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The Lazy List Vol. 2


Could this be the beginning of The Lazy List getting even shorter than the rest? Well, the first attempt feels pretty bad because the picture painted for each release is getting blurrier and blurrier. For this edition, we’re still within the realm of metal, and I’m trying to organize the order based on their scores. Who is actually going to look at or dig through the bottom section anyway? Tell me.

Break This Cycle - Break This Cycle (2015)

Score: 75/100

Tracklist:
 2. Release the Beast
 3. The Definition
 4. The Will to Stay
 5. The Enemy is Me

Ad Chasma - Ad Chasma EP (2024)

Genre: Post-black metal/hardcore
Score: 70+/100

Tracklist:
 2. Quemar la Mano
 3. Ascender al Ocaso

Behrial - Floating Chrysanthemum (2023)

Score: 70+/100

Tracklist:
 1. Floating Chrysanthemum

Adder's Fork - Apparitions (2024)

Score: 70/100

Tracklist:
 1. Apparitions
 2. The Colour of Cold Rain
 3. These Mountains Cast Great Shadows
 4. A Song About Murder
 5. Mourning's Temptress
 6. Towards the End

Apologoethia - Pillars (2017)

Genre: Black metal
Score: 70/100

Tracklist:
 1. De Fundamenta Spiritus
 2. De Humanae Natura
 3. De Absentiae Vitae
 4. De Aeterno Praesentia

Behölder - In the Temple of the Tyrant (2025)

Score: 70/100

Tracklist:
 1. A Pale Blood Sky
 2. Dungeon Crawl
 3. Into The Underdark
 5. Those Who Fell
 6. Draconian (Slave Or Master)
 7. Summoned & Bound
 8. I Magus

Blood Stained Dusk - Dirge of Death's Silence (2001)

Genre: Black metal
Score: 70/100

Tracklist:
 1. Moon Behind the Storm
 2. Bringer of Everlasting Damnation
 3. Renounce the Dawn
 4. The Infernal Praise
 5. Vastland of the Empire Lost
 6. Sanguinas Path - The Blood I Follow
 7. Funeral of Lamentation

Sadness of Gaia - Helots (2011)

Genre: Metalcore/post-hardcore
Score: 70/100

Tracklist:
 1. Introduction
 2. Never Seemed Before
 3. Forget Myself
 4. Helots
 5. The Anchor Is Worthless

Winterstorm - Everfrost (2023)

Score: 65/100

Tracklist:
 1. Origin
 2. To the End of All Known
 3. The Phoenix Died (Remember)
 4. Circle of Greed
 5. Future Times
 6. Everfrost
 8. Fate of the Atlanteans
 9. Crusade
 10. Overcome the Fear
 11. Silence

Benighted in Sodom - Death in Space / Genesis in Flux (2020)

Genre: Experimental black/doom/gothic metal
Score: 60/100

Tracklist:
 1. A Prayer For Carpenters and Dying Insects
 2. Heavenly Maligned
 3. The Passages of Abasement and Endless Death
 4. Sanguine River
 5. My Death Will Be My Wings
 6. Absolute Divine Negation
 7. The Splintering of Two Graves - Part I
 8. The Splintering of Two Graves - Part II
 9. Paradise Opiate

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