Metal Academy Radio Playlist Suggestions - The Infinite Edition
Here are my submissions for the February Infinite playlist:
Animals as Leaders - "Wave of Babies" (5:30) from Wave of Babies (2010)
Extol - "Shadow of Death" (3:39) from Paralysis (2001)
Madder Mortem - "Convertion" (7:31) from Mercury (1999)
Periphery - "Four Lights" (2:18) from Juggernaut: Alpha (2015)
Star One - "The Eye of Ra" (7:34) from Space Metal (2002)
Total length: 26:32
Here are my submissions for the March Infinite playlist:
Ibaraki - "Kagutsuchi" (7:35) from Rashomon (2022)
Intronaut - "Prehistoricisms" (6:29) from Prehistoricisms (2008)
Periphery - "Zagreus" (8:19) from Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre (2023)
Stortregn - "Xeno Chaos" (5:40) from Finitude (2023)
Total length: 28:03
March
Wandering Oak - "To Lir They Fell" from Resilience (2024)
DGM - "The Secret Pt. 2" from The Passage (2016)
Protest the Hero - "Gardenias" from Palimpsest (2020)
Here are my submissions for the April Infinite playlist:
Anacrusis - "Still Black" (6:08) from Manic Impressions (1991)
Mechina - "Earth-Born Axiom" (8:31) from Acheron (2015)
Mr. Bungle - "Squeeze Me Macaroni" (5:38) from Mr. Bungle (1991)
Mutoid Man - "Siphon" (3:03) from Mutants (2023)
Rolo Tomassi - "Closer" (5:15) from Where Myth Becomes Memory (2022)
Total length: 28:35
Here are my submissions for the May Infinite playlist:
Devin Townsend - "Deadhead" (8:05) from Accelerated Evolution (2003)
Into Eternity - "Into Eternity" (4:07) from Into Eternity (1999)
Mutoid Man - "Beast" (1:58) from Bleeder (2015)
Persefone - "Lingua Ignota" (7:34) from Lingua Ignota: Part I (2024)
Voivod - "Technocratic Manipulators" (4:35) from Dimension Hatross (1988)
Total length: 26:19
Here are my submissions for the June Infinite playlist:
Amorphis - "Course of Fate" (4:15) from Skyforger (2009)
Becoming the Archetype - "The Balance of Eternity (The Physics of Fire Pt. 4)" (8:49) from The Physics of Fire (2007)
Dream Theater - "About to Crash" (5:50) from Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (2002)
Pain of Salvation - "Reasons" (4:45) from In the Passing Light of Day (2017)
Scar Symmetry - "Reichsfall" (5:15) from The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph) (2023)
Total length: 28:54
Here are my submissions for the July Infinite playlist:
Amorphis - "My Kantele" (6:49) from Magic & Mayhem – Tales from the Early Years (2010)
Edge of Sanity - "Incantation" (3:01) from When All is Said/The Best of Edge of Sanity (2006)
Meshuggah - "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" (5:35) from Chaosphere (1998)
Rivers of Nihil - "The Void From Which No Sound Escapes" (6:43) from The Work (2021)
Voivod - "Killing Technology" (7:33) from Killing Technology (1987)
Total length: 29:41
Here are my submissions for the August Infinite playlist, having just two long epics in mind:
Opeth - "Ghost of Perdition" (10:29) from Ghost Reveries (2005)
PainKiller - "Morning of Balachaturdasi" (14:45) from Execution Ground (1994)
Total length: 25:14
August
Angra - "Gods of the World" from Cycles of Pain (2023)
Aetheria Conscientia - "Haesperadh" from The Blossoming (2024)
In Mourning - "Hierophant" from Garden of Storms (2019)
Here are my submissions for the September Infinite playlist:
Gojira - "The Heaviest Matter of the Universe" (3:57) from From Mars to Sirius (2005)
MaYaN - "The Illusory Self" (9:13) from Dhyana (2018)
Meshuggah - "Future Breed Machine" (5:48) from Destroy Erase Improve (1995)
The Ocean - "Bathyalpelagic II: The Wish in Dreams" (3:18) from Pelagial (2013)
7 Horns 7 Eyes - "Regeneration" (6:42) from Throes of Absolution (2012)
Total length: 28:58
Here are my submissions for the October Infinite playlist:
Alchemist - "Worlds Within Worlds" (7:05) from Jar of Kingdom (1993) (based on Embryonics 90-98 compilation, 2006)
Gloios - "TELE II" (7:03) from LIDE (2022)
Meshuggah - "Rational Gaze" (5:04) from Chaosphere (2002)
Sadist - "Sadist" (4:20) from Above the Light (1993)
Tesseract - "Juno" (5:12) from Sonder (2018)
Total length: 28:44
November
Hippotraktor - "The Indifferent Human Eye" from Stasis
Scale the Summit - "Trapped in Ice" from V
Amiensus - "Solfario" from Reclamation, Pt. II
In Vain - "Watch For Me On The Mountain" from Solemn
Here are my submissions for the November Infinite playlist, having just two long epics in mind:
Sumac - "Will to Reach" (9:48) from What One Becomes (2016)
Textures - "Polars" (18:25) from Polars (2003)
Total length: 28:13
Here are my submissions for the December Infinite playlist:
Extol - "Reflections of a Broken Soul" (7:28) from Burial (1998)
Hemotoxin - "Reborn in Tragedy" (5:17) from When Time Becomes Loss (2024)
Tesseract - "Luminary" (3:12) from Sonder (2018)
Textures - "To Erase a Lifetime" (6:53) from Silhouettes (2008)
Trenches - "Pathways" (4:52) from The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole (2008)
Total length: 27:42
December
Chaos Divine - "Landmines" from Colliding Skies
Devin Townsend - "Goodbye" from Powernerd
DGM - "From Ashes" from Endless
Altesia - "Mouth of the Sky" from Embryo
Here are my submissions for the January Infinite playlist:
Alchemist - "Jar of Kingdom" (6:17) from Jar of Kingdom (1993) (based on Embryonics 90-98 compilation, 2006)
Atheist - "Unquestionable Presence" (4:07) from Unquestionable Presence (1991)
Devin Townsend - "Tiny Tears" (9:12) from Terria (2001)
Extol - "The Things I Found" (6:24) from The Blueprint Dives (2005)
Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne - "Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)" (2:53) from Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) (2024)
Total length: 28:53