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1.
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Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality
[9.0] - Brilliant follow-up to a brilliant debut. |
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2.
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Disillusion - Ayam
[9.0] - This might be even stronger than The Liberation. |
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3.
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An Abstract Illusion - Woe
[8.5] - A remarkably strong follow-up to an already impressive debut. |
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4.
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Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain
[8.5] - More potently atmospheric post-black in a similar vein to Chapter II. |
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5.
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Wake - Thought Form Descent
[8.5] - One of the most impressive reinventions of recent years continues to impress, with further integration of softer sounds and proggier inclinations into this increasingly unique mesh of styles. |
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6.
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Elder - Innate Passage
[8.5] - More psych/stoner jam wizardry; not sure it's got the highs of Omens, but the vocals seem a bit more fitting on first listen. |
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7.
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Conjurer - Páthos
[8.5] - A truly impressive step forward from one of the UK's hottest up-and-coming bands. |
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8.
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Laere - Coagula
[8.5] - Pretty amazing black metal EP. |
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9.
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Dysgnostic - Scar Echoes
[8.5] - Captivating disso-death. |
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10.
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Lamentations - Passion Of Depression
[8.0] - Excellent Persefone-esque ex prog record. |
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11.
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Ott - Heads
[8.0] |
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12.
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Fallujah - Empyrean
[8.0] |
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13.
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Gaerea - Mirage
[8.0] - A great band putting out another great album, one that involves lots of black metal intensity, but also explores post-black and other territory very effectively, particularly on the title track. |
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14.
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Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth
[8.0] - Excellent compelling ambient techno. |
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15.
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Heiden - Andzjel
[8.0] |
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16.
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Ashbreather - Hivemind
[8.0] |
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17.
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Euphrosyne - Keres
[8.0] - Powerful post-black debut EP with great clean vocal segments. |
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18.
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Feather Mountain - To Exit A Maelstrom
[8.0] - Djenty prog/alt metal with lots of emotion. |
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19.
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Anomaly - Somewhere Within The Pines
[8.0] - Just the latest great prog death album from this year. |
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20.
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Grima - Frostbitten
[8.0] - In a year of 'good not great' meloblack, this is at a higher level than the competition - very exciting and stirring. |
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21.
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Dreadnought - The Endless
[8.0] |
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22.
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Ether Coven - The Relationship Between The Hammer And The Nail
[8.0] |
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23.
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Mourir - Disgrâce
[8.0] - Exhilarating post-y, semi-dissonant, beastly black metal record. |
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24.
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Gob Ribbons - Imparted I: The Age Of Comparison
[8.0] |
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25.
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Ggu:ll - Ex Est
[8.0] |
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26.
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Hexis - Aeternum
[8.0] |
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27.
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Xaon - The Lethean
[8.0] - With the hyper-dramatic symphonics, solid riffs, energetic songs and decent clean vocals, I'm much keener on this album that Septicflesh's offering. |
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28.
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Ahriman - Kehely
[8.0] - Really strong melodically-inclined black metal release with equal parts ripping and blasting, dainty piano/keys and strong guitar melodies/solos. |
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29.
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The Ever Living - Artificial Devices
[8.0] - Very cool post-metal with bright vibrant mixes like some Rosetta tracks. |
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30.
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Spiralist - Eternal Recurrence
[8.0] |
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31.
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Blind Guardian - The God Machine
[8.0] |
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32.
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Backxwash - His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering
[8.0] |
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33.
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Veilburner - VLBRNR
[8.0] - Excellent prog-inclined extreme metal. |
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34.
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Resin Tomb - Unconsecrated//Ascendancy
[8.0] - Thrillingly savage Calligram-esque black/sludge/hardcore EP. |
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35.
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Ego Depths - Elläkkairavertta
[8.0] |
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36.
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Ars Onirica - II: Lost
[8.0] - Nice Draconian-ish melodic death/doom. |
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37.
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Behold! The Monolith - From The Fathomless Deep
[8.0] - Wide-ranging and captivating mix of bruising sludgy/stoner doom with some more psychedelic moments, particularly with The Seams Of Pangaea. |
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38.
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Cyborg Octopus - Between The Light And Air
[8.0] - Solid BTBAM-lite kinda record. |
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39.
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Isor - Sonnenfraß
[8.0] - Another unique and engrossing industrial blackened metal outing from this project; the ritualistic Erinnerung is a big highlight. |
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40.
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Necroplanet - Negative Space
[8.0] - Well-paced, well-written industrial-edged extreme doom record. |
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41.
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Torturized - Aftermath
[8.0] - Very solid proggy death metal album with a good variety and some really quality moments. |
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42.
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GoGo Penguin - Between Two Worlds
[8.0] - A lush EP from one of the lushest jazz acts around. |
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43.
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Black Anvil - Regenesis
[8.0] - Very solid continuation of their sound, with black metal mixed with more classic metal styles and other less orthodox styles; great solos and more melodic songs. |
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44.
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Aeternam - Heir Of The Rising Sun
[8.0] - A well-judged injection of symphonic flamboyance into their already solid melodeath sound. |
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45.
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Remina - Strata
[8.0] - Spiritual successor to Light Field Reverie that captures the same emotions. |
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46.
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Crippled Black Phoenix - Banefyre
[8.0] - Unsurprisingly strong and evocative, if perhaps not to the same extent as the last one. |
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47.
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My Sleeping Karma - Atma
[8.0] - Another strong collection of psychedelic stoner jams. |
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48.
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Stratovarius - Survive
[8.0] - Very consistent, arguably moreso than the last two albums, a very respectable record. |
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49.
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Wesenwille - III: The Great Light Above
[8.0] - Another very solid 'urban' black metal album; there's dark atmospheres, savage attacks, substantial hints of melody, it all works really well. |
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50.
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A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests
[8.0] - Very emotionally connecting moody post-rock with heartfelt, subdued singing, and guitar arrangements that work really effectively alongside each other. |
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51.
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Deliverance - Neon Chaos In A Junk-Sick Dawn
[8.0] - Fascinating mesh of black, sludge, post-metal and other sounds. |
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52.
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Arizmenda - Spiders Lust In The Dungeon’s Dust
[8.0] - Impressive record from the black metal underground darlings. |
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53.
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Dirt Forge - Interspheral
[8.0] - Tasty fuzzy Southern-influenced sludge/stoner with some subtlety alongside the fierier riffs. |
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54.
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The Otolith - Folium Limina
[8.0] |
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55.
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The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory
[8.0] - Epic black-tinged death with some great cleaner parts amidst the intense assaults. |
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56.
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Gevurah - Gehinnom
[8.0] - Fierce black metal with a mixture of Behemoth-ish occult blackened death along with some darker, more atmospheric RHLT-style parts. Closing track is a banger. |
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57.
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Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
[8.0] - Repeats itself, but the basic sound is so compelling for me. |
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58.
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Antecantamentum - Saturnine December
[8.0] - Unusual but impressive proggy dreamy black metal. |
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59.
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Devenial Verdict - Ash Blind
[8.0] - Proggy, unpredictable strain of extreme metal. |
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60.
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Christian Cosentino - High Rising Times
[8.0] - Hyper-energetic meloblack with prolific blasting, dramatic synths and stirring melodies. |
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61.
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Vāmācāra - Cosmic Fires: The Enlightenment Reversed
[8.0] - Thoroughly impressive mixture of death metal with stoner/psych rock, among other influences. |
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62.
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My Diligence - The Matter, Form And Power
[8.0] - Very neat stoner-prog/post-metal sound from this trio. |
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63.
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Ósserp - Els Nous Cants De La Sibil·la
[8.0] - Spain come crashing in with a feisty slab of grindy death metal. |
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64.
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Ianai - Sunir
[8.0] - Very nice neofolk debut with some Rohan vibes (e.g. Vasariah), with just a handful of slightly offputting songs/moments putting it slightly below my favourite albums in the genre. |
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65.
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Youth League - Somehow Those Were Days
[8.0] - Really tonally nice emo/math/post-rock record, nice and brief too. |
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66.
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Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation
[8.0] - I think I was more impressed by this record than the debut; really dig the dreamier sounds. |
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67.
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Grief Circle - Weightless
[8.0] - Solid post-metal debut featuring ex-Moanaa members; a bit of Ortega to this one. |
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68.
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Mord'A'Stigmata - Like Ants And Snakes
[8.0] - Don't remember overly clicking with this band previously, but I like the dark jazz 'avant-garde' sound of this record a fair amount. |
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69.
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Jade - The Pacification Of Death
[8.0] - Amazing artwork and solid death/doom debut. |
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70.
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Empire Drowns - Nothing
[8.0] - Nicely morose gothic doom with sad melodies, dainty piano and nifty electronics. |
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71.
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Aenaon - Mnemosyne
[8.0] - Another dark jazzy extreme metal record done well by this group. |
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72.
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Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
[8.0] - Exuberant and fascinating album that fills the void until the next A Forest Of Stars record. |
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73.
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She Said Destroy - Bleeding Fiction II: Child Of Tomorrow
[8.0] - A lot more stylistically consistent than last year's album, and better for it. |
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74.
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Sedna - Last Sun
[8.0] - 20-min EP right up my street, blackened post-metal with lots of atmosphere. |
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75.
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Coraxo - Luna
[8.0] - 30-min instrumental post/industrial/avant-garde release, really decent. |
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76.
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Incantvm - Strigae
[8.0] - Avantgarde, symphonic blackened doom madness - a very unusual direction for a clarinetist to go in musically. |
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77.
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Mamaleek - Diner Coffee
[8.0] - An inspired take on the dark jazzy avant-garde metal idea. |
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78.
