10 mixes with songs by “The+Wounded+Kings”

8 tracks including music from Christian Mistress, Wizard Rifle, and Backwoods Payback

An intoxicated dedication to doom

Google search results for "best female metal vocalists" are fucking depressing. Go ahead, try it.

11 female-fronted metal tracks including Christian Mistress, Ludicra and Dark Castle. (Not including Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, Kittie, Nightwish, Epica, or any other neo-goth trollop in a corset.)

"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."

20 tracks including Manorexia, Hexvessel and Sleep

Part 2 of 4 of my Roadburn 2012 mega mix

Eight tracks including music by Church Of Misery, High On Fire, and Hour of 13.

The sea is a place of submerged terror and general awfulness, and here's musical proof of that fact.

Eight tracks including music by Burzum, the Wounded Kings, and Tom Waits.

Art: Sea Serpent Woodcut from Olaus Magnus' "History of the Northern Peoples," 1555.

Fifteen tracks including music by Candlemass, Electric Wizard, and Grand Magus.

This was my feeble year in metal.

Twenty-six tracks including music by 1349, Enslaved and Triptykon.

I'm not used to discovering music at the time of release, so imagine my surprised that I so-very-liked so many 2011 records. Here are some of my top songs from the past year.

Eleven tracks including music by Austra, In Solitude and Peste Noire

Cover art: Felix Labisse "La Sainte Hermanda"

Eight tracks including music by Cell, Heavenly and Waldeck.