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1.
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Haunt - Mind Freeze
2020 |
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2.
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Annihilator - Ballistic, Sadistic
a great collection of songs of Jeff Waters. |
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3.
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Mystic Prophecy - Metal Division
more powerful than Sabaton. |
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4.
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Lorna Shore - Immortal
2020 |
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5.
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God Dethroned - Illuminati
2020 |
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6.
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Sepultura - Quadra
the best album without Cavalera brothers. |
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7.
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Sylosis - Cycle Of Suffering
one of the best thrash metal bands of the new wave (with Vektor and Revocation). |
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8.
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Suicide Silence - Become The Hunter
best album for a long time of Suicide Silence. |
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9.
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Psychotic Waltz - The God-Shaped Void
name ad hoc - Psychotic Waltz. |
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10.
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Demons & Wizards - III
2020 |
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11.
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Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions
2020 |
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12.
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Today Is The Day - No Good To Anyone
2020 |
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13.
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Beneath The Massacre - Fearmonger
2020 |
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14.
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Tombs - Monarchy Of Shadows
an good EP for no forget this band. |
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15.
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Peripheral Cortex - God Kaiser Hell
a great techdeath. |
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16.
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Neptunus - Planetary Annihilation
like Rings Of Saturn but better. |
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17.
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Kilter - Axiom
jazz/metal of the best |
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18.
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Dark Fortress - Spectres From The Old World
2020 |
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19.
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Vredehammer - Viperous
pure demolition sound. |
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20.
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My Dying Bride - The Ghost Of Orion
2020 |
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21.
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Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth & Sacrifice
2020 |
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22.
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Azure Emote - The Third Perspective
an avantgarde/death/industrial project of really high quality. |
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23.
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Nero Di Marte - Immoto
2020 |
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24.
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Akurion - Come Forth To Me
2020 |
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25.
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Cult Of Fire - Moksha
2020 |
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26.
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Cult Of Fire - Nirvana
the best of two |
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27.
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Burzum - Thulean Mysteries
reviewed as a ambient album. |
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28.
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Human Impact - Human Impact
2020 |
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29.
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Testament - Titans Of Creation
actually, the best thrash metal is presented by the old bands. |
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30.
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Odious Mortem - Synesthesia
2020 |
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31.
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Igorrr - Spirituality And Distortion
a great product for metalheads. |
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32.
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Diabolic - Mausoleum Of The Unholy Ghost
very fast pure death metal. |
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33.
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Me And That Man - New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.1
2020 |
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34.
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Benighted - Obscene Repressed
very violent and explosive |
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35.
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Omega Infinity - Solar Spectre
2020 |
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36.
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Vampire Squid - Reinventing The Eel
10!!! one the best albums of tech death ever. |
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37.
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August Burns Red - Guardians
2020 |
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38.
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WuW - Rétablir L'éternité
an interesting sound of avantgarde doom. |
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39.
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Wolfheart - Wolves Of Karelia
another great production of Wolfheart. |
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40.
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The Black Dahlia Murder - Verminous
2020 |
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41.
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Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
10!!! this album is addictive. |
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42.
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Aborted - La Grande Mascarade
2020 |
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43.
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Abysmal Dawn - Phylogenesis
2020 |
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44.
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Trivium - What The Dead Men Say
only that album cover is horrible, the music is awesome. |
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45.
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Warbringer - Weapons Of Tomorrow
another horrible album cover, the music is awesome. |
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46.
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Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still
a jewel of techdeath. |
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47.
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Katatonia - City Burials
2020 |
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48.
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Vader - Solitude In Madness
2020 |
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49.
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Dyssidia - Costly Signals
10!!! one of the best progressive album... ever. |
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50.
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Naglfar - Cerecloth
2020 |
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51.
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...And Oceans - Cosmic World Mother
2020 |
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52.
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Cirith Ungol - Forever Black
the music is awesome, the voice love it or hate it. |
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53.
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Paradise Lost - Obsidian
one of the best albums of the year. |
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54.
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Khôra - Timaeus
an excelente atmospheric album. |
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55.
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Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant
2020 |
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56.
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Agora - Imperio
a good album of the mexican progressive scene. |
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57.
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Centinex - Death In Pieces
enjoyable classic sound of death metal |
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58.
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Alestorm - Curse Of The Crystal Coconut
reviewed as a comercial album. |
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59.