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Null - Origin
[8.0] - Folky meloblack that is overlong at nigh-on 80 minutes but nevertheless very well made. |
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79.
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Scarcity - Aveilut
[8.0] - Very intriguing mix of at-times Oranssi Pazuzu-esque psychedelic and semi-dissonant black metal with more noise/dark ambient stretches. |
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80.
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Mother Of Graves - Where The Shadows Adorn
[8.0] - Accomplished melodically inclined death/doom debut from these Clandestine Cuts graduates. |
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81.
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Eyrth - Meridian
[8.0] - Very solid instru-post-metal. |
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82.
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Blackbraid - Blackbraid I
[8.0] |
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83.
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Monolithe - Kosmodrom
[8.0] |
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84.
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Chrome Ghost - House Of Falling Ash
[8.0] - Very decent post-y doom record. |
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85.
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Abyssic - Brought Forth In Iniquity
[8.0] - Solidly atmospheric symph-tinged trudging death/funeral doom. |
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86.
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Hoaxed - Two Shadows
[8.0] - Cool gloomy ethereal rock sound. |
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87.
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Constellatia - Magisterial Romance
[8.0] - Very subtle light record with harsh vocals but plenty of shimmering guitars, acoustics and toned down percussion. |
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88.
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Ketha - Wendigo
[8.0] - Weird and wacky avant-garde deathy stuff. |
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89.
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Tchornobog - Tchornobog / Abyssal
[8.0] - Two very long cacophonic extreme metal odysseys. |
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90.
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Jours Pâles - Tensions
[8.0] - Clicking with this nifty genre-hopper more than last year's debut. |
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91.
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Grin - Phantom Knocks
[8.0] - Felt the guitarless stoner worked much better this time around. |
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92.
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Dragonland - The Power Of The Nightstar
[8.0] |
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93.
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Blut Aus Nord - Lovecraftian Echoes
[8.0] - A hellish cacophony harking back to their earlier days. |
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94.
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Hussar - All-Consuming Hunger
[8.0] - Feisty doomy disso-death from Voidhanger. |
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95.
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Hegemone - Voyance
[8.0] - Solid post-black release, albeit not quite reaching greatness. |
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96.
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Borealis - Illusions
[8.0] - Channels the Evergrey prog/power sound in a very pleasant manner. |
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97.
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Salqiu - خماسين الوباء
Fascinating black/death music with heavy Middle Eastern influences. |
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98.
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Mournument - Smouldering Into Dust
[8.0] - Suitably atmospheric folky gothic doom release; could do without some of the harsher vocals, but otherwise very solid. |
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99.
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Qrixkuor - Zoetrope
[8.0] |
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100.
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Jambinai - 發顯 (Apparition)
[8.0] - No one quite sounds like Jambinai, and that sound continues to sound great here. |
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101.
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Korpelarörelsen - Är Du Av Den Rätta Tron?
[8.0] - Sinister combination of melodically-inclined black with dark ambient and noise. |
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102.
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Ascent Of Autumn - Awakened
[8.0] - Nifty symph-tinged proggy deathcore release. |
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103.
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Valve - Thermoclines
[7.5] |
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104.
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Judicator - The Majesty Of Decay
[7.5] |
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105.
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Gob Ribbons - Imparted II: The Delian Diver
[7.5] - Perhaps not quite as immediate a first impact as part 1, but another solid EP from these smooth progsters. |
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106.
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Speaking To Stones - (In)Human Error
[7.5] - Djent-leaning modern prog with plenty of heart and emotion. |
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107.
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Warforged - The Grove / Sundial
[7.5] |
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108.
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James Norbert Ivanyi - The Sine Intimation
[7.5] - Very soothing instrumental rock record. |
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109.
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Lunar Mercia - Leaving The Fragile Space
[7.5] - Shimmering blackgaze with some darker atmo-black/heavier riffs in the equation as well, comes together well. |
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110.
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Revocation - Netherheaven
[7.5] - Strong prog/tech thrash/death effort from a consistently decent band. |
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111.
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Zemeth - Loneliness
[7.5] - Exuberant melodeath/extreme power in vein of Bloody Cumshot, but more flamboyant and symphonic. |
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112.
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Revaira - Journey
[7.5] - Great djent/core EP with lots of atmospheric groove and vocal emotion. |
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113.
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Macondø - II
[7.5] - Better late than never in discovering this really decent instrumental post-rock/metal album from January. |
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114.
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Motorpsycho - Ancient Astrronauts
[7.5] - More solid prog from this ridiculously prolific group. |
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115.
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Lacrimas Profundere - How To Shroud Yourself With Night
[7.5] - Some nice emotions found within this brooding gothic album. |
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116.
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Godeater - Vespera
[7.5] - Symph-tinged proggy tech-deathcore, lots of terms thrown in there but the end result works nicely. |
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117.
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Darkest Era - Wither On The Vine
[7.5] |
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118.
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Ryth - Deceptor Creator
[7.5] - Really good proggy melodic blackened death release from Bahrain. |
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119.
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Induction - Born From Fire
[7.5] - Quality vocals and memorable songs, decent power metal offering. |
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120.
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Girih - Ikigai
[7.5] - Conventional but very cool and evocative heavier post-rock. |
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121.
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Catalyst - A Different Painting For A New World
[7.5] - Proggy tech-death that makes the strongest impression on the longer, proggier tracks. |
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122.
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Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy
[7.5] - Another unholy cacophony - I don't enjoy it, but I do respect it. |
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123.
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Kekal - Envisaged
[7.5] - Slightly suffers from the consistency that sometimes comes with avant-garde albums, but there's some great moments here, The Ascending Collective chief among them. |
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124.
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Huracan - We Are Very Happy
[7.5] |
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125.
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Tuskar - Matriarch
[7.5] - Rather cool post-y sludge doom debut from London duo. |
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126.
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Dornen - Leidensweg
[7.5] - Pretty great blackened sludge/post-black debut EP. |
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127.
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Dystopia AD - Doomsday Psalm
[7.5] - Really interesting and well-made proggy melo(ish)death album. |
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128.
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(EchO) - Witnesses
[7.5] - Cool post-y doomy record with harsher vocals but also some nice cleans from Heike Langhans. |
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129.
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Moeror - All That We Seem
[7.5] - Black metal album with some post- leanings that work nicely. |
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130.
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Satyr - Totem
[7.5] - Nice post-hardcore/djent sound with solid vocals. |
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131.
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Synestia - Maleficium
[7.5] - Straight-up Lorna Shore worship, but a very enjoyable interpretation of it. |
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132.
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Boucle Infinie - Summit
[7.5] - Remi from The Algorithm drops the metal in favour of IDM/synthwave - it reminds me of Rival Consoles in a very positive way. |
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133.
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Dérives - Ferae Seves
[7.5] - Very pleasant piano-heavy post-rock. |
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134.
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Cydemind - The Descent
[7.5] - Nice orchestral metal instrumental record with some lovely strings. |
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135.
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Armed For Apocalypse - Ritual Violence
[7.5] - Dirty sludge with some amazing shredded vocals. |
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136.
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Asunojokei - Island
[7.5] - Bright shiny Deafheaven-esque post-hardcore/blackgaze. |
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137.
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King Buffalo - Regenerator
[7.5] |
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138.
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Eye Of Doom - The Sapient
[7.5] |
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139.
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VoidOath - Ascension Beyond Kokytus
[7.5] - Serious sludge/death/doom debut. |
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140.
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Rioghan - Different Kinds Of Losses
[7.5] - Nice moody alt debut with Leprous influences. |
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141.
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Ancient Mastery - Chapter Two: The Resistance
[7.5] - I didn't care for the debut, but I like the storyteller vibe, folkiness and symphonics of this atmo-black release. |
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142.
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Fall Of The Idols - Contradictory Notes
[7.5] - Harsh vocals, but generally more classically doom, and sounds rather good while doing so. |
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143.
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Rival Consoles - Now Is
[7.5] - Really like this guy's take on ambient/IDM. |
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144.
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Nighted - Absence
[7.5] - Don't really hear synthwave here, but the keyboards are quite nice and the black(ish) metal is very pleasantly melodic. |
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145.
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A Wake In Providence - Eternity
[7.5] - Not quite Lorna Shore tier, but very solid symph-deathcore effort. |
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146.
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Terror Cell - Caustic Light
[7.5] - Intriguing mesh of mathcore, post-metal and a couple of other styles. |
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147.
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Voidward - Voidward
[7.5] - Accomplished mesh of classic, stoner, psychedelic and post- rock styles on the heavier end of the spectrum. |
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148.
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Raat - Celestial Woods
[7.5] - Some really nice shimmering blackgaze/atmo-black. |
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149.
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Bong-Ra - Meditations
[7.5] - Ominous, sinister drone metal with some chaotic saxophone. |
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150.
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Deströyer 666 - Never Surrender
[7.5] - One of the best purveyors of thrash currently around. |
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151.
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Ashes Of Nothing - A Thousand Serpents Holding Poison
[7.5] - Lots of emotion and heart in this post-metal debut EP. |
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152.
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Vermilia - Ruska
[7.5] - Very pleasant folky/pagan meloblack stuff with ethereal vocals, a bit like early Myrkur. |
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153.
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Harvest Of Ash - Ache And Impulse
[7.5] - Very neat post-y sludge debut. |
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154.
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Labyrinth Of Stars - Spectrum Xenomorph
[7.5] - Vicious, contorted disso-death with prolonged ambient outro. |
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155.
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Fliege - One Day They'll Wonder What Happened Here
[7.5] - Nifty The Thing-themed meloblack record with certain quirks. |
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156.
