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A list by
BitterCOld
Created
September 22, 2011
Entries
98
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weeeee. all my past staff picks now compiled into one swell list.
98.
1.
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
FROSTHAMMER!!!
98.
2.
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
wallofnoise
98.
3.
Greymachine - Disconnected
sonic punishment
98.
4.
Kylesa - Static Tensions
sludge
98.
5.
Profetus - Coronation Of The Black Sun
FUN!
98.
6.
Holy Terror - Terror And Submission
old thrash gem
98.
7.
Bison B.C. - Dark Ages
> Canuck fans rioting
98.
8.
Negură Bunget - Măiestrit
last offering
98.
9.
Dio - The Last In Line
thanks, RJD \m/
98.
10.
Shattered Hope - Absence
HELLenic doom
98.
11.
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
soulcrushing
98.
12.
Terzij De Horde - A Rage Of Rapture Against The Dying Of The Light
say five times fast
98.
13.
Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards
2nd best of '10 to...
98.
14.
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
just wow.
98.
15.
Melechesh - The Epigenesis
sumerian death
98.
16.
Ufomammut - Eve
fuzzed out Italians
98.
17.
Dukatalon - Saved By Fear
RUN!
98.
18.
Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom
HSWD
98.
19.
Procession - Destroyers Of The Faith
riffs!
98.
20.
Ortega - 1634
nautic sludge stoner doom
98.
21.
Eibon - Entering Darkness
blackened sludge
98.
22.
Buzzov-en - ...At A Loss
brings Bruce down
98.
23.
Ulver - Wars Of The Roses
ulverrific!
98.
24.
Krallice - Diotima
spiraling geek black
98.
25.
Indian - Guiltless
ugly
98.
26.
Enslaved - The Sleeping Gods
thanks scion
98.
27.
Ixion - To The Void
spacedoom s'ilvous plait
98.
28.
Sleestak - The Fall Of Altrusia
fuck Chaka
98.
29.
Yob - Atma
crushing fun
98.
30.
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
the forest is my cathedral
98.
31.
Rising - To Solemn Ash
copenhagen sludgenriffen
98.
32.
Glorior Belli - The Great Southern Darkness
southern-fried French black metal.
98.
33.
Landmine Marathon - Gallows
half an hour of grinding death fury
98.
34.
Total Fucking Destruction - Hater
happy fun grind time!
98.
35.
Profetus - ...To Open The Passages In Dusk
soundtrack to a smallpox pandemic
98.
36.
Tort - Tort
Rustingdoom
98.
37.
High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis
madness of a riff architect
98.
38.
Faal - The Clouds Are Burning
Epic Fail = Epic Win
98.
39.
Evadne - The Shortest Way
Espana + Swano + Death Doom = iMuy Bueno!
98.
40.
Various Artists - Falling Down IIV
the VA stands for Various Awesome.
98.
41.
Black Pyramid - Black Pyramid II
trippy stonerdoom fun
98.
42.
Merrimack - The Acausal Mass
another french BM feast.
98.
43.
Triggerman - Hail To The River Gods
whiskey and beer drenched hard rawk Irish party
98.
44.
Abske Fides - Abske Fides
Brazilian urbanslum doom
98.
45.
Dordeduh - Dar De Duh
DordeDumbfoundingly good
98.
46.
Whales And Aurora - The Shipwreck
hypnotic post-nautic
98.
47.
Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
new wave of blackened crust punk
98.
48.
Clutch - Earth Rocker
crucial velocity
98.
49.
Eibon - II
two extra long psycheblackenedsludge tracks of awesome
98.
50.
Slayer - Decade Of Aggression
Hanneman Awaits!
98.
51.
Evoke Thy Lords - Drunken Tales
stoner doom... now with flute!
98.
52.
Sannhet - Known Flood
Posty goodness with blackened oomph.
98.
53.
Station Dysthymia - Overhead, Without Any Fuss, The Stars Were Going Out
psychedronic funeral
98.
54.
Various Artists - Doommantia Volume 2
80+ artists, 9+ hours of doom, stoner, sludge fun. just don't google "Alabama Hotpocket"
98.
55.
Into Orbit - Caverns
Post-Kiwi
98.
56.
Down - Down IV - Part Two [EP]
they riffed me well
98.
57.
Memest - Bastards And Liars
sounds like Lemmy
98.
58.
Tort - II
funeral thrash
98.
59.
