Friday, August 28, 2009

Burnt By The Sun - Heart of Darkness (2009)


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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Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive (2009)


YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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 - Evangelion (2009)


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

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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Be'lakor - Stone's Reach (2009)


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

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Man Must Die - No Tolerance For Imperfection (2009)


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

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Whiplash Vol. 3

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

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