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flightoficarus
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February 26, 2015
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Due to new developments and time constraints, I have streamlined this back into one list. I have taken off anything that I did not care for, so just consider it a list of recommended listens. You can find full reviews on Metal Trenches (MT) in most cases. Also jumping on the artwork bandwagon:
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1.
Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic
Progressive metal.
182.
2.
Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
Atmospheric technical death metal.
182.
3.
Death Karma - The History Of Death & Burial Rituals Part I
BM Czech/Germany.
182.
4.
A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See
Atmospheric BM.
182.
5.
Leviathan - Scar Sighted
Atmospheric black metal, death metal.
182.
6.
Sigh - Graveward
Avant garde BM
182.
7.
Frosthelm - The Endless Winter
"Thrashened black"
182.
8.
Author & Punisher - Melk En Honing
Industrial metal.
182.
9.
Beautality - Einfallen: A Tale Of Torment & Triumph
Enslaved meets doom
182.
10.
Dendritic Arbor - Romantic Love
It's like black grind with the occasional drone.
182.
11.
SikTh - Opacities
Mathcore
182.
12.
Downfall Of Nur - Umbras De Barbagia
Post-black, progressive, folk.
182.
13.
The Armed - Untitled
Hardcore.
182.
14.
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Post-black, folk, symphonic
182.
15.
Immortal Bird - Empress / Abscess
blackened sludge, grind.
182.
16.
Au-Dessus - Au-Dessus
BM from Lithuania
182.
17.
WRVTH - WRVTH
Post-hardcore, progressive, mathcore.
182.
18.
Antlion - The Prescient
Progressive technical death metal.
182.
19.
Tengger Cavalry - Blood Sacrifice Shaman
Folk/BM, instrumental (mostly).
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20.
Malthusian - Below The Hengiform
Blackened death, doom.
182.
21.
Barishi - Endless Howl
Post-metal, death, black, alternative.
182.
22.
Myrkur - M
Atmospheric black metal, folk metal
182.
23.
Enslaved - In Times
Stellar vocals with some similarities to Opeth.
182.
24.
Adversarial - Death, Endless Nothing And The Black Knife Of Nihilism
Technical atmospheric death metal.
182.
25.
Barús - Barús
Progressive death metal.
182.
26.
Archivist - Archivist
Post-black.
182.
27.
In Twilight's Embrace - The Grim Muse
Melodic death metal, black metal.
182.
28.
Wovoka - Saros
Post-metal, sludge.
182.
29.
Gloom - Doggod
Melodic death metal, brutal death
182.
30.
Azgard - At the Break of Day
Deathcore + Progressive
182.
31.
Iwrestledabearonce - Hail Mary
Mathcore
182.
32.
The Hell - Brutopia
Thrash, metalcore, hip-hop, pseudo-glamcore, humor
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33.
Otargos - Xeno Kaos
Blackened death metal
182.
34.
Abigail Williams - The Accuser
Black metal
182.
35.
The Moth Gatherer - The Earth Is The Sky
Sludge, ambient, industrial
182.
36.
Akhlys - The Dreaming I
Atmospheric BM.
182.
37.
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Exile
Atmospheric BM.
182.
38.
Slugdge - Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms
Melodic death metal
182.
39.
Vattnet Viskar - Settler
Post-black.
182.
40.
The Apex - The Apex
Mathcore, grindcore, Jens Kidmanish vocals
182.
41.
Pale Chalice - Negate The Infinite And Miraculous
USBM
182.
42.
Murg - Varg & Björn
Swedish BM a la Darkthrone.
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43.
Islay - The Angels' Share
Melodic death metal
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44.
Behold! The Monolith - Architects Of The Void
Stoner doom, thrash, a touch of black
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45.
Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega
Progressive technical metal, djent
182.
46.
Irreversible Mechanism - Infinite Fields
Excellent tech death.
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47.
August Burns Red - Found In Far Away Places
Technical metalcore
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48.
Doomed - Wrath Monolith
Extreme doom.
182.
49.
Deuil - Shock / Deny
Atmospheric black metal
182.
50.
Crown - Natron
Industrial, doom, alternative.
182.
51.
Dragged Into Sunlight / Gnaw Their Tongues - N.V .
Black, grind, ambient, drone
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52.
Grey Heaven Fall - Black Wisdom
Black metal
182.
53.
Mephorash - 1557 - Rites Of Nullification
Black, death
182.
54.
Deadspace - The Promise Of Oblivion
Post-black, Depressive BM.
182.
55.
Ketha - #!%16.7
Progressive death+Brass.
182.
56.
The Ritual Aura - Laniakea
Tech death
182.
57.
Mendel - Oblivion
Neoclassical, progressive, instrumental.
182.
58.
Batushka - Litourgiya
Black metal with a lot of monk chanting
182.
59.
Déluge - Aether
Post metal
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60.
Ur Draugr - With Hunger Undying
Progressive death metal
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61.
Kardashev - Peripety
Atmospheric progressive deathcore
182.
62.
Beithíoch - Conquest
Death, black, doom
182.
63.
Grethor - Cloaked In Decay
Blackened grindcore.
182.
64.
Norse - Pest
Blackened, experimental death, doom.
182.
65.
So Hideous - Laurestine
Atmospheric post-black
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66.
Plague Wielder - Paroxysm
Experimental death, progressive
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67.
Merkaba - Digression Assassins
Progressive metal
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68.
Born Of Osiris - Soul Sphere
Deathcore, djent, symphonic
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Selvans - Lupercalia
Black, folk, symphonic
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70.
Awe - Providentia
BM
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71.
Necrocosm - Damnation Doctrine
Melodeath
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72.
Non Opus Dei - Diabeł
Black metal, groove metal
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73.
Dystrophy - Wretched Host
Technical, experimental DM.
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74.
Kaerulean - Adrift
Progressive death metal
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75.
Serenity In Murder - The Highest Of Dystopia
Symphonic/Folk.
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Corpus Christii - PaleMoon
Black metal.
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Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers...
Death, folk, technical
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78.
Dalkhu - Descend... Into Nothingness
Blackened death, some viking sensibilities
182.
79.
The Hudson Horror - Nemesis
Melodic death, brutal death, blackened death.
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Black Breath - Slaves Beyond Death
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Wombbath - Downfall Rising
Melodeath, sludge
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Vaee Solis - Adversarial Light
Black, sludge
182.
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Hadean - On Fading
Avant garde progressive metal
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Xenosis - Sowing The Seeds Of Destruction
Progressive technical death metal.
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85.
Pronostic - An Atomic Decision
Melodeath
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Arcturus - Arcturian
AGBM.
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Coraxo - Neptune
Melodeath
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Thera Roya - Unraveling
Blackened/stoner sludge
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89.
Negative Mantra - A Hymn To Disappointment
Black metal, sludge
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90.
Gladius Sky - Ex Metallo
Windirish symphonic BM
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Scythian - Hubris In Excelsis
Thrash, folk, death
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Synapses - Devoutness
Tech death, Meshuggah-ish djent
182.
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Repulsive Dissection - Church Of The Five Precious Wounds
Technical brutal death metal.
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Qip - On Ephemeral Substrates
Industrial metal
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Manipulation - Ecstacy
Deathcore
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Diavolos - You Lived, Now You Die
Old School Death Metal
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Tormention - Chaotic Delusions
Melodic blackened death metal
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Chaos Synopsis - Seasons Of Red