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Irist - Gloria
[7.5] - Very decent follow-up to Order Of The Mind that further emphasizes them as a torchbearer of Gojira's legacy. |
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157.
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Contrast - Acedia
[7.5] - Solid record mixing MPE-style melodeath with more meloblack/folk tracks. |
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158.
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Unprocessed - Gold
[7.5] - Smooth djent-tinged poppy math rock. |
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159.
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Body Void - Burn The Homes Of Those Who Seek To Control Our Bodies
[7.5] - 2 more tracks of misanthropic, noisy sludge from these purveyors of vile sounds. |
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160.
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Psycroptic - Divine Council
[7.5] |
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161.
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Mare Infinitum - Cryosleep
[7.5] - Fluctuates between grandiose symphonic doom and more extreme-leaning styles; the former works a bit better for me. |
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162.
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Xeno - Reconstruction
[7.5] - Very decent prog death EP. |
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163.
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Bál - Fénytelen
[7.5] - Post-black release; really reveals its strengths in the closing minutes. |
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164.
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Parius - The Signal Heard Through Space
[7.5] |
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165.
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Vengeur - Par Feu Et Par Flammes
[7.5] |
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166.
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Hierophant - Death Siege
[7.5] - Ferocious slab of dissonant blackened death metal. |
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167.
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Royal Hunt - Dystopia – Part II
[7.5] - Rather solid prog/power release with a couple of fine long songs at the end. |
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168.
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Ştiu Nu Ştiu - New Sun
[7.5] |
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169.
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Asuryan - Abraxis
[7.5] - Really pleasant mix of power metal with bits of melodeath, folk and metalcore. |
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170.
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Mico - Zigarut
[7.5] - Frenetic, aggressive, compelling dissonant blackened hardcore (FFO namedrops Plebeian Grandstand, for reference). |
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171.
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Wheel - Rumination
[7.5] - Short taste of Wheel goodness. |
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172.
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Obsidious - Iconic
[7.5] - I dig the more melodic, proggier Obscura approach, even if sometimes those melodic vocals don't quite hit the mark for me. |
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173.
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Shallow Rivers - The Tales Told Under The Willow
[7.5] - Nice melancholic melodic death/doom. |
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174.
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Potvor - You Will Never Go Back
[7.5] - Good balance of hardcore savagery and sludgy menace. |
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175.
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Indepth - Ancient Architects
[7.5] - Solid tech/prog-death with some great solos. |
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176.
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The Dear Hunter - Antimai
[7.5] |
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177.
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Aura - Underwater
[7.5] - Very pleasant if slightly rough-edged alt-y prog rock/metal soothing listen; cool Pink Floyd cover. |
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178.
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Becoming The Archetype - Children Of The Great Extinction
[7.5] |
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179.
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Frowning - Of Void
[7.5] |
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180.
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Second To Sun - Nocturnal Philosophy
[7.5] - Sharp-edged, menacing meloblack |
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181.
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Gematria - Gematria II: The Spindle Of Necessity
[7.5] - Convoluted, trippy experimental instrumental prog rock album. |
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182.
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Kathaaria - To Be Shunned By All...As Centres Of Pestilence
[7.5] - Intimidating yet sometimes surprisingly melodic black/death fury. |
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183.
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Die Sünde - Strega
[7.5] - Suitably menacing 20-minute post-black one-song EP. |
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184.
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Heron - Empires Of Ash
[7.5] - Grim and murky sludge doom. |
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185.
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God Alone - ETC
[7.5] - Semi-eclectic mix of post-hardcore, post-metal, and some more intense metal styles. |
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186.
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Nordjevel - Gnavhòl
[7.5] - Similar to Behemoth, without the symphonic/choral flourishes but with a lot of bite. |
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187.
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Jordfäst - Av Stoft
[7.5] - Good black/Viking metal release with memorable tracks. |
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188.
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Toehider - I Have Little To No Memory Of These Memories
[7.5] - Vibrant one-song prog epic, albeit with some annoying moments. |
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189.
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Petricor - Terra
[7.5] - Instrumental-only meloblack/doom/some other styles - track 2 is pretty excellent in how evocative it is, but the more straightforward black metal parts aren't quite of the same quality. |
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190.
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De Profundis - The Corruption Of Virtue
[7.5] - Very well-made tech-death in the Obscura vein. |
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191.
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KEN Mode - Null
[7.5] - Dirty, malevolent sludgy noise rock; much prefer this than something like Chat Pile. |
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192.
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Toadeater - Bexadde
[7.5] - Intense but subtly epic black metal. |
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193.
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Freedom Of Fear - Carpathia
[7.5] - Pretty solid tech death with a melodic slant. |
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194.
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Etrange - Enigme
[7.5] - Warm, pleasant instrumental prog. |
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195.
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Orbital - Wretched Earth
[7.5] - Very peculiar and intriguing ex prog debut EP. |
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196.
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Lethian Dreams - EnVain
[7.5] |
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197.
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Walg - II
[7.5] - Solid meloblack with dramatic flair. |
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198.
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Ithaca - They Fear Us
[7.5] - Good vocals, nice songwriting turns and generally enjoyable mathcore/metalcore record. |
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199.
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She Must Burn - Umbra Mortis
[7.5] - Doesn't do anything special with the symph-deathcore approach, but at least has pretty memorable songs. |
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200.
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The Lovecraft Sextet - Miserere
[7.5] - Sinister dark ambient/dark jazz from Jason Kohnen, Colin Webster and others, sparse saxophone/vocals in ominous soundscapes. |
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201.
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MMXX - Sacred Cargo
[7.5] - Impressive roster of guests on this doom record. |
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202.
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Methuselian - Beyond Human
[7.5] - Cool stoner doom with throat singing. |
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203.
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Into Eternal Skies - Submerged In Time
[7.5] - Emotionally poignant heavy post-rock. |
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204.
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Mo'ynoq - A Place For Ash
[7.5] - Sadness-tinged black metal with plenty of blasting. |
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205.
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Frayle - Skin & Sorrow
[7.5] - Another pleasant ethereal doom record from this promising project. |
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206.
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Black Math Horseman - Black Math Horseman
[7.5] - Cool doomy, atmospheric return from this band. |
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207.
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Krvna - For Thine Is The Kingdom Of The Flesh
[7.5] |
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208.
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Stake - Love, Death And Decay
[7.5] - On the whole, very solid post-metal, but with just a few moments that slightly throw me off (e.g. the awful closing song). |
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209.
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The Sombre - Monuments Of Grief
[7.5] - Classic-sounding death/doom with strings, very pleasant stuff. |
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210.
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Dawnwalker - House Of Sand
[7.5] - A tad long-winded, but a very decent proggy post-metal album with some cool folky strings popping up and Deafheaven-esque blackened vocals. |
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211.
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Abest - Molten Husk
[7.5] - Sludge of the venomous hardcore variety with bite and jagged edges. |
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212.
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ColdWorld - Isolation
[7.5] - Mellow, fairly serene, space-style ambient-tinged atmo-black. |
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213.
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Cult Leader - Gather & Mourn
[7.5] - Intense split with END that ends with a surprisingly evocative closing track. |
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214.
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Déhà - Eerie
[7.5] - Extensive compilation of tracks that cover Anathema-esque melancholy through to extreme doom. |
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215.
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Andy Gillion - Arcade Metal
[7.5] - Exuberant, entertaining videogame-inspired instrumental metal. |
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216.
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Russian Circles - Gnosis
[7.5] - Russian Circles doing Russian Circles things - not their greatest, but it's got some nice stuff on. |
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217.
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Avandra - Prodigal
[7.5] |
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218.
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Encyrcle - Deeper
[7.5] - Tagged as heavy/speed metal, it's not quite either, but the amorphous, indistinct take on metal that they do offer is more compelling than either of those styles in isolation. |
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219.
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Sugar Horse - Waterloo Teeth
[7.5] - Gemitsch of heavyish rock/metal styles featuring a who's who of up-and-coming British musicians. |
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220.
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Lathe - Tongue Of Silver
[7.5] - Nice Americana/post-rock fusion. |
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221.
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Udånde - Slow Death - A Celebration Of Self-Hatred
[7.5] - 50% meloblack, 50% ambient/drone - if you like one style in particular, just listen to that half of the tracklist. |
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222.
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Sonja - Loud Arriver
[7.5] - Catchy goth-tinged rock. |
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223.
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Thoughtcrimes - Altered Pasts
[7.5] - Cutting mathcore from former Dillinger drummer. |
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224.
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Ammothea - Terminal Burrow
[7.5] - Interesting concept lurking somewhere between ambient black metal and blackgaze - incredibly fuzzy and droning backdrop but with some shoegaze inclinations. |
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225.
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Alvenrad - Veluws IJzer
[7.5] - Good meloblack folk with lots of tremolo and gang singing. |
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226.
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Renunciation - Autelmorte
[7.5] - Well-written, hard-to-classify release with hints of tech-death, melodeath and meloblack. |
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227.
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Lune - Hymns To The Lunar Realm
[7.5] - Enchanting semi-celestial, semi-medieval atmo-black with dungeon synth aspects. |
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228.
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Anticreation - From The Dust Of Embers
[7.5] - Cavernous, semi-dissonant death metal, starts off standard enough but develops an added oomph on later tracks such as Unborn. |
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229.
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Firtan - Marter
[7.5] - Straightforward, blast-heavy, melody-tinged black metal. |
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230.
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Mountainscape - Atoms Unfurling
[7.5] - Instru-post that brings in a few heavier sounds to expand their sonic palette. |
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231.
