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1.
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Meat Spreader - A Swarm Of Green Flies Over The Rusty Pot
9 - Goregrind - Polish goregrind gods unite! |
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2.
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Judas Priest - Firepower
9 - Heavy Metal - My biggest surprise of 2018. Canonical release. |
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3.
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Haemorrhage / Hemdale / Meat Spreader - Fallen In Gore
9 - Goregrind - Warning: this split will make you shit your pants. |
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4.
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Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
8 - Death / Doom Metal - Twist in the sound with a bit more doom, but still great. |
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5.
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Cancer - Shadow Gripped
8 - Death Metal - Most of the album sounds as if it was made in the early 90s. |
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6.
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Gruesome - Twisted Prayers
8 - Death Metal - Great album, too bad it reminds of Death so much otherwise 9 for sure. |
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7.
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High On Fire - Electric Messiah
8 - Stoner / Sludge Metal - Matt Pike is the closes the world has to Lemmy. |
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8.
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Gruesome Stuff Relish - Cannibalized!
8 - Goregrind - EP, but fucking great! Gore on! |
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9.
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Pestilence - Hadeon
8 - Death Metal - Return to the old sound, lacks some of the riffing intrigues from back in the day. |
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10.
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Tu Carne - Acumulación De Cadaveres
8 - Goregrind - After a long wait the horrorgrind monsters return for "your flesh". |
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11.
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Tomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms
8 - Death Metal - Grim and evill sounding album with underlying melodies of doom. |
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12.
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Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
8 - Death Metal - Old school DM done the right way. |
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13.
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Sleep - The Sciences
8 - Stoner Metal - The science behind a great stoner album! |
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14.
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Alex Skolnick Trio - Conundrum
8 - Jazz - The only jazz album on the list, cause it's Skolnick and he can play jazz! |
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15.
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The Creatures From The Tomb - The Terryfying Menace
8 - Goregrind - Great first album, shows a lot of promise. |
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16.
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Terrorizer - Caustic Attack
8 - Deathgrind - Kick ass! |
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17.
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Master - Vindictive Miscreant
8 - Death Metal - Standard second-era album. Still fun. |
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18.
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Naxatras - III
8 - Stoner Metal - Atmospheric and instrumental stoner, |
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19.
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Outre-Tombe - Nécrovortex
8 - Death Metal - Interesting death/doom. Kinda grows on you. |
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20.
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Rise Of The North Star - The Legacy Of Shi
8 - Hardcore - The samurai slasher is back. |
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21.
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Brutal Sphincter - Analhu Akbar
7 - Goregrind - Groovy gory fun! |
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22.
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Unleashed - The Hunt For White Christ
7 - Death Metal - Get smashed Jebus. |
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23.
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Terror - Total Retaliation
7 - Hardcore - Powerful. |
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24.
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Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality
7 - Death Metal - Good album. Lot of fun, needs bit more groove to be great. |
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25.
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Blasphemer - Lust Of The Goat
7 - Death Metal - Grew a lot as a band over the last year, and you can tell that for sure! |
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26.
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Voivod - The Wake
7 - Progressive Metal - Even tho I'm a fan of their early albums, I can appreciate their progressive work too. |
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27.
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Madball - For The Cause
7 - Hardcore - A bit of a letdown after their previous album. |
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28.
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Night Hag - Insemination Rites Of The Succubus
7 - Death/Doom Metal - Pretty sweet! |
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29.
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Cryptopsy - The Book Of Suffering - Tome 2
7 - Deathgrind - Busy and interesting for few listens. Their best release in many many moons. |
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30.
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Conan - Existential Void Guardian
7 - Doom / Stoner Metal - Crushing. Smashing. Sound. |
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31.
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1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind
7 - Black Metal - My favorite black metal album of the year. Reminds me of old Satyricon for some reason. |
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32.
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Suicidal Tendencies - Still Cyco Punk After All These Years
7 - Hardcore - Re-whatever, Cyco is usually hit and miss. |
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33.
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Yob - Our Raw Heart
7 - Stoner / Doom Metal - Decent, but could be better with rough vocals. |
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34.
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Goreified - The Stench of Putrescent Flesh
8 - Death Metal / Goregrind - Gory death metal with garage sound. |
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35.
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Ripped To Shreds - 埋葬 (Mai-zang)
7 - Death Metal - One of the best old school death metal albums of the year. |
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36.
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Crash Syndrom - Postmortem Solutions To Mundane Issues
7 - Goregrind - Heavy modern type of goregrind. Japanese, but couldn've easily said it was a Czech band. |
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37.
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Create A Kill - Summoned To Rise
7 - Thrash Metal - Ambitious undertaking, sounds kinda average with good production. |
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38.
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Monstrosity - The Passage Of Existence
7 - Death Metal - Melodic guitar, monotonous passages. Few greasy sparkles. And yeah, fuck that melodic guitar. |
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39.
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Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
7 - Black Metal - Fuck your ass with broken glass Demonaz, better known as "that other guy from Immortal". |
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40.
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Heinous - The Basement
7 - Goregrind - Dirty flesheating basement rat gore metal. |
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41.
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Sick Of It All - Wake The Sleeping Dragon
7 - Hardcore - Solid album |
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42.
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Haggus / Posthumous Regurgitation - Bizarre Fungating Ulceration
7 - Goregrind - Both bands could do better, especially PR. |
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43.
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Serrabulho - Porntugal
7 - Porngrind - Fun fun fun. |
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44.
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Orange Goblin - The Wolf Bites Back
7 - Stoner Metal - Rocka rolla. |
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45.
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Darkness - First Class Violence
7 - Thrash Metal - Expected more from these thrash veterans, but whatever. |
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46.
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Benighted - Dogs Always Bite Harder Than Their Master
7 - Deathgrind - Weaker album, lost some of their spunk. |
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47.
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Iskald - Innhøstinga
7 - Black Metal - It's kinda weird I liked this album. It's different I guess. |
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48.
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Drawn And Quartered - The One Who Lurks
7 - Solid evil release. |
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49.
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Iron Reagan - Dark Days Ahead
7 - Crossover - Feels like a procedural album, next time put some thought into it instead of just screaming and banging. |
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50.
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Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram
7 - Black / Death Metal - Solid death/black, gets kinda stale after few listens. Also too melodic for my taste. |
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51.
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Jungle Rot - Jungle Rot
7 - Death Metal - The groove is real. |
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52.
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Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy
7 - Death Metal - Not that bad, but fuck that melodic guitarist again! |
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53.
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Liquid Viscera - Oozing Curdled Fluids
7 - Goregrind / Death Metal |
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54.
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Skinless - Savagery
7 - Brutal Death Metal - Kinda boring. |
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55.
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Ultra-Violence - Operation Misdirection
7 - Thrash Metal - Attempt to thrash. Again. |
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56.
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Terrible Claw - Sickening Annihilation
7 - Death Metal |
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57.
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Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
7 - Black / Death Metal - One of the most evil sounding albums of the year. |
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58.
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Marduk - Viktoria
7 - Black Metal - Some hype this album. I guess they are new to Marduk. |
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59.
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Portal - ION
7 - Craziest death metal album of the year. Primitive, expressional, experimental. |
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60.
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Scorched - Ecliptic Butchery
7 - Horror vs Doom. Dirty sound. |
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61.
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Uada - Cult Of A Dying Sun
7 - Black Metal - A bit on the weak side. Grow some evil pubes. |
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62.
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Saxon - Thunderbolt
7 - Heavy Metal - (yawn) |
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63.
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Kraanium - Slamchosis
6 - Slamming Death Metal - Slam Clam Glam Blam |
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64.
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Deströyer 666 - Call Of The Wild
6 - Black / Thrash Metal - Not at their best. Not even close. |
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65.
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Just Before Dawn - Tides Of Blood
6 - Death Metal - It's fine I guess. So much death metal in 2018 this gets forgotten easily. |
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66.
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Abhorrence - Megalohydrothalassophobic EP
7 - Comeback release. Atmospheric OSDM. |
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67.
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Menschenfresser - Menschenfresser
6 - Black / Death Metal - Weird-ass album, no idea how to brand it. But kinda liked it. |
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68.
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Venom - Storm The Gates
6 - Speed Metal - Here comes the boredom. Cronos without Mantas is like Cronos without half brain. Shameful album by one of the best metal bands of all time. |
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69.
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Artillery - The Face Of Fear
6 - Thrash Metal - Could be much better in the list if they dump the power metal inspired shit. In the vocalist's mouth. |
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70.
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Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
6 - Black Metal - Interesting album, with a lot of pretending. |
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71.
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Those Who Bring The Torture - Pain Offerings
6 - Death / Doom Metal - Some good death metal hidden between |
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72.
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Klysma - Sick
6 - Slamming Death Metal - Had to put some more slamming boredom. |
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73.
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Pungent Stench - Smut Kingdom
6 - Death 'n' Roll - Had high hopes for this album - my biggest mistake of 2018. |
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74.
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Hatchet - Dying To Exist
6 - Thrash / Heavy Metal - Some nice riffs and solos, drowning in melodic feces. |
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75.
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Revolting - Monolith Of Madness
6 - A bit flat and too melodic at times. |
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76.
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Six Feet Under - Unburied
6 - Half is decent, half is garbage. Still a 6 cause it's Chris Barnes. |
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77.
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Pyrexia - Unholy Requiem
6 - Decent effort at average death metal, nothing like the old stuff. |
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78.
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Neter - Infernus
6 - Cool album for few listens. It has backbone but offers nothing lasting. |
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79.
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Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy
6 - Satan is ashamed by Glenn and the dumbass guitar melodies and solos. |
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80.
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Decaying - To Cross The Line
6 - Could be better, try again. |
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81.
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Mortuous - Through Wilderness
6 - Nothing to set it apart from all the other OSDM bands out there. |
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82.
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LIK - Carnage
6 - Recycled death metal. Sounds like so many things. |
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83.
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Horrendous - Idol
6 - Average attempt at technical death metal. |
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84.
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Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
6 - Overrated wankery. |
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85.
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Krisiun - Scurge Of The Enthroned
5 - New sound. Sounds like crap. |
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86.
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Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
5 - Why? |
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87.
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Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
5 - Super-poser death metal. |
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88.
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Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands
5 - Probably the most boring album on this list. |
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89.
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Baest - Danse Macabre
5 - Monotonous to the bone, lot of the riffs are a joke. |
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90.
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Revocation - The Outer Ones
5 - Totally overrated as always. Feels a bit less melodic than before. |
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91.
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Obscura - Diluvium
5 - Shitty attempt at techy melo death topped with shitty attempts at ripping off Cynic. Fucking sucks. |
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92.
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Psychroptic - As The Kingdom Drowns
5 - Totally pointless. |
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93.
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Pig Destroyer - Head Cage
5 - Grindcore? Nope, metalcore. |
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94.
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At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself
4 - Retire please... |
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95.
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Sludge - Esoteric Malacology
4 - Has some potential and energy, but most of the time is unlistenable with shitty melodies. |
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96.
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Atrocity - Occult II
3 - Frustrating. Ditch the sympho crap already, grow back some balls and play death metal! |
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97.
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Ihsahn - Àmr
3 - Assfur Metal |
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98.
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Kataklysm - Meditations
2 - When I thought things couldn't get worse... Fuck Maurizo the Cunt! |
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99.
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Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy
2 - Dumbass pussy hipster trash! |
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100.
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Amorphis - Queen Of Time
1 - Go cry in a dumpster. |
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101.
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Ghost - Prequelle
1 - With all my heart, I wish you a bus crash. |
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102.
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Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest
0 - Me and that shit stain. |
