5. Nachtmystium - A Seed for Suffering (from "Instinct: Decay")This song made it on the list because it beat up every other song. A total full-throttle black metal blast of misanthropic hate. It's hard to imagine a song being able to kick more ass than this, not even in the sense of heaviness but also for speed, melody, and uniqueness. This track starts off blazing, a harsh black buzzing blur, but somehow there's a melody that's actually CATCHY, something that will get stuck in your head. That alone is unusual for a black metal track. But when the song reaches its utter climax, everything opens up into an awesome psychedelic rock song, trailing out in this huge RIFF, all the while accompanied by the same buzzing thrash that opened this song. This is amazing, because you know how there are a couple ways of rocking, the sweet jamming rock, and total heavy thrash-rock? This track does both at once. The ultra-fast buzz of black metal combined with the psych sound is impossible to resist, and is incredibly addictive. Actually, the whole album is like this, but this track in particular lays it down. It is stellar though, free of the pretensions and posturing that plague lesser metal groups. It just barely was edged off my list of best albums. Do check it out.
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