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Xibalba - Años En Infierno
2020 |
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60.
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Bleed From Within - Fracture
not conventional deathcore, listen the structures. |
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61.
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Acerus - The Tertiary Rite
a great different heavy metal. |
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62.
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Thy Catafalque - Naiv
2020 |
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63.
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Triptykon - Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019)
2020 |
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64.
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Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
a slam death metal band with proposal. |
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65.
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Protest The Hero - Palimpsest
a good album but it's not the same quality anymore. |
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66.
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Lamb Of God - Lamb Of God
a declaration of principles. |
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67.
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Cryptic Shift - Visitations From Enceladus
presents influences of Voivod, Coroner and Gorguts. |
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68.
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Behold The Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove
a thing too avantgarde for this moment. |
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69.
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Nocturnal Depression - Tides Of Despair
DSBM of the best. |
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70.
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Carach Angren - Franckensteina Strataemontanus
an interesting change, the most complete album of the band. |
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71.
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Pyrrhon - Abscess Time
from a prolific scene of NY, singular techdeath. |
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72.
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Cro-Mags - In The Beginning
a mature HxC, a great return to their best works. |
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73.
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Black Hate - Altalith
an evolutionized black/death metal. |
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74.
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Virocracy - Irradiation
the very good mix between tech, melodic, prog death metal. |
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75.
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Medicated - Descension
a delicious sound. |
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76.
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Agony Lords - Shelter For The Undead
a dynamized melodeath. |
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77.
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Ulthar - Providence
a compact explosion. |
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78.
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Ensiferum - Thalassic
atmospheric, dramatic and high quality. |
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79.
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VoidCeremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel
minimalistic technical death metal. |
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80.
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Alarum - Circle's End
a good album with a sound between Cynic and Revocation. |
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81.
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Static-X - Project: Regeneration Vol. 1
a very good collage, more powerful than Rammstein and Ministry's last albums. |
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82.
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Oldskull - The Old Skulls
some of good mexican musicians made a good death metal. |
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83.
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Primal Fear - Metal Commando
straight to the point. |
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84.
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Grimorivm - ...By The Hate & Pain
black/doom with a lot of convergence, idea and production. |
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85.
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Black Crown Initiate - Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape
a real progressive death with technical, without dissonance abuse. |
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86.
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Deathstorm - For Dread Shall Reign
nothing special but fun. |
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87.
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Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville
10!! Not a sound for everyone but they've high quality. |
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88.
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Onslaught - Generation Antichrist
Pure thrash attack. |
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89.
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Deep Purple - Whoosh!
honest record, not many bands today have this sound. |
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90.
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Sabacthani - Beyond The Dark Sea
memorable melodeath to the grain with great vocals. |
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91.
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Ingested - Where Only Gods May Tread
very brutal. |
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92.
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Unleash The Archers - Abyss
a very good performance, a good power metal. |
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93.
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Cytotoxin - Nuklearth
their best album: brutal, explosive, technical and without pig squeals. |
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94.
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Incantation - Sect Of Vile Divinities
classic & dark sound for fans. |
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95.
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Necrot - Mortal
old school death metal straight to the point. |
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96.
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Ulver - Flowers Of Evil
80's pop? but fun, if you don't listen to this very all the time, you might enjoy it. |
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97.
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Creature (FRA) - Ex Cathedra
black metal with progression and lots of opposing artistic elements, an unique and creative mix. |
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98.
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John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity
happy prog metal, he doesn't have a fight with the guest artists. |
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99.
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Exist - Egoiista
jazz/metal-fusion with superior ideas. |
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100.
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Pain Of Salvation - Panther
strange production and soft guitars, but some enjoyable. |
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101.
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Stryper - Even The Devil Believes
remember of their 80s era with good sound. They matured with dignity. |
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102.
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Cult Of Lilith - Mara
techdeath with electronic elements not for everyone, and not mature. |
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103.
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Kalaveraztekah - El Despertar De Los Tiempos
very good death metal with mesoamerican folk elements condenced. |
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104.
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Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos
melancholic sound with a country feeling, personal and artistic work. |
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105.
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Krallice - Mass Cathexis
this band always have new ideas, a really avantgarde band. |
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106.
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Skeletal Remains - The Entombment Of Chaos
old school death metal lovers with a delicious sound. |
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107.
