Sema Lists

January 2026

Records of the Month

  1. Remember Twilight – Gedächtnispalast (Kammermusikcore)
  2. Skulld – Abyss Call To Abyss (Death/Crust)
  3. Alkaloid – Bach Out of Bounds (Classical / Prog Death)
  4. I, Cursed – Abomination / Parasitic (Grindcore)
  5. Sterben – Bleibende Schäden (Post-Black/Post-Hardcore, Crust)
  6. Kadavrik – Erde 666 (Melodeath/Dark Metal)
  7. Ligation – After Gods (Death/Doom Metal/Noise)
  8. Valiant Sentinel – Neverealm (Power Metal)
  9. Funeral Dancer – Inner Gate (Black'n'Roll)
  10. Bone Storm – Daemon Breed (Death Metal)

AotY

1075 releases in total of which I played 827 in full

  1. Mostly Autumn – Seawater (Prog-Rock)
  2. Am I in Trouble? – Spectrum (Avant-garde/Rock/Black)
  3. Changeling – Changeling (Progressive Death)
  4. In the Woods… – Otra (Goth/Prog Metal/Rock)
  5. Imperialist – Prime (Meloblack)
  6. Martröð – Draumsýnir eldsins (Avant-garde Black Metal)
  7. Phantom Spell – Heather & Hearth (Prog Rock / Heavy Metal)
  8. Mood Organ – Cogs (Prog-rock, Psychedelic rock, Alt-Pop)
  9. The Divine Comedy – Rainy Sunday Afternoon (Chamber Pop)
  10. ByoNoiseGenerator – Subnormal Dives (Grindcore/Jazz)

HMs:

  1. Besna – Kr​á​sno (Progressive Post-Black)
  2. Tribunal – In Penitence and Ruin (Gothic/Doom Metal)
  3. Amorphis – Borderland (Prog Rock Metal)

Extended List:

  1. Bergfried – Romantik III (Heavy Metal/Hard Rock with Folk influences)
  2. Barren Path – Grieving (Technical Death Grind)
  3. Concrete Age – Awaken the Gods (Folk/Thrash/Power/Melodic Death Metal)
  4. Point Mort – Le point de non-retour (Post-HX / Post-Metal / Alt Metal)
  5. Stellar Blight – Eventide: Synod of the Dying Stars (Blackened Heavy/Prog)
  6. Heathen Heretic – Whispers from the Abyss (Meloblack/Melodeath)
  7. Thormesis – Nevertheless (Post-Black Metal)
  8. Minuala – Край тысячи озёр (Folky Post-Black)
  9. Lástima – A Pain Bloomed from My Lungs (Post-Black/Post-HCX)
  10. Catalyst Symphony – The Light Inside (Symphonic Metal)
  11. Asira – As Ink in Water (Post-Metal, Blackgaze, Prog)
  12. Battle Beast – Steelbound (Heavy/Power Metal, Hard Rock)
  13. 明日の叙景 (Asunojokei) – Think of You (Post-Black Metal/Post-Hardcore/J-Rock)
  14. Buried Realm – The Dormant Darkness (Melotechdeath)
  15. Impureza – Alcázares (Death Metal with Flamenco elements)
  16. Kira Skov – What Ties Us Together, Will Keep Us Apart (Chamber Pop)
  17. Victim of Fire – The Old Lie (Crusty Melodeath)
  18. Empty Throne – Unholy (Blackened Melodeath)
  19. Plague Curse – Verminous Contempt (Black/Death)
  20. Brainblast – Colossus Suprema (Symphonic Tech Death)
  21. Nexion – Sundrung (Black/Death Metal)
  22. Deus Sabaoth – Cycle Of Death (Symphonic Black)
  23. Mellom – The Empire of Gloom (Melodic Black/Death)
  24. Terra Atlantica – Oceans (Symphonic Power Metal)
  25. Haven – Causes (Alt/Post-Metal)
  26. Coroner – Dissonance Theory (Progressive Thrash Metal)
  27. Scheitan – Wine for a Tormented Soul (Gothic Rock/Darkwave)
  28. Veilburner – Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy (Avant-garde Black/Death)
  29. drumcorps – For Everything (Breakcore)
  30. Saint Vengeur – Sex and Repression in Higher Society (Blackened Industrial Electro)
  31. 葬火 – 徒花 (Melodic Hardcore Black Circus Depression)
  32. Ethmebb – Allo Babar et les Caramboleurs (All of them)
  33. Sacral – Vile Consumption (Cybergrind, folk, raw bm, grindcore)
  34. Martoriator – Bloodpainted Visions of Perpetual Conflict (Blackened Death / Warmetal)
  35. IX of Blades – Carcosa & Other Delusions (Death Rock / Heavy Metal / Post-Punk)
  36. Illa – Dialogue ((Melo) Black Metal)
  37. Titan Arum – The Black Rabbit (Melodeath)
  38. Belnejoum – Dark Tales of Zarathustra (Symphonic Black/Death)
  39. Sleep Paralysis – Sleep Paralysis (Avant-Garde Piano Black)
  40. Neopera – Eternal Source (Symphonic Opera Metal)
  41. Unknown Subject – Democracies Die! (Death Metal)
  42. Evocatus – Inevitable Death (Heavy/Thrash/Power/Melodeath)
  43. Monachopsis – The Carcass Choir (Blackened Tech Melodeath)
  44. Polterwytch – Neues aus dem Hexenkessel: Gaunerey und Gräberschund (Black Metal / Dungeon Synths)
  45. Gates of Dawn – III (Psychedelic Black Metal)
  46. Valhalore – Beyond the Stars (Epic Folk Metal)
  47. Kalež – Udovi zaboravljenih bogova (Black Metal)
  48. Creatvre – Toujours humain (Avant-garde/Progressive Black Metal/Industrial)
  49. Murmur – Red Hill (Prog/Post-Metal)
  50. Haexler – Talkshow (Grindcore/Powerviolence)
  51. Polterwytch – Ghoultide Greetings (Black Metal / Dungeon Synths)

Ooty

  1. Comus – First Utterance (1971)
  2. The Amazing Devil – Ruin (2021)
  3. Meer – Wheels Within Wheels (2024)
  4. Wallachia – Monumental Heresy (2018)
  5. Creeper – Sanguivore (2023)
  6. In Aphelion – Reaperdawn (2024)
  7. Cesair – Haven (2024)
  8. Kvelertak – Kvelertak (2016)
  9. Winterhorde – Underwatermoon (2010)
  10. The Antichrist Imperium – Volume III: Satan in His Original Glory (2022)