Thou Shalt Suffer was one of the many side projects of the Norwegian circle of second wave black metal bands. This project features Ihsahn, Samoth, and Ildjarn. Instead of the usual lo-fi black metal, Thou Shalt Suffer plays (or played I should say) a rather odd type of death metal, with extremely guttural vocals and effectively used keyboards. This compilation feature the original Into the Woods of Belial demo, the Open the Mysteries of Your Creation EP, and a rehearsal from 1991.
1) Into the Woods of Belial 2) I Seek the Path of Obscurity 3) Chimera Dimension 4) The Goat of a Thousand Young 5) Succumb to Vestigia Terrent 6) Painful Void of Time 7) Spectral Prophecy 8) Into the Woods of Belial 9) The Goat of a Thousand Young 10) Chimera Dimension 11) I Seek the Path of Obscurity (Burp Mix) 12) Obscurity Supreme
Ever wonder what flamenco would sound like if it was crossed with hip hop? Well here it is. Ojos de Brujo plays flamenco with a bit of a twist. Instead of the traditional style, they adopt an extremely modern method with blends flamenco with hip hop and jazz.
1) Color 2) Sultanas de Merkaillo 3) Todo Tiende 4) Runali 5) El Conforto No Reconforta 6) Tanguillos Marineros 7) Brujo Silencio 8) No Somos Maquinas 9) Bailaores 10) Corre Lola Corre 11) Feedback 12) Piedras vs Tanques 13) Respira 14) Nana
Slow, heavy, crushing DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM. Not to mention a little bit of psychedelic-ness (is that even a word?) thrown into the mix. Final verdict: Do check out.
1) Goddess 2) The Search 3) Your Highness 4) Black Wall 5) Swan Song
So it's been a while since I last posted stuff. School started and I'm still trying to back into the swing of things. You can expect two or three new albums over the next few days.
Here's another band reppin' the 732. Imagine a cross between Converge, Napalm Death, and Pig Destroyer and you've got Burnt By The Sun.
1) Inner Station 2) Cardiff Giant 3) F-Unit 4) A Party to the Unsound Method 5) There Will Be Blood 6) Goliath 7) Rust | Future Primitive 8) Beacon 9) The Great American Dream Machine 10) The Wolves are Running
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As you can clearly see, I absolutely love the Waste. Here's their latest effort, Massive Aggressive. It's a bit slower and the lyrics are a bit more 'mature' (they stopped singing about zombies and beer), but it still kicks ass.
1) Masked By Delirium 2) Mech-Cannibal 3) Divine Blasphemer 4) Massive Aggresive 5) Wolves of Chernobyl 6) Relentless Threat 7) The Wrath of the Severed Head 8) Upside Down Church 9) Shredded Offering 10) Media Skeptic 11) Horny for Blood 12) Wrong Answer 13) Acid Sentence
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Behemoth are back with their 9th full-length album, Evangelion. This one is without a doubt a step up from Demigod and The Apostasy. They even debuted at 56 on the Billboard Top 200! Along with Crack the Skye, this is one of the best mainstream metal albums released this year.
1) Daimonos 2) Shemhamforash 3) Ov Fire and the Void 4) Transmigrating Beyond Realms ov Amenti 5) He Who Breeds Pestilence 6) The Seed ov I 7) Alas, Lord is Upon Me 8) Defiling Morality of Black God 9) Lucifer
There haven't been too many great melodeath releases in the past couple of years. However, Be'lakor's Stone's Reach is among the few recent melodeath albums that won't (or at least shouldn't) be forgotten. Instead of going for the usual Children of Bodom, In Flames or Arsis styles, Be'lakor plays something similar to Opeth's Blackwater Park and the legendary Heartwork and Slaughter of the Soul. The only complaint I have about this album is the average song length, which is hardly a problem and is canceled out by the band's mastery of the genre.
1) Venator 2) From Scythe to Sceptre 3) Outlive the Hand 4) Sun's Delusion 5) Held in Hollows 6) Husks 7) Aspect 8) Countless Skies
What we have here is technical death metal, but not the kind with all the guitar neck wankery. True, there's still intricate guitarwork on No Tolerance For Imperfection, but what makes Man Must Die tech death is their complex rhythms. If you like death metal, this is a must-have album for this year.
