Déhà released a one-off melodic black metal album.
I responded like a rational adult:
By spiralling into hyperfocus and writing a small novel about it.
I ghosted Moonlight Sorcery's debut in 2023. Big mistake. Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle is a frostbitten, glitter-soaked black metal epic—melodic, ridiculous, and dangerously fun.
The album that made black metal bombastic — Enthrone Darkness Triumphant turned Dimmu Borgir into symphonic monsters, and I loved every melodramatic second of it.
My gateway into full corpse paint mode — Midian is Cradle of Filth at their dramatic, unhinged best. Gothic horror meets blastbeats, and I still haven’t recovered.