i wrote a playlist article for Liquid Blackness, the black aesthetic studies journal published by Duke University Press! please go check it out. it's a collection of blurbs on songs that i think encapsulate the Afro-Gothic aesthetic tendency, as formulated by my fellow writers throughout the issue. many many thanks to the Liquid Blackness team for letting me contribute.
and here's a playlist of the songs included! listen as you read if you feel so inclined! one of the songs isn't on youtube, so here's a bandcamp link: https://b-l-a-c-k-i-e.com/track/while-they-try-to-kill-each-other
thank you in advance for dealing with the volume. blame bandcamp for deciding to do these several months apart at this point
https://gospel.bandcamp.com/album/mvdm - prog hardcore from new york
https://kvelgeyst.bandcamp.com/releases - alchemy-themed black death thrash from zurich
AOTY 2022 alert: https://scarcity-nyc.bandcamp.com/album/aveilut - avant garde black drone from new york
https://gorguts.bandcamp.com/album/colored-sands - foundational tech death metal from quebec
https://devourment.bandcamp.com/album/obscene-majesty - slam metal from dallas
https://klysma.bandcamp.com/album/sick - slam metal from belgium
https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/the-divine-punishment - primordial death metal from ontario/alberta
https://concretewinds.bandcamp.com/album/nerve-butcherer - raw war metal from finland
https://curlycastro.bandcamp.com/album/little-robert-hutton - afrofuturist rap from philly
https://keyglock.bandcamp.com/releases - trap from memphis
https://queenjazz.bandcamp.com/album/queenjazz-cannot-be-stopped - industrial noise-pop from berlin
https://popspirit.bandcamp.com/album/positive-yellow-dx - vg influenced house breaks from holland
https://yat-kha.bandcamp.com/album/yenisei-punk - throat singing ethno-punk from tuva
https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/labyrinth-constellation - tech death from long island
https://cryptopsyofficial.bandcamp.com/album/none-so-vile - tech death from montreal
https://ryanike.bandcamp.com/album/where-the-water-tastes-like-wine-original-game-soundtrack - americana folk from seattle
https://contrastic.bandcamp.com/album/contrastic - grindcore from the czech republic
https://vitalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/still-as-the-night-cold-as-the-wind - spaghetti western black metal from vancouver
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/releases - its fugazi. their entire discography. post-hardcore from washington DC
https://conifmyst.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-vale - dungeon synth / dark ambient from USA
https://chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/gods-country - sludge noise rock from OKC
https://oaks.bandcamp.com/album/oaks - alt goth shoegaze from minneapolis
https://decoherence.bandcamp.com/album/the-lower-way - harsh noise / avant rock from new york
https://vrasubatlat.bandcamp.com/album/vt-xxvii-onslaught-to-seraphim - black death metal from portland
https://bogdanraczynski.bandcamp.com/album/myloveilove - idm from Canada
https://divakarr.bandcamp.com/album/healing - depressive suicidal black metal from boston
AOTY 2022 alert: https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/album/aethiopes - abstract hip hop from new york
https://caraneir.bandcamp.com/album/phantasmal - black cybergrind from dallas
https://chriscrack.bandcamp.com/album/growthfully-developed - trill hip hop from grand junction
https://kikuo.bandcamp.com/album/kikuo-miku-6 - vocaloid pop from japan
https://daitro.bandcamp.com/album/laisser-vivre-les-squelettes - screamo from lyon
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ez-minzoku - experimental minimal juke from japan
https://reekingaura.bandcamp.com/album/blood-and-bonemeal - old school death doom from new jersey
https://seekersinternational.bandcamp.com/album/the-guncontrolla-ics009 - experimental ambient dub from richmond
https://bodyvoid.bandcamp.com/album/burn-the-homes-of-those-who-seek-to-control-our-bodies-ep - political crust sludge from vermont
https://umru.bandcamp.com/album/comfort-noise-music-inspired-by-the-motion-picture - dance music from new york
https://daytimers.bandcamp.com/album/dt001-2 - UK music compilation of south asian artists
https://hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/liminal-space - dubstep breakcore from germany
https://incantation666.bandcamp.com/album/diabolical-conquest - old school death doom from pennsylvania
https://elianeradigue.bandcamp.com/album/jetsun-mila - ambient drone from paris
https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/the-iron-soul-of-nothing - doom drone from seattle and ireland
https://surfaceoftheearth.bandcamp.com/album/surface-of-the-earth - dark ambient / drone from new zealand
https://massofthefermentingdregs.bandcamp.com/album/awakening-sleeping-2 - dream pop from japan
https://nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/simple-headphone-mind - avant electronic from ireland
https://grouper.bandcamp.com/album/daughter - dream ambient from USA
https://celer.bandcamp.com/album/xi-xie - musique concréte ambient from tokyo
https://nayabeat.bandcamp.com/album/tere-liye - punjabi new wave from the UK
AOTY 2022 alert: https://trha.bandcamp.com/track/m-h-shiva-n-dahh-khata-trh-ndlha-vand-fd-datnen-aghen-ec-s-drh-tdlhan-savd - atmoblack from ???
https://ghais.bandcamp.com/album/may-ur-melanin-shield-u-from-ragnarok - drill hip hop from philly
https://agonist.bandcamp.com/album/ruined - dungeon minatory from germany
https://corpsethorn.bandcamp.com/album/funerary-desecration - depressive dungeon minatory from germany
https://influxmusik.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-shade-of-the-morning-sky-i-was-tiny-and-powerless - dungeon minatory from california
https://xkatedral.bandcamp.com/album/kontrapoetik - electronic drone from stockholm
https://spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/ii-remaster-extended - prog black metal from athens
https://invictusproductions666.bandcamp.com/album/the-pact - blackened heavy metal from ireland
https://peaceville.bandcamp.com/album/the-rebirth-of-the-middle-ages - medieval black metal from monaco
https://wallachiadhr.bandcamp.com/releases - black metal from norway
https://yesterdaysnewquintet.bandcamp.com/album/beat-konducta-vol-5-6-dil-cosby-dil-withers-suite - classic hip hop beats from a legend. los angeles
https://violet0404.bandcamp.com/album/violet-ssd-2 - noisy acid breaks from new york
https://auriferousflame.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-mist-within - atmoblack from athens
https://chromemusic.bandcamp.com/album/chrome-box-revisited - punk and post-punk from san francisco
https://pendulumrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/abyss-elixir - idm from berlin
https://blackbraid.bandcamp.com/album/blackbraid-i - native american black metal from the adirondack mountains
https://warningdoom.bandcamp.com/album/watching-from-a-distance - doom metal from the UK
https://xfree99x.bandcamp.com/album/out-for-blood - trans hyperbeat from athens
https://lowercasetheband.bandcamp.com/album/kill-the-lights - post-hardcore from california
https://reikokudo.bandcamp.com/album/rice-field-silently-riping-in-the-night - outsider folk from japan
WE HAVE A DEMO OF DEMONSCHOOL AT PAX TOMORROW. @YsbrydGames has got us a bonkers-big booth, we've got a cute little tutorial handout for y'all, and No Place for Bravery will be playable too.
Come check it out in booth #503!