1) No Tolerance For Imperfection 2) Gainsayer 3) Kill It Skin It Wear It 4) It Comes In Threes 5) This Day Is Back 6) Hide The Knives 7) Dead In The Water 8) What I Can't Take Back 9) Reflections From Within 10) How The Mighty Have Fallen 11) Survival of the Sickest
After going away for a week and another week of being just plain lazy, I'm here today with the third part of my Whiplash series.
1) Misconception- Hour of Penance 2) No Compromise- Xentrix 3) Stranded in Hell- Nuclear Assault 4) Death Metal Darkness- Demonical 5) Hammer Slammer- Gama Bomb 6) Isaz- Necrophobic 7) Destructed Life- Violent Force 8) The Waking Cold- Aurora Black 9) Necrotechnology- Death Mechanism 10) Demiurge of Thermonuclear Damnation- Blasphemophager 11) Battered Youth- Gothic Slam 12) Triangular Tattvic Fire- Melechesh 13) Altar do Sacrificio- Wardeath 14) Blasphemies of the Flesh- Carnage 15) Stare into the Sun- Gwynbleidd 16) Destroying the Manger- Nocturnus 17) Iron Tears- Flotsam and Jetsam 18) Through the Skin to the Soul- Ripping Corpse 19) Live Like an Angel (Die Like a Devil)- Venom 20) Suffer the Children- Napalm Death
Aaaaaaaaaaand, I'm back. Today we have Powerwolf, an extremely cheesy, yet oddly entertaining, power metal band. With song titles like "Resurrection by Erection," "St. Satan's Day," and "Catholic in the Morning...Satanist at Night," it's not hard to see why I like this so much.
1) Opening: Prelude to Purgatory 2) Raise Your Fist, Evangelist 3) Moscow After Dark 4) Panic in the Pentagram 5) Catholic in the Morning...Satanist at Night 6) Seven Deadly Saints 7) Werewolves of Armenia 8) We Take the Church by Storm 9) Resurrection by Erection 10) Midnight Messiah 11) St. Satan's Day 12) Wolves Against the World
I was pleasantly surprised with Goatwhore's new album. Naturally, I was expecting another A Haunting Curse, but this album has a heavier, thrashier feel to it. As far as lyrics go, it's still the same Goatwhore we've all come to love (or not). Overall, Carving Out The Eyes Of God is an improvement from Goatwhore's last album.
1) Apocalyptic Havoc 2) The All-Destroying 3) Carving Out The Eyes Of God 4) Shadow Of A Rising Knife 5) Provoking The Ritual Of Death 6) In Legions, I Am Wars Of Wrath 7) Reckoning Of The Soul Made Godless 8) This Passing Into The Power Of Demons 9) Razor Flesh Devoured 10) To Mourn And Forever Wander Through Forgotten Doorways
Minor Threat is one of many bands that shaped hardcore punk into what it is today. This compilation contains Minor Threat's three EPs, the Out of Step album, and songs from the Flex Your Head compilation.
1) Filler 2) I Don't Wanna Hear It 3) Seeing Red 4) Straight Edge 5) Small Man, Big Mouth 6) Screaming at a Wall 7) Bottled Violence 8) Minor Threat 9) Stand Up 10) 12XU 11) In My Eyes 12) Out of Step (With the World) 13) Guilty of Being White 14) Steppin' Stone 15) Betray 16) It Follows 17) Think Again 18) Look Back and Laugh 19) Sob Story 20) No Reason 21) Little Friend 22) Out of Step 23) Cashing In 24) Stumped 25) Good Guys (Don't Wear White) 26) Salad Days
It should be known that there is no such thing as a bad Neurosis side project. Steve Von Till's work under the name Harvestman is strong evidence. In a Dark Tongue, Harvestman's sophomore effort, features a cross between Neurosis' brand of sludge and northwestern US folk metal.
1) World Ash 2) Karlsteine 3) Birch-Wood Bower 4) By Wind and Sun 5) Music of the Dark Torrent 6) Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail 7) Headless Staves of Poets 8) The Hawk of Achill 9) Carved in Aspen 10) Light Cycle 11) In a Dark Tongue 12) Centre of the World
You know how every year there's that one mainstream album that kicks ass? Well this year, that album is Crack the Skye. Instead of the usual obnoxious groove metal, Mastodon opted for a sludgier and more psychedelic sound on this album. Scott Kelly of Neurosis appears on the title track, performing guest vocals.
