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Always awesome to see a new release from good peoples! Check out James Lems' music video when you get a chance. Ps: it kicks ass...

James Lem - A Higher Dimension (Official Video) [Lyrics and Links will be posted during premiere]My single, "A Higher Dimension," is a highly melodic song that explores the theme of liberation from a downw...

Album of the Year 2023:
Kabza De Small & Mthunzi - Isimo

This is an all around perfect album for when I am both in high spirits, and down in the dumps. Some songs will make you up and dance, while others will make you sit and contemplate. I highly recommend this to ye who have not heard it yet. Happy new year!
What album released in 2023 did you enjoy listening to the most?

Congratulations to Vale of Amonition for snagging top spot in the best African Metal songs of the year. It was an honor working with these gentledudes!

THE TOP 20 AFRICAN METAL SONGS OF 2023

Welcome metalheads of Africa and the world to the moment we've all been waiting for. African Metal Authority would not exist without the sustaining lifeblood that is the music made by the bands and artists from our dark and mighty continent. We say that every year reveals yet again just how diverse and incredible the arena of talent and effort is in the African metallic underground. We document these moments with our weekly Top 10 and monthly Top 20 and there's always such an overflow of material. The growth of the scene is a wondrous thing to behold.

Narrowing down the year to just 20 songs is never an easy task but it is a tradition at this point, so without further ado, here's the top 20 African Metal Songs of 2023. Remember to support these bands on their social accounts, stream their music, purchase their records and buy some merch. And come back here for more African Metal!

1. Drink The Poetry Of The African Wretch by VALE OF AMONITION featuring NELECC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJjk0AYfeYA

2. Collisions Of Kingdoms And Tribes by MYTHOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtZS1VcnsMI

3. Omniscient by CROW BLACK SKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChfXwB8ZqEM

4. Walk With Us by ARKA'N ASRAFOKOR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dddNfrRtFE

5. A Chant For The Deafs by AYYUR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7okBUmekEE

6. Sasabonsam by SKINFLINT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDjOlrFswlA

7. Judgement Exempt by HALVAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICGysRtT_Tc

8. The Market Of Flesh 2.0 by THRILLOGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7f1RdtXWuI

9. Torment by BOVEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMVqC8gFf0s

10. Weavers Of Kismet by ABADDON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlNyXq9oDkg

11. Exilefame by MYTHOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LETUGIE6Q4s

12. At Evolution's End by VALE OF AMONITION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eMUvBZwfZs

13. The Horrors Of Fate by MITHRAS CROWNED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7QRgOC7tEk

14. Vicious Circles by TRUTH DECAYED featuring LILITU CAPRINAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if4TsMEEgYM

15. Des Séraphins en Hybris by GUTERUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lomWVpFgyjs

16. The Sapien Shadow by CROW BLACK SKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8cdtiAwemM

17. Blood and Iron - The Reborn Kreation by NUMIDIAN KILLING MACHINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PosiBJcGv0

18. The Bloody Purse Of Closed Eyes by GHAST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ppx-h-HlUk

19. Obsidian by AMENTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbrkRmi6qk

20. Invocation of Malfayosh by DASHIEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf8dJ2T7vM4

PAST AFRICAN METAL SONGS OF THE YEAR
2022 - Blood and Wine by RIVERWOOD
2021 - Violations by LAST YEAR'S TRAGEDY
2020 - Omni by DUMA
2019 - Tears Of The Dead by ARKA'N ASRAFOKOR
2018 - Beyond The Path Of Amenti by CRESCENT
2017 - Revisiting The Bitterness Of God by VALE OF AMONITION
2016 - Cryptic Desolation Of Chaos by BOVEM
2015 - Visions Of A Blood River by SCARAB
2014 - Desert by AFRICAN DOOMHAMMER
2013 - Dipoko by SKINFLINT
2012 - ...And The Night Swept Us Away by WILDERNESSKING
2011 - Corpses, and Still No Life by VIELIKAN

Vale of Amonition Nelecc Mythos Crow Black Sky Arka'n Asrafokor AYYUR Skinflint Halvar Thrillogy Bovem Abaddon Mithras Crowned Truth Decayed Numidian Killing Machine Ghast Amenta Dashiem

Hello friends!
It has been rather quiet on this front for a good minute, but I would like to sincerely wish you and yours the happiest of holidays.
And as a testament to me not pulling a Jari, below is the tracklist for my upcoming sophomore album that is set to release next year, come rain or shine. More details, including album art reveal, to follow in the coming weeks. Thank you so much for your continued support. Cheers!

