Aug 28 2025 - Brazen Blazes and Close Shaves

 

Shield your eyes, cover your ears, it's another episode of Through the Moonless Night!

Had to rush this week's playlist due to total lack of time, and ended up having one of my favorite sets yet. I didn't try too hard this week to find new stuff, though I did end up featuring two brand new tracks. One from the mighty Coroner, whose comeback album is releasing extremely soon. I say mighty Coroner as though I'm a long time fan...is this the moment where I admit this single is the first time I've ever listened to them? For some reason, I thought they were a NWOBHM band all along and avoided them thinking it'd be some third rate Maiden (a band I already don't hold a lot of love for). Hearing the single and finding that it was weird and thrashy and kinda off kilter got me researching into their past and realizing how wrong I was. Whoops

I also featured a track from an album that's becoming another favorite of the year - Brazen Horde - whose stuff sounds like Immortal, Hate Forest and Bathory united and merged all their best attributes. I also dipped back into some favorites from recent years from Revororum ib Malacht, Clandestine Blaze, and Deathspell Omega. Also took some trips down memory lane with early Ensiferum making an appearance. Paid tribute to Jürgen Bartsch from Bethlehem too. RIP.

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Artist	Song / Album	Format	Style	Timecode
Gorgoroth	Gorgoroth / Antichrist	CD	True Norwegian Black	0:00:00
Voice Break				0:05:34
Brazen Horde	Ritterbruder's Dissent / Behold! The Ashen Cross	Digital	Icy and Thunderous Black	0:10:13
I	Far Beyond the Quiet / Between Two Worlds	CD	Epic Bathory Black/Death	0:15:33
Summoning	Bauglir / Oathbound	CD	Goofy Middle-Earth Nerd Sounds	0:22:44
Ensiferum	Windrider / Ensiferum	CD	Noodly Folk Metal	0:25:37
Mefisto	Missing in Action / Megalomania + The Puzzle...	LP	First Wave Black	0:31:15
Voice Break				0:36:29
Bethlehem	Als ich noch Caulerpa Taxifolia erbrach / Sardonischer Untergang im Zeichen irreligiöser Darbietung	Digital	Dark Psychotic Metal	0:41:24
Close Shave	We're Coming Back / Hard as Nails	Digital	Triumphant Oi!	0:45:58
Nartvind	The End Of Another Human Life / Until Their Ruin	Digital	Straightforward Raw Black	0:50:15
maudlin of the Well	They Aren't All Beautiful / Bath	CD	Avant-Death	0:56:42
Voice Break				1:02:13
Coroner	Renewal / Dissonance Theory	Digital	Techy Groovy Thrash	1:07:05
Deathspell Omega	The Long Defeat / The Long Defeat	LP	Progressive Apocalytic Black	1:12:29
Intestine Baalism	The Genuine Tone / Banquet in the Darkness	CD	Melodic BDM	1:20:59
Voice Break				1:25:44
Revororum ib Malacht	Pilgrim på jorden / Martyrium Matrimonii: Sacrificium Christi	LP	Dark Choral Black	1:31:54
Clandestine Blaze	Resacralize The Unknown / Resacralize the Unknown	CD	Sinister and Mean Black	1:39:56
Horna	Baphometin siunaus / Sanojesi äärelle	CD	Finnish Blasting	1:44:38
Kły	Jasienie / Chen	CD	Post Punk / Neo Folk	1:53:14

RIP