1) Oblivion 2) Divinations 3) Quintessence 4) The Czar: Usurper/Escape/Martyr/Spiral 5) Ghost of Karelia 6) Crack the Skye 7) The Last Baron
1) Five Years 2) Soul Love 3) Moonage Daydream 4) Starman 5) It Ain't Easy 6) Lady Stardust 7) Star 8) Hang on to Yourself 9) Ziggy Stardust 10) Suffragette City 11) Rock N Roll Suicide
There's so many ways to describe Glorior Belli's new album. Raw, sludgy, evil, brutal, French, etc. Either way, here's one of the best black metal albums released this year. 1) Once in a Blood Red Moon 2) The Forbidden Words 3) Swamp That Shame 4) There is But One Light 5) My True Essence 6) In Every Grief-Stricken Blues 7) Nox Illuminatio Mea 8) The Blazing Darkness (Of Luciferian Skies) 9) Fivefold Thought 10) Fires of the Sitra Ahra 11) Meet Us at the Southern Sign
Here's the second part of my Whiplash series. You can expect a third installment later this year.
1) Meticulous Invagination- Aborted 2) Let There Be Rot- Psoriasis 3) Merciless Death- Dark Angel 4) The Beast- SSS 5) As Tyrants Fall- Fleshgod Apocalypse 6) Napalm in the Morning- Sodom 7) The Art of Partying- Municipal Waste 8) Red Wolves of Stalin- Hail of Bullets 9) Castle of Skulls- Blood Tsunami 10) The Fated Breath- Withered 11) Panic- Mantic Ritual 12) Your Time Has Come- Seance 13) Executive Onslaught- Oath to Vanquish 14) Horde of Undead Vengeance- Lair of the Minotaur 15) Into the Grave- Grave 16) Mayday in Kiev- Watchtower 17) Tide of Pestilence- Ignominious Incarceration 18) Rotterdam in Flames- Warbreed 19) This Mortal Coil- Carcass 20) Human Insecticide- Annihilator
More playlists, awesome. This one's actually part of a series I'm working on, composed mainly of thrash and death metal.
1) Jennifer- Pig Destroyer 2) Hallowed Point- Slayer 3) La Migra- Brujeria 4) Unbeliever- Septic Flesh 5) Immortal Life- Bonded By Blood 6) Nuclear Torment- Legion of the Damned 7) Necroschizophrenia- Mondocane 8) Dignity Goes the Way of the Buffalo- Rattling Cages 9) Dormant Hallucination- Funebrarum 10) Lustful for Disaster- Nuclear Symphony 11) Omega- Hate 12) Impregnable Miscreation- Trigger the Bloodshed 13) Ensuing in Precarious- Omega Red 14) Amb Tota Rancunia- Vidres a la Sang 15) Delusional Patriotism- Brainchoke 16) Die Alone- Unanimated 17) Viva La Muerte- Pungent Stench 18) Corruption- Angelus Apatrida 19) Repentagram- Demiricous 20) Upon Wings of Black- Skeletonwitch 21) Spawn of Flesh- God Macabre 22) Heart Attack- Toxik 23) Necrosadist- Necrodeath 24) X Marks the Spot- Swashbuckle
Unsurprisingly, the Italians have given us another amazing extreme metal band. Raw, brutal, blackened death metal. Plus, the production isn't complete crap and isn't too polished. And did I mention the imagery is ridiculous?
1) Intro / Dawn of Chaoscratic Tyrrany 2) Bringers of Extermination 3) Abyss of Lust, Chaos & Death 4) Curse of the Phosgene Fog 5) Devastating Radioactive Torments 6) Holocaust Summoning of Nuclear Storm 7) ...Of Atomic Orgies & Demoniac Elements 8) Demiurge of Thermonuclear Damnation 9) Teratogenesis of Doom 10) The Return of Bestial Vomit 11) Nuclear War Now! 12) Perverse Delight
I don't know much about Hüsker Dü, let along their branch of punk. However, this is awesome and that is all that needs to be said. Think Nirvana without an incredibly overrated guitarist and without the MTV.
