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The Lazy List Vol. 1

I finally brought the draft of The Lazy List to life, even though it reduces or completely strips away the essence of a proper review. The goal is simply to save time and energy, as usual, and to quickly clear out the playlist backlog because I still haven't been able to conquer my inner greed.

For this edition, I’ve rounded up the remaining black metal releases, with a heavy emphasis on post-black metal.

NB: The FFO (For Fans Of) section might not be entirely accurate due to my own limited references, as usual.

Grief & Bliss - Grief (2014)

70/100
Genre: Atmospheric Post-black metal/blackgaze
FFO: Alcest, Wounds of Recollection, Sadness, Isleptonthemoon

Tracklist:
1. Fading
2. Numb

Grief & Bliss - Suicidal Summer Rider (2025)

85/100
Genre: Shoegaze
FFO: Slowdive, Slow Crush, Alcest, Parannoul

Tracklist:
1. Endless Circles
2. Into Water
3. Fleeting
4. Undoing

In One Place - Void.echo.decay (2023)

75/100
Genre: Atmospheric/post-black metal
FFO: Alcest, Wounds of Recollection, Nostalghia, Falaise, Sadness

Tracklist:
1. What if we were never here?
2. It will all disappear
3. Everything is contaminated
4. Prayers to whatever will listen
5. ... and whatever comes next

Nordicwinter - Sorrow (2021)

70/100
Genre: Atmospheric/depressive black metal
FFO: None, Kalmankantaja, Help, Xasthur

Tracklist:
1. Somber Winds of Despair (Part I)
2. Sullen Echoes
3. In This Darkness...
4. This Mournful Dirge
5. Dying Winters
6. Somber Winds of Despair (Part II)
7. Enshrined by Solitude

Oblivion Rites - Leaving (2023)

70/100
Genre: Black metal
FFO: Gaerea, Mgła

Tracklist:
1. Leaving a Cold Grave
2. Blood and Chains

Sleep White Winter - Degeneracy of Nostalgia (2017)

70+/100
Genre: Post-black metal
FFO: Alcest, Wounds of Recollection, Grey Waters

Tracklist:
1. Afraid  
2. Altered Mesolimbic Pathways
3. Philo Sophia
4. Below the Ever Setting Sun (Grey Waters cover)
5. Mirror of Empty Reflection
6. Degeneracy of Nostalgia

Ultha - Dismal Ruins pt. II (2018)

70/100
Genre: Black Metal
FFO: Weakling, Sun Worship, Wiegedood

Tracklist:
1. Vitrescent

Umbilicus Necis - Confine Astratto (2020)

70/100
Genre: Post-black metal
FFO: Urantia, Die Sünde, Gaerea, Wolves in the Throne Room

Tracklist:
1. Prima luce
2. Gelido solipsismo 
3. Confine astratto 
4. Oblio
5. Assenza
6. Sanguis Lunae I
7. Sanguis Lunae II  
8. Inverni

Wounds of Recollection - The Suffering of November (2014)

55/100
FFO: ?

Tracklist:
1. Intro
2. Portrait of a Windswept Angel 
3. The Suffering of November
4. A Longing for the Light 
5. Memories of a Sunset Belonging 
6. As Winter's Coldness Approaches
7. Buried Beneath the Pine Trees
8. Remnants of a Once Burning Fire

Wounds of Recollection - Darkness Through Devotion (2016)

70+/100
Genre: Post-black metal/rock
FFO: Deafheaven, Heretoir, An Autumn for Crippled Children

Tracklist:
1. Rest 
2. I Will Never Forget Your Smile
3. As the Ambience Overwhelms Us
4. Upon My Scars, a Tear Falls
5. Time and the Change It Brings
6. Take Me to the Well of Blood 
7. Pull the Nails from My Skin
8. A Sense of Home for When There Is None
9. Portrait of a Windswept Angel (re-recorded version)

Wounds of Recollection - Crashing Waves of Heaven (2018)

70+/100


Genre: Post-black metal
FFO: Deafheaven, Sadness, Woods of Desolation, Heretoir

Tracklist:
1. Apathy Swallows Tomorrow
2. Crooked Feet
3. Lavender Petals
4. Like Heaven
5. No Ocean Before Me
6. Looking Through Windows
7. More Than
8. Come and Drown

Wounds of Recollection - Nowhere Else Feels More Like Home (2020)

80-/100
Genre: Post-black metal/rock
FFO: Falaise, Sadness, Alcest, An Autumn for Crippled Children

Tracklist:
1. Backyard Burial
2. Limping Away from the Water
3. Another Year
4. Sanctuary
5. Dedicated to Sandy Denny
6. Nowhere Else Feels More like Home

Wounds of Recollection - Deathbed (2021)

70+/100
Genre: Post-black metal/rock
FFO: Falaise, Sadness, Alcest

Tracklist:
1. Blightly Burning Deathbed
2. Glass Cabinet 
3. Come Home
4. No Cure 
5. Waiting Room Prayer
6. Surrounded by Family

Yukatia - I am Nothing // I am No One (2017)

75+/100
Genre: Post-black/doom metal
FFO: Sterbefall, Heretoir, Harakiri for the Sky, Cult of Luna

Tracklist:
1. I Am Nothing - I 
2. I Am Nothing - II 
3. I Am Nothing - III 
4. I Am No One - I
5. I Am No One - II
6. I Am No One - III
7. I Am No One - IV

Юдол - Прощай навсегда (2023)

70/100
Genre: Atmospheric/post-black metal
FFO: Olhava, Heretoir, Sadness, Wolves in the Throne Room

Tracklist:
1. Прощай
2. Навсегда
3. (Лёд оттает по весне)
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