fetusghost I'm a dumb monolingual American, but I speak fluent Riffs, and Úpal has the best, most coherently insane riffs you'll ever hear. As a huge fan of all things extreme and dissonant, this album still stands at the top of the genre. If you know, you know, and this one remains in heavy rotation. Buy this, love this, tell Kostnatění he's pretty!

pinkytheent A harrowing and driving journey of emotion, expertly dashing between dissonance and powerful consonance (as another person said) in a way that takes you on a scary-yet-smooth journey through ripping thorn thickets and out into a blessedly open clearing, before plunging you back into the thicket in your mad dash. The concept is rock solid, the non-Western scales are refreshing and are excellently hammered into both dissonant and non-dissonant moods, the songwriting is very well crafted. Favorite track: Slunce svázáno s krvácející Zemí (Sun Bound to the Bleeding Earth).

黑之爱丽丝 If you call this dissoblack I'm coming to your house and beating you to death. Fantastic folk/black from an unlikely source, scratches the heavy Turkish guitar itch I built from listening to Hashshashin and Gabriel Marin. Favorite track: Slunce svázáno s krvácející Zemí (Sun Bound to the Bleeding Earth).

lord_byleth Full review here: www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Hyver/Sha%C3%A2tauno%C3%A2r/1372836/ Favorite track: Shaâtaunoâr.

Tubuehlerosis Dark & mystical. Oddly enough, I hear some 90s era Swans in the swirl... Favorite track: Ekstasis of the Continuum.

Fas Fav BM album of this year

Metallurgical Fire Medeia is correct, this is in the top 5 of 2021. It took a couple of years to hit me right. Inferno is one of the few bands that sounds different on every album, but in a way that builds on what’s come before. Astounding drummer. Favorite track: Stars Within and Stars Without Projected into the Matrix of Time.