Thrash metal
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Skydancer - Land of the Grim
Melodic DM.
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Drouth - Vast, Loathsome
Blackened Sludge
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Great American Ghost - Everyone Leaves
Metallic hardcore
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The Black Dahlia Murder - Abysmal
Melodic death metal.
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Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang
Thrash, groove metal.
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Autokrator - Autokrator
Death drone.
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Silence Lies Fear - Future: The Return
Symphonic melodeath
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[Evertrapped] - Under the Deep
Melodeath
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Sadist - Hyaena
Avantgarde progressive DM
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Nechochwen - Heart Of Akamon
Folk, black
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Anopheli - The Ache Of Want
Post-harcore, crust punk, strings.
182.
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Cities of the Plain - Salt
Instrumental post-metal
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Secrets Of The Sky - Pathway
Progressive, post metal.
182.
112.
Clutch - Psychic Warfare
Stoner rock, Hard rock, Southern Rock
182.
113.
Tod Huetet Uebel - Malícia
Crazy blackened something or other.
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Misþyrming - Söngvar Elds Og Óreiðu
Atmospheric, somewhat experimental BM and DM.
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Outre - Ghost Chants
Black metal.
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Blaze Of Perdition - Near Death Revelations
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Unjustly Labeled - Grotesque
Death drone
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Trapped Within Burning Machinery - The Filth Element
Doom metal
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Sanzu - Heavy Over The Home
Death groove
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Modern Day Babylon - The Ocean Atlas
Instrumental progressive metal
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Nyx - Home
Black metal, grunge?
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122.
The Drowned God - The Ebony Void
Post hardcore
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Siren - A Kingdom Aflame
Folk, heavy metal, power metal
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Dekadent - Veritas
SymphBM Slovenia.
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Graben - Graben
Metallic Punk
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Grim Vision - War - Agony
Crust
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Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
Technical death metal
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Kyy - Travesty of Light
Black metal
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Profanator - Mvtter Vicivm
Blackened thrash/crust from Mexico.
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Alkaloid - The Malkuth Grimoire
Extreme progressive metal
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Okazaki Fragments - Abandoned
Brutal death ad grindcore.
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Nuclear - Formula For Anarchy
Thrash
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Gorepunch - Give 'Em Hell
Deathcore, thrash, groove
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From the Hellmouth - From the Hellmouth
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The Fifth Alliance - Death Poems
Sludge
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Symbolical - Collapse In Agony
Blackened death metal
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The Overmind - Dissolution
Tech death
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Grim Van Doom - Grim Love
Sludge
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In Cauda Venenum - In Cauda Venenum
Atmospheric BM.
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Shaidar Logoth - Chapter II: The Ritualist
BM
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Throes - Disassociation
Blackened death, technical.
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Deafheaven - New Bermuda
Post-black, alternative, indie
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Finsterforst - Mach Dich Frei
Extreme folk metal.
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Cowards - Rise To Infamy
French hardcore with some sludge.
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God Mother - Maktbehov
Hardcore
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Tanned Christ - Antipodean Sickness
Grindcore
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Cambion - Unfold Chaos Supreme
Black thrash
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Shrine Of Insanabilis - Disciples Of The Void
Black metal
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Bosse-De-Nage - All Fours
Post hardcore. I refuse to call this BM.
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Archemoron - Sulphur and Fire
Black metal, folk
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Gurthang/Beyond Life - Melodies of Sorrow
Doom metal
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Monolord - Vænir
Stoner doom.
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Innerwoud - Mirre
String-based drone
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Mortem Obire - Lux
Ambient
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Faith No More - Sol Invictus
Alternative Rock/Metal.
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156.
The Crinn - Shadowbreather
Technical grindcore.
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Disgrace - True Enemy
Sludgecore.
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Zom - Flesh Assimilation
Blackened crust, death.
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Nio - Nio
Instrumental post-metal
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Raventale - Dark Substance Of Dharma
Black Metal
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Apparatus - Apparatus
Blackened doom metal, death metal
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Hatecrowned - Newborn Serpent
Black metal, death metal
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Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields
Funeral Doom
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Rectified Spirit - The Waste Land
Progressive heavy metal
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Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
Blues, rock, a touch of stoner doom.
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Sulphur Aeon - Gateway To The Antisphere
Fans of Behemoth Blackened DM.
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Black Flame - The Origin Of Fire
BM
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Melechesh - Enki
MeloBM/Folk
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The Prodigy - The Day is My Enemy
Electronic.
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Volahn - Aq'Ab'Al
Black metal.
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Ensiferum - One Man Army
Listen at least for "Two of Spades." Melodeath, folk.
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Beneath the Storm - Devil's Village
Doom
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Krallice - Ygg Huur
Avant-garde BM
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The Prestige - Amer
Norma Jean clone
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Eldrich Horror - Untouched by the Sun
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Porta Nigra - Kaiserschnitt
It's like a German punk rock, black metal carnival.
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Antiversum - Total Vacuum
Blackened death.
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Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
Funeral Doom.
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Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
AGBM.
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Mare Infinitum - Alien Monolith God
Progressive doom, death.
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Galar - De Gjenlevende
BM, folk.
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Dreadnought - Bridging Realms
Jazz with some metal.
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Written by deadone on 31.03.2015 at 03:30