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Belphegor - The Devils
[7.5] - My first proper taste of Belphegor, a pretty solid chunk of black/death metal. |
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232.
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Am Himmel - As Eternal As The Starless Kingdom Of Sorrow
[7.5] - Intriguing ambient black metal sound overloading with bright fuzz. |
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233.
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Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram
[7.5] - More aimed towards the jugular than the last album, this is a solid slab of blackened death metal, but not an overwhelming release. |
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234.
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David Maxim Micic - Bilo 4.0
[7.5] |
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235.
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Dead Neanderthals - Metal
[7.5] |
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236.
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My Hair Is A Rat's Nest - The Longing Machine
[7.5] |
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237.
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Laminated Denim
[7.5] |
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238.
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A Concrete Future - Remnants Of Times To Come
[7.5] - Solidly enjoyable prog/stoner/post-rock debut EP. |
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239.
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Morbid Evils - Supernaturals
[7.5] - Initially impressive sludgy death doom album, but one that doesn't quite reward repeat playthroughs. |
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240.
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Altars Ablaze - Life Desecration
[7.5] - Very no-frills, no-nonsense blackened death compared to Behemoth, this is just full-pelt fury and works rather well. |
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241.
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Telekinetic Yeti - Primordial
[7.5] - Solid stoner effort with a mixture of driving rock parts and gnarlier doomy bits; Stoned Ape Theory is a highlight. |
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242.
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A Feast For Lampreys - Graveyard Abyss
[7.5] - Intriguing proggy extreme metal venture. |
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243.
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Dhyana - Trikaya
[7.5] - Dronier than their earlier 2022 album, this is like Bong meets Om. |
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244.
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Petbrick - Liminal
[7.5] - Fun lively industrial/noise stuff; the tracks with the greater percussive emphasis (e.g. Ayan) are the standouts. |
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245.
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Unity of Opposites - Inner Sketches
[7.5] - Nice, emotionally resonant prog debut EP. |
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246.
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Endonomos - Endonomos
[7.5] - Retro-sounding but decent epic-style death/doom album. |
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247.
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The Neologist - Oracle
[7.5] - Starts off slowish, but eventually reminds me why I liked Coming Full Circle back in the day, has some nice feelz here. |
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248.
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Ploughshare - Ingested Burial Ground
[7.5] - Nasty industrial/industrial metal with plenty of bile. |
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249.
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SkyThala - Boreal Despair
[7.5] - Bonkers, maddening avant-garde black metal with symphonic flourishes and other weird stuff. |
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250.
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Vorbid - A Swan By The Edge Of Mandala
[7.5] - Interesting prog that veers instrumentally towards tech-death while remaining primarily melodic. |
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251.
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ACOD - Fourth Reign Over Opacities And Beyond
[7.5] - Rather solid blackened death album slightly on the more melodic end of the spectrum, with some nice spoken word and symphonic hints in there. |
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252.
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Kuedo - Infinite Window
[7.5] - Cool mellow electronic release. |
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253.
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Carrion Vael - Abhorrent Obsessions
[7.5] - Some kind of technical melodeathcore fusion that works out pretty well. |
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254.
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Ou - One
[7.5] - Exuberant and wide-ranging prog debut that features frenetic technicality but also some moments of eerie ambience. |
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255.
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Orm - Intet • Altet
[7.5] - A very decent post-black record with a solid mixture of uplifting meloblack/blackgaze and sullen quiet post-rock/metal moodiness, but 4 songs near/over 20 minutes is excessive. |
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256.
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Antimatter - A Profusion Of Thought
[7.5] - Another pleasant Antimatter album, although I do find the constant vibrato on the vocals a tad grating across the whole album. |
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257.
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Skin Failure - Radillac
[7.5] - Interesting punky thrashy sound. |
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258.
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Avatarium - Death, Where Is Your Sting
[7.5] - Solid doom with nice vocals. |
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259.
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Desbot - Pass Of Change
[7.5] - Nice heavy evocative post-rock. |
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260.
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Menace Ruine - Nekyia
[7.5] - Fluctuates between 'somewhat tedious' (Your Sadness Is Vain) and 'utterly charming' (Pigeon Rain, One Last Song). |
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261.
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Black Royal - Earthbound
[7.5] |
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262.
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Primitive - With The Rats And Snakes
[7.5] - Feisty darker deathy thrash EP with a bit more substance than a lot of modern thrash. |
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263.
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Defacing God - The Resurrection Of Lilith
[7.5] - Neat symph-tinged dramatic-sounding melodeath record. |
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264.
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Asterism - Animetic
[7.5] - Fun instrumental album presumably inspired by anime soundtracks. |
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265.
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Dark Forest - Ridge & Furrow
[7.5] |
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266.
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My Education - Emka
[7.5] |
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267.
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Misþyrming - Með Hamri
[7.5] - Bit more straight black than the last one, very good final song though. |
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268.
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Spaceking - Anticosmic Stoner Metal
[7.5] - Decent return from the instru-stoners after a long absence. |
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269.
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Woods Of Desolation - The Falling Tide
[7.5] - Less depressive black, more shimmering blackgaze; it's still decent, but not too impactful. |
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270.
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Goatwhore - Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
[7.5] |
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271.
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Ueldes - Foreverer
[7.5] - Pleasant folk-tinged atmo-black very much on the lighter, more melodic end of the spectrum. |
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272.
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Arallu - Death Covenant
[7.5] - Solid Middle Eastern blackened death making good use of local folk instruments. |
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273.
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Long Distance Calling - Eraser
[7.5] - More of the same, but the same is good. |
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274.
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Autonoesis - Moon Of Foul Magics
[7.5] - The sophomore album of this black/death/thrash band places more importance on black metal. |
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275.
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Lumbar - Revisiting The Darkest Of Days
[7.5] - Unusual ponderous doomy sludge sound with some subtly uplifting tones. |
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276.
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Early Moods - Early Moods
[7.5] - Very classic retro trad doom sound purpose-built for genre fans. |
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277.
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Doldrum - The Knocking, Or The Story Of The Sound That Preceded Their Disappearance
[7.5] - Meandering dissonant black metal with a sinister atmosphere. |
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278.
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Greylotus - Dawnfall
[7.5] - A cool technical deathcore debut with some neat symphonic and blackened touches, but a few too many wanky bits to be as great as it could be. |
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279.
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In Slumber - While We Sleep
[7.5] - Rather decent melodeath effort taking cues from both Gothenburg and Finnish styles. |
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280.
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Slave Keeper - Ślad
[7.5] - Surprisingly enjoyable trad-style heavy; there's a brightness to the music that helps, as do the great vocals. |
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281.
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Celestial Season - Mysterium II
[7.5] - Good good gothic doom. |
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282.
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Black Lava - Soul Furnace
[7.5] |
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283.
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Lillian Axe - From Womb To Tomb
[7.5] - Very enjoyable metallic prog rock album (not sure how else to best describe its tone). |
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284.
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Krisiun - Mortem Solis
[7.5] - Chunky and generally satisfying DM effort from these veterans. |
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285.
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Moonshade - As We Set The Skies Ablaze
[7.5] - Solid melodeath record with good hooks. |
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286.
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Kathaaria - To Be Shunned By All... As Centres Of Pestilence
[7.5] - Mix of black n' roll with some darker sounds, it's decent but I'm not engrossed by it. |
|
287.
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Kokoroko - Could We Be More
[7.5] - Fun, lush Afro-jazz debut. |
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288.
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Implore - The Burden Of Existence
[7.5] - Feisty extreme metal-leaning metallic hardcore. |
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289.
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Crone - Gotta Light?
[7.5] - Nice rich-sounding proggy hard rock record with good vocals. |
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290.
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Pilori - Quand Bien Même L'enfer Et Le Déluge S'abattraient Sur Nous
[7.5] - Feisty death album with frequent detours into grindcore, still has some time for some bleak atmospheric sections on top of that within a concise 30-minute package. |
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291.
|
Liminal Shroud - All Virtues Ablaze
[7.5] - Solid atmo-black album on the blacker end of the spectrum. |
|
292.
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Dance Gavin Dance - Jackpot Juicer
[7.5] - A solid album that marks another turbulent period in this band's history. |
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293.
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Miscreance - Convergence
[7.5] - Classic old-school tech/prog-death done well. |
|
294.
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The Air Of Hiroshima - Красота русской тоски
[7.5] - By-the-book but nevertheless movingly atmospheric and textured post-rock. |
|
295.
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Onhou - Monument
[7.5] - Grim sludge doom with some cool highlight moments. |
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296.
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Greg Puciato - Mirrorcell
[7.5] - Less varied than his debut, but still a solid alt-rock/alt-metal venture. |
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297.
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Xenoglyph - Spiritfraud
[7.5] - Subtly 'off' cosmic black metal that is moderately alluring. |
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298.
|
Thūn - II
[7.5] - Solid mix of trad-heavy, doom and death/doom with Karl Sanders on guitar. |
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299.
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Krimh - The Eternal Return
[7.5] - Rather solid proggy, deathy solo effort. |
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300.
|
Rýr - Transient
[7.5] - Conventional but enjoyable heavy instru-post. |
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301.
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Soul Dissolution - SORA
[7.5] - By-the-book but pleasant blackgaze with nice guitar melodies. |
|
302.
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Gnash - Shared Nightmare
[7.5] - Very decent sludge first outing with grimness but faint atmospherics too. |
|
303.
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Grief Ritual - Spiritual Disease
[7.5] - Gnarly heavy hardcore debut. |
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304.
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Alatyr - Do Zeme Zabudnutia
[7.5] - Pleasantly stirring symph-tinged atmoblack. |
|
305.
