March 2024 "The North" Playlist - Metal Academy Radio

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1. Necrowretch - Total Obliteration (from Swords of Dajjal, 2024)

2. Praise the Plague - Astray From Light (from Suffocating in the Current of Time, 2024)

3. Sworn - Calamity Sea (from A Journey Told Through Fire, 2023) [Submitted by Vinny]

4. Theophonos - Willing Power (from Ashes in the Huron River, 2024) [Submitted by Xephyr]

5. Finntroll - Fiskarens Fiende (from Nattfodd, 2004) [Submitted by Xephyr]

6. Sardonic Witchery - Barbaric Bastards of Mass Destruction (from Barbaric Evil Power, 2024) [Submitted by Sonny]

7. Bròn - Dverima noci (from Pred dverima noći, 2020)

8. Revenge - Heathen Hammer (from Triumph.Genocide.Antichrist, 2003) [Submitted by Sonny]

9. Malist - Ode to the Night (from Of Scorched Earth, 2024)

10. Departure Chandelier - Accipitridae (from Satan Soldier of Fortune, 2024) [Submitted by Xephyr]

11. Litosth - The Clay Messiah (from Cesariana, 2024)

12. Paysage d'Hiver - Eintritt in die Sphaeren... (from Winterkaelte, 2001) [Submitted by Sonny]

13. Helleruin - Naar de aarde terug (from War Upon Man, 2021) [Submitted by Vinny]

14. Farsot - Buoyant Flames (from Life Promised Death, 2024)

15. Sadistik Exekution - Spirits Are Komming (from The Magus, 1991) [Submitted by Daniel]

16. Naglfar - Plutonium Reveries (from Harvest, 2007) [Submitted by Vinny]

17. Abysmal Lord - Golgotha Crucifixion (from Disciples of the Inferno, 2015) [Submitted by Sonny]

18. Equilibrium - Mana (from Sagas, 2008) [Submitted by Daniel]

Interesting list this month, Ben. My first question has got to be "did Daniel really suggest the Equilibrium track?!" I mean, I quite dug it too, surprisingly (it felt very cinematic), but it seems most unlike him.

Some really good stuff on there - I've been praising the Necrowretch album already this month, so that was a great start. Praise the Plague and Sworn then backed that up brilliantly and things were off to a great start. Elsewhere Departure Chandelier and Naglfar were also big hits with me. Some misses were Theophonos (too noisy) and Farsot (too twee) and Bròn are a band I have never got along with, so the war metal of Revenge was well placed as an emetic to remove that bloated feeling I had after Bròn. Final mention is one of my own picks with Paysage d'Hiver. I really wanted to suggest Winter from the same album, but we have had that before. Eintritt in die Sphaeren... is a damn good backup to fall back on though, ain't it?

Good work, my friend and thanks for keeping it interesting.

My first question has got to be "did Daniel really suggest the Equilibrium track?!" I mean, I quite dug it too, surprisingly (it felt very cinematic), but it seems most unlike him.

It was a pretty lean month for me for The North releases so I thought I'd include it in the interest of diversity. It was probably the least offensive track from an album where I found nothing whatsoever that appealed to me.