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