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In Nothingness - Black Sun Funeral
[7.5] - Really captures the Jester Race vibe at times; just wish they didn't have the St Anger snare. |
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306.
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Slaughter The Giant - Depravity
[7.5] - Melodeath record that sprinkles in tech-death, symphonic and deathcore riffs, but also has some killer evocative melodies. |
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307.
|
Amken - Passive Aggression
[7.5] - Brings in some melodeath and straight death to make a thrash sound more in line with my tastes than most of their peers in the genre. |
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308.
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Imha Tarikat - Hearts Unchained - At War With A Passionless World
[7.5] |
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309.
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Astrosaur - Portals
[7.5] - Solid instru-post with a strong 20-minute closing track. |
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310.
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Deathbringer - It
[7.5] - Interesting techy proggy death, but a bit overlong. |
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311.
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The Hirsch Effekt - Solitaer
[7.5] - Djenty EP that's not as mathy or wacky as I know THE to be, quite easy to listen to tbh. |
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312.
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Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed
[7.5] - Dreamy post-/metalgaze, it's a bit dreary in a few moments, but is generally pleasant, plus a few screams. |
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313.
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Djevel - Naa Skrider Natten Sort
[7.0] - Decent melodic-leaning black metal release with some good atmo-black riffs and use of acoustics. |
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314.
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Der Trauerschwan - Sanguinare Vampiris
[7.0] - Well-made moody blackened doom. |
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315.
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Epica - The Alchemy Project
[7.0] - The variety on this arising from the guests isn't a bad thing. |
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316.
|
Souldrainer - Departure
[7.5] - Pretty decent melodeath, but does have a couple of bits much better than the rest. |
|
317.
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Katla/Czar - Overdoser
[7.0] - Feisty stoner/sludge/punk split. |
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318.
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Witcher - Lélekharang
[7.0] - Bit too Summoning with the keyboards but fairly decent atmo-black. |
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319.
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Marc Urselli's SteppenDoom - SteppenDoom
[7.0] - Starts off as stoner doom, ends up as ritualistic drone, pretty interesting. |
|
320.
|
Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
[7.0] |
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321.
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Dargor - Ascend To Infinity
[7.0] - Short nice meloblack. |
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322.
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Noctem - Credo Certe Ne Cras
[7.0] - Nice little blastfest. |
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323.
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Colonial Wound - Easy Laugh
[7.0] - Gnarly noise rock mathcore. |
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324.
|
Epectase - Nécroses
[7.0] - A few different styles chucked into this album, including more blackened, ambient, gazey, and other sounds. |
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325.
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Afghan Haze - Hallucinations Of A Heretic
[7.0] - Hairy chest sludge/stoner with lots of fire. |
|
326.
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Chest Rockwell - Mentis Oculi
[7.0] - I always want to dig a 22-minute stoner/prog song, and parts of it are quite lovely, but I find the vocals a bit of a barrier to clicking with this as much as I want to. |
|
327.
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Scarlxrd & Kordhell - PSYCHX
[7.0] - Less metal-trap and more synthwave-oriented, works pretty well. |
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328.
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High Command - Eclipse Of The Dual Moons
[7.0] |
|
329.
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Gołoledź - Gołoledź
[7.0] |
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330.
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Karg - Resignation
[7.0] - A shorter album for once but still overly long songs. |
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331.
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Death Comes In Waves - Not Of This World
[7.0] - A fairly conventional meloblack sound, but a nice one with some pleasant acoustic melodies amidst the blasting. |
|
332.
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The Sawtooth Grin - Good.
[7.0] - Beastly mathcore with some proper solid riffs/grooves. |
|
333.
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EF - We Salute You, You And You!
[7.0] - Post-rock veterans showing their competence. |
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334.
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Love Your Witch - The Endless Rider
[7.0] - Diverse, imaginative single-song EP with good use of brass; the more standard sections are less engaging. |
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335.
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Vessel Of Iniquity - The Path Unseen
[7.0] |
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336.
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Sinister Downfall - The Last Witness
[7.0] |
|
337.
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Lvtvm - Irrational Numbers
[7.0] - Intriguing post-y jazzy instrumental prog album, but not super compelling. |
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338.
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Trup - Nie
[7.0] - Grisly black/sludge/hardcore EP with blasting through to noisy doom crawls. |
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339.
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Stranger Vision - Wasteland
[7.0] - Bold to get Hansi Kursch to sing the first song; could give a false impression when he's not on the rest of the record, but the following songs are still decent. |
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340.
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Cavernous Gate - Voices From A Fathomless Realm
[7.0] - Mostly standard death-tinged doom, but makes good use out of electronic/keyboard sections to add character to tracks. |
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341.
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Graceless - Chants From Purgatory
[7.0] - Bit too OSDM at times for me, but does have some moments of gravitas scattered across it, such as track 4. |
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342.
|
Tiwanaku - Earth Base One
[7.0] - Decent spacey death metal album. |
|
343.
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Barren - I
[7.0] |
|
344.
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Hordous - Mon Fantôme
[7.0] - Covers the black-meloblack-blackgaze range a bit; felt the track(s) in the latter category were the most noteworthy. |
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345.
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Ellende - Ellenbogengesellschaft
[7.0] - Blackgaze/atmo-black with the feels in its best moments, but also a few bland parts, and the clean vocals are rough on the edges. |
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346.
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Art Of Attrition - The Void Eternal
[7.0] - Like many other albums, it's a pretty conventional spin on the symphonic deathcore sound, but it's good fun. |
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347.
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Blizzard Hunter - The Path Of Triumph
[7.0] - Peru pumping out some tasty NWOBHM worship. |
|
348.
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Emberla Firgasto - Temporal Capsule
[7.0] - Decent disso-death from the school of Ulcerate. |
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349.
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Chelsea Grin - Suffer In Hell
[7.0] - Decent deathcore that hits on a lot of modern genre tropes well. |
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350.
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Marlugubre - Maladie
[7.0] - Still Life-era Opeth with a post-black/blackgaze twist. |
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351.
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Drudkh - Всі Належать Ночі (All Belong To The Night)
[7.0] - Pleasant enough atmoblack from the veterans. |
|
352.
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Hammer Of Dawn - Uzil
[7.0] - Doesn't really add anything specific to the current symphonic deathcore wave, but this EP is an engaging rendition of the sound. |
|
353.
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Mycelia - In A Late Country
[7.0] - A bit scattered in its mixture of djent, mathcore, deathcore, alt sounds and unexpected sounds, but when it's not too jarring, it's pretty enjoyable. |
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354.
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava
[7.0] - Very summer of love, hippie psych-rock, it is occasionally slightly soporific but is generally very pleasant, gentle listening. |
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355.
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Arkæon - Parasit
[7.0] - Ghoulish dissoblack, very I, Voidhanger. |
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356.
|
The Mountain King - Collateralus
[7.0] - Very different direction to their other two 2022 records, going techno. |
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357.
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Miss May I - Curse Of Existence
[7.0] - Generic djenty metalcore record, but I found it rather enjoyable. |
|
358.
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Nightlife - Fallback
[7.0] |
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359.
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Inclination - Unaltered Perspective
[7.0] - Chunky metallic hardcore with lots of venom but also some semi-melodic/atmospheric leads woven in. |
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360.
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Arkheth - Clarity Came With A Cool Summer's Breeze
[7.0] - Peculiar mix of proper retro prog/psychedelic rock with symphonics and black metal, undermined a bit by the lacklustre vocals. |
 |
361.
|
Gavran - Indistinct Beacon
[7.0] - Moody, atmospheric doom post-metal that's slightly lacking in terms of overall impact. |
 |
362.
|
Wolfheart - King Of The North
[7.0] |
|
363.
|
Culprate - αριθμός τέσσερα
[7.0] - Eclectic experimental electronic record that doesn't always hit the right spot, but has some really cool ideas. |
 |
364.
|
Hexed - Pagans Rising
[7.0] - Symphonic prog in the vein not unlike Evergrey. |
 |
365.
|
Trial - Feed The Fire
[7.0] - Good interpretation of 80s Helloween-style power metal. |
 |
366.
|
Queensrÿche - Digital Noise Alliance
[7.0] - A couple of solid songs on an otherwise affable record. |
|
367.
|
Recoil In Horror - Amalgam
[7.0] - Fun, gnarly, djenty deathcore album. |
 |
368.
|
Arche - Transitions
[7.0] - Pleasant melancholic funeral doom bitesized record with nifty acoustic bridge track. |
 |
369.
|
Hammers Of Misfortune - Overtaker
[7.0] |
 |
370.
|
Infidel Rising - A Complex Divinity
[7.0] - Shiny, pretty power-y prog album that is slightly undermined by its memorability. |
 |
371.
|
Auriferous Flame - The Great Mist Within
[7.0] - More conventional atmo-black from Ayloss than whatever the last Spectral Lore was trying to be, and thus more enjoyable, if lacking in standout features. |
|
372.
|
The Cimmerian - Thrice Majestic
[7.0] - Tasty High On Fire worship. |
|
373.
|
Vintas - Solar
[7.0] - Nice but typical djentcore EP. |
|
374.
|
Living Tales - Persephone
[7.0] - Respectable symphonic prog/power just lacking a touch of oomph. |
 |
375.
|
Reliqa - I Don't Know What I Am
[7.0] - Nu-metal/djent-core - remove the nu-metal and rap and I would like this quite a bit. |
|
376.
|
The Wind In The Trees - Architects Of Light
[7.0] - Vicious mathy grindcore with some neat twisty bits and gnarly riffs/sequences. |
 |
377.
