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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Ignominious Incarceration - Of Winter Born (2009)

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

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Fen - The Malediction Fields (2009)

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

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SSS - The Dividing Line (2009)

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

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Venom - Black Metal (1982)

Crappy production. Raw energy. Satan. What more could you want from one of the greatest heavy metal albums ever? Now lay down your soul to the gods Rock and Roll!

1) Black Metal
2) To Hell and Back
3) Buried Alive
4) Raise the Dead
5) Teacher's Pet
6) Leave Me In Hell
7) Sacrifice
8) Heaven's on Fire
9) Countess Bathory
10) Don't Burn the Witch
11) At War With Satan (Preview)

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Winterfylleth - Rising Of The Winter Full Moon (2007)

Imagine England before the Roman Empire. Now pair it up with black metal and you have Winterfylleth. Unlike most pagan black metal bands, Winterfylleth creates a Celtic sort of atmosphere rather than a Viking one. The production on this isn't exactly the greatest, but it wasn't recorded with a tape recorder and a coffee can.

1) Mam Tor (The Shivering Mountain)
2) Casting The Runes
3) The Ghost Of Heritage

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Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)

Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win
Seven holy paths to hell and your trip begins
Seven downward slopes, seven bloodied hopes
Seven are you burning fires, seven your desires...

1) Moonchild
2) Infinite Dreams
3) Can I Play With Madness?
4) The Evil That Men Do
5) Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
6) The Prophecy
7) The Clairvoyant
8) Only The Good Die Young

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Carcass - Nectroticism: Descanting With The Insalubrious (1991)

You might have heard already, but death metal legends Carcass have reunited and are touring. In celebration of the reunion, I'm posting one of the greatest death metal albums of all time Necroticism: Descanting With The Insalubrious. With tracks like Corporal Jigsore Quandary, Pedigree Butchery, and Incarnated Solvent Abuse, this album will be sure to leave you with even the slightest bit of whiplash.

Be sure to catch one of Carcass' shows on the Exhumed To Consume Tour while they're still around!

1) Inpropagation
2) Corporal Jigsore Quandary
3) Symposium of Sickness
4) Pedigree Butchery
5) Incarnated Solvent Abuse
6) Carneous Cacoffiny
7) Lavaging Expectorate Of Lysergide Composition
8) Forensic Clinicism/The Sanguine Article

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Disgust - A World Of No Beauty (1997)

1) Intro
2) The Result Of War
3) Remember
4) Eden
5) The Last Embrace
6) A Mother's Bleeding Heart
7) Can Your Eyes See
8) Just Another War Crime
9) Evil Trade
10) Blood Soaked Soil
11) The Wounds Are Never Healed
12) Hymn For A Dying Planet

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