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The PODIUM |
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Mantar - Pain Is Forever And This Is The End
Is some kind of a grunge/indie rock infused black sludge metal these guys are playing? Don't know, but I like it! |
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Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain
Once again brutal, once again terrifyngly melodic e refined. They get better with each new record. |
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Birds In Row - Gris Klein
Energetic, desperate, somehow melancholic, an album in perfect balance between contrasting elements. |
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The OTHERS |
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Abduction (UK) - Black Blood
A splendid texture of riffs that at first glance seem tortuous and yet manage to be surprisingly direct. |
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Abraham - Débris De Mondes Perdus
Atmospheric and lightly dissonant post-sludge with something elusive and intriguing. |
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Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture
A journey that seems to begin with a farewell but reveals itself as a punky, adventurous, angry and delirious trip. |
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Bastions - Majestic Desolation
Relentless post-hardcore which never loses control in its well-channeled assault, that does not dissipate in chaos. |
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Cult Of Luna - The Long Road North
You know what to expect and yet they get louder and then quiter, slower and then faster, and you can't go anywhere else. |
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Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat
They are the dark masters of nothingness and their black mass is simply indisputable. |
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Desolate Shrine - Fires Of The Dying World
A dynamic wall of riffs crossed by a voice that comes from the depths of the earth. |
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Gaerea - Mirage
Theatrical, lacerating - and yet brilliant - hardcore tinged black metal. |
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Gorycz - Kamienie
Here is some weird Polish black metal that does not need an enormous power to be subtly evil. |
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Hate & Merda - Ovunque distruggi
Those words, those yells, that fury! This is the sound of hate mixed with shit (merda). |
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Hegemone - Voyance
This is a post-metal so dense in its atmospheres, that is somehow, at the same time, cold as black and hot as sludge. |
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Hexis - Aeternum
An hardcore assault that stabs with black metal malignity and strangles with sludge metal ferocity. |
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Immolation - Acts Of God
They know how to do it: violent, relentless, percussive, heavy and still melodic and various as only Immolation can be. |
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Misþyrming - Með Hamri
In between their chaotic first and the riff driven sophomore work, with details and arrangements that only great albums have. |
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20.
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Morgue Supplier - Inevitability
Wait a minute! A grind album that is articulated, various and unpredictable? If this really exists, must be some great stuff! |
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Non Serviam (FRA) - We Are Nothing But Your Krill
Industrial lunacy, edgy and misanthropic: they take no prisoners here. |
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22.
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Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality
Since their emersion from the underground, they're simply demonstrating to be great in what they do i.e. progressive post-metal. |
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Sisyphean - Colours Of Faith
Thick and dissonant, with black shades over some pure Death Metal brutality. |
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Sundowning - In the Light of Defeat, I Cease to Exist
Alienation and slowness reign over this post-doom very consistent and heavy album. |
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Terzij De Horde - In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy
A fierce aggression made of savage screams and icy black metal triumphant riffs inserted in great sonic architectures. |
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Verberis - Adumbration Of The Veiled Logos
Esoteric and cloudy compositions in search of the deep misteries of black metal. |
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Wiegedood - There's Always Blood At The End Of The Road
Inside the hypnotic repetition of a desperate torture sound you can hear the wild screams of the damned. |
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The FIRST ALBUMS |
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Chat Pile - God's Country
To be pissed off and kicking through the rough notes of punk-noise sludge. |
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30.
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Doldrum - The Knocking, Or The Story Of The Sound That Preceded Their Disappearance
An evocation of restless spirits, ritual like a mass and angry like an unheard prayer. |
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Patroness - Fatum
There are so many things in this album, that you end up believing you listened to five different great debuts. |
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Sunrise Patriot Motion - Black Fellflower Stream
Acid and somehow psychedelic, this album successes in mixing beautifully things that should not get so well together. |
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Vanhävd - Vila
Hallucinating, horrifying blackened doom that twists and turns and stays in your ears like a nightmare. |
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TOP COMPILATION |
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36.
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Blut Aus Nord - Lovecraftian Echoes
If Lovecraft himself could listen to this, it would be scare the shit out of him. |
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TOP EP |
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38.
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Lord Mantis - Tormentor
Just two songs left over from a ten years ago album?All right, but what crazy songs out of an hell of an album. |
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TOP SPLIT |
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Fossilization - Split
This split with Ritual Necromancy is like a party in a graveyard unearthing corpses... |
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WEIRDEST ALBUM |
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Encenathrakh - Ithate Thngth Oceate
This must have been made by some A.I. gone completely demented. |
