January 2025 was a strong month, or maybe I was just paying more attention! Anyway, my belated 10th #AOTY2025 is “Join the Night” by #BloodHowl. This is gazey BM shot through with super melodic MBV “Loveless” moments: lush synths, trippy (programmed?) Colm Ó Cíosóig-y drums, & thick vapour trail 🎸
THRaKaTTaKeR’s fave albums of January 2025 (unranked) Offerbeest “The Stars Mock my Existence” Christian Necromancy “The Pederest” Hierarchies “Hierarchies” Blood Howl “Join the Night” Kathryn Mohr “Waiting Room” Lunar “Tempora Mutantur” Ethel Cain “Perverts” Am I In Trouble? “Spectrum”
A little Topster to show my (unranked) favourite albums of January 2025.
#OFFERBEEST
#ChristianNecromancy
#Hierarchies
#BloodHowl
#KathrynMohr
#Lunar
#EthelCain
#AmIInTrouble
Weird shimmering otherworldly guitar fuckery! Beautiful phased synth melodies! And RIFFS! Also brings to mind what Plotkin was doing with “Formula”-era #Old and even his underrated stuff as #Flux.
#MetalSky #BloodHowl
Listened to one of my favourite albums of 2025 again tonight: “join the night” by #BloodHowl. The title track especially nails that all too rarely heard blackgaze feat of blending what was so genuinely amazing about #MyBloodyValentine and “Loveless” with the dark ferocity of great black metal. 🤘🏻
