Nape of the neck

Krallice - Intraum

In the grand scheme of things, I know about as much about black metal as I do about jazz, but I know I like Krallice. For me, they hit an ideal middle ground between the brutal thrash of my youth and the symphonic theatricality of the bands I'm not tr00 cvlt enough for. Krallice's 2nd album builds upon the first by being faster and more monolithic, this thing towers over you, whilst still finding time to sound absolutely squalid in places. Given Mick Barr is involved, the pace of the guiatar squall is so mesmerising that occasionally you have to step back from the trance and think 'He's still playing like that? How is that even possible?'. This is good stuff, people.

Entombed - Night Of the Vampire

Whilst we're on a bit of a metal tip, this song showed up on Fever ray's predictably excellent Halloween podcast for Resident Advisor. It made me listen to Entombed for most of Sunday. But I was mostly listening to this one over and over again.