artist - recommended album (spotify link)

my recommendations:

• Deafheaven - Sunbather (guess my namesake wow)
• Vektor - Terminal Redux
• Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark
• Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
• Lantlôs - .neon
• Wilderun - Epigone
• Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
• Rivers of Nihil - Monarchy
• Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
• Virvum - Illuminance
• Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (NOW I CAN SEE THE WHALEEEEES)
• Wayfarer - A Romance With Violence
• Silhouette - Les retranchements
• Black Crown Initiate - Selves We Cannot Forgive
• Mgła - Age of Excuse

friends recommendations (maybe slightly more digestible than some stuff on my list):

• Inferi - Vile Genesis
• Vale of Pnath - II
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
• Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
• Fallujah - Empyrean
• Allagaeon - Fragments of Form and Function
• Native Construct - Quiet World