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A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
Atmospheric Black Metal [9.0] Victorian black metal done with class and grandeur. |
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Addaura - Burning For The Ancient
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.0] Warm and welcoming, yet fast and relentless. Promising band. |
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Agalloch - Faustian Echoes
Atmospheric Black Metal [7.5] Features Agalloch becoming more black metal. With lyrics on Faust |
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Agruss - Morok
Atmospheric Blackened Death Metal [9.5] AOTY. The amount of emotion in this is gigantic. Not only that, but it's also a marvelous slab of blackened death. |
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Alkerdeel - Morinde
Blackened Sludge Metal [6.5] Warning: EXTREMELY RAW. Not for everyone. Apparently not for me too. |
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Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
Industrial Blackgrind [9.0] Showcasing war in its aural form, this fantastic record redefines "brutal". |
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Ash Borer - Cold Of Ages
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] A harrowing, grim experience. Ash Borer have taken it to a new level. |
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8.
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Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber II
Industrial Black Metal [8.5] While retaining their sound, BaN played it faster this time. |
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Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy
Industrial Black Metal [9.0] With the grandeur cranked up to the max, this is my favorite 777 album. |
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10.
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Crescent Moon - The Wall Of Light
Death/Doom Metal [8.0] With this debut, I think they became the best Syrian band around. |
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Deathspell Omega - Drought
Avant-Garde Black Metal [5.0] A chaotic mess. I dunno why, but to me this was wankery. |
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Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron
Avant-Garde Black Metal [8.0] Interesting stuff. Black metal for fans of tech death. |
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Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
Atmospheric Black/Folk [9.0] So rich with wondrous textures. A magnificent experience of great music. |
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Dråpsnatt - Skelepht
Pagan Black Metal [7.5] Pagan, cold and furious. Just like black metal is meant to be. |
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Drudkh - Вічний Оберт Колеса (Eternal Turn Of The Wheel)
Atmospheric Black Metal [7.0] Horrendous guitar tone notwithstanding, this is a fine effort. |
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Enslaved - RIITIIR
Progressive Black Metal [9.0] Enslaved are indeed the success kid of metal. It's not easy to make a masterpiece when your last album was AOTY. |
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Esoterica - Idololatriae
Atmospheric Black Metal [6.0] I didn't like the production on this one. At all. |
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Evoken - Atra Mors
Funeral Doom Metal [9.0] Doomtastic. Liked the fascinating leads on tracks two and three. |
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Faal - The Clouds Are Burning
Blackened Doom Metal [9.0] Like Evoken, this is doomtastic, atmospheric and transcendental. |
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Gnaw Their Tongues - Eschatological Scatology
Experimental Black Metal [6.5] The constant torrent of noise makes this stand out, but kills it at a lot of moments. |
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Gorod - A Perfect Absolution
Technical Death Metal [8.5] Delicious. Tech death with soul and variety. |
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John Haughm - +46 17' 36.30", -124 4' 20.13"
Experimental [7.0] It's just a single, but it is incredibly promising. |
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Khors - Wisdom Of Centuries
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.0] A short, sweet treat of Ukrainian black metal. |
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Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.0] The masters of the black art have finally returned. |
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Lustre - They Awoke To The Scent Of Spring
Ambient Black Metal [7.0] Minimalist, monotonous, repetitive... |
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Nachtmystium - Silencing Machine
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] The Lepers Of Destitution might just be my favorite song. |
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Netherion - Sphere Of Terror
Death Metal [7.5] Decent death metal from Syria, nothing special. |
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Nontinuum - The Stars You Gathered, The Stars I Destroyed
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.0] Similar to Woods Of Desolation and Austere. Legit. |
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Oak Pantheon - From A Whisper
Blackened Post-metal [8.0] Promising stuff. A fest of post-metal mastery. |
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30.
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Om - Advaitic Songs
Stoner Metal [7.5] Interesting middle-eastern vibe. Gets tedious fast though. |
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Reverence - The Asthenic Ascension
Industrial Black Metal [8.0] Cold and sharp. Spot-on French black metal. |
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Skagos - Anarchic
Atmospheric Black Metal [7.0] It took me some time to get into this. I still prefer Ast. |
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Skogen - Eld
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] Powerful black metal. APOKALYPSENS VITA DIMMA! |
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The Great Old Ones - Al Azif
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] Lovecraft+french+post+black metal=EPIC WIN. |
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There Are No Words - Pando
Post-Rock [8.0] The guy from Oak Pantheon's band. Decent record. |
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Verdunkeln - Weder Licht Noch Schatten
Atmospheric/Psychedelic Black Metal [8.5] Black metal infused psychedelic with clean vocals. Fantastic. |
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Verwüstung - Soft Hands, Pale Moon
Ambient Black/Drone Doom Metal [6.5] Pretentious stuff that goes nowhere IMO. |
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38.
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Wilds Forlorn - We, The Damned
Atmospheric Black Metal [7.5] Good stuff that offers nothing new to black metal. |
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Wildernessking - The Writing Of Gods In The Sand
Progressive Black Metal [6.5] Decent, but very derivative with bad vocals. |
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Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] Marvelous guitar tone. An entrancing experience. |
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Wodensthrone - Curse
Atmospheric Black Metal [8.5] Fast, relentless and dynamic. With an ode to the ancient gods of course. |