|
Tulip - Derangement, Exquisite Tenderness
[7.0] - Slightly less mathy grindcore with similarly solid bursts of aggression, as well as occasional more restrained moments (Saccade). |
 |
378.
|
The Blessing Way - Erik's Lament
[7.0] - Blackish gothy symph-tinged metal, it's generally pretty enjoyable. |
 |
379.
|
Murmur (ESP) - Pvtrefactio
[7.0] |
 |
380.
|
Brutus (BEL) - Unison Life
[7.0] - Wish I liked it more than I did. |
 |
381.
|
Temnein - Fables: Devouring Desires
[7.0] - Fun melodeath EP. |
 |
382.
|
Strigoi - Viscera
[7.0] - Decently atmospheric death metal, albeit a tad plodding for my tastes. |
|
383.
|
Pale Sketcher - Golden Skin
[7.0] - Justin Broadrick goes IDM - it's pretty good. |
 |
384.
|
And Now The Owls Are Smiling - Epitaph
[7.0] - Gaze-y atmoblack with some delicately atmospheric softer tracks. |
 |
385.
|
Elisa C. Martin - Nothing Without Pain
[7.0] - Solid solo career debut from ex-Dark Moor singer - I like the Devin vibes on Take Off The Mask. |
 |
386.
|
The Offering - Seeing The Elephant
[7.0] |
 |
387.
|
Edenbridge - Shangri-La
[7.0] - A lot of bombast, but a bit too much style and not quite enough substance. |
 |
388.
|
Stormruler - Sacred Rites & Black Magick
[7.0] - Meloblack record that does its best work in the more acoustic moments. |
|
389.
|
Breath Of Sindragosa - The Decaying Seeds Of Hatred
[7.0] - Enjoyable enough, but one of the less remarkable symph-tinged deathcore releases. |
 |
390.
|
Norma Jean - Deathrattle Sing For Me
[7.0] - Decent fiesty metalcore record from these vets. |
 |
391.
|
Xenobiotic - Hate Monolith
[7.0] |
|
392.
|
Bonecarver - Carnage Funeral
[7.0] - Another decent but not overly noteworthy symph-tinged deathcore album. |
|
393.
|
Gloomchild - Summer's Over
[7.0] - Nice metalcore/post-hardcore with atmospheric leanings but also some exciting guitar solos and solid riffs; some soy parts as well though. |
 |
394.
|
Fleshwater - We're Not Here To Be Loved
[7.0] |
 |
395.
|
Dead Cross - II
[7.0] |
 |
396.
|
Brymir - Voices In The Sky
[7.0] - I remembered these guys being a tad less cheesy than this, but the album is alright. |
|
397.
|
Shades - From A Vein
[7.0] |
 |
398.
|
Vargsheim - In The Tower Of Ivory
[7.0] |
 |
399.
|
Spectrum Mortis - Bit Meseri - The Incantation
[7.0] - More interesting than straight OSDM with the intensity of the riffs and some Melechesh-style instrumental passages. |
 |
400.
|
Triumvir Foul - Onslaught To Seraphim
[7.0] - Tasty cavernous dissonant death metal. |
 |
401.
|
Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean - I Tried Catching You But You Fell Through Me
[7.0] |
 |
402.
|
Fit For A King - The Hell We Create
[7.0] - Classic-style metalcore that has flirtations with more modern styles on certain songs. |
 |
403.
|
Conan - Evidence Of Immortality
[7.0] |
 |
404.
|
Heavy Metal Perse - Jumalia Paossa
[7.0] - It loses its appeal a bit in the middle, but the 14-minute opener is an impressive effort for a band with 'heavy metal' in their name, and the closing song is quite neat too. |
 |
405.
|
Cloud Rat - Threshold
[7.0] - Not just pure bile, with some flow and dynamic range to it, it's a decent grindcore release. |
|
406.
|
Nidhög - Fjord
[7.0] - Decent meloblack debut EP but the highlight is the ambient electronic outro track. |
 |
407.
|
Chaosbay - 2222
[7.0] - Very catchy and accessible djent with occasional -core moments. |
|
408.
|
Abhorson - A Weather Front
[7.0] - Chonky djenty instru-post, pretty hefty and decent with tranquil post-rock parts. |
 |
409.
|
Lord Elephant - Cosmic Awakening
[7.0] - Fun jammy stoner album with some Weedpecker-y moments. |
|
410.
|
Mosara - Only The Dead Know Our Secrets
[7.0] - At-times gnarly but approachably stoner-y sludge doom record. |
 |
411.
|
Oceans Of Slumber - Starlight And Ash
[7.0] - The extreme metal is gone, and so is the prog for the most part; vocals are still great, and less self-indulgent than the last album, but a bit boring. |
 |
412.
|
The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost
[7.0] - Decent debut, but a bit unremarkable. |
 |
413.
|
Devin Townsend - Lightwork
[7.0] - Factions is a good song, but overall Lightwork is a bit meh and Nightwork is a bit scattered. |
 |
414.
|
Abrams - In The Dark
[7.0] - Stoner release that's actually really nice in its best moments (In The Dark, Black Tar Mountain) but also has a few uninteresting songs. |
 |
415.
|
Forlesen - Black Terrain
[7.0] - The mix of gloomy Wolfecore, ambient, post-metal, black metal, it doesn't click for me here as much as I would like; in its best moments, though, it's very decent. |
 |
416.
|
Walls Of Babylon - Fallen
[7.0] |
 |
417.
|
Alter Bridge - Pawns & Kings
[7.0] - Definitely saved by the title track. |
 |
418.
|
Sumerlands - Dreamkiller
[7.0] - Great vocals, the song quality is a bit inconsistent but there's a few really good ones here. |
 |
419.
|
Krokmitën - TAU
[7.0] - Peculiar proggy death metal album-song. |
 |
420.
|
Gaupa - Myriad
[7.0] - More decent rock with Bjork-y vocals. |
 |
421.
|
Crust - Wanderers
[7.0] - Another competent entry to this prolific sludge band's discog. |
 |
422.
|
BlackLab - In A Bizarre Dream
[7.0] - Middle-of-the-road bluesy stoner hard rock, sounds fine but not in love with it. |
 |
423.
|
Scamp - Man Meets Ape
[7.0] - A djenty album that veers closer to the genre's thrash/groove origins. |
|
424.
|
The Temple - Of Solitude Triumphant
[7.0] - Very classic doom, sounds pretty decent. |
 |
425.
|
Sleestak - Harbinger
[7.0] |
|
426.
|
Hysterial Blindness - Notre Héritage
[7.0] - Pretty decent black/post-black album, albeit not super memorable. |
|
427.
|
Diakron - Spectre At The Feast
[7.0] - Lengthy, moody blackened prog/doom album with a decent atmosphere. |
 |
428.
|
Teethgrinder - Dystopia
[7.0] - Chonky deathgrind release. |
 |
429.
|
Šakal - Jav, Prav, Nav
[7.0] |
|
430.
|
Mysloplaz - Mirage
[7.0] - Djent/DnB mash-up - room for growth but interesting attempt at the fusion. |
 |
431.
|
Dhyana - Terma
[7.0] - A perhaps overly rudimentary interpretation of the classic Om style. |
|
432.
|
Crown Of Ascension - Transmission Errors
[7.0] - Similar in style and abrasion to Vessel Of Iniquity. |
 |
433.
|
Terra Atlantica - Beyond The Borders
[7.0] - Very cheesy power metal, but not unenjoyable. |
 |
434.
|
Death Scythe - Killing For Pleasure Forever
[7.0] - Decent melodeath with a nice acoustic interlude track and some lush classic In Flames-style melodies. |
 |
435.
|
Locrian - New Catastrophism
[7.0] |
 |
436.
|
Black Magnet - Body Prophecy
[7.0] - Pretty decent alt-y industrial rock/metal album. |
|
437.
|
Praise The Sun - The Proffer Of Life
[7.0] - Gains points for making melodeath not completely in the typical mould (with aspects that run close to The Gallery), but loses points by having a few unremarkable tracks. |
 |
438.
|
Lybica - Lybica
[7.0] - Very conventional heavy post-rock, but it was pleasant to listen to. |
 |
439.
|
Lamb Of God - Omens
[7.0] |
|
440.
|
Broodmonger - Wither
[7.0] - Typical but fun techy deathcore debut EP. |
 |
441.
|
The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist
[7.0] |
|
442.
|
Last - The Sinless Birth
[7.0] - Fiery hardcore EP with some chonky riffs/grooves. |
 |
443.
|
Opus Arise - The Network
[7.0] - Interesting instrumental-only symphonic release. |
 |
444.
|
Lungtoucher - The Ninth Incantation
[7.0] |
 |
445.
|
Birds In Row - Gris Klein
[7.0] - Decent (post-)hardcore, some of the more light-toned songs are fairly impressive. |
 |
446.
|
Universally Estranged - Dimension Of Deviant Clusters
[7.0] - Interesting use of electronics within a fairly typical OSDM sound. |
|
447.
|
Bran - Odcházení
[7.0] - Decent meloblack. |
 |
448.
|
Vananidr - Beneath The Mold
[7.0] |
 |
449.
|
The Cult - Under The Midnight Sun
[7.0] - Pleasant enough. |
 |
450.
|
Arch Enemy - Deceivers
[7.0] - Never been much of an Arch Enemy fan, but I enjoyed this more than Amon Amarth's latest at least. |
 |
451.
|
Contemplator - Morphose
[7.0] - Well-crafted and at-times gnarly instrumental prog effort. |
 |
452.
|
Gillian Carter - Salvation Through Misery
[7.0] - Frenetic screamo, frequently abrasive but with some moments that offer respite. |
 |
453.
