Metal Academy Radio Playlist Suggestions - The North Edition

So I'm sure you're probably aware that we've been trialing a new concept through our Metal Academy Radio Spotify playlists recently, right? Well some of our regular contributors & I have been discussing the idea of our clan members making a contribution to the monthly playlists by making recommendations on tracks for inclusion. To make it a true playlist, we'd encourage you to stick predominantly to your favourite tracks from releases you listen to across the course of each month rather than something you enjoyed some time ago as this will make the tracklistings somewhat of a reflection of our member's current playlists which was always our long-term intention. It can be new, old, classic or underground... whatever you happen to be digging at the time as long as it fits in with the clan's designated subgenres. At this stage we're going with a policy of only members of the associated clan being eligible to make submissions for the relevant playlists so that they're a truly clan-based undertaking.

So please treat this thread as your opportunity to contribute guys. We need to make sure that these playlists offer a broad cross-section of the clan's musical footprint so we can't promise that everything will make the final cut but let's see what ya got!

Windir “Black New Age” from 1184

Korda “Native Land”from Cry To Me River

Blut Aus Nord “Chapter IV” from MoRT

Immortal “Withstand the Fall of Time” from At the Heart of Winter

Wolves In The Throne Room “Woodland Cathedral” from Celestial Lineage

Crom Dubh “Sedition” from Heimweh 

Judas Iscariot “Gaze Upon Heaven In Flames” from Heaven in Flames

Xasthur “Kingdom of Burning Crucifixion” from A Gate Through Blood Stained Mirrors

Abazagorath “Lapse” from Abazagorath 

Jute Gyte “Teeth” from The Old Ways

Keys of Orthanc “Witchking” from Dush Agh Golnauk

Cultes Des Ghoules “The Devil Intimate” from Henbane

L’ Acephale “Sovereignty (Dieu-Die Sonne Stirbt Sovereignty)” from L’ Acephale

Acherontas “Tablets of Mercury” from Amarta (Formulas of Reptilian Unification Pt II)

Cirith Gorgor “Ephel Duath” from Onwards to the Spectral Defile

That’s all I can think of so early in the morning but hopefully got something you could put into a playlist?

Sonny, Ben, Xephyr.... got a few track suggestions for the September The North playlist (max three each)?

Fluisteraars - "Nasleep" - Bloem

Havukruunu - "Pohjolan Tytär" - Uinuos Syömein Sota

Paysage d'Hiver - "Weiter, Immer Weiter" - Im Wald

Mystras - The Murder of Wat Tyler from Castles Conquered and Reclaimed (2020)

Esoctrilihum - Exh-Enî Söph (1st Passage: Exiled From Sanity) from Eternity of Shaog (2020)

Armagedda - Deathminded from The Final War Approaching (2001)

Progenie Terrestre Pura - Progenie terrestre pura from U.M.A. (2013)

Sun of the Blind - Cursed Universe from Skullreader (2009)

Keep of Kalessin - Come Damnation from Reclaim (2003)

October suggestions whilst I have time:

Jute Gyte - Discontinuities (from album of same title) 2013

Wiegedood - Prowl (from De doden hebben het goed III) 2018

Furia - Krew w kolorze burstynu (from Marta polska jesien) 2007

For October:

Manegarm - "Sigrblot" - Vredens tid

Ensiferum - "Twilight Tavern" - From Afar

Nokturnal Mortum - " Україна" (Track 4) - Голос сталі (The Voice Of Steel)

Please get any last minute submissions in today as I'm be putting the October playlist together over the next couple of days.

1. Progenie Terrestre Pura - Progenie terrestre pura from U.M.A. (2013)

2. Sear Bliss - Dreams Spectre from Glory and Perdition (2004)

3. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn from Old Mornings Dawn (2013)

Finished the October playlist this morning. Got through a good chunk of your track submissions & will attempt to get through the rest in November.

Please get your submissions in by 15th October if you want them considered for inclusion in the November playlist (maximum three each). And remember, there are many subgenres covered by The North:

Classic black metal

Atmospheric black metal

Melodic black metal

Depressive black metal

Symphonic black metal

Pagan black metal

Blackgaze

War metal

Black ‘n’ roll

Viking metal

Folk metal

Medieval folk metal

Celtic metal

Vinny, I've still got plenty of your previous submissions to keep me busy. Will try to get through as many as possible this month so that we can start fresh for December.

Ben & Xephyr, I also have one each from you guys & I'll stuff both of those in this month.

Here's my three for October...

1. Anorexia Nervosa - The Shining from Redemption Process (2004)
2. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn from Old Mornings Dawn (2013)
3. Coldworld - Dream of a Dead Sun from Melancholie² (2008)

Here's my suggestions for Noirvember:

1. Cultus Profano - Towards the Temple of Darkened Fates, Op. 19 from Accursed Possession (2020)

2. Panopticon - Killing the Giants As They Sleep  from Kentucky (2012)

3. Darkthrone -  In the Shadow of the Horns from A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992)

November

Almyrkvi / The Ruins of Beverast - "Asomatous Grove" - Almyrkvi / The Ruins of Beverast Split

Plus the extra you had down for me

Playlist suggestions for December:

Gorgoroth - Om kristen og jödisk tru - Destroyer: Or About How to Philosophize With the Hammer (1998)

Varathron -  Under the Sight of Horus - Walpurgisnacht (1995)

Mayhem -  Fall of Seraphs - Wolf's Lair Abyss EP (1997)

Aborym -  Disgust and Rage (Sic Transit Gloria Mundi) from Generator (2006)

Shining - Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie from III - Angst - Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie (2002)

And this month's underground gem is...

Asgaroth - Naked Eye from Red Shift (2001)

Falls of Rauros - The Cormorants Shiver on Their Rocks from The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood (2011)

Keys of Orthanc - Witchking from Dush Agh Golnauk (2018)

Förjord - Suohauta from Ajasta Ikuisuuteen (2008)

Sorry I'm late:

December

Lamp of Murmuur - "Of Infernal Passion and Aberrations" - Heir of Ecliptical Romanticism

Selbst - "The Depths Of Selfishness" - Relatos de angustia

Necromantia - "Pretender To The Throne (Opus I: The Userper's Spawn)" - Scarlet Evil Witching Black

January:

Drautran - Blót - Lohen der Opferung from Throne of the Depths (2007)

Akhlys - Succubare from Melinoë (2020)

Wallachia - Heathen Shores from Monumental Heresy (2018)

For January I'm only going to go with a single suggestion as it's quite a long one (and not just the title):

Ek sá halr at Hóars veðri hǫsvan serk Hrísgrísnis bar from Árstíðir Lifsins' latest album, Saga á tveim tungum II: Eigi fjǫll né firðir.

However, if you need to fill a couple of minutes I wouldn't mind hearing Marduk's Panzer Division Marduk from the album of the same name.

Leviathan - Wicked Fields of Calm from Scar Sighted (2015)

Lunar Aurora -  Glück from Andacht (2007)

Windir - The Blacksmith and the Troll of Lundamyri from Arntor (1999)

Walknut - Motherland Ostenvegr from Graveforests and Their Shadows (2007)

Negură Bunget - Ţesarul de lumini from OM (2006)

Altar of Plagues - Neptune is Dead from Mammal (2011)

March

Yoth Iria - "The Mantis" - As The Flame Withers

Grima - "Rotten Garden" - Rotten Garden

Mefitis - "Fenshaden Deeps" - Offscourings