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Maleficarum - Together We Summon The Beast
honest black metal. |
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108.
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Skeletal Throne - Human Deterioration
they've a very fast classic death/thrash sound, not many bands play this sound today. |
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109.
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Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
they're still violent but lacking some important elements of ND in exchange for experimentation. |
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110.
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Titan To Tachyons - Cactides
a jazz band playing extreme metal (maybe jazz metal?) from NY. A lot of technique and avantgarde. |
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111.
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Xazraug - Unsympathetic Empyrean
Colin Marston is the face of avant garde, this album is very dissonnant, violent and antinatural. |
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112.
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Heathen - Empire Of The Blind
good thrash metal album but not at the standards of the band. |
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113.
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Deftones - Ohms
good album, it has a phantasmagoric ambient and an 80s sound. |
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114.
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Finntroll - Vredesvävd
intense, fast and dramatic album. It's metal over folk, as it should be. |
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115.
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Kataklysm - Unconquered
a lot of attack and some of american melodic, but they don't present nothing new. |
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116.
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Uada - Djinn
this album has frenetic and esoteric songs, but has no epicity for such long songs (artificially extended). |
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117.
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Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment
continuous perfectionism of their sound, very memorable and brutal. |
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118.
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Lik (SWE) - Misanthropic Breed
good and economic old death metal school, with some of Iron Maiden in their solos. |
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119.
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Vitam Et Mortem - El Río De La Muerte
modern death metal with a very dark atmosphere and concept. |
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120.
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The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic
sounds the periods of calm and violence in their music but it lacks thematic dynamics |
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121.
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DevilDriver - Dealing With Demons I
classic sound of the band, enjoyable with nothing new. |
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122.
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Burning Witches - Dance With The Devil
a good manufacturing album, with feeling and punch |
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123.
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Necrophobic - Dawn Of The Damned
10!! total devastation of high quality and a lot of passion |
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124.
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Enslaved - Utgard
10!! a fine-tuning in their sound, a band that improves over time |
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125.
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Benediction - Scriptures
average classic sound |
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126.
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No Raza - Transcending Material Sins
Skullcrushing-death-metal with really good groove |
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127.
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Spirit Adrift - Enlightened In Eternity
blues-influenced album of really high quality and very organic |
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128.
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Hellripper - The Affair Of The Poisons
pure fast and memorable riffs, no more than that |
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129.
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Shemhamforash - Entropy
sonic assault with atmospheric elements, violent death/black of high quality |
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130.
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Evildead - United $tate$ Of Anarchy
Old school sound with good production, no anger on the vocals. |
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131.
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Carcass - Despicable
Carcass no longer innovates, they've decided to continue only with their most successful sound: Heartwork |
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132.
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Auðn - Vökudraumsins Fangi
10!! cold and emotional atmosphere with bombastic moments. |
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133.
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Gaerea - Limbo
modern black metal with a lot of quality. Has violent moments with ghostly melodies |
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134.
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Fates Warning - Long Day Good Night
good but limitated music, more melodic than shredded |
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135.
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AC/DC - Power Up
classic sound, excellent vocals, good production, but for non-fans it's just another AC/DC album |
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136.
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Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo
a closing disc, funny and potent |
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137.
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Draconian - Under A Godless Veil
10!! very deep emotional, a perfected sound. |
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138.
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Orbit Culture - Nija
viral music, violent and melodic... they've a mix between death/groove/metalcore (maybe) |
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139.
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Dark Tranquillity - Moment
they've their classic sound of this century sound, but no heavy guitars... without passion. |
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140.
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Inquisition - Black Mass For A Mass Grave
one of the best black metal albums of the year. Epic, melancholic, sober, glorious, but too long |
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141.
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Killer Be Killed - Reluctant Hero
good punch but of standard riffs... their members are in their comfort zones. |
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142.
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Cadaver - Edder & Bile
10!! modern and violent death metal album with high production. |
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143.
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Sodom - Genesis XIX
Raw, nostalgic and furious album. Similar to Persecution Mania and Agent Orange. |
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144.
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Dysphoria - Primal Entropy
ultra technical deathcore with mathcore, brutal, dynamic, fluid and unpredictable album |
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145.
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Azarath - Saint Desecration
10!! pure attack! Fluid, dynamic and inspired album. High quality blackened death metal |
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146.
