2011: Choosing Death... And Black... And Other Stuff
2011: Choosing Death... And Black... And Other Stuff
I am making a list for 2011. Like every one else. Originality is overrated anyway.
This is the very top of the year and still a work in progress.
This is the very top of the year and still a work in progress.
1.
Wolves In The Throne Room
- Celestial Lineage
Black/Shoegaze (Blackgaze is an horrible name for a genre BTW). This one puts my ass on the floor with every listen. Great music, great atmosphere, great everything.
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2.
Beyond Creation
- The Aura
Technical Death. Excellent album where Mr Lapointe abuses my bass fetish. It's Cosmogenesis all over again, maybe even better.
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3.
Benighted
- Asylum Cave
Brutal Death. Four words. BETWEEN MY BROKEN TEEEEEEEHEEEEEEHEEEEETH. My favorite song of the year on an awesome album.
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4.
Fleshgod Apocalypse
- Agony
Symphonic Extreme. Not the successor to Oracles and Mafia that I expected but very good in its own right. I cannot for them to do better (because they will... or I'll riot)
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6.
Ouroboros
- Glorification Of A Myth
Technical Death/Thrash. *bangs head with very serious look on its face*
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7.
Thy Catafalque
- Rengeteg
Electro-dark-pop-folk-whothefuckcares-metal. I want to go out in the streets at night and dance with people to that music. A unique blend of sound.
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Esoteric
- Paragon Of Dissonance
Funeral Doom. Less directly enjoyable than The Maniacal Vale? Okay, scratch that, you should not compare it to the Maniacal Vale. This is great music.
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10.
Devin Townsend
- Deconstruction
Heavy Devin. The album that never lets you know where it's going to take you next. Plus the lyrics are strangely touching.
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11.
Gigan
- Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes
Technical Death/Grindcore. The Earth crust has broken releasing toxic fumes. Lovecraftian entities have invaded our world. My skin has turned grey and I'm breathing through gills. And yet I've never felt better.
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12.
Noisear
- Subvert The Dominant Paradigm
Grindcore/Noise. Rapes your ears (in a good way) and then sends you to space. My favorite grincore release of the year.
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13.
Between The Buried And Me
- The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Progressive Metalcore. I just love it.
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15.
Woods Of Desolation
- Torn Beyond Reason
Atmospheric Black. This one will swallow you and digest you into a desperate, happy ice cube. I don't know if that makes sense.
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16.
Metallica
- Kill 'Em All
Not a 2011 release. But if Lulu taught us anything, it's that we should remember how awesome Kill 'Em All is.
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17.
Skeletonwitch
- Forever Abomination
Blackened Thrash. I did not find any "straight thrash" release that excited me this year. However, this one makes me want to break stuff with a smile on my face.
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18.
Taake
- Noregs Vaapen
Black. Too good to be just "solid", not enough to be awesome but deserves a place here for the f***ing banjo solo \m/
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19.
Appearance Of Nothing
- All Gods Are Gone
Progressive Power. Has the merit of being one of the few "proggy" albums I liked. Is corny but feels manly.
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20.
Alestorm
- Back Through Time
Folk Power. OK, this is not on the same level as the other. But this was my first Alestorm album. I mean, how did I live ignoring the existence of Pirate Metal before. With a song about rum (the greatest drink in the world).
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16 is by far the best entry of any list I've seen this year. And in case this list changes and 16 turns out to be something lame, I should point out it's Metallica's Kill 'Em All. 
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Posts: 100 Written by Troy Killjoy on 24.11.2011 at 10:43 But... but... but... The Browning would look so "feng shui" in that spot 
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Posts: 21306 Written by Qube on 24.11.2011 at 10:57 That's exactly why I'm covering my ass.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Last update before the awards (during which I hope to discover new stuff). Rengeteg, Bilateral, Torn Beyond Reason and Forever Abomination come in. QHS Landscapes goes down a bit. Kill'Em All still number 16 
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