1) Something I Learned Today 2) Broken Home, Broken Heart 3) Never Talking To You Again 4) Chartered Trips 5) Dreams Reoccurring 6) Indecision Time 7) Hare Krsna 8) Beyond the Threshold 9) Pride 10) I'll Never Forget You 11) The Biggest Lie 12) What's Going On 13) Masochism World 14) Standing By The Sea 15) Somewhere 16) One Step At A Time 17) Pink Turns To Blue 18) Newest Industry 19) Monday Will Never Be The Same 20) Whatever 21) The Tooth Fairy and the Princess 22) Turn on the News 23) Reoccurring Dreams
If there's one thing that makes me happy, it's when a melodeath band has balls, just like Ignominious Incarceration. It almost sounds like Amon Amarth meets Suffocation.
1) Avarice 2) Deeds of Days Long Gone 3) Elegance in Aggression 4) Saviour 5) Of Winter Born 6) Solitude 7) Dynasty Damnation 8) Tide of Pestilence 9) In the Face of Absolution 10) Elusion of Mortality
Every year a bunch of old-school bands who haven't been active in ages release their "comeback" album, which usually ends up not being so great *coughmetallicacough*. This time, we have Brutal Truth's first full-length album in 12 years. Fortunately, this album is far from being called a piece of crap. Evolution Through Revolution features the same fast, aggressive, politically-driven grindcore that made Brutal Truth famous in the 90s.
1) Sugardaddy 2) Turmoil 3) Daydreamer 4) On the Hunt 5) Fist in Mouth 6) Get a Therapist, Spare the World 7) War is Good 8) Evolution Through Revolution 9) Powder Burn 10) Attack Dog 11) Branded 12) Detached 13) Global Good Guy 14) Humpty Finance 15) Semi-Automatic Carnation 16) Itch 17) Afterworld 18) Lifer 19) Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs 20) Grind Fidelity
Centaurus-A is a new death metal band on Listenable Records. Their debut Side Effects Expected is one of my favorite albums released this year. Centaurus-A, just like every other tech death band, shows extreme influence from Necrophagist, especially in the solos. However, these guys bring something else to the table: their brand of tech death is infused with a healthy dosage of thrash.
1) The Praying Mantis 2) Narcotic 3) Drop Off 4) Morning Tremble 5) The Ease 6) Incident/Accident 7) Arson 8) Dripping Red Canvas 9) Selfmade Cage 10) Resistance Ain't Futile
If I had to describe Russian Circles with one word, it would be groovy. Yea, I said groovy...what the hell? Anyway, Russian Circles is an instrumental band, playing post-rock with a little bit of a sludgy edge to it. Here's there latest album, Station.
1) Campaign 2) Harper Lewis 3) Station 4) Verses 5) Youngblood 6) Xavii
Once again, the Italians prove their extraordinary skill when it comes to death metal. Fleshgod Apocalypse is a relatively new band, with Oracles as their debut album. These guys aren't exactly your normal brutal death metal band. There's classical interludes scattered throughout the album and the guitar work is undoubtedly influenced a great deal by classical music. It almost seems as if Fleshgod Apocalypse could be classified neoclassical death metal.
1) In Honour of Reason 2) Post-Enlightenment Executor 3) As Tyrants Fall 4) Sophistic Demise 5) Requiem in SI Minore 6) At The Guillotine 7) Embodied Deception 8) Infection Of The White Throne 9) Retrieving My Carcass 10) Oracles
So Paco de Lucia is basically a living god. His album Zyryab combines a traditional style of flamenco with jazz fusion, creating a somewhat mysterious atmosphere. Jazz pianist Chick Corea plays on the title track and "Almonte" and flamenco guitarist Manolo Sanlucar plays on "Compadres."
1) Soniquete 2) Tío Sabas 3) Chick 4) Compadres 5) Zyryab 6) Canción de Amor 7) Playa del Carmen 8) Almonte
So I made another playlist, but this one has only nonmetal stuff on it.