On January 10th, Vale of Amonition will release this beast of a record. Be on the lookout for some grim, poetic, dark, African metal. It was such an honour to make a guest appearance on two tracks. The hype is real!

Our third full length album "Immortalizing the Lugubrious, or Those Of Evolving Despair" arrives January 10th 2023!

Six accounts of mature solemnity and well-worn regret to adorn your nights and days.

Track Listing:

1. Where They Gathered And Suffered
2. Sons Of The Moribund
3. My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind
4. Drink The Poetry Of The African Wretch
5. Terminus
6. At Evolution's End

VALE OF AMONITION is;

Victor Rosewrath - Vocals, Lyrics, Guitars
Solomon Dust - Guitars
Mordecai Ogayo - Bass
Jude Bulinda - Drums

Cover art/Photography: Ben Dickey
Recording/Engineering: Nick Wathi
Mixing/Mastering: Luc Chiasson

All music written by Solomon Dust
All words by Victor Rosewrath
Nelecc provides guest vocals on "Drink The Poetry of The African Wretch" and the guitar solo on "Sons Of The Moribund"

As we begin this new year, I would like to thank you for all of the support you have shown towards this project. The messages I receive every now and then checking on the status of Nelecc are truly appreciated. Some of you might know that I have been mighty busy with grad school over the past two years (hence all the little teasers, haha), and that chapter is closed now. This year, however, is going to be a year with a good amount of releases across several projects including this one. I am excited to finish tracking vocals for my sophomore full length album and share it with you :) .

As for the top 25 albums this year (in no particular order) :
1. Tomarum - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons (AOTY)
2. Izthmi - Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind
3. Falls of Rauros - Key to a Vanishing Future
4. White Ward - False Light
5. An Abstract Illusion - Woe
6. Inexorum - Equinox Vigil
7. Nechochwen - Kanawha Black
8. Saor - Origins
9. Wolfheart - King of the North
10. Asake - Mr. Money With the Vibe
11. Inanimate Existence - The Masquerade
12. Constellatia - Magisterial Romance
13. Firtan - Marter
14. Woods of Desolation - The Falling Tide
15. Jeshi - Universal Credit
16. Lustre - A Thirst for Summer Rain
17. Ellende - Ellenbogengesellschaft
18. Pure Wrath - Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
19. Wilderun - Epigone
20. Finsmooth - Affliction
21. Persefone - Metanoia
22. Vanum - Legend
23. Psycroptic - Divine Council
24. Sadness - Tortuga
25. Tigran Hamsyan - StandArt

Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/01d0CqBZzr4tAe7W4fYT12?si=LESRBwY5Tb2gMj76Beo-Aw

I wish you all a very happy new year and hope that it is a significant improvement over the last. Cheers!

Greetings! Had the great pleasure of working with the pioneers of African doom metal, Vale of Amonition , on their new record - Immortalizing the Lugubriuous, or Those of Evolving Despair. Be on the lookout as it is about to be one of their heaviest releases to date!
Happy holidays to you and yours : )

Immortalizing the Lugubrious, or Those of Evolving Despair
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has been incubating a while now, festering with lament and gathering dust....

available, exactly a month from now.

"Drink the Poetry of the African Wretch" featuring Nelecc encapsulates the folky doom and fiendish sorrow that this third jaunt through the Vale promises...more details in the next few weeks.

Till then, stay doomed and downright terrified - the dawn of some unpleasantness is always within reach.