Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God (2009)

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

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Minor Threat - Complete Discography (1989)

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

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Harvestman - In a Dark Tongue (2009)

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

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Mastodon - Crack the Skye (2009)

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

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David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)

A true classic. What more needs to be said?

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

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Glorior Belli - Meet Us At The Southern Sign (2009)

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

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