rvss.eel
It's easy to overlook the name of a black metal band that I've never seen before, but I'm fortunate to have noticed Cernunnus's involvement, resulting in immediate attention. Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne!, will go down as one of the best black metal releases of this year, I have no doubt. All elements are BM purity, so that it becomes the air you breathe while listening. Perfect murkiness, amidst flawless keys, vocals, and eventually guitar riffs create music not new, but old and spectacular.
Favorite track: Diabolus sit in corde tuo, et in labiis tuis, ut digne et competenter annunties evangelium suum.