This godspeed you! black astronaut album is quite a bit heavier/darker than the others, you might like it. It's actually becoming my favourite GIAA album, the title-track especially is amazing.
Yeah, the Black Peaks>Hacride transition was kind of an impulse decision, I noticed how the former ends very abruptly and the latter starts very abruptly so I figured what the hell let's try this shit
I would have really liked it if not for the awful quality drop cause it's almost seemless.
The Novembre tracks are not followed by each other on the album, Onirica is #7 and Outro is #10. I don't like how Onirica ends on a fade-out either, especially because it ends on such a high. So I decided to add Outro to it, which I love as an outro, kinda gives me a great gig in the sky feeling. Their catalogue is quite varied, and this album is mostly classic deathmetal with some prog elements
Oh and don't worry, I wouldn't send you the Avatar song in a million years
As for your EP's:
Parama, already know pretty much everything on here. I really want to listen to that Antlers album, that song is solid but I'm not sure like it enough to justify its duration. Djakninn is epic of course, great closer too. I personally think there's a lot of better Thrice songs to pick from, but I guess this one does fit into the EP pretty nicely. Bird of Sorrow is not nearly as good as I remember from when I heard it, and the Eight Bells is a fine opener, great catchy chord progression on this one.
Scorpion, pretty similarly, I already know a fair portion of the songs here. I still really like Suicide Penguin, in my head it was way shorter though, like 4-5 minutes.
Unfed Pendulum is still great, I like how it doesn't go overboard on the craziness but is still very out there. I heard the motW song here for the first time and it's my favourite on the EP, really cool stuff and will look into them more. EAPZ song is still fine but I don't like it too much. Opposite to Parama, I think their metal/math core side is superior to their more melodic side. Not a big fan of the SGM song and kinda feel like it's not worth 9 minutes, but it at least shows some middle ground, as I know SGM can be crazy as fuck and really offputting, but this one is alright on that aspect.
Home (made this EP on Spotify myself so don't have any official transitions), I literally know 5 out of 7 tracks by heart here and have heard the first track before.
I like the use of GIAA, especially Suicide By Star which is a better closer than I would've thought. I would personally have ordered the songs differently though, Compendium being #6 and Voluntary Slavery either #5 or not on the EP at all (don't know, I kinda feel like these two tracks don't fit in the EP as well but they're still awesome songs). The Solstafir song is pretty chill and is a good fit, still gotta check out that album some time. I have nothing against Sleep Party People but never really got into that album that much, it's good relaxing music though. Reminder to check out We Made God too, I really like II but never heard any other songs.
Sorry there's no structure in these write-ups at all, just wanted to throw out some thoughts