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Dark, Harrowing, And Ravaging Albums To Ruin Your Day
These obviously won't ruin your day. Chances are if you are into these styles you'll love this selection. No stylistic borders, but I'm limiting myself to one album per band. These aren't…
| 1. | Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis |
| 2. | Abruptum - Potestates Apocalypsis |
| 3. | Absolutus - Pugnare In Iis Quae Obtinere Non Possis |
| 4. | Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius |
| 5. | Aderlating - Spear Of Gold And Seraphim Bone Pt. 1 |
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Post-stonersludge Fun
the "genres" of stoner metal, sludge, and post-metal all seem to bleed/flow together at various times so playing metal bartender, i've cooked up this list of albums those interested in the…
| 1. | Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops |
| 2. | Baroness - Blue Record |
| 3. | Down - Nola |
| 4. | High On Fire - Death Is This Communion |
| 5. | Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun |
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Rod's Favorite Use Of Samples!
Sometimes, samples can improve the atmosphere of a song just as much as the instruments (or even more). This is a compilationn of some of my favorite samples in metal. I'm trying to keep it one album…
| 1. | Aborted - Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage Done |
| 2. | Abruptum - Potestates Apocalypsis |
| 3. | Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops |
| 4. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 5. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
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Iron Recommends: A Metal Selection
Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.
This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one…
This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one…
| 1. | Warning - Watching From A Distance |
| 2. | Candlemass - Nightfall |
| 3. | Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend |
| 4. | Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy |
| 5. | Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls |
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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (E)
This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…
| 1. | Ea - Ea Taesse |
| 2. | Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull |
| 3. | Earth And Pillars - Earth I |
| 4. | Earth Crisis - Destroy The Machines |
| 5. | Earth Rot - Black Tides Of Obscurity |
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Top 30 Albums Of 1993
Updated 5/13/20
| 1. | Demilich - Nespithe |
| 2. | Morbid Angel - Covenant |
| 3. | Sinister - Diabolical Summoning |
| 4. | Cynic - Focus |
| 5. | Atheist - Elements |
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SLUDGETEMBER
"CALENDAR MADE OF METAL"
September = Sludge Metal
Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.
September = Sludge Metal
Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.
| 1. | Melvins - Bullhead |
| 2. | Down - Nola |
| 3. | Baroness - First & Second |
| 4. | Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain |
| 5. | Weedeater - God Luck And Good Speed |
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Favorite Stoner/Doom/Sludge Albums
Fuzz me up buttercup
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality |
| 2. | Clutch - Clutch |
| 3. | Clutch - Blast Tyrant |
| 4. | Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf |
| 5. | Mastodon - Leviathan |
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Guitar Work
This is a list of bands featuring some of the best guitar work. This covers overall writing, riffs, grooves, and whatnot.
It isn't really in any particular order.
It isn't really in any particular order.
| 1. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 2. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
| 3. | Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome |
| 4. | The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate |
| 5. | Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders |
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My Favorite Metal Albums
I doubt I’ll update this regularly, my taste has changed a bit
| 1. | Machine Head - The Blackening |
| 2. | Skinless - Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead |
| 3. | Converge - Jane Doe |
| 4. | Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer |
| 5. | Nails - Unsilent Death |
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