

Related:
Summoning - Nightshade Forests (1997)
Summoning - Oath Bound (2006)

Austrian darkwave/neoclassical. Dramatic, fantastical classical pieces -- in the way that black metal intro tracks might be considered "classical pieces" -- performed on cheap-sounding keyboards whose cheesiness is counteracted by haunting, ethereal male-and-female vocals that hang like sorrowful spectres overhead.

Track listing:
1. Einleitung
2. The Serpent's Voice
3. Darkened Skies
4. Quod Olim Erat
5. Beneath the Veil of the Ocean
6. Requiem
7. May No Tears Stain This Holy Ground
8. The Messenger
9. Futile Belief
10. Reflection Beyond Boundaries
11. Craving Dreams
12. Shadowvale
13. Withering Existence
14. Das Letzte Kapitel

Through the seas of death

If you like this, you should listen to:

Aghast - Hexerei im
Zwielicht der Finsternis (1995)

Dark Sanctuary -
Royaume Mélancolique (1999)

Nornahetta - The Psilocybin Tapes (2016)

Fucked-up, utterly raw Icelandic black metal. The Psilocybin Tapes compiles four EPs that make up the entirety of Nornahetta's discography thus far, plus a few live tracks. Free/pay as you will via their bandcamp.

Track listing:
1. Voice of the Witch
2. Eating the Pileus
3. Sacred Psychosis
4. The One with Spores
5. Kneel in the Grass
6. Deteriorated State of Mind
7. Succubus of a Thousand Young
8. The Rebis, Spoiled
9. Circling the Tunnels of Samael
10. Moon Worship
11. Gathered Amidst Rotting Vegetation
12. Gateways of Flesh
13. Essence of Standing Stipes
14. Veracity of Adnate Witches
15. Atavist Activism

The whip is absolutely quiet
It is the awful hand that cracks its end

You should also hear:

Wormsblood -
Mastery of Creation (2009)

Ride for Revenge -
Wisdom of the Few (2009)

Matt Howden & Tony Wakeford - Three Nine (2000)

Related:
Steven Stapleton & Tony Wakeford - Revenge of the Selfish Shellfish (1992)
Matt Howden - Hellfires (2000)
Sieben - Ogham Inside the Night (2005)
Tony Wakeford - Not All of Me Will Die (2009)

Abstract, psychedelic neofolk from two masters of said musical realm. A capacious sound-world of thick drones, echoing strings, warm acoustic guitars, tape loops, and grim spoken word.

Track listing:
1. Thurisaz I
2. Ginnungagap III
3. Hagalaz I
4. Thurisaz II
5. Ginnungagap II
6. Hagalaz III
7. Thurisaz III
8. Ginnungagap I
9. Hagalaz II
10. Death's Dead
11. Death's Head (Instrumental)

Out of all this beauty something must come

More like this:

Mother Destruction / Sixth Comm -
Seething (1990)

Kiss the Anus of the Black Cat -
An Interlude to the Outermost (2007)

Kalmankantaja - Metsäkalmisto I (2016) + Metsäkalmisto II (2016)

Finnish dark ambient. An enveloping synth-world of drawn-out chords and simple, slo-mo melodies. Two EPs, both for free/name your price via bandcamp. [Apparently this link no longer works, DL link updated below.]

Kalmankantaja also make for a kickass black metal band -- I highly recommend their newest full-length, Tyhjyys.

Track listing:
-Metsäkalmisto I-
1. Valotta Vaeltava
2. Tuhkapolku
3. Metsäkalmisto
-Metsäkalmisto II-
1. Valtakuntani, Hautani
2. Hallanhenki
3. Kaamos

Formless...
... endless

If you like this, try:

Robert Rich -
A Troubled Resting Place (1996)

Biosphere -
Insomnia (1997)

Possession Ritual - Incense of Opened Gates (2011)

Ritualistic German black metal. Dense, dissonant, trance-inducing compositions for invoking evil spirits from the black beyond.

Track listing:
1. Incense of Opened Gates
2. Exorcismus
3. Lunar Hysteria
4. Aura of Flies
5. Downfall from Elation

Sacrifice for the darkness

You should also hear:

Rebirth of Nefast -
Only Death (2006)

The Watchers -
Demo 2016 (2016)

Extra Life - Dream Seeds (2012)

Grim experimental rock. Sounds range from mournful, piano-and-string ballads to harsh, metallic heaviness, all with distinctive, carefully enunciated vocals and disturbing, deeply depressing lyrical concerns.

Track listing:
1. No Dreams Tonight
2. Righteous Seed
3. Discipline for Edwin
4. Little One
5. First Song
6. Blinded Beast
7. Ten Year Teardrop

I can't look at you
You'd find me out
I can't touch you
I'd make an omelette out of you

If you like this, check out:

Skin -
Shame, Humility, Revenge (1988)

Rowland S. Howard -
Teenage Snuff Film (1999)

Infamous - Of Solitude and Silence (2011)

Italian black metal. Somehow, Infamous manages to sneak a bunch of major-key chord progressions into their songs without ever disrupting the melancholic haze. Maybe it's because everything is absolutely drenched in reverb.

Track listing:
1. Of Solitude and Silence
2. Rex Verminorum
3. Grey Euphoria
4. Human Scum
5. Spiritual Desolation
6. Lugore

Life's erosion

More Italian black metal:

Frostmoon Eclipse -
Gathering the Dark (2001)

Tenebrae in Perpetuum -
Onori Funebri Rituali (2003)

Eroc - Eroc 3 (1979)

Instrumental krautrock splendour from Joachim Heinz Ehrig, one-time drummer of symphonic prog greats Grobschnitt. Following an intro track that's as conspicuous and confounding as that album cover, the record quickly segues into a dream-like state of psychedelic, woozily beautiful krautrock, and stays there for most of the album's duration.

Track listing:
1. Wutpickel
2. Tontillon
3. Fito Linte
4. Wolkenreise
5. Solar Plexus
6. Euer Lied
7. Falke Whips It Out
8. About My Town
9. Sunny Sunday's Sunset
10. He's Around Here
11. Crew Blues Session

Andromeda

You might also enjoy:

Gila - Gila: Free
Electric Sound (1971)

Novalis -
Brandung (1977)