|
Clutch - Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
[7.0] - Quite underwhelming early on, but pulls its way back with a quality song like Skeletons On Mars. |
 |
454.
|
Sigh - Shiki
[7.0] - Nails-on-chalkboard vocals weren't redeemed by the musical quality. |
 |
455.
|
Malist - As I Become Darkness
[7.0] - Less impressed with this than their previous one. |
|
456.
|
A Pit Of Me - Seven Stones
[7.0] - Pretty decent djenty prog debut, albeit with some ineffectual vocal hooks. |
 |
457.
|
Spire Of Lazarus - Soaked In The Sands
[7.0] - Solid tech-deathcore with some really nice moments, but also quite a bit of directionless wankery. |
 |
458.
|
Pestilent Hex - The Ashen Abhorrence
[7.0] - Full-on and fairly exciting symph-tinged meloblack. |
 |
459.
|
Sinnery - Black Bile
[7.0] - Darker, meaner thrash that sounds pretty decent. |
 |
460.
|
Virtual Symmetry - Virtual Symmetry
[7.0] - Pretty decent classic style prog-metal release with a well-executed 20-minute self-titled opening track. |
 |
461.
|
Esoctrilihum - Saopth's
[7.0] |
 |
462.
|
The Mountain King - Tsunami Of Hope
[7.0] |
|
463.
|
Spektrvm - Blood For Heaven
[7.0] - Alt/prog record with some strong husky post-grunge vocals. |
 |
464.
|
Orthodox - Proceed
[7.0] |
 |
465.
|
Northless - A Path Beyond Grief
[7.0] - Contorted, bruising doomy sludge; not taken by the vocals, though. |
 |
466.
|
Altars - Ascetic Reflection
[7.0] - Pretty middle-of-the-road dissonanty death metal album. |
 |
467.
|
Antigama - Whiteout
[7.0] - Sharp, to-the-point grind with some cool moments. |
 |
468.
|
Fellowship - The Saberlight Chronicles
[7.0] - Super-cheesy, but a nice Serenity tinge to it. |
 |
469.
|
Walk In Darkness - Leaves Rolling In Time
[7.0] - Very nice vocals; not really gothic though. |
|
470.
|
Gallia - Obscura
[7.0] - Power-ish symphonic metal with some good moments, albeit a bit too much that's plodding or underwhelming to consistently deliver; the Ad Infinitum-esque Mirage is a good example of this. The folkier parts such as Free Me are very nice. |
|
471.
|
Fallen Grace - Fallen Grace
[7.0] - Decent Filipino Gothenburg-inspired melodeath. |
 |
472.
|
Avantasia - A Paranormal Evening With The Moonflower Society
[7.0] - It's perfectly decent in its good moments, but they're just too AOR-heavy for their own good on this album. |
 |
473.
|
Kaledon - Legend Of The Forgotten Reign - Chapter VII: Evil Awakens
[7.0] - With a name like that, you know it'll be heavy on the cheese. |
 |
474.
|
Theotoxin - Fragment: Totenruhe
[7.0] - Black metal; nothing unusual but pretty likeable. |
 |
475.
|
Bloodbath - Survival Of The Sickest
[7.0] - Fine but unremarkable. |
 |
476.
|
Dovorian - Kneel And Follow
[7.0] - Respectable heavy metal album whose main strength is featuring Tom Englund on vocals. |
 |
477.
|
Defect Designer - Neanderthal
[7.0] - Grindcore with some proggy death metal moments (e.g. on Time, Forward) to liven things up. |
 |
478.
|
Nadja - Labyrinthine
[7.0] - Interesting use of vocals on this latest effort. |
|
479.
|
Mitch Murder - Selection 6
[7.0] - Fun 80s worship chillwave, if a bit long. |
 |
480.
|
Jesu - Pity / Piety
[7.0] - It's Jesu, so it's a bit dreary, but not the worst thing they've done. |
 |
481.
|
The Wakedead Gathering - Parallaxiom
[7.0] |
 |
482.
|
Patria - Hexerei
[7.0] |
 |
483.
|
The Crown Of Yamhad - Vales Of Desperation
[7.0] - Decent gothic metal sound with fairly nice overlapping of different vocal styles and instruments, albeit with some rough edges. |
 |
484.
|
Kryatjurr Of Desert Ahd - Devastating Losses Of Ecological Doom
[7.0] - Ambient black metal so lo-fi and eerie that it feels like a musical void at times. |
 |
485.
|
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Changes
[7.0] - They're unstoppable; this is probably the least interesting of their October trilogy though. |
 |
486.
|
The Necromancers - Where The Void Rose
[7.0] - At-times doomy, other times stonery dirty hard rock, |
 |
487.
|
Vermin Womb - Retaliation
[7.0] - Furious, venomous deathgrind. |
 |
488.
|
Lunar Spells - Demise Of Heaven
[7.0] - This is black metal, nothing more nothing less. |
 |
489.
|
Liturgy - As The Blood Of God Bursts The Veins Of Time
[7.0] - The last track is a bit irritating, but the first three I've gotten more out of than most Liturgy stuff. |
 |
490.
|
Wolf Counsel - Initivm
[7.0] - Weighty, brooding doom that I'm a bit more fond of then a lot of retro-doom. |
 |
491.
|
Reeking Aura - Blood And Bonemeal
[7.0] - A step up from straight OSDM worship, particularly with some interesting lead guitar moments. |
 |
492.
|
Prometheus - Aornos
[7.0] - Ferocious death metal, but can't say I enjoyed this. |
 |
493.
|
Gnipahålan - I Nordisk Vredeslusta
[7.0] - Literally just black metal. |
 |
494.
|
!T.O.O.H.! - Premiant
[6.5] - Bit all over the place still, but probably a bit better than Free Speech. |
 |
495.
|
Grimner - Urfader
[6.5] - Pleasant enough folk metal that does all the right things, but not quite well enough; dig the artwork, though. |
 |
496.
|
Lurker In Light - Acumen Of Joyful Sorrow
[6.5] - Very Insomnium-esque melodeath, has a lot of potential but the rougher and flatter production doesn't allow it to shine in the way an Insomnium album would. |
|
497.
|
Ocean Of Ghosts - I Am Awake And My Body Is On Fire
[6.5] - Murky sludgy extreme doom with some horror keyboard layers, does the job without rising too high above that bar. |
 |
498.
|
Kampfar - Til Klovers Takt
[6.5] - Middle-of-the-road meloblack/Pagan metal. |
 |
499.
|
Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun
[6.5] |
 |
500.
|
Threshold - Dividing Lines
[6.5] - Respectable prog, but a slight chore to listen to at times. |
 |
501.
|
Ofdrykkja - After The Storm
[6.5] - Pleasant but slightly perfunctory Nordic neofolk. |
|
502.
|
Outer Space Experiment - Frequencies
[6.5] - Proggy blues hard rock that's a tad inconsistent. |
 |
503.
|
Illyria - Take Me Somewhere Beautiful
[6.5] - Rough-edged proggy post-hardcore with more intense moments; not always great (particularly vocally) but shines in parts. |
 |
504.
|
Maladie - Wound Of Gods
[6.5] - Big move away from the exuberance of Still, it's closer to blackened rock now. |
 |
505.
|
Bark - Rambler Of Aeons
[6.5] - Motorhead/groove metal with fiery barked vocals, nothing special but fun enough. |
 |
506.
|
Counterparts - A Eulogy For Those Still Here
[6.5] - Pretty Killswitch-y plus a bit of post-hardcore, but altogether doesn't quite do it for me. |
 |
507.
|
Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die
[6.5] - Impressive technicality in this mathy instru-prog, but the autotuned hip hop tracks aren't for me. |
 |
508.
|
Exhumed - To The Dead
[6.5] |
 |
509.
|
Theudho - Voorbij De Nevelen Des Tijds
[6.5] - Pagan-y black metal album that's a bit too long and a bit not interesting enough. |
 |
510.
|
Boundaries - Burying Brightness
[6.5] - Decent but not overly memorable metalcore album; nice ambition on the 10-minute closer, though. |
 |
511.
|
Froglord - Army Of Frogs
[6.5] |
 |
512.
|
Machine Head - Øf Kingdøm And Crøwn
[6.5] |
 |
513.
|
Them - Fear City
[6.5] - Let down a bit vocally at times, this is otherwise a fairly decent classic heavy metal album. |
 |
514.
|
Cordura - Annurth
[6.5] - Mellow yet slightly eerie ambience, very easy listening for the style. |
 |
515.
|
Enemy Eyes - History's Hands
[6.5] - On the hard rock/heavy metal border, it's mostly by-the-book but has some highlight moments. |
 |
516.
|
Therion - Leviathan II
[6.5] - Competent and has its moments, but also a tad boring. |
 |
517.
|
Apeiron Bound - Multiplicity
[6.5] - Generally well-made prog, but I don't think the ideas translate into great well-rounded songs. |
 |
518.
|
Sun Eater - Vermin
[6.5] - Chonky core-leaning tech-death. |
|
519.
|
Amayeta - Dismal
[6.5] - Meandering, not entirely convincing but pretty decent prog-doom-djent/core mesh. |
 |
520.
|
Prime Prophecy - Borders Of Infinity
[6.5] - Pleasant but slightly lightweight symph-tinged prog with nice deep vocals. |
 |
521.
|
Sleeping Romance - We All Are Shadows
[6.5] - Nice vocals, some decent instrumentation, but a bit lightweight. |
 |
522.
|
Hammer King - Kingdemonium
[6.5] - Decent heavy/power cheese with Avantasia-y vocals. |
|
523.
