19. Panzerfaust - "The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain"

More larger-than-life widescreen Black Metal. It’s coarse and dynamically caustic, but it has such an expansive and experimental feel to it. It revels in its malignant magnificence, but it wants to be more. It takes the confines of Black Metal’s tight and taut envelope and wallops massive holes in both sides. 

The atmospheric and the ethereal nature are everything here. They take communal garden black metal and douse it in ghostly instrumentation. Everything is slowed down and laced with eerie menace. It’s progressive but in a dark otherworldly way, as opposed to a cold clinical technicality. 

It proudly wears its melodramatic ways on its sleeves. This is black metal prepared to show its emotional fragility. Dark and pensive but also laced with passion and pathos. Big, brash, and wonderfully emotionally literate.