1) Lips Like Morphine- Kill Hannah 2) The Power of Equality- Red Hot Chili Peppers 3) Signals Over the Air- Thursday 4) Los Angeles- X 5) Midnight Tango- Al di Meola 6) Wicked Garden- Stone Temple Pilots 7) Have a Cigar- Pink Floyd 8) Would You Be Impressed?- Streetlight Manifesto 9) I Disappear- The Faint 10) (Used To Be A) Cha Cha- Jaco Pastorius 11) Siberian Khatru- Yes 12) Everything Sucks- Reel Big Fish 13) When I Come Around- Green Day 14) I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama- John Lennon 15) Another Generation- Fishbone 16) The Time They Are A Changin'- Bob Dylan 17) Little Girl- Death From Above 1979 18) White Wedding- Billy Idol 19) Chemical Warfare- Dead Kennedys 20) Sea of Sorrow- Alice in Chains 21) Fire Woman- The Cult 22) Attitude- The Misfits 23) Hermanita- Aventura 24) Pet Sematary- The Ramones 25) Sonic Reducer- Dead Boys 26) Buffalo Soldier- Bob Marley 27) Entre Dos Aguas- Paco de Lucia 28) Seeing Double at the Triple Rock- NOFX 29) In Too Deep- Sum 41 30) Santeria- Sublime
1) Monolog Vechnosti 2) Ya ostalsya zdes' 3) Na prozrachnyh glazah 4) Zimnyaya skorb' 5) Imperia belogo sveta 6) Sny I - Resheniye 7) Sny II - Uzor 8) Sny III - Nash strah 9) Serym gnevom oseni oblichen 10) Monumental'noy tishiny apofeoz
So far, it seems like 2009 is a good year for funeral doom, sludge, stoner metal, and just doom metal in general. Here's Otkroveniya Dozhdya, a Russian band whose name I can't remember for shit. These guys play a melodic style of funeral doom.
Fen's basically one of those proggy black metal bands that sound like Enslaved. Nothing really special but I'd put it in my favorite albums this year so far.
1) Exile's Journey 2) A Witness to the Passing of Aeons 3) Colossal Voids 4) As Buried Spirits Stir 5) The Warren 6) Lashed by the Storm 7) Bereft
You know those folk bands that make albums with five 10-minute songs that are super epic and awesome as hell? Yea? Finsterforst's one of those bands. Imagine Moonsorrow with a little bit more of a black metal edge and more folk instruments...oh yea, and German instead of Finnish.
1) Urquell 2) Das große Erwachen 3) Seines Glückes Schmied 4) Sturmes Ernte 5) Untergang
So I'm finally back to the underground albums. This time we have Warbreed from Argentina. Simply put, melodeath that'll be kicking your ass for an hour. You can thank my recent interest in WWI and WWII for this. This album specifically follows Germany and the Soviet Union in World War II.
1) The Hidden Legacy 2) Nightfall Over Auschwitz 3) Sippenhaft 4) Алый Снег (Blood-Red Snow) 5) Silence and the Beast 6) The Forging [of Glory and Decay - Part I] 7) The Hour Of The Wolf [of Glory and Decay - Part II] 8) Farewell Germania [of Glory and Decay - Part III] 9) The Spandau Enigma 10) A Little Lesson Of History 11) The Homecoming 12) Another Unknown Soldier 13) Rotterdam In Flames 14) Bound For Ultima Thule 15) Rendition of The Truth
Short Sharp Shock is one of the key bands in the sudden surge of retro thrash. Imagine a darker Municipal Waste and you've got SSS.
1) The Dividing Line 2) Oil and Water 3) The Bastard Stench 4) Waiting Game 5) Toxic Bee 6) Thrash With A Small Moustache 7) Can't Burst the Bubble 8) Bored 9) Invertebrate 10) Purple Reign 11) Hammerhead 12) Sk8+Destroy 13) Ride the Best-Fuck the Rest 14) Flick the Switch 15) Time's Up 16) Street Leech 17) Cherry Island 18) 3.06 19) Last Defence 20) Unrest in the Northwest
Once again, I'm posting material made by a friend of mine. My buddy Arafat lives in Bangladesh and is the vocalist for two bands: Auflader and Zero Burn. Auflader is a melodeath project, whereas Zero Burn is deathrash with a hint of groove. Both bands are totally awesome!
1) Deathlike Silence- Auflader 2) Reign- Zero Burn
Out of all the black metal bands of the 21st century, France's Deathspell Omega is certainly one of the best. This EP contains a twenty minute track that was also featured on the split album with S.V.E.S.T.