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Hatebreed - Weight Of The False Self
delicious but in a comfort zone... they're too old for this young sound |
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147.
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Gama Bomb - Sea Savage
enjoyable album, like a sugar-overdose child, honest but without something new |
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148.
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Iron Savior - Skycrest
all german power metal production, memorable and energetic album |
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149.
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The Advent Equation - Remnants Of Oblivion
focused on composition, it is also a technical and content album |
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150.
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Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron
10!! really epic power metal, perfectionized songs. They've an internal motivation to released this music |
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151.
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Deeds Of Flesh - Nucleus
A great tribute to Lindmark, good production, very potent sound |
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152.
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Convulsif - Extinct
phenomenal creation, an interesting mix between jazz/grind/doom but so actual and condensed. |
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153.
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Total Death - Mar De Aguas Amargas
interesting death/doom with crooner vocals, they've some of experimentation like dark cabaret |
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154.
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Cryptodira - The Angel Of History
impressive technical-progressive-math album with metamorphic songs |
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155.
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Matalobos - The Grand Splendour Of Death
doom/death with melodic and depressive ambient, epic album, they've a good evolution |
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156.
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Injector - Hunt Of The Rawhead
high quality thrash metal, devastating and dynamic album. |
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157.
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Edenic Past - Red Amarcord
another creation of Colin Marston, very original, technical and brutal with a lot of variations like free jazz |
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158.
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Fawn Limbs - Sleeper Vessels
some new original extreme music, this is next step of math, very brutal, complex and attractive |
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159.
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Isengard - Vårjevndøgn
excellent concept, enjoyable, Fenriz's principles declaration, very honest and personal |
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160.
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Folterkammer - Die Lederpredigt
modern black metal with a soprano singer, an avantgarde idea, from actual revolutionary Mecca of metal: NY |
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161.
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Amiensus - Abreaction
variated black metal, good production with development, made a good mix with shoegaze |
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162.
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Necromind - Necromind
ultra cavernous brutal death, a solid band with different ways to do their sound |
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163.
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Akhlys - Melinoë
presents an awesome dark ambient with good production, it sounds really malicious and terrifier |
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164.
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Gardenjia - Egosvm
versatile dissonant album, create dark sensations with their own idea and high quality |
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165.
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Black Curse - Endless Wound
10!! pure darkness and massacre, a debut without fear, presents spectral and cavernous elements |
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166.
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Aetherevm - The Beauty Of Chaos
impressive debut, melancholic and introspective with good presentation and personality |
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167.
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Ehnahre - The Scrape Of A Keel (Drones And Improvisations)
pure improvisation that generates avantgarde, real experimental metal not concrete music |
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168.
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Greg Puciato - Child Soldier: Creator Of God
captures all his imagination of all their projects, his voice mixes well with different genres, strong and eclectic proposal |
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169.
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Inferna - Ad Lux Interitus
black metal of high quality with slow melodies and dynamics near to darkwave, makes an original sound. |
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170.
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Leñadores¡ - Fortem Fvtvrvm
hardcore from their own vision, with some of technical, melacholic and young sounds |
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171.
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Pestilength - Congruence Of The Ends
[Split w/ Reverence To Paroxysm] P presents a doom/ambient sound, RTP presents an ominous sound with a deep guttural voice, both sides presents a heavy and dense ambient music, very modern and unconventional. |
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172.
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Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
10!! triumphant and epic sound, a good idea made art, excellent instruments presented. |
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173.
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Liturgy - Origin Of The Alimonies
different music, Rock in Opposition with Black Metal fusion, its development is very instrumental, this album breaks frontiers. |
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174.
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Opposite Devotion - Hesperus Phosphorus
great black metal, variated album with good technique, shows some death metal elements, their music have a lot of projection. |
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175.
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Omegavortex - Black Abomination Spawn
this is a violent exorcism... a lot of force, good riffs, primitive and wild vocals, brutal black/death |
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176.
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Tulkas - The Beginning Of The End
more progressive than others bands called like that, potent riffs, good rhythm changes, next step of furious thrash. |
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177.
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Luna's Call - Void
majestic album, really progressive (in its original sense) death metal, they have attack with a lot elements (almost orchestral), an idea taken further. |
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178.
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Ensamhet - Fields Of Dark
doom death metal for specific fans, long songs with a lot of levels, good use of keyboards, with fast moments changing the dynamics, atractive sounds. |