|
Atomic Witch - Crypt Of Sleeples Malice
[6.5] - Extreme-tinged thrash with exuberant (sometimes overly so) vocals. |
 |
524.
|
Sunstorm - Brothers In Arms
[6.5] - Pleasant arena rock with a bit more of a power metal slant. |
|
525.
|
Destruction Of The Healer - Let The Earth Reclaim Me
[6.5] - Nothing particularly noteworthy in this Gothenburg worship record, but I did nevertheless enjoy the songs they wrote in the style. |
 |
526.
|
Syryn - Heads Or Tails
[6.5] - Competent thrashy power/heavy metal, but with vocal melodies that didn't fully synchronize with the surrounding music. |
 |
527.
|
Seventh Storm - Maledictus
[6.5] - Surprisingly enjoyable prog/power/alt-metal debut. |
 |
528.
|
Spite (USA-CA) - Dedication To Flesh
[6.5] - Straightforward knucklehead beatdown deathcore, but it does what it needs to. |
 |
529.
|
Soulfly - Totem
[6.5] - Doesn't match up to Ritual, but it's a decent listen still. |
 |
530.
|
Hissing - Hypervirulence Architecture
[6.5] - Intense, explosive dissonant death metal cacophony. |
 |
531.
|
Graveshadow - The Uncertain Hour
[6.5] - Good vocalist, but the songs on this power metal release don't quite match up. |
 |
532.
|
Epoch Of Unlight - At War With The Multiverse
[6.5] - Not sure why I tagged this to listen to - death-heavy melodeath that's a bit uninteresting. |
|
533.
|
The Wind Covenant - Prophecy
[6.5] - Decent enough techy djent/deathcore EP. |
 |
534.
|
Wormrot - Hiss
[6.5] |
 |
535.
|
Wangelen - Religión De La Materia
[6.5] |
|
536.
|
Sympuls-E - Immensity
[6.5] - Bright, shiny tech-y/core-y melodeath that sadly doesn't quite click for me. |
 |
537.
|
Amaurot - ...To Tread The Ancient Waters
[6.5] - The general atmosphere of this gothic doom album is very reasonable, but the vocals don't quite deliver. |
 |
538.
|
Wine From Tears - I'm Fine
[6.5] - Pleasant melodic death/doom lacking a tad in impact. |
 |
539.
|
After All - Eos
[6.5] - Straddles the thrash/USPM line; uses these soaring vocals in thrash better than Toxik did this year. |
 |
540.
|
Ginevra - We Belong To The Stars
[6.5] - Cheesy arena rock, it's alright though. |
 |
541.
|
Sunrise Patriot Motion - Black Fellflower Stream
[6.5] - Different spin on blackened gothic rock/metal, but not sure whether the roughness of the sound is a hindrance or a help. |
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542.
|
Ernia - How To Deal With Life And Fail
[6.5] - Decent grindcore with incredibly grating vocals. |
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543.
|
Lykotonon - Promethean Pathology
[6.5] - Bit of a scrappy industrial black/death record - not enough industrial content and the black/death parts fluctuate in quality. |
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544.
|
Wormgod - Where Old Curses Rest
[6.5] - Despite the mesmerizing artwork, this is very straightforward black metal. |
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545.
|
Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9
[6.5] |
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546.
|
Abaddon Incarnate - The Wretched Sermon
[6.5] - Unremarkable, but chonky and satisfying grindy death metal. |
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547.
|
Toxik - Dis Morta
[6.5] - I quite like the power metal tinge to this thrash album, but not hot on the vocals. |
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548.
|
Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
[6.5] |
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549.
|
Katakomba - Katakomba
[6.5] - Relatively enjoyable OSDM but still fairly unremarkable. |
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550.
|
Noctu - Norma Evangelium Tenebris
[6.5] - Mix of slow ominous piano, funeral doom pacing and some ambient-black tier production. It's an interesting mesh, but a bit trudging. |
 |
551.
|
Nebula - Transmission From Mothership Earth
[6.5] - Stoner rock played perfectly fine without being notable in any particular way. |
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552.
|
Yhdarl - Drone Nightmares - IV - Decay
[6.0] - The droniest drone. |
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553.
|
Chat Pile - God's Country
[6.0] - Noise rock can be a bit hit and miss for me, and while there's solid moments in this album, I'm not taken with it as a whole. |
|
554.
|
Behind Our Reflections - Infinity
[6.0] |
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555.
|
At The Graves - Fear Is God
[6.0] - Unconvincing sludgy noise rock sound. |
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556.
|
Talas - 1985
[6.0] - 80s arena-style hard rock starts off fairly strongly, but does get quite annoying later on with some songs. |
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557.
|
Lumnos - A Glimpse Through The Event Horizon
[6.0] - 'Black metal' by the loosest connection, it's more like Mesarthim but a bit more lightweight. |
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558.
|
Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!
[6.0] |
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559.
|
Escuela Grind - Memory Theater
[6.0] - It's just grind. |
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560.
|
Hoofmark - Blood Red Lullabies
[6.0] |
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561.
|
Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
[6.0] - Maybe more interesting than previous Darkthrone releases? |
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562.
|
Ritual Dictates - No Great Loss
[6.0] - The death metal tag is very misleading, but although I was initially intrigued when it turned out to be goth/doom stuff instead, the end result didn't quite work consistently enough for me, even if the retro-Anathema sound on Autumn Song is quite nice. |
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563.
|
16 - Into Dust
[6.0] |
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564.
|
The Hu - Rumble Of Thunder
[6.0] - My first proper taste of this band, it's a tad boring. |
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565.
|
The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
[6.0] - Very different approach to pre-hiatus TMV, and not particularly appealing because of it. |
 |
566.
|
Damnation Defaced - Phobia
[6.0] - Half-decent melodeath/metalcore EP. |
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567.
|
Dauðaró - Eyðimörkin
[6.0] - Funeral doom that does the job, but he might want to slow down on the release schedule to allow for quality over quantity. |
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568.
|
Oknos - From Ashes
[6.0] - Decent symphonic power metal with good vocals and some solid songs, but a few flatter tracks. |
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569.
|
Might - Abyss
[6.0] - Promising post-metal turned into sappy indie. |
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570.
|
Mourn The Light - Stare Into The Face Of Death
[6.0] - First track was promising for this genre, but track 2 with the soporific 'metal with live forever' chorus curtailed those initial hopes. |
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571.
|
Goot - God's Doubt
[6.0] - Soft-goth stuff with some pleasant guitar melodies, but fairly forgettable. |
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572.
|
Nicolas Cage Fighter - The Bones That Grew From Pain
[6.0] |
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573.
|
The Erinyes - The Erinyes
[6.0] - Good singers, but not particularly interesting songs. |
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574.
|
Bucovina - Suntem Aici
[6.0] |
|
575.
|
Sunflo'er - All These Darlings And Now Me
[6.0] - Mathcore on the slightly softer, post-hardcore end of the spectrum - bit irritating in parts. |
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576.
|
Pyramid - Rage
[6.0] - Bloated prog/power with Ripper Owens on vocals. |
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577.
|
Grave Digger - Symbol Of Eternity
[6.0] - Listenable heavy/power album that doesn't rise to a higher tier than that. |
 |
578.
|
Protector - Excessive Outburst Of Depravity
[6.0] - Pretty listenable deathy thrash. |
|
579.
|
Reincarnated - Of Boötes Void Death Spell
[6.0] - Rudimentary death/doom with a decent production. |
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580.
|
Locrian - Ghost Frontiers
[6.0] |
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581.
|
Sinner - Brotherhood
[6.0] - Heavy with a power metal inclination (some Firewind hints) that makes it a bit more palatable, this is pretty fine if not my thing. |
 |
582.
|
Venom Inc. - There's Only Black
[6.0] |
|
583.
|
False Gods - Neurotopia
[6.0] - Passingly solid sludge, but I don't gel with the punkier tracks or vocals. |
 |
584.
|
Hatriot - The Vale Of Shadows
[6.0] |
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585.
|
The Dead Daisies - Radiance
[6.0] |
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586.
|
Zeke Sky - Intergalactic Demon King
[6.0] - Eclectic mix of styles between songs, but no one in particular really stands out. |
 |
587.
|
Boris - Fade
[5.5] |
 |
588.
|
Adventus - Saudade
[5.5] |
 |
589.
|
Algebra - Chiroptera
[5.5] - This could actually be decent thrash but damn those vocals are annoying. |
 |
590.
|
Major Parkinson - Valesa – Chapter I: Velvet Prison
[5.5] |
 |
591.
|
Demon Hunter - Exile
[5.5] |
 |
592.
|
Doomocracy - Unorthodox
[5.5] |
|
593.
|
Kurushimi - Return III: Death
[5.5] - Thoroughly grating free jazz drone doon. |
 |
594.
|
Skid Row - The Gang's All Here
[5.5] |
 |
595.
|
Parasite Inc. - Cyan Night Dreams
[5.5] |
 |
596.
|
Black Widows - Among The Brave Ones
[5.5] |
 |
597.
|
Isafjørd - Hjartastjaki
[5.5] |
 |
598.
|
The Interbeing - Icon Of The Hopeless
[5.0] |
 |
599.
|
Slipknot - The End, So Far
[5.0] |
 |
600.
|
Destrage - So Much. Too Much.
[5.0] |
 |
601.
|
Parkway Drive - Darker Still
[5.0] |
 |
602.
|
The Lord - Devotional [Collaboration]
[4.5] |
 |
603.
|
Doodseskader - Year One
[4.5] |
 |
604.
|
Architects - The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit
[4.0] |
I feel like I've listened through a hell of alot of releases this year myself, but still nothing near that amount 
