funereal presence

This week: an early crossover between gothic, doom, and darkwave, and a fairly recent black metal album with an appropriate amount of cowbell.

We pick a handful of our favorite album cover artworks to unabashedly worship, ones we consider top-tier visualizations of the metal spirit and generally just fucking awesome.

We crunched the numbers across our individual year-end lists and arrived at #1; then we said “fuck it” and “all these albums rule,” so here those are in one handy spot.

Associate Editor Jon Rosenthal’s unexpected picks for the year at large.

An Invisible Oranges newcomer reflects on his return to writing in his first year-end list.

The sophomore full-length by one-man black metal outfit Funereal Presence releases tomorrow — here’s our dive into its morbid trappings.

All the new metal (and otherwise) fit to spin (or skip) from 2/10/19 to 2/16/19.