Appreciate the effort you put into this and it reads well for most part, even though I don't really like any of the genres you cover especially Black Metal!

Lol yeah if you don't like BM this is not the place for you.
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Nice list Man, I was wondering if You Will be reviewing the new Galar's album, "De Gjenlevende"?
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Written by Desideratum on 28.04.2015 at 19:12

Nice list Man, I was wondering if You Will be reviewing the new Galar's album, "De Gjenlevende"?

Thanks. Looks like it's on youtube, so I'll check it out.

Edit: Ended up adding it to the No Score section. Couldn't get into it for some odd reason despite its interesting sound.
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Written by Desideratum on 28.04.2015 at 19:12

Nice list Man, I was wondering if You Will be reviewing the new Galar's album, "De Gjenlevende"?

Thanks. Looks like it's on youtube, so I'll check it out.

Edit: Ended up adding it to the No Score section. Couldn't get into it for some odd reason despite its interesting sound.

OK, anyhow thanks for responding!
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Written by Desideratum on 28.04.2015 at 19:43

OK, anyhow thanks for responding!

No problem. I am always down for a recommendation. There were some really cool elements to Galar, but for whatever reason I just kept zoning out. I may come back to it.
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 02.03.2015 at 23:55

Crypt Sermon stoner? So, that would immediately make Candlemass and Solitude Aeturnus stoner as well.

I know I already replied, but when I did I hadn't listened to Crypt Sermon yet. Now that I have, I 100% agree with you. It's 100% (epic) doom. No stoner at all in their sound.
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