Shepherd - Stereolithic Riffalocalypse
best thing from India since chicken tikka masala
98.
60.
Ethereal Shroud - They Became The Falling Ash
music for nocturnal explorations
98.
61.
Santo Rostro - II: The Bleed
Spanish stoner-sludge
98.
62.
Izah - Sistere
Impressive first release from Dutch sludgers
98.
63.
High On Fire - Luminiferous
knuckedragging airpunching fun
98.
64.
Heavydeath - Eternal Sleepwalker
deathdoom+drone
98.
65.
Ewïg Frost - The Railroad To Hell
Going off the rails with High Octane Anarchy
98.
66.
Pombagira - Flesh Throne Press
super extended stonerdoom jams.
98.
67.
Motörhead - Orgasmatron
Orgasmatron!
98.
68.
Magrudergrind - II
this Magruder guy is angry. and boy can he grind.
98.
69.
Droids Attack - Sci-Fi Or Die
Riff heavy stoner metal to sate my claw hammer fetish
98.
70.
Slabdragger - Rise Of The Dawncrusher
Rise of the Riffcrusher
98.
71.
Barús - Barús
fantastique frog-progdeath
98.
72.
Ewïg Frost - No Dice
air-punching blackened speed punk anarchy fun.
98.
73.
Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh
If Orange Goblin and Tool had a psychedelic doom baby
98.
74.
Spaceking - The Piper At The Gates Of Stone
Whenever it feels right
98.
75.
Abske Fides - O Sol Fulmina A Terra
Whenever it feels wrong
98.
76.
Church Of Misery - And Then There Were None...
Distilled Cathedral of Misery
98.
77.
Various Artists - 5 Years Of Doom And Dark Sounds [VA]
bad music for bad people
98.
78.
Kassad - Faces Turn Away
raging torrent of black metal as you are sucked through the void
98.
79.
Altar Of Betelgeuze - Among The Ruins
Grungy Stoner Doom ... Alice In Betelgeuze?
98.
80.
Time Lurker - Time Lurker
yet more awesome post-black courtesy of LADLO
98.
81.
Loss - Horizonless
perfect soundtrack to July
98.
82.
Process Of Guilt - Black Earth
unrelenting organic post assault
98.
83.
Mr. Plow - Maintain Radio Silence
More fun than a hammer-stoned face
98.
84.
Black Galaxy - Wrath Of The Void
Upbeat stoner riff rock with AIC-like Vox. Party for your earhole.
98.
85.
Faal - Abhorrence - Salvation
Included in the first Desert-Bound Marcel Doom Gift Box. Enough said.
98.
86.
Lucifer's Children - Devil Worship
Female-fronted 70s Retro Doom, Paraguay Style
98.
87.
Dukatalon - Involuntary Action
A pounding sludge beating ten years in the making
98.
88.
Van Halen - 1984
RIP EVH
98.
89.
Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
Lemmy and Co. Does it need a description?
98.
90.
Warning - Watching From A Distance
Thanks, Marcel
98.
91.
Nitelight - Nitelight Plays: Death's Symbolic
Chuck's Tangerine Dream - or - Death in the Upside Down
98.
92.
Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
Sludge so forceful it moves the Earth's tectonic plates
98.
93.
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Blues Rock Shuffle funneled through the 80s. Brilliant.
98.
94.
TarLung - Architect
Slowbangers sitting somewhere in a Ven diagram of Stoner, Doom and Sludge metal, slightly to the Sludge side.
98.
95.
Glorification - Against All Adversity - A Hymn Of Demonic Victory
Blackened Death or Deathened Black Paraguay Style! Grab a lomito, a Pilsen and get wrekt!
98.
96.
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden
I still don't believe either of the Soprano kids listened to this album, despite having the poster on their wall. Posers.
98.
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Darkthrone - Hate Them
Black Metal Is The Devil's Fuel
98.
98.
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
50 year old Texas Blues Rock Shuffle classic.
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afu

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23.09.2011 - 05:14
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I like your #1. The opening lick to Snakes makes the hair stand up on my arms.
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Unfmaliar with a lot of these but this list has yielded some really cool stuff
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Profetus : FUN!
hahahahaha
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Dafuq I just looked at those picks in the image and thought: "I've seen the same picks before." And then I look down on my computer desk and find out the same USA Nylon pick
On topic: this is a great list. Good way to keep in track with